r/roastmystartup

A different approach to productivity and getting things done :)
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A different approach to productivity and getting things done :)

Hey all, I'm currently building Lockn, an app that helps you do more and plan less. Rather than planning your whole week, you plan day by day with Lockn.

It incorporates over 10 different productivity methods and has some really cool features.

Its launching really really soon, I just wanted to get a rough sense if any of you would use it 😄

If there are any additional features you would like to see added do drop a comment below! or if there is anything you think you don't like feel free to let me know too!

thanks so much for reading!!

u/gordiony — 20 hours ago
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Finding trusted raw meat sources is harder than it should be

Hey folks,

Spent the last few months getting into raw dairy and raw meat. I had trouble figuring out trusted sources to get these foods in NYC.

I made this free directory farm-to-door.com so you can source your meat from local trusted farms 😄

u/Practical_Surround_8 — 17 hours ago
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Most packing lists ignore the actual weather — so I built a tool that doesn't

Generic packing lists are almost always useless. they don't care if it's monsoon season or if you're actually planning to hike — they just give you a generic list of t-shirts and socks. I got tired of manually checking weather patterns and luggage weights every time i moved countries, so i built a dynamic generator.

The tool covers 130+ countries and factors in destination-specific climate data, gender, and specific activities. the logic splits everything into essentials, clothing, electronics, toiletries, health, and carry-on items. it also estimates the total weight of your gear, which is usually the part where people mess up.

It is completely free. I am looking for blunt feedback on the logic for multi-activity trips — specifically if the balance between "essentials" and "other items" feels right for your region.

https://pack-lightly.com/tool/packing-list-generator/

u/Realistic-Log-4414 — 17 hours ago
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Please give me some feedback on my new brand that's actually honest!

So, im a 22M living in the US, and I'm struggling to stay afloat while working and also going to school full-time. Recently, I started my own brand/store, featuring all of my own cute, witchy, cottage-core, cozy-core aesthetic versions of tarot cards, with adorable chibi animals (mostly frogs for right now haha but that's changing everyday,) as the main focus point of the artwork. I'm really hoping that I can get this project off the ground soon, and 100% of everything I ever make will be going straight towards my educational expenses, and growing the project further too. I've already made several posts similar to this on different platforms, like twitter/x, and I can't seem to get any kind of real, specific, actionable feedback or critique's, everything I've recieved up until now has all been pretty vague, non-specific things and confusing, short responses. I'm now coming to you, reddit community, in the hopes that you all will be more helpful and detailed, and if you have the time, I'd love for you to come visit my page and tell me what you think! It's still actively in construction, and I'm adding new products with new artwork/designs everyday, and as often as I can, so if you think my work is okay, feel free to follow me and follow the project! Thank you so much for reading this! Hop into some magic with me TOAD-DAY!

my fourthwall page - everbright-shop.fourthwall.com

my redbubble too - tarotoads.redbubble.com

official twitter account - x.com/@storeeverbright

Thank you so much to anyone who leaves any kind of honest feedback, and please be as honest as possible! Have a wonderful rest of your day/night and I'm sending you all of my good vibes! <3

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Just launched CancelFlow on Product Hunt. Churn prevention for Stripe

Hey everyone! Just launched CancelFlow on Product Hunt today and would love your support.

CancelFlow is a drop-in churn prevention tool for Stripe. One script tag, one function call — your cancel button becomes a smart retention flow that shows personalised offers (pause, discount, downgrade) instead of instantly cancelling.

34% average save rate. 2 minute setup. Works with any Stripe subscription.

https://www.producthunt.com/posts/cancelflow

Would really appreciate an upvote or any feedback. Happy to answer questions!

u/Xyliaze — 1 day ago
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The hardest part of training at home isn't motivation. It's knowing what to do every single day without repeating the same five exercises over and over.

I hit that wall myself. I had dumbbells, a kettlebell, and enough space to work with, but I was spending more time planning workouts than actually doing them. So I built BRIK.

It's a free workout generator that builds your session automatically based on whatever equipment you have at home. You tell it what you're working with and it handles the rest.

