AITAH for wanting to give up on her. (18M) (1F)
So a while back I was trying to launch a local flower business. I won't bore you with the details — what matters is that before I could even start, I had to research my competitors.
There were 14 of them.
I spent 20+ hours just on one.
Analyzing their pricing, their positioning, their strengths, their weaknesses, their online presence — all manually, tab by tab. By hour three I was convinced someone had already built a tool for this. By hour ten I accepted that nobody had.
Courses on how to do market research faster? Sure. But watching 100 hours of tutorials to save 20 hours of work isn't math that works.
Hiring someone? The good analysts charge $2,000+. And half of them are sitting in a completely different country with zero context for your specific local market — which is the entire point of the research.
So I scrapped the flower business and started building the thing I needed.
The idea: you input your business idea, your location, and your budget. The AI does the rest.
Specifically, it would output:
-- A viability and profitability assessment for your idea
-- A step-by-step roadmap to actually launch it
-- A full competitor breakdown — strengths, weaknesses, brand analysis
-- Vendor and supplier contacts relevant to your location
-- A checklist of every analysis type you'd want (SWOT, Porter's Five Forces, market sizing, competitive positioning, and more) that you can toggle on or off depending on what you need
The target user isn't a big company. It's the solo founder, the first-time entrepreneur, the person who has a real idea but no team, no budget for consultants, and no 200 free hours to spend in spreadsheets.
I'm deep into building this now. But before I go any further, I genuinely want to know:
Did anyone else hit this wall? Would you have paid for something like this when you were starting out? And if not — what was missing from the description that made it a no?
Brutal feedback welcome. I'd rather hear it now.
( i dont use reddit alot, i dont want to be mistaken for a bot who bought an acc or something )