Roast (+fix) your startup idea in 3mins before wasting 3mths
Don't build the wrong stuff. Paste an idea into dontbuildthis.com and let us roast it against live data, competitor signals + our own vault of wins/flops. You get a brutal score, verdict + tips so you can validate in mins, not months. No signup, free to use!
👋 Hey ProductHunt! David here, co-founder of dontbuildthis.com. Let's play! 📝 Drop a 1-line pitch in this thread... Roasty (a.k.a. me for today) will reply with a mini-verdict to the first 50 ideas. Let’s see whose concept survives the flames! Launch perk for the PH crew Every Product Hunter gets 30 days of our advanced tier = just use the in-app code PH-ROAST. Why we built it?? After years of building and hanging out in builder communities, hackathons and innovation labs (and too many “quiet” p
This was insanely fun! I tested loads of ideas and was getting quite insulted until I tried one in the 80's!
i want to build self learning app.
Interesting project—always think in reverse, always think in reverse.
@darnocks Great way to avoid solutions looking for problems to solve.
A measure of community engagement at launch. Higher means more people noticed and interacted with the product. It's a traction signal, not a quality rating.
Discussion threads divided by interest score. Above 0.30 is strong. Below 0.15 suggests the product got clicks but not conversation.
Categories come from the product's launch tags. Most products appear in 2-3 categories. The primary category is listed first.
The scores reflect launch-period engagement. Historical data is preserved and doesn't change retroactively. The build date at the bottom shows when the index was last refreshed.