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Retired product — interactive demo below

Is your idea
good enough
to ship?

Satisfice gave founders an honest AI analysis that said ship it or keep iterating. The live engine is retired — try the demo replay below.

1Describe your idea
2Get a free score
3Unlock the full report
Demo replay

Try an example:

Canned result — the AI is off

"Saved me months of guessing. The report was brutally honest and exactly what I needed."

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Sarah K.Founder

"I was about to waste 6 months on the wrong idea. Satisfice told me to pivot -- glad I listened."

M
Marcus T.Solo founder

"Worth every penny. The market analysis alone would have cost me $500 from a consultant."

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Priya R.First-time founder

What a report included

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Case study

The story behind Satisfice

What it is

Founders drown in "is my idea good enough?" paralysis. Satisfice answered that question for $5: paste your startup idea, and an AI engine returned a scored, brutally honest report with a definitive "ship it" or "keep iterating" verdict in about 60 seconds. Named after Herbert Simon's idea of satisficing — good enough beats perfect, so stop tweaking and ship.

What I built

  • Two-step AI report engineFree instant preview score, then a full streamed analysis with live progress events — market, competition, difficulty, monetization, investor readiness, and a hard ship-or-iterate verdict.
  • Payments funnelStripe embedded checkout ($5 report, +$15 Lumen upgrade) with webhook reconciliation, purchase records, and access codes for revisiting reports.
  • Lumen — AI strategist upsellA post-report 1-on-1 AI chat that built an investor-ready business plan: financials, go-to-market, and investor recommendations.
  • Mission Control adminAuth-gated dashboard with revenue analytics, purchase explorer, testimonial moderation, user management, and a bulk self-learning loop that re-ran reports against feedback.
  • Email + share pipelineReport delivery via Resend, PDF export with jsPDF, OG share-image generation, and a full funnel event tracker feeding admin analytics.
  • Competitor screenshotsURLs mentioned in an idea were auto-captured via ScreenshotOne and embedded into the competition scan.

Stack

Next.js 16React 19TypeScriptTailwind CSS v4Supabase (Postgres + auth)Stripe (embedded checkout + webhooks)ResendAI SDKjsPDFVercel

Status

Retired — now part of the Schmade portfolio.

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