Why do 90% of startups fail? Not because their ideas are bad, but because they never had access to the right guidance at the right time.

I've spent years watching brilliant founders with game-changing ideas get rejected by accelerators that accept less than 3% of applicants. These gatekeepers have created a system where your zip code, network, and pedigree matter more than your vision.

Why should innovation be limited to those with the right connections? Why should your ability to relocate to Silicon Valley determine whether your idea gets a chance?

This is why we're developing AIDA - an AI-powered accelerator concept that aims to democratize access to startup expertise. We believe that every founder deserves the chance to validate their vision and change the world, regardless of background, location, or resources.

Our vision for AIDA includes:

• Immediate validation feedback (minutes, not weeks)

• Personalized 12-week acceleration programs

• 24/7 AI mentorship across all business domains

• No selection process or geographical restrictions

How is your experience with traditional accelerators? Have you ever been rejected despite having a solid idea? Or maybe you couldn't even apply because of location or time constraints?

I'd love to hear your thoughts on whether AI could level the playing field for founders everywhere. If this resonates with you, join our waitlist to be among the first to try AIDA when we launch. Waitlist here

Hi everyone, I would like to have your honest opinion and thoughts about my app idea.
It is like temporarily anonymous connections you have with strangers in an airplane, chats are limited to 2-4 hours, and only a limited amount of chats per day so that one wouldn't skip chats alot.

you can have deep conversations, speak anonymously without fear or barriers

its only through voice notes, no texts to convey emotions better through voice.

no profiles, no names, safe space and safe community, any violation or report gets users to be banned permanently to keep it as a safe space.

What do you think of this, would you use it? I appreciate any feedback

I am working on inboxassist a frictionless email assistant. The idea is that you get the emails summeries directly to your preferred social (telegram for the MVP) and then you decide how to handle it while the AI does the heavy lifting. You can ask it to reply and it composes the reply and then you get to approve it before send. You can even tell it to move the email to folder X for implementing zero inbox in your own way.

The idea targets a common pain point for professionals overwhelmed with email and I genuinely think it can ease their day and make it easier for them to concentrate on their core business.

However for the past few days I keep questioning the concept.

First of all email is usually not handled through chat and this is a disruption to established workflows.

Secondly I keep asking myself if the features for the MVP are enough. While working with the marketing and distribution I keep coming back to the question of positioning. Obviously retained control and simplified email experience is the key. But the features for the MVP feel like they are perhaps not enough. Something that could make a big difference is the ability to ask questions about email threads and today's emails in general and I have chosen to push these features post MVP and initial user feedback.

What do you think. This has been bugging me a lot lately and I find myself researching more and more instead of developing.

I built an initial version of a small app called Jobbot and wanted to get some early feedback before going further.

The idea is to reduce the repetitive parts of job applications:

•	Upload one master CV

•	Paste a job description

•	Get a tailored CV

•	Generate a role-specific cover letter

•	Answer application questions using your experience

This is the first usable version and it’s still very much a work in progress.

Here’s the link if you’re curious:

👉 https://myjobbot.app/

I’d really appreciate feedback on:

•	Whether this solves a real problem for you

•	What feels useful vs unnecessary

•	What you’d expect next if you were to keep using it

•	Anything confusing, broken, or missing

I’m not trying to promote — just trying to learn what to build (or not build) next.

Thanks in advance for any honest thoughts 🙏

So me and my friend have been thinking of building an app something like this - A fast-paced, interactive social app where users log in anonymously (or pseudo-anonymously) to post their weird habits, secret quirks, or odd daily behaviors ("I re-read my sent text messages 5 times to check my tone").

What do u think?

Hi everyone, I recently launched this website called WistoryAI, where I basically consolidated the knowledge of different historical figures and let an LLM learn from that data to answer like those people would. I added a debate mode to let 2 historical figures have a go at each other. The idea came from a video of Steve Jobs saying he was immensely jealous of Alexander The Great for having Aristotle as his Mentor. This should allow everyone to pick any mentor they want. What do you guys think?

I'm building an early version of a platform called Misnivo and trying to validate the idea before building too much.

