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ShouldBuild
Find out what your market wants before you waste months
You can build for months before finding out nobody wanted it. ShouldBuild reads what real users already complain about — across the app stores, Reddit, Hacker News and the open web — and hands you a build / don't-build verdict backed by quotes you can click. Keep the findings worth keeping, turn them into a concept and a backlog, and every Monday see what moved: new rivals, new complaints, and whether what you shipped made its complaint go down. 7-day free trial, no card needed.
Hey Product Hunt! 👋
I'm Arturo, a solo founder from Madrid.
My first job was at a bank, building the decision engine for consumer financing, the system that decides, in seconds and with real data, whether financing your purchase is worth the risk. Nobody there would put a single euro on someone without studying them first.
Then I'd go home and do the exact opposite with my own time: months building apps on a hunch, validated by nobody except my own enthusiasm. Almost nobody used them. And unlike money, time doesn't refill.
ShouldBuild is that decision engine, pointed at your ideas. Give it a name and a description. It reads what real users already complain about across the app stores, Reddit, Hacker News and the open web, maps your competitors, and hands you a build / don't-build verdict, where every claim carries a real quote you can click and check. No "trust me", no chatbot vibes.
What you keep becomes your concept and your backlog. And every Monday it re-reads your market and tells you what moved, including whether the thing you shipped made its complaint go down. That's the question no report (and no chatbot) can answer.
There's a 7-day free trial with the whole product, no card needed, enough to run the full loop on your own idea.
I'd love to know: what's the thing you built that you wish you'd validated first? Tell me below. 🙌
This isn't bad. The tokens involved in doing the report is not going to amount to much. I'd be surprised if the tokens required per report amounted to $.50, maybe a dollar. So, out of the gate the pricing is on the high side for a customer but as a developer? Nice gross margins! :-)
The reports suffer, in my limited trial/opinion, from 'LLM helpful bias'. No matter how stupid the idea, ShouldBuild will try to find something. Consider this idea:
"a drone delivery service to service nuclear submarines with restocking uranium and pizza while in hostile waters. two for one on Wednesday"
Yes. I know, epically stupid on purpose to test helpful bias. The report back was don't build it and did flag illegal. It did, tho, try to send me down the path of heavy duty drone delivery with a bunch of next steps to chase down lawyers and users plus building a landing page to advertise the service. @itsarturodev , I'm sure you can see the results in your system along with the other two I ran.
To me, my single opinion, a quick 'illegal' check should stop the process in 30 seconds and say, this is illegal full stop, try again with something different, and be done. I think that adds to the creditability of the product's analysis vs a full report on praise and the like as ShouldBuild did here.
Again, my opinion is that if somebody is going to ask for objective, analysis before spending time and money; blunt, this is stupid/dumb/illegal is 100% valuable feedback. Yes, pivoting the idea to Drone delivery could be seen as trying to be helpful but the unseen risk is that the core product doesn't solve for LLMs helpful bias which may create issues for the so so ideas that get biased towards doing it when it shouldn't. I could be wrong.
Regardless, good luck with the product.
Always very valuable to know if an idea is worth building, as we can now build so fast.
Look like a cool product! I wish I had this when building my first products, would def help me make better decisions. Good luck Arturo!
About ShouldBuild on Product Hunt
“Find out what your market wants before you waste months”
ShouldBuild was submitted on Product Hunt and earned 6 upvotes and 6 comments, placing #17 on the daily leaderboard. You can build for months before finding out nobody wanted it. ShouldBuild reads what real users already complain about — across the app stores, Reddit, Hacker News and the open web — and hands you a build / don't-build verdict backed by quotes you can click. Keep the findings worth keeping, turn them into a concept and a backlog, and every Monday see what moved: new rivals, new complaints, and whether what you shipped made its complaint go down. 7-day free trial, no card needed.
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