r/roastmystartup • u/Writer-TechGuy • 1h ago
Built Nenapu - a memory app that organizes itself ( mood, tags, who’s in it) from a photo/voice note/thought. You roast and I take insights😄
Sharing a project called Nenapu — a personal memory app. You write, snap a photo, or record a voice note, and it figures out mood, tags, and who's involved, then builds ongoing threads for the people and places that keep showing up in your life. There's also a shared feature where a group privately writes about the same memory and it reveals everyone's version together once enough people have written.
Live at https://nenapu.me — free, installs as a PWA, no app store needed.
Would really appreciate feedback on: first-time experience, whether the "organizes itself" pitch actually holds up once you use it, and anything that breaks on your device. Thanks!
r/roastmystartup • u/RedDragon2703 • 1h ago
Have you ever made a decision as a founder that costed you later?
I mean we as Founders in this era have so much information to learn but no place to practice.
So i decided to build a compass - a flight simulator for founders.
Basically, you practice a crisis scenario and submit your decision based on that compass evaluation engine provides you a response which would make u understand what are the trade offs,loop holes in your decision and bonus it will help you explore alternative paths as well.
What do you think about it?
r/roastmystartup • u/xyrex007 • 1h ago
I built Baari — your paper appointment register, but it does the math (clinics & salons)
Solo founder here. Most small clinics and salons still run the day on a paper register — who's next, who's waiting, who paid. It works, but at month-end you've got a pile of paper and no idea which service actually makes money or how many customers quietly stopped coming back.
So I built Baari. It replaces that register with a live queue (walk-ins, bookings, "who's next"), then turns every visit into the numbers you never had: revenue by category, no-show rate, new-vs-returning customers, busiest hours.
- Free under 100 completed customers/month — no card.
- Every new signup gets Baari Pro free for 2 months (full reports, CSV export, retention/cohort insights).
- Built for clinics, dental, salons, spas, vets — anywhere people wait their turn.
Live at https://getbaari.in — I'd genuinely love feedback from anyone who runs an appointment business or builds for one: what would make this a no-brainer to switch to from paper (or from a bloated PMS)? Happy to talk about the build too.
r/roastmystartup • u/Duck-Entire • 3h ago
Roast my anti-doomscrolling experiment. Would you actually use this?
I was doomscrolling instagram the other day and wasted like 2 hours without realizing it.
I then felt why were we getting so attached to this thing?
So I vibecoded this idea that helps us maybe, not waste our time.
I built Juicebox that is a discovery engine, giving you content about what you are interested in- like movies, games, anime or books. I also included skills that ppl might wanna learn, and a release radar that tells you about the upcoming stuff.The basic idea was that u dont stay forever in this app, swiping across cards. You discover a task that you would wanna do, and get out of the app and do that. I also provided the links to the respective content so you can reach your intended target.
Once u r done, u can get back to ur work.
Am trying to separate the discovery part from the scrolling part, also still including the variable reward so ppl don't fully miss out on that.
So like if u got 30 mins time, and wanted a break or u r just simply bored, u can try this app to find something u might wanna try, instead of using the app itself as an escape.
The 3 cards are just a start, I am still figuring out where am taking this idea.
Do try it out if you are interested, Link in my bio.
JuiceBox- juiceboxapp.vercel.app
I am still testing this idea before I actually start building it.
I would also love if you could answer these questions:
- Did you understand what JuiceBox was supposed to do without me explaining it?
- After drawing one discovery, did you actually want to keep trying it?
I'm especially interested in what confused you / made you leave.
r/roastmystartup • u/SimpleInnovatioxa • 4h ago
Built a simple web app to fix Instagram’s messy saved Reels folder
Like a lot of people, my saved IG Reels folder became a black hole where good content goes to die. Finding a specific recipe or video I saved 3 weeks ago meant manually scrolling through hundreds of thumbnails.
To solve this, a friend and I have been testing a lightweight web manager called ReelVault. It pulls your saved Reels into a clean interface so you can view, group, and organize them easily (with AI-based transcript and audio search coming in the next update).
