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Products that do what Upboat, idea validation with a twist does

http://www.upboat.us Demo: http://www.upboat.us/idea/upboat Screenshot of logged-in view: http://i.imgur.com/vUZXfZc.png Upboat is an idea validation platform, somewhere inbetween Kickstarter and LaunchRock. If the idea you pitch receives over 200* "upboat"s (consented would-be users) within one week, you get the whole emailing list of all those who upboat'd it. If not, you get nothing. This is helpful for those who have ideas for side-projects, but lack the strong-enough incentive to get to work and just hack something together. Should you put up…

  1. 1AS

    Hi HN! I made a really quick web app to help people validate their ideas. The app is a simple landing page builder, but every page includes a really simple Yes/No "Are You Interested?" poll. Every vote is recorded and tracked, and if they click yes they are brought to a page where they can submit an email. This makes validating ideas super easy because you can post your link to different communities and get statistically significant results as well as build an email list. Given an hour, you could easily create 50 different landing pages and be able to validate your ideas in bulk. The…

    2020

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    A practical guide on validating business ideas using Reddit

    2020

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    A guide on validating business ideas using communities

    2020

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    Share ideas and get feedback and followers 💭👣

    2019

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    Validate Before You Create - See If Your Idea Already Exists

    2024

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    A super-simple landing page builder for bulk idea validation

    2020

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    Get honest feedback about your business idea.

    2024

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    Validate your startup idea by asking the Magic Startup Shell

    2020

  9. 9VV

    Hi Hacker News! My name is Marcel, and I created Valideate.com Valideate is a quick way to validate your ideas so you can determine whether or not they are worth pursuing further. How does it work? 1. You can post your rough idea on Valideate for free, but it costs 1 point. 2. To earn 1 point, you have to vote on 5 other ideas. 3. That's it! Right now, anyone who registers will instantly earn 5 points, so you can validate 5 ideas immediately. I created this because I wanted a quick way to pulse check my own ideas, and I hope it solves your problem too. If you have questions or feedback, I'll…

    2022 · valideate.com

  10. 10FS

    I started a newsletter sending out daily startup ideas. After a year, I transitioned to weekly ideas with more in-depth details. I recently posted all of them to the website and made them searchable. Check it out and let me know what you think. By providing more than just an idea, my hope is to help someone start their next business. https://www.startupsfromthebottom.com/

    2020

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    Roast (+fix) your startup idea in 3mins before wasting 3mths

    2025

  12. 12WA

    Will This Fly? is an online platform to gain feedback and validation on projects, ideas and minimum viable products. Building on the success of MVP1 (over 200 votes and plenty of feedback) we have improved the voting system, added the ability to attach a comment to your vote and improved the design. Check it out; anyone can vote and comment on MVP2. http://willthisfly.net/ (Note: We will be taking a limited number of project submissions shortly. If you have a project of your own, a minimum viable product or even an idea you are considering, you can leave your email address and we will let…

    2013

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    Pitch your idea + get feedback from a community of makers 🤝

    2019

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    Validate your business idea with real-world data in 2 min

    2024

  15. 15CL

    We hatched this idea of a Kickstarter + Groupon + Etsy model last week, threw up a super simple landing page that day, then launched a more detailed landing page last night. What do you think of the idea as a whole? The landing page itself? Since the Etsy / crafting world is so large and diverse, we're really trying to focus on the sharing of our site to get the word out. We are doing some minimal google ads and will be doing various tests to see what brings in the best traffic and converts the best. Interestingly enough, good old fashioned twitter searching with hand authored tweets has had…

    2011 · craft.ly

  16. 16IR

    This is a website I've been working on in this holiday season. It tries to help creators in choosing the right idea to implement, and help you get reviews from your peers or from your friends. To work you need to log in with a google account, describe your idea, and review the ideas of other (chosen randomly). You then will get reviews of your idea from others. It's very basic as this is just a MVP of what it could be and I would really appreciate any suggestions/criticism you could give. You can do it here or directly reviewing the idea of "Idea Roulette" I've created on Idea Roulette…

    2011

  17. 17IM

    Landing page is > http://inventr.org Submitted in Ask HN first, someone mentioned I should also post here. Hoping that over time the Inventr boards ask more complex questions especially around problem solving and better giveaways. Each Inventr has their own publicly available profile which shows their Inventr status, each brand has their own Inventr page (click on a board to get there). Sharing is built into the platform with the option to share an idea once submitted for as many upvotes as possible. Business model likely to be subscription based version for the enterprise to drive…

    2016

  18. 18UA

    Hey folks. I have been working on Unsolved.xyz for a bit now. The idea was to help idea stage entrepreneurs make progress using a combination of a self serve game and Founder to Founder problem solving 1. Automated To-Dos that help them make progress from one level to the next 2. As you progress you get access to a network of high reputation founders 3. You gain reputation by helping other founders solve challenges and getting unstuck Reputation is live, but not the To-Dos. It looks a little like a mashup between product hunt and stack overflow. But it is for ideas I really was hoping you…

    2020

  19. 19NT

    Hello Hackers, IdeaRoost is a platform that connects those who are seeking feedback with those who want to provide feedback. The concept is you post an idea/project, fund it with some money, and people will leave you feedback for a little reward.

    2024 · idearoost.app

  20. 20AG

    If you're like me, you have at least a half-dozen (half-baked) ideas for side projects sitting on your "idea shelf" waiting for the right opportunity to come along and give you that spark to get started. At my day job (Bridge.Academy), we found that many of the incoming developers entering our program shared the same experience so we decided to do something about it and formalize the process of picking up a new technology you are trying to learn and applying it through a side-project with a program we're calling "The Bridge Tournament". It's designed to give you that extra bit of motivation…

    2019

  21. 21SH

    website: dashboard.io I've been thinking about this idea for a while now and finally got around to building the prototype this weekend. The idea is that you'd drop my JS snippet on your site and I'd start building the "AARRR" table (which I'm actually building this week but imagine slide 4: http://www.slideshare.net/dmc500hats/startup-metrics-for-pirates-long-version). Basically, the system will build that table out for you and then show you how your startup stacks up against others in your space. To be clear, I'll never share your data with anyone. So, if you're a "hosting" company, I'd…

    2011

  22. 22IT

    I created http://devtest.net as a weekend project, and I'm pretty proud of it from a technical and UI standpoint. The problem is, I've built this by myself in a bit of a vacuum, to "scratch my own itch", and I don't know if this is useful to anyone other than me. I'm also not so hot on the business side and don't really know what I'm doing. Basically, I'm looking for some advice, now that I've actually launched, what now? One thing that this has shown me is that I'm capable of putting together a pretty decent web application on my own in my spare time. Should I stick with this idea, or…

    2012

  23. 23NC

    I wanted to share a project I've been working on : Styrate, a social rating and review platform for products. I built a landing page for it using a no-code platform, which allowed me to create a professional and functional website without writing any code. As someone who is not very tech-savvy, I was able to easily build a landing page that looks and functions like it was built by a professional. This really showcases the power of no-code platforms, as they allow people with limited technical knowledge(me) to create websites, apps, and other digital products without having to learn how to…

    2023 · yep.so

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    I built a tool (https://1mil.app/hn) to help me test my intuition about various weird business ideas that were on my mind. Initially, I wanted to create a database with 1 million business ideas (hence the name - "1 million opportunities"). But turned out to be a dumb idea already. So instead I built this tool that returns only 10 ideas. It's all based on your input, market + your background. The first release scored on demand only and it gave false confidence. So I rebuilt the the scoring around "winnability": can a solo founder with a specific background "win" against what…

    7d ago · 1mil.app

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