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Brutally honest validation · v19.5 framework
Most startup ideas are dead on arrival.
Find out before you build.
Live demand data from Google Keyword Planner plus public web evidence: competitors, prices, open-source tools, and regulators. Every important claim has a source. Ten killer-pattern detectors, including K9 status-quo. Plain verdict, no AI praise.
● INPUT · describe your idea0 / ...
~1-2 min · checks real, live evidence
Private by default. After the verdict you choose: keep private, share a link (view-only, or view + comment), or publish to the board.
How it works
Three steps. Minutes, not weeks. One verdict.
STEP 01
Describe your idea
Write 1-3 clear sentences. Add who it is for, where you will sell first, and how you might charge.
STEP 02
We test the ten killer-patterns
We check demand, competitors, free alternatives, platform risk, public sources, and the K9 status-quo problem. Every serious claim needs evidence.
STEP 03
Brutal verdict with sources
You get NO-GO, WATCHLIST, TEST or GO, a score out of 100, the strict checks that capped the idea, and the first action to take.
The ten killers
Most ideas die from one of ten patterns. We check for all of them.
K1 · §3.2.7bis
Validator-killer
Developer API trap
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K2 · §3.1.4
B2C consumer trap
Sub-$10 ARPU ceiling
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K3 · §4.2.1
Regulator made it free
Public infra moat
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K4 · §3.5.0
Platform built it natively
Banks/Big Tech
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K5 · §3.6.2
OSS closed the market
Free + good enough
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K6 · §3.4.1
Free incumbents saturated
Zero-cost competitors
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K7 · §3.4.2
Paid competitors entrenched
Network-effect moats
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K8 · §3.7.0
ChatGPT replaces it
Foundation model coverage
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K9 · §4.1
No painful status quo
Workaround silence · pain absence
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K10 · §4 / ENGINE
Tarpit idea-class
Graveyard of funded attempts
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Compared
A general-purpose AI will flatter you. We will not.
Pricing
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