Your private founder toolkit. Sign in to use the tools — your entries sync across devices and are visible only to you.
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Five working tools — each kept only because Paul Graham's essay calls for it. Your entries sync to your account across devices.
Track the rate of change, not just revenue. Enter six months of MRR to see if growth is accelerating or stalling.
Log raw personal pain points — capture first, judge later. Your needs are the seed of a billion-dollar idea.
Capture verbatim user quotes and tag the pain. Forces evidence over assumption.
Has this founder truly lived the problem? Rate each dimension 0–2.
Before scaling any growth lever, check you're growing because users love you — not because you're extracting value.