I read The Mom Test, agreed with it, and still did zero customer interviews
I'm a Korean developer-founder building for English-speaking markets.
I read The Lean Startup. I read The Mom Test. I took notes. I genuinely agreed with the advice.
Then I did zero customer interviews.
Not because I was lazy.
Because of one specific thing I couldn't solve: live English conversations.
In university, I joined an English-speaking class. The teacher asked me basic questions. I could answer — barely.
But I couldn't ask anything back.
I couldn't react naturally. I couldn't keep the conversation alive.
Every exchange just died after my answer.
That same freeze followed me into building a startup.
Customer interviews aren't just about grammar.
They're about real-time decisions — when to push deeper, when to move on, when a vague answer means discomfort, and when it means you hit something real.
That's exactly where I fell apart.
So I became the founder the books warn you about:
One who believes in talking to customers, but quietly avoids it.
That's why I built Nitor8.
You describe your product in your own language.
Nitor8 generates interview questions.
You send a link to your target customer.
An AI interviewer runs the conversation in English.
You get a structured Lean-style report back in your language.
You still have to find the people.
You still have to send the link.
You still have to face what the report says.
But you don't have to perform in a live English conversation under pressure.
For founders like me, the alternative wasn't “perfect interviews.”
It was zero interviews.
I'm running a small early beta right now — Phase 0.9.
No cash or gift card incentives yet. Just free access, honest feedback, and a direct line to shape the product.
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