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Startup Superpowers is a local-first idea-validation co-pilot for Claude Code. It guides you through the messy early work of figuring out whether an idea has legs — competitors, market, hypotheses, interviews, surveys, and an MVP — and keeps every artifact as plain markdown in your project, yours to read, edit, commit, and share. Startup Superpowers demo

What it does

The plugin turns idea-validation work into a conversation with a thoughtful co-founder — one that takes notes, runs research in the background, and never loses track of what you decided three weeks ago. It is opinionated about evidence before commitment: discover competitors before sizing the market, write down hypotheses before doing interviews, run interviews before designing surveys, learn from real conversations before building an MVP.

Key features

Seven skills, one workflow

/whats-next, /competitors, /market-research, /hypotheses, /interviews, /surveys, /mvp. Use them through a guided plan or à la carte.

All state on disk

Every artifact is a markdown file under startup/ in your project. No accounts, no database, no SaaS lock-in.

Bias-isolated subagents

Interview analysis, hypothesis assessment, and plan recommendations each run in their own subagent — they reason on the files, not on your in-chat enthusiasm.

Evidence → next move

Every hypothesis assessment yields the smallest observable next validation action, biased toward a real user-facing step instead of yet another research backlog.

Voice-first founder input

Designed for thinking out loud. Dump unstructured thoughts; the agent organises them into structured artifacts.

Obsidian-friendly graph

All artifacts have frontmatter for filtering, and link to each other — hypotheses link to supporting interview statements via [[slug]]. Browse the evidence trail in any markdown editor.

Next steps

Installation

Install the plugin in Claude Code CLI or the Claude Desktop app.

Quickstart

Run your first session and set up your idea workspace.