Startup X Ray

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🧠 Inspiration

Startup X-Ray was born out of frustration. Before meetings with startup founders or recruiters, I’d spend 15+ minutes scrambling through LinkedIn, Crunchbase, blogs, and press releases—just to figure out what a company actually does.

I wanted a tool that could instantly generate a VC-style breakdown without opening five tabs. What started as a personal tool turned out to solve a common problem—over 500 users have since adopted it for founder meetings, interviews, and investment research.

🚀 What It Does

Startup X-Ray gives you instant, structured insights into any startup or founder—just by typing a name. It provides:

Bullet-point summary of the product
Visualizations Market opportunity and traction
Team highlights
Competitors and potential risks

It replaces 15 minutes of scattered research with a clean, 1-minute scan.

🛠 How I Built It

Frontend: Next.js with Tailwind CSS for a sleek, fast UI
Backend: Perplexity Sonar API for real-time web search and summarization
Deployment: Vercel, with a custom domain

🧱 Challenges I Ran Into

Live API handling: Managing response time and rate limits under tight demo conditions
Content formatting: Ensuring the summaries came out readable and consistent
Usefulness Talking with initial users, people believed that text itself is not as useful, thus I added visualizations for this.

🏆 Accomplishments That I Proud Of

Over 500 real users with only spread of mouth

📚 What I Learned

Perplexity Sonar is incredibly powerful for real-time summarization and reasoning
Users don’t always use your product how you expect—but that’s a good thing
Simplicity wins: one input field and fast output beats fancy features when you’re solving a real pain point