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2026-07-19

The pain library grew — seven more topics

  • The browsable pain library now covers thirteen topics instead of six — new pages for lead & sales follow-up, coaching & consulting, small-agency operations, SaaS metrics & analytics, contractors & trades, fitness & wellness, and real-estate & property. Each is a page of real, source-linked customer pains, and the whole library keeps getting denser as more Discovery sweeps run.

2026-07-18

Purchase receipts and two useful reminders

  • Buying credits now sends a proper receipt email — how many credits were added and your new balance, with a link to your billing history. And two emails that only show up when they're actually useful: if you run out of credits while actively working, we'll point you at a top-up once (not daily); and if your last Discovery sweep is more than three weeks old, we'll suggest a fresh one — the shared pain corpus keeps growing, so a new sweep sees more than your last one did. Every one of these respects the email toggle in Settings and carries a one-click unsubscribe.

2026-07-18

A welcome email, and control over the ones you get

  • New accounts now get a short welcome email that points you at your first founder first-pass. And there's a real control for it: Settings has an email-preferences toggle, and every email carries a one-click unsubscribe — turn off run-completion and product emails whenever you like, and we'll respect it everywhere.

2026-07-18

Pricing that names the offer and reverses your risk

  • The credit packs now have names, not just prices — the recommended one is the Founder Discovery Pass (a Discovery sweep plus deep-dives on the finalists it surfaces). And the guarantees that used to be scattered in the fine print are gathered into one plain block: you see the exact price before you spend it, a run that fails on our side refunds its credit automatically, credits never expire, unused packs are refundable within 14 days, and a weak niche honestly returns zero finalists — you keep the rationale, not a build you'd regret.

2026-07-18

A browsable pain library — real problems, by topic

  • There's now a Pain Library (in the footer, under Product) that groups the real, source-linked customer pains our discovery sweeps surface into topics — booking & scheduling, invoicing & payments, freelancer back-office, client management, content & creators, and e-commerce. Every pain links to the page it came from, and shows how often it's re-surfaced across sweeps. It's the same evidence behind Trending, organized so you can browse the problems in a space before you commit to one.

2026-07-18

A proper FAQ — the honest answers in one place

  • There's now a Frequently Asked Questions page (linked in the footer) that answers the questions people actually ask before trusting a verdict: why the engine kills so many ideas, where the ideas and evidence come from, whether it'll make you get on customer calls (it won't), how pricing works, and — plainly — that we don't claim accuracy, only honesty and reproducibility.

2026-07-18

Compare is now priced by how many ideas you rank

  • Comparing ideas costs 1 credit per 3 ideas, rounded up — 2–3 ideas is still 1 credit, 4–6 is 2, up to 10 is 4. Each idea gets a full check; those aren't charged separately on top. The exact cost shows on the Compare page and the home tile before you run it. Single-idea checks (Kill My Idea, Founder Fit, Pricing Power, and the rest) are unchanged at 1 credit.

2026-07-17

Final pre-launch audit — 18 fixes, mostly the sharp edges you'd hit first

  • The sign-up verification code cells were nearly invisible in dark mode — now they look like the rest of the form. The avatar menu's “Manage account” window matches the app theme too, instead of opening a white island.
  • Downloaded and copied reports (.md / .csv) now read like the on-screen report — internal check codes like “KF-04” come out as the plain question (“Can you reach buyers?”), including on reports you exported before this fix.
  • A multi-market sweep's “Start here” list now puts every green-lit idea above the “Not yet” ones — a sweep with two actionable ideas used to show only one at the top, because a raw score sort buried the second.
  • If a deeper-mode run fails on our side, its card now says so right where you clicked (credit already refunded, try again) — it used to quietly reset and look like nothing happened.
  • Compare is now linked from your ideas list when you have 2+ ideas, your founder first-pass is findable again (ideas list, founder-profile page, and the home tile now name it), and a declined Discovery launch shows its explanation next to the button, not three screens up.
  • Smaller: one recommended pack on pricing (“most founders start here”) with the never-expires promise right under the cards, the public benchmark table speaks the same verdict words as the product, and support@whittleos.com is tappable on the contact page.

2026-07-15

Credits and copy, cleaned up further

  • Free signup credits are for idea checks, not Discovery sweeps — pricing, sign-up, and the Discovery form now say so upfront, instead of only after a sweep gets declined.
  • A couple of report sections (“What would change the answer”, “What we couldn't tell”) still showed a stray leftover list marker in the text — fixed.

