Lily Jeon

We built our startup because we were terrified of our own confirmation bias.

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Hey Makers.

As a founding member of a small team, the weight of our decisions keeps me up at night. Every time we brainstorm a new idea, the optimism in the room is intoxicating. But deep down, there's always this crippling anxiety: Are we just drinking our own Kool-Aid?

We tried using standard AI to validate our ideas, but it just mirrored our optimism. It told us what we wanted to hear. It felt good, but it was incredibly dangerous. We realized our biggest enemy wasn't our competitors; it was our own "Founder's Ego."

We desperately needed something to tell us we were wrong. We needed a reality check based on cold math, not polite chat.

That intense fear of wasting our lives on a hallucinated market is the only reason Bunzee exists. We built it as a private validation engine using 200,000+ data points to mathematically stress-test our ideas behind closed doors. We ran our own product through it, and it gave us a very humbling 70/100, exposing gaps we were blind to.

We use it as a survival mechanism to protect our team from my own bad ideas. If you also struggle with the fear of building the wrong thing and need a brutal reality check, it might give you some peace of mind.

Face the math here: https://www.producthunt.com/products/business-gpt

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