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BuildScout Roast

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Hey SideProject! I launched BuildScout a month ago, and after some solid early traction on Indie Hackers, I'm opening up beta access. The problem: Idea validation sucks. I was manually crawling HN, Product Hunt, YC, TechCrunch, and Twitter trying to spot patterns, which ideas had staying power, which ones were getting traction, which markets were actually fragile enough to disrupt. It was tedious and I'd still miss stuff. What I built: BuildScout scans multiple sources and uses AI to sur...

Comments (3)

Louie Renner Louie Renner 1 month ago

stoked u shipped fast, validation is such a grind

Jaida Jast Jaida Jast 1 month ago

scraping HN by hand is a special kind of torture. what's the data coverage beyond that?

Aileen Moen Aileen Moen 1 month ago

validation is the real bottleneck for new projects.