You read my mind! For "contacting your potential customers ... to validate and get feedback on your idea," I'm currently working on http://www.petriapp.com/ htt

You read my mind! For "contacting your potential customers ... to validate and get feedback on your idea," I'm currently working on http://www.petriapp.com/ http://www.petriapp.com/ . In short, it's a tool that provides automated coaching to help people with ideas do all the right things in order to validate their idea, get feedback, and (if they decide to develop the idea) have an audience to launch to . Would love any feedback or ideas you have. It's funny because Zack (OP) and I live in the same area and used to work together. When I started pitching Petri to people locally (including at an event that Zack organizes) people asked me whether it was similar to The Pitch. The distinction (in my mind) between the two ideas is exactly what you mentioned: Feedback from potential customers vs. start-up community. I think both have their place. On the start-up community side, getting feedback like you've just provided is pretty valuable (e.g. "Oh, have you seen X?", "That business model is risky", etc.) That's expertise your potential customers don't have.