22 questions · 4 minutes · no card

How do you actually build?

Not which famous founder you resemble. Five scales, and the one check you keep skipping.

What you get at the end

Acts on conviction
Acts on evidence
This week
This decade
Behind the work
In front of people
Ship it rough
Ship it finished
Many bets at once
One bet, all in

First, so the questions land right

Before the questions. Where are you right now?

Why this one does not flatter you

Most founder quizzes hand you a flattering label and a share button. We built the scoring first and tested it before writing a word of the result, and the test came back badly for the fun part: an eight-way founder type only reproduces on about a third of retakes. A single claim about one scale reproduces on close to nine in ten.

So this does not print a type name. It prints the sentence that survives being asked twice, and it tells you what that sentence costs you.

What happens after

How you build is one question. Whether the thing is worth building is the other, and it is the expensive one. Olune stress-tests a startup idea against real Reddit and Hacker News complaints, live search demand and a competitor map, then gives a straight build-or-kill verdict in about eight minutes.

Pressure-test an idea, free