Guides

A two-day plan to validate a startup idea: find the riskiest assumption, talk to real people, run a landing page test, then decide go, pivot or kill.

Eight places to find startup ideas with real demand, from Hacker News and Reddit to app store reviews and GitHub issues, and how to mine each one for pain.

A weighted scorecard for evaluating startup ideas: seven criteria, how to score each 1–5, a worked example, red flags and how to compare several ideas.

A practical guide to founder–idea fit: match startup and side project ideas to your hours, budget, skills and goals, and skip the ones you can’t finish.

Build a validation landing page (a fake door test) that tests one promise for one audience, with copy formulas, page anatomy and how to read the results.

How to get the first users for your startup: list 50 candidates, reach out personally, onboard by hand, launch in the right places and learn from 10 users.

Where the ideas in the Ideas feed come from, how they are ranked, what likes, saves and ratings do, and what you can do without an account.

What is free in Ideas, what costs credits, how many credits a report or landing page takes, and how Pro and credit packs work on the web and in the Mac app.

What an Ideas deep-dive report contains, how to export and share it, and how the one-click validation landing page collects leads for an idea.

Every keyboard shortcut in the Ideas Mac app, plus how to use the menu bar panel and the ⌥Space global hotkey to read today’s ideas without switching apps.