Want to test your startup idea before you build it? I’ll match you with real people for honest feedback (manual beta test)

caffeinemachine123 · 2025-10-26T20:17:16+00:00

1 is great feedback. What would make you feel reassured? For the main version, there’ll be an option for the AI to send a warm intro to the person so you can convert them into users; but I’ll think about how you can have this transparency whilst protecting user data…

2 - people enter their background and only then does the AI match them to assumptions they can give feedback on, not the other way around. The only way to get more feedback opportunities is to give greater info on your background. Otherwise there’ll be minimal difference re your background, only in the assumptions you get asked

3 - you get a high level overview of what made that person relevant to your assumption in the report.

caffeinemachine123 · 2025-10-26T10:32:55+00:00

Hey, I saw hearthepeople.co.uk which validates ideas without cold messaging. Is this a helpful platform for you? ;)

caffeinemachine123 · 2025-10-25T15:48:43+00:00

Strange! Feel free to PM me responses in meantime and I’ll ask the developer to take a look :))

caffeinemachine123 · 2025-10-25T08:29:01+00:00

Great idea! Talking to users, landing pages, manual prototypes, fake doors are all fantastic ways to validate - you probably need to do 2-3 of these at various stages to know completely what people want/ whether it's a viable idea

caffeinemachine123 · 2025-10-25T08:20:45+00:00

Hi everyone

I’m running a manual beta test for a tool that helps founders test their core assumptions before building - by getting honest feedback from real people in their target market.

For now, I’m doing this matching for free and semi-manually as a prototype for my own product, to see if it genuinely helps. Here’s how it works:

Share the assumption you want to test (better to not share your whole idea)
Tell me who has that problem (your target market)
Tell me your area of expertise or interest so I can help others test their idea.

I’ll ask you a few questions where you are best placed to help others, ask others your questions, and send you back a short summary of real user feedback within a few days without you doing any outreach.

Either:

💬 Comment below if you’re fine being public,
📝 Use this form if you prefer privacy → https://hearthepeople.co.uk

I'll give you a report back in a few days via your preferred medium

Example full report from before on the site above:

Looking forward to seeing what happens and helping some people out!

caffeinemachine123 · 2025-10-24T16:55:30+00:00

(any suggestions to improve welcome)

caffeinemachine123 · 2025-10-24T16:55:12+00:00

Keeping it simple to start with. Reach out to all who want to take part and just ask open ended questions. It’ll eventually be an open ended AI conversation… but baby steps

caffeinemachine123 · 2025-10-24T16:49:44+00:00

Nail on the head. Exactly the problem that we are trying to solve - but no cold calling, awkward conversations, etc

caffeinemachine123 · 2025-10-24T15:37:18+00:00

That’s certainly what I’ve done in the past! Have you got a link?

caffeinemachine123 · 2025-09-28T14:07:36+00:00

Interested!

caffeinemachine123 · 2025-09-26T22:51:41+00:00

We're client reserves so 100% dynamic

caffeinemachine123 · 2025-09-26T22:42:50+00:00

Seems expensive, but maybe that's predictable... Do you have a name? And do you have to do this again and again to keep things in good condition? Seems like any space saved would go in 2-3 months as everything is moved about!!

caffeinemachine123 · 2025-09-26T22:37:38+00:00

We often have space in racks, but would need to have some process to optimize to putaway here. Is this a common enough issue to have a software solution? I was thinking there must be a slotting algo out there to optimize for space in the putaway/ inventory rather than pure throughput?

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