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An AI productivity tool for developers that auto-prioritizes tasks using git commit history and calendar data to surface what is really urgent each morning
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BAn AI productivity tool for developers that auto-prioritizes tasks using git commit history and calendar data to surface what is really urgent each morning for a narrow first customer segment, packaged as a four-week V1 with one measurable pain, one acquisition channel, and a clear month-six success target.
Per-question score table
Who is this for, very specifically?
Specific persona, but no proof these engineers actually want this enough to pay.
What pain are they paying for today?
Quantified spend, quantified time loss, and a real gap no current tool fills.
Why now? What changed in the world?
Real tailwind, but "LLMs got cheaper" is a tailwind every competitor has too.
What's the V1 you can build in 4 weeks?
Tight scope, zero-install distribution, and a feedback loop that improves the product.
How will you reach the first 100 users?
Cold LinkedIn DMs to EMs is a low-conviction channel with brutal conversion.
What does success look like at month 6?
Specific numbers, but $2.4K MRR at month 6 is light and the retention claim is unproven.
Homework
Three concrete next steps before you run the next session.
- 1Interview 5 people in the exact customer segment and write down the words they use for the painful workflow.
- 2Build a clickable V1 outline that solves only the highest-friction step from those interviews.
- 3Send one concise outreach message to 20 likely first users and measure replies, not likes.
What founders say about gstack
“gstack's forcing questions are sharper than most advisors I have paid for.”
@founder_a
“Used this to pressure-test our YC application. We got in.”
@yc_alum_b
“58K GitHub stars for a reason. The framework is legit.”
@indie_dev_c
“It saved me from building the wrong thing. Twice.”
@pm_dana
Your next step
Apply to YC
- 1.5% acceptance rate
- 3 to 6 months until the next batch
- One idea reviewed
- Weeks to hear back
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