Free gut check

Should you even build this?

Answer six questions about demand, scope, and alternatives. Use the recommendation to decide what to investigate before committing to a build.

Should you even build this?

Choose the answers that best describe your idea today. The result is a starting recommendation, with an indicative budget for a first version.

1. Have you talked to people who'd actually pay for this?

2. Does something like it already exist?

3. Could you fake the core by hand first (spreadsheet, no-code, do it manually)?

4. How clear is the one thing it must do?

5. Why now?

6. How big is the thing in your head?

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