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YC Office Hours

Pressure-test a startup idea before you build it. Your agent asks the hard questions a YC partner would, one at a time, and will not let a vague answer slide.

Garry TanGarry Tan, Author of gstack
Signal

Signal describes package standing, not measured performance.

Garry Tan's YC office hours as an expert playbook your agent can install. In startup mode it asks six forcing questions: who desperately needs this, what they do today, the smallest version someone would pay for, and whether you have watched a real user. It pushes back on vague answers, challenges your premises, lays out alternatives and ends with a design doc, not code.

Example output

Terminal output
agent · office-hours
Q1 Demand realityWhat's the strongest evidence you have that someone actually wants this?Q2 Status quoWhat are your users doing right now to solve this problem, even badly?Q3 Desperate specificityName the actual human who needs this most.Q4 Narrowest wedgeWhat's the smallest possible version of this that someone would pay real money for?Q5 ObservationHave you actually sat down and watched someone use this without helping them?Q6 Future-fitIn 3 years, does your product become more essential or less?✓ Then: premise challenge, alternatives, a design doc. No code.
Input

A startup idea in one sentence

Finding

Test demand, the status quo and the smallest version before anything is built

Exact evidence

Phase 2A of Garry Tan's office-hours skill

Uncertainty

The answers are yours. The skill asks the questions and pushes back; it cannot know your market for you.

Remediation

Answer with evidence, not intentions. If an answer is weak, go and observe a real user before building.

The questions above come from Garry Tan's skill (Phase 2A, the six forcing questions), shortened to one line each. Edge did not run or edit it. The skill asks them one at a time, pushes back until an answer has evidence, and only then writes a design doc. This shows the skill's own text, not a recorded run and not an evaluation.

Evidence notes