Proven is a roadmap for solo builders, from your first idea to a growing product. Answer a few questions and you get four phases, Ideate, Validate, Build, Launch, each with real tools that use your actual answers, not generic output. It's not a report you read once. Competitor Watch and Market Pulse keep checking your market every week, even after you've stopped actively working on it.

What sources does Proven search?

Reddit threads, Hacker News posts and comments, and App Store reviews, scraped live each time you run a tool. Not cached, not synthesized. If people are publicly talking about this pain, we find it. If we can't find evidence for what you described, the tool will say so. That's a signal too.

What's included in the subscription?

One tier, no feature gate by price, whatever rung you're on gets the same subscription. That's every phase and every tool, on every product you add, plus the parts that keep working on their own: Competitor Watch and Market Pulse running weekly on your active product, with a recap sent to your inbox. The price only changes what you paid to join, not what you get.

How long does each tool take?

Most tools finish in under a minute once you run them from a product's phase tab. A couple of the deeper ones, like GTM Plan or a full Competitor Scan, can take a bit longer depending on how much evidence exists for your niche.

How much does Proven cost?

$1/mo right now, 4 spots left before it steps up to $2/mo. The price you join at is the price you keep.

Is there a free option?

Yes. A free account gets you one idea, one run of every tool on it, and the full roadmap to read through before you pay anything. A second idea, or another run of a tool, is where a subscription comes in. No trial, no card required to start.

What happens when the price goes up?

Nothing, for you, once you've joined. Stripe locks your price into your subscription the moment you check out and we never touch it again. The ladder only affects people who join after you, so your price stays exactly where you started, no matter how high it climbs for new subscribers later.

Cancel anytime from your billing settings inside Proven, no email required. If you resubscribe later, you rejoin at whatever the ladder's current price is then, not the price you had before.

How is Proven different from ChatGPT?

The pipeline is real: we scrape live posts, not training data. Every pain quote links to the original Reddit or HN thread. Click through and read the whole conversation. ChatGPT gives you its best guess based on what it learned months ago. Proven shows you what people are saying right now.

How is Proven different from idea validators like IdeaProof or ValidatorAI?

Those tools score your title against a generic rubric, usually a number between 60 and 85 with encouraging commentary, generated without ever looking at your market. Nothing to verify, nothing to act on. Proven does actual research: we scrape live Reddit threads, HN comments, and App Store reviews for your exact idea. Every finding links to the original post. There's a score in Validate too, but it's backed by real evidence, not a template.

What does Proven do for me after I launch?

That's when the recurring tools earn their keep. A weekly Market Pulse checks what's shifted in your market, Competitor Watch keeps an eye on your monitored product in the background, and you get a recap of anything that changed since you were last in.

Proven

Get proven

Built for solo builders, idea to success

Don't spend 3 months building a product nobody wants to buy.

Answer a few questions. Get a roadmap from idea to success, built around you and your idea. It doesn't stop at launch.

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Backed by solo builders

not investors

Free to startReal ideas, real evidenceNo human reads your idea

Ideate

a rough idea sharpened into something specific enough to test, before you write a line of code

Validate

pain evidence, competitor gaps, a persona, positioning, and a risk check, scored against real sources

Build

your MVP scope, an AI build prompt for your stack, a running build log, and a pricing model

Launch

a GTM plan, where to post it, real outreach threads to join, and a weekly market pulse

Ideate

a rough idea sharpened into something specific enough to test, before you write a line of code

Validate

pain evidence, competitor gaps, a persona, positioning, and a risk check, scored against real sources

Build

your MVP scope, an AI build prompt for your stack, a running build log, and a pricing model

Launch

a GTM plan, where to post it, real outreach threads to join, and a weekly market pulse

HOW IT WORKS

Four steps. Then it keeps going.

Answer a few questions

About you and your idea. No account needed yet.

Get your roadmap

Four phases, real tools in each, built around what you just answered.

Work through it

Ideate, Validate, Build, Launch, at your own pace, one product or several.

It keeps watching

Competitor moves and market shifts, checked weekly and sent to your inbox.

AN ANALYSIS ENGINE

AI tells you what you want to hear.

This shows what the market actually said.

	Generic AI ChatGPT / Claude	Manual Research Reddit + 10 tabs	Idea Validators IdeaProof, ValidatorAI	Evidence-based Proven
Evidence source	Training data	Your own search	AI score only	Live Reddit, HN & App Store
Objectivity	Confirms your bias	You interpret it	Built to encourage	Challenges assumptions
Verifiable sources	None cited	Self-selected	None cited	Every quote linked
Idea-specific	Generic answer	Incomplete	Generic template	Your exact niche
Competitors	Hallucinated	Incomplete	No evidence	Found & mapped
Stays current	Frozen at training cutoff	You have to redo it	One-time score	Updates as your market moves
What you get	Info, no next steps	Raw notes	A score	A roadmap, not just an answer

Full comparison → Proven vs ChatGPT, Manual Research & Idea Validators

Emilio Johann

@emeeliojohann·Founder of Veramind

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I had a chance to test @daicandev's tool Proven.

The report is quite comprehensive and SUPER valuable.

It goes DEEP and this isn't something you can put together with a single @grok prompt—sorry man.

I am impressed and even got some ideas for the app's distribution phase 🤩

Jun 4, 2026

After his first validation run

Eduard Nicolae Petrache

@eduardnpetrache·Founder of ReceiptsMRR

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I want to publicly say that your app is worth buying and can't wait to see final product @daicandev

it got me:

reddit quotes that I can get into and try to low key insert my app into.

strong evaluation of idea, it's not just a wrapper that connects to an LLM, I bet the internal prompting is robust.

competitor map showed clear competitors and actually got me stoked because they're not attacking the pain point I'm solving so that proves my app could work.

And the risk analyzer is peak, it detected a problem I currently have without me mentioning it. It would've helped me prevent it if used it prior to launching

May 27, 2026

After his first validation run

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Before you start your roadmap

From the builder

@daicandev

This is my 5th product. The first one cost me the most. It was four months of building, I launched to no one, with a LinkedIn post with 100 visits and my friends' likes.

That was it.

Being honest?

I didn't know what I was waiting to happen.

For every new idea, I knew how to get the good things behind the fail, and it helped me polish my direction.

But something was always missing...

I was "I don't like social media" guy, but I realized that I needed it, to be able to sell my products. Then I put my discipline belt and my consistency cap and started in X.

I was reply guy.

I was THE reply guy.

And oh man! it clicked!

I knew it clicked cause I found myself feeling good just giving advice and sharing what I learned. Years of coding and Fiverr freelancing that I was able to finally get some value from. I discovered the build in public community in X. So many real people, I learned a lot from them too.

And then, bit by bit I hit 1k followers, in 2 months and a week.

Proven is all the years of learnings, of stand ups after the fall, of nights without sleep.

I built it to share my workflows and my thought process. Not just another AI wrapper. A great value I'm polishing every day with the community.

I keep learning.

That's Proven.

It's not the easy way, is the roadmap.

Proven covers only 20% of the work. The rest is up to you. You need to talk to real users, you need to fail, to polish, to pivot when needed. There is no tool that skips that part and I won't pretend this one does.

Dairon Canel

Solo builder ·@daicandev