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To pressure-test a product idea before implementation, you can run a YC-style office hours diagnostic that applies structured forcing questions to validate demand reality and identify your smallest paid wedge. It captures results into a structured design document.

Demand validation for startup diagnostics is the process of evaluating demand reality, status quo, and desperate specificity through six forcing questions. It produces concrete next assignments to determine if a product is worth building.

To brainstorm design directions for a side project or hackathon, use builder-mode design partner brainstorming. It generates delightful, shippable design directions for open source, learning, and research projects without writing code.

Yes, you can generate a design document without writing code. The tool operates under allowed tool constraints with no implementation actions, producing a structured design doc aligned to your stated goal and mode.

Yes, it works for both startup founders and side project builders by routing them into appropriate workflows. Startup mode applies diagnostics for demand validation, while builder mode focuses on design partner brainstorming.