Launch Readiness Rubric
Score your own project across the six things that actually predict traction. You make the honest calls; the rubric just totals them and shows your weakest link. No invented grades.
An honest mirror, not an oracle
It’s tempting to want a tool that grades your startup idea “Market: B+”. But a web page can’t know your market, and a confident letter grade would be pure fiction. So this does the honest version: it gives you the six dimensions that actually predict traction and asks you to rate each one. The total is just your own scores added up, the value is the structure and the brutal question each row forces you to answer.
Why these six
- Problem, is it real, frequent, and painful?
- Differentiation, why you, and not the obvious alternative?
- Distribution, do you have a concrete way to reach users?
- Monetization, is there a believable path to money?
- Feasibility, can you actually build and run it?
- Motivation, will you still care in a year?
Distribution and motivation are the ones founders overrate least and need most. The rubric won’t tell you to build or not, it shows you your weakest link so you know what to fix or validate next. Nothing is uploaded.
FAQ
Does it judge whether my idea is good?
No. It reflects your ratings back, totalled, with your lowest dimension flagged. The honesty is yours to supply; the structure is the tool’s job.
What’s a “good” score?
There’s no magic number, a high score from dishonest self-rating means nothing. Use it to compare ideas and to spot the one dimension dragging the rest down.
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