When should I use this Claude Code skill?

Use this skill whenever you have a new project idea, a feature concept, or are questioning if a specific startup direction is worth the development effort.

What is the PCV methodology used by the Idea Validator?

Perceived Created Value (PCV) rates current solutions against your proposed improvement across price, quality, performance, and convenience to quantify your product's competitive advantage.

Does this skill help with market sizing?

While it focuses on validation, it integrates directly with the market-sizer skill to help you understand the total addressable market after a problem space is validated.

What does a 'Build NOW' recommendation mean?

A 'Build NOW' recommendation is triggered by an exceptional PCV score (19-24), indicating a severe problem with weak current solutions and a high-impact improvement profile.

Idea Validator

Name: Idea Validator
Author: shipshitdev

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Productivity & Workflow

Evaluates startup concepts using the Hexa Opportunity Memo framework and Perceived Created Value (PCV) methodology to determine market viability.

The Idea Validator skill helps entrepreneurs and developers objectively assess the potential of new startup ideas before committing resources to development. By utilizing structured frameworks like Hexa’s Opportunity Memo and the PCV scoring system, it analyzes problem frequency, severity, and market awareness alongside a rigorous comparison of current solutions versus proposed improvements. This skill identifies high-potential 'Build NOW' opportunities while weeding out weak concepts, ensuring users focus their effort on problems that people actually need solved.

Key Features

01Direct integration with market sizing and MVP architecture workflows

02Perceived Created Value (PCV) scoring across price, quality, performance, and convenience

03Strategic discovery questions to define Ideal Customer Profiles (ICP) and market timing

0410 GitHub stars

05Problem Assessment Matrix for rating pain point severity and budget availability

06Automated 'Build vs. Abandon' recommendations based on quantitative scoring

Use Cases

01Refining a 'nice-to-have' idea into a 'must-have' solution based on gap analysis

02Vetting a new SaaS concept before writing the first line of code

03Determining the right timing and market triggers for launching a specific product

What are Skills?·How to Install

Install with 🐟 Skill.Fish

npx skillfish add shipshitdev/library idea-validator

For use in Claude.ai and ChatGPT

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