Earlier this July, I had a rare week to focus, so I built a tool that let you call in, speak your idea, and schedule a Twitter post. My background is in voice tech, which gave me an intuition for how these systems work. In a three-week window, I launched that voice-first version, playing with Eleven...
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Show HN: Validationly – Validate Startup Ideas via Reddit, Twitter and LinkedIn
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Hey HN<p>I’ve been building a small tool called *Validationly*. It's designed to help founders and indie hackers validate their startup ideas <i>before</i> writing a single line of code — by checking what the internet is already saying.<p>The concept is simple:
You type in your idea (e.g. “AI...
Hey, I'm Stan and I made a app called Contestit. It's a social media giveaway app that let's users create giveaways. It gives the user a link they can share to their followers. What I always disliked or found annoying about giveaways is the fact that they were all the same, here'...
Hi HN,<p>After months of development, I'm excited to share PassiveCraft, a new AI-powered SaaS platform designed to solve the significant monetization challenge faced by content creators in the global creator economy.<p>The idea for PassiveCraft came from my own frustrations as an ex-content cr...
We used to play the SEO game.<p>Write blog<p>Wait 3 months<p>Maybe rank<p>Maybe convert<p>What actually happened at 8 early-stage AI startups (Series A or earlier):<p>-Google Page 1 took ~94 days<p>- Organic CTR: 2.6%<p>- First qualified lead: 6–8 weeks<p>So we ditched the playbook.<p>We asked one q...
I am not currently a user of Mastodon, but I have some interest in the project. I was looking at some stuff that seemed to indicate to me that the OSA could make it difficult to self host Mastodon without providing age verification. I was then reading the provisions and realsised that it didn't...