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Business Validation Tool

Check local demand, competitors, pricing, startup costs, and expected economics.

Checks whether an idea has a market in a specific place before anybody spends money: who else is doing it, what they charge, how many people there are and what it would cost to start.

What a v1 does5 features
  • Local demand estimated for the actual area
  • Existing competitors found, with their pricing
  • Startup cost for this business in this place
  • Expected margins from comparable operations
  • A verdict with the evidence behind it, per idea checked

The market

Adjacent market
$757Ma year at Coursera, from 197M registered learners

People pay reliably to learn how to run a business, and HoneyBook's 100,000 members show they pay to run one. Paying to validate an idea before starting is much less established. These are adjacent comparables rather than direct ones, and $29 per idea validated should be read that way.

Where these numbers come from
CompanyEarnsReachSource
LivePlanConsumer-priced SaaSNot publishedPublished pricing
Coursera$757.5M revenue, FY2025197M registered learnersPublic filings, 2025
HoneyBook$1B+ booked100,000+ membersCompany-stated

Why this audience

These viewers are choosing between ideas for a specific town, not in general. The content keeps showing them that local demand decides it. Checking competitors, pricing and demand for their actual area is the research they know they should do and have no way to do.

Before it can launch

  • Local demand data under Google Places and Census API terms

How the pricing works

Charged per validation. Somebody checks two or three ideas and then stops, so a subscription would be cancelled the month it was bought.

What it earns

Drag me Every figure recalculates as you go.

Paying users1,000

0.05% of 2M followers · capped at 50,000

Price per use$29

Opens on the price this idea was costed at, $29.

Purchases per user per year2

A quarter is one purchase every four years; twelve is monthly.

1,000 paying — 0.05% of 2M followers — × $29 × 2 purchases a year = $58,000 a year

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Fifty thousand paying users is the ceiling every one of these pages is drawn against, not a forecast. It opens at a thousand, the bottom of the range, so the first figures you see are the modest ones. What the cap buys is comparability: the same range on every app, and the percentage of the audience it takes as the number that moves.

Is this the one for your audience?

We fund it, build it, and run it. You bring the audience and take a share of the revenue. Nothing to pay and nothing to build.

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