TellMe
An always-on customer-interview moderator for indie researchers — set a topic, let AI run 30-minute voice conversations with your users, then get back a sentiment-coded, theme-tagged research report.
Solo UX researchers and product marketers running their own user interviews
- Branded interview-script builder that the AI runs through naturally
- Live emotion-and-sentiment timeline per conversation
- Auto-tagged themes across many sessions with quote highlights
- Clip-quote export to slide decks and customer-insight memos
Mira's Product Hunt launch validates that founders want AI to handle the grunt work of qualitative user interviews so one researcher can run many more.
Strong validation: Listen Labs raised $69M Series B and claims hundreds of thousands of interviews processed; Mira launched on Product Hunt (July 2026) with 130 upvotes and #5 ranking; multiple mature players (Outset, User Intuition, Maze, Entropik) confirm active category demand.Listen Labs AI Interviews Reviewed: Worth the $69M Hype? ↗Mira - AI moderated interviews that read how people feel | Product Hunt ↗
Very crowded market with at least 10 funded competitors: Listen Labs ($69M), Outset, User Intuition, Maze AI Moderator, Entropik Decode, Theysaid, Betafi, Sprig, Dovetail, plus the reference product Mira — almost no white space for a solo-researcher entry.Top AI-Moderated User Interview Platforms Compared | Decode ↗Mira Competitors & Alternatives (2026) | Product Hunt ↗
Enterprise willingness to pay is validated (Listen Labs' $69M raise, User Intuition/Outset enterprise pricing), but the indie/solo-researcher segment TellMe targets is price-sensitive and largely unproven; the reference Mira offers a free tier and one practice interview/month, suggesting indie users expect low or zero entry pricing.Mira. Interviews test your nerves, not your knowledge. ↗Listen Labs AI Interviews Reviewed: Worth the $69M Hype? ↗
Durable trend as conversational LLMs (Mira explicitly uses gpt-realtime) keep improving voice quality, but the category is being absorbed by incumbents like UserTesting, Dovetail, and Sprig who are adding AI features — niche solo tools risk being commoditized.Mira. Interviews test your nerves, not your knowledge. ↗The Early Adopter's Guide to AI Moderation in UX Research ↗
Technically feasible today thanks to realtime voice APIs (gpt-realtime, ElevenLabs) and mature transcription/sentiment models; MVP buildable in weeks, though 30-minute coherent voice interviews, multi-language nuance, and accurate sentiment-coding remain non-trivial engineering work.Mira. Interviews test your nerves, not your knowledge. ↗AI-Moderated Interviews for User Research | Maze ↗