How ideaFactory works

Every day at 9 AM IST, a Claude Code scheduled trigger wakes up, scans trend sources — Play Store charts, Product Hunt, Kickstarter, YC and a16z — drafts three candidate startup ideas fit for the Indian market, scores each against a 100-point rubric, and publishes the winner as a markdown file in this repository.

The 100-point rubric

Each candidate is scored across seven weighted dimensions, blending Sequoia's Arc memo framework, RICE prioritisation and Lean Canvas capital discipline:

• Market size (20) — reachable Indian customers in 3 years
• Capital efficiency (15) — MVP + 12 months runway under ₹20 lakh
• Team feasibility (10) — 1-5 person team ships v1 in ≤ 6 months
• Trend momentum (15) — recent validation in China, US or Europe
• Moat & defensibility (15) — data, network, distribution, regulatory
• Unit economics (15) — gross margin and CAC:LTV feasibility
• Time-to-MVP (10) — weeks from kickoff to first paying user

An idea publishes only if its total ≥ 70 and no single dimension scores zero.

Leaderboard

Ideas are ordered by net upvotes. Voting is device-local — one vote per device per idea, enforced by a fingerprint + IP hash on the server. No sign-in, no tracking.

Open source

Rubric, trigger prompt, ideas, portal code and CDK infra all live in one repo. Fork it, adapt the rubric, point at your own market — the portal will render any idea that matches the schema.