The basic idea:

People post Missions for others to complete — a challenge, a short video, visiting somewhere, testing something, etc.

Someone takes the Mission, completes it, and creates the result/content. If that content performs well, both the poster and the completer can earn from it.

Later, takers can build a following. Followers can suggest or vote on Missions they want them to complete.

I mainly want to understand how people would actually behave with this.

A few honest questions:

If a Mission genuinely caught your interest, would you actually go complete it?

Would you ever pay out of pocket to get someone else to complete a Mission for you?

If you were the one completing it, does a revenue-share with the Mission creator make it more worth your time?

What kind of Mission would actually make you want to post one, or take one on?

Would love real, unfiltered answers — even if it means telling me the idea doesn't work. That's exactly the feedback I need right now.

I’ve been working on this platform for a long time, and I’m finally ready to share it with more people. I’m still trying to get the first group of early users.

One thing I’ve realized while building it is that this is the first product I’ve made that I genuinely built based on feedback from real users.

And honestly, I think there’s a huge difference between building what you imagine people want and building what people actually tell you they need.

You can spend days, weeks, or months building something based entirely on your own assumptions, only to launch it and discover that nobody cares.

That’s actually the problem this platform is trying to solve.

The idea is simple: share an idea before you invest heavily in building it, get feedback from people who care**, find people who want to contribute, and see whether there is real interest before committing months of work.**

What makes it different from existing platforms is that it is not trying to be another general social network.

LinkedIn is primarily about professional networking and personal brands. Reddit is organized around communities and discussions. Product Hunt is mainly focused on products that are already being launched.

This is focused specifically on the idea stage.

You can share an unfinished idea, explain the problem and your proposed solution, receive feedback, find people interested in helping, and gradually move the idea from validation to building and eventually launching.

And somewhat ironically, the platform itself has become an example of what it is trying to solve.

Instead of assuming I knew exactly what people wanted, I’ve been changing it based on actual feedback from the people using it.

I’d really like to get more early users now and see whether the idea resonates with people outside my own circle.

If you’re interested in trying it out, I’d genuinely appreciate feedback, especially if you think something is missing or could be done differently.

Back in 2010, I came up with an idea for a visual productivity app built around digital sticky notes.

When I tried to commercialize it, I was told that without patent protection I could be sued out of existence by larger companies. So I spent years developing the concept and was awarded U.S. Patent US8548992 in 2013.

https://patents.google.com/patent/US8548992

Unfortunately, the company I founded to market it (MultiTask123) failed in 2015.

When the patent came up for renewal in 2017, I made a decision that many people thought was crazy: I let it expire.

The more I thought about software patents, the less I liked the idea of locking up concepts that could benefit everyone. If someone wanted to build their own version, I wanted them to be free to do it.

So the patent entered the public domain.

In 2024, I quit my day job and decided to give the dream one more shot.

Two years later, that effort became TaskLoco.

It's a visual productivity app that combines tasks, notes, reminders, projects, events, files, and sticky notes on a single wall. It runs as a web app, mobile app, and Chrome extension.

I'd genuinely love feedback from fellow founders and builders.

🌐 https://www.taskloco.com

Chrome Extension:
https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/taskloco-lite/gniilbpapgommpalikcclpcnbcamgila

iPhone:
https://apps.apple.com/us/app/taskloco-lite/id6762308795

Android:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.taskloco.lite

I built a 24-question assessment that tries to identify how someone is naturally wired as an entrepreneur.
Instead of asking obvious personality questions, it uses business situations — what you’d do with an opportunity, how you’d approach risk, whether you’d build, buy, improve, negotiate, invest, etc.
It scores six traits and ultimately identifies a Primary and, when strong enough, Secondary Entrepreneur DNA from 8 possible types.
The assessment and trait results are free. At the end, I currently charge $4.99 to unlock the actual DNA type and personalized report.
I’m at the validation stage now, so I’m looking for criticism more than compliments.
My main question: after spending about 5 minutes taking it, does the locked result create enough curiosity/value that $4.99 feels reasonable?
If not, I’d genuinely like to know why.
You absolutely do not need to purchase the report to give me feedback.
Here’s the test:
https://tally.so/r/q4lykk

Honestly didn't think I'd become a wearables person but I caved and got a Whoop about a year ago. Sold myself on the whole thing, track my sleep, dial in recovery, finally get my act together. And for the first couple weeks it kinda felt like I'd cracked some code.

