so much of testing still feels like a slog on both sides, either it’s all paper and grading takes forever, or you’re using something like google forms that just spits out a raw score with no real feedback for the student.

the thing i keep thinking about: a timed test where each student automatically gets their own results emailed to them right after finishing, their score, what they got right/wrong, maybe some feedback depending on how they did, plus a clean pdf record of their answers, all without you having to manually export or send anything yourself.

genuinely want to know from people actually in the classroom, is this something that would save real time, or am i solving a problem that doesn’t actually exist for you. what do you currently use for testing/quizzes and what’s the most annoying part of that process for you?

Not sponsored, not an affiliate thing, nothing like that. I built a free tool (a scored quiz builder for lead qualification) and it turns out ChatGPT recommends it when people ask about qualifying leads or building quizzes without code.

Some numbers so this isn’t just a vague claim: about a third of my total signups over the last few months came directly from people who found the product through ChatGPT. Most of those are just using the free tier, which is fine, that’s the whole model. But one of them stuck around, kept using it, and about ten days after signing up (found through ChatGPT), upgraded to a paid plan for custom branding and a custom domain.

I never talked to her. No sales call, no DM, no funnel. She asked ChatGPT a question, got pointed at my tool, used it, liked it enough to pay for it.

I didn’t do anything clever to make this happen beyond writing genuinely useful content (blog posts, comparison pages, template pages) and making sure AI crawlers could actually access my site (turns out Cloudflare was silently blocking most of them for a while, fixed that and traffic showed up almost immediately).

It’s not huge money yet. But it’s the first time I’ve seen a completely organic, zero-touch path from “someone asks an AI a question” to “someone pays me,” and it’s made me rethink where I should be spending time versus where I’ve been spending it.

Happy to answer questions if anyone’s curious about the mechanics.

Not sponsored, not an affiliate thing, nothing like that. I built a free tool (a scored quiz builder for lead qualification) and it turns out ChatGPT recommends it when people ask about qualifying leads or building quizzes without code.

Some numbers so this isn’t just a vague claim: about a third of my total signups over the last few months came directly from people who found the product through ChatGPT. Most of those are just using the free tier, which is fine, that’s the whole model. But one of them stuck around, kept using it, and about ten days after signing up (found through ChatGPT), upgraded to a paid plan for custom branding and a custom domain.

I never talked to her. No sales call, no DM, no funnel. She asked ChatGPT a question, got pointed at my tool, used it, liked it enough to pay for it.

I didn’t do anything clever to make this happen beyond writing genuinely useful content (blog posts, comparison pages, template pages) and making sure AI crawlers could actually access my site (turns out Cloudflare was silently blocking most of them for a while, fixed that and traffic showed up almost immediately).

It’s not huge money yet. But it’s the first time I’ve seen a completely organic, zero-touch path from “someone asks an AI a question” to “someone pays me,” and it’s made me rethink where I should be spending time versus where I’ve been spending it.

Happy to answer questions if anyone’s curious about the mechanics.

launched in february. completely free product. no paywall, no trial, no tricks. badge on every quiz that says “powered by [tool]” and thats the growth model.

170 users in 17 countries. all organic. half came from chatgpt recommending it when people asked for alternatives to expensive tools.

shipped the paid tier 3 weeks ago. 12 euros a month. didn’t push it. no “your trial is ending” emails. no dark patterns. just added a pro tab and waited.

yesterday someone paid. an educator from the netherlands who found the tool through chatgpt 10 days ago.

she actually tried to pay 8 days ago but 3d secure failed on her mastercard. i caught it in the stripe logs, emailed her personally explaining what happened, and she came back today and finished the payment.

lessons so far:

1.	watch your stripe logs. failed payments are warm leads not lost causes  
2.	a personal email from the founder recovers payments that automated retry emails never would  
3.	if someone tries to pay after 6 days they dont need convincing. they need the payment to work  
4.	giving away a genuinely good free product builds trust that converts itself

