What's great:
· Model integration is fantastic, I’m in awe of how they’ve architected the inputs to their models to generate tight and consistent results iro questions and drilling down into the issues
· citeable research & actual data and evidence for investors if needed
· validation outsourcing
What should be improved
· Too much user interaction for me. I want to give a detailed input, “fire and forget”. For now there’s too much “continue?” from the tool but that’s an artifact of early adoption.
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Hej! We are the Swedish brothers behind aicofounder.com
As founders building products, we were looking for a better way to go from idea to product without missing crucial steps along the way like proper market research and idea validation.
Building with general LLMs is messy and scattered, which results in many founders spending months building something nobody wants. So we decided to build an AI cofounder specifically designed to help founders go from idea to a product people actually want.
aicofounder currently helps over 20,000 founders research, build, and market their products.
The platform contains 5 phases: Ideation -> Research -> Solution -> Website -> Marketing
Each phase with tools to help you:
Find real demand by searching social media with AI agents
Build a website to validate demand before building your product
Generate social media content to drive traffic to your website and confirm demand with real signups
We have a generous free tier (credits renew daily), so give it a try if:
You want to build a product but need help finding a good idea
You’re sitting on a business idea but not sure where to start or if it has real potential
We’re here all day to answer any questions you have!
@felixheikka
Love the tool and it has been ultra helpful in clearly articulating each area of the business. Good luck guys
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@zolani_matebese Thank you, Zolani!
@felixheikka Hey congrats on the launch!
I took a look at your Privacy Policy and Terms, honestly, they’re very solid and well thought through (especially the AI limitations + EU compliance bits).
Only minor things I noticed were around tightening cookie/affiliate tracking disclosures and a bit more explicit AI data handling clarity, nothing urgent at all, just polish-level stuff as you scale.
If you ever want a quick second pass or sanity check, happy to help :)
I saw this
"aicofounder.com validates if problems are real by searching through social media discussions and the web to find out"
I'm curious what social media are you searching through ?
aicofounder helped me so much this year. Thanks so much for this incredible product. For all the clarity it brought to my solopreneur journey. Outstanding value for the price.
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@jonaskamber That's awesome to hear, Jonas! I'm really glad to hear it provided value to you as a solopreneur. Thank you!
One of the most important parts of building a product is actually validating that you have a way to reach paying customers. With aicofounder I was actually able to see that I did NOT have this for my idea. Disappointing of course, but it saved me so much time. Getting to that point in days before writing a single line of code. I will pivot and keep working on figuring out what the right product is AND how to market it. But I’m glad to have this tool to help me in the process.
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@sarah_crissman I'm glad aicofounder could help you see an uncomfortable truth like that. Having an idea shut down can be rough, but so is spending months building it and finding out after a long marketing struggle without results. Thank you for being with us, Sarah!
aicofounder is great!! Stops you falling into the classic trap of solutionising too early / betting everything on your product without first validating the problem and sizing the market.
I think its a bit pricier for what you get as technically you could coax the same results of a Claude/ChatGPT subscription (and most people trying this probably have one of those paid already).... but way cheaper than investing in a startup without validation AND there's a generous free tier.
I also love how its evolved - back when it was called 'buildpad' there were way more phases and a spider diagram that was a lot more confusing. It's much clearer and more focussed now.
Congrats on launching Felix and team!
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@p44v9n Thank you, Paavan! I'm glad to hear aicofounder has been helpful to you!
You're right that some of the results could theoretically be recreated with a ChatGPT/Claude subscription and the right prompts. But that's kind of like saying you could build your own CRM with a spreadsheet. It's technically true but the structure and workflow matter a lot.
Other results such as having a website built + hosted for you, generating a content calendar based on social media content that works, and many of the data sources used for validation (e.g. Reddit + X) simply don't exist with those LLMs.
These are a few of the features that make founders happy to go with aicofounder and its $25/mo plan.
I'm also glad to hear you think it's become clearer and more focused now, that's great!