SMRTR ProgrammingAug 3, 2026Hacker News

A Claude Skill that runs a skeptical-VC teardown on your startup idea

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vc-teardown is a Claude AI skill that stress-tests raw startup ideas like a skeptical investor before you write a single line of code. It researches existing competitors, runs 8–12 structured challenges across 16 attack surfaces, then rebuilds the idea around a defensible moat using 9 reframe patterns. The output is a full business plan with unit economics, MVP scope, GTM strategy, and falsifiable kill criteria.

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