The idealized vision of this would be something that can discover new business opportunities, you pick one you like, it does the market research to figure out if there are already competitors in the space, how to improve on their offerings, if there's any demand for this, suggested pricing, and then it helps you launch an MVP. The goal would be to some day be able to click an idea you like, make a couple decisions, and have an MVP launched for you within a couple hours.
What I've got right now is something that does the following:
- It scrapes a handful of social media feeds every few hours, including HN, Reddit, and X, (more to come soon) looking for inspiration for new business ideas.
- It sends these ideas through a quick validation step, attempting to gauge their viability across a handful of metrics.
- If you like an idea, you can submit it for a Deep Dive analysis, which attempts to get a sense of the market around this idea. It’s looking for competitors, scraping their sites to find their feature sets and pricing, looking for user discussions of these products to gauge sentiment towards these competitors and look to identify strengths, weaknesses, gaps in the market, potential opportunities, etc. The point is to generate a report that can give you a sense of what the landscape is like and whether it’s something you want to pursue.
- If so, you can move to launch prep, which will help you with the basics like come up with a name for your product, find available domains, refine your product’s pitch and MVP feature set. Then, it will generate a detailed implementation plan for your MVP on the tech stack you choose, which gives you exportable markdown or pdf files that you can feed into something like Cursor to produce the actual MVP.
- Finally, it generates a social media launch plan, suggesting a dozen or so places to announce your launch, alongside a suggested posting schedule and copy to get you started.
I just launched this a couple days ago, and went live on Product Hunt today - https://www.producthunt.com/posts/saas-brainstorm
Right now you can make a free account and get unlimited access to the idea stream, the rest of the features require payment as they’re pretty expensive for me to provide.
This is the second SaaS I’ve ever tried to launch, with my first being an AI headshot generator about 2 years late to the party, which might give you a sense of why I felt a need to develop a product to give me better ideas in the first place.
You can access it here - https://saasbrainstorm.com
Thanks for reading, looking forward to any feedback and happy to answer any questions!