I've been meaning to spin this into a full blog post, but here is the list of criteria that I use to evaluate new ideas: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9

I've been meaning to spin this into a full blog post, but here is the list of criteria that I use to evaluate new ideas: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9883697 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9883697 Naturally, then you need to do all the traditional market validation steps, but this at least filters your ideas down to ones that maybe stand a chance.