I built a tool that killed my own startup idea. That's the product.

Over the past few years I've started and abandoned more projects than I'd like to admit. Every single time the pattern was the same: idea feels great, I start building immediately, three months later I realize nobody actually has the problem I'm solving.

The worst part isn't the failure. It's the time. As a solo founder you don't get those months back. There's no team to absorb the hit. It's just you staring at a perfectly architected codebase that serves ten users — and eight of them are you testing on different devices.

After the last one I decided to build the thing I wish I had before every single one of those projects: something that forces you to answer hard questions about your idea before you open your IDE.

RoastRocket asks 15 questions across five areas — founder fit, market reality, timing, business model, and moat. It scores each one and gives you a verdict: build, pivot, or kill.

I ran my latest idea through it. A developer tool I was genuinely excited about. Score came back low. Timing was a 2 out of 5. Verdict: kill.

I was annoyed for about an hour. Then relieved. Because I knew exactly what would have happened — I'd have built it, launched to silence, and quietly archived the repo three months later.

The tool is free. No account, no waitlist. Takes about ten minutes.

I'd genuinely like to know: how do you validate ideas before building? Do you even? Or do you just start coding and hope? No judgment — I did that for years.