[symonda]

I was is in a similar position some time ago (albeit with a very different product).

Long story short: Understanding the complexities of why a certain problem remains under-addressed was difficult in our case. As a result, we ended up pivoting into the direction of helping (potential) founders validate ideas through a specialized search engine of startups. We just launched a beta version of this on https://www.symonda.com - while many features are still lacking, maybe it can still be a useful resource.

[moneywoes]

How is this different than searching crunchbase or pitchbook for a list of companies?

[symonda]

Our goal is to help people discover, test and validate startup ideas. We believe that a powerful free-text search engine is the best way to achieve this.

At this time, we focus on helping people find companies via their product and service offerings and not so much on 'who they are' (i.e. company characteristics, investors etc..). This is a fundamental difference to those platforms you mention.

[moneywoes]

hmm the examples on the landing page are simply categories which crunchbase search has well.

I take it ya'll are indexing the descriptions and/or functions of the companies as well?

any query suggestions to highlight that difference in indexing?

great work