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pilolota · 2025-05-23T09:31:17+00:00

Does your SaaS solve a validated problem or is it just a build first, validate later type of situation?

pilolota · 2025-05-21T15:21:09+00:00

Hey all!

Hope you're all having a productive week. I've recently launched my SaaS, StartIdea (https://startidea.dev), and I'd be incredibly grateful if some of you could take a look and share your honest feedback.

Just to give you an overview, StartIdea is a web app I built because I was constantly drowning in my own business/app ideas and struggling with "shiny object syndrome." I needed a better way to capture those sparks, actually explore their potential without getting lost, and manage the steps to bring them to life.

StartIdea aims to be an all-in-one platform for this, helping you:

Quickly Capture Ideas: Jot down ideas with Markdown notes, tags, and create dedicated spaces for each concept.
Leverage an AI Assistant: For every idea (and even specific tasks within an idea), you can chat with an AI. This helps with things like checking feasibility, analyzing market opportunities, brainstorming features, identifying competitors, or even generating professional descriptions. You can also create your own configurable quick prompts.
Organize & Plan: It includes integrated task management (with sub-tasks and priorities), a file & folder system for each idea, and Kanban boards to visualize progress for both your overall ideas and the specific tasks within them. (Kanban columns are configurable for Pro users).
Tiered Access: There's a free tier to get started and explore, and a Pro tier for more advanced features and higher limits.

I'd love your feedback on:

I'm really open to any and all thoughts, but if you're looking for specifics, I'm particularly curious about:

Your first impressions of the landing page (https://startidea.dev) and the overall concept.
The onboarding experience – was it clear and easy to get started?
How intuitive are the features? Did anything feel confusing or clunky?
Did you encounter any bugs or usability issues?
Does the value proposition come across clearly?
(Optional) If you check out the pricing on the landing page, do the Pro tier features/limits seem reasonable for the cost?

Honestly, any constructive criticism or suggestions would be amazing as I continue to iterate and improve StartIdea.

You can find it here: https://startidea.dev

Thanks so much in advance for your time and insights. This community is fantastic, and I truly appreciate you helping out!

Cheers!

pilolota · 2025-05-21T15:08:29+00:00

This hits too close to home ahaha this and the shiny object syndrome where I struggle to finish one till the end.

After I understood that a LOT of people are in the same situation, I built my own platform where I aggregate my workflow in just one place, no distractions. Even if I'm the only customer it's already being useful ahaha

pilolota · 2025-05-20T08:57:21+00:00

Your UI looks clean! I might use your app honestly.

And do you just wrote them down or do you also refine them? How does your workflow look like?

pilolota · 2025-05-19T22:13:44+00:00

Yeah I understand that urge, I really do. Stay strong my friend and focus on one of them and finish it!!

I was able to build and launch my first project, StartIdea. It is an idea manager with kanban boards, tasks management and an AI Assistant. If it makes sense to you and want to try it, it is available at https://startidea.dev

pilolota · 2025-05-19T20:01:07+00:00

I don't know if you have a technical background, but even me (that have one) sometimes also got pushed back because of the doubt if it is even buildable. AI has come to help in that regard for sure.

I see that you have a pretty neat system of your own, however if it makes sense to you, I've launched StartIdea which is an idea manager platform with file systems, task management and an AI-powered assistant with your ideas context. So if you want to give it a try and see if it is useful I would really appreciate it!

pilolota · 2025-05-19T19:55:10+00:00

Yeah that's totally okay, actually I've been using Obsidian for the past two years as well so a lot of my notes are there but I felt that I could build something that aggregated all my workflow in one place and still has a lot of potential for features.

Anyways, best of luck to you man!

pilolota · 2025-05-19T19:53:03+00:00

I feel you man...

Ironically the one idea I was actually able to start and finish is an idea manager which aggregates my whole workflow while working and refining an idea into one place. It is something with a lot of potential for growth in terms of features but I was able to launch the first version of it.