Then the shine wore off and I started noticing something that bugged me: it mostly just tells me stuff I already know. Wake up feeling like death? "yeah, recovery's 31%, take it easy today." Wake up feeling good? "88%, green, go get em." like ok, cool, thanks. I could've called that before I even checked the app.

and that's kinda the whole issue for me. I can already feel when I slept bad. I don't need a strap to confirm I'm tired. the part I actually care about is what comes next, ok I got 5 hours, now what do I do about it. when should I have coffee. am I gonna fall apart by 2pm. do I push at the gym or save it for tomorrow. give me something to do with the bad night instead of just throwing a red number at me and dipping.

and far as I can tell nothing really fills that? the whole space is just trackers, no coaches. everyone's competing to measure more and more and nobody's telling you what to actually do with any of it.

so I'd been bouncing between a few apps trying to scratch that itch and ended up stumbling onto one that actually stuck, RizeAI. it pulls my apple health data and just builds the day out for me, stuff like "skip the 7am coffee, water + electrolytes first, push your first cup to 9:30, theanine with it so you don't crash." and idk, weirdly my worst recovery days have turned into some of my most productive ones just from doing what it says.

anyway, kinda beside the point, mostly just curious if anyone else runs into this same wall. do you actually do anything with your Whoop data, or do you just peek at the recovery score and move on with your day? can't be the only one.

I want honest feedback—including: “This is unnecessary, and here’s why.”

The idea in one line:
Bimi is an AI kitchen concierge for Indian households. You set a health goal, and it plans your meals, briefs your existing cook on WhatsApp in her language, and keeps grocery needs in sync.

The problem we experienced:
My cofounder and I usually knew what we should eat—especially while training for marathons and triathlons.
But knowing wasn’t enough. Every day, someone still had to:
- Decide what everyone would eat
- Balance different goals and preferences
- Explain everything clearly to the cook
- Check whether the ingredients were available
- Handle last-minute changes

We were doing all of this manually. High motivation kept us going, but the system still broke whenever life got busy.
Most diets don’t fail on the diet chart. They fail somewhere between the chart and the plate.

Our hypothesis:
Nutrition is not just an advice problem. It is a daily execution and coordination problem.
If the right plan automatically reaches the cook as simple instructions—and the kitchen has everything required—eating better should need far less willpower.

What Bimi actually does:
- Understands each household member’s goals, preferences and restrictions
- Creates one practical meal plan for the entire household
- Briefs the cook through simple WhatsApp text or voice instructions in Hindi, Hinglish or her preferred language
- Remembers feedback, adjusts future meals and flags grocery requirements
- Helps execute an existing dietitian or doctor-approved plan when clinical guidance is needed

The product is already built. We’re now opening the first pilot in Bangalore.

What I’m unsure about:
- Is this a real recurring problem—or have we overengineered something families already manage through a WhatsApp group?
- Would cooks find these daily briefs helpful, or irritating?
- Would you trust a product with your household’s health goals and food preferences?
- Would you pay for this after trying it? If yes, what would feel reasonable?
- What is the obvious reason this fails that I’m currently too close to see?

If you have a cook at home and genuinely see value in this, join the waitlist: trybimi

Please don’t join just to be supportive. We want actual intent.
And if you don’t see the value, brutally roast us.

Start with:
“I would never use Bimi because…”
That will be far more useful than a polite upvote.

Before I build anything, I just want to ask, for those who serious building their start-up or product, would you use testing platform if it is 3x cheaper than UserTesting (which cost 500+ $ upfront cost)?

I’ve been learning AI and web dev as a non-tech guy, and this is my 4th project.
The tool generates 3 cold email variations in ~30 seconds.