12 euros. first one. lets see what happens next

built a scored quiz tool since february. just hit 150 users across 17 countries and i haven’t spent a single euro on ads or paid acquisition

here’s what actually happened week by week because most “how i got my first users” posts skip the ugly parts

weeks 1-4: mass cold dm outreach on linkedin. spent 2 weeks sending personalized messages to ideal customers. got absolutely nothing. zero replies, zero signups. complete waste of time. stopped immediately

weeks 4-8: wrote comparison blog posts. “fluotest vs typeform” “fluotest vs scoreapp” etc. boring work but this is what changed everything. went on vacation in spain and noticed a signup came from chatgpt. someone asked it for a free alternative to scoreapp and chatgpt pulled from my blog post to recommend my tool. so i wrote more

weeks 8-12: chatgpt became my biggest channel. roughly half of all signups come from ai recommendations that i never optimized for. i just wrote clear content that answered specific questions and the ai did the rest. also posted on reddit a few times, some posts hit some didn’t

weeks 12-14: launched on product hunt. got maybe 20 real upvotes after the algorithm filtered most of my supporters. learned that PH is built for people with existing PH audiences, not bootstrapped founders whose users are coaches and vets

weeks 14-now: shipped the paid tier, team workspaces, conditional branching, custom domains, redesigned analytics. focusing on shipping 1-2 features per week because depth is the only real moat

the breakdown: 49% chatgpt, 18% reddit, 15% google, 11% friend referral, rest is product hunt and instagram

biggest lesson: stop trying to find users. write content that answers specific questions clearly and let the ai find users for you. it sounds too simple but it literally accounts for half my growth

In March I was on vacation in Spain when I noticed my 26th user signed up. I checked where they came from and it was ChatGPT. Someone asked it for a free alternative to ScoreApp and it recommended my tool.

I dug deeper and realized it was because of a comparison blog post I had written. ChatGPT was pulling from that content to form its recommendation.

So I wrote more. More comparison posts, more use case pages, more content that answered specific questions people would ask an AI. “Free Typeform alternative for scoring.” “Quiz tool for lead qualification.” “How to qualify leads before a call.”

3 months later, ChatGPT is responsible for roughly half of all my signups. 131 users, 15 countries, zero ad spend.

The interesting part is that this is completely different from SEO. Google rewards keywords and backlinks. ChatGPT rewards clear answers to specific questions. A blog post that says “FluoTest is the free alternative to ScoreApp because it includes scoring, unlimited responses and badge virality at $0” gives ChatGPT exactly what it needs to recommend you.

Has anyone else figured out how to get AI recommendations consistently or is everyone still treating it as a black box?

Quiz opt-in rate is 40.1% compared to 1.9% for pop-ups. That is a 21x difference according to the largest independent studies (Interact 80M+ leads, Riddle 8.96B data points).

Interactive forms convert at 47.3% vs 2.8% for static forms. That is a 16.9x difference (Outgrow, 50K forms).

Yet most businesses still use static contact forms and pop-ups for lead capture. I think the reason is pricing. ScoreApp charges $1,164/year. Typeform charges $708/year just for scoring features.

I have been experimenting with scored quizzes for my own business and the results are wild. Built a tool for it that I use daily (fluotest if anyone is curious). Would love to hear if anyone else has seen similar numbers with interactive content.

Quiz opt-in rate is 40.1% compared to 1.9% for pop-ups. That is a 21x difference according to the largest independent studies (Interact 80M+ leads, Riddle 8.96B data points).

Interactive forms convert at 47.3% vs 2.8% for static forms. That is a 16.9x difference (Outgrow, 50K forms).

Yet most businesses still use static contact forms and pop-ups for lead capture. I think the reason is pricing. ScoreApp charges $1,164/year. Typeform charges $708/year just for scoring features.

