The Eureka Database
On finding, validating, and building ideas.
Playbooks on spotting real demand, pressure-testing an idea, and shipping an MVP, from the team that reads the internet's complaints for a living.
- Opinion5 min read
The bar keeps rising: a 14-year-old cold-called Sam Altman and got into YC
The youngest YC founder was 14. Teenagers are shipping real revenue. What it means when the floor for 'impressive' keeps climbing, and why that should free you rather than scare you.
Read - Validation6 min read
The exact words people use right before they pay
Buying intent has a vocabulary. The phrases that separate someone venting from someone reaching for a card, and how to find them in the wild.
Read - Method7 min read
How we mine validated ideas from real complaints
The full pipeline, nothing held back: where we read, how we filter venting from demand, and how a recurring complaint becomes a scored, buildable idea.
Read - Method5 min read
Startup ideas are hiding in one-star reviews
The best product briefs are written by angry customers of tools that already exist. A repeatable method for turning one-star reviews into a business.
Read - Validation5 min read
Painkiller or vitamin: a five-minute test for any idea
Painkillers get bought, vitamins sit on the shelf. A concrete rubric to tell which one you have, with worked pass and fail examples.
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