Fail before you start
I spent years building products before realizing that most founders don’t fail because they can’t build.
They fail because they build the wrong thing.
That’s why I’m building Beatable.
Instead of asking AI to generate startup ideas, I want founders to challenge them. Analyze competitors, understand the market, identify weaknesses, and prepare for investor questions before writing thousands of lines of code.
I’m curious: what’s the biggest mistake you’ve made before launching a product?
Validation tools are great early-stage. What’s the core signal founders trust most from your output?
Depends on the founder. For me the most important aspects are the competition landscape and the pitch deck
I've started thinking that the costliest mistake isn't building the wrong product.
It's becoming so committed to an idea that every new piece of evidence gets interpreted as confirmation instead of a reason to rethink it. That's a much harder failure mode to notice.
You have to deal with your doubts constantly, but eventually a clear validation will clear your mind
spending too much time to deliver the perfect product, while it would have been much more better if you build small, test, feedback and improve, once you reach the final product you would already have validated market and had some user base. the challenge it's always how can I attract people to try something incomplete, and you feel it doesn't worth to spend marketing money on beta version - you want the mass to see your complete product, not an alpha or beta version of it
you are completely right!