What is Real Problem AI?

Real Problem AI is a curated directory of 200+ real problems worth building an AI startup around. Each problem is scored honestly on severity, AI feasibility, market signal, and competition gap. We're for builders looking for what to build, not for ethics debates about AI.

What is the difference between Real Problem AI and AI ethics or AI risks indexes?

Real Problem AI catalogues problems AI can solve — productive, commercial opportunities for builders. AI ethics indexes catalogue problems with AI itself (bias, environmental cost, copyright, consciousness). Different intent, different audience: founders and indie hackers vs researchers and policy folks.

What should I build with AI in 2026?

Look for problems with high severity (it costs people hours, sleep, or revenue every week), high AI feasibility (LLMs, vision or voice are great at this today), strong market signal (Reddit threads + willingness to pay), and a clear competition gap (incumbents miss the same obvious thing). Real Problem AI scores 200+ such problems for you on those four axes.

Where do Real Problem AI's startup ideas come from?

From three sources, scanned each cycle: 1) Reddit threads where people describe a real friction in their own words, 2) podcasts and talks of founders young builders trust (Nikhil Kamath, Aman Gupta, Ankur Warikoo, Raj Shamani, Andrej Karpathy, Greg Isenberg), and 3) a continuous 1,000+ source scan covering forums, app store reviews, regulator filings, and field interviews.

Is Real Problem AI free?

Yes. Browsing every problem, opening every score breakdown, raising your hand on a co-founder match, and the founder vault are all free. There is no paywall.

How is each problem scored?

Four axes, each 1-10, weighted: Problem Severity (30%), AI Feasibility (25%), Market Signal (25%), Competition Gap (20%). Weighted average is the Opportunity Score on each card. Only problems clearing 7.0+ make the live list.

Why do I rewrite every product title for TikTok Shop after exporting from Shopify?

Sellers expanding from Shopify to TikTok Shop must rewrite titles, attributes, and category mappings because TikTok rejects Shopify-formatted feeds.

Category: E-commerce & Retail · Trend: LLM · Opportunity score: 8.8 / 10

What is the “Why do I rewrite every product title for TikTok Shop after exporting from Shopify?” problem in 2026?

Sellers expanding from Shopify to TikTok Shop must rewrite titles, attributes, and category mappings because TikTok rejects Shopify-formatted feeds.

Who has this problem?

DTC brand owner expanding from Shopify to TikTok Shop.

Evidence this problem is real

“TikTok Shop rejects my feed because titles are too long, categories do not match their taxonomy, and they want specific attributes Shopify does not even have a field for. I am rewriting 400 SKUs by hand.”

Sourced from r/shopify threads on TikTok Shop feed rejection.

Existing players in this space

TikTok Shop Shopify app — Syncs inventory, weak title and attribute mapping.
Feedonomics — Enterprise pricing.

What existing players are missing

SMB-priced feed transformer that rewrites titles to TikTok-Shop length limits, maps Shopify product types to TikTok taxonomy, and auto-fills required attributes from descriptions.

How Real Problem AI scores this opportunity

Aggregate score: 8.8 / 10. Four-axis rubric:

Problem severity: 8 / 10
AI feasibility today: 10 / 10
Market signal: 9 / 10
Competition gap: 8 / 10

How to build a solution: stack hints

Claude for title rewrite
TikTok Shop API
Shopify Admin API
BullMQ for batch jobs