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Painstack.ai
Validate your startup idea before opening your AI IDE
Painstack searches Reddit, Hacker News, YC startups, and Product Hunt before scoring your idea 0–100. You get a BUILD / REFINE / KILL verdict grounded in real market signals, not AI opinion. If it's worth building: Market Agent maps real competitors, CEO builds your 90-day roadmap, CMO finds where your ICP is asking for help today, CTO generates 12 execution PRPs ready for Lovable or any AI IDE to start building. From Ideia to first paying customer.
The BUILD / REFINE / KILL verdict grounded in real data is the kind of brutal honesty most idea validation tools avoid. I wish I had this before starting STRIKE, I validated mostly through gut feeling and personal frustration.
Quick question: does Painstack work for validating updates or new features on an existing app, or is it mainly useful at the initial idea stage?
Built this after watching too many founders, including myself, spend months on ideas the market didn't want.
The core insight: ChatGPT validates everything. Reddit validates nothing on purpose. We search Reddit, Hacker News and in the web before the AI generates a single word, so your score reflects what real people are actually saying online, not what a language model thinks sounds reasonable.
A score above 65 is genuinely rare. That's intentional. Painstack.ai is designed to save founders from bad ideas, not encourage them.
Would love honest feedback, especially from founders who've tried other validation tools. What's missing?
About Painstack.ai on Product Hunt
“Validate your startup idea before opening your AI IDE”
Painstack.ai was submitted on Product Hunt and earned 5 upvotes and 5 comments, placing #53 on the daily leaderboard. Painstack searches Reddit, Hacker News, YC startups, and Product Hunt before scoring your idea 0–100. You get a BUILD / REFINE / KILL verdict grounded in real market signals, not AI opinion. If it's worth building: Market Agent maps real competitors, CEO builds your 90-day roadmap, CMO finds where your ICP is asking for help today, CTO generates 12 execution PRPs ready for Lovable or any AI IDE to start building. From Ideia to first paying customer.
Painstack.ai was featured in Productivity (649.9k followers), Developer Tools (511.1k followers), Artificial Intelligence (466.3k followers) and GitHub (41.2k followers) on Product Hunt. Together, these topics include over 299.5k products, making this a competitive space to launch in.
Who hunted Painstack.ai?
Painstack.ai was hunted by Elio Fernandes. A “hunter” on Product Hunt is the community member who submits a product to the platform — uploading the images, the link, and tagging the makers behind it. Hunters typically write the first comment explaining why a product is worth attention, and their followers are notified the moment they post. Around 79% of featured launches on Product Hunt are self-hunted by their makers, but a well-known hunter still acts as a signal of quality to the rest of the community. See the full all-time top hunters leaderboard to discover who is shaping the Product Hunt ecosystem.
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Elio Fernandes
The BUILD / REFINE / KILL verdict grounded in real data is the kind of brutal honesty most idea validation tools avoid. I wish I had this before starting STRIKE, I validated mostly through gut feeling and personal frustration.
Quick question: does Painstack work for validating updates or new features on an existing app, or is it mainly useful at the initial idea stage?