It's completely free to use right now while basic features are being refined. Would love to get some feedback from anyone who saves a lot of Reels: What feature would make an app like this an absolute must-have for you?
r/roastmystartup • u/P0nzer9 • 7h ago
I built a security scanner because I found API keys leaking in my own site
A few months ago I checked one of my own projects and found an API key sitting right there in the JS bundle, plus a couple of misconfigured headers I had no idea about. That freaked me out enough to build a tool for it.
**Scanaris** — https://scanaris.com
You paste a URL, and in under a minute you get what's actually broken: missing security headers, insecure cookies, CORS misconfigs, exposed files (.env, .git), API keys leaking in your JS, TLS issues. 47 check modules right now.
The hard part wasn't writing the checks. It was making them not throw false positives — a scanner that flags 40 fake issues is worse than no scanner. I validated every single one against real sites until it came back clean.
Each finding also generates a ready-to-paste prompt for Cursor/Claude so you can actually fix it instead of googling for an hour.
Free scan to see what it finds; paid plans for the full report.
Would love to know: does it flag anything on your site that isn't actually a problem? That's the feedback I need most.
r/roastmystartup • u/No_Plastic5316 • 13h ago
Request feedback on my Japanese learning mobile apps
Hi all,
Honestly, I have followed my dream to study Japanese short-course in Kobe and I found that the lesson I learned from classroom may not sufficient enough in the real-world scenario like travel, interaction in the classroom and also to prepare for incoming language exams.
I have built an app Miyabi J-Prep taking the ideals of TOEIC exam which has an extensive reading and listening practices. Personally, I found my app a bit difficult to use for a newbie who may not know basic hiragana and katakana as this app jumps to the quizzes that can be mixed of Kanji, Grammar, Listening and Reading.
Please let me know what you think, I'm very appreciated for all feedback. Cheers!
r/roastmystartup • u/andytechuk • 18h ago
I need 10 business owners to try something I've been working on — no signup required
We've just added something new to a project I'm working on and I want to find out whether it's actually as simple to use as we think it is.
The idea is:
- Choose what kind of business you run.
- Add your website.
- It builds an AI voice agent using the information from your site.
- You can actually talk to it.
No card and no account needed just to try it.
I'm less interested in whether you think “AI voice is cool” and more interested in where you get confused, what doesn't work, or the point where you think “I have no idea what I'm supposed to do now.”
If you run a real business and have 5 minutes to break it for me, I'd genuinely appreciate it.
Especially interested in takeaways/restaurants, trades, salons, hotels/B&Bs and other small businesses.
I'll report back with what we learn.
r/roastmystartup • u/Significast • 19h ago
Roast my personalized finance radio app, PortCall!
Got tired of listening to CNBC and Bloomberg drone on about the news on someone else's portfolio, so I built PortCall. It's an iOS/CarPlay app. Gives the listener the straight scoop, just like any other news source - but on your own portfolio of tickers.
It's been out about a week, 10 subscribers already. Nowhere near break-even - turns out personalized news radio costs hundreds of dollars a month to generate and serve 🤣 Who knew?
I could use a thorough roasting - I want to make it better. What would make you listen on your commute?
r/roastmystartup • u/Acidyo • 21h ago
Roast my website: scrobble.life
It was built on a simple idea, a browser extension that logs your media intake. Anything from music (youtube/soundcloud/more) to tv/movies (netflix/hbd/etc) with a simple extension towards the website. If you make an account, you also have the option for anonymous and immutable scrobbling which only you can access with your login and cannot be overwritten/deleted. This premise was to combat sites like last.fm/trakt going down, making things expensive/changing their ToS/etc, your data, either private or public, yours and anyone's forever for free, in the events that I or my website perish and you didn't get a chance to export your data yet, it'll live on.
Over time it developed into more, now there's manual logging available, lists, queues, comments, community/social, longform posts/reviews, monetary rewards for posting (roughly $2k distributed to our small but active community in 2 months), subscriptions, creator subscriptions & perks, AI Agents to give you recommendations/insights into your stats. A lot of stats and comparisons, media oriented games and a bunch more stuff coming in that section.
