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Idea Sprint

By solanabr· solanabr/solana-ai-kit· 0

Validate crypto startup ideas and decide whether they're worth building.

Installation

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When Claude uses it

Find and validate what to build in crypto. Use when the user asks "what should I build", "validate this idea", "is this worth building", "find me a startup idea", "crypto idea", or wants blunt feedback on a project concept before writing code.

What this skill does

<!-- Adapted from sendaifun/solana-new (find-next-crypto-idea, validate-idea), MIT © 2026 SendAI and Superteam. Telemetry removed. -->

Idea Sprint

Interview → necessity gate → 3 candidates → score → go/no-go. Output is a decision, not a brainstorm.

Context handoff

  • At start: read .claude/context/idea.md and .claude/context/build.md if present — resume from prior state instead of re-interviewing.
  • On completion: write/update .claude/context/idea.md with the chosen idea, scores, validation evidence, and open risks. Downstream skills (pitch-deck, hackathon) read it.

Workflow

1. Blunt interview

No flattery. Short, pointed questions, one at a time, until three things are explicit:

  • Edge — what the founder knows/can do that most can't (domain, distribution, tech)
  • Constraint — time, money, team, chain commitments
  • Wedge — the niche entry point, not the end-state vision

Push back on vague answers. "DeFi for everyone" is not a wedge. Full question bank: interview-framework.md.

2. Crypto-necessity gate

Kill question: "What gets worse if I remove the blockchain?" If the answer is vague, aesthetic, or marketing-driven — redirect the idea before scoring it. Pass criteria and redirect patterns: crypto-necessity-test.md.

3. Exactly 3 candidates

Generate three diverse candidates (different mechanisms/markets, not three flavors of one idea). For each:

  • One-line pitch + target user
  • Winner case — what's true in 18 months if it works
  • Bear case — the most likely way it dies

Seed from datasets + live landscape (below), then combine with fresh research. Datasets are inspiration, not constraints.

4. Score /15

Each candidate, 0–3 per dimension (full anchors: scoring-rubric.md):

Dimension3 means
Founder fitunfair advantage
MVP speedshippable in under a week
Distributionfirst ten users are obvious
Market pullpeople already paying for bad alternatives
Revenue pathclear monetization story

5. Validate + go/no-go

Check demand signals against customer-signal-rubric.md — manual workarounds, active forks, bounties, on-chain activity = real; likes and "cool idea" replies = noise. Sprint structure: validation-framework.md.

  • ≥ 8/15 → go. Write idea.md, suggest /scaffold next.
  • 6–7 → conditional: name the one dimension to de-risk first.
  • < 6 → strong no-go. Every no-go gets a pivot suggestion — use pivot-or-persist.md.

6. Write .claude/context/idea.md

Chosen idea, wedge, scores table, demand evidence, bear case, next step.

Idea datasets (inert JSON, ~515 entries)

In ../ext/solana-new/skills/data/ideas/:

Idea-source guides (markdown commentary on the same sources): ../ext/solana-new/skills/data/guides/ — plus source-map.md and research-playbook.md for where/how to research live.

Live hackathon landscape

ext/colosseum — 5,400+ Colosseum submissions for crowdedness checks, winner patterns, and gap analysis (requires COLOSSEUM_COPILOT_PAT).

Output format

Report spec (3 ranked candidates, scores, decision): output-spec.md.

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