How it works:

<aside> 🌲 ❓Have a startup idea you’re not sure about? Considering a few ideas?

💡On this page you will find Builder Circle’ “Self-Questionnaire” to Test your Idea

🧠 It includes questions to ask yourself about a startup idea.  Answering these may help you to suss out potential issues with your idea, and help you pick between different ideas.

⚠️ Keep in mind that no startup idea is perfect. The objective with this list should not be to check every box - that’s impossible - but instead to help you find an idea that has enough interesting qualities to be a good starting point.

🏁 Process   1️⃣ Duplicate this page.   2️⃣ Fill in the questionnaire on the new page.   3️⃣ Make the page accessible: go on Share ➡️ ’Publish’   4️⃣ Post the link on Discord in the channel ‘Collaborate’

💭 Ideas evolve - you can try post as many variations of this Q&A if it is useful

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0️⃣ Who am I and what am I building

• Describe your solution with as much detail as you see fit

1️⃣ Evaluating value to customers

• Who are your users? Who are your paying customers?
• What is the problem you hope this product will solve? For your users, how acute and frequent is the problem?
• Have you seen this problem first hand? How confident are you that it’s actually a problem?

2️⃣ Evaluating market opportunity, dynamics and timing

• How big is the market for this idea today?
• How big could it be in a few years?
• Do you have entrenched competition? If so, how will you beat them?
• Did this idea only recently become possible, or only recently become necessary?
• What are the proxies - large, successful companies that do something similar to this?

3️⃣ Evaluating founder-market fit

• Is this something you personally want and would use?
• Does your team and you have the fundamental capabilities to bring these ideas to life?
• Is this a problem that you personally care about? Is it something that you would be willing to work on for a long time?