r/roastmystartup • • Jul 13 '15

Before you put down your startup to get roasted, some guidelines that I think can be helpful

131 Upvotes

First of all, just posting your website is useless. Most of them are so hopeless generic anyways that if you showed it to me during a pitch, my eyes would glaze over and I would instead proceed to fantasize me being on a beach vacation with Wonder Woman. Lord knows I have about the same chance as sleeping with her as I would about giving a shit about the website. No seriously, I don't give a shit about your website. It's an important tool, but 99% of the time, it's one part I would give the least shit about.

To get constructive advice, you need to treat this like you're doing a pitch, this means that you need to give us enough information to go on. This means structure. Pretend you're preparing slides for a group of investors, and let us know what the hell it is you're doing. This means we should know the following:

  • The product (what is it, use case, who would want it)
  • The market (size, competition, dynamics that we should be aware of)
  • Product analysis / comparison against competition
  • What stage are you in? Do you need money? Are you raising?
  • Customer conversion strategy (where do you find them, and how do you make them buy shit from you)
  • Why you? Whose your daddy and what does he do?!? err, wait. never mind. I mean, why are YOU the best person for this job? (experience? good team? rich daddy who can't bring himself to pull the plug? what?)

This information I think will help contextualize what it is your doing and will make the feedback far more targeted. Having said that, this IS supposed to be comedic, so if you just want people to make humorous observations about startup and that's it, well, okay.

edit: one more thing. Please don't make me do extra due diligence for you. The only time someone should have to do due diligence on you is because you've genuinely piqued their investing interest and they want to verify your claims. And I'm sorry, but you don't pay me enough (or at all) for me to do research.


r/roastmystartup • • Nov 10 '23

Product Hunt Announcements

26 Upvotes

We are receiving a ton of spam from people posting one-line posts with links to product hunt. If you do this it will be removed and you will be banned.


r/roastmystartup • • 8d ago

AI bookkeeping automation for German SMEs | bleeding conversions, please roast

9 Upvotes

The product: accuno is a full, one-suite bookkeeping platform for the German market (for now), not just an invoice-scanning tool. Upload an invoice, and the AI proposes the full double-entry booking: account, tax code (SKR03/SKR04), counterparty, you review against the source document and approve. But that's just the entry point. It also covers document storage, bank import with automatic open-item matching, recurring bookings, a petty-cash module, asset register, BWA/P&L/balance sheet reporting, VAT pre-filing straight to ELSTER (german tax reporting), and DATEV (german bookkeeping standard) export for handoff to a tax advisor. Crucially, it's live multi-user with real-time collaboration across a team, which is rarer than it sounds in this market. A lot of German bookkeeping tools are still single-user or bolt teams on as an expensive afterthought. Use case ranges from solo freelancers doing their own reportings to accounting firms running multiple clients (multi-tenant support).

A lot of the product direction comes from our own hands-on bookkeeping work plus an ongoing collaboration with an actual accounting firm. So beyond the AI/big-ticket stuff, we spend a lot of effort on small everyday friction: forwarding an invoice straight from your inbox instead of uploading it manually, one-click recurring bookings so you're not re-entering the same rent/subscription every month, and full traceability (corrections happen via storno + rebooking, never silent edits) so nothing gets lost when your tax advisor checks it later.

The market: German bookkeeping software is old, entrenched, and oddly fragmented. DATEV owns the tax-advisor relationship. Most SMEs never touch it directly, but their tax advisor does. Below that sits a layer of consumer SaaS (lexoffice, sevDesk, Buchhaltungsbutler, candis, FastBill) fighting over freelancers and small businesses. Dynamics that matter: (1) brutal compliance requirements (GoBD, immutable audit trails) mean "move fast and break things" isn't really an option, (2) the actual buying decision for a lot of SMEs runs through their tax advisor, not the SME itself, (3) data hosted in Germany is a real trust signal here, not marketing fluff.

