office-hours

To create a structured design doc from early-stage product ideas, use a YC office-hours workflow to run phase-driven questioning. This process surfaces concrete customer pains and specific use cases, drafting a formal plan artifact with status, risks, and required follow-ups.

The best way to validate demand reality for a side project is through a dual-mode office-hours workflow. Startup mode specifically prompts structured questions to surface specific customer pain and demand reality before moving into design thinking or planning.

Yes, you can brainstorm product design without writing code. The office-hours workflow operates in builder mode for design thinking, guiding ideation and risk assessment to draft a concrete plan with next steps while enforcing a no-code approach.

To draft a formal plan artifact with risk assessments for a startup, complete an office-hours session. The workflow enforces a YAML frontmatter contract and outputs a concrete plan including project status, identified risks, and required follow-ups.

Yes, the generated design doc requires a specific frontmatter format. The workflow enforces a YAML frontmatter contract that mandates name and description fields at the root level of the output artifact to ensure structured documentation.