Most startup ideas fail for the same reasons — I tried to break it down

I’ve been thinking a lot about how people “validate” startup ideas.

Most advice says:

- talk to users

- build an MVP

- test quickly

But in reality, a lot of ideas still fail even after that.

So I tried something different.

I broke down idea validation into 5 concrete factors:

- problem strength

- market potential

- competition

- monetization

- execution feasibility

Then I built a simple tool that scores an idea across those.

Not to replace validation — but to quickly spot weak ideas before wasting weeks on them.

What surprised me:

Some ideas that *sound great* actually score very low once you break them down.

And some “boring” ideas turn out to be much stronger.

If you want, I can share the tool — I’m curious to see how other people’s ideas score.