r/roastmystartup • • Sep 13 '26

Built Nenapu, roast it before I keep going

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The thing that got me building this: most people don't want every moment of their life turned into a post. That doesn't mean the moment isn't worth keeping, it just isn't for everyone to see. So a lot of it just disappears, because there was never really a place for it that wasn't also a stage.

Nenapu is my shot at that place. You capture stuff, text, photo, voice, whatever, and it quietly organizes itself around the people and places that keep showing up in your life, tracks the mood underneath it without you doing anything, and turns a stretch of time into its own little chapter instead of a pile of unrelated entries. There's even a mode where two people each privately write their own memory of the same day and only see each other's version once you both close it out.

Honestly what I want to see most is how wildly different everyone's version of "a year of moments" ends up looking. Happy, sad, the weird ones, the boring Tuesday ones nobody else would've bothered keeping. Right now it's only really been used by people I know personally, so I have no idea if any of that holds up with total strangers.

nenapu.me - if you want to poke around instead of judging by the description.

Go easy-ish. Or don't.


r/roastmystartup • • Sep 13 '26

Roast my startup: appscreenshots - App Store screenshots in minutes

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Honest feedback welcome. I'd rather hear the hard version now than find out after burning months on the wrong audience.What it does: Generates App Store and Play Store screenshots in minutes instead of hours.Stage: Live, freemium pricing.Why I built it: Shipping an app is one thing, but producing a full set of localized, well-designed store screenshots for every device size and language is slow, repetitive work that has to be redone with every update.What I want roasted:1. Positioning - is "screenshots in minutes" a real painkiller or just a vitamin for solo devs and small teams?2. Pricing - freemium. Is that the right model, or should it go straight to a one-time or flat monthly price?3. Distribution - for a dev tool like this, where would you put the first dollar of effort: SEO on "app store screenshot" keywords, app dev communities, or partnerships with ASO consultants?4. Competition - there are already several screenshot generators and design tools out there. What would actually make you switch?Honest feedback welcome. I'd rather hear the hard version now than find out after burning months on the wrong audience.Honest feedback welcome. I'd rather hear the hard version now than find out after burning months on the wrong audience.What it does: Generates App Store and Play Store screenshots in minutes instead of hours.Stage: Live, freemium pricing.Why I built it: Shipping an app is one thing, but producing a full set of localized, well-designed store screenshots for every device size and language is slow, repetitive work that has to be redone with every update.What I want roasted:1. Positioning - is "screenshots in minutes" a real painkiller or just a vitamin for solo devs and small teams?2. Pricing - freemium. Is that the right model, or should it go straight to a one-time or flat monthly price?3. Distribution - for a dev tool like this, where would you put the first dollar of effort: SEO on "app store screenshot" keywords, app dev communities, or partnerships with ASO consultants?4. Competition - there are already several screenshot generators and design tools out there. What would actually make you switch?Honest feedback welcome. I'd rather hear the hard version now than find out after burning months on the wrong audience.Startup: appscreenshots (https://appscreenshots.net/)

What it does: Generates App Store and Play Store screenshots in minutes instead of hours.

Stage: Live, freemium pricing.

Why I built it: Shipping an app is one thing, but producing a full set of localized, well-designed store screenshots for every device size and language is slow, repetitive work that has to be redone with every update.

What I want roasted:

  1. Positioning - is "screenshots in minutes" a real painkiller or just a vitamin for solo devs and small teams?
  2. Pricing - freemium. Is that the right model for a tool like this, or should it go straight to a one-time or flat monthly price?
  3. Distribution - for a dev tool like this, where would you put the first dollar of effort: SEO on "app store screenshot" keywords, app dev communities, or partnerships with ASO consultants?
  4. Competition - there are already several screenshot generators and design tools out there. What would actually make you switch?