Works with:

  • Full home gym setup with barbells, dumbbells, kettlebells
  • Basic setup with just dumbbells or kettlebells
  • Absolutely nothing — bodyweight only works too

The structure is simple:

  • Monday — Strength Day
  • Wednesday — Conditioning Day
  • Friday — Functional Day

Each session is 3 blocks of 8 minutes AMRAP(As Many Rounds As Possible). It remembers every exercise from your last 7 days so nothing ever repeats. Every exercise has a built in demo video so you never have to leave the app to Google how to do something.

I'm a pharmacist who built this because I needed it. Still actively improving it based on real user feedback.

Completely free. No subscription. No paywall on the generator.

👉 https://apps.apple.com/us/app/brik-block-workout-coach/id6761815514

u/Specialist-Net-9477 — 1 day ago

I made a weight tracking app because every existing one felt like it was trying to become my life coach. Roast it.

I recently launched a small Android app called Weilo.

It’s basically a simple weight tracking app, but the whole idea is to avoid the usual bloat I kept seeing in other apps: accounts, BMI calculators everywhere, subscriptions, ads, “fitness journey” content, meal plans, dashboards that feel way too serious, etc.

The app is intentionally simple:

You log your weight, see your progress, and track the difference between entries. That’s pretty much the core of it.

The reason I made it is because years ago, when I was actively going to the gym, I used to manually write down my weight and calculate the difference from my last entry just to stay motivated. I looked for apps that did only that, but most of them felt overbuilt or annoying to use.

So I built the kind of version I personally wanted: lightweight, private, local-first, no account required, and not trying to turn weight tracking into a full fitness ecosystem.

I’m not posting this as a “please download my app” thing. I’m more curious if the positioning itself makes sense.

There are already a ton of weight tracking apps, so I’m wondering:

Would “simple, private, no-bloat weight tracking” actually stand out to people, or is this too small of a problem to care about?

Also roast the idea, store-listing, app positioning, monetization, anything.

Check here for details:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.zxyandreay.weilo

u/adoboggwp — 1 day ago
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I made ViewBuddy, an iPhone app for finding what to watch through friends

I built ViewBuddy because movie/show discovery still feels oddly disconnected from the people you actually watch things with.

The app is for:

- seeing what friends are watching, rating, and reviewing

- comparing taste before you trust a recommendation

- building watchlists and playlists

- browsing as a guest before deciding whether to create an account

I'm the developer, and I'm looking for practical feedback from people who try a lot of mobile apps:

  1. Is the purpose clear in the first minute?

  2. Does the feed feel useful before you have a lot of friends on it?

  3. What would make you invite one friend?

  4. Does anything feel confusing, slow, or unnecessary?

App Store: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/viewbuddy-rate-review/id6759533775

No pressure to be nice. Specific criticism is much more useful than generic encouragement.

u/numbersguy1 — 1 day ago

I built a 100% local dev-tool hub to compete with DevUtils. Tell me why my layout choice or feature tier sucks

Like most of you, I use micro-utilities every day (Regex testers, JSON formatters, Epoch converters). But pasting proprietary Kubernetes manifests, corporate AWS IAM policies, or private tokens into random web tools that process data behind closed server doors started feeling like a massive compliance liability.

So I spent the last few months building Wizbit (https://wizbit.to)—a fast, dark-themed developer workspace housing 74+ specialized utilities designed to run entirely network-silent.

🚀 JUST UPDATED: Shipped Community Features (Thanks Reddit!)

After getting some incredible feedback from the community here, I just pushed a major release to take Wizbit's workspace to the next level:

  • ⚡ Visual Workflow Chainer: You can now visually chain, drag, and stack up to 18 native client-side transformations (e.g. JSON Format ➔ Base64 Encode ➔ Slugify ➔ SHA-256 Hashing) with real-time intermediate step outputs. Save your custom chains directly to your browser's offline vault, or load quick presets in one click.
  • ⭐ Persistent Favorites: Pinned tools now auto-compile into a ⭐ Starred nav category in the left sidebar and a priority landing grid for one-click access to your daily drivers.
  • 📐 Clutter-Free Auto-Collapse Banners: No more wasted space. Privacy notices and explanation blocks now automatically slide-collapse out of view the absolute moment you start typing/focusing in any input. You can also explicitly dismiss banners persistently across visits.
  • 💎 Visual Overhaul: Upgraded to a highly polished, premium dark glassmorphism layout with fluid micro-animations, eliminating any standard template vibes.

