Find out if your idea is worth your next six months
Truewick scores your idea against every YC company and thousands of funded startups, then tells you the one thing holding it back. Type a sentence below — no account needed to start.
Used by founders who went on to YC, Antler and Techstars
Your score appears here
Four dimensions, scored against 6,000 YC companies. About forty seconds.
What you are scored against
Every YC company, searchable
Free, no account — this is the data behind your score.
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How it works
Three steps. About four minutes.
The first one is free and does not ask for an account.
