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IwantIbuild
Find who wants what you built, and who built what you want
IwantIbuild is a demand board for indie builders. Post what you built and see how many people are already looking for it — or describe a tool you wish existed and find who already built it. It closes the gap between "I wish someone made X" and "I made X." Matching runs a hybrid semantic search through an LLM relevance gate, so results stay genuinely relevant. Brand new and growing — come post a build or a want.
As an indie hacker I kept building things nobody wanted, and kept wishing for tools that already existed but I couldn't find. This closes both gaps in one place: "I want a tool that…" meets "I built…". The fun part was the matching — plain semantic search rates almost any two short tool descriptions ~50% similar, so after the embedding shortlist I run a cheap LLM relevance check to kill the false positives. New and mostly empty for now — I'd love feedback on the concept and the match quality.
This is a really nice idea - I like the concept of checking whether something already exists before building it.
I have a couple of questions: 1. Where does IWantIBuild search for existing/built products? Would be interesting to understand whether the search is limited to certain sources, or whether this is more about finding exact matches rather than adjacent existing products. I tried “I want a self-hosted analytics dashboard” and it said nobody built it yet, but there is at least self-hosted Umami analytics with various dashboards. 2. Would it be possible to add existing tools, so it suggests from local DB as well?
Thank you!
About IwantIbuild on Product Hunt
“Find who wants what you built, and who built what you want”
IwantIbuild was submitted on Product Hunt and earned 4 upvotes and 5 comments, placing #101 on the daily leaderboard. IwantIbuild is a demand board for indie builders. Post what you built and see how many people are already looking for it — or describe a tool you wish existed and find who already built it. It closes the gap between "I wish someone made X" and "I made X." Matching runs a hybrid semantic search through an LLM relevance gate, so results stay genuinely relevant. Brand new and growing — come post a build or a want.
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IwantIbuild was hunted by Kristoffer Berg. A “hunter” on Product Hunt is the community member who submits a product to the platform — uploading the images, the link, and tagging the makers behind it. Hunters typically write the first comment explaining why a product is worth attention, and their followers are notified the moment they post. Around 79% of featured launches on Product Hunt are self-hunted by their makers, but a well-known hunter still acts as a signal of quality to the rest of the community. See the full all-time top hunters leaderboard to discover who is shaping the Product Hunt ecosystem.
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