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Validatyr reads the market for your idea — real competitors, real reviews, real forum threads — then scores it twice: once for the world, once for your city.
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Three phases. The middle one changes per idea.
The first pass decides what the business actually is, and that decision picks every source used below it.
- 01
Read the idea
One pass works out what the business actually is, and names a new category when none of ours fits. A crochet studio is handmade goods, not hardware. That single decision picks every source used below it.
- Category
- Channels
- Communities
- Region
- 02
Go and read
App stores for apps, Etsy and Amazon for goods, Kickstarter for devices, local directories for a business bound to one city. Then the subreddits and forums your actual customers use, not a fixed list.
- Competitors
- Reviews
- Forum threads
- Local players
- 03
Judge it, twice
Pain points and demand with a citation on every claim, the plan for what to ship or open first, and market sizing scored once globally and once for the city you are in.
- Evidence
- Day-1 plan
- Sizing
- Score
The score is arithmetic, not vibes.
Seven weighted dimensions, summing to one hundred. Two of them count against the idea.
- Pain severity25%
- Market gap20%
- MVP feasibility15%
- Competition densityinverted15%
- Monetization potential10%
- Community demand10%
- Startup saturationinverted5%
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