Don't spend 3 months building a product nobody wants to buy.
An analysis engine for your startup idea. We fetch live Reddit pain threads, HN discussions, and App Store reviews, check your competitors, and return a full picture of what the market already said. Four minutes to your verdict. Then we show you where to go next.
~4 min · no subscription · credits never expire
HOW IT WORKS
Three steps. Four minutes.
01
You describe the idea
Anything from a sentence to three paragraphs. The more specific, the sharper the evidence.
02
We go find the evidence
150+ posts, reviews, and threads. Not AI opinion. Real people complaining, asking, and paying.
03
You read the verdict
Build it or kill it — with the receipts to back it up. Every finding links to the original post.
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 |
| Time to result | 1 minute | 2–3 days | 1 minute | 4 minutes |
| What you get | Info, no next steps | Raw notes | A score | GTM plan, verdict |
Full comparison → Proven vs ChatGPT, Manual Research & Idea Validators
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 🤩
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
THE SOURCE
How smart founders validate
They check these. Here is why each one matters.
"Why can't any tool just do this automatically? Been asking for 2 years."
r/startups · 847 comments · 3yr
4,200 people publicly agreed this is a real problem.
Hacker News
↗ ycombinator.comAsk HN: What problem have you been trying to solve for 2+ years?
847 points · 312 comments · 2yr ago
Someone already documented the gap your idea fills.
App Store
↗ apps.apple.com"I've been waiting for this feature for 2 years. Switching to anything else."
Verified purchase · 3 people found this helpful
A 1★ review is the most honest sentence a customer ever writes.
More signal sources coming to Proven.
Smart founders do this manually.
It takes days — if they know where to look.
You don’t need days.
4 minutes.
From idea to full Founder’s Brief
WHAT YOU GET
Ten sections. One verdict.
Grounded in what real people already said.
10 sections
Opportunity Score
● BUILD IT153 sources analyzed
Is the pain real, or just in your head?
A score backed by 150+ real complaints — not opinions.
- Pain score from real posts, not surveys
- Market demand and competition gap, independently scored
- Verdict: BUILD IT, SKIP IT, or EXPLORE MORE
PRICING
Buy more. Pay less per validation.
Credits never expire. No subscription. Buying upfront is just math.
Starter
1Validation
$9.00 / validation
$0.90 / karma
- Full 10-section Founder's Brief
- Reddit + HN + App Store signals
- 8–15 real pain quotes, each linked to source
- Competitor map with positioning gaps
- Target persona with willingness-to-pay range
- MVP feature recommendations, prioritized
- Go-to-market plan: communities, content angles, launch platforms
- Pricing & monetization validation
- Risk map with early warning signals
- Credits never expire
Builder
5Validations
$7.80 / validation
$0.78 / karma
- Everything in Starter ×5
- Sharpen: flag any section, add corrections, trigger a re-run
Coming soon
- Kill-or-Pivot decision log
- Idea Variant Generator: spin up 3–5 adjacent ideas from the same pain
- Weekly market pulse: fresh pain signals for your saved ideas, weekly
- AI co-pilot: ask your brief anything, get targeted answers
- Directory listing: your validated idea gets a public page other builders can find
Founder's Sprint
15Validations
$6.60 / validation
$0.49 / karma
- Everything in Builder ×3
- 1 human-reviewed brief: real eyes on your findings, honest verdict
Coming soon
- Content machine: turn your GTM plan into launch-ready content
- Business brain: AI advisor trained on your brief and market data
Price goes up when spots fill.
Every validation: 10 sections · 150+ real signals · Reddit, HN & App Store · one-time payment
Questions
Before you run your first validation
The ones who got proven
What builders are saying
Two ways this goes
Without Proven
You spent 11 weeks on it. Launched on a Tuesday. Shared it everywhere. Watched the analytics for 3 days straight.
Seventeen visitors. Twelve were you.
With Proven
You submitted one paragraph. Four minutes later: pain score 81, three target personas, a go-to-market plan.
● BUILD IT. The pain is real.
WHAT WE ARE BUILDING
Validation is step one.
Proven is becoming a full execution system for solo builders. This is where it goes.
Validate
Evidence-grounded Founder's Brief from 150+ real sources. You have this now.
Execute
Where to post. How to post. Reddit and X tracking so you don't guess where your buyers are.
Iterate
Track what moved. Double down on signal. Kill what did not.
Shaped by what builders actually need. Share what you would use
From the builder
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
4 minutes now.
Or 3 months from now.
Your next idea deserves an honest answer before it eats your quarter.
Stop guessing. Get proven.Takes about 4 minutes.
or see an example first