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Proven
The average failed solo build: 14 weeks.

Don't spend 3 months building a product nobody wants to buy.

An analysis engine for your startup idea. We fetch live Reddit pain threads, HN discussions, and App Store reviews, check your competitors, and return a full picture of what the market already said. Four minutes to your verdict. Then we show you where to go next.

An AI tool that helps freelancers write better proposals...

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~4 min · no subscription · briefs never expire

Opportunity Score
how strong the market gap is — scored 0 to 100
Pain Evidence
sourced quotes from real people already asking for this to exist
Competitor Map
every product in this space, their weak spots, and the gap you can own
Red Flags
what founders miss about ideas like this before they start building
Target Persona
a specific person — role, pain, what they've tried, what they'd pay
Core Features
what ships in v1, what gets cut, and the reason behind each call
Go-to-Market
where your buyers already talk — subreddits, communities, launch platforms
Positioning
your headline, your one-liner, and what makes you the obvious choice
Monetization
the model that fits, the price the market accepts, and the free-vs-paid split
Risk Analysis
what kills ideas like this — the threats and the early warning signs
Opportunity Score
how strong the market gap is — scored 0 to 100
Pain Evidence
sourced quotes from real people already asking for this to exist
Competitor Map
every product in this space, their weak spots, and the gap you can own
Red Flags
what founders miss about ideas like this before they start building
Target Persona
a specific person — role, pain, what they've tried, what they'd pay
Core Features
what ships in v1, what gets cut, and the reason behind each call
Go-to-Market
where your buyers already talk — subreddits, communities, launch platforms
Positioning
your headline, your one-liner, and what makes you the obvious choice
Monetization
the model that fits, the price the market accepts, and the free-vs-paid split
Risk Analysis
what kills ideas like this — the threats and the early warning signs

HOW IT WORKS

Three steps. Four minutes.

01

You describe the idea

Anything from a sentence to three paragraphs. The more specific, the sharper the evidence.

02

We go find the evidence

150+ posts, reviews, and threads. Not AI opinion. Real people complaining, asking, and paying.

03

You read the verdict

Build it or kill it — with the receipts to back it up. Every finding links to the original post.

AN ANALYSIS ENGINE

AI tells you what you want to hear.

This shows what the market actually said.

Generic AI

ChatGPT / Claude

Manual Research

Reddit + 10 tabs

Idea Validators

IdeaProof, ValidatorAI

Evidence-based

Proven

Evidence source
Training data
Your own search
AI score only
Live Reddit, HN & App Store
Objectivity
Confirms your bias
You interpret it
Built to encourage
Challenges assumptions
Verifiable sources
None cited
Self-selected
None cited
Every quote linked
Idea-specific
Generic answer
Incomplete
Generic template
Your exact niche
Competitors
Hallucinated
Incomplete
No evidence
Found & mapped
Time to result
1 minute
2–3 days
1 minute
4 minutes
What you get
Info, no next steps
Raw notes
A score
GTM plan, verdict

Full comparison → Proven vs ChatGPT, Manual Research & Idea Validators

Emilio Johann
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I had a chance to test @daicandev's tool Proven.

The report is quite comprehensive and SUPER valuable.

It goes DEEP and this isn't something you can put together with a single @grok prompt—sorry man.

I am impressed and even got some ideas for the app's distribution phase 🤩

Jun 4, 2026
After his first brief
Eduard Nicolae Petrache
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I want to publicly say that your app is worth buying and can't wait to see final product @daicandev

it got me:

reddit quotes that I can get into and try to low key insert my app into.

strong evaluation of idea, it's not just a wrapper that connects to an LLM, I bet the internal prompting is robust.

competitor map showed clear competitors and actually got me stoked because they're not attacking the pain point I'm solving so that proves my app could work.

And the risk analyzer is peak, it detected a problem I currently have without me mentioning it. It would've helped me prevent it if used it prior to launching

May 27, 2026
After his first brief

THE SOURCE

How smart founders validate

They check these. Here is why each one matters.

r/
▲4.2k▼

"Why can't any tool just do this automatically? Been asking for 2 years."

r/startups · 847 comments · 3yr

4,200 people publicly agreed this is a real problem.

