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Show HN: Microphone – Talk out your side-project ideas, then test them with ads (trie.dev)

10 points by Kriptering ↗ HN
If you are an aspiring founder, any VC will ask you this question: “why are you the only person who could solve this”. If you want to generate passive income with your side idea, get ready to enter a crowded market as everyone and their mother is shipping. Unless you have an active X account or you’re a TikTok sensation distribution is going to be tough.

I just launched the trie.dev microphone beta to help folks find their edge. You yap into your phone about your ideas; Trie turns the rambling into hypotheses, then prioritizes them based on your experience and your realistic ability to distribute in that idea space — surfacing the problems only you can solve. From there you can generate creative and run Meta ads against your hypotheses straight from your phone, with zero setup, to see how real people respond.

I built it initially for myself and friends as an “intake form” for running paid ads to help validate our side gig ideas.

Happy to chat about how it works or the stack. Joining the waitlist will send you an email to join via TestFlight.

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bobberkarl
This is a pretty great idea. I actually do not need the “why are you the only person who could solve this”. I only need the "generate creative and run Meta ads against your hypotheses straight from your phone". I have a bunch of ideas id like to throw 40-100$ of ads against.
tim-projects
Not directly related but I'm curious:

To all those who like voice dictation - are you extroverted?

I absolutely hate the sound of my voice, and the thought of speaking my ideas in a public setting and interrupting people gives me a deep sense of anxiety.

I feel like I'm missing out on something when I look at this.

shaewest
Love the idea, was a bit disappointed it wasn't useable by Android/Web.
vivzkestrel
- distribution is why you need free services offered by other founders of other startups who have experience doing this

- https://github.com/zupcode-com/awesome-free-services-for-you... I am going to post soon on HN with a full list of 50000 free services to build your next startup from scratch offered by real humans

tonisives
If someone offers their services for free, it normally means they are not worth too much right?
ProjectBarks
Requested early access! This sounds really really cool!
Kriptering
Hi folks; I have the web version ready.

I would love some help testing out the pipeline and happy to offer a free ad run for a day in return. After you sign up and I send you an email; please mention this note in the email in your reply if you're interested. thanks in advance!

stevenicr
Does this actually run the ads?

I am blocked by meta from running ads for reasons it won't say, and I have several local business ideas I want to test with meta ads to see if they should increase.

But my Fb is blocked from running ads or boosting posts and using the meta pixel or something.

Posted a couple of blogs about it - https://steveiscritical.com/