How does this skill help with market sizing?

It uses a bottom-up approach to calculate realistic revenue based on your specific ICP, price point, and capture rate rather than vague global numbers.

Is this skill only for non-technical founders?

While optimized for solo founders, it provides any developer with a rigorous business framework to ensure their technical efforts are spent on profitable ideas.

How do I validate a problem before building?

The skill provides outreach templates and landing page test strategies to confirm demand through actual customer conversations and signals.

Can I use this for competitive analysis?

Yes, it includes templates for mapping direct and indirect competitors, identifying weaknesses, and finding your unique positioning quadrant.

Market Research & Validation

Name: Market Research & Validation
Author: whawkinsiv

bywhawkinsiv

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Marketing Automation

Validates business ideas and analyzes market opportunities using sizing frameworks, competitive mapping, and solo-founder fit assessments.

This skill provides a structured framework for solo and bootstrapped founders to evaluate SaaS business ideas before writing code. It guides users through early validation techniques like customer outreach and landing page tests, bottom-up market sizing (TAM/SAM/SOM), and comprehensive competitive analysis. By focusing on 'napkin math' and high-pain problems, it helps developers ensure they are building products in markets with genuine demand and willingness to pay, ultimately reducing the risk of building something nobody wants.

Key Features

01Competitive analysis and substitute mapping

02Bottom-up market sizing and revenue estimation

03Distribution channel and buyer leverage analysis

04Customer outreach and interview frameworks

05152 GitHub stars

06Solo-founder market fit scoring rubric

Use Cases

01Calculating realistic addressable market size for a specific niche or ICP

02Evaluating a new SaaS idea for market viability and revenue potential

03Conducting competitive research to identify positioning gaps and feature opportunities

What are Skills?·How to Install

Install with 🐟 Skill.Fish

npx skillfish add whawkinsiv/solo-founder-superpowers market-research

For use in Claude.ai and ChatGPT

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