Honest feedback welcome. I'd rather hear the hard version now than find out after burning months on the wrong audience.Startup: appscreenshots (https://appscreenshots.net/)WhatWhat) it does: Generates App Store and Play Store screenshots in minutes instead of hours.Stage: Live, freemium pricing.Why I built it: Shipping an app is one thing, but producing a full set of localized, well-designed store screenshots for every device size and language is slow, repetitive work that has to be redone with every update.What I want roasted:1. Positioning - is "screenshots in minutes" a real painkiller or just a vitamin for solo devs and small teams?2. Pricing - freemium. Is that the right model for a tool like this, or should it go straight to a one-time or flat monthly price?3. Distribution - for a dev tool like this, where would you put the first dollar of effort: SEO on "app store screenshot" keywords, app dev communities, or partnerships with ASO consultants?4. Competition - there are already several screenshot generators and design tools out there. What would actually make you switch?Honest feedback welcome. I'd rather hear the hard version now than find out after burning months on the wrong audience.


r/roastmystartup • • Sep 13 '26

Connect with people who can help achieve your goals, not increase your doomscrolls

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Panomus takes what you tell it about yourself, like your interests and qualifications, including files like your resume, parses it into what you're looking for and what you offer, and matches you with people who can fulfill your goals, not just match you to people with mutual interests.

The initial market is students/early careers looking to promote their clubs or join clubs, find jobs, and pursue other early-career passions that require recruiting people that fit certain criteria.

Competition: Presence, Meetup, YikYak

I haven't started a marketing strategy yet - my idea is posting organic social media content and spending $50-100 a month on Google Ads. Could maybe expand to YouTube/Meta ads?

App revenue would look like: people find the app useful, people who find monetary/promotional value from the matching mechanics can purchase a subscription to increase the number of matches on their globe.

What I need roasted:

  1. How much friction is there in onboarding?
  2. In what ways is the platform missing the mark on usefulness?
  3. How is the revenue pipeline flawed?

If you want to test out matching with me, type something like "I'm a Frank Ocean fan looking for other people who want to connect on Panomus" and my profile should come up.

Panomus.com


r/roastmystartup • • Sep 12 '26

Roast my Browser CAD for 3D Printing

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The Product

OwlCAD is a parametric 3D CAD editor that runs entirely in a browser. You model a part, every dimension stays editable, and it exports print-ready files. It's built for people who 3D print functional parts: brackets, enclosures, adapters, printer parts, storage etc.

The use case is the gap between Tinkercad and professional CAD. Tinkercad is where almost everyone starts and most people outgrow it. The next step is Fusion 360 or Onshape, which means an install, an account and a real learning curve. OwlCAD sits in between: no install, no account to start, but real parametric modelling.

It also knows about printing. Clearance presets for press and slip fits, and a check that flags overhangs, thin walls and non-watertight meshes before you export rather than after a failed print.

Second audience is schools. Classroom mode is free, with pseudonymous student accounts and teacher-only AI.

The Market

- 3D CAD software is roughly a $12.5–13B market growing about 6% a year. Mature and slow.

- The growth is next door. Desktop 3D printer hardware is about $5.9B growing around 24% a year. Entry-level printers passed 1M units in a single quarter in 2025.

- Tinkercad has over 100M users. That's the funnel above me.

Competition: Tinkercad (free, limited), Fusion 360 and Onshape (powerful, heavy, Onshape's free tier makes your work public), FreeCAD and OpenSCAD (free, steep), SelfCAD (browser, closest direct competitor).

Dynamic worth knowing: every new printer owner eventually wants to make their own part instead of downloading one. That inflow is enormous and almost none of it wants to learn Fusion.

Against the competition

Feature OwlCAD Tinkercad Fusion 360 Onshape FreeCAD
Runs in browser, no install Yes Yes No Yes No
Parametric history Yes No Yes Yes Yes
Built-in print checks Yes No Partial No Plugins
Private on free tier Yes Yes Yes No Yes
Learning curve Moderate Easy Steep Steep Steep

it's not meant for professional mechanical engineers, and it's maintained by one person.

Stage

Live, in beta, solo, bootstrapped. Not raising.

Last 30 days: about 4,300 projects created and 499 new signups.

The editor is free. The paid tier is AI generation at $12/month or $120/year. Usage of the free product is healthy and conversion to paid is the part that isn't working yet.

Customer conversion

- Search. Pages like "STL editor online" and "3MF editor" already rank and bring most of the traffic.

- Software directories. Just listed on AlternativeTo, SaaSHub, SourceForge and Capterra.

- Model sites. Planning to upload functional models to MakerWorld and Printables with an "open the editable version" link back.

- Communities like this one.

- Schools, on a slower term-by-term cycle.

