Validate product ideas with structured YC-style office hours diagnostics.
npx skills add https://github.com/ajsai47/holyclaude --skill office-hours-ajsai47
Please help me install this Agent Skill. Skill: office-hours Source: https://github.com/ajsai47/holyclaude/tree/main/skills/team/office-hours Command: npx skills add https://github.com/ajsai47/holyclaude --skill office-hours-ajsai47
This skill solves the problem of jumping into implementation before validating whether a product idea is worth building. Founders and builders often waste weeks coding something nobody wants. This skill forces the hard questions about demand, specificity, and user pain before any code is written.
Use the office-hours skill to think through your new product idea and generate a design document.
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You can validate a product idea by applying YC-style office hours diagnostics that force hard questions about demand reality and user pain. This structured brainstorming process produces a design document capturing status quo analysis and narrowest wedge, ensuring you validate demand before writing code or hiring engineers.
The best way to validate side projects is using Builder Mode design thinking diagnostics. This structured brainstorming approach assesses the narrowest wedge and future-fit of your idea, producing a design document that captures your thinking before you start building.
A YC office hours diagnostic evaluates product demand by asking six forcing questions that expose demand reality and analyze the status quo. It checks whether the problem is specific enough and assesses future-fit, ensuring founders validate real user pain before committing to implementation.
Yes, you can use this validation process to generate a structured design document for engineering handoff. The output captures demand reality, status quo analysis, and the narrowest wedge, allowing you to hand clear product specifications directly to your engineering team.
Startup Mode focuses on six forcing questions to expose demand reality and future-fit for startup founders. Builder Mode applies design thinking brainstorming for side projects, hackathons, learning, and open source contributions, tailoring the idea validation process to the builder's context.
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