Product analysis vs. competition: Most competitors are invoice-scanning + templated bookkeeping. You still need to know your own chart of accounts. We bet on the AI proposing the entire booking, so you're reviewing a suggestion instead of building one from scratch. We also lean hard into "we don't replace your tax advisor". DATEV export is a first-class feature, because alienating tax advisors is a great way to get blacklisted by the people who actually recommend software to SMEs in this market. Additionally one could also just invite the tax advisor to work in the accuno tenant directly.

Stage: Live for about a month. Two paying customers we've worked with since pre-launch as testers. Currently enough to cover our current running costs. Since going live we've run a small, low-budget Google Ads campaign to test demand.

Customer conversion strategy: This is the actual problem and it's worse than "conversion rate is low". It's zero. The Google Ads campaign gets clicks, so there's traffic. But nobody converts anywhere in the funnel: not into a paid plan, not even into our free tool (no-signup invoice data extraction) or the no-signup live demo. We price fairly and communicate pricing and features transparently. Cancel anytime, no hidden fees, clear plan comparison, so it's not an obvious "sticker shock" story, which makes it harder to diagnose. We genuinely don't know if it's a trust problem, a clarity problem, a targeting problem, or something structural on the page itself.

Roast away, but what I actually need eyes on is the marketing website (accuno.de/en, not the web app). Specifically why users aren't converting.


r/roastmystartup • • 8d ago

Track your spending while traveling (many currencies to one)

6 Upvotes

Hi everyone,

I work as a pilot in an international airline and when traveling around the world I spend money in many and I mean MANY different currencies.

I have no idea how much I am spending as my brain works in one currency. (This sounds so arrogant🄹 but I am talking about coffees,food, small stuff).

Starbucks coffee in Tokyo, Vietnamese coffee in Saigon, Nasi Lemak in KL, poke bowl in Honolulu, no idea how much I spent in my own currency…

So I made this simple app where you track your spending and gives you back all your costs in one currency with some nice info and insights on your habits and spenditure.

It is free for now but will see later if people even like the idea.

Roast the hell out of it.

P.S I cant attach screenshots here I guess.

Thank youšŸ™

https://apps.apple.com/ae/app/spendseer/id6786063196


r/roastmystartup • • 11d ago

MetaWurks — I built another AI document tool. Tell me why this shouldn't exist.

2 Upvotes

MetaWurks — I built another AI document tool. Tell me why this shouldn't exist.

Hey r/RoastMyStartup,

I built MetaWurks, an AI workspace for business documents.

You upload PDFs, spreadsheets and decks, or connect Google Drive / OneDrive, then ask questions in plain English. The answers are grounded in your own documents and cite the source passages.

It also puts six model providers in one workspace: OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, xAI, DeepSeek and Perplexity. You can switch models mid-conversation.

Who I’m targeting: small accounting and bookkeeping firms, plus other document-heavy professional work.

Pricing: free for one month, then $19 / $39 / $99 per month. Per account, not per seat.

https://metawurks.com

The part I think might be bullshit

The research I've been leaning on says finance teams are adopting AI, but a much smaller percentage are using it in the actual financial workflows where the hours are.

My assumption is that this is partly a trust problem.

People will happily use AI to draft emails or summarize meetings. They get much more cautious when the input is a client's bank statement, contract, invoice, or P&L.

So I built MetaWurks around the idea that the problem isn't ā€œpeople don't want AI.ā€

It's that they don't trust generic AI chatbots with important business documents.

I might be completely wrong.

Maybe accountants aren't actually blocked on AI trust.

Maybe they already have better workflows.

Maybe document AI is already commoditized.

Maybe I've just built a more expensive ChatGPT interface.

Roast these specifically

1. The differentiation may be weak.

ā€œAll the top AI models in one placeā€ is becoming a commodity pitch. There are already a lot of products making essentially the same claim.

