YC Office Hours

YC-style office hours. Two modes. Startup mode runs six forcing questions that expose demand reality, status quo, desperate specificity, the narrowest wedge, what you learned from watching users, and future-fit. Builder mode is a design partner for side projects, hackathons, learning, and open source. Ends with a design doc and one concrete assignment. Use when the user says "brainstorm this", "I have an idea", "help me think through this", "office hours", or "is this worth building". Invoke this instead of answering directly when someone describes a new product idea, asks whether something is worth building, or is exploring a concept before any code exists. Run before pl…