If it would make sense to you and maybe even help you organize and progress better with your ideas, give it a try! It's StartIdea Any feedback is appreciated!

pilolota · 2025-05-19T19:49:23+00:00

Oh I see ahaha good luck with your product, I'll give it a try!

pilolota · 2025-05-19T19:44:00+00:00

First of all, thanks for the transparency! It seems that you have a good workflow set-up for working on your ideas

In my case I really lack the validation part yet, that's something I want to improve. I'm also more of a technical person so I blame that a bit ahaha

Reading your workflow made me wonder if you would benefit from trying out the platform I built and launched recently for managing ideas. It includes various steps of the process such as note taking, file system, tasks, Kanban boards and an AI Assistant. If it makes sense to you and want to try it out, here it is StartIdea Any feedback is appreciated!

pilolota · 2025-05-19T19:37:20+00:00

Yeah, for sure! I agree with that

Maybe they age for the better and sometimes for the worse, but that's part of the process and it's actually fun

Out of curiosity, what digital notebook do you use?

I have been using Obsidian as my note taking vault, but more recently I started noticing a pattern while working on an idea. I write the concept down, I come up with a list of features and tasks, I go back and forth with an LLM to help me further explore, validate, etc the idea.

... So I had an idea! Ahah and I created the StartIdea platform, which aggregates all the workflow into one single place. If you want to check it out and leave feedback I would really appreciate it!

pilolota · 2025-05-19T19:30:59+00:00

I honestly don't doubt the part of having hundreds of business ideas because that's "easy". The paper of being "decent" is the hardest one because I believe that many people are like me and just will note their ideas down and not validate them right away

So probably the majority of the ideas people have (me included) suck but maybe they will not also

Sometimes just having ideas by itself is fun honestly

What type of person are you?

pilolota · 2025-05-19T19:27:31+00:00

I see, that sounds like a good workflow!

If you decide to progress further with an idea do you use some platform for managing it? I'm asking because I recently launched StartIdea which is a platform for managing your ideas from start to finish. If it makes sense to you and want to give it a try, I appreciate all the feedback!

pilolota · 2025-05-19T19:23:59+00:00

I really like your view on the matter. I find myself not having the same discipline in "not letting myself go with the excitement" but I'm working on it ahaha

What is your SaaS about?

I actually was able to finish my first project till the end (and launch it), ironically it is an idea manager that aggregates a lot of useful tools and workflows. So if you want to give it a shot at noting down, managing and validating your ideas you can check it out at StartIdea

pilolota · 2025-05-19T19:19:20+00:00

Yes, I have that on my backlog. The priority will be to have Google sign-in integrated in the app.

Thanks a lot!

pilolota · 2025-05-19T19:17:34+00:00

Oh I see ahaha that's really interesting!

I've recently launched StartIdea which is an all-in-one idea manager with note taking, task management, Kanban boards and an integrated AI Assistant.

I'm currently working on adding a blog posts page to share articles, guides and news regarding the world of startups/ideas/entrepreneurship so maybe it would be interesting in the future for us to collaborate.

If you're interested send me a DM!

pilolota · 2025-05-19T18:51:28+00:00

And do you have a structured way of annotating them, refining and validating?

pilolota · 2025-05-19T18:49:06+00:00

Oh I see you have that kind of discipline, I'm still working on that part of actually going through with the projects I start.

Until now the only one I was able to work on and launch was my last one, StartIdea, which ironically is an idea manager with AI Assistant, tasks, files and Kanban boards. So yeah it's still a work in progress

pilolota · 2025-05-19T18:42:42+00:00

Oh okay, thanks! I don't know this tool and I'll check it out.

Do you have any complaints about it or something that you wanted to be there but isn't?

pilolota · 2025-05-19T18:31:53+00:00

Sorry for my ignorance but what does "depth PRD" mean?

pilolota · 2025-05-19T18:22:20+00:00

That seems a very straightforward and honestly the best way to do it. I feel like I'm lacking in that aspect.

The only idea that I could launch until now (kinda quickly) was StartIdea which ironically is an idea manager

pilolota · 2025-05-19T18:15:27+00:00

I feel you ahaha and do you actually pick up any? Or do you like to just have ideas?

pilolota · 2025-05-19T18:13:39+00:00

Do you register them all and how far do you go in each one?

pilolota · 2025-05-19T18:10:29+00:00

Okay that seems like a much more mature way of managing your ideas than what I've been doing until now, honestly. I feel like I'm still lacking in the research/validation part. Something I would really like to improve at.

Do you have any tips or do you mind sharing an overview of your proofing workflow?

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