Submit a startup idea. Get a verdict you’ll either screenshot or delete.
Scored 0 to 100 across five dimensions. No appeals.
From the crucible
- KILL33/100You've taken the hardest problem in tech — dating-app liquidity — and voluntarily shrunk your pool to the one demographic least likely to swipe on their phone at midnight.
- KILL43/100You're selling background checks as a feature, but the graveyard already has a headstone with your exact idea on it — it's called Garbo, and Match Group buried it.
- KILL43/100You've written a gorgeous show bible and mistaken it for a company — this is The Apprentice cosplaying as a cap table, and it dies the moment a network exec asks 'so where's your distribution?'
- PIVOT62/100You've found a genuinely beautiful wedge and then bet the whole company on a 74-year-old in Kanpur wanting to pour his heart out to a robot every week for a year — and the first time he realizes it's not a person, the magic and the revenue both hang up.
- PIVOT61/100You've turned 'I feel guilty I never call Mom' into a monthly subscription that calls Mom for you — a robot outsourcing the one thing she actually wanted from you.
- PIVOT58/100You've written a great VC memo about a startup and forgotten to include the founder — half of this is you coaching yourself, and the coaching is better than the company.
- KILL22/100You've reinvented the sublet, sprayed it with kombucha, and asked to be priced like a SaaS company — this is a landlord in a hoodie carrying long-term leases and short-term tenants straight into the fire.
- KILL38/100You didn't spot a gap in the market — you spotted the exact spot where a dozen well-funded startups are buried, and decided to lie down next to them.
- KILL22/100Congratulations, you've invented Google — the 1998 one, complete with the homepage and everything, except Google already spent 25 years and a trillion dollars occupying the exact address you just pitched.
- PIVOT59/100You've built a spell-checker for hallucinations — useful right up until it misses the misspelled label, at which point it's a liability with a login.
- KILL39/100You're selling shovels to distributors who are already broke from the last shovel — and your shovel is a free portfolio PDF anyone with a Google Sheet can print.
- KILL40/100You've automated the 45 seconds of typing nobody was struggling with, and left the actual painful part — the standup meeting — fully intact.