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I built an open-source "focus group simulator" that spawns 1,000 AI customers to roast your startup idea
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I built an open-source "focus group simulator" that spawns 1,000 AI customers to roast your startup idea

via Dev.to Webdevnghiahsgs3h ago

The Problem Every founder has been there: you spend 3 months building something, launch it, and... crickets. Nobody wants it. User interviews cost time. Landing page A/B tests cost money. Survey panels cost both. What if you could get brutally honest feedback from 1,000 potential customers in 2 minutes? What I Built Sybil Swarm is an open-source swarm intelligence engine. You feed it your product URL or description, and it: Spawns 1,000 AI agents — each with a unique persona (age, job, income, personality, interests) Has them evaluate your product as real potential customers Generates a market prediction report with conversion rate, objections, and recommendations The name comes from the Sibyls — prophetic oracles of ancient Greece. Demo The Dashboard The simulation runs in real-time with: Canvas world — agents move around, cluster by sentiment (buyers → right, rejectors → left) Sentiment heatmap — fills up red/yellow/green as agents complete Live feed — Twitter-like stream of agent re

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