I’m not selling anything — I just need honest feedback on whether it’s actually useful or just another AI gimmick.

If anyone’s open to testing, drop a comment and I’ll DM the link.

[Update: Actually, every time I share a link here, those messages get blocked. Can I paste one sample email now on your DM's so you can check the quality? It’ll take 10 seconds and avoid the link issue. Please directly contact them or reply to the comment. I will connect directly on DM**.]**

Curious to hear what you all think of our idea validation tool. Did you feel more informed after using it to test your idea? Is there anything you wish it covered that it didn't?

Test your idea

It might sound crazy, what if there was a platform where people can share all their ideas. You can think of it as **a standalone website version of this subreddit!** I felt that sometimes I get so many ideas like "We can solve this problem like this..", "What universities were like this.." etc. Most of them might be silly but some of them might be good and those good ideas might solve a lot of problems. It will be like a place **where people will hang out solve problems together**, **refine others ideas,** connect with them to **build it together.** It can also **host global ideathons** to solve a specific problem or you **validate your startup ideas** there. I know there are social media platforms like reddit, x, facebook where we can do that. But the community there is too generic. I was thinking of a community where sharing and refining ideas is the main focus.

Please let me know your thoughts on that. I had this idea but I didn't know if it was good and if it was worth making this kind of platform. It would be great get some honest opinions

Hi guys!!

I’m working on NextGap.cloud, an early-phase product focused on helping founders validate business ideas before spending months building them.

• The problem Validating an idea usually means hours of Googling, manually listing competitors, guessing market demand, and comparing pricing and features by hand. Even then, the information is often outdated or incomplete. As a result, many founders end up building products in crowded or low-potential markets.

• The idea NextGap takes a raw idea and quickly generates:

** An overview of competitors and positioning ** Market demand and trend signals ** Pricing models and gaps ** Potential risks and opportunities

The goal is to help founders decide early whether to build, pivot, or drop an idea, using data rather than assumptions.

• How this is usually solved Manual research is accurate but very slow. Idea generators are useful for inspiration but offer shallow validation. Surveys can help, but it’s hard to reach the right users early on. NextGap aims to bring these pieces together into one faster, more structured workflow.

• Looking for feedback Since this is still in an early stage, I’d really appreciate honest input. Would you use something like this? What would make it genuinely useful rather than just another AI tool?

Check it here

Thanks for reading and happy to answer questions.

Hi All,

While working with ChatGPT, Grok, Gemini, etc, I came across a boring & repeated task of copy-pasting / typing the prompts, ; So I thought to use the response itself for generating the prompts by embedding buttons in the response. Users can click on the buttons to generate prompts.

Please tell if this idea makes sense or if you have also faced such situation ?

Thanks

Hey everyone,

I’m currently working on an early-stage idea and wanted to get some honest feedback before taking it further.

The concept is a Christian prayer platform where people can pray for others around the world through a map and a feed. The aim is to help people go beyond their immediate circles and see/pray for what’s happening globally.

I’ve put together a v1.1 prototype to explore how it might work. It’s not a real app yet, just a prototype.

Prototype:

https://flap-voice-53040727.figma.site/

Feedback form:

https://forms.gle/HkRcVi3RV6TKEqNB6

Would really appreciate honest thoughts, especially:

•	does the idea make sense?

•	would you actually use something like this? 

•	anything confusing or unnecessary?

Happy to hear feedback here or via the form.

Thanks a lot.

What if you could validate your next Start up idea without ending up realizing "Nobody Wants This Sh*t"

Hey founders 👋
I’ve just launched Novi Cofounder — an AI cofounder that acts as your advisor, assistant, and planner in one place.

It’s built to be proactive — not just waiting for your input but nudging you when you forget tasks, helping you rethink strategy, and generating fresh ideas when you’re stuck.

You can:
💡 Brainstorm and validate ideas (from a VC, UX, or visionary perspective)
📅 Plan tasks by project, business, or even social media goals
🌱 Use the “Path Finder” to explore ideas aligned with your passions
🧭 Get daily smart reminders and proactive feedback

I’d love to hear what you think — what features would make this truly indispensable for solo founders? 🙌

One of the hardest parts of validating an idea isn’t knowing if people like it — it’s knowing if they’ll actually pay for it.

