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
- KILL28/100You just described DoorDash to DoorDash's face and expected a prize — this isn't a startup, it's a memory of 2013 wearing a fresh domain name.
- KILL18/100You're charging for the thing my phone's clock app, my smartwatch, and a rubber band on a water bottle already do for free — this isn't a product, it's a push notification cosplaying as a business.
- 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.
- KILL33/100You're the fourteenth person this year to try to monetize the gap between 'I have eggs' and 'I made dinner' — and Mealime, Paprika, SuperCook, and ChatGPT already fixed it for free before your landing page loaded.
- KEEP72/100This is the rare roast submission where the founder actually lived the pain instead of imagining it from a WeWork beanbag — the problem is real, the wedge is sharp, and the only thing standing between you and a real company is a graveyard called A2X, Synder, and Bench.
- KILL38/100You've built 'GPT wrapper meets SEBI compliance nightmare' for a country where 'sound investment advice' means your cousin's hot tip and nobody has ever paid a rupee for the alternative.
- 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.
- KEEP72/100You've found the rarest thing in startups — a boring problem so painful people sign LOIs before you've written a line of code — and your only real risk is being too competent to admit compliance software bores buyers into 18-month sales cycles.
- KILL31/100You've built a partner who's paid to love you and licensed to fix you — which is either a codependency machine or a lawsuit with a subscription button, and probably both.
- PIVOT53/100You're selling a passport for a country that doesn't accept passports — every model speaks its own conditioning dialect, and your beautiful 'taste file' gets deported at the border of every tool you promised it would work in.
- KILL22/100You've reinvented Instagram, except the users can't type, can't pay, and don't know they have an account — congratulations, your entire customer base is a Labrador who thinks the phone is food.
- 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.