Building is easy now. Validation is hard.
A few weeks ago, I realized something.
Building products has never been easier.
With AI tools, I can go from idea to working MVP in a few days. The bottleneck is no longer coding.
The real challenge is figuring out whether anyone actually wants what you're building.
I've launched projects before and made the same mistake many founders make:
Build first.
Validate later.
Sometimes weeks of work turned into something nobody wanted.
So I started thinking:
What if founders could test an idea before spending days or weeks building it?
That led me to build AI Launch Factory.
The goal is simple:
- Describe your idea
- Get a launch analysis
- Identify risks
- Generate an MVP plan
- Decide whether the idea is worth building
It's still early, and I'm actively improving it based on feedback.
One thing I've learned from building this project:
Building is becoming cheaper every month.
Validation is becoming more valuable every month.
I'd love feedback from other founders:
How do you validate ideas before investing serious time into them?
If you'd like to try it:
https://ai-launch-factory.vercel.app/
The distribution problem is real.
What I've found works better than posting
is going directly to people who already
have the exact problem — GitHub issues,
personal DMs with specific observations
about their project. Generic posts rarely
convert in the first week.
That's a great point. I've been posting in communities, but I can already see how reaching people with a specific problem could be much more effective. I think validation and distribution are becoming the hardest parts of building now. Thanks for sharing your experience.