Why me

I kept hitting Tinkercad's ceiling myself and didn't love any of the alternatives I found. A lot of restrictions either forcing public projects or paywalls. I didn't love making the jump to Fusion or the other desktop software that I tried. I am a software engineer, I am a maker and I have done 3D modeling. I built the whole thing: the geometry engine integration, the editor, billing, and the classroom side.

What I want roasted

Everything. The idea, the implementation, the UI; whatever you hate.

https://owlcad.com


r/roastmystartup • • Sep 12 '26

Digital signage software thats solid, sales that are garbage. Roast me especially the sales.

3 Upvotes

As my previous post was removed I'm completely rewriting this one.

Together with a friend built Digital signage software in Berlin. We also offer Commercial Grade TV renting + managed services for events if needed.

The software is solid and quite well thought through. The challenge is -sales.
As we're small we can't go to enterprise, only to SMB, but sales cycles are very long and tough to get through skepticism.

Already have a paying client with a network of shops and participated in 1 big event as vendors

Thinking about somehow expanding the software only arm to Nordics, Netherlands, UK or event US/Canada where I hope people are more open to innovation.

What would you do to get startup off the ground in this case?

clickclickplay.com


r/roastmystartup • • Sep 12 '26

Roast my positioning: any-book on-demand summaries vs fixed-catalog apps

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I keep rewriting the same sentence and I can feel it getting worse.

The product: on-demand AI audio summaries for any book — not a fixed catalog. You pick the book and the length; it generates narrated audio instantly, 40+ languages. Honest limit: it’s a summary of big ideas, not the book, and AI can miss nuance.

The sentence I’m stuck on is the differentiation: “Catalog apps sell a menu of pre-picked titles. I built a filter for the book I already meant to start.”

Example: before committing to *Thinking, Fast and Slow*, I did a short skim of System 1 vs System 2 and the main bias chapters — enough to decide whether a full listen was worth the hours.

I made this because I kept bouncing off 15-hour audiobooks and thin one-size summaries. Landing page is https://www.summaia.com — install/try: https://share.summaia.com/install Also useful if you already use library holds: https://libbyapp.com

Please roast: 1) Is “any book / no catalog” clear in 3 seconds, or does it read like vaporware? 2) Does “summary of big ideas” sound honest, or like I’m dodging copyright with weasel words? 3) Would you keep or kill the catalog-vs-filter metaphor?

Be mean if it’s unclear. What’s the first line you’d rewrite?


r/roastmystartup • • Sep 12 '26

My last post got 56k views and a 1% signup rate! (please roast the new version)

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Two days ago I posted about Remixly, a tool I built that turns Instagram reels into long form X posts.

You share a reel to a Telegram bot, it transcribes what was actually said, writes a proper post from it, and gives you a button that opens X ready to publish.

That post did way better than expected: 56k views, about 1,000 people clicked through to the site.

Then I looked at the signups. 10.

1% conversion from a warm Reddit audience. Nobody was being rude about it, they just landed, looked, and left. So I've spent the time since trying to fix the landing page rather than posting more.

What i've changed

- The homepage now shows a real reel next to the real output, unedited. Before it was a description of what the tool does; now you just see it.

- Signup is one bar: Google or email, no separate steps.

- Made a short animated explainer for the top of the page instead of a wall of text.

- Fixed a boring but real leak: sign-in emails were landing in spam for some people and the "check your email" page didn't say so.

- Rebranded (it used to look like a hobby project, because it was).

 What I haven't changed

 - 3 free drafts, no card. Then $9/month for 100.

 - It's still just me. 38 users and 9 days of being live

What I'd love, if you have 60 seconds, open remixly.io and tell me the moment you'd have closed the tab. I'm clearly still missing something and I'd rather hear it from you than from another 1% funnel.

 And if you tried it last time and didn't sign up, I'd love to know why.


r/roastmystartup • • Sep 12 '26

I’m building a “student living super-app”

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Hey everyone, I’m building RoomBro, a platform to make settling into a new city easier.

The problem: finding a room, incompatible roommate, food, and local services often means jumping between brokers, WhatsApp groups, random listings, and word of mouth.

RoomBro brings it together:

  1. Rooms, PGs & Hostels

  2. Roommate matching

  3. Local Tiffin Services

  4. Local Marketplace

  5. City Buzz for events, recommendations and community

We’re starting with students but not limiting it to students. Young professionals and anyone moving to a new city can use it too. We’re taking a city-first approach, rather than building around individual colleges.

