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Decide which idea is worth building.

WhittleOS scores your startup ideas for solo-founder fit — BUILD, VALIDATE, or KILL, with the reasons. No calls, no coaching. Just a verdict you can act on.

Free plan — one idea check, no card required.

VALIDATE

Recurring buyer and a reachable channel, but distribution is unproven — worth a cheap async test before building.

72GRADE B

Next move

Stand up a paid-preorder landing page; run async outreach in two communities.

How it works

1

Bring an idea — or none

Describe one idea in four fields, or sweep a whole niche and let the pipeline source candidates for you.

2

We score it for solo fit

Kill-filters + seven weighted categories judge what one person can realistically build, sell, and support.

3

Get a verdict you can act on

BUILD / VALIDATE / KILL with the reasons, the biggest unknown, and the one next move — or an honest KILL.

Why it's different

Built for solo founders

Not VC-scale playbooks. Scored on distribution, support load, and pricing power a single person can actually carry.

Kill-biased by design

Most ideas should die early. We tell you which — and why — so you don't burn months. Killed ideas rest in a graveyard.

No calls, ever

Validation plans are async: a landing page + a real CTA, not customer interviews. The whole product is no-call.

What you can do

Discover

Full-pipeline sweep of a niche → ranked finalists.

Check one idea

A single BUILD / VALIDATE / KILL verdict with reasons.

Compare

Rank several ideas against your situation.

Validate

A 1–2 week async validation plan + stop-loss.

Scope the MVP

Turn a validated idea into a narrow v0.1 build.

Kill My Idea

A deliberately adversarial teardown before you commit.

Stop building the wrong thing.

Get an honest verdict on your next idea in minutes — saying no early is the whole point.