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

(premortem.site)

7 points | by ahoskins 10 hours ago ago

10 comments

  • rtvn83 11 minutes ago 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?

  • unsnap_biceps 8 hours ago 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

  • skellertor 9 hours ago 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 ago

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

  • lwi00 9 hours ago 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 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 3 hours ago 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 5 hours ago ago

    isn't most of this in gstack?

  • dgellow 8 hours ago 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 7 hours ago ago

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

      Skeptical take: laundering responsibility