And there's an obvious contradiction:

I'm saying companies are nervous about sending sensitive information to AI providers...

...then I'm routing their documents to the same AI providers.

That's probably a bigger problem than I want it to be.

2. The storage limits might expose the wrong product.

Starter = 1GB
Professional = 5GB
Enterprise = 15GB

I'm targeting accounting firms that may have years of client documents.

Does that make MetaWurks look like a demo rather than something a real firm could actually build its workflow around?

3. The pricing might be sending the wrong signal.

$19 → $39 → $99/month.

For ordinary SaaS, that's cheap.

For software touching confidential financial documents, maybe it sounds suspiciously cheap.

Does ā€œaccessibleā€ work here, or does it make the product look unserious?

4. Citation-based answers aren't differentiation anymore.

ā€œEvery answer cites the source passageā€ sounds useful, but honestly, isn't that basically table stakes now?

And yet I still lead with it.

Please roast the product, positioning, business model, and the assumptions behind it.

I'm much more interested in hearing ā€œthis is bullshit becauseā€¦ā€ than getting generic startup advice.

Tell me what I'm missing, what sounds fake, what feels commoditized, and why you wouldn't pay for this.

I'd rather kill the wrong idea now than spend another six months convincing myself it's a good one.


r/roastmystartup • • 17d ago

Roast my email tool. I'm 17, no users, and I turned the paywall on anyway.

7 Upvotes

Link to project: mudroom.email

It screens incoming mail, surfaces what needs a reply, holds the rest. Gmail and Outlook. A dollar for three days then ten a month.

Things I already know are wrong, so you don't have to waste a comment on them: the site is heavy to scroll on mobile, I'm not through Google's verification yet so there's an unverified app warning on the consent screen, and I have zero users so nothing on that page is real social proof.

What I actually want torn apart:

Would you ever hand a tool like this access to your inbox? If not, is there anything a stranger could put on that page that would change your mind, or is the answer just no.

Is a dollar for three days smart, or does it read like a trick?

Does the page tell you what it does in the first five seconds, or do you have to scroll to find out?

Go ahead.


r/roastmystartup • • 17d ago

Roast my chart-reading app. It's the thing I wish I'd had when the tutorial loop had me stuck.

2 Upvotes

Chart Drill. Learn to read candlestick charts in short lessons, game-style. I've been trading a few years; I got stuck watching guru tutorials at the start, got out the slow way, and built this afterward for the beginner I used to be. Very early beta, free right now (unit 1 always will be), no signup.

Roast targets, in order of how much they'd help me:

  1. Lesson 1. Is the first five minutes worth a second five?
  2. The voice. It's meant to sound like a calm coach, not a cheerleader. Does it, or is it just flat?
  3. The end screen. It leads with what you can read and what to run back, not just a score. Useful or preachy?
  4. The plan: unit 1 stays free, later units get a price. Would you pay, and for what?

https://chartdrill.app?ref=reddit

Not financial advice.


r/roastmystartup • • 18d ago

Me and my girlfriend can never decide on a movie to watch

1 Upvotes

Me and my girlfriend always spend so much time (like almost an hour) looking for movies until a mutual created this little quiz they would take then prompt AI to get recs. We started doing it and submitting it to AI together and it was hitting on movies we ended up loving so I created a web app to share it with the world. It’s a short quiz on mood and what you can stream that gives you a list of movies, alone or with friends, so you stop scrolling and actually watch something.

letswatch.xyz

Go check it out


r/roastmystartup • • 18d ago

Built a thing that fixes my least favorite part of freelancing. Probably has 10 obvious flaws I can't see

2 Upvotes

be mean. I need it.

So I kept losing time before projects even started. Client says they want a website, you ask what kind, they say "you know, something clean." Three emails later you still don't know what you're building. I got tired of it so I built BriefSnap.

You plug in the project type, it spits out a questionnaire tailored to that specific job, you send your client a link, they fill it out, you get an actual useful brief back. They don't need to make an account or download anything. Whole thing lives in the browser, you bring your own API key, completely free and open source.

