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I'm looking for business opportunities developing software for professionals. The fields I am most familiar with are software development and design, so I thought I would start there. I'd like to identify pain points to brainstorm product ideas, but I realized I'd have no idea where to start looking. Are there forums where professionals in these industries discuss (and hopefully complain) about their work?

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what about the other stackexchange sites? stackoverflow.com and ux.stackexchange.com sound like viable candidates – jimg Feb 26 at 17:26
How about first working for someone else and determine what the peoples needs are and how this is being delivered and then creating a product. You want software development professionals tell you what their "pain points" are as far as software libraries(products) are concerned when quite a few of them are able to solve those themselves and quite often do. – Karlson Feb 26 at 17:33
@jimg I thought about that, I use SO myself, but they are really Q/A oriented, so I see a lot of technical problems, but not many things that could be a product. I should analyse it and see if there are very common problems that a software component library would solve. – Charles Feb 26 at 17:56
@Karlson I am a professional software developer. I want to research what other are too busy to make for themselves but are willing to pay for, and determine if my own pain points are common enough to make a viable product out of. Thanks. – Charles Feb 26 at 18:00

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