Here’s the truth: most startup founders (me included) fall in love with bad ideas.
We tell ourselves the market is big enough.
We convince ourselves we’ll “figure it out later.”
And then we waste months, sometimes years, building something no one cares about.
I hit that wall at 14. Too young to be jaded, but old enough to see how easy it is to fool yourself.
So I decided: instead of guessing, why not stress test ideas the way VCs and seasoned founders do?
That’s how Startup Solve was born.
It’s a tool that doesn’t coddle you—it tells you if your idea looks dead on arrival, or if there’s a real shot worth betting on.
It analyzes things like market, viability, funding potential, and growth angle.
It’s not magical. It won’t hand you a unicorn.
But it’s better than lying to yourself and wasting 2 years on a product nobody asked for.
I’m not here to “sell.” I’m here to ask:
Would you actually use something like this when you’re in the idea stage?
Or is the struggle of finding out the hard way just part of the founder tax?
Maulik_hacker•5mo ago
We convince ourselves we’ll “figure it out later.” And then we waste months, sometimes years, building something no one cares about.
I hit that wall at 14. Too young to be jaded, but old enough to see how easy it is to fool yourself. So I decided: instead of guessing, why not stress test ideas the way VCs and seasoned founders do?
That’s how Startup Solve was born. It’s a tool that doesn’t coddle you—it tells you if your idea looks dead on arrival, or if there’s a real shot worth betting on. It analyzes things like market, viability, funding potential, and growth angle.
It’s not magical. It won’t hand you a unicorn. But it’s better than lying to yourself and wasting 2 years on a product nobody asked for.
I’m not here to “sell.” I’m here to ask: Would you actually use something like this when you’re in the idea stage?
Or is the struggle of finding out the hard way just part of the founder tax?