Hey Indie Hackers!
I am Chris and I am a techie by nature. I worked in engineering roles for the last 10 years. During the past 5 years I spent my professional life building and scaling startups.
First I worked at a Corporate Venture Builder which partnered with corporates with revenue greater than $1 billion a year to build startups independent from their main business. After that I was CTO and cofounder in a SaaS startup ($1.4m pre seed round), now I support clients in building new ventures and startups for their own.
No matter if you just have an idea, if you started building already or if you have a viable running business: Let me rate your startup idea from a tech viability stand point (i.e. how hard I think it will be to implement your vision) from 1 (probably not expensive to implement) to 10 (almost impossible or very very expensive).
Of course this will be from a pretty superficial perspective, but maybe this will help non-tech people to get an idea of how challenging their journey will be.
Please describe your idea/product/company in 1-5 sentences and I will do my best to rate it.
Hi! Thank you for the opportunity!
I started working on https://www.brandesaurus.com/ last week
Brandesaurus is the internet's thesaurus of brands.
We're starting with a brand dictionary/encyclopedia that breaks down brands' colors, mission, vision, typography, etc
Once that's implemented we'll be connecting the brands using a thesaurus-like feature where you'll be able to find similar brands based on metadata like colors, etc
Over time we hope to monetize via paid accounts that provide access to more metadata and comparison features.
Thank you for any feedback! :)
Interesting project!
So, let me share my thoughts:
The biggest challenge from tech side from what I understand right now will probably be getting and parsing comprehensive data. Also, solving this will be the most crucial part in progressing your endeavor, because if you don't have sources and ways to (semantically) parse the data, you won't be able to provide the desired value. I would rate that a 8 / 10.
Comparing metadata and suggesting similar companies will not be that hard. I would go for 4 / 10.
Thank you for the insight!