YC Startup Ideas

What it does

The best startup ideas solve the founders' own problems. This generator, inspired by Y Combinator's Paul Graham's, guides you through reflective questions to uncover potential startup ideas from your experiences.

Answer a series of questions based on Y Combinator's Paul Graham's essays, designed to extract the best ideas based on your own experience.

The best startup ideas solve the founders' own problems. This generator, inspired by Y Combinator's Paul Graham's essays, guides you through reflective questions to uncover potential startup ideas from your experiences. My hope is that before even submitting the form, you'll already have some good ideas to work off. If not, the generator can help to give you something concrete. For one, I wanted a structured way to work through the Paul Graham idea prompts, as well as a way to try out the different LLM APIs. On the other side, I've been wanting to try out PartyKit for a while. The "Twitch Chat"-style ideas feed is using websockets to actually update in realtime. You probably won't notice…from willsmithte.com

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