Can this skill help with customer interviews?

Yes, it provides templates based on 'The Mom Test' principles to help you ask non-leading questions that uncover genuine customer pain points and spending habits.

How does this skill help avoid building the wrong product?

It forces a focus on observing user actions, such as signups or pre-payments, rather than just opinions. It uses structured experiments like 'fake door' tests to prove demand before any code is written.

What is a 'fake door' test in this context?

A 'fake door' test involves adding a button or link for a feature that doesn't exist yet to measure click-through intent, helping you prioritize the features people actually want.

Is this skill only for non-technical founders?

While it's optimized for solo and non-technical founders to save time and money, any developer can use it to ensure their side projects have real market potential before committing to development.

Startup Idea Validator

Name: Startup Idea Validator
Author: whawkinsiv

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Productivity & Workflow

Validates business ideas and market demand using data-driven frameworks to avoid building products nobody wants.

The Startup Idea Validator skill transforms Claude into a high-level startup advisor specifically for solo and bootstrapped founders, providing structured frameworks to test market demand before writing code. It offers actionable strategies for problem discovery, 'The Mom Test' interviewing techniques, landing page experiment design, and smoke testing to ensure product-market fit early in the development cycle. This skill helps founders move from gut-feeling decisions to data-backed 'go/no-go' outcomes by measuring real user actions rather than just opinions.

Key Features

01152 GitHub stars

02Problem intensity and frequency scoring

03Standardized go/no-go validation scorecard

04Landing page and smoke test experiment design

05Customer interview script generation based on The Mom Test

06Willingness-to-pay and fake-door test frameworks

Use Cases

01Designing high-conversion landing pages for waitlist signups and lead generation

02Conducting competitive research and problem validation on Reddit or niche forums

03Testing a new SaaS idea's viability before starting the development phase

What are Skills?·How to Install

Install with 🐟 Skill.Fish

npx skillfish add whawkinsiv/solo-founder-superpowers validate

For use in Claude.ai and ChatGPT

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