{"slug": "how-i-stop-myself-from-building-bad-ideas", "title": "🛑 How I Stop Myself From Building Bad Ideas", "summary": "A developer created a PRD analysis tool that uses AI to evaluate product ideas across 25 criteria, including market demand, competition, and technical complexity, generating a professional investment-style dashboard in five minutes. The tool, available on GitHub, is designed to provide brutally honest feedback, with most ideas scoring below 70, helping the developer avoid investing weeks into building products nobody needs.", "body_md": "I have a problem. I get excited about product ideas way too fast.\n\nI'll be showering, and suddenly — bam — a billion-dollar idea. I write a PRD, open a code editor, and start building. Two weeks later, I realize nobody actually needs it.\n\nI needed a way to kill bad ideas before I invested time in them. So I built a filter.\n\nIt's a simple workflow. You write your PRD like you normally would, then run it through a set of prompts with any AI assistant. The AI analyzes your idea across 25 different angles — stuff like market demand, competition, pricing, risks, technical complexity, and even things like compliance and accessibility.\n\nAt the end, you get an HTML dashboard. It looks like a professional investment memo, but you get it in about 5 minutes.\n\nThe dashboard has everything on one page:\n\nEverything is in one HTML file. Open it, scroll around.\n\nThe AI is told to be honest. Brutally honest. Most ideas score below 70. That's not a bug — it's the point.\n\nI wanted a tool that tells me the truth, not what I want to hear. If my idea scores 30, I want to know why so I can either fix it or move on.\n\nThe prompts specifically tell the AI to:\n\nI write a PRD for any idea that excites me. Takes about an hour. Then I run the analysis. If the score is low and the feedback reveals problems I can't solve, I drop the idea and move to the next one.\n\nIt saves me weeks of building things nobody wants.\n\nIf the score is decent and the feedback points to fixable problems, I know exactly what to work on first.\n\nEverything is on GitHub — the prompts, the HTML template, the workflow instructions. You can use it with any AI chatbot you like. No installation needed.\n\n**GitHub:** [github.com/ihssmaheel-dev/prd-intelligence-skill](https://github.com/ihssmaheel-dev/prd-intelligence-skill)\n\n*I still get excited about ideas. I just don't build all of them anymore.*", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/how-i-stop-myself-from-building-bad-ideas", "canonical_source": "https://dev.to/ihssmaheel/how-i-stop-myself-from-building-bad-ideas-42km", "published_at": "2026-05-29 13:54:49+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-05-29 14:13:21.125336+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["ai-tools", "ai-products", "ai-startups"], "entities": [], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/how-i-stop-myself-from-building-bad-ideas", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/how-i-stop-myself-from-building-bad-ideas.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/how-i-stop-myself-from-building-bad-ideas.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/how-i-stop-myself-from-building-bad-ideas.jsonld"}}