Before
A grocery planning app for busy parents that auto-generates weekly meal plans and shopping lists
After
BA grocery planning app for busy parents that auto-generates weekly meal plans and shopping lists for one named user, reduced to the smallest paid wedge and grounded in observed demand and a costly current workaround.
Per-question score table
What's the strongest evidence you have that someone actually wants this?
Demographic is clear but you're describing a census tract, not a desperate user.
What are your users doing right now to solve this problem, and what does that workaround cost them?
Specific dollar amounts and competitors named, but "mental load" claim lacks direct user evidence.
Name the actual human who needs this most. What's their title and what consequence do they face?
Real tailwinds cited, but none uniquely unlock this product versus five years ago.
What's the smallest possible version of this that someone would pay real money for this week?
Clear scope but fridge-photo AI in 4 weeks is technically ambitious and unproven.
What surprised you when you actually watched someone use this without helping them?
Channels are named but lack specificity on which one actually unlocks the first 100.
If the world looks meaningfully different in 3 years, does your product become more essential or less?
Numbers are specific but retention is weak and white-label distracts from core thesis.
Homework
Three concrete next steps before you run the next session.
- 1Find the strongest real demand evidence: payment, repeated usage, or dependency-forming behavior.
- 2Build the smallest version one named user would pay real money for this week.
- 3Watch one person use it without helping and record the first behavior that surprises you.
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