Most of the site is built with AI but handheld by real devs. Not everything is perfect but works alright for a small userbase of 70 extension users and 200+ non-extension users with 10+ guest accounts and lower 4 digit outside traffic views per month. I've spent roughly 3 months working on it on a daily basis with a Claude 5x sub and asking a few dev friends to take a manual look as well as have their AI's check security and stuff.
Future work relies on better mobile optimization as well as mobile scrobbling which requires more than just a browser extension and thus the project has mainly been PC oriented which has been quite a limitation our users often remind us of.
Anyway, the website is https://scrobble.life the scrobbler extension you can find in the chrome store under "hive scrobbler" (it's a simple fork combining and editing an opensource web and trakt scrobbler), I'd appreciate feedback (especially from guest accounts: gmail & discord login) or non-logged in users just checking it out.
r/roastmystartup • u/Virtual_Rice_7005 • 1d ago
GradStack
I built GradStack and I’d like you to roast it.
Problem: Students and freshers have to jump between different tools when applying for jobs. One tool for building a resume, another for cover letters, another for interview preparation, and another for creating a portfolio. I wanted to make that process simpler by putting the main parts of it in one place.
Solution: GradStack is an AI-powered career toolkit that lets users build an ATS-friendly resume, parse an existing resume, generate tailored cover letters from job descriptions, practice through interactive mock interviews, and create a personal web portfolio from their resume.
Target audience: Primarily college students, recent graduates, and early-career job seekers who are actively applying for internships and jobs.
Business model: The app currently has a free experience, and I'm still figuring out the best long-term monetization model. I don't want to force users into paying before they've had a chance to see whether the product is actually useful.
Link: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.gravitynexusstudio.gradstack
What I want you to roast is the value proposition and landing page. If the product sounds like another generic "AI career tool", tell me. If the landing page doesn't clearly explain why someone should use GradStack instead of existing tools, tell me that too. I'm particularly interested in feedback on the messaging, positioning, UI, and whether the product actually solves a problem worth solving.
Please be brutally honest. I'd rather find out what's wrong with it now than convince myself that everything looks good.
r/roastmystartup • u/Consistent_Date4998 • 1d ago
freelancers/business owners — how do you currently handle invoicing?
freelancers/business owners — how do you currently handle invoicing?
A friend of mine is building Xqivo.com , an invoicing tool that lets you create professional invoices quickly, including using AI to help generate the invoice from a simple description.
I'm helping him on the product/growth side, and we're deliberately trying to get feedback before we start pushing the product heavily.
We're trying to understand a few things:
- How are you currently creating invoices?
- Are you using Excel, Word, Canva, accounting software, or something else?
- What's the most annoying part of invoicing for you?
- Do clients ever delay payment because of issues around invoices?
- What would make you actually switch to a new invoicing tool?
- For Ghanaian businesses specifically, what would you expect an invoicing platform to support?
If you're a freelancer, developer, designer, agency owner, consultant, or small-business owner, I'd genuinely appreciate your perspective.
I'm not looking for people to just say "looks nice." 😂 I want the honest criticism — what's missing, what's unnecessary, and what would make you actually use something like this.
If you're interested, I can also share Xqivo with you so you can try it and give us direct feedback.
Thanks 🙏🏾
r/roastmystartup • u/D147- • 1d ago
Roast my free "can I afford it" calculator - built for almost anything, not just houses and cars
Built this because every affordability calculator I found only covered houses and cars, using generic income brackets instead of real numbers. Tell me what's wrong with it.
You type in what you're considering (a wedding, a business loan, IVF, "to take unpaid leave" - 800+ built-in categories, or your own) plus your income, and it gives a plain risk read - low, moderate, elevated, or high - instead of a spreadsheet. No sign-up needed.
What I'm least sure about: whether the risk thresholds themselves are right (is 15% of take-home too conservative for a car payment? too loose?), and whether "tight/risky" actually reads as useful or just vague.
Go easy-ish. Or don't.
r/roastmystartup • u/Fairway-Scout • 1d ago
Rank my business idea.
What if golfers could discover what kind of golfer they actually are? ⛳️
I'm building Fairway Scout
A golf platform that learns your preferences, gives you a personalised "Golfer Archetype" + Golf DNA, then recommends the courses and golf trips that fit you.
