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Build Check
Is your app idea actually worth building?
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Is your app idea actually worth building?
568 followers
A free quiz for outsiders and vibe coders. Score your app idea across 6 dimensions and find out if it's worth building — before you spend weeks on it.
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👋 Hey Product Hunt!
I’m German. I build a lot, I learn a lot, and I’ve noticed a massive shift.
The "Outsiders" are coming. Managers, lawyers, and even employees who see real problems but don’t know if their solution makes sense as a product. I’ve answered the "Should I build this?" question 100+ times this year.
So, I vibecoded a 'solution'.
Build Check is a <2min filter designed to help you stop overthinking and start shipping. It’s not a complex business consultant; it’s a gut-check for your idea.
Why I built this:
- The Idea Maze: Most people quit because they don't know where to start.
- Personal Utility: I use it myself to filter the "magic" ideas from the profitable ones.
- Launch lessons: I'm sharing all the process so everybody can know about it.
Who it’s for:
The domain experts. The people in sales, law, accounting or whatever who found a "pain" but need a tech-roadmap to solve it. Now they can make it real through AI but sometimes it's nonsense.
What's next:
- Matchmaking: Connecting ideas with the right coaches or devs.
- Benchmarking: Researching competitors and industry leaders.
- ICP Snapshot: one paragraph describing the ideal first user
- Domain selling: After some suggestion, linking with platforms like Godaddy, Cloudlfare.
- Actionable Guides: Tailored playbooks based on your specific industry.
- Validation experiment: a single 48-hour experiment to run before writing a line of code.
- Gurus' validation: Tech influencers giving feedback to beginners.
I built this for saving my time, but I’m realizing the impact it has for those outside the "bubble."
It's 100% FREE - not looking for profit.
Would love your feedback—what’s your buildability score? 🚀
Athena
@german_merlo1 Do you see people actually dropping ideas after the quiz, or is it more of a confidence check?
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@maya_elor honestly still analyzing data! But there're a lot of cool info. I feel they're truly finding it useful
@german_merlo1 Congratulations. What's one "magic" idea you've personally greenlit with it that surprised you?
Happycapy
@german_merlo1 Love this.
Feels like a much-needed filter for the “should I build this?” loop. The <2 min format is 🔥
Congrats on the launch!
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@victoria_wu thanks Victoria! Yeah, like the format cause it have to be quick and simple. I'll try to keep it in that way despite the improvements added
Banyan AI Lite
Great idea but how do you score each dimension? Did you build own algorithm or rely on AI? From business point though, are you planning to monetise this app (because for me it's hard to understand how you can build recurring revenue here)? Congrats for launch and good luck!
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@konstantinalikhanov Currently it's a mix of my own algorithm and AI analysis. Are 12 simple dimensions and are too simple to answer (and understand). As I said it's a quick first filter.
There're several ways to get it monetized. Linking coaches with builders, tech stack suggestions (promoted), launchpads, and so on
Banyan AI Lite
@german_merlo1 ok makes sense, because it's not a classical SaaS subscription model, most people will come just several times, before they select and stick to one idea.
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@janne_vakkilainen probably the answer will be you need to go and validate if demand actually exists! But I'll keep thinking on different options to face that situation
minimalist phone: creating folders
Cool! Where do you want to deliver your quizes? (I mean any aspiration to pub quizes, schools etc?) :)
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@busmark_w_nika Yeap! would love to introduce this kind of framework on schools but I'm not sure if would work. For now, I added an embed option to make it accessible everywhere
Does it also evaluate the market and competition? This is one of the key parameters, but I don’t see it in the list...
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@natalia_iankovych After the scoring the framework analyzes the idea and shows competitors or industry leaders. Also suggest a quick experiment to run.
What is you future plan about sustaining it? I my view, this should not have any cost for participants. And you'd need a strong iedntity verification system. Plus, this can become a marketing platform as well. A lots to think about. I'm sure you did your study. Great idea. Congrats.
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@humayoun_kabir1 yeap! First approach is to give a better clear roadmap to build/launch if the idea is well scored. Matchmaking with partners, tech stacks or coaches is also I'm analyzing.
Hey, this looks really cool! Could you clarify if you store and save all user ideas?
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@katerina198b thanks! Yeas, ideas get stored there but just like for analysis. There's no plan about activating any of them