Built a side project to help validate... side projects 🤔

Hey builders! Long-time lurker, first-time poster. Wanted to share something I've been working on after hours.

The Problem

Like many of you, I was building side projects at night while working full-time. My pattern was painfully consistent:

- Get excited about an idea

- Spend precious evening hours coding

- Launch on Reddit/Twitter

- *crickets*

- Realize I should've validated first

- Repeat 🥲

The worst part? I was trying to do validation on Reddit, but with limited time after work, I couldn't:

- Properly research different communities

- Keep track of all the responses

- Find people actually interested in what I was building

- Or figure out what features to prioritize in my limited dev time

The Solution

So I built RediScope (yes, another side project 😅). It automates the Reddit validation process:

Quick Loom demo

How it works:

1. Tell it what you're trying to validate

2. AI helps write natural-sounding questions for each community

3. Get instant analysis of responses

4. Automatically spot potential early users

The goal? Instead of spending your limited free time scrolling through Reddit, get clear validation and potential users in 48 hours.

Tech Stack (since we all love this part):

- Frontend: React + Tailwind

- Backend: Node.js

- AI: OpenAI for the smart bits

- DB: PostgreSQL

- Hosting: Digital Ocean

Current Status:

- ✅ Core validation engine working

- ✅ Community analysis

- ✅ Response analytics

- ✅ User dashboard

- 🔎 Lead Generator (in progress)

- 📋 API (planned)

This is very much a nights-and-weekends project (like everything else we build 😄). Would love feedback from fellow side project builders:

- How do you validate your ideas currently?

- What would make this useful for your next project?

- Any features you'd want to see?

Drop your thoughts below! If you want to try it when it launches: https://www.rediscope.app

Also huge shoutout to this community - been learning so much from everyone's posts here 🙏