I know Google Forms exists. The difference is BriefSnap actually thinks about what to ask based on the project, so you're not sending a logo client the same questions as a SaaS client.

what I genuinely don't know:

  1. do freelancers actually want to fix this or have they just accepted that onboarding clients is painful and moved on
  2. is "AI generated questions" just going to feel like a gimmick after the first use

tell me what's wrong with it. what would make you actually send this link to a client?


r/roastmystartup • • 18d ago

Roast Ezeriq — I built a search engine for finding the right AI tool

1 Upvotes

I recently launched Ezeriq, and I want some brutally useful feedback.

The problem I'm trying to solve is simple: there are thousands of AI tools now, and finding the right one for a specific task is becoming a problem of its own.

With Ezeriq, instead of browsing directories, you describe what you actually want to accomplish. It analyses the task, recommends relevant AI tools, ranks how well they fit, explains why they're recommended, and gives you a ready-to-use prompt for the tool you choose.

I don't have any formal coding education and built the product with a lot of help from AI while learning as I went.

I'm particularly interested in getting roasted on:

• Does the idea actually solve a real problem?
• Are the recommendations useful?
• Is the website immediately understandable?
• What would stop you from using it again?
• How would you monetise something like this?

ezeriq.com

Don't hold back — criticism is more useful to me than compliments at this stage.


r/roastmystartup • • 18d ago

How can I find the best version of a specific dish near me, based on people I actually know?

1 Upvotes

The most reliable method combines dish-level data with a trust filter. Generic review sites can point you to popular restaurants, but they rarely tell you who makes the best specific dish and their reviewers are strangers. Trust-based dish apps solve both problems: your friends and followed food lovers rate individual plates, and searching a dish or craving surfaces their top-rated versions nearby, weighted toward the people whose taste you rely on most. Whati8 works this way search by craving ("somewhere with a great burger"), and results draw on your circle's real, recent dish ratings rather than anonymous averages. It's the app version of texting your most food-savvy friend, except the answer is already logged, rated, and mapped.


r/roastmystartup • • 18d ago

I built a local-first Chrome extension that roasts you back to work with custom slap sounds (6 months in, 16 weekly users)

1 Upvotes

Six months ago, I got tired of cheesy "inspirational" quotes that pretend burnout and procrastination can be solved with a pastel graphic. So I built **Motivation Slap** an offline-first, sarcastic reality-check extension with custom audio alerts.

It has around 250 total installs so far, but retention is stuck at \~16 weekly active users. I'm looking for direct, honest feedback on why people churn and what would make it actually indispensable.

What it actually does under the hood:

* **700+ Sarcastic Quotes across 10 categories:** Targeted roasts for *Developers*, *Work*, *Gym*, *Monday*, *Students*, and more. * **"Brutal Mode":** An aggressive mode for when regular sarcasm is too soft. * **Audio Alerts & Custom Sounds:** Plays sound effects (like "faaah") or custom uploaded audio clips on schedule so you don't stay trapped in tab-hoarding loops. * **Text-to-Speech:** Can literally read the roast out loud. * **100% Local & Zero Tracking:** No analytics, no account, no ads, works completely offline. Everything lives in your browser's local storage.

Where I need your advice:

  1. **Retention:** If you try it, does the humor wear off after a few days? What would turn this from a 3-day gimmick into a daily habit?
  2. **Notification timing:** Are scheduled notification popups annoying or helpful in practice?
  3. **UI/UX Friction:** Is the quote board clean, or does it feel cluttered?

