Most of what follows would normally be a pitch. We’d rather it be accurate, because we’re asking you for something, and you can’t help us with a version that isn’t true.
What’s live and taking money
Growth, at growth.trood.com
You describe what you’re building; an AI reads it and tells you what’s wrong, free, in a few minutes. Then you can buy evidence from actual humans: ICP-matched buyers interviewed, experts asked to kill your idea, mystery shoppers through your funnel, twenty target companies contacted for real, your pricing tested. The line the whole product rests on: everyone will tell you it’s a good idea; we’ll go find out.
Product Engine, at engine.trood.com
Where projects get scoped into milestones, staffed from the community, and delivered. In-house teams plus verified contributors: the expertise comes in, the stack stays yours.
LeadEnergy, at leadenergy.trood.com
You make the video, we get it seen. Managed distribution through a network of real channels, with a report on what actually happened.
Spreddit, at spreddit.trood.com
Point it at what you built. It turns that into a pack of posts and video, and helps you spread it.
What’s live and doesn’t earn yet
- people.trood.com, your public profile and a shareable card
- launchpad.trood.com, describe what you sell in a paragraph and it becomes a listing and an account
- tree.trood.com, our technology registry. Six contributors. Yes, six.
- space.trood.com, here
How it fits together
Growth finds out whether something is worth building. Product Engine builds it. LeadEnergy and Spreddit get it in front of people. Tree and people.trood.com are how we know who can do what.
Four of those take money today. The rest are how the network knows itself.
What isn’t finished, stated plainly
Fulfilment is manual across every product. We close orders by hand. That’s deliberate at this stage, it’s how prices get tested and how we find out what people actually want, but it’s the ceiling on how fast any of this grows.
Referrals are paid by hand too. Send someone our way and it’s tracked, and we pay it. What we don’t have yet is the automation, so the amount is a conversation rather than a number a machine computes. We’d rather say that than let you discover it.
We can’t measure the funnel yet. The events are in the code; nothing reads them. We honestly don’t know where most people drop out.
This forum is quiet. One post in the last month. You’re early.
What we’re asking
Three things, and the third matters most.
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Where does this lose you? Go through any of it as a stranger and tell us the exact moment you’d have closed the tab. If you don’t have a product of your own to test with, the next section is how to do it anyway.
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What would you build, or kill? Four live products fulfilled by hand isn’t a stable arrangement. If something here should die so the rest gets better, say so. We’d rather hear it now.
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Who do you know that needs this? Founders at idea stage, or managers trying to bring automation into a company, those are the people this is for. An introduction is worth more to us right now than almost anything else. We’ll tell you honestly what came of it, and we pay for the ones that land.
How to test it, even without a product of your own
Most people reading this aren’t sitting on a business that needs validating, and you don’t need one.
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Take an idea from someone you know. A friend with a side project, someone who keeps talking about starting something, a founder in your circle. Run it through growth.trood.com.
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One read, not five. It’s free to you, but it costs us real money in compute every time, so spend it on someone who might actually want the answer rather than on a test.
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Show them the result. That’s the actual test, and it’s the part we can’t see from here. Watch what they say when a machine tells them something uncomfortable about their idea, and tell us whether it landed or missed.
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If they want it built, put the same idea through engine.trood.com and see what the scoping produces. Milestones, staffing, the shape of the work.
If the person whose idea you ran wants to keep going, introduce us. Those introductions are tracked and we pay them.
If you want in rather than just an opinion
Three steps, about twenty minutes, and none of them are waiting on us:
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people.trood.com, your Trood Profile. It’s opt-in and reversible, and it goes live the moment you publish it. There’s nothing to approve and no queue: you’re at
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engine.trood.com, Product Engine. Sign up directly, there’s no invite to wait for. Tell us once you’re in and we’ll switch on the roles you want: executor if you’d like to be staffed on builds, operator if you’d rather bring client projects through, or both.
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tree.trood.com, our technology registry, if you want your stack on the public map. This one we review by hand, so it’s the only step with any wait in it, and it’s optional rather than a gate.
The roles in step 2 are the only thing that actually needs us, and that takes a minute.
Once your profile is published, share it somewhere you normally post. That loop is the one we most need to see working, and you’ll know immediately whether it felt worth sharing or not. Tell us which.
Reply here so others can build on it, or write to us directly. Both reach us.