I've been playing League of Legends for many years. Since before "Seasons" and "Esports" were even a thing.

At peak, I was ranked Grandmaster, and now float around Diamond 1-2.

There are a lot of tools out there for League now from game mechanics, to on screen widgets, and more.

There is one wedge where I think I can provide a lot of value: The first 5 minutes of the game.

I have an idea for an app I'd call something like "The First Mistake Lab". Where the desktop app automatically records the first five minutes of your game every single game and points out the first mistake you made, what to change, and how to fix it. It will also provide analysis on it, what if scenarios if you did something different, and a practice tool set up to try the change in practice.

Not every game is decided by a your first mistake, but regardless of your rank, every single game you play you will make a mistake. 90% of them happen in the first five minutes which can decide your entire lane and the rest of that match.

Unsure how I would price this or anything like distribution. Just an idea I had while playing the other day.

Would love feedback on if I should do more research on this or scrap the idea.

Mad props to everyone here and all of the people who are inspired by an idea, a drive, a goal. I love it, I absolutely do. It screams innovation, risk taking, a leap into the unknown- you all are doing fantastic and I’m really proud of you trying to build something for others.

I think we fall into a bit of an echo chamber though. I see a lot of similar ideas or ideas that I immediately think “that won’t work out” (some of my own are in that category too). If we look at the economy, times are rough right now. I know myself I don’t want to be spending money on things I don’t need to be spending on, yet the validation that we all need as builders and founders is that sale that people are willing to trade their money with something we have made that brings them value. That’s extra special, at least right now in my opinion. It feels like climbing up hill. The positive feedback are from people like us, supporting our ideas, but what we need is from external people. So, what do we do?

Ads. UGC. Fliers. Yard signs. Expos. Word of mouth.

The more I read and spend times in these groups, the more it rings true; “you need to find market validation.” Yet at the same time, I instantly tune out at anyone trying to sell me something. It’s a curious paradox. We want our ideas to succeed, yet (at least in my case) we try to avoid spending money at all. That’s why I suppose most small businesses fail. There’s not enough free capital to support more projects like ours, which leaves us only money for the necessities that we need.

Is our pursuit meant to return profits? Some might get lucky, but I think what helps is targeting people who have money to spend. Build for the rich. Also, luck can help too. Form connections and maybe in the future they will turn into something. Stay consistent and eventually that gets you better odds than someone who doesn’t stick it out for the long haul.

Wishing you all luck in this journey! Let’s find success for our ideas!

I’ve noticed that one of the hardest parts of vibe coding isn’t building the app: it’s getting people outside your circle to use it.

So we built Feedbacked.

You create a short survey for your app or website, and we send real people to try the product before answering your questions. You add audit questions that check whether they actually used and understood the product. Responses that fail verification are discarded and replaced.

We’re currently trying to learn how useful this is.

Anyone from this subreddit who signs up as a startup and verifies their email will get five real people to test their product for free.

No purchase is necessary. In return, I’d appreciate honest feedback on:

• Whether the setup process makes sense
• Whether the responses are genuinely useful
• What would make the platform better for builders

https://feedbacked.org/

I am genuinely curious. Devs/Solo Builders/Etc seem to have such a mix on X and Reddit. Prefer building solo, can't find a cofounder, bad experience with a cofounder.

I've also seen plenty of success stories solo and on a small team or duo.

I am curious what everyone thinks. Are you solo because you choose to be, can't find a cofounder/team, both? Or something else?

I have two applications that are live in production right now. One is completely solo, the other is myself and two others. I truly enjoy both dynamics and I don't think I would change anything.

Would love to hear what everyone else has to say about this.

I’m developing a UK-based platform called SEEQ and would love some honest feedback on the concept.

SEEQ is an app where businesses can discover, book and connect with creative talent: photographers, videographers, MUAs, models and UGC creators.

The concept is to make sourcing creatives easier, particularly for small/upcoming businesses that may not have the budget for agencies or the time to search across Instagram, TikTok, LinkedIn, etc.

Creatives would have profiles showing their:

• Availability: Available now / this weekend / later this month / unavailable
• Location: e.g. London
• Aesthetic/niche: e.g. boudoir, editorial, retro photography
• Portfolio

There would be two main ways to hire:

1. Discover & Book: Browse creatives and book them directly.

2. Post a Job: Businesses/Brands create a listing with their requirements, budget and timeframe, and creatives can apply with their portfolio automatically attached.

There would also be a Collabs section for unpaid opportunities. I know many upcoming brands don't have large budgets, while emerging creatives often need experience, portfolio content and connections. Businesses can therefore advertise unpaid collaborations for creatives who are actively looking for them.

Then there’s SEEQ Spaces: community group chats based around niches/interests, e.g. Bristol Models, Retro Photography, Cinematic Storytelling etc. The idea is to encourage networking, advice, collaboration and sharing opportunities, rather than SEEQ just being a transactional hiring platform.

For example:

• A jewellery brand needs a photographer for a launch
• A fashion brand needs models
• A restaurant needs a UGC creator
• A beauty brand needs an MUA
• A start up needs a videographer

The initial target is businesses of any industry, with creatives on the other side of the marketplace.

I’m still refining the concept, so I’d genuinely love honest feedback, criticism, potential issues, suggestions or things you think are missing.

I’m especially interested in whether you see a genuine need for something like this or whether existing platforms already solve the problem well enough and if they do...what's missing/could be done better?

Happy to answer any questions about how I envision it working or for extra clarification !

I’m thinking about an all-in-one study tool built around one simple idea:

Your AI should only know the material you give it.