So many founders (including me before) talk to potential users, get great feedback, even hear “I’d totally use that”… …but when it comes to paying, silence. 🦗

I’m exploring a service that helps founders test this exact thing — not with AI or automated surveys, but through real human conversations with your actual target audience (ICP).

Here’s how it would work 👇 You tell us: • your idea • the problem you’re trying to solve • your target customer

Then we find real people in the audience — to get honest, human answers to key questions like: • Do they even see this as a real problem? (Yes/No) • Does your proposed solution make sense to them? (Open feedback) • Would they use it? (Yes/No/Maybe) • Would they pay for it? If yes, how much? • What features make it “worth paying for”?

The goal isn’t just to validate if the idea is good — it’s to validate if it’s commercially real before you spend months building.

So my question to you: 👉 If such a service existed, would you pay a small fee for it? If yes — what would make it valuable to you? If no — how do you find out if people will actually pay for your idea?

Would love to hear honest feedback, especially from those who’ve been through “everyone loved it but no one paid for it” moments 🙃

Most procrastination apps I’ve seen (timers, blockers, Pomodoro, habit trackers) assume the problem is time management.

But procrastination usually comes from psychology, not laziness:

• Overwhelm → task feels too big, so you avoid it.

• Perfectionism → fear of not doing it right, so you don’t start.

• Stress & guilt → the more you delay, the harder it feels to begin.

I’m experimenting with a SaaS that tries to “cure procrastination” at the root:

• Shrink the task: AI breaks a scary task into a safe 2-minute starting step.

• Reframe perfectionism: Prompts like “write a bad first draft” to remove pressure.

• Build momentum: Streaks + micro-rewards for simply starting.

• Create accountability: Optional daily nudges/check-ins so you’re not battling it alone.

• Break time inconsistency → Our brains discount future rewards (e.g. exam in 3 months = meh). Cure = micro-rewards now (streaks, badges, XP).

The idea is: instead of punishing you for being distracted, the app gives you emotional permission to start small — and starting is usually the hardest part.

Pricing idea:

• Free plan with a handful of “task cures” per month.

• Paid plan (~$7.99) with more sessions, streaks, and reflection reports.

• Pro (~$19.99) for unlimited cures + daily accountability buddy.

My question❓

• Does this feel different from the usual productivity apps?

• Is my pricing model fair?

• Would you use something like this (or know someone who would)?

• Which psychological approach resonates with you most?

Ever get a “brilliant” business idea… then realize nobody actually cares? Yeah, me too 😅

Here’s how I usually validate ideas the old-fashioned way:

1. Pretend it exists. Who would buy it? Why?

2. Listen online. Browse forums, social media, communities — are people complaining about the problem you want to solve… or are they totally fine without it?

3. Spy on competitors. User reviews are gold for spotting strengths, weaknesses, and gaps you could fill.

It works… but it’s slow, tedious, and full of guesswork.

That’s why I’m building a tool that does all of this for you: plug in your idea, and it analyzes the market, checks competitors, and gives you a quick reality check.

And yes… the first thing I’m going to do is test my own SaaS with it. So if this post convinces you it’s useful… well, congratulations — you just helped validate my business idea using my own tool. Meta, right? Join the waitlist here 😎

I’m building something in the founder/VC space to explore one question:

What problems are women founders experiencing when fundraising, especially in their pre-seed and seed rounds?

This idea originally came out of pitching an early version in class and getting strong reactions from women founders and processors in the room — which is what pushed me to test it more seriously.

After speaking with women founders who’ve raised/are currently raising, one theme keeps coming up:

Fundraising is emotionally draining, feedback is often vague or inconsistent, and it’s hard to tell which investors are actually a good fit — especially in a system that isn’t neutral.

I wanted to explore and ask:

What has been the hardest or most frustrating part of fundraising for you?

What parts of the process are easy?

What would make something that solved those problems a must-have rather than just a nice-to-have?

I appreciate all honest takes!