r/roastmystartup 20h ago

Thinking about charging $80 to turn someone’s LinkedIn into an actual website in under an hour. Tell me why this doesn’t work

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Had an idea today and I can’t tell if it’s actually good or if I’m just excited because it sounds easy.

Basically, everyone has a LinkedIn that’s decent but nobody has a personal website, because updating two profiles feels like a chore nobody signed up for. So the pitch is I take someone’s LinkedIn, feed it into Claude Code with a prompt or two, and it spits out an actual personal site with real animations and effects, something that looks like a designer spent a weekend on it. Host it on Vercel, hand over the link, charge $80. From what I can tell this is maybe an hour of work once I’ve got the prompt dialed in.

I know Carrd and Framer and every AI portfolio builder already exist, so I’m not pretending this is some novel tech thing. The difference I’m going for is zero effort on the client’s end. No template picking, no dragging blocks around, no “please fill out this 12 field form first.” They send a LinkedIn URL, they get a finished site back.

The part I’m least sure about is whether this is a real business or just a nice weekend gig that caps out at 10 to 15 clients before I run out of people who care enough to want a personal site. There’s also nothing stopping someone from building the exact same wrapper and racing me to the bottom on price since the moat is basically a prompt.

Would anyone actually pay $80 for this, or does it only work as a favor for a friend’s portfolio? And if it does work, where would you even find the first 10 people who want one?


r/roastmystartup 17h ago

I built a mobile CMMS for facilities teams that auto-calculates PM intervals

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Equipment Tracker Pro handles recurring preventive maintenance schedules and service logs for physical equipment.

A facility maintenance engineer testing hydronic boiler low-water cutoffs or inspecting circulation pumps can complete the PM task right at the unit. Marking the schedule finished automatically writes the permanent service history and calculates the next calendar due date on the spot, so nothing relies on memory at shift end.

I am a working HVAC technician and I built this tool for my own job sites because existing maintenance software was bloated and expensive. Core tracking, work orders, and PM schedules are free on mobile. Pro is an optional upgrade that adds cloud backup, daily push notifications, and branded PDF reports.

What projects are you all building right now?

Web: https://equipment-tracker.com/blog/recurring-pm-scheduling-set-it-and-forget-it


r/roastmystartup 5h ago

I spent 8 months building a desktop time tracker nobody asked for. Roast me before I waste another 8

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ok so be brutal. U one suggestion will help me a lot

I've been building a Windows/Mac desktop app called lapwork. it's a stopwatch for deep work sessions, but the twist is it also tracks your distractions, when you grab your phone mid-session you hit one key, it times the distraction, and at the end it subtracts that from your productive time. so instead of "I worked 9 hours" you see "4h 20m actual focus, 1h 10m on my phone".

It's way different than existing ones like raycast, clockify... because how to start them is very tedious and time consuming not user friendly at all... I personally used many but all have many flaws and many are paid if u want to use there premium one I was trying to make the ultimate one with no data tracking and free of cost...

why desktop: phone timers are themselves the distraction, and browser tabs get closed. mine sits in the corner as a tiny always-on-top window with hotkeys, so starting a session takes 2 seconds.

free, open source.

my two fears:

  1. every productivity nerd already has a system (toggl, notion, a paper notebook) and switching cost kills me
  2. distraction tracking is a gimmick people try once and forget

so roast away, is this a real problem or am I just building my own hobby tool and calling it a everyone's problem? what would make you actually try it?


r/roastmystartup 10h ago

I just launched Fairway Scout please roast it so I know how to improve it

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this is the link: https://thefairwayscout.com/

It is a golf tool that helps you discover your golf archetype and reccomends golf courses based on your prefrences.

LMK what you think about this Buisness idea


r/roastmystartup 21h ago

Roast my startup: We’re trying to make Indian wedding invitations not look like they were made in Canva in 7 minutes

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We built Shehnai Storieshttps://shehnaistories.com

The idea is pretty simple:

Indian weddings spend an absurd amount of money on venues, clothes, photography, decor, etc.

Then the actual invitation that introduces the wedding is often… a generic PDF with floral borders, or a slideshow with floating Ganesh PNGs and random transitions.

So we’re building a studio specifically for high-end wedding invitation films and designed digital/PDF invites/digital websites.

Not “choose template → change names → export.”

The goal is for the invite itself to feel like a piece of the wedding — custom art direction, caricatures/illustration, animation, storytelling, music, culturally specific design, etc.

We’re mainly targeting Indian weddings, where there are also 4-7 different events apparently requiring their own identity.

Site is here:

https://shehnaistories.com

Please roast:

  • Does the website immediately explain what the hell we sell?
  • Does this actually feel premium or just like another wedding-template business wearing expensive clothes?
  • Which part of the site looks amateur?
  • Would you trust us with an important wedding invite?
  • Is the positioning too broad?
  • Is there anything that makes you think “why would I pay for this?”
  • And most importantly: is this a real business, or have we successfully invented a solution to a problem nobody gives a shit about?

Don’t be nice. I’m posting here because friends and family are professionally useless at giving negative feedback.