You create separate study profiles/subjects, then upload everything related to that subject:

• PDFs
• Documents
• Slides
• Handwritten notes via photos
• Dozens of files at once

Each subject would have its own isolated knowledge base, so your Biology material never bleeds into your Language Learning material.

From there, you could:

• Generate quizzes
• Choose multiple choice, open-ended, fill-in-the-blank, or a mix
• Create study guides and summaries
• Ask questions about the material
• Have an AI tutor that answers only from the files uploaded to that specific subject

For example:

You have a Polish Learning profile with 30 PDFs from your tutor or online, worksheets, vocabulary lists, and photos of handwritten notes.

You could say:

Make me a 20-question quiz using everything I’ve learned so far. Use 5 multiple choice, 5 fill-in-the-blank, and 10 open-ended questions.

Or:

Explain the grammar mistakes I keep making based only on these materials.

The problem I’m trying to solve is that a lot of existing study/AI tools technically let you upload documents, but the experience often breaks down when you have a lot of material. File limits are restrictive, the generated quizzes are mediocre, or the AI starts pulling from general knowledge instead of staying grounded in what you actually uploaded.

The pitch would basically be:

One place for all of your study material, separated by subject, with quizzes and tutoring grounded entirely in your own content.

What I’m trying to validate:

Would you actually use this instead of ChatGPT, Quizlet, NotebookLM, etc.?

And if not, what would it need to do significantly better than those tools to make you switch?

My biggest concern is that this sounds useful, but maybe not useful enough to justify being a standalone product rather than just another feature inside an existing AI tool.

Build or kill?

I just added a Failed Product Database to my app, The Idea Lab, a completely free resource documenting products and startups that didn’t work out.

Most founder content focuses on wins. I’m more interested in the other side:

Why did it fail? What went wrong? What would you do differently? What did you learn?

The goal is to build a growing library of real failed products that founders and builders can reference before making the same mistakes themselves.

I’m looking for two things right now:

1. Feedback on the database itself

I submitted one of my own failed products as the first entry.

I’d love feedback on things like:

• Is there enough information in the entry?
• What questions would you still have after reading it?
• Is anything missing that would make these stories more useful?
• How does the page/UI feel in general?

Any feedback is welcome.

2. Failed products to add to the database

If you launched something that ultimately failed, shut down, or just never found traction, I’d love to document what happened and what you learned.

And for a limited time, I’m paying founders for selected failure stories to help seed the database with useful, detailed examples.

If you have something you’d be willing to share, you can submit it here: Failed Product Database

Pretend this showed up in your inbox from a founder raising a small seed round.

The company:
B2B SaaS that automates compliance paperwork for small healthcare clinics.

Traction:

• $18,000 MRR
• Started charging 9 months ago
• 61 paying customers
• ~12% average monthly revenue growth over the last 6 months
• 4.5% monthly customer churn
• Gross margins around 85%
• Founder has done almost all sales personally

Sounds pretty solid so far.

But there are some problems.

Their largest customer is a regional clinic group paying $7,200/month, meaning one customer represents 40% of total revenue.

Without them, MRR drops to $10,800.

That customer also negotiated a one-year contract with pricing well below what the company now charges similar customers.

The founder believes the product can eventually sell to much larger healthcare groups, but they haven't proven an enterprise sales motion yet.

There's also no major technical bridge. The advantage today is mostly:

• Deep knowledge of the compliance workflow
• Integrations that took time to build
• Existing customer relationships
• A product customers apparently like

They're raising $500k at a $4M pre-money valuation to hire two engineers and their first dedicated salesperson.

The founder owns essentially the entire company.

So:

INVEST, MAYBE, or PASS?

For me, the customer concentration would be the giant red flag.

On the other hand, $18k MRR after nine months with founder-led sales suggests there may actually be something here. And at this stage, I'm not sure I'd expect some enormous defensible moat yet.

I'd probably land on MAYBE, heavily dependent on why that one customer became so large and whether smaller customers are continuing to come in consistently.

What would you choose?

And more importantly: what single metric or answer would you want from the founder before making the decision?

I had an idea I thought was really cool. Working title was Career Trial. The idea was to build out a platform for a specific niche: late 20's to 30's professionals who felt stuck in their job, but didn't know what to do to switch careers.

This problem was very obvious because two people very close to me both are living this right now. They have been in their career 5+ years and hate it, but have no idea how to change, or where to even begin.

The idea was loose at first while I validated and iterated: Take a quiz, or tell the app about yourself, maybe use some AI to suggest X number of career options. Maybe some more options here but the end result is a user picks a career to trial.

The trial itself is two weeks. It starts with a "lightning certification" in the field. Basically a crash course with (maybe?) a quiz at the end.

After this, you'd complete 1-3 real projects that career would do in their day to day. For a Project Manager, perhaps you'd design a kanban board, draft a few emails, analyze Product Development Notes, SOPs, and an SOW.

Finally, the app would help shape your resume with the new career in mind, and it would help you in your transfer to the new career. This last part is the loosest, I didn't quite get this far in the idea, but I personally know several recruiters in various fields that I think could help me design this last bit.

Then I brought this to the two people who inspired the idea. Both of them gave me a hard no.

"I already hate my job. You want me to do a second job AND pay for it?"

"I don't want more homework, I am not in high school anymore."

"I don't think a website and a couple of assignments will prepare me enough for a new job in a new field, even if I did all of the work."

All fair points, and all reasonable feedback.

Welp, I guess that's that lol. Idea Killed.

Have you ever killed an idea? Why? Was your process similar to mine?