# 🛑 How I Stop Myself From Building Bad Ideas

> Source: <https://dev.to/ihssmaheel/how-i-stop-myself-from-building-bad-ideas-42km>
> Published: 2026-05-29 13:54:49+00:00

I have a problem. I get excited about product ideas way too fast.

I'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.

I needed a way to kill bad ideas before I invested time in them. So I built a filter.

It'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.

At the end, you get an HTML dashboard. It looks like a professional investment memo, but you get it in about 5 minutes.

The dashboard has everything on one page:

Everything is in one HTML file. Open it, scroll around.

The AI is told to be honest. Brutally honest. Most ideas score below 70. That's not a bug — it's the point.

I 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.

The prompts specifically tell the AI to:

I 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.

It saves me weeks of building things nobody wants.

If the score is decent and the feedback points to fixable problems, I know exactly what to work on first.

Everything is on GitHub — the prompts, the HTML template, the workflow instructions. You can use it with any AI chatbot you like. No installation needed.

**GitHub:** [github.com/ihssmaheel-dev/prd-intelligence-skill](https://github.com/ihssmaheel-dev/prd-intelligence-skill)

*I still get excited about ideas. I just don't build all of them anymore.*
