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Search Evidence vs
an AI Business Report.

FeatureOluneIdeaProof
How it worksResearch agents (Reddit via Google, search volume, competitors)An AI report from a one-line description or a URL
What you getA score, a verdict, and the threads, volumes and competitors behind itA viability score and go or no-go, market sizing, competitors, plus a business plan, brand and marketing assets
Cost per IdeaFree (3 a day)Credit based (see their pricing page)
Effort RequiredLow (five short questions and a free sign-in)Low (describe the idea or paste a URL)
Best ForFiltering a shortlist, 3 ideas a dayA full plan and launch kit for one idea

Why look for an IdeaProof alternative?

IdeaProof is an AI platform that turns an idea into a report. You describe it in a sentence or paste a URL, and it gives you a viability score with a go or no-go call, market sizing and a competitor analysis. On top of that it writes a business plan, a brand, logo concepts, a pitch deck and marketing assets.

That is a lot of output for one idea. If what you need right now is a filter, a straight answer on whether to keep going, with the evidence laid out so you can check it yourself, a narrower tool fits better.

Olune: Evidence You Can Check

Olune does one job: it tests whether an idea is worth building. It scores the idea on seven dimensions with no account, then a free sign-in runs the research:

  • The Community Check: Are people already complaining about this problem? We search Google for public Reddit threads, search Hacker News directly, and link every thread we use.
  • The Intent Check: Are people searching for a solution? We pull monthly keyword search volumes.
  • The Competitor Check: Who is already shipping it? We map the competitors that show up in Google and Product Hunt searches.

Text in quotation marks appears word for word in the search result we found for that thread. Olune does not write business plans, logos or ad creatives.

Using Both

If you have ten ideas, run them through Olune first, three a day. Expect several to come back as kill it on thin search demand or heavy competition.

Take the survivors, the ones Olune gave a Cook it verdict. If you then want a full plan and launch kit for one of them, that is where a report tool like IdeaProof fits.