Outsider-readable copy check
Help founders who know their product too well find copy visitors can't understand
- Problem
- Founders of niche products know their offering so deeply that obvious selling points are opaque to first-time visitors. The founder of a reusable mask got stuck simplifying the site so users could tell which mask suits them. This isn't a copywriting skill issue but a lack of an outside-view self-check—hiring users for testing is slow and expensive.
- Solution
- Paste site copy or a screenshot and score it against a first-visitor checklist (jargon density, unexplained terms, spec dumps, missing scenario descriptions), then give rewrite examples that translate 'what we make' into 'which use case you're in and why this model.' Output is paste-ready.
- Users
- Small founders of niche physical products and professional services, solo hardware sellers, factories going direct-to-brand
- MVP
- Input a URL or text; detect jargon and unexplained terms; produce 5–8 concrete issues from a first-visitor lens; attach a rewrite example to each; export a side-by-side comparison
- Revenue
- Per-check credits or monthly subscription; physical-product indie sellers pay for conversion
- Why now
- AI has flooded the market with wrappers, making real products more dependent on explaining differentiation; simulating an outsider's view with an LLM is now cheap
Source discussions · 3
- Reddit[r/smallbusiness] How do you explain a specialised product online when you know too much about it?
- Reddit[r/smallbusiness] Where AI agents actually help a small business (and where they're a waste of money)
- Reddit[r/SaaS] My dad asked why our startup isn't just ChatGPT. Took me a while to give him a real answer.