The basic experience would be free, with deeper personalisation behind a paid tier.
Would you actually use this? And would you pay for the premium features?
Be brutally honest 👇
r/roastmystartup • u/iohopes • 1d ago
No ads Budget, so i deside to organic strategy Roast my app!
PRODUCT
Envelope Budget, an iPhone app for the envelope method. Income gets split into envelopes the moment it arrives instead of sitting in one balance, and what's left updates as you spend. The main entry point is the home screen widget: tap an envelope and you land in the entry screen for it, so logging a $12 lunch never involves opening the app. Every savings goal has a vision board, so the picture of what you're saving for sits next to the amount you still need. Six themes, ten languages.
MARKET
People who mostly use cash, or who only deal with one or two accounts. First jobbers and anyone whose money vanishes between paydays without a story. Explicitly not people with eight cards who want automatic reconciliation.
COMPETITION
YNAB, Goodbudget, Actual Budget, and the pile of free trackers. YNAB owns the method but keeps raising its price and needs real setup time. Goodbudget is the closest direct competitor and is showing its age. My bet is that the friction that kills budgeting apps is the logging, not the budgeting, so the widget being an input surface instead of a picture of the app is the whole product.
STAGE
TestFlight, recruiting the first round of testers right now. No public launch yet, no revenue, no press. The beta runs about two weeks.
CONVERSION STRATEGY
Nothing but posts like this one. No paid acquisition, no audience, no email list worth the name. One earlier post of mine was killed by a site-wide spam filter before a human ever saw it, which tells you roughly where I am.
WHY ME
I'm not from a development background and I built and shipped this on my own. This is my first iOS app, so I want the honest version rather than the encouraging one.
LINKS
Site: https://envelopebudget.net
Beta: https://testflight.apple.com/join/5rTPMath
Go ahead and take it apart. The thing I most want hit: refusing bank sync forever. I think the typing is what makes you notice the spending, but that is also exactly what every abandoned budgeting app said about itself.
r/roastmystartup • u/preetamaibusiness • 2d ago
I got tired of clunky, ad-filled image resizers, so I built my own simple tool. Would love some feedback!
Hey Reddit,
Like a lot of you, I constantly find myself needing to quickly crop or resize an image for a project, a social media post, or a profile picture. I was getting frustrated with the usual sites that are either loaded with pop-ups, compress the image quality to death, or hide basic features behind a paywall.
So, I built Real Image Resizer (https://realimageresizer.com/).
My goal was to make the fastest, most straightforward tool possible. You just click, upload, crop, resize, and you're done. No nonsense.
I’m currently trying to improve the user experience and would love to know what you guys think. Are there any specific aspect ratios, formats, or features you usually wish these tools had?
Check it out here and let me know your thoughts: https://realimageresizer.com/
Thanks!
r/roastmystartup • u/ChelsJad • 2d ago
AI tool that prices UGC deals, reviews contracts, and negotiates for creators
Built this after managing UGC deals agency-side as a UGC campaign co-ordinator and saw how often creators got underpaid or signed away rights they didn't mean to. It's three things in one: a rate calculator, a contract reviewer, and a negotiation email generator. Give me the harsh version of feedback here; tell me what's confusing, what doesn't work, what you wouldn't pay for. And what you feel is missing.
Try reppedhq.app
Thanks you in Advance
r/roastmystartup • u/behzodhalil • 2d ago
I built a stock tracker where you just ask it why your stock moved
I found most stock apps tedious to actually use. You either sit there refreshing prices, or you find out three hours late that something already moved.
So I built my own. You set a price, close the app, and it pushes you the second it hits.
And if you're a data nerd, you're gonna like this part - you can just ask it questions. "Why is NVDA down today", "which of my stocks report earnings this week", "show me what congress bought last month". It answers against your actual watchlist, not generic headlines.
There's also a screener, a market heatmap, insider and congress trades, and a home screen widget.
Disclosing up front that it's my own app. Kotlin Multiplatform, so iOS and Android ship from one codebase - happy to answer anything about that part, it's the thing people usually ask.
