r/roastmystartup

This isn’t really a launch or success post. I’m at the point where I need honest feedback, even if the answer is that I’ve spent too long building something people don’t need. I first had this idea years ago, before the current wave of AI coding tools. Along the way, building it also became how I taught myself to code and experimented with technologies I never thought I'd be able to use. The internet felt increasingly fragmented. If something important, funny, dramatic or culturally relevant was happening, I had to jump between social platforms, news sites and different communities just to understand what people were talking about.

I wanted to build an app that could identify the topics and stories genuinely trending right now, rank them using evidence from across the internet, and provide enough context to understand why each one mattered. Not only traditional news, but sports, music, entertainment, gaming, tech, fashion, internet drama and whatever else people are suddenly discussing. That became NexusFlow Connect.

The app itself might look fairly simple, but the backend has taken me years of experimenting. I’ve spent a huge amount of time working on sources, ranking, clustering similar stories, extracting topics, generating context and supporting different countries.

I also wanted it to help people keep up with things they personally care about. You can follow a person, team, artist or topic and receive updates when relevant posts or stories appear across different sources. The idea is that you shouldn’t have to check several apps just to keep up with your fav footballer, musician or any other topic.

The uncomfortable truth is that I kept improving the technology without seriously proving whether people wanted the product. Building another feature was easier than asking whether the app deserved to exist. I barely marketed it, and now I’m wondering whether I’ve built something useful, communicated it badly, or simply spent years solving a problem that mostly bothers me.

So I’m genuinely asking for feedback. Not compliments and not downloads for the sake of downloads. After trying it, does the core idea make sense? Did anything feel immediately useful? What was confusing? Would you realistically keep an app like this installed, and if not, what would make you delete it?

I need to understand that before investing in an iOS version or continuing to make the backend even more complicated.

Here’s the Android app: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.nexusflow.connect

Thank you to anyone who gives it a real look. Harsh feedback is completely welcome. I would rather know the truth now than spend another year building blindly.

Hey people,

If anyone saw my other post about converting scanned PDFs to EPUB, welcome back. I implemented a lot of features based on the feedback I got from the users, so check it out if you want. Anyways,

After building that, my friends said to me that they read a lot of stuff online[articles, newsletters, blogs] and bookmark them. They wanted a tool to read them offline, just the way they read their book, with a clean structure.

So I built a Chrome extension.

https://www.convert2epub.com/extension/

FEATURES

• Add the current page from the toolbar popup or the right-click menu
• Keep a running reading list; pages stay queued until you're ready to save
• Drag to reorder chapters before you export
• Give the book a custom title, or let it use the first page's title
• Cover image and in-article images are pulled in automatically
• Everything runs locally in your browser, no account, no external server
• Works great with long-form articles, blog posts, and documentation pages

HOW IT WORKS

1. Browse to a page you want to save and click "Add this page"
2. Repeat for every page you want in the book
3. Click "Save as EPUB"; your browser downloads a ready-to-read .epub file

Please try and tell me if you like it.