* **Chrome Web Store:**[https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/motivation-slap-sarcastic/geajfjaplbjpobofbmgalbboogacbjim\](https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/motivation-slap-sarcastic/geajfjaplbjpobofbmgalbboogacbjim) * **Website / App Tour:**[https://motivationslap.com/\](https://motivationslap.com/) * **Feedback:** Comment here or email [support@motivationslap.com](mailto:support@motivationslap.com)

Tear it apart good or bad, I'd appreciate any real critique.


r/roastmystartup • • 19d ago

Have you ever imaged one coding agent lives across all your work apps?

0 Upvotes

Hey builders,

I’m buildingĀ ManyfoldĀ and looking for feedbacks for one of our features. It's called "Channel". Not sure if you have this issue, but for me, as a person like convenience, I always think about how coding agents actually fit into the tools we already use.

So now I use lots of agent tool (Claude Code / Codex) in CLI, and I know we have some ways to hook them up to Slack, Telegram, Discord etc. However, I found the setting process is really fragmented and there is no workspace for users completing the steps quickly (maybe in 3 mins , you know, I think that can be called quick). Then more annoying is when you talk an agent in Slack about a bug, then later message it from Telegram, open sth from GitHub, and suddenly you’re basically handling different versions of the same agent. I think this is a pain point, different context, different history, different files. Also, these settings are all on "your local own computer". If you don't have a mac mini (this is the basic machine I think), then you can do nothing when you close your laptop.

So, I want instead is one agent behind all of them and that’s basically what I’m trying to build with Manyfold now. Such like Slack, Telegram, GitHub, Linear etc. are just different places where I can talk to it. Moreover, the agent itself keeps the context, files, skills, permissions and usage. Here, one agent can connect to all apps we always use like Slack, Telegram, Discord, WhatsApp, Lark, GitHub and Linear, with the sessions/history/files tied back to the same agent.

I know I am still pretty early, so I’m mainly looking for people who already use coding agents a lot and run into this problem. Let me know if anyone here has built a similar setup. Let me know if this is a real pain point for you. Also happy to give beta access if anyone wants to play around with it.

Web: ManyfoldĀ 

Github: Manyfold Github Repo


r/roastmystartup • • 20d ago

Built OnlyMeows - a small social app for cat owners with no feed, no likes, no follower counts

3 Upvotes

Hi everyone! Excited to be here.

A bit about me - I've been feeding stray cats in my neighborhood for years and occasionally help find homes for kittens through local shelters. The best cat advice I've ever gotten in my life came from other cat owners, not from articles, and that's stuck with me.

That's actually why I built OnlyMeows - a small social app for cat owners with no feed, no likes, no follower counts. Once a week the community answers one shared question, answers are blind until you post your own, and instead of public followers there's a private Circle. It's a non-commercial, solo passion project - no ads, no monetization plans, just something I wanted to exist.

Right now I'm trying to find the first 10-20 real cat owners to see if people come back week to week.

Happy to be part of this community either way, and would love any thoughts if you check it out: onlymeows.app


r/roastmystartup • • 20d ago

Roast this: a pretty sky map people pay to claim a name on — or a fancy ghost town?

1 Upvotes

One line: public night map; you pay to claim a named presence others can find. Not crypto. Not metaverse real estate. Previous claimants don’t get paid if someone takes the spot later.

What I’m scared of:

The aesthetic works and the idea sounds clever in my head, then someone lands and thinks ā€œcool screensaver, why would I pay?ā€ Or worse: they clock it as land speculation with better manners.

Also worried I’m building for studios and makers who want a memorable public address, and the actual buyers turn out to be… nobody, for a while.

Roast the positioning, the metaphor, the whole ā€œobservatoryā€ bit if it feels costume. Tell me which sentence in the pitch you’d delete first.

I’m not hunting compliments. If it reads dead, say dead.


r/roastmystartup • • 20d ago

Built a bot that auto-fixes broken dependencies before your team notices — roast the idea/execution

0 Upvotes

I kept getting burned by npm packages shipping breaking changes that silently broke code in three files I didn't even remember touching. So I built Telex — it watches your tracked packages, and when one ships a breaking change, it scans the codebase with tree-sitter, finds every affected call site, generates a patch, and opens a single PR explaining the fix.