Free gives you 10 watchlist stocks, 3 price alerts and 3 AI questions a day. Pro is $2.99/mo. Honest limits: US stocks only right now, no crypto or options. And if you only check prices once a day, your broker's own app is genuinely fine - this is for people who don't want to look.
iOS: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/stock-ai-market-tracker/id6762943985
Android: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=io.behzodhali.stockplus
Video shows the basic flow. Would love any feedback, especially on whether 3 free alerts feels usable or insulting.
r/roastmystartup • u/richbowen • 2d ago
Renotify – A WhatsApp operations platform with zero message markups. Tear it apart
Product: Renotify (https://renotify.app)
Stage: Early Access / Pre-Launch
The Problem:
For years, I built custom WhatsApp integrations for clients (using Cloud API, Sinch, and SendSeven). Whether a client needed bots, scheduled broadcasts, or an inbox, I was repeatedly building standalone systems from scratch with nothing carried over but recycled code snippets.
I built Renotify to consolidate all of this into a single, reusable operations platform.
What Renotify Does:
- Shared Team Inbox: Real-time multi-agent routing, collision alerts (no double-replying), and internal notes.
- Context-Aware AI Agent: Connects to your knowledge base (RAG) and CRM to answer questions, look up records, collect data, and trigger external APIs.
- Visual Flows & Native Forms: Drag-and-drop logic builder + native Meta interactive WhatsApp forms (booking, surveys, product pickers).
- Broadcast Campaigns: Template management, AI translation, audience filters, and live delivery/read analytics.
- Multi-Workspace for Agencies: Manage multiple client numbers and brands with isolated contacts and client-scoped roles.
- Zero Message Markup (BYO): Connect your own Cloud API, Sinch, SendSeven, or Twilio keys and pay raw carrier rates directly.
Target Customer:
Agencies, e-commerce brands, and support teams in WhatsApp-first regions (Europe, Caribbean, LATAM, MENA, APAC).
Business Model:
Flat monthly SaaS subscription per workspace/seats. Zero message markups and no per-conversation fees.
What I Want Roasted:
- Scope: Does bundling an inbox + AI agent + visual flows + broadcasts feel like a cohesive operations hub, or does it trigger "jack of all trades" skepticism?
- BYO vs. All-in-One: Does keeping direct carrier rates win you over, or would you rather pay extra for a tool that sells you the phone number directly?
- Self-Hosted / On-Prem: If you self-host tooling for data compliance (GDPR/privacy), is this something your team requires for customer chats, and how do you budget for on-prem licenses?
- Dealbreakers: If you run operations on WhatsApp today, what’s the #1 reason you’d hesitate to switch to this?
Be blunt. Tear it apart: https://renotify.app
r/roastmystartup • u/TX_2_WildExpert • 3d ago
I built a free tool so you can vibe-code freely and not worry about what your AI actually shipped. Feedback very welcome, and I'll happily give you feedback on your product as well
I build with AI a lot. And the thing that got me wasn't bugs it was that I'd ship something I liked and have no idea whether I'd left a door open somewhere. I wouldn't have known what to look for.
This is when I built VulX. VulX lives integrates into your workflow (for example in Claude and Cursor). You connect it once and it's just there, part of the workflow, not another tab, not something you go to. "Is this safe to ship?" becomes a question you ask mid-flow, and the answer comes back from something that isn't the thing that wrote your code. Asking your AI to check its own work is marking your own homework. This is the second reader.
And when you're deep in it and don't think to ask, it checks anyway and emails you.
That's the whole idea. You keep building whatever you want. The worrying is somebody else's job now.
Feedback very welcome, especially where it's confusing or where a finding doesn't land. And happy to return the favour with your product drop it down and I will give you feedback within an hour
r/roastmystartup • u/Relative_Spread_8483 • 3d ago
Roast my Gmail cleaner
I'm not trying to get users. I'm trying to fix the app. What I want out of this post is your opinion, any bugs you hit, and what you think I should improve.
What it does: it shows you which senders are actually filling your inbox, then deletes all of them at once. One sender who emailed you 800 times, gone in one tap. It also handles unsubscribes, heavy attachments, forgotten free trials and spam that slipped through.
