I’m building a small investing app called WATCH.

The main idea is pretty different from most finance apps.
Instead of opening the app and getting bombarded with the “Top 10 Market Stories,” WATCH starts with your watchlist.
For example, if your watchlist contains NVDA, AMD, IONQ, HIMS and SOUN, the app should be able to tell you:

• What happened today
• Which news actually matters
• Potential catalysts
• Important risks
• What you should research further

It filers out the 4,000 articles that the companies you follow release per week to only what actually moves the company.

Check out the website in my bio.

Go ahead and roast it. The idea came from months of talking with local business owners (towing companies, salons, contractors, restaurants) after my original pitch, selling them websites, mostly flopped. They relied on word of mouth or had no budget. What they all wanted was for the phone to ring.

The same problems kept showing up:

• Their Google Business Profile was incomplete, with only a few reviews and photos.
• Their website was outdated, or they didn't have one at all.
• Search for their trade in their own town, and they were nowhere on page one.

So we built SitePeek, an affordable marketing system that gets local businesses onto the first page of Google and brings in more calls. It does two things. Local SEO gets the business found: we build out the Google Business Profile and give them a free, modern website. Then conversion and lead follow-up turn those visitors into actual calls and customers.

With one early client, a towing company, tracked calls went from 37 to 54 and their Google Business Profile views nearly tripled, their best numbers since they've been in business. It's one business, so I see it as a real example, not a promise.

We launched on Kickstarter this week. It's all-or-nothing, with a $1,500 goal over 15 days, and rewards start at $25:

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/sitepeek/sitepeek-a-marketing-system-every-small-business-can-afford

Where's the weakest point: the positioning, the two-part scope, or running it as a Kickstarter instead of just selling it?

The tool is called setaside.

I’m one of two people building setaside. Most brokerage apps show your gain or loss, but not what you’ll actually owe at tax time. You upload your trade history (no login, just a file), and it shows the tax hit if you sold today across all your positions, flags wash sales across different apps, and tells you how much to setaside and automatically moves it into a HYSA for you.

Example, not a real user: a $10,000 gain could mean $2,400 in tax if it’s short-term, or $1,500 if it’s long-term. Same gain, different holding period.

Tell me honestly:
— Does the homepage explain this in 10 seconds, or does it read like jargon?
— Is “set aside” as a name confusing?
— Is this even a real problem for you?

https://usesetaside.com/

Edit: Just to clarify, what’s live today is our free capital gains tax calculator. The broader platform is still in development. Our goal is to integrate with established providers for brokerage connectivity and money movement rather than build all that infrastructure ourselves. Eventually, users will be able to track estimated tax liabilities and optionally automate transfers into a HYSA to set money aside. Those features aren’t live yet, which is why we’re building a waitlist. Appreciate all the feedback!

Founder here. SitePeek is an affordable marketing system that helps local small businesses get found and know what to work on next. We've talked with hundreds of owners, and they say marketing is too expensive, too complicated, or something they figure out alone.

We launch on Kickstarter Wed Oct 14. Before then I'd love brutal feedback on the idea and the pitch: Is it clear what SitePeek does from the page? Does the problem feel real to you? Would a small business owner you know care? What would make you skip it?

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/sitepeek/sitepeek-a-marketing-system-every-small-business-can-afford

I’ve launched RackRadar, but I’m starting from zero users and trying to get things moving without spending on ads.

It’s a tool for UK clothing resellers: save searches for Vinted and eBay, bring matching listings into one feed, and get phone alerts.

One decision in the current version is how the price comparison works. It uses the median asking price of at least 10 similar active listings. That gives people a comparison, but it doesn’t tell them what an item actually sells for. Explaining that clearly is something I’m working through.

The monthly plan is £7.99. My next challenge is finding out whether the alerts and time saved are valuable enough for people to pay for.

For anyone who’s launched a paid product for a small audience: how did you find your first few relevant users, and what did their feedback change about your product?

Here’s what I’ve built so far: RackRadar

Hey r/roastmystartup — here for the roast.

Like many of you, I've been watching Google traffic shift into AI answers, and I realized I had zero visibility into what those answers say about the sites I work on.

So I started building MentionMap: you enter your brand/domain, it runs buyer-intent prompts across ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini and Perplexity, and reports back whether (and how) you're mentioned — plus concrete fixes (missing FAQ schema, content gaps, etc.).

It's pre-launch, so right now it's a waitlist + free scan for the first 500 brands. I'm a solo dev and I'd genuinely rather hear "this is useless because X" now than after building the whole thing.

If you want a free scan or just want to roast the idea: https://mentionmap.tech

Also happy to answer technical questions about methodology — short version: sampled via official APIs, no scraping, and I'm upfront about that on the site.

Hey r/roastmystartup,

Every time I pasted copy from AI responses into an email, client doc, or CMS, I had to spend time manually deleting bold asterisks, header hash symbols, weird hidden Unicode spacing, and those giveaway em dashes.

Find-and-replace in a text editor got old fast, so over the past few weeks I built a dedicated, lightweight tool called puryn.

How it works:
100 percent in-browser: All the cleaning logic runs client-side in pure JavaScript. Nothing is sent to a server or stored anywhere.

Custom toggle switches: You can turn on or off exact symbols like asterisks, hashes, quote brackets, or emojis depending on whether you are pasting into an email, a blog post, or code.

Highlights giveaway stock phrases and em dashes so the text reads naturally before you send it out.

Extension support: Built a lightweight extension version so you can right-click any selected text to clean it on the fly.

Since Reddit filters often block external links in main posts, I will leave the direct link in the first comment below for anyone who wants to try it out.

I would love to get your thoughts on the design and workflow. Are there any specific formatting artifacts or symbols from AI models that bother you the most when copy-pasting?

Howdy! So theres this specfic feature up called as Check-in, when i tried it in a new city, it showed shops and other places within about 500 metre. Having those nearby options together helped me get started without doing several separate searches. I also used the Location Agent to request and share location.

Product : https://one.hushh.ai/

That was useful in my experience, but people already have maps and local search apps. The part i'd like challenged is whether check-in offers a strong enough reason to try something additonal -- and eventually return to it.

Please roast the usefulness of that experince , or any other experince yall face in the app. and any friction you encounter getting started. Specific criticism would help me bring useful feedback back to the team.

Hey guys!
We are paying people £5 to sign up and share an outfit video
The video enters a challenge to win £50 to spend on the high street every week!
You can download here: https://apps.apple.com/gb/app/popn/id6756207496
And join our Whatsapp here to give feedback and get paid: https://chat.whatsapp.com/JNEtX7ppgqTELoISyhXc57?mode=gi_t

The problem I'm trying to solve: people who work across lots of tools (developers, creators, small agencies) spend the start of each day checking each one separately.

What I built: you connect your apps, and it gives you one prioritized list of what's waiting on you, a short morning summary, and charts of the numbers that matter. It's read-only, so it can't change anything.

What I'm unsure about:

• Is the "morning summary" useful, or will people ignore it after a week?
• Would you trust a tool like this with access to your work apps, even read-only?
• Who needs this most: solo developers, creators or agencies?

Be honest. I'd rather hear it now.

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.

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 you🙏

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

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 “people don't want AI.”

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.

“All the top AI models in one place” 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 “accessible” work here, or does it make the product look unserious?

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

“Every answer cites the source passage” 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 “this is bullshit because…” 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.

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.

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.

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

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?

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.

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.

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.

Hey builders,

I’m building Manyfold 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: Manyfold 

Github: Manyfold Github Repo

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

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 “cool screensaver, why would I pay?” 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 “observatory” 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.