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northstar - Where builders go to think like founders.

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Most platforms make you read about great decisions. northstar makes you play them. SimulateIt puts you in the seat of Airbnb 2008, Slack 2013, Apple 2007. You make the calls, live the consequences, get scored. No other platform does this. CheckIt audits your live site in 30 seconds across 35 checks. 86 case studies, 30 book reviews, 18 playlists. All free. Built for builders who learn by doing

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hey Product Hunt, Kaustubh here, the person who built this. northstar started as a personal frustration. every time I wanted to learn from a great product decision, the good stuff was paywalled and the free stuff was listicles. so I built the resource I wished existed. 14 days from empty repo to production. 450,000+ organic impressions in the first three weeks. zero paid acquisition. built entirely solo. the part I'm most proud of is SimulateIt. reading about what Airbnb did in 2008 teaches you something. actually being in that seat, with $40,000 of debt and 14 days left, and making the call yourself, that's different. that's what we built. CheckIt came from watching founders ship broken sites. paste your URL, get a score in 30 seconds, know exactly what to fix. everything is free. no paywall, no email gate, no ads. ever. happy to answer anything about the build, the content, the stack, or what's coming next. season 1 of the Simulation League kicks off June 26th and that's the biggest thing we've shipped so far. come break your assumptions.