10x-mom-test

Validate a product idea by asking about past behavior instead of future intent. This Skill extracts your hypotheses, critiques risky assumptions, and generates an interview guide and survey focused on what users already do, what workarounds exist, and what the pain costs them.

The Mom Test is a validation method that avoids asking whether people like your idea. Instead it asks about recent real occurrences, current workarounds, and costs paid, because questions about hypothetical future use invite polite but unreliable answers.

Replace questions like "Would you use this product?" with behavior-based ones such as "Walk me through the last time you faced this problem." The Skill classifies each draft question as keep, rewrite, or drop and shows the improved version with the signal it reveals.

Yes, the Skill accepts supporting artifacts such as PRDs, shape notes, roadmaps, and opportunity maps, plus raw notes from tickets, interviews, or support threads. It separates documented facts from guesses and flags when evidence is thin.

Do not build when interviewees cannot recall recent occurrences of the problem, when no meaningful workaround exists today, or when an existing tool or process already handles it well enough. The Skill defines explicit proceed, narrow-scope, and stop thresholds.