Seeing this pattern repeat with technical founders everywhere right now. Curious if it's just me or you're noticing it too:
AI tools made building insanely fast. A solo founder can ship a functional SaaS in a weekend. But the failure rate hasn't dropped -it's just that founders fail faster now. They build something technically solid, get to $2-3K MRR, and flatline. Not because the product is bad. Because the strategy never existed.
A founder I know had this exact problem. Clean codebase, good UX, reliable infrastructure. Six months in - barely any users, revenue stuck. He stopped building and spent a few weeks doing nothing but questioning his own assumptions. Three things changed everything:
SashiDo
Excellent product, every entrepreneur should include it in their toolkit.
@mignev appreciate that 🙏 built VentureBoard because I was that solopreneur tired of bouncing decisions off myself - really happy it resonates!
Runner AI
Really cool concept! how do you prevent the debates from converging on a "safe middle ground" every time? And do you plan to let users customize the advisor personas
@weizhi Hi Weizhi, we have a devils advocate persona, whose primary job is to challenge group talk and assumptions. Customizable personas will probably not ship for a while, since there are many other high value features in the pipeline.
Banyan AI Lite
Interesting idea. How do you make sure, AI doesn't play safe with it's advises and doesn't create an echo chamber for you by saying, what you want to hear? Also how do you make sure, AI is ready to give bold, risky advises, instead of default, safe ones? Good luck!
@davitausberlin Great question, it's actually the core problem we designed around.
Most AI advisors are a single model trying to be helpful, which naturally produces safe, consensus answers. VentureBoard runs 20 specialists who have different domain priorities and are explicitly designed to be able to disagree with each other.Also, the devil's advocate's entire role is to challenge assumptions nobody wants to question.
The debate isn't a feature we added, it's the architecture. When your growth strategist and your risk advisor are pulling in opposite directions, you can't get an echo chamber. You get tension, which is exactly what good decisions are made from.
Try it and see,bring a real decision you're sitting on. You'll hear pushback you didn't ask for
Banyan AI Lite
@ivaylotz Sounds good Ivo. I think its wise to use such a tool for everyday stuff and enhance it with human advice during pivotal moments
Velo
A tool for my 2AM thoughts, I like it :), how do I feed my company context?
Would be cool, if I can connect it with my company's knowledge base (notion, confluence) so that it knows what's happening everywhere.
@ajaykumar1018 Thank you Ajay, integrations are definitely the natural path for our product. Building context happens nice and smooth as the conversation progresses, but of course you can upload documents also, to complement that. Notion would probably be one of the first integrations, we would add, for obvious reasons :)
BlogBowl
Congrats on the launch! And we can video chat with those AI models? I see some of the videos on landing page 🤔
@danshipit Hi Daniil, no video chat yet, but as technology improves, it could very well be an awesome upgrade. Our devil's advocate would need some softening though :D
BlogBowl
@ivaylotz Yeah, that would be very interesting actually!
Happycapy
Every founder needs pushback, not just answers.
This hits a real pain.
@victoria_wu This was literally the whole reason why we started building it.