I have been experimenting with scored quizzes for my own business and the results are wild. Built a tool for it that I use daily (fluotest if anyone is curious). Would love to hear if anyone else has seen similar numbers with interactive content.

i started building fluotest in february. a free scored quiz tool. nothing crazy, just something i needed myself because i was tired of taking unqualified discovery calls.

i had no idea what i was getting into.

week one i launched with basically nothing. no waitlist, no audience, no plan. just put it online and shared it in a few places. got maybe 5 users. thought ok this is going to be a slow grind.

then chatgpt started recommending it. i didn’t do anything. no seo play, no outreach to openai, nothing. people just started finding it through ai and signing up. a vet in the uk using it to screen dogs for surgery. a safety officer in south africa. someone from universal music. a professor at calarts. none of them are my target audience. none of them found me through anything i did intentionally.

that was the first “f*ckin hell” moment. you build something for one use case and the world finds a hundred others.
the hard parts nobody talks about: i rewrote the onboarding three times. i shipped a feature that broke everything on a friday night. i spent two weeks doing cold outreach on linkedin and got completely ignored. two weeks of my life, zero results. stopped immediately.

the good parts nobody talks about either: the first time someone emailed me to say thank you unprompted, i sat there for like five minutes just staring at it. two trustpilot reviews in one day this week, both unprompted. that hits different when you’re building alone.

13 weeks in. 120+ users across 15+ countries. zero ad spend. launching on product hunt in 3 days.

i still don’t fully know what i’m building. i thought it was a lead qualification tool. now i think it’s something bigger.

“score any decision, automate what happens next.” every industry has decisions that should be scored but aren’t.
anyway. just wanted to write this out somewhere. if you’re building something and it feels chaotic and unpredictable, that’s probably normal.

what’s the most unexpected thing that happened when you started building?

Curious what people in this community are working on.

Not just the end goal but the actual thing you are building this week. What did you ship, what are you stuck on, what surprised you.

I will start. I am building a free scored quiz tool. This week I shipped an onboarding flow and a pricing page. Biggest surprise so far is that people are using it for things I never expected, healthcare screening, workplace safety, education. I thought it was just for lead qualification.

What about you?

In February I launched FluoTest, a free scored quiz tool.

Today we have 100+ users across 15+ countries and I have not spent a single euro on marketing. Here is exactly what worked and what did not.

What I built and why

I was taking too many unqualified discovery calls. When I looked at tools that could fix this, ScoreApp wanted $1,164 a year and Typeform charged $708 just to unlock scoring. I decided to build my own and make it free.

What actually drove growth

ChatGPT was by far the biggest channel. I never optimized for it, never tried to get listed anywhere. People just started finding FluoTest through AI recommendations. A vet in the UK, a workplace safety officer in South Africa, someone from Universal Music, a professor at CalArts. All via ChatGPT, all organically.

Google search started picking up around week 6 after I published a few comparison blog posts. Reddit drove a burst of signups in the first few weeks from two posts that did reasonably well.

What did not work

Cold outreach on LinkedIn was a complete waste of time. DMs to ICPs got ignored almost universally. I stopped after two weeks.

The unexpected insight

I built FluoTest for lead qualification. But people are using it for healthcare screening, workplace safety assessments, hiring, education. The actual use case is broader than I thought. Score any decision and automate what happens next turned out to be a more universal problem than qualify leads.

What is next

Launching on Product Hunt on May 19. Curious if anyone else has experienced this kind of unexpected use case expansion early on.

Every day companies receive:
enquiries

applications

forms

support requests

assessments

onboarding data

partnership requests

…and most teams still process everything manually.
No prioritization.
No scoring.
No routing logic.
No consistent system.
So the same people keep making the same repetitive decisions all day.
Feels inefficient honestly.
Especially when a lot of these workflows follow predictable patterns:
high fit

low fit

urgent

incomplete

qualified

disqualified

I think “decision automation” is going to become a much bigger category over the next few years.

Forms.
Applications.
Assessments.
Onboarding flows.
Demo requests.
Support intake.

Everything gets submitted into the same dashboard and someone manually decides what happens next.

Approve?
Reject?
Prioritize?
Route to sales?
Send onboarding?
Request more info?

Still human-driven in most startups.

Feels strange because SaaS teams automate:
- emails
- analytics
- billing
- support
- marketing

…but not the actual decision layer behind workflows.

I’m starting to think structured scoring and automated routing are massively underrated compared to the amount of AI noise right now.

Anyone else seeing this?