Last fall I stepped away from the scaled startup I had led for 10 years so I could build something new. As I explored options, I got frustrated with how difficult it was to figure out business ideas that were unique to who I am and what I care about. There are tons of "Top 50 business ideas" lists out there, and of course ChatGPT can suggest some overly-generic things. However I wanted to extract my unique perspective and experiences and get help determining what businesses I should explore that matched up with my goals. The framework I built to do that was the starting point for CompanyCraft.<p>Over the last 10 months I've expanded the product into more of the startup journey. It now provides a full workflow covering idea generation, validation, and prioritization; automated market and competitor research and analysis; and business plan creation. All of this is done with the help of AI, short-cutting users' time to market, filling in gaps in their experience, and ensuring every aspect is custom-tailored to their passions, preferences, experiences, and goals.<p>You can check out a 5-min demo here: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lWU7h83ZO6Y">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lWU7h83ZO6Y</a><p>You can also download an example competitive analysis report here: <a href="https://app.companycraft.ai/resources/CompanyCraft_Competitive_Analysis_Example.pdf" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://app.companycraft.ai/resources/CompanyCraft_Competiti...</a>, and an example business plan here: <a href="https://app.companycraft.ai/resources/Sample_CompanyCraft_Business_Plan.docx" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://app.companycraft.ai/resources/Sample_CompanyCraft_Bu...</a><p>Whether you're an aspiring entrepreneur or a serial founder, CompanyCraft can help you go from fuzzy ideas to a successful launch, so try it out! Idea generation and validation is free to use, and if you want to use the paid features you can use the code SHOWHN (until Nov 15th) for a 20%-off discount.<p>Let me know your feedback both on the platform, as well as what's keeping you from starting your business. I want to help founders build businesses that improve the lives of the people they interact with, and use AI to have a positive impact on the world.
This has been an intense journey building CompanyCraft as a solo dev (and I was never a full-time dev by background). Thanks to CoPilot and ChatGPT I was able to learn a decent level of React through the project. I look forward to your feedback!