2026-07-15

A day of fixes from a full production audit

  • A failed run no longer replaces the whole page with “Something went wrong” — you get an inline note where you clicked: the run failed on our side, any spent credit was already refunded, try again.
  • Reports speak your language now. Internal codes that leaked into verdicts and Discovery finalists (KF-08, “Phase 6”, risk_platform_regulation, b3_c1) render as the plain names the rest of the product uses — including on reports you've already run.
  • Pain Receipts actually finds your niche: “wedding photographers” now returns the wedding-photographer pains (search matches every word against the pain, its theme, AND who feels it — it used to need the exact phrase).
  • Billing history rows link to their results; runs of deleted ideas say so instead of dead-ending; the idea library no longer scrolls sideways on phones; demand badges read “21/100 · low” instead of the cryptic “21 · cool”.
  • Honest-copy pass: the privacy policy names the AI provider we actually run on (Anthropic), stale numbers got corrected, and “free First-Pass” now says what makes it free — the 2 credits every new account starts with.

2026-07-15

Receipts, one click from your billing history

  • Every credit-pack purchase in Billing now has a “Receipt →” link that opens your Paddle invoice PDF — before this, getting a receipt meant emailing support. Fresh purchases can take a few minutes to have their invoice ready; the link says so instead of erroring.

2026-07-15

Edit and delete your ideas

  • “Edit idea” on every idea page — the same four questions, prefilled. The verdict told you to fix things and re-run; now there's somewhere to fix them. Existing results keep showing the old text's verdicts until you re-run a check.
  • “Delete idea” with an explicit confirm. Deleting removes the idea from your lists and graveyard; completed runs and reports stay in Runs and your billing history — credits aren't refunded, they paid for runs that really executed.

2026-07-15

You don't get stranded anymore

  • After buying credits, the “Payment received” banner now offers “Continue where you left off →” — straight back to the idea or sweep where you ran out. No context? It offers home instead.
  • If a run's button ever sticks on “Running…” while the work actually finished, the page now checks for the result by itself after a couple of minutes and offers a one-click refresh — and reminds you a failed run refunds its credit automatically. No more wondering whether to click again (don't — it never double-charges).

2026-07-14

One place for every run you've made

  • New /runs page: every analysis you've ever run, newest first, each linking straight to its result — no more remembering which idea a report lived on. Linked from Billing next to your transaction history.
  • After a run, the page address now reads like English (?ran=founder-fit) instead of an internal code (?ran=Mode_11) — old links keep working.
  • Idea lists now say “Dropped” on a dropped idea's chip instead of the imperative “Drop it” — a status you read, not a button you fear clicking. The verdict page itself still tells it to you straight.
  • “Runs” now lives in the header next to Ideas — one click from anywhere, desktop and mobile.
  • The flagship has one name everywhere now: Discovery. “Full pipeline” badges and “Start a full sweep” buttons were three names for the same thing — they all read Discovery / “Start a Discovery sweep” now, matching billing and pricing.

2026-07-14

Big results you can actually navigate

  • An idea with many analyses is no longer a 12-panel wall: completed results collapse into one row each, and a sticky chip bar jumps straight to any of them (the freshly-run one opens and highlights itself, as before).
  • A finished multi-market sweep now opens with “Start here” — the top 5 ideas ranked across ALL markets, each linking to its market — and the market list sorts best-first with a “best market” badge, instead of 29 identical rows.
  • The comparison result ends with “Do this next”: open the winner, close its unknowns, or — when nothing clears the bar — run a Discovery sweep or pivot the closest idea. No more dead end after the ranking.

2026-07-14

Honest buttons, visible prices, and a re-run that finally exists

  • The first-pass page now shows its credit price right at the run button — it said nothing before, which broke our own “you see the exact cost before every run” promise.
  • The new-idea form's button now says what it does: “Save idea →” (saving is free). It used to say “Run analysis” while only creating the idea — the actual analysis always started from the idea page.
  • You can re-run the Single Idea Check straight from the verdict card after fixing a red flag or updating your profile — the card told you to re-run but offered no button. The new verdict replaces the old one.
  • One label language everywhere: the comparison summary, the pricing page, and the home funnel no longer leak internal codes like KILL/VALIDATE or “Survivors” — you'll see the same “Build it / Test it first / Drop it” words the rest of the product uses.
  • The landing-page generator card no longer vanishes on ideas without a validation plan — it now says what unlocks it. Multi-market sweeps in your billing history are labeled as sweeps and link to their results. Failed first-passes say “credit refunded” right in the list.
  • Fixed: the Discovery page no longer scrolls sideways on phones when a recent run has a long niche name, and pure keyboard-mash ideas are rejected before they can spend a credit.
  • Smaller words, clearer choices: each credit pack now says what it's for (“Two idea checks — or your first Discovery niche”), home tiles say what the click does (“Check this idea →”, not “Open →”), the sweep price cap reads plainly (“capped at 15 credits total”), the graveyard chip says “Dropped”, and the home callout counts all 12 deeper modes.

