val8 - Get business ideas roasted by 45 AI investors & experts
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Most founders waste months building on polite feedback from friends. val8 puts your startup idea in front of a simulated room of 45 AI investors, experts, and target users who debate and stress test it before you build product.
1. 3 Grounded Panels: Investors (TAM/moat), SMEs (feasibility), Users (WTP)
2. Skeptic Preservation: AI Personas engineered to roast & argue
3. Actionable Report: 1-100 consensus score, fatal flaws & next steps
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Hey Product Hunt! 👋
I'm Yash, the solo maker behind val8.app.
Every founder knows this feeling: you get an exciting new startup idea, tell your friends about it, and they say: "That's awesome, you should build it!"
Six months and hundreds of hours later, you launch and hear silence.
Polite validation is the #1 reason founders build things nobody wants. Friends are too kind to be honest, and standard AI chatbots are notoriously agreeable they will tell almost every idea is brilliant.
I built val8 to give founders the opposite: realistic, multi-perspective, brutal honesty.
How it works:
1. Grounded Multi-Agent Panel: Your idea is evaluated across 3 distinct clusters: Investors (scrutinizing TAM, unit economics, defensibility), SMEs (challenging technical & regulatory bottlenecks), and Target Users (demanding actual willingness to pay).
2. Skeptic Preservation: Standard LLMs tend to converge on polite consensus. val8 preserves skeptic and roaster personas throughout the debate so real criticisms never get softened.
3. Concrete Output: You get an objective 1-100 consensus score, top objections to fix, and specific next validation steps.
4. Two Modes: Quick Mode (10 Personas for 1 credit) or Full Panel (45 personas, elimination & final synthesis debate for 2 credits).
1st Quick Mode Validation is FREE!!!!!!
I'd love your feedback on val8 itself feel free to run your wildest startup concepts through the panel and tell me what the personas had to say!🚀