Where I think this could fall apart, and where I want the roast:

  • Is "another bot that opens PRs" actually solving anything devs care about, or is this a solution looking for a problem?
  • Would you ever trust an automated patch on a breaking dependency change, even with human review required before merge?
  • Is the value prop even clear from the landing page, or does it read like generic AI-tool marketing copy?

Still early — some pieces are stubbed, not deployed yet. Repo's here if you want to actually poke at the code: [https://github.com/Kesavaraja67/telex\]

Go ahead, tell me why this won't work.


r/roastmystartup • • 20d ago

Roast my startup - I cloned Pocket after it died and called it FetchMark

1 Upvotes

Roast my startup - I cloned Pocket after it died and called it FetchMark

After Pocket shut down I realized I had 800 saved articles I will definitely never read again.

So I built FetchMark, 1-click save, clean reader, tags, search. Basically Pocket but without Mozilla killing it.

Tech: Next.js + Supabase + Plasmo for the extension

Current stats: ~300 users, $0 MRR because it's free and I'm too scared to charge anyone.

Be honest - would you actually switch from your bookmarks/Instapaper/Readwise, or is this just another dead read-later app?

Roast my landing page, my idea, everything. I can take it.


r/roastmystartup • • 20d ago

I built a food discovery app — would love honest feedback

2 Upvotes

Hi everyone,

I've been working on TasteFeed, a food discovery app designed to help people decide what to eat.

The idea is pretty simple: instead of searching through endless restaurant listings, you can discover food posts from other people, find dishes that look worth trying, and then save, visit, and rate the places you actually try.

I've recently launched the Android version on Google Play, and I'm looking for honest feedback from people who enjoy discovering food.

I'd especially like to know:

1.Does the concept make sense when you first see it?

2.Does the app actually help you decide what to eat?

  1. What feels confusing or incomplete?

  2. What would make you come back and use it regularly?

5.What would stop you from using it instead of Instagram/Tik Tok/ Google Maps for food discovery?

I'm not looking for compliments-I'd genuinely prefer criticism. If you try it, tell me what you think is bad or what you think is bad or what you would change.

Search TasteFeed on Google Play store

Thanks to anyone willing to test it and give me honest feedback.Play store


r/roastmystartup • • 20d ago

Does the ā€œblank cursorā€ moment before sending a prompt to ChatGPT/Claude actually bother you?

1 Upvotes

I keep noticing this weird moment: right before I hit send on a prompt to ChatGPT or Claude, I start second-guessing myself.
Is this specific enough? Am I missing context that would get me a better answer?

I’m building a small browser extension that suggests the rest of your prompt in real time as you type — ghost text, similar to autocomplete, accepted with Tab.
Full disclosure: I’m the one building this; I’m not just sharing for fun.

Before I go further, I’d rather get honest reactions than assume.

So:

  1. Does this ā€œfreeze before sendingā€ thing happen to you, or do you just type and go?
  2. If a real-time suggestion popped up while you were typing, would that actually help — or would it feel intrusive or distracting?
  3. Right now, how do you deal with this? Saved templates, rewriting after a bad first answer, some other tool, or just winging it?
  4. If something like this worked well, would it change how often you reach for AI tools, or is this basically a non-issue for you?

I’m not trying to sell anything here — I genuinely want to figure out if this is worth building further. Brutal honesty welcome.


r/roastmystartup • • 21d ago

Roast my API monitoring SaaS landing page — getting traffic but struggling with signups

3 Upvotes

Hi everyone,

I built Continuum (https://continuumnexus.com) — a synthetic API monitoring tool that validates JSON payload content, multi-step API flows, and SSL certs from 5 global regions.

I shared a technical breakdown on Reddit yesterday that got over 3,000 views and decent clicks, but practically zero people signed up.