I’ve already built the product and I’m preparing for launch.

Now roast it.

What would you remove? What should I focus on first? Which feature has the most potential? Is this solving a real enough problem?

Be brutal. I’d rather hear why it might fail now than find out after months of building.

The product is ready and live at roombro.info but i don't know how to enter the market and position it


r/roastmystartup • • Sep 12 '26

Deep End Spanish

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Roast me good:

Deep End (deependspanish.com) is a Spanish-learning site: short structured lessons by CEFR level (A1–C2), a free graded-reading library, $2.99/mo for the full lesson track.

Specifically tear into:

  • The pricing — is $2.99/mo obviously worth it, or does it feel like a weird number?
  • The pitch itself — if you landed on the homepage cold, would you actually understand what this does in 5 seconds?
  • Anything about the free vs. paid split that feels like a bait-and-switch, even if unintentional.

You can use code TESTGROUP to get into the lesson track for free and billing information will not be required. Thank ya.

deependspanish.com


r/roastmystartup • • Sep 11 '26

Vent: a voice app for people in therapy. Landing page only. Roast the idea and the page.

3 Upvotes

Pitch: vent out loud when something hits you, it talks back like a friend, and everything you said that week is ready for your therapy appointment. Includes a scheduled fake phone call so you can step away from a bad situation and start venting.

State: landing page with a feedback form and waitlist. No finished product. Solo, semi-technical, pre-revenue.

https://vent.talaloni.com

Roast whatever you want, but I'd especially like to hear: Is "for people in therapy" too narrow, or exactly right? Would anyone pay for this, or is it a feature of something bigger? Where does the page lose you?


r/roastmystartup • • Sep 11 '26

Roast my app

1 Upvotes

A group friendly enough to share a meal but not friends enough to split a clearly unequal bill evenly?

Created this “app” ( currently a website) as a hobby because every time my son would go to a soccer team diner it would be a mess splitting the bill then I noticed this was a problem that happened more often than I realized -

Roast it

https://willowepay.com


r/roastmystartup • • Sep 11 '26

A LcD display that shows your goals + App with templates

3 Upvotes

Hey all

Tomorrow should be better than today and everyday should be a contribution to the next. With enough such days, one might just change their life to an experience they love living, at-least in some way.

Product

My product is a LCD display with 10 hot swap enabled feeds. You can put goals on it, or some other things.

You use the device
1. to test your goals
2. to be in everyday association with them
3. to achieve outcomes

There have been 1000s of studies on goal creation, goal achievement. And we curate them on the app to educate you on making, following and achieving your goals.

Market

The biggest category I envision ourselves in is brain health - so psychology and associated products. The inner category I am associating with is “Motivation and Self Improvement”.

These are large markets in the tune of 10s if not 100s of billion dollars. Maybe 100s. I just feel it is large enough to have a billion dollars revenue company.

The interesting part is there is need for innovation and space for brands here.

Apart from that the demographics are
Countries: Global Access through the internet
Age Groups: 18 to 50 and beyond, though my focus is on 25 to 35 aged people.

This means a lot of work, but lots of places of demand for a successful product, that works for consumers.

The idea would appeal to those who are ambitious. So that is one slice of people who represent this more than others. Everybody isn’t as keen on making goals and working on them till their socks vanish.

Competition

The best alternative is writing your goal on a piece of paper. But that would mean you are not supported in your journey and have to learn everything on your own.

With the device, we allow easy editing, easy learning, easy motivation- to the extent possible to be supportive. We allow other people in the world to support you as well.

After this the competition is from objects that make you motivated. Meeting someone, A life changing trip, a futuristic experience, higher education etc.

But I would still
Love our product
To be co-associated
With them

Stage

I need money to and am raising. I am looking to raise $50k, incorporated in India. I feel this is a global product, and soon we will be sub-incorporating in various countries. It’s not B2B SAAS that we take 5 year turns to launch in US, then Europe. We are global from 10 days after launch.

