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In the case of a general product, spending some FB bucks and creating a landing page doesn’t necessarily validate an idea. Perhaps more importantly it doesn’t invalidate an idea if it doesn’t work. Consider focusing on just physical products which are just sold on Amazon.
I would greatly appreciate a service that fills this need, but your approach has a bad smell. The second you mention using AI for generation, I'm no longer interested. I'd rather pay 10 times whatever you had in mind and get human help. Make whatever internal tools you want to streamline the process, but don't take the humans out of the loop when it comes to something as important as validating a business idea.
I would greatly appreciate a service that fills this need, but your approach has a bad smell. The second you mention using AI for generation, I'm no longer interested. I'd rather pay 10 times whatever you had in mind and get human help. Make whatever internal tools you want to streamline the process, but don't take the humans out of the loop when it comes to something as important as validating a business idea.
The difficulty with using humans is that it's harder to scale and even then humans can also be wrong. So we're thinking of how to improve on it. It's a bit mind recking to be honest.lol
One way of scaling it that has already been done is to use the customer's humanness, by selling a book. That scales. Now, if the price point is $500 for a small but high quality business idea validation, what can you do that's better than selling a book on how to do it? Could you train coaches, who then can bill over $100/h and let the customer execute on it? Willing customer right here.
Shouldn't your idea validation platform be able to validate the idea behind it?
You should get rid of the AI and do this as a white-glove service to validate _your_ idea. Just straight up building landing pages yourself, asking the questions, be the AI yourself before spending too much time on building AI you may not need.
That would be a good business but not a good startup as it wouldn't scale well.
By doing things that don't scale, you can move faster and actually solve the problems your customers have, rather than coming to them with what _you_ think the solution is.