Boris Binyaminov

Boris Binyaminov

Sep 18

A grader that is pure code, and the three monotonicity rules that do the work

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Boris Binyaminov

Sep 18

We ship a thing that judges startup ideas, and we could not answer whether it works

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Boris Binyaminov

Sep 18

Founder-market fit is usually discussed as credentials or as encouragement, and neither is answerable

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Boris Binyaminov

Sep 18

Sort your validation checklist by what an honest answer costs

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Boris Binyaminov

Sep 18

A score with no published rubric has no floor to fall to

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Boris Binyaminov

Sep 18

Two of the three refusal triggers are read from the founder, not the idea

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Boris Binyaminov

Sep 18

A claim can never be promoted up the provenance ladder

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Boris Binyaminov

Sep 18

36 dead ideas carry 57 reasons, and the overshoot is the useful part

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Boris Binyaminov

Sep 18

The wrapper objection killed 6 ideas. Missing evidence killed 21.

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Boris Binyaminov

Sep 18

Judge a SaaS idea on the parts you are worst at estimating, first

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Boris Binyaminov

Sep 18

Rank your ideas by time to an answer you cannot explain away, not by build hours

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Boris Binyaminov

Sep 18

Display rounding is a semantic boundary: our worked example sat on one

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Boris Binyaminov

Sep 18

Of our 12 deal-breaker checks, exactly one responds to the founder's balance sheet

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Boris Binyaminov

Sep 17

Tech startup ideas: what survives a feature landing

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Boris Binyaminov

Sep 16

Platform risk gets the essays. In our own kill data it comes third.

#startup #saas #api #architecture

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Boris Binyaminov

Sep 16

Your customer count is the easy half. The support hours next to it decide your price floor.

#startup #saas #pricing #business

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Boris Binyaminov

Sep 16

Our scoping tool refuses in 4 of the 7 states it can be in, and that ratio is not a tuning choice

#startup #productivity #programming #ai

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Boris Binyaminov

Sep 16

We published our scoring weights, and the useful number is the 4x leverage gap

#startup #productivity #business #ai

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Boris Binyaminov

Sep 15

At 30 support minutes per customer, 100 customers is 11.5 hours a week

#saas #startup #support #business

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Boris Binyaminov

Sep 15

At $9/month you need 334 customers and 19.2 support hours a week

#startup #saas #pricing #business

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Boris Binyaminov

Sep 15

We sourced 3430 startup ideas and kept 93. The filter is the product.

#discuss #startup #productivity

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A grader that is pure code, and the three monotonicity rules that do the work

We ship a thing that judges startup ideas, and we could not answer whether it works

Founder-market fit is usually discussed as credentials or as encouragement, and neither is answerable

Sort your validation checklist by what an honest answer costs

A score with no published rubric has no floor to fall to

Two of the three refusal triggers are read from the founder, not the idea

A claim can never be promoted up the provenance ladder

36 dead ideas carry 57 reasons, and the overshoot is the useful part

The wrapper objection killed 6 ideas. Missing evidence killed 21.

Judge a SaaS idea on the parts you are worst at estimating, first

Rank your ideas by time to an answer you cannot explain away, not by build hours

Display rounding is a semantic boundary: our worked example sat on one

Of our 12 deal-breaker checks, exactly one responds to the founder's balance sheet

Tech startup ideas: what survives a feature landing

Platform risk gets the essays. In our own kill data it comes third.

Your customer count is the easy half. The support hours next to it decide your price floor.

Our scoping tool refuses in 4 of the 7 states it can be in, and that ratio is not a tuning choice

We published our scoring weights, and the useful number is the 4x leverage gap

At 30 support minutes per customer, 100 customers is 11.5 hours a week

At $9/month you need 334 customers and 19.2 support hours a week

We sourced 3430 startup ideas and kept 93. The filter is the product.