YC Startup Idea Generator

The best startup ideas solve the founders' own problems. This generator, inspired by Y Combinator's Paul Graham's essays, guides you through reflective questions to uncover potential startup ideas from your experiences. My hope is that before even submitting the form, you'll already have some good ideas to work off. If not, the generator can help to give you something concrete.

Idea Generator

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Why does this exist?

For one, I wanted a structured way to work through the Paul Graham idea prompts, as well as a way to try out the different LLM APIs. On the other side, I've been wanting to try out PartyKit for a while. The "Twitch Chat"-style ideas feed is using websockets to actually update in realtime. You probably won't notice because there are no users here, and it's obviously overkill just for this. But it was fun :)