I spent 3 weeks on Reddit validating a SaaS idea before writing a line of code. Here's what I found.

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The founder of Flowtex spent three weeks using Reddit (15 subreddits) to validate a SaaS idea before writing code, focusing on small teams’ workflow pain without pitching or sharing a landing page link.
Feedback consistently highlighted “context loss” as a real and emotionally painful problem—decisions aren’t captured, knowledge disappears between apps, and AI tooling often restarts from scratch each session.
Respondents rely on workarounds such as documentation (e.g., CONTEXT.md), Notion as a single source of truth, and regular sync practices, but few reported a complete solution.
The product direction shifted from a broad, horizontal workspace to targeting small technical teams (founders, solopreneurs, and 2–5 person product builders), where the context problem is most acute.
Instead of competing with automation platforms (Zapier/Make-style agent automation), Flowtex is positioned as a “second brain” workspace that connects apps and provides business context for interactive, fully-contextual task execution.
The validation effort included roughly 40 pain-focused comments and resulted in a 9/10 validation score, followed by publishing a live landing page with a waitlist and the plan to start DMs earlier for stronger signals.

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