Product design question

How would you improve Pinterest?

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What this question tests

Product improvement for a discovery and inspiration platform, addressing the gap between saving ideas and acting on them.

Identify the user: people saving ideas (recipes, home decor, outfits) for future projects, often with a large backlog of unrealized saved pins.
Name the pain point: Pinterest excels at saving inspiration but has historically struggled to help users act on saved ideas, leading to boards full of pins that are never revisited.
Propose an improvement: a 'ready to try' prompt system that resurfaces saved pins contextually, for example reminding a user of a saved recipe when it is a relevant day or season, or linking saved home decor pins to nearby purchasable products.
Prioritize this over pure discovery feed improvements, since converting saved inspiration into action is Pinterest's clearest monetization and retention opportunity.
Define success as pin-to-action conversion rate (a saved pin later clicked through to a purchase or completed activity) and reduction in dormant boards.

Diagnoses Pinterest's well known real gap, saving without acting, rather than proposing generic discovery feed tweaks.
Proposes a concrete resurfacing mechanism, contextual reminders tied to season or occasion, not just 'remind users of old pins'.
Ties the fix to Pinterest's actual monetization opportunity, shopping conversion, making the pitch business relevant, not just a UX nicety.

Proposing more discovery and browsing features when the real gap is in converting existing saved intent into action.
Ignoring Pinterest's shopping and monetization angle, which is where this fix has the clearest business case.

How would you avoid these reminders feeling like unwanted notifications?
How would you measure whether a reminder actually caused the action, versus the user acting anyway?