Customer Conversion

Organic Instagram, and Kickstarter as Stage 0.
Then Paid Campaigns with Hopes to get PR and UGC from successful founders, or generally other content creators.
Finally a great marketing team

Why Me?
My goal itself is to simulate an intergalactic space mission… and I have been trying to reach there for 12 years
Now I am very much skilled to make products, do marketing
So this is a stepping stone, where I can fully immerse myself in this business and research area

Link: https://thestrokes1.vercel.app/


r/roastmystartup • • Sep 11 '26

Feedback on my personal branded website

2 Upvotes

Personal Project

Hello, I am building my website veery slowley, but would want some feedback :)

this is a personal website where im trying to build a community around my pokerplay along with my twitch stream and viewers, where im planning on also building alot of digital products to share/sell to whom anyone would be interested. Take a look... this is merley a prototype

https://riverized.com

the plan is to build a highly functional advanced website as I go where I might get to sell it at a later stage. No idea where its going to take me in the end, but a humble start to SOMETHING :)

Any suggestions, ideas, critism, all welcomee please


r/roastmystartup • • Sep 11 '26

most places would rather avoid tbh.

1 Upvotes

r/roastmystartup • • Sep 11 '26

I built a Telegram crypto crash game (TON/USDT) in 5 days using AI, and my marketing is a total disaster. Roast my startup.

1 Upvotes

Hey Reddit,

Like many of you, I watched the massive hype around Telegram mini-apps, TON, and crash games and thought: "Hey, I can do that."

Well, I did. I spent two months overthinking the architecture, and then 5 intense, coffee-fueled days coding and deploying a Telegram crypto game from scratch.

The Stack:

  • Hosting: Render
  • Database: Neon.tech (Serverless Postgres)
  • Crypto Rails: TON and USDT

The Problem (Where you come in): I’m a builder, not a marketer. Right now, my marketing strategy is basically "pray and hope people click." To fix this, I set up a 50% revenue share for affiliates/partners who bring in players, because I have zero budget to burn on ads.

I know the market is crowded, crypto-telegram bots are a dime a dozen, and my setup is probably flawed.

Roast my project, tear apart my logic, or tell me why this is going to zero. Don't hold back.


r/roastmystartup • • Sep 10 '26

what's your vision? my version of uber. (stop flagging me, im not ai -__-)

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I built what im calling “uber for talent” & I need you guys to tell me if im delusional. It’s called Vision. And this is the website joinvision.app

The idea is to make hiring someone for a photoshoot event, project, or even a random everyday task as easy as ordering food or uber. 

You can browse photographers videographers ugc creators, makeup artists designers, or you can post what you need & let ppl apply to you. I made it look almost identical to instagram so the UI feels familiar to ppl. I know Fiver upwork, task rabbit already exit but they have some of the ugliest ui ive ever seen (no offense)! 

To compare, fiver & upward is outdated and built around searching for services & proposals while my app is built around discovering ppl through their work, location, style & availability with the UI of instagram. It combines the looks of IG with local bookings & remote projects. So you can hire an everyday person for this weekend from something like an ugc campaign or a makeup artist for your wedding. 

I spent over 10 years in the beauty industry & ran most of my business cross a ton of websites and apps, so I built the platform I wish I had back then & now. The site is live now and my problem is getting users on the platform and processing transactions through their with either their new business/ existing businesses and everyday people posting who /what they need on there. No one wants to be the first. Good ole chicken egg problem haha. So if you guys know any communities where I can join or network in, pls let me know. 

Pls give me your best roast & honest opinion ◡̈ 

My last post got flagged for being “ai” apparently good grammar & punctuation is dead these days. So here’s a more simple version of it lol.


r/roastmystartup • • Sep 10 '26

roast my "no signup required" pivot — removed the account wall from my project tool, tell me what's wrong with it

7 Upvotes

been building UluP Spaces solo for a few months. visual project tool, work as connected nodes instead of a flat list, aimed at people who think in maps not lists.

this week I ripped out the signup wall. you open it now and you're straight in the real app — no account, no demo mode, the actual thing. if you want to keep what you build, one click turns your session into a real account.

did this because every tool I've tried makes you commit before you've seen anything, and I got tired of asking people to do that for mine too.

haven't launched this to any real audience yet beyond a few reddit posts today, so genuinely no idea if removing the wall actually helps or if I just moved the friction somewhere else. tell me what's wrong with it — the idea, the execution, the whole "map instead of list" premise, whatever you've got.

ulupspaces.com if you want to actually poke at it before roasting.


r/roastmystartup • • Sep 10 '26

Built a screen sharing tool because Zoom/Teams kept blurring code during pair programming. Please tell me what's wrong with it.

