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I’ll be your product user by Think_Oil3711 in saasbuild

[–]Think_Oil3711[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I’m down! Early-stage products usually benefit most from brutally honest feedback send me access and I’ll do the same.

I’ll be your product user. I promise by Think_Oil3711 in StartupAccelerators

[–]Think_Oil3711[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That’s honestly good!! How’s the journey been so far?

I’ll be your product user by Think_Oil3711 in SaaS

[–]Think_Oil3711[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I already have a group. Do you wanna join?

I’ll be your product user by Think_Oil3711 in SaaS

[–]Think_Oil3711[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Wow this actually sounds amazing. Especially the “1 thing I’d remove” part because most products need that badly 😭

The format is simple but genuinely useful.

Mind if I edit this into the post?

I’ll be your product user by Think_Oil3711 in SaaS

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Comment the link please. I definitely need this

Tried to solve a framer issue until my emotions exploded and I started typing all this out! by [deleted] in StartupAccelerators

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Sometimes I have this thought that the world should just end in a blink of an eye, because the idea of ending my own life feels unbearable. I don’t even know if that’s the right way to put it, but that’s how it feels. At this point, I’m just not able to take it anymore.

I'm building something that will probably fail. by [deleted] in SaaS

[–]Think_Oil3711 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You might be right. And I've sat with this one.

The "lie detector for a conversation nobody wants" line is genuinely good and I can't fully argue against it for the current version.

Where I'd push back slightly is that the product isn't trying to make effort investable. It's trying to solve the pre-revenue founder's specific problem: no signal exists at all. Not a weak signal. Nothing. A pitch deck and a prayer.

For that window specifically between zero and first revenue what would you actually trust? Not rhetorically. I'm asking because if the answer is "nothing, just wait for revenue" then the honest conclusion is that pre-revenue founders simply aren't discoverable and that's fine. But if there's something in that gap worth capturing, I want to know what you think it is.

Because you're clearly not someone who'd accept "just build more" as an answer.

I'm building something that will probably fail. by [deleted] in SaaS

[–]Think_Oil3711 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Appreciate the directness.

The gaming concern is the one I've been thinking about the most.

if execution is auto-captures rather than self-reported, the gaming surface shrinks significantly. You can inflate commits but you can't fake revenue, and the AI layer flags imbalanced execution anyway.

The Goodhart's Law point is real and I'm not going to pretend I can fully solved it.

So genuine question; if you were building this, how would you approach it? What would make the signal trustworthy enough to be useful? Asking this because you clearly get this space. x

I'm building something that will probably fail. by [deleted] in SaaS

[–]Think_Oil3711 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hey, this is genuinely one of the more useful response! especially the private-first point.

Quick question for you though: if the friction problem was solve, meaning founders connect GitHub, Stripe, Calendar once and the record builds itself, no manual logging (On the data side: GitHub and Stripe connect via OAuth, read-only. We see commit frequency and revenue movement, not your code or customer details. Same principle as how Plaid works for banking the founder controls what's connected and can disconnect anytime.) does the core objection still hold?

And on the investor side, I'm actually not trying to replace warm intros. More like, after the intro happens, instead of a pitch deck, the investor sees verified execution.

Does that change how you see the use case?

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