I found my first product idea: a platform to find blogs

The way to get startup ideas is not to try to think of startup ideas. It's to look for problems, preferably problems you have yourself.

- Paul Graham (How to get startup ideas)

TLDR; I want to create a platform to find blogs more easily.

I have been using the internet to solve life problems. It's not as bad of an idea as you might think. Hear me out.

You can learn a lot from someone talking from experience. There are a lot of those people on the internet. Some of them probably had the same problem as you at one point. How do you find them? You can use social media platforms like Reddit. For example, as a junior developer, I used Reddit to know how others handled that stage of their career. But, for every valuable post, there are hundreds of worthless others. Some users give generic advice. Some users are bad communicators. Other users are theory building instead of talking from experience. I have probably been one of those users at one point.

To deal with the low signal to noise ratio, I started reading blogs. The problem with blogs, there is no one place to find them. I found some on Hackernews. I found some on Substack. I found some on Reddit. Search engines can't be relied upon. They usually promote blogs that are heavily optimized for SEO. The articles on those blogs are usually a waste of time. So, how to find blogs more easily? Here is my solution.

I want to build a platform where users can submit blogs with a description and tags. Then other users will be able to upvote the blogs they like and search for blogs by tag. The first problem I see is self promotion. It's inevitable. It can be mitigated by the fact that bad blogs will not be upvoted.

For the tech stack, I am keeping things simple. The front end will be an express web server serving static files. For the back end, the APIs will be written in C++. The database will be postgreSQL.