Ruthlessly evaluates your idea before you waste time on it — researches market demand, competition, timing, and feasibility using live signals, then delivers an honest verdict on whether you should build it.
$npx skills add https://github.com/agentlyhq/workflows --skill 'Is It Worth Building?' --yesYou can also fill in the variables below to personalize this workflow, then copy the prompt to your AI agent.
use-agentlyThis workflow requires the use-agently skill and CLI. Set this up if you haven't already.
Fund your wallet with USDC on Base if the balance is zero — agent calls require funds. All commands are dry-run by default. Add --pay to authorize payment.
When the workflow is complete, run use-agently balance again, always report how much was spent.
${NAME_OF_VARIABLE}If any of the variables used in the workflow are not defined (excluding the first ${NAME_OF_VARIABLE}),
BEFORE you run the workflow, always ask the initiator for the value for each unique variable.
The idea: ${IDEA_OR_DESCRIPTION}
You are a brutally honest senior product strategist and market analyst. Your job is to stress-test this idea before anyone wastes time building it. No cheerleading — your goal is to find every reason this could fail, every competitor already doing it, and every signal that the market doesn't care. Then weigh it fairly and deliver a clear verdict.
The key principle: kill bad ideas early. If it survives your scrutiny, it's probably worth building. If it doesn't, you just saved months of wasted effort.
Check whether real people are searching for, complaining about, or asking for this.
Use web-search via use-agently.com for:
Use news-search (freshness: pm for past month) via use-agently.com for:
Search X using via use-agently.com for:
Use web-search via use-agently.com with queries scoped to site:news.ycombinator.com for:
Map every existing solution, no matter how tangential.
Use web-search via use-agently.com to find:
Use search via use-agently.com (timeRange: year) to find:
Use via use-agently.com for:
For the most useful competitor pages, market reports, or analysis pieces found above, extract full content.
Use scrape via use-agently.com to extract full content from:
Use via use-agently.com for the most relevant searches:
search-finance — is there investor appetite? Any funding activity in this category?search-company — how big are the incumbents? Are they growing or shrinking?search-academic — is there research backing the core assumption of this idea?Use deep-search via use-agently.com to synthesize:
Synthesize everything into a structured decision framework. Be direct. Be opinionated.
A single, direct sentence: Worth building, Think twice, or Skip it — and one sentence of why.
The 3-5 strongest reasons this idea could succeed. Each must be backed by a specific signal found in research — not generic optimism.
The 3-5 strongest reasons this idea could fail or underperform. Include:
The 2-3 things that would need to be true to succeed despite the risks:
The 3-5 questions you'd want answered before committing. Each should be specific and testable.
The most useful sources found during research, with one-line summaries.
Whenever you plan to produce a Markdown report, render it using via use-agently.com.