2026-07-13

The site works properly on your phone now

  • The header no longer breaks on narrow screens — it collapses into a menu instead of clipping the logo and pushing your avatar off the edge. Reported from a Samsung A73; fixed for every phone.
  • An idea's verdict badge no longer disappears from your lists after you run many deeper analyses on it — /ideas, /compare, and the home list now always show the latest real verdict, the same one the graveyard shows.
  • Smaller fixes: wide comparison tables tell you they scroll sideways, the cookie bar stops covering the last line of a page, a typo'd URL shows a proper 404 page instead of bouncing you to sign-in, and source links only render when there's a real page behind them.

2026-07-13

A clearer next step after every verdict, and a tidier idea page

  • Each Single Idea Check verdict now surfaces a one-click next step — Pivot this idea, Plan a no-call validation, or Scope the MVP — matched to the decision, so you’re not left scrolling to figure out what to do.
  • The deeper analyses (founder fit, pricing power, platform risk, and the rest) are grouped under one “Go deeper” section in a two-column layout instead of a long single stack.

2026-06-22

Honest benchmark — we ran 8 ideas with known outcomes through our own gate

  • New public /benchmark page: 8 startup ideas whose real-world fate is known (5 documented flops, 3 successes), fed anonymized to our gate, with the verdict checked against history.
  • On a solo-founder profile we hard-killed 4 of the 5 historical flops the flattering category green-lights, and flagged the 5th; on a funded-team profile all 3 successes pass. Both profiles are shown, with every miss and limit stated.
  • No accuracy claim, no rocket emoji — a dated, reproducible snapshot of what the gate actually does. Each rival tool's own column on the same 8 ideas is being collected and will slot in.

2026-06-22

Sharper verdicts — HOLD when it's genuinely unclear, and resource-aware on regulation

  • When too many kill-filters come back UNKNOWN to actually judge an idea, we now HOLD with the open questions instead of defaulting to a premature KILL — absence of evidence isn't evidence of a bad idea.
  • For a funded, full-time team, a clearable cost-of-entry like PCI-DSS, SOC2, or money-transmission licensing is now treated as a costed risk that goes to scoring, not an instant kill — the verdict you'd get building it solo on nights and weekends is unchanged.
  • Safety-critical and prohibited domains (medical, regulated financial/legal advice, gambling, controlled goods, and the like) stay hard kills regardless of how well-funded you are.

2026-06-21

Pain Receipts — a free, no-signup lookup for real customer pains

  • Type a niche at /tools/pain-receipts and see the real customer pains our discovery sweeps have already mined from public discussions — each with a clickable source you can read yourself.
  • Every result is ranked by how often it re-surfaces and how severe it is, and carries an honest provenance label. Don’t trust the score — click the source.
  • If we haven’t sourced your niche yet, you get an honest “nothing yet” — we never invent a pain to fill the gap. No signup, no email gate.

2026-06-19

Turn your no-call validation plan into a real landing page

  • After you plan a no-call validation, generate a clean, shareable landing page from it — hero, problem/outcome, and your chosen CTA (waitlist, payment, pre-order, or paid pilot).
  • It’s grounded in your own validation promise — no fabricated metrics or fake social proof — hosted at a public link you can point traffic at, or download the HTML to self-host.
  • Point the CTA at your own waitlist/payment link to start collecting real signal.

2026-06-19

Find where your first customers are — real source-linked posts + ready async messages

  • On any idea, we scan public threads (Hacker News, forums, job boards) for real public posts where people describe the problem you solve.
  • Each lead carries a clickable source, the person’s own words, and a drafted async message you can send — a DM, a community reply, or a waitlist invite. No calls, ever.
  • We only surface leads we can ground in a real source; if the signal is thin, we say so instead of inventing names.

2026-06-19

Trending problems now ranked by demand

  • The public Trending problems page shows a demand score on each pain and ranks them by it — a blend of how often the pain re-surfaces across sweeps and the severity it was tagged at.
  • It's an honest relative-intensity signal, not an upvote count or a market percentage — every entry still links to its source.

