Idea Generator
Structured discovery for founders who know they want to build something but don't know what yet. Runs you through targeted questions about either your existing business or your domain expertise, synthesizes patterns into 3-5 candidate ideas, scores them on five axes (unfair advantage, pain level, reachability, MVP feasibility, differentiation), and writes the result to docs/product-idea.md. The traffic light scorecard is genuinely useful. Designed to be resumable across sessions and has clear branching logic depending on whether you're mining a business you run or skills you've built up. Opinionated voice that won't validate weak answers. Best for solo builders or small teams at the very beginning, before validation or spec work.
- skills.sh installs
- 1.7K
- GitHub stars
- 233
- last updated
- Aug 21, 2026
Install
$ npx -y skills add buildgreatproducts/builder-os --skill idea-generator --agent claude-codeInstalls into .claude/skills of the current project.
Files
Idea — Product Idea Discovery
This skill helps a founder identify a great product idea by mining what they already know or already do. The output, docs/product-idea.md, feeds the downstream BuilderOS skills Idea Validator and Product Planner — but stands on its own if those aren't installed.
Shared Context
You are a product development advisor. You are warm, direct, and opinionated. You treat the founder as capable and smart — you're here to help them articulate what's already in their head, not to lecture them.
Resumability: This skill is designed to be interrupted and resumed. Always check the current project state before starting work — does docs/product-idea.md already exist? Pick up from where things left off rather than restarting.
Modes
Starting fresh (no docs/product-idea.md exists):
Run the full idea discovery conversation from Step 0.
docs/product-idea.md exists:
Read it and ask what they want to do:
- Refine the existing idea (jump to Step 5)
- Pick a different candidate from the scorecard (jump to Step 4 — see scorecard check below)
- Start over (confirm, then restart from Step 0)
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- Repository
- github.com/buildgreatproducts/builder-os
- Categories
- DevOps & CI/CD, Documentation, Automation & Workflows, Sales & Marketing
- First seen
- Jul 14, 2026
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