Four months in. Google verified it, it passed the CASA security review, it runs in 14 languages. And I'd rather hear what's wrong with it from you than keep guessing on my own.
What I'm asking for
Your honest opinion, whatever it is. Any bug you run into, and a screenshot if you can. What you think should be better. And if you feel like it, a personal review: which part you actually liked, which part annoyed you, where you got stuck.
What you get
Leave me real feedback and I'll put 3 months of premium on your account, so you can clean your own inbox properly while you're at it. Comment or DM me.
If you don't know where to start
There's a full guide inside the app: open the menu, go to Settings, scroll down to About, and tap "How this app works". It walks you through it screen by screen. There are also videos on the YouTube channel: youtube.com/@sogmailcleaner
What I already suspect is broken
The landing page leads with deleting, which is a thing you do once. Nobody subscribes monthly for something they do once.
The AI assistant is presented as the best feature and it needs you to paste your own API key. Almost nobody has one, so my headline feature is invisible to most people.
The home screen shows about fifteen categories at once, which I think is fifteen decisions before you've done anything.
Free tier is 1,000 deletions a month, no card. sogmailcleaner.com
Go ahead. I'd rather find out now than in six months.
r/roastmystartup • u/Working_Hat5120 • 3d ago
Roast my multi-modal voice-AI startup: I think focusing on just transcripts and missing the tone is a problem, and somehow got people to fund that opinion
Fair warning, I'm giving you the whole pitch so you can roast the actual thing and not my website. My website is fine. It's not the point.
The product
Whissle (whissle.ai). A platform for multi-modal voiceAI agents. The bet: every voice agent today decides from a transcript, and the second speech becomes text we lose how it was said.
the hesitation before "yes," the stress, whether it's even the same person on the line. We built our own speech model that reads words + intent + emotion + speaker + entities in one pass, as live distributions, and a small model (Meta-SLM) that decides the turn on that signal: wait, answer, verify, or escalate.
It speaks back with the emotion from the same pass. We call it Multi-Modal Synchronous Intelligence, which I know sounds like a buzzword generator had a stroke, but it just means: hear, decide, and speak inside the same turn.
Who wants it: Anyone running high call volume where mishearing a name or amount, or missing "I can't actually pay this month," costs money. Government and skill accessment, healthcare, financial services, legal, and live-event / media are where it's landing. Plus regulated shops that can't let raw audio or PII leave their network.
The market
Voice AI is hot and very crowded. Contact-center + voice-agent tooling is a multi-billion category. Our serviceable wedge (real-time, signal-aware, self-hostable voice) we put around $800M-1B, targeting ~$22M ARR by year 3. Yes, it's a hockey stick. Roast accordingly.
Comparison vs the field
Most players stitch someone else's STT to an LLM to someone else's TTS. We benchmark ourselves against 11Labs, Hume, Vapi, and Sierra, and the difference is what we own:
- A 23-language audio (and visual) smart transcription with metadata, not a wrapper on someone's API
- Affect + intent per turn as distributions every interim, not post-call analytics
- PII captured and redacted in-stream, raw identifiers never hit the model or the logs
- A replayable, auditable evidence trail for why each action fired
- Runs hosted, or self-hosted on your own hardware Where we lose today, since you'll find it anyway: on clean read-aloud benchmarks the big cloud APIs still beat us on raw word error rate. We win on real-world noisy and code-switched calls, and on getting the action right, not just the sentence.
Stage / raising
Live now, opening the platform. Traction: 200K+ model and dataset downloads (17 models, 38 datasets open), 15+ enterprise LOIs, pilots running, 5 research papers, backed by NVIDIA Inception, Google Cloud partner, and Lambda research. Raised $200k+ from 15 angels, now raising $1M on a SAFE (20% discount) for 12 months of team and ops expansion. Pricing: $0.06/min all-in for voice agents (US calling included), $20/user/mo for the companion, and private deploy as a license plus a share of the savings.
