Should I Build It Should I Build It
06 Jul 2025
Artificial Intelligence Productivity

A UX Saas that helps you ideate Software using different tools like ...

...Personas, User Flows, Card Sorting and Sitemaps. All Tools are connected in a project base and can communicate their data with each other and additionally an AI helps you with everything to make ideation quicker and easier

Confidence
Engagement
Net use signal
Net buy signal

Idea type: Run Away

Multiple attempts have failed with clear negative feedback. Continuing down this path would likely waste your time and resources when better opportunities exist elsewhere.

Should You Build It?

Don't build it.

Your are here

Your idea for a UX SaaS platform that streamlines software ideation using tools like personas, user flows, card sorting, and sitemaps, enhanced with AI assistance, places you in a challenging category. We found a few similar products (n_matches=3), which gives us medium confidence in our assessment. However, this IDEA CATEGORY is called "Run Away" which suggests you should abandon the idea. The average number of comments for the similar products are high. This suggests the few similar product received high engagement and this should be taken seriously. The overall sentiment in this product category suggests that people are not willing to use or buy such a product (net use and net buy are neutral). Because of these signals you might be better served pivoting to a different, but related, problem.

Recommendations

  1. Carefully review the negative feedback and criticism from similar product launches, especially regarding the tool that helps collect and validate startup ideas. Many users expressed skepticism about AI's effectiveness, compared it to Google Docs, and raised concerns about idea theft and lack of differentiation. Understanding these specific pain points is crucial.
  2. Explore whether your skills and the underlying technology can be applied to a related but distinct problem within the UX or software development space. For example, instead of focusing on broad ideation, perhaps target a specific niche within UX research or a more focused AI-powered solution for a particular stage of the design process.
  3. If you've already developed some components of the platform, evaluate if the technology can be repurposed for a different application. Could the AI algorithms be adapted to analyze user testing data or generate design recommendations based on established patterns?
  4. Conduct interviews with at least three UX professionals or designers who have used similar ideation tools to understand their actual needs and frustrations. Ask them about the limitations of existing solutions and what features would truly make their workflow more efficient and effective.
  5. Based on your research and analysis, identify a new, more focused problem to solve and develop a revised value proposition that addresses the specific needs of your target audience. This may involve narrowing the scope of your platform or focusing on a particular type of user or project.
  6. Consider how you can differentiate your offering from existing tools like Google Docs or other collaborative platforms. This could involve incorporating unique AI-powered features, streamlining the user experience, or focusing on a specific niche market with tailored workflows.
  7. If you are considering building an AI tool, focus on making it really good at one thing instead of average on many things. For instance, make it an AI tool that writes perfect user stories based on user interviews.

Questions

  1. Given the negative feedback on AI-driven ideation tools, what specific, demonstrable benefits will your AI provide that address the concerns of UX professionals and justify its use over existing methods?
  2. Considering the issues raised about idea theft and lack of originality, how will you ensure that your platform fosters a safe and innovative environment for users to share and develop their ideas?
  3. How can you narrow the scope of your platform or focus on a particular type of user or project to create a more targeted and valuable solution that addresses the specific needs of a niche market?

Your are here

Your idea for a UX SaaS platform that streamlines software ideation using tools like personas, user flows, card sorting, and sitemaps, enhanced with AI assistance, places you in a challenging category. We found a few similar products (n_matches=3), which gives us medium confidence in our assessment. However, this IDEA CATEGORY is called "Run Away" which suggests you should abandon the idea. The average number of comments for the similar products are high. This suggests the few similar product received high engagement and this should be taken seriously. The overall sentiment in this product category suggests that people are not willing to use or buy such a product (net use and net buy are neutral). Because of these signals you might be better served pivoting to a different, but related, problem.

Recommendations

  1. Carefully review the negative feedback and criticism from similar product launches, especially regarding the tool that helps collect and validate startup ideas. Many users expressed skepticism about AI's effectiveness, compared it to Google Docs, and raised concerns about idea theft and lack of differentiation. Understanding these specific pain points is crucial.
  2. Explore whether your skills and the underlying technology can be applied to a related but distinct problem within the UX or software development space. For example, instead of focusing on broad ideation, perhaps target a specific niche within UX research or a more focused AI-powered solution for a particular stage of the design process.
  3. If you've already developed some components of the platform, evaluate if the technology can be repurposed for a different application. Could the AI algorithms be adapted to analyze user testing data or generate design recommendations based on established patterns?
  4. Conduct interviews with at least three UX professionals or designers who have used similar ideation tools to understand their actual needs and frustrations. Ask them about the limitations of existing solutions and what features would truly make their workflow more efficient and effective.
  5. Based on your research and analysis, identify a new, more focused problem to solve and develop a revised value proposition that addresses the specific needs of your target audience. This may involve narrowing the scope of your platform or focusing on a particular type of user or project.
  6. Consider how you can differentiate your offering from existing tools like Google Docs or other collaborative platforms. This could involve incorporating unique AI-powered features, streamlining the user experience, or focusing on a specific niche market with tailored workflows.
  7. If you are considering building an AI tool, focus on making it really good at one thing instead of average on many things. For instance, make it an AI tool that writes perfect user stories based on user interviews.

Questions

  1. Given the negative feedback on AI-driven ideation tools, what specific, demonstrable benefits will your AI provide that address the concerns of UX professionals and justify its use over existing methods?
  2. Considering the issues raised about idea theft and lack of originality, how will you ensure that your platform fosters a safe and innovative environment for users to share and develop their ideas?
  3. How can you narrow the scope of your platform or focus on a particular type of user or project to create a more targeted and valuable solution that addresses the specific needs of a niche market?

  • Confidence: Medium
    • Number of similar products: 3
  • Engagement: High
    • Average number of comments: 11
  • Net use signal: -16.7%
    • Positive use signal: 5.2%
    • Negative use signal: 21.8%
  • Net buy signal: -11.8%
    • Positive buy signal: 2.7%
    • Negative buy signal: 14.5%

This chart summarizes all the similar products we found for your idea in a single plot.

The x-axis represents the overall feedback each product received. This is calculated from the net use and buy signals that were expressed in the comments. The maximum is +1, which means all comments (across all similar products) were positive, expressed a willingness to use & buy said product. The minimum is -1 and it means the exact opposite.

The y-axis captures the strength of the signal, i.e. how many people commented and how does this rank against other products in this category. The maximum is +1, which means these products were the most liked, upvoted and talked about launches recently. The minimum is 0, meaning zero engagement or feedback was received.

The sizes of the product dots are determined by the relevance to your idea, where 10 is the maximum.

Your idea is the big blueish dot, which should lie somewhere in the polygon defined by these products. It can be off-center because we use custom weighting to summarize these metrics.

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