🔒 Network-Silent & Verifiable by Design

I know the dev community is naturally skeptical of utility hubs. Because of that, I built Wizbit to be completely verifiable through standard browser inspection:

  • Zero Data Exfiltration: Every single tool—from cryptographic hashing and Zod schema generation to text diffing—is executed strictly inside your local browser's V8 engine. No user data ever leaves your machine.
  • Inspect the Wire: You don't have to take my word for it. Open your browser's DevTools Network Tab, paste a massive payload, and click execute. You will see zero network traffic generated.
  • True Offline Mode: It registers a standard service worker to cache asset bundles. You can load the dashboard, flip your laptop into Airplane Mode, and every utility continues to compile and execute flawlessly offline.

⚙️ Built for Modern Engineering Flows (74+ Tools)

Instead of just basic text counters, I wanted to target deep workflows that standard sites ignore:

  • ⚡ Advanced pipelines: Build, test, and save multi-step interactive developer chainer routines visually client-side.
  • 🤖 AI Context & LLM Ops: Codebase Packer (bundles directories into perfect Markdown prompt context blocks), LLM Context Trimmer, Prompt Tokenizer, and Structured JSON Schema generators.
  • ☁️ Cloud & Architecture Specs: AWS IAM Policy Visualizer (maps allowed actions into a visual hierarchy), K8s Object Graph, and CIDR subnets.
  • 🔐 Security & Identity: X.509 Certificate Inspector, 100% local TOTP/2FA code testing, offline AES Encryption, and BIP39 mnemonic seed utilities.
  • 🎬 Media, VFX & Imagery: Visual Depth-of-Field simulators, interactive CIE Chromaticity plots, Euler rotational matrix converters, and EXIF/Camera data scrapers.

The app is completely free, lightning fast, and respects your privacy by running 100% locally.

I’m pushing updates daily. I’d love to know what niche developer utilities are currently missing from your workflow that I should build next!

🔗 Try it here: wizbit.to

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u/Big_Permission_3248 — 1 day ago
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This sub gets the assignment better than most so I'll be direct.

The no-code movement solved half the problem. You can build almost anything now without knowing how to code, which is genuinely incredible and wasn't true five years ago. But there's still a gap that nobody talks about. Even with the best no-code tools you still have to know which tools to pick, how to connect them, how to write copy that converts, how to set up ad accounts, how to source products, how to structure a funnel. The learning curve didn't disappear, it just moved.

Most people in this sub know exactly what I mean. You've spent a weekend deep in Zapier trying to get two things to talk to each other that should just work. You've rebuilt your Webflow site three times because the first two didn't convert. You've watched your Notion dashboard get more elaborate while the actual business stayed the same size.

That's the gap Locus Founder closes.

You describe what you want to build. The AI handles everything else. It sources products directly from AliExpress and Alibaba (or sell YOUR OWN digital services, products, or content), builds a real storefront around them, writes conversion-optimized copy, then autonomously creates and runs ads on Google, Facebook and Instagram. No Zapier. No Webflow. No piecing together eight tools that half work. Just a running business.

If you don't have an idea yet it interviews you and figures out what makes sense for your situation.

We got into YCombinator this year and we're opening 100 free beta spots this week before public launch. Free to use, you keep everything you make.

For the people in this sub specifically, this isn't a replacement for no-code tools for people who love building. It's for everyone who wanted the outcome but never wanted to become a tools expert to get there. Big difference.

Beta form: https://forms.gle/nW7CGN1PNBHgqrBb8

Happy to answer anything about how it works under the hood.

u/IAmDreTheKid — 2 days ago
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[Launch] vatnode — audit-ready EU VAT validation API for B2B SaaS

Hey indie folks 👋

Launching vatnode this week — an EU VAT validation API designed for teams that get audited.

Every B2B SaaS selling across the EU has to validate customer VAT numbers via VIES to apply the reverse-charge rule. Most APIs give you valid: true. vatnode also returns the VIES consultation number (the official receipt) plus checkId and verifiedAt for invoice-grade evidence.

