We're calling it Bunzee V3. Versions 1 and 2 got 20 and 8 upvotes.

Yeah. The numbers went down. V1 pulled 20 upvotes on Product Hunt. V2 somehow managed 8. If there's a founder out there who's launched the same product twice and gotten worse each time, come sit with me.

We're going for V3 later this month. But before I let myself get excited about another launch, I did the thing we actually built Bunzee to make people do I pointed the tool at ourselves. Ran our own category ("AI tools for validating startup ideas") through our own competitor analysis.

It was uncomfortable in the way honest feedback usually is.

The read: the space filled up while we were heads-down building. Almost everyone is selling the same one-liner "AI research in one click." And the 1-star reviews across the whole category rhyme: some version of "it gave me a report, not a decision." That's the exact pain we started Bunzee to kill. Seeing it reflected back at our own market was the gut check I needed had we quietly drifted into being just-another-report tool?

That's what "V3" actually means for us. It's not a version bump. It's the answer to the one thing the analysis said nobody in our category does: carry the founder past the research. Everyone stops at "here's your analysis." V3 doesn't stop — idea → competitor analysis → PRD → IA → wireframes a developer can actually pick up, in one session. From "should I build this?" all the way to "here's the thing to hand off."

Not dropping a link today I'm honestly more interested in the strategy question this surfaced:

When you relaunch into a category that got crowded while you were busy building, do you lead with the new capability, or with the pain it removes? And has running your own product through a competitor lens ever changed your positioning this late?

(For those keeping score: this is launch attempt #3, and no, I have not learned to stop caring about the upvote number. V3 of that too, apparently.)