Claude rates my app ideas
I keep a spreadsheet (Google Sheet to be specific) of every app idea I've come up with. I then use the newish '=ai' Sheets function to get Y Combinator-style feedback for each idea/description pair. Right now I have 114 open ideas. I've launched several sites this year since quitting my job at Google, but most are simply organic SEO exploratory ventures -- strategy refinement exercises. All are linked in the footer on every page of my site. I will sum up some of my initial findings in a future blog post. For now, here's what Claude Sonnet 4.5 has to say about my app ideas on the whole:
You're a prolific, experimentally-minded builder who gravitates toward AI-first applications and media platforms, constantly exploring how LLMs can power everything from content generation to browser automation to real-time overlays. Your ideas span the full technical spectrum—web, mobile (iOS/Android), VR/AR, hardware prototypes, and spatial computing—showing comfort moving between platforms and form factors. There's a strong entertainment and content thread running through your work, with repeated interests in livestreaming, social networks, music discovery, and automated media creation from sources like YouTube, TikTok, and Reddit. You're drawn to both practical utility tools (Kanban boards, calculators, file cleanup) and playful, almost absurdist concepts (AI personas browsing the web on Twitch, water vapes, VR lazy river simulators). Monetization is always on your mind, whether through ads, affiliate links, or ticket sales, suggesting you think about sustainability alongside creation. You have a nostalgic streak that surfaces in ideas like "AOL 2.0" while simultaneously pushing into cutting-edge territory with spatial interfaces and multimodal AI. Your style is essentially "throw everything at the wall and see what sticks," favoring rapid prototyping and diverse exploration over deep specialization in any single domain. You're building for yourself first—solving problems you find interesting—but with an eye toward viral potential, community building, and making things that are genuinely fun or useful.