Recently, I shared a story about how we ended up building our own LLM Cost Tracker.

It started with a simple question about our AI spending and turned into a product. One of those things that happens when you try to solve your own problem and accidentally discover that other people have it too.

But that's not the only time this has happened at Binadox.

Our product manager has a theory about business ideas. If you want to come up with one, you need to find a problem people have — or, as he puts it, create a problem for them — and then offer a solution.

The first part sounds obvious. The second one sounds a little suspicious. Let's stick with finding real problems.

The funny thing is, he's right.

Every tool we've built started with the same process. First, our product manager looks for problems people are struggling with.…