Features:

  • VIES validation + consultation number
  • National registry fallback (8 EU countries) when VIES is down
  • Monitoring + webhooks (paid plans)
  • EU-hosted in Germany, GDPR-native
  • Free tier, no credit card

Solo founder, 25+ years in B2B software, finally shipped my own thing. Would love feedback from anyone selling B2B in EU — does this solve a real pain for you, or am I scratching my own itch?

https://vatnode.dev

u/Total-Reasonable — 2 days ago

Roast My Startup - Looking for Feedback on Financial Forecasting SaaS

Startup Name: Formulate Website: formulateinc.com

Alright Reddit, roast me. Here's my pitch:

What We're Building

Formulate is AI-assisted financial forecasting software for small business owners and founders who need a real financial model but don't want to build it from scratch in Excel.

Two ways to get started: describe your business in plain language and Formulate generates a complete model from that description, or set a revenue target and build line by line with your own assumptions. Either way, an AI analyst reviews your numbers as you go, flags inconsistencies, and recommends adjustments.

Output is a complete three-statement model: P&L, balance sheet, and cash flow — all linked, all exportable.

Features

  • Prompt-to-model: describe your business, get a full financial scaffold in seconds
  • Guided build: enter assumptions line by line with AI reviewing in real time
  • AI flags inconsistencies and recommends adjustments as you work
  • Complete three-statement output (P&L, balance sheet, cash flow)
  • Export-ready for banker meetings, investor decks, and loan applications

The Market

33 million small businesses in the US alone. Most do their financial planning in Excel, Google Sheets, or not at all. The tools that exist are either built for accountants (too complex) or too simple to produce something a banker will actually accept. Formulate sits in the gap: real financial model output, without the finance degree.

How We're Different

Competitors: Excel, LivePlan, Finmark, and hiring a fractional CFO. Us: A guided, AI-reviewed three-statement model you can build in one session for $39/month. No consultant fees, no blank spreadsheet, no model that falls apart the first time someone asks a question about it.

Where We're At

Live product, free tier available, early paying customers. Pre-significant-traction.

How We'll Sell

  • Organic SEO content targeting small business owners searching for budgeting and forecasting help
  • Outreach to fractional CFOs, SBA loan brokers, and accelerator program managers as referral partners
  • Free tier converts to $39/month Premium

Why Me

I've modeled financials for the last 15+ years. I built Formulate because the tool I kept wishing existed didn't. Solo founder, no outside funding, building in public.

Tear this apart. What's unclear? What won't work? Why won't a small business owner trust this over a spreadsheet? Be brutal.

u/Sensitive-Year9567 — 2 days ago

Rate my app idea!

Looking for feedback on the overall concept and implementation, and if this is something you would use. If it isn't i'd love to know why!

I built tryharness.ai

It's a browser based, screen aware AI assistant that lives in a floating PiP window, so you always have access to your chat.

The main problem I was trying to solve for myself was the overhead of constantly switching tabs and copying + pasting context into ChatGPT or Claude when doing deep work (mostly research) with an AI assistant. I didn't want to have to download something onto my computer, including a chrome extension.

I find it really nice to have the chat available 100% of the time, and the screen awareness makes the conversation with the model richer and more collaborative.

Curious what others think

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u/One-Excuse-4054 — 2 days ago
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WeLynk: friend-making app with 15-min match windows and 10 multiplayer games. Looking for early users to try it and give feedback

I wanted to make new friends online and realized there's no real app for it. You either add people you already know, or roll the dice on random-stranger sites. So I spent the last year solo-building WeLynk: an app that figures out who you'd click with, gives you 15 minutes to decide, and has things to do together that aren't just chat.

The matching engine is the part I'm proudest of. It doesn't ask for interests, age preferences, or any profile questions, and it doesn't read your messages. It learns from what you actually do in the app: who you add, who you don't, which conversations you stay in past the timer. Each match is a 15-minute window. Add each other inside it, or you can't match again. In my own data so far, after 10 to 15 matches it gets dialed in, and from there roughly 1 in 5 matches turns into someone you end up talking to for 2+ hours.

There are also 10 multiplayer games I built, and I tried to make each one feel like its own thing instead of 10 reskins of the same template. Imposter is a noir ticket dispenser. Chalk is a literal chalkboard. Flare has a Japanese card-game aesthetic. There's also Snake for 8, red-light-green-light, a Would You Rather with player-written prompts, and a few more. Plus the usual chat stuff: 1:1 and group chats, voice and video calls, voice notes, GIFs, stickers.

