Founder Mode Checker
p/founder-mode-checker
Find out if you're in Founder Mode or Manager Mode.
Sharath Kuruganty

Founder Mode Checker — Find out if you're in Founder Mode or Manager Mode.

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Enter your X/Twitter username, and our AI will analyze your Twitter profile to tell you if you’re in Founder Mode or Manager Mode. We got this idea from Paul Graham’s “Founder Mode” blog. Try it with your profile for free!

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Sharath Kuruganty
I love it when makers build products at the intersection of technology and fun. Also who doesn't want to know whether they are in Founder Mode or not 😂 Let AI roast you and say good and mean things 🤣 If you have to say nice things to Ishan, he will be here in comments 😃
Ishan Goswami
👋 Hey folks! We're super excited about our first-ever launch on Product Hunt! I recently read Paul Graham's blog on "Founder Mode" and loved it. 🚀 So, we built a fun AI app that analyzes your Twitter profile to tell you if you're in Founder Mode or Manager Mode. Just enter your Twitter username, and you'll get instant results. 🤯 We launched the tool on Twitter yesterday, and it went a little viral! Check out the tweet here: https://x.com/TheIshanGoswami/st... I built this with my friend @nihal_goyal ❤️ We'd love for you to try it out and share your thoughts in the comments below!
Tyrion Long
@nihal_goyal @theishangoswami Very interesting tool. I found myself in founder mode, haha. A small suggestion: you could introduce the difference between founder mode and manager mode on the webpage, otherwise new users may find it difficult to understand these two concepts :)
Ishan Goswami
@loggerhead Great suggestion! We will add it in the final description which the user gets as the output. And thank you so much for trying it out. Also, all the very best on your upcoming launch.
Ishan Goswami
@nihal_goyal @yash_gupta44 Honestly, we would like it to be organic traffic - fair play only
Shadman Nazim
@nihal_goyal @theishangoswami Hey Ishan, this is such a fun and creative tool! I love how it uses AI for a lighthearted analysis of Twitter profiles. One suggestion would be to increase interaction and viral potential by including more social media sharing options. Congratulations on the launch, and best of luck!
Rohan Chaubey
Checked with my multiple Twitter accounts. It says Founder Mode 😁 I enjoyed the roast. :D
Ishan Goswami
@rohanrecommends Grateful that you enjoyed using it. Thanks a lot.
Daniel Sinewe
Nice - had the same idea, but glad that you did it! What was you inspiration? Were you inspired by the site from @kyzo?
Ishan Goswami
@danielsinewe Thanks a ton! Also, yeah the website they built was pretty cool! Fun fact, I was at that company for a month and I was the one who built the version 1 of that app haha. But they definitely did an amazing job on remaking and launching it 🔥
Kyrylo Silin
Hey Ishan, How accurate is the AI analysis? Have you done any validation to see how well it matches up with founders' self-assessments? It would be fascinating to see some stats on that. Congrats on the launch!
Ishan Goswami
@kyrylosilin Great question! We fetch the person’s Twitter name, username, and bio, and AI generates a response based on that. To be very honest, this is a fun tool for us, and we have biased it a little bit towards giving people founder mode - to make them smile. Thank you so much for your feedback.
AnnaHo
Congratulations on the launch of your innovative tool that provides valuable insights into Twitter profiles!
Ishan Goswami
@annaho2000 Thanks a ton for the sweet words!
Srishti Ojha
Ai knows me better than any other person in this world lol🤪
Ishan Goswami
@srishti_ojha AGI is definitely coming soon 🤖
Mr. Ånand
what if manager mode ones feel sad after using this🤣
Ishan Goswami
@astrodevil Haha I hope not. Though, on top of providing which mode you are in, the AI also give compliments. So I guess no one gets sad.
Muhammad Salman
Lets go I am in founder mode. I got this response This guy, he's so caught up in the hustle, he's probably wearing his sweatpants to every meeting, because who needs structure when you're building the future, right? He's like a one-man show, a one-man army, a one-man...
Ishan Goswami
@muhammad_salman39 I hope you liked the response. Thanks a ton for trying out our tool!
Roshan
This is such a fun project .
Ishan Goswami
@roshanonline It was definitely a lot of fun building this. It took us a day to think of it, build it, and launch it.
Abraham Zeng
I think this application needs to add some dimensional indicators to determine founders and managers. Some people may be in between the two, some may be more like managers, and some may be more like founders.@theishangoswami
Ishan Goswami
@abraham_zeng True that! Many people are in between the Founder Mode and the Manager Mode and need nuance. But to keep it simple and close to the original source material (Paul Graham’s Blog) we have only kept these two categories. And thank you so much for your thoughts.
Nihal Goyal
had too much fun building this! you this makes some people smile! :)
toniko
Congrats on the launch! It’s a fun way to engage with the idea of founder vs. manager. May be I will put it in my resume next time🤣
Ishan Goswami
@toniko I am glad that you liked it! Thanks for trying it out.
Alexander Galitsky
It says im in Employee Mode.
Ishan Goswami
@ag94 this definitely isn’t true 😂 and thanks for trying the tool
Rizky Ge
Congrats on the launch!! You this makes some people smile.
Ishan Goswami
@rizkyge Incredibly grateful for making people smile
Dorian Niemiec
I have checked my web server's (SVR.JS) profile. My web server is in founder mode! :)
Akshay Lahri
Cool idea. Just a suggestion, since many of us are not very active on X, I think analyzing LinkedIn accounts would be a better idea. Congratulations on the launch.
Ishan Goswami
@akshay_lahri the founder mode concept is popular on twitter, thats why we did it there
Mitia
Haha, I love the way how you've turned P. Graham's concept into an engaging, interactive tool! 🙌
Ishan Goswami
@mitia thank you so much!
Animesh Bhatt
Haha, neat idea! I wonder what it has to say about me :) Congratulations on the launch🥳
Ishan Goswami
@animeshbhatt do try and let us know. And thank you so much
Giulio Chiarenza
Haha, very entertaining. Reminds me of those "ask AI to roast your ig feed" things. It would be cool if you expanded to various platforms, and eventually there was like a "jokes" mode and a "serious" mode where it gave you actionable advice to be like... more founder, or more manager, or whatever you want to portray.
Ishan Goswami
@gchiaren aah got it. Thank you so much trying our tool out
Katrina Rodriguez
Love how this roasts people. What AI model are you using to analyze profiles?
Ishan Goswami
@katrina_rodriguez2 thanks! We are using Gemini 1.5 Flash