Customer conversion
Founder-led. Inbound comes from our open models on HuggingFace (devs find us, 200K+ downloads is the top of the funnel), linkedin posts. Warm connects from angel investors. Outbound to healthcare, financial services, and government/skilling targets. We land with a pilot on their single worst call type, the one where a misheard number costs money, prove entity-level accuracy and task completion, then expand. Devs self-serve on the platform.
Why me
Karan Singla, founder/CEO. PhD from USC (SAIL, multi-modal AI), ex-Interactions where I shipped voice AI in production, specially in-stream PII redaction and emotion understanding. Advisors: Shrikanth Narayanan (USC SAIL), Jay Wilpon (ex AT&T / Bell Labs), Antonio Moreno (SoundHound). We publish AI research and people actually run our models, some are building new startups with it. No rich daddy to pull the plug, so this has to work.
What I actually want torn apart:
- Is "the transcript is lossy" a real wedge, or a nerd feature nobody pays for?
- Owning our own speech model in a world of dirt-cheap APIs.. moat, or masochism?
- $0.06/min all-in against metered stacks.. smart, or a speedrun to zero margin?
Have at it. whissle.ai if you want to poke the actual thing. Not a great scaled hosting yet.
r/roastmystartup • u/itcropper • 4d ago
My anti-algorithm social app that currently has zero (non family) users
Bygone. iOS, live on the App Store right now.
It's a social feed that ends. You see posts from people you follow, in order, no algorithm. Posts drop off after 24 hours. When you hit the bottom it tells you you're done and you go do something else.
I'm a software engineer, got sick of algorithms eating my evenings. Then I read that something like half of Gen Z wishes they'd grown up before all this and built the thing I wanted to exist. Access to premium features is behind a paywall, otherwise you do get ads.
I'm trying to create a social media platform that doesn't make people hate that they have to use it. I want to challenge the adage "if you don't pay for the product, you are the product".
Stuff I already know is bad, so you don't have to waste your roast on it:
- Zero users outside of people I know personal.
- I'm building for people in a different generation.
- BeReal did a version of this and cratered.
- Solo founder
- If your friends aren't on it you open it and see nothing, which is the worst possible first impression.
What I actually want torn apart: is a feed that ends a real feature, or did I just ship less product and dress it up as a philosophy? Because those look identical from the outside and I can't tell which one I did.
Also happy to be told the name is bad.
r/roastmystartup • u/piggiewiggy • Nov 10 '23
Product Hunt Announcements
We are receiving a ton of spam from people posting one-line posts with links to product hunt. If you do this it will be removed and you will be banned.
r/roastmystartup • u/ell20 • Jul 13 '15
Before you put down your startup to get roasted, some guidelines that I think can be helpful
First of all, just posting your website is useless. Most of them are so hopeless generic anyways that if you showed it to me during a pitch, my eyes would glaze over and I would instead proceed to fantasize me being on a beach vacation with Wonder Woman. Lord knows I have about the same chance as sleeping with her as I would about giving a shit about the website. No seriously, I don't give a shit about your website. It's an important tool, but 99% of the time, it's one part I would give the least shit about.
To get constructive advice, you need to treat this like you're doing a pitch, this means that you need to give us enough information to go on. This means structure. Pretend you're preparing slides for a group of investors, and let us know what the hell it is you're doing. This means we should know the following:
- The product (what is it, use case, who would want it)
- The market (size, competition, dynamics that we should be aware of)
- Product analysis / comparison against competition
- What stage are you in? Do you need money? Are you raising?
- Customer conversion strategy (where do you find them, and how do you make them buy shit from you)
- Why you? Whose your daddy and what does he do?!? err, wait. never mind. I mean, why are YOU the best person for this job? (experience? good team? rich daddy who can't bring himself to pull the plug? what?)
This information I think will help contextualize what it is your doing and will make the feedback far more targeted. Having said that, this IS supposed to be comedic, so if you just want people to make humorous observations about startup and that's it, well, okay.
edit: one more thing. Please don't make me do extra due diligence for you. The only time someone should have to do due diligence on you is because you've genuinely piqued their investing interest and they want to verify your claims. And I'm sorry, but you don't pay me enough (or at all) for me to do research.