DontBuildThis
Roast (+fix) your startup idea in 3mins before wasting 3mths
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DontBuildThis is praised for its ability to provide quick, domain-specific feedback on startup ideas, helping users decide whether to proceed or pivot. Users appreciate its combination of usefulness and playfulness, with many finding the brutally honest feedback both refreshing and accurate. The tool is seen as a valuable resource for fine-tuning business ideas and is recommended for anyone looking to validate their concepts before investing significant time and resources. However, some users express concerns about data retention and limited free usage.
👋 Hey ProductHunt! David here, co-founder of dontbuildthis.com.
Let's play!
📝 Drop a 1-line pitch in this thread... Roasty (a.k.a. me for today) will reply with a mini-verdict to the first 50 ideas. Let’s see whose concept survives the flames!
Launch perk for the PH crew
Every Product Hunter gets 30 days of our advanced tier = just use the in-app code PH-ROAST.
Why we built it??
After years of building and hanging out in builder communities, hackathons and innovation labs (and too many “quiet” product funerals) we realised most ideas die before code ever matters = they die because nobody truly needs them. So we turned our internal validation process into an AI-powered (duh), brutally honest and constructive fox called Roasty. Paste a pitch, Roasty slams it against real market data + our vault of wins & flops, then spits out a brutal score and pivot tips. It has already roasted 10k+ ideas inside our venture studio, saving teams months of wasted work.
Help us break it!
- Test your own idea (no signup).
- Tell us what confused, delighted, or offended you.
- Feature requests? Edge cases? Bring ’em on.
Thanks for checking us out, and happy roasting! 🦊🔥
@darnocks checked it! Super nice product.
Thought it was going to be a quite gimmicky thing, but it's not, it actually gives me valuable feedback.
Lyssna
I love this idea!@darnocks
An AI personalised ecommerce platform where, based on your inputs about the trip you will get the whole list of recommendations that you might need to buy for the trip. I found when I was younger that I did trips with a little research and then I found cool things that will make my trip better.
Amazon has a lot of options, but imagine Amazon but for travelling. :D
Alphadoc
@jobrietbergen Your Idea: ☠️ Roasted.
Full link and recovery report here
some tips moving forward:
Instead, solve the actual pain: build a tool that makes AI coding assistants faster or more reliable for devs, or one that intelligently manages context and interruptions for deep work.
Alphadoc
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@darnocks and @walid_boulanouar are among the most intelligent individuals in their respective fields within the AI community.
I hope they can build this towards the heights of Appsumo or Prelaunch.
@walid_boulanouar @jas801 thank you Jasper! Means a lot coming from you.
Now that's you're here.. any business idea I can roast for you?
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@walid_boulanouar @darnocks I am happy as a freelancer 😁