Launched this week
Launch Control by ReadySetLaunch
Pressure-test your startup against real wins and failures
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Pressure-test your startup against real wins and failures
13 followers
Most idea validators score your idea against nothing. Launch Control pressure-tests your startup across 7 pillars — using thousands of real startup wins and failures as the benchmark. You leave with sharper judgement and a clear list of what to fix before you build.
I built an AI tool that makes you think - instead of having an AI agent think for you.
Not what you thought you'd see on the 'hunt here today... right?
Hi everyone 👋🏼 I'm Lewis — a Product Manager on a mission to help founders, builders and vibe coders to validate their startup ideas before they become the next victim of the AI build trap.
Having worked in product management for years, I've seen — and tried to stop — countless products and features that skipped validation and got built anyway. Same pattern, every single time.
If you're a founder or vibe coder, you already know it: you should be sitting down and pressure-testing your idea before you build. Every YC video, every founder you admire tells you to. But between starting Claude Code, fighting with your agents, and chasing the dopamine hit of the next idea, the thinking disappears.
Enter Launch Control
• Walks you through 13 guided questions across 7 product judgement pillars — all passing the Mom (Mum) Test and with hover keywords to help improve your industry vocabulary
• Pressure-tests every answer against thousands of real startup wins and failures — across different industries, all shapes and sizes
• Surfaces the gaps in your thinking, not just a confident-sounding score — no numeric score in sight
• Hands you a launch readiness report you can actually act on — showing all of the gaps you have uncovered along with other things to consider
→ Launch Control is in Alpha — expect rough edges and tell me where they are
→ 3 free credits on signup — enough to answer 3 questions and surface a gap in each
→ PH community + friends: code "READYSET10" for 10% off any credit pack — yes, share it
→ No subscriptions. PAYG credits never expire — monthly payments would be predatory
→ Built in the UK by a solo founder
I'd genuinely love your answer to two things:
1. Where does the validation flow lose you?
2. What pillar do you think we're not pushing hard enough on?
Tell me where it breaks, and congratulations on escaping the AI Build Trap.
— Lewis
Great idea! But could you please explain what exactly your tool does, unlike standard AI, to evaluate a startup idea? Or does your tool only use 80% skepticism instead of the 10% used by standard AI?
@serge_cherny Fair push.
Standard AI averages over everything it's ever read, giving you critique that feels generic and not necessarily tailored to your actual idea or industry that it belongs to.
ReadySetLaunch is different in two major ways:
Every answer has RAG-grounded evaluation. Your answers are scored against a curated base of startup case studies (failures, successes and also acquired companies), validation frameworks from Product Management work and VC/Investment firms - all retrieved by sector and our pillars. Feedback is data-driven from real companies, not AI-hallucinated ones.
We have a structured rubric. The 7 pillars are weighted by importance with defined bands and absolutely no "vibe" checks. It's been made almost impossible to talk your way past it without actual behavioural evidence or some form of statistic to evidence your answers - more on this later as this is the first module being expanded upon.
The point is the questions force you to think like a PM, but in a user-friendly way that can be picked up and ran by anybody wanting to validate their startup idea. Skepticism is cheap but structured skepticism grounded in real data isn't.
really glad to see something actually using the mom test principles. most ai tools just tell you 'great idea!' because they’re designed to be agreeable. having an ai that actually pushes back and finds the holes in your logic is way more useful for a founder. support on the launch, @lewisrogers
Thanks @priya_kushwaha1!
Fun fact: I actually had my Mum test the product and she claims it passed the test! 🤣