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Your idea,
validated
before you write
a single line.

Submit a SaaS idea. We'll check if people actually want it: search demand, Reddit complaints, competitor weaknesses, funding threats, market size. You get a score out of 30 and a clear GO or PASS. PDF in your inbox.

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Sample Verdict
"Scheduling tool for independent dance studios"
24 /30
CONDITIONAL GO
Pain intensity5/5
Customer satisfaction4/5
Competitor activity4/5
MVP simplicity4/5
Willingness to pay4/5
Market access3/5
Recommendation: Pursue with a focused scheduling-first MVP targeting studios under 5 instructors. Competitors are clunky and customers are vocal about it.

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Most ideas fail
for a knowable reason

42% of startups fail because there's no market need
3-6 mo average time wasted building before discovering nobody wants it
$0 revenue from a product nobody asked for

The research that would have told you takes 6-10 hours. Keyword tools, Reddit browsing, competitor spreadsheets, Crunchbase lookups. Most people skip it and start coding instead. We do it so you don't have to.

Six phases. One verdict.

Each report runs through the same process. Here's what happens after you submit.

01

Keyword Research

How many people search for this each month? How hard is it to rank? We pull volume, difficulty, and competition data. The sweet spot: 100-5K monthly searches, low difficulty, commercial intent.

02

Pain Discovery

We scan Reddit for real complaints. Upvoted frustration posts, people building their own spreadsheets, threads asking "is there anything better?" If the language is emotional, the pain is real.

03

Competitor Analysis

Who else is doing this, what do they charge, and what do their users complain about? We dig through pricing pages, G2/Capterra reviews, and feature lists to find the gaps.

04

Threat Assessment

Has anyone raised a Series A in this space recently? Are AI startups piling in? If incumbents are coasting on old funding and bad UI, that is good for you. If they just raised $5M and are shipping fast, less good.

05

Market Sizing

How big is this market and how many customers do you actually need? At $50/month, $1K MRR is 20 customers. We figure out if that is 0.1% of the market or 50%.

06

Final Verdict

Six factors, each scored 1-5. 25+ is a GO. Under 15 is a PASS. You get the total, the breakdown, and a write-up explaining why, plus a recommended angle if we think it is worth pursuing.

What lands
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PDF report + email summary.
Delivered within 24 hours.

  • Search volumes, difficulty scores, and competition levels for your niche and every relevant keyword variation
  • Real Reddit posts with quotes, upvote counts, and comment threads showing whether people actually have this problem
  • Competitor pricing, funding history, user complaints, feature gaps, and where they're losing customers
  • VC activity in the space, AI disruption risk, and whether existing customers are satisfied or looking for something else
  • Total addressable market, how many customers you need for your MRR goal, and what percentage of the market that is
  • Six factors rated 1-5, scored out of 30, with a GO or PASS verdict and the reasoning behind it
  • If the idea has legs, a specific angle: which niche to target, which feature to build first, how to position it

Who this is for

Indie hackers

You have 3 ideas and time for 1. Find out which one has actual demand before you commit a weekend. Submit all three, compare the scores.

Solo founders

You've done this before. Built something, launched it, heard crickets. This is the sanity check that would have saved you 3 months.

Side project explorers

You don't need a business plan. You need to know: do real people have this problem, will they pay to fix it, and is anyone else already doing it well?

What we're looking for

Green flags

  • "I built my own spreadsheet for this"
  • High upvotes on complaint posts
  • Customers unhappy with ALL existing tools
  • Incumbents with old UI and slow development
  • B2B customers already paying for inferior solutions
  • Clear ROI that saves time or money
  • Active online communities easy to reach

Red flags

  • Everyone asking for free solutions
  • Multiple VC-backed startups actively iterating
  • Enterprise-only market with long sales cycles
  • Satisfied customers across all competitors
  • Requires complex integrations for MVP
  • Regulatory/compliance heavy (SOC2, HIPAA)
  • Only informational search intent, no commercial

Pricing

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