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Life & fun · March 29, 2026

Ideahunt

Validate ideas before you build

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What it does

Discover early-stage concepts, commit as a future customer, and back ideas with capped micro-support. Ideahunt turns vague “idea validation” into a real-time marketplace of upvotes, and committed interest. It is designed for solo founders and indie hackers to post raw problems, audiences, and pitches, and to watch live signal—upvotes, commitments, comments, and optional capped backing—aggregate across ideas before they invest weeks into a build.

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    A site to help you validate ideas in bulk2020 · ▲93

    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…

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    I accidentally built a startup idea validation tool2025 · validationly.com · ▲15

    I was working on validating some of my own project ideas. While trying to find how to validate my idea, I realized the process itself could be turned into a tool. A few late nights later, I had something that takes any startup idea, fetches discussions, summarizes sentiment, and gives a quick “validation score.” It’s very rough, but it works, and it’s already making me rethink a few of my own ideas. It's still a work in progress. I don't actually know what I'm doing, but I know it's worth it. Honest feedback welcomed! Live demo here: https://validationly.com/

  • UI
    Upboat, idea validation with a twist2013 · ▲74

    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…

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