Customer interview prep tool that prevents founders from wasting $50k on bad assumptions
Get structured interview guides with discovery questions to reveal hidden pain points, saving founders from building the wrong thing after they've already talked to users.
The signal
“The advice is right. I'm not here to argue with it. I've talked to customers before every project I've built. I still failed. Not because the advice was wrong. Because I was showing up to those conversations unprepared, and I didn't know what I was missing. Early customer convers”r/indiehackers — read the original
Why it scores 80
Widespread, consistent frustration among founders about ineffective customer interviews despite knowing they're important.
No dominant tool focused specifically on interview preparation and framework, only general advice content and some dated templates.
MVP is a structured web app with guided frameworks, templates, and question banks, built on standard CRUD and UI libraries.
Steady tailwind as indie hacker and solopreneur movement grows, emphasizing lean validation over just building.
MVP build path
A web app with industry dropdowns that serves static, pre‑written interview guides (PDF/Notion templates) and a simple recording/transcription page using AssemblyAI's API.