For the Codex devs:
Could you please manage to keep a stable model? Why does it have to be like this? You win over a loyal user base, deliver a good model, and then massively degrade their experience? Seriously? Do you really prefer to keep changing things all the time, resetting limits just to reduce them, and then test our patience? I think you haven’t learned enough from what happened with Claude.
Hey guys,
Recently, I created my own SaaS to help me validate feature ideas, SaaS ideas, and other things I wanted to test.
The main problem I had was:
I couldn’t find people to give me a truly honest opinion
It takes too much time to validate an idea properly
I needed to understand if something was worth building now
I wanted to know what the target audience would actually think about it
So I built a platform that is currently focused on small startups, where you can run a simulation of your SaaS idea with 100+ generated personas.
Each persona gives individual opinions, feedback, objections, reasons why they would not use it, and more.
You can map pain points, understand who the main buyers could be, see who probably would not buy, and also chat with each persona to better understand their reasons and improve how you think about the product.
Try running a simulation:
Recently, I built my own SaaS to validate feature ideas, SaaS ideas, and more. My main pain points were:
- I couldn’t find people who would give me an honest opinion
- Validating something takes too much time
- I needed to understand whether it was worth building now
- I needed to find out what my target audience would actually think about it
So I built a platform currently focused on small startups, where you can run a simulation of your SaaS idea with 100+ generated personas, each with individual opinions, feedback, reasons why they wouldn’t use it, and more.
You can map pain points, identify the main potential buyers, understand who would not buy, and also chat with each persona to understand their reasoning and improve your understanding of the product.
Try running a simulation:
For more than a year, I wanted to build a startup. Every day I was thinking about ideas, trying to find something, but I could never really reach a conclusion.
So I believe that not having a business idea actually led me to have one.
I imagine some of you might also struggle with this: fear, not understanding the market, not knowing if the idea makes sense, and many other things.
My SaaS is pretty interesting, and in case you want to test it, it’s called delfy.app.
You describe your SaaS idea, startup, company, feature, or anything else you have in mind. Then you run a simulation with multiple personas, where each one has its own identity, almost like a real person, and each one evaluates what you’re thinking about building.
It generates 100+ personas and more than 30 advanced metrics.
How do you understand a market you are new to?
I have been thinking about how difficult it is to start a business in a market where you do not have much experience.
Competition is normal, but when there are already larger players and you do not fully understand the audience, pricing, buying behavior, or real pain points, everything becomes much more unclear.
For people here who have started or entered a market they did not know well: what helped you learn it properly?
Did you rely on customer interviews, competitor research, talking to other founders, testing landing pages, communities, or something else?
Also, what were the mistakes you made early on when trying to understand the market?