Y

Ask HN: What problem have you been trying to solve for 2+ years?

847 points · 312 comments · 2yr ago

Someone already documented the gap your idea fills.

"I've been waiting for this feature for 2 years. Switching to anything else."

Verified purchase · 3 people found this helpful

A 1★ review is the most honest sentence a customer ever writes.

+

More signal sources coming to Proven.

Smart founders do this manually.

It takes days — if they know where to look.

You don’t need days.

4 minutes.

From idea to full Founder’s Brief

WHAT YOU GET

Ten sections. One verdict.

Grounded in what real people already said.

Opportunity Score
76/ 100

Opportunity Score

● BUILD IT

153 sources analyzed

Pain Score
9Strong
Market Demand
8Strong
Competition
3Weak
01·Opportunity Score

Is the pain real, or just in your head?

A score backed by 150+ real complaints — not opinions.

  • Pain score from real posts, not surveys
  • Market demand and competition gap, independently scored
  • Verdict: BUILD IT, SKIP IT, or EXPLORE MORE
01 / 10
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PRICING

One brief to commit or pivot.

Full market research on your idea. One-time payment, no subscription.

Founder's Brief

$19no subscription

Everything the market already said about your idea, in one report.

Prove my idea 14-day satisfaction guarantee

What you get

  • Proof real people already have this pain — every quote linked to source
  • Who buys first, and where to find them
  • Competitor map with the gaps you can take
  • What to charge: pricing signals from the market
  • MVP features ranked — build only what matters
  • Go-to-market plan: communities, angles, launch platforms
  • Risk map with early warning signals
  • A commit-or-pivot verdict you can defend

+ 3 included improvements & free idea sharpening

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Questions

Before you run your first validation

The ones who got proven

What builders are saying

Two ways this goes

Without Proven

You spent 11 weeks on it. Launched on a Tuesday. Shared it everywhere. Watched the analytics for 3 days straight.

Seventeen visitors. Twelve were you.

With Proven

You submitted one paragraph. Four minutes later: pain score 81, three target personas, a go-to-market plan.

● BUILD IT. The pain is real.

WHAT WE ARE BUILDING

Validation is step one.

Proven is becoming a full execution system for solo builders. This is where it goes.

01

Validate

Evidence-grounded Founder's Brief from 150+ real sources. You have this now.

● Live
02

Execute

Where to post. How to post. Reddit and X tracking so you don't guess where your buyers are.

◌ Building
03

Iterate

Track what moved. Double down on signal. Kill what did not.

○ Planned

Shaped by what builders actually need. Share what you would use

From the builder

Dairon
@daicandev

This is my 5th product. The first one cost me the most. It was four months of building, I launched to no one, with a LinkedIn post with 100 visits and my friends' likes.

That was it.

Being honest?

I didn't know what I was waiting to happen.

For every new idea, I knew how to get the good things behind the fail, and it helped me polish my direction.

But something was always missing...

I was "I don't like social media" guy, but I realized that I needed it, to be able to sell my products. Then I put my discipline belt and my consistency cap and started in X.

I was reply guy.

I was THE reply guy.

And oh man! it clicked!

I knew it clicked cause I found myself feeling good just giving advice and sharing what I learned. Years of coding and Fiverr freelancing that I was able to finally get some value from. I discovered the build in public community in X. So many real people, I learned a lot from them too.

And then, bit by bit I hit 1k followers, in 2 months and a week.

Proven is all the years of learnings, of stand ups after the fall, of nights without sleep.

I built it to share my workflows and my thought process. Not just another AI wrapper. A great value I'm polishing every day with the community.

I keep learning.

That's Proven.

It's not the easy way, is the roadmap.

Proven covers only 20% of the work. The rest is up to you. You need to talk to real users, you need to fail, to polish, to pivot when needed. There is no tool that skips that part and I won't pretend this one does.

Dairon Canel

Solo builder ·@daicandev

4 minutes now.

Or 3 months from now.

Your next idea deserves an honest answer before it eats your quarter.

Stop guessing. Get proven.

Takes about 4 minutes.

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