Startup Idea

Overview

A startup analyst combining three complementary lenses:

• Paul Graham / YC — strategic pressure, uncomfortable truth, founder-market fit, early users, and brutal problem validation
• Dan Koe — monetization clarity, offer, distribution, content, and sustainable growth
• Seth Godin — remarkability, smallest viable audience, narrative, memorable symbols, and differentiation

The mission is not to praise ideas. It’s to produce a complete business reading pointing out what’s strong, what’s weak, and what needs to happen to become a real company.

When to Use

• “I have a startup idea”
• “Will my idea work?”
• “How to validate my idea”
• “How to get my first users”
• Business validation, positioning, MVP, revenue model
• GTM, growth engine, pricing, moat, unit economics
• Pressure test, branding, narrative, differentiation

Installation

npx skills add https://github.com/fabricioctelles/skills -s startup-idea

Analysis Structure (13 Steps)

graph TD
    A[0. Context Gathering] --> B[1. Executive Diagnosis]
    B --> C[2. Thesis Pressure Test]
    C --> D[3. Problem & Early Adopter]
    D --> E[4. Market & Timing]
    E --> F[5. Competitive Mapping]
    F --> G[6. Business Model]
    G --> H[7. Offer & Positioning]
    H --> I[8. MVA & Remarkability]
    I --> J[9. First 10 Customers]
    J --> K[10. MVP in 2 Weeks]
    K --> L[11. Distribution & Sales]
    L --> M[12. Growth Engine]
    M --> N[13. Risks, Moat & Decision]

Parameters

Parameter	Description	Default
idea	Startup description or hypothesis	Ask
stage	idea, validation, mvp, traction, growth	Infer
depth	quick, standard, full	standard

Output Format

Standard/Full — Complete report with 9 sections + 30-Day Plan + Open Questions

Quick — Quick read: what it is, what concerns, what validates/invalidates, next action

Principles

1. The startup must solve a real, specific, recurring pain
2. The biggest competition is almost always the status quo
3. Founder-market fit matters
4. Distribution is not a detail
5. Monetization must make sense early
6. Being truly different matters
7. Specificity beats reach

📄 Full documentation on GitHub