r/launchigniter

Built this over the last few months with my co-founder. It's called Ulsa, an AI news app that organizes around your specific industry and role instead of giving everyone the same feed. Three things it does:

• Scores how fast your industry is moving right now, 0 to 100, so you can see at a glance if your field is quiet or shifting.

• Surfaces research and data that contradicts the headline, not just the consensus take.

• Lets you chat with it to dig into any story or ask what it means for your role.

It's live on iOS, Android, with web coming soon. Link's in the comments.

Now roast it. Specifically I want to know:

• Does the industry score sound genuinely useful or like a number we invented to look smart?

• Is "AI news app" already a crowded, meaningless category to you? If so, what would make this stand out?

• It's a paid app. Would you ever pay for news curation & hyper personalization with agent, or is that dead on arrival?

• Anything about the pitch above that makes you roll your eyes.

Don't be nice. I'd rather hear what I have to fix now than in 6 months

Founder here, building something small and want a gut-check before I go further.

The idea is simple: you set your brand colors (and fonts/text styles) once, then any chart you make — bar, line, pie, marimekko, combo — automatically sticks to them. No re-coloring by hand, no drifting off-palette. When you're done, you export a clean image to drop into a deck, doc, or wherever.

I'm deliberately keeping it focused: no live/auto-updating embeds (everyone I talk to says people just ask for a screenshot anyway), and no heavy BI/dashboards. Just: pick colors, make chart, export image, stay on-brand.

Not linking anything — just trying to figure out if this solves a real problem before I build more.