Most startup ideas fail before launch because validation happens too late. Use the guided prompt box below to pick a niche, preview deterministic pain signals, and decide if the idea is worth building.
No sign-up required. Pick a niche, see demand signals, decide.
Recurring patterns
Recurring pain patterns from public startup threads. Not polished success stories — raw evidence of a real problem.
r/Source—r/SaaS: How do you really validate your startup idea before touching code?How do you really validate your startup idea before touching code?
“I've seen so many founders (myself included once) spend months building an MVP, only to realize no one asked for it.”
r/Source—r/SaaS: How do you validate a SaaS idea before building anything?How do you validate a SaaS idea before building anything?
“Working on a new project and trying to avoid the classic mistake of building something nobody wants.”
r/Source—r/SaaS: How do you actually validate a product idea without wasting months and $$$?How do you actually validate a product idea without wasting months and $$$?
“I've been thinking a lot about how painful early market validation can be... things like running surveys no one answers, hiring consultants that charge $10k+ for a slide deck etc. all to try to “guess” product-market fit like some kind of startup tarot reading.”
r/Source—r/indiehackers: Does building a quick landing page & running ads to validate an idea actually workDoes building a quick landing page & running ads to validate an idea actually work
“someone replied : IME it's important to have a landing page; but don't drive traffic with ads. Make a lander/domain. Then find the early adopters and bring them in manually — do the actual customer discovery / customer-problem-fit and route them there.”
Pick a niche, run the preview, open the evidence, and decide whether the gated prompt is worth unlocking.
Guided Prompt Box
Pick a niche to inspect demand signals before you build
Use a starter niche to generate a report preview, inspect details, and decide if deeper access is worth requesting for your next build cycle.
Deterministic MVP path. Takes around 30 seconds.
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Pick a niche above and hit Inspect a niche to inspect pain points, open details, and see your next step.
Three phases. No guesswork. Each step produces a tangible artifact you can inspect, question, and cite.
Target an industry, time window, and depth level. Set filters to isolate the segment you want to explore — niche down to surface real signal.
Cross-reference thousands of real-time market signals, consumer complaints, and active discussion patterns across the web. Surface what people are already paying to solve.
Get ranked pain points with citation evidence, demand forecasts, and actionable concept directions — grounded in what the market already confirms exists.
The same product idea can look risky or promising. Holmes anchors to observed behavior — not self-reported interest — so the conviction holds up under real market pressure.
Signal type
Founder intuition & gut feel
Signal type
Observed behavior & spending
Data source
Direct conversations
Data source
Community complaint patterns (Reddit, forums)
Confidence basis
Self-reported interest
Confidence basis
Multi-source quote validation
Scale check
Back-of-envelope estimate
Scale check
Post volume, frequency & severity
Decision frame
"Will this work?"
Decision frame
"Is demand already confirmed?"
We admit founders who expect to run Holmes within their next build cycle — not curious observers. First cohort pricing holds for 12 months post-launch.
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