Show HN: Premortem – AI agents that red-team your startup idea

7 pointsposted 10 hours ago
by ahoskins

10 Comments

unsnap_biceps

8 hours ago

PREMORTEM: AI idea red team. Submit a startup idea. Six AI agents simultaneously try to tear it apart — market, tech, competition, unit economics, and more. A seventh writes the memo.

IDEA SCORE Average of the six seats: 2.5 / 10

THE CUSTOMER DOUBTER 3

THE COMPETITOR SCOUT 2

THE MARKET SKEPTIC 4

THE TECHNICAL CRITIC 3

THE UNIT ECONOMICS JUDGE 2

THE PESSIMIST 1

rtvn83

41 minutes ago

six agents roasting my idea in 90 seconds is way cheaper than pitching it to friends at dinner. any chance of a round two where I get to fight back?

skellertor

9 hours ago

I like the name, and the idea. Not sure 6 AI Agents could give you the feeback that the free market naturally provides. Cool idea though

jmpavlec

5 hours ago

Sounds like a great way to aggregate a bunch of other people's startup ideas...

lwi00

10 hours ago

the idea is good to have those kind of things to evaluate ideas but it is but the score is not really clear, if I have 4/10 does it means my idea is 4 out of 10 to build or the red team gives it a 4/10 on the 'do not build it' scale

ahoskins

3 hours ago

Fair point, the polarity is easy to misread. The score is how viable the idea looks after the red team (higher is better), not a "do not build" score. I will make that clearer in the UI.

vivzkestrel

4 hours ago

- you know what you should actually build?

- an agent that builds an mvp and auto markets it to get the first 100 customers

- and then measures how long it took, how many people it reached, how many people converted

- and then rates an idea from 1 to 10

htrp

6 hours ago

isn't most of this in gstack?

dgellow

8 hours ago

I don’t understand this type of business. It’s basically a set of prompts? Why wouldn’t I just ask Claude to do the same? It can spawn multiple agents and have them red-team any idea

xgulfie

8 hours ago

Generous take: they've fine-tuned the prompts with some experience

Skeptical take: laundering responsibility