2026-06-17

See the receipts — every verdict now shows its work

  • Discovery results show why candidates were rejected, the sources we scanned, a per-finalist scoring breakdown, and a recommended first move — not just a count.
  • Single Idea Check shows the full kill-filter table (every filter, pass or fail) and why a high score was downgraded; Compare shows a per-category matrix across all your ideas.
  • New public Trending problems page: real, source-linked customer pains ranked by how often they re-surface. The graveyard now suggests a pivot for ideas you killed.

2026-06-17

Verifiable sources on every pain signal

  • Discovery results now show an Evidence Base — the pain signals that shaped which candidates cleared the gate. Sourced entries carry a clickable link to where the pain was documented.
  • Pain Mining and Competitor Teardown panels show a 'source ↗' link on each grounded pain — the real fetched page or snippet, not a summary.
  • Each new Discovery run seeds a shared corpus that makes future sweeps smarter. The gate compounds across users and verticals.

2026-06-17

A darker, clearer redesign

  • The whole app is dark by default now — one consistent look across the landing, the home, and every page. Toggle to light anytime.
  • The home leads with Discover, the full-pipeline flagship: what you get, that it ranks candidates against your founder profile, and that every other mode runs on its finalists.
  • Credit costs now show up front in amber on every mode, so you always know what a run costs before you start it.

2026-06-15

Credits: pay per decision, no subscription

  • Buy prepaid credit packs on /pricing — $19 for 2, $49 for 6, $99 for 15, $149 for 30 credits. Credits don't expire.
  • 1 credit = one verdict with its reasons and your next move — Single Idea Check, Kill My Idea, Compare, Pain Mining, and the rest. Discovery is 2 credits for the first niche, +1 for each additional (capped at 15).
  • New accounts start with 2 free credits — enough to try it before paying. Your balance shows in the header, and you always see what a run costs before it runs.

2026-06-10

Public growth surface: sample report, free tools, idea library

  • A real, unedited Single Idea Check is now public at /sample-report — “Try a paid pilot”, 73/100, honest 5/10 evidence score included.
  • Free no-signup calculators at /tools: customers-needed (the ceil(target/price) reality check) and support-burden (hours/week with solo sustainability bands).
  • The idea library at /library: eight real finalist cards from one autonomous sweep — four worth testing, two on hold, two dropped.

2026-06-10

Discovery sources: scraper + official APIs join the search sweep

  • Named-revenue comps from TrustMRR, alternatives maps from SaaSHub, launch listings from BetaList — scraped politely (robots.txt respected) by our own fetcher.
  • Hacker News discussion threads (with points/comments) and Remotive job listings join as structured evidence via official public APIs.
  • All three source mechanisms compose; every discovery run now draws on more sources than a human curates by hand.

2026-06-10

Cross-run pain memory

  • Every discovery run now contributes its grounded public pain evidence to a shared corpus — and benefits from all prior runs' corpus at triage.
  • The kill-gate gets stricter and better-informed as the corpus grows. Nothing user-private is ever stored.

2026-06-09

Billing complete: plans, upgrades, cancellations

  • Founder $19 / Builder $49 / Pro $99 with per-tier mode access and quotas.
  • In-app plan switching (prorated), scheduled cancellation reflected on the billing page, tax-inclusive flat pricing.

2026-06-07

Discovery batches: sweep the whole catalog

  • Pick multiple seed verticals (or the whole catalog) and run them as one batch with live progress and a completion email.
  • Batches are reachable from /discover with per-batch finalists counts.

2026-06-04

Discovery quality: pain gate, deterministic scoring, first moves

  • Candidates without a real, sourced pain are killed by default — the gate that separates a decision engine from an idea generator.
  • Scores are computed deterministically in code from the 7-category breakdown (20/20/20/15/10/10/5 weights) — the model never emits a naked number.
  • Every discovery report opens with ONE recommended first move plus a stop-loss; the rest of the finalists are benched, not cheered.

2026-06-02

Full mode catalog: 15 analysis modes + the discovery flagship

  • Single Idea Check, Founder Fit, Kill My Idea, No-Call Validation, MVP Scope, Pricing Power, Support Burden, Platform Risk, Pivot Wedge, Pain Mining, Competitor Teardown, Compare, First-Pass, Idea Graveyard — all live.
  • Full Pipeline Discovery sweeps a niche end-to-end in ~6 minutes: sources → pains → kill-gate → scored finalists.

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