How I turned my AI app into more than a prompt
A few month back, I noticed a gap while validating my idea. AI would give different answers every time, competitors were hard to map, and public data was scattered across dozens of platforms. So instead of relying on prompts, I built something for myself — a small tool that combined AI reasoning with real signals from the market. That gradually turned into MarketScope. What I tried to do- Let...
Building MarketScope taught me one thing: AI loves to hype ideas
The first version of MarketScope was fast and useful — it compared new startup ideas with existing products using public data, demand patterns, and market gaps. It was meant to be a quick scanner to help founders avoid duplicate ideas and save hours of research. But there was a problem: AI often gave optimistic scores because it didn’t consider real-world execution issues. For example, an idea...
Story behind MarketScope
At first, I was planning to build a map based platform to list the NGOs from tier 2 and tier 3 cities. In my country, lots of food get wasted during celebrations. I wanted to build a platform where only the NGOs would be listed so that people can find the ones who accept extra food as donation. But I needed to know the important players in non-profit field and how they are doing it and what are...