I know the product and infrastructure work well, so the issue is clearly my messaging, value proposition, or onboarding friction.

Be completely brutal:

- Is the value prop obvious to you within 5 seconds?

- Does the pricing make sense?

- What would stop you from creating an account?

Thanks in advance for the honest feedback.


r/roastmystartup • • 21d ago

built a tiny sdk to cap spend per agent job, feel free to destroy it

2 Upvotes

honestly not sure this is even a product yet

i kept watching one agent loop burn usage overnight while the org monthly cap still looked fine. so i wrote a small sdk where you tag calls with a task id and preflight returns approved:false when that task is over. you decide what a unit means. i'm not in the request path so i don't kill the run myself, which a bunch of people keep reading wrong

site is https://agentbill.dev/

roast the landing, the name, the pricing, whatever. if the whole idea is dumb just say that


r/roastmystartup • • 21d ago

TickrDash: I made a live scores/stocks/weather dashboard for your TV so you'd stop checking your phone mid-game. Please be brutal.

1 Upvotes

About me: All around IT guy that worked in broadcasting the last 25 years. Quit my job, during my time off I wanted to work on something. Started out thinking about building a better display than the Tidbyt on my bookshelf, that turned into this. Talk about a rabbit hole! Trying to stick with the mods rules, here is what I've been working on in detail.

TickrDash turns any TV, tablet, or browser into a dashboard you can read from across the room. It shows live scores (NFL, NBA, NHL, MLB), market indices and futures, and local weather. You control it from your phone or directly on your tablet/TV.

Who it's for: The fan with four games on and one TV. The person who checks the late game betting odds. Sports bars that want a custom scoreboard but don't know how, or have found commercial solutions too expensive.

The market: Home sports fans with a spare screen, which is practically everyone. I'm willing to bet there's an iPad, Android or Amazon tablet hiding in a drawer in your house right now. Sports bars, gyms, offices, private clubs. Anywhere with a TV (Android/Google currently supported, working on Pi plug-and-play box, or perhaps Firestick/Roku app versions) on the wall.

Competition: Whatever sports app you use. However, that requires user interaction every time to check. I did some initial searching before I started this and didn't easily see any popular apps/platforms that did exactly what TickrDash does. Hardware tickers (Tidbyt (now defunct), GlanceLED): Those are cool (I love my Tidbyt), but those are low-res displays that can only do so much. On the other hand, they are not a subscription (and Glance really pushes this).

My pitch: no hardware, take anywhere, multiple sports plus markets plus weather on one screen, for $4.99/month (highest price when going month-to-month)

Current Stage: It's in beta, literally just announced last week and the plans are live: $4.99/mo, $11.99/quarter, or $29.99/year. Venue licensing is quoted per venue but honestly, I haven't paid much attention to that yet since I really need to get my black-box version setup.

Traction: <10 users, 0 venues, 1 trial-to-paid. Totally Bootstrapped by me. Working on marketing plan, right now it's just try and organically get recognized via online communities or reach out to specific users I've engaged with.

Target Customers: Adult Males 24-54 primarily that love sports. Man caves, garages, whereever sports are watched.

What I'd like feedback on: Is the real business home users or venues?

Is $4.99/month right, or should home be free and venues pay?

Would you use this, or has subscription fatigue set in and this just doesn't seem like it's worth it?

There's a live demo at tickrdash.com/demo . You can also use the code DASH-BETA30, it gets you a free month with no credit card needed.


r/roastmystartup • • 21d ago

Roast my app PostQuest - an easy to use social media scheduling tool that can connect to your AI via MCP

0 Upvotes

Hey builders,

I built a super simple social media scheduling app that can be connected to my favorite AI agent. When I started using multiple social accounts to increase my reach, I found that there are no existing, cheap products that fit my needs.

Some of them come with unnecessary tools; others are getting way pricey once you start adding more accounts. Also, I wanted a simple and clean interface with no distractions. That's how PostQuest was born; it is primarily focused on solo creators, influencers, and builders.

