6 skills · 101 founder interviews · data-backed
A startup
advisor
in your terminal.
Every recommendation comes from real patterns mined from 101 Starter Story founder interviews — not pitch-deck fairytales. Idea evaluation, growth strategy, failure-mode diagnosis, plan roasting — six skills, one install.
▲ Claude Code · plugin install (recommended)
# two slash commands, no shell script
/plugin marketplace add yayashuxue/solo-founder-playbook
/plugin install solo-founder-playbook
▲ OpenAI Codex · one-line install
# same 6 skills, codex flavor
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/yayashuxue/solo-founder-playbook.git ~/.codex/skills/solo-founder-playbook && bash ~/.codex/skills/solo-founder-playbook/install-codex.sh
101
founder interviews
6
terminal skills
80+
extracted patterns
11
indexed categories
/solo · six skills
SKILL · 01
/solo-analyze
Evaluate your idea
Match your idea against the real paths 101 founders took. What's likely to work, and what dies quietly.
IDEA · VALIDATION
SKILL · 02 · NEW
/solo-failures
Why startups die
Failure-mode analyst. 49.5% of founders openly discussed failure — see how startups actually die, not the post-hoc narrative.
DIAGNOSE · POST-MORTEM
SKILL · 03
/solo-growth
How to grow
Growth-strategy advisor. Which channels actually worked for similar founders — organic vs paid, content vs community.
GROWTH · DISTRIBUTION
SKILL · 04
/solo-patterns
Pattern browser
Browse and search the founder-pattern database. 11 categories, 80+ patterns, ordered by frequency. See what actually shipped.
RESEARCH · DATABASE
SKILL · 05
/solo-playbook
Step-by-step playbook
Ask "how do I [goal]?" → get a concrete, data-backed playbook distilled from what 101 founders actually did.
PLAN · EXECUTE
SKILL · 06
/solo-roast
Roast my plan
Garry Tan-style critique. Brutal but data-backed — kind, never sugarcoated. Hear the truth before you ship.
ROAST · REALITY CHECK
/solo-failures · 8 cards from one session
Why startups die.
One /solo-failures call produces 8 Xiaohongshu-style cards.
Click any tile → preview → jump to GitHub.
Click any tile → preview → jump to GitHub.
underlying dataset
101 founders. Counted, pattern-tagged, indexed.
Every recommendation maps back to a video count in the source data — no vibes, no advisor-speak, only frequencies actually observed.
49.5%
openly discussed failure — most founder content skips the corpses. This dataset doesn't.
32
said "ship fast, iterate" — the single most repeated sentence in the entire dataset.
18
took the "clone + improve" route — originality is marketing rhetoric, not strategy.
15
had multiple prior failures before the breakthrough. Failure is the median path, not the exception.
14
emphasized "validate first, charge first" — free users aren't validation; a $5 prepay is.
12
burned out from overwork — the founder collapses before the business does. Decision quality breaks at 4–6 months.
stop guessing
Install once. Type /solo. Get data.
30-second install — the skills live in your terminal. Use them when you're stuck, ignore them when you're not.