I built 3 projects in 2 years. No one used them. I felt sick.
“I built 3 projects in 2 years. No one used them. I felt sick.”
“Spent $40k building features nobody wanted. Found out at launch.”
“6 months building something nobody asked for. My co-founder quit.”
“I kept solving problems nobody cared about. Three times in a row.”
“Launched to silence. Not a single signup. I'd quit my job for this.”
“Burned through my savings. Zero users. The idea was never validated.”
Your idea needs a verdict.Not encouragement.
Accelerators rejected your last idea without feedback. Friends said it sounded great. AI told you it had potential. None of them had skin in the game.
bad1dea has no incentive to encourage you. The score is set by an algorithm before a single word of AI narrative is written. The verdict is final — and it doesn't care how long you've been working on it.
The right outcome isn't a high score. It's clarity — whether that's confidence to proceed or 18 months returned to your life.
| Pillar | Score | Finding |
|---|---|---|
| Problem Clarity | 42 | Founder-sourced. No stranger validation. |
| Market Size | 61 | Top-down TAM. No bottom-up calculation. |
| Solution Fit | 38 | Job definition unclear. |
| Business Model | 25 CAP | No payment evidence. Hard cap applied. |
| Competition | 14 KO | KNOCKOUT — No structural moat. |
| Execution | 35 | Budget <3 months. Skills gap. |
What you put in
determines what comes out.
18 structured questions designed to separate what you know from what you believe. Live market data fetched at audit time. A deterministic algorithm that sets the score before the AI writes a single word.
Six pillars.
Each one a failure vector.
Scored from your evidence — not your confidence. None optional. None skippable.
Most ideas never get in front of the right people.
The ones that do earned it.
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