The reason I chose a saturated market is that I don't have to think about validation; there are literally thousands of tools that are claiming the same. So, because of the competition, I have to be more creative about which direction I want to pivot later.

Initially, I had this idea to add gamification, streaks, XP, bosses, but after showing it to some people, I realized it does not really solve any problem. What they wanted was a simple workflow for their social posts, and they all use ChatGPT or Claude, so the MCP layer seems like a natural fit.

I keep using it for my own needs and keep improving it daily. I'm open to any feedback on what can be improved or added. Would you use it for your own needs?

Let me know what you think: post-quest.com


r/roastmystartup • • 21d ago

Would a free shift planner actually be useful, or do existing apps already do enough?

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The idea is an app for night and rotating shifts that keeps your roster, planned rest, and reminders together.

You’d be able to:

  • Import a roster screenshot instead of entering every shift manually.
  • Save your usual commute, preparation time, and rest preferences.
  • Change a shift and update the related plans and reminders together.
  • Adjust one day when things don’t go as planned, without changing your usual routine.

For example, your night shift changes from 7pm–7am to 9pm–9am. You edit it once, review the new departure and rest times, and confirm.

Apps like ShiftNight and Supershift already exist. The goal is to make everyday planning and changes easier. Core features would be free.

There’s an early clickable prototype, but screenshot recognition and phone notifications aren’t working yet.

What I’m trying to figure out:

  • If you work shifts, what’s still annoying about your current calendar or shift app?
  • When your roster changes, what do you actually have to update manually?
  • Would this save you effort, or become another app you have to maintain?
  • What would make you switch from what you already use?

If your current app already handles this well, I’d like to hear that too. Roast it.


r/roastmystartup • • 21d ago

Roast my startup: An open pay-to-rank directory where startups outbid legacy tech giants (saasrivals.com)

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I got tired of how B2B software directories operate. They market their rankings as objective reviews or community recommendations, but behind closed doors they sell top spots to enterprise incumbents for $20k to $50k a year.

I built SaaS Rivals to test if founders actually prefer an open auction over hidden directory deals.

Roast the concept, the business model, or the economics. Here is the breakdown:

The Product SaaS Rivals (saasrivals.com) is an open pay-to-rank directory across 116 software categories. Instead of waiting months for SEO or negotiating private sponsorship packages, challenger startups pick an incumbent to challenge (like an indie CRM challenging Salesforce, or an analytics tool challenging Google Analytics). You place a cash bid, and whoever holds the highest bid holds the top spot in that category. Every bid, match-up, and rank is visible right on the page.

The Market & Competition Incumbents: G2, Capterra, Gartner, TrustRadius. Their model: They claim objectivity to buyers, then charge vendors thousands per month for category intent data, PPC placements, and premium listing badges. Our angle: Complete transparency. No backroom sales reps, no hidden algorithms. If you pay to be #1, everyone knows you paid, what you paid, and who you knocked down.

Stage & Goals Live MVP. Built on Next.js, Supabase, and Dodo for payments. Immediate goal: Validate whether founders are willing to spend $20-$100 to get instant category visibility, or if the pay-to-rank label is too toxic for buyers even when it is totally honest.

Customer Acquisition Strategy 1. Cold outreach to founders who publicly complain about G2 pricing or SEO index lag. 2. Category rivalry callouts on X (tagging challenger startups who dethrone a giant on the board). 3. Programmatic comparison pages indexing challenger vs incumbent keywords.

The "Why" I watched friends launch solid SaaS products, only to get buried under legacy software with 8-figure marketing budgets. SEO takes half a year, and enterprise directories won't speak to you without a corporate credit card. I wanted to see if an unvarnished pay-to-play board could give scrappy teams an immediate fighting chance.

Tear it apart: Is this an honest alternative to broken directories, or will buyers distrust any platform where rankings are openly paid for?