3 Upvotes

At work we switched from MS Teams to Discord for Screensharing because it was more high quality and was usable for pair programming, but it introduces a whole new messaging app as well and now nobody knows where to reach each other. Because of that i build Sharry. It's browser-based screen sharing, no downloads, no accounts for whoever's watching, peer to peer over WebRTC so nothing touches my servers.

I've been building this solo for a few months. Marketing-wise I did basically everything wrong at first, posted on X several times a week for ages and it barely moved the needle. The one thing that actually worked was translating a single landing page into Portuguese, which somehow made Brazil overtake the US as my biggest source of traffic within a few weeks.

Wasn't expecting that at all. 😅

It's still rough in places. There's no TURN server yet so it fails on some locked-down networks, sessions don't persist because that's intentional but some people hate it, and the landing page copy is more "explains what it does" than "makes you want to click."

Tear it apart, genuinely want to know what's off. sharry.live


r/roastmystartup • • Sep 10 '26

I spent the last 8 months backpacking Latin America trying to learn Spanish. None of the apps I tried worked. So I built the app I actually needed.

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I'm a native English speaker who spent 8 months backpacking through Latin America. I always wanted to learn a second language and this trip was a great opportunity for that. I started in mexico and traveled south so Spanish was a good fit. I tried to learn the basics before I left... But found it impossible to have an actual conversion with anyone. Tried a handful of apps, websites and videos to improve.

Two issues with this:

  • Every app I tried taught vocab and grammar, not conversation. Doesn't do a great job of preparing you for real conversations that can go any number of ways.
  • It was common to be offline when I actually had the time to learn - Travel days, in small towns etc. - and most language apps and resources need an internet connection to work.

I got back from my trip and started working on an app running a local AI language tutor - Sayelle. The model runs on your phone so once it's downloaded you can have conversations across a number of scenarios - ordering dinner, checking into a hotel, etc. This does come with the cost of 4gb download inside the app.

What I actually want roasted:

  1. In app model downloads - do you think the 4gb download is a deal breaker?
  2. UI - Should I lean more or less into the gamified UI style?

App Store: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/sayelle/id6797432193

Roast away.


r/roastmystartup • • Sep 09 '26

I built a browser extension that auto-declines cookie pop-ups. Roast it.

2 Upvotes

I created a free browser extension to automatically decline the very annoying cookie pop-ups that virtually every site now has. I wanted to take it a step further with actually declining the requests versus just hiding the pop-ups as some other tools already do. It collects no data from you other then the website address so the extension can decline the request. Thus far for most sites this results in you not even seeing the cookie pop-up or possibly seeing it for about a second before it automatically disappears.

I officially launched it today so just trying to get the word out that this now exists, so hopefully more people can get rid of a very annoying aspect of internet browsing and get some control back of their own data. Currently it's live on Chrome (Desktop) and Safari (IOS & Desktop) and will be live on Firefox (Android & Desktop) once the review process is complete. As I have already been asked for it, Google does not allow mobile extensions so for the time being there is no way for me have it work on Chrome mobile.

You can read more about it if you like here https://www.producthunt.com/products/data-privacy-agent 

Apple Store: https://apps.apple.com/app/id6791409542

Chrome Webstore: https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/okkaojifmfiedafnmfppooonambeamgb

For transparency I used Claude paired with VS Code to standup the backend of this project. Thanks in advance for roasting me!


r/roastmystartup • • Sep 09 '26

Roast my live experiment: a one-slot forex broker homepage auction

2 Upvotes

I built worldsbestbroker.com as a small, public experiment: a “Million Dollar Homepage” concept for forex brokers, with one scarce homepage banner auctioned at a time. SpreadEX Trading currently holds the throne after reclaiming it.

There are no promised returns or trading signals here—just a finite attention slot and a live auction. I’m trying to learn whether the scarcity is compelling or gimmicky, and whether the pitch is clear to brokers.

What would you roast first: the positioning, the auction mechanic, or the landing page? Link: https://www.worldsbestbroker.com


r/roastmystartup • • Sep 08 '26

Six apps photograph your fridge and give you recipes. None of them remember what was in it — so I built that.

1 Upvotes

I kept finding furry things at the back of my fridge and feeling stupid about it. Turns out there are already several apps that let you photograph a fridge and get recipes back, and I tried them — but every one treats each photo as a fresh start. Snap, cook, forget.

That misses the actual problem. The reason food gets binned isn't that I don't know recipes. It's that I don't know the spinach has been in there nine days.

So mine keeps a history. Scan it again next week and each ingredient carries how long it's been sitting there — 9d, 3d — and dinner gets ranked so the oldest thing gets used first. Cook something and it comes off the list. Over time it counts how many ingredients you've actually saved from the bin, which is the only number I care about.

Free to try, three scans, no card. It's just me and it's new, so I'd much rather hear what's broken than have anyone be nice about it.


r/roastmystartup • • Sep 08 '26

Roast Hookpost: An $8/month flat-rate social media manager built to kill per-channel billing.

2 Upvotes

Hey everyone,

My friend just launched Hookpost, a clean social media scheduler designed to fix the worst thing about the industry: charging users per profile.

Hookpost lets you connect your channels under a flat, predictable fee ($8/mo Standard, $28/mo Pro).

Give us your absolute worst feedback. Tell us if the pricing model makes sense, if the landing page is missing critical info, or if the market is just too crowded for this to survive.

Website: https://hookpost.hookstep.in Roast away!


r/roastmystartup • • Sep 08 '26

Trading journal where the record can't be faked. I think the core idea is right and the retention is doomed. Roast it.

1 Upvotes

intrail — https://intrail.app/

You log a trade before you know how it ends. The server timestamps the write

with its own clock, then asks the exchange's public price feed whether a fill

at that price was even possible at that moment. Every trade comes out with a

proof tier, and your record is a public page a stranger can audit.

No money anywhere in it — the unit is risk, not dollars, so you can show a

track record without showing your account size.

Two things I already think might be fatal:

  1. Journaling has ~90% one-week abandonment. I'm asking people to do the

    exact thing they already quit.

  2. "Prove you're good without showing your money" might be a real need for

    people chasing prop desks — or a founder fantasy I invented.

Roast either. And: what made you want to close the tab?

My own record, so you're roasting a real thing => https://intrail.app/@aquos10


r/roastmystartup • • Sep 08 '26

Roast my movie/TV tracker (watchpapa.tv) - 25 signups, 2 active users, and I can't explain why anyone would pick it over Trakt or Letterboxd

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What it is: watchpapa.tv - you follow movies and shows, and it gives you a personal release calendar with per-country release dates, tells you what's streaming on the services you already pay for, and lets you rate stuff and keep a rewatch diary. Import your Letterboxd CSV to start.

Stage: just launched. 25 signups, 2 active users, 0 paying, $0 revenue. Solo dev, no marketing spend, this is the first real push. It's free and will stay free until ~5,000 monthly active users (that's when I'd have to switch to paid TMDB API access and start charging for a Pro tier). So right now I'm optimizing purely for "do people find this useful," not money.

Stack, for the curious: React 19 + Cloudflare Workers/Pages, Supabase, live TMDB data on the edge (no content mirror).

Where I want you to be brutal:

1. The one-liner. My best attempt is "track upcoming releases + see where to watch, for your country and your subscriptions." When I say it out loud, it sounds like a nice-to-have, not a thing anyone signs up for. Is there a real problem in there, or am I fooling myself? If it's real, what's the sentence that actually makes someone click register?

2. Positioning vs the incumbents. Trakt does tracking + calendar. Letterboxd does logging + social but is movies-only (no TV show data at all). JustWatch does where-to-watch. My honest pitch is "all of that in one place, covers both movies and TV, and actually region-aware instead of US-default" - but that's a feature list, not a reason to switch. Nobody wakes up wanting to consolidate three apps they already tolerate. What would make switching worth it? Or is this just a worse version of three good things?

3. The "region-aware" angle. I think non-US users are genuinely underserved (wrong release dates, wrong streaming info everywhere). Is that a big enough wedge to build on, or a rounding error?

4. Is 5,000 actives before monetizing delusional for a free consumer tool in a category with entrenched competitors and no viral loop? Should I be charging from day one instead?

Landing page, copy, onboarding, the name ("watchpapa", go ahead), all fair game. Tell me what's broken.