Check your idea against our criteria
These are the same eight questions we pull incoming applications apart with. Answer honestly and in two minutes you get a score across four axes, your weak spots and one concrete next step. Nothing is sent anywhere: the result stays in your browser.
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Self-check
Eight questions
Each option shows its weight on the right — we do not hide the scale. The point is not to score high, but to see where the idea is thin.
JavaScript is off. The score will not add itself up, but the test still works: sum the points next to the options you picked. Twenty-four is the maximum; the bands are below.
Answer honestly — you are scoring this for yourself, not for us.
Four axes
Where it is thin
Weak answers with a concrete next step. Start from the top one.
No weak spots found
All eight answers are strong. That is rare — and it is the case where the application is worth sending today, not “once it is ready”.
The result is stored in your browser and travels with your application.
Scale
How we read the result
Twenty-four points maximum, three per question. The four bands below are exactly what we tell ourselves when an application opens.
78–100
from 19–24 points
This looks like our case
You know the industry from the inside, you have touched demand with your hands and you have the hours. This is exactly the founder profile we keep a slot open for.
56–77
from 14–18 points
Solid base, a couple of holes
The base is solid, but one or two supports rest on faith. Normal at this stage — the only bad move is building on top of the untested part.
34–55
from 9–13 points
Early, but fixable
For now this is a direction rather than a project: there is little evidence the problem hurts anyone but you. The good news — that is testable without code or money.
0–33
from 0–7 points
Still an idea, not a project
In your place we would not start building. None of the four supports touches the ground yet, and anything built now would be expensive guesswork.
A low score is not a verdict on you
Almost every strong project started mid-scale: the industry was there, the evidence was not. The only difference is that those founders went to talk to customers instead of writing a spec. A score moves in two weeks of work — industry experience does not.
8questions, maximum24points.The full screening terms.
Let us go through the result together
The application takes ten minutes and your check result is attached to it automatically. We answer within three business days, yes or no.