Guided Idea Validation Platform for Pre-Launch Startups

The poster regrets spending 1.5 years building a SaaS product before validating the idea with paying customers. This is a classic and costly mistake many startups make. There's an opportunity to create a structured platform that guides founders through the idea validation phase before diving into heavy development. The product would offer a step-by-step framework, complete with tools to create simple landing pages for email collection, build customer discovery surveys, manage interview notes, and track key validation metrics like landing page conversion rates and the number of interview commitments. It would act as a project management tool specifically for lean startup validation, helping founders either fail fast or find product-market fit without wasting too much time and resources.