Wishing you good luck with this. Succeed or fail, you will come away with plenty of key learnings that can be applied to future projects. The trick is to listen to and learn from feedback, but not let it dissuade you from your entrepreneurial journey. Gradatim Ferociter
Love the idea of being able to send a thoughtful birthday message just by sharing a link. Works very well in the digital age. Could see this concept being very popular
Decision procrastination/paralysis is definitely a growing problem and I like the idea of using gamification to tackle it.
From a psychological standpoint, the negative outcome associated with not making a decision in the specified time needs to be greater than the fear of making the decision, otherwise it just won't happen. An animated ghost catching a cat isn't going to be enough for difficult decisions IMO.
Maybe there's an opportunity to make the game more personal, thereby increasing the negative outcome - e.g. if a user also enters the real life negative outcome of not making their decision and the game somehow shows how with each passing second that outcome becomes more likely to happen.
Have a chat with IKEA - if you could integrate this with their inventory and then link to the specific items shown in generated images (for a revenue share or some other arrangement) you could have a slam dunk on your hands.
They're probably the only retailer with a big enough range and significant enough global presence for it to work well for users and scale.
Great way to boost the efficiency of the internet economy. So many businesses / side projects with potential get abandoned too early IMO. This gives more of them a chance at a second life. Nice idea Falak
Simple concept executed well - got hooked into it straight away. Would be cool if you could figure out a way of automatically generating more, then you could show a different one every day like Wordle.
We need more tools like this. AI image generation is such a powerful technology but in order to utilise most image generators to their potential, you need to be fluent in 'AI prompts'.
Cool concept. I use the integrated timer in ClickUp to achieve something similar. Starting the timer acts like a mini psychological commitment that prevents me from diverting my attention until the task is done.
It could be worth considering how your concept could be integrated with existing task management tools, as task management is notoriously personal and everyone seems to already have a favourite software tool for doing it.
It's a cool concept and much needed. I'd recommend reaching out to companies directly. Large companies will often have people in sustainability type roles who are actively looking for initiatives to support their CSR objectives. Most small companies won't have these roles, but you may have luck with ones which have a 'green' mission.
Not sure if you already do this - but I reckon a key selling point would be a monthly report which summarises the amount of miles, CO2 and other pollutants the business has eliminated as a result of their car pooling efforts. This makes the benefits tangible and easily communicated to stakeholders.
You could also offer a 1-2 month trial to businesses to get them to lower sign up friction. If you combined this with a good onboarding process and the reports mentioned above I think the churn rate would be relatively low.
I'd also modify the website to make it focused solely on explaining the concept and benefits to companies, or have a separate page for both companies and commuters that does this, as it's kind of confusing who you're targeting currently. It's companies that will ultimately make the decision to buy or not, so reckon you should focus on them.
Another example indicating that The Great Filter is likely technological - I reckon most species have the technological capability for a few rogue individual to wipe them out completely before they have the capability to become truly multiplanetary, and therefore hedged
- Learn more about hundreds of launch providers, vehicles, and sites (loads of stats and info)
- Dig into trends and statistics spanning the history of space exploration (timelines and charts etc)
Let me know what you think and if you’ve got any suggestions for improving it!