Bot and spam filtering and age-segregated matching are in from day one. It's free. The only money thing is optional cosmetics (pfp frames, message textures, animated pfps) if you want yours to stand out.

Try it: iOS: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/6758581880 Android: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.welynk.app Web: https://welynk.com

Genuinely curious what you think about the 15-minute window. Too short, too long, about right? It's the part I'm still iterating on. Happy to AMA on the matching engine or anything else, will reply to everything.

u/Top-Animal-6996 — 2 days ago

Roast my chatbot / website

www.wengrow.app *soon to be Wengrow.ai domain we already bought.

We are looking for feedback on the app we recently built before we start investing in marketing, this channel seems like the type of folks that would be interested in and able to provide good feedback about why we should maybe not invest in marketing in first place.

It came about as an idea we developed while working with a consulting client. What if your website talked back and acted like a professional sales agent providing information and obtaining it as well to increase web traffic to lead conversion. They did not buy the custom build, so we turned it into a SaaS that seems to be different enough and cheaper than competitors in the space.

Website: www.wengrow.app

Developed by: www.HelloMavens.com a consulting company I co-founded with my partner, Kerry. My name is Michael Berris in case you want to verify me on LinkedIn/facebook.

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u/berrism — 2 days ago

Roast my AI YouTube growth toolkit — 14 tools, zero paying users

YTubViral — AI tools for YouTube creators. SEO, keywords, retention analysis, thumbnails, content calendar. Built solo with Next.js + Claude API. Been building for months and I have exactly 0 paying users. Tell me what's wrong. DM for free Pro access if you want to try it first.

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u/Complex-Specific1379 — 3 days ago
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I never consistently blogged on my own sites, so I built something to do it for me.

I have shipped three SaaS projects. I have written exactly two blog posts.
Every Sunday I'd plan to write one, then either move on to the next project or forget the blog existed. SEO advice everywhere says "blog consistently." I never managed it.

So I built Blogr.

It's a GitHub App. Install on your repo, tell it about your site once — description, tone, audience, keywords you want to rank for, topics to avoid — pick a schedule. It commits MDX blog posts to your /content folder automatically. No CMS, no dashboard. Posts appear in your repo like a contributor pushed them.

Works with anything that reads MDX from a folder — Next.js, Astro, Remix. If your site's on Vercel, posts auto-deploy as soon as Blogr commits. The post is live without having to do anything.

Blogr.dev's own blog is written by Blogr — every post there was generated by the tool.
The output isn't generic AI slop — Blogr reads your existing posts to match voice, uses the keywords you specifically gave it, internal linking, and outputs proper MDX with frontmatter.

90-second demo: https://streamable.com/40b2ys

If you want to try before paying, the site has a free generation — drop in your site details and Blogr will write you a post on the spot. It's just a preview; nothing gets committed anywhere unless you connect a repo.

I spent the last month building this in the mornings before work. Launching cold today — no audience, no waitlist, no Twitter following — just see what happens. I'll be in the comments all day. If you'd actually use this, tell me. If you wouldn't, tell me why.

u/No-Conclusion1329 — 4 days ago
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Created a minimalist web utility to instantly scrub "dirty text" and normalize formatting. Looking for beta testers and feedback!

Hey everyone,

I built a lightweight, no-nonsense web utility to solve a daily formatting headache I kept running into:https://toolkittext.com

The Problem: Whenever I copy text between Google Docs, Notion, Slack, emails, or different platforms, it always brings along messy background formatting, weird line-breaks, or double-spacing that ruins the layout on the other end.

The Solution: I wanted something lightning-fast and distraction-free that did just one thing well. With this tool, you simply paste your text, click a button, and it instantly strips away all the background junk and normalizes the spacing, leaving you with 100% clean text ready to paste anywhere.

It’s completely free, has no ads, no sign-ups, and doesn't track anything.

Since it's in its early stage, I would love for you guys to test it out. I'm especially looking for feedback on:

  1. UI/UX: Is the ultra-minimalist approach intuitive, or is it too bare-bones?
  2. Features: Are there any specific text-cleaning options or "fix-buttons" you think are missing for your daily workflow?

Check it out at:https://toolkittext.com

Thanks in advance for your time and roasting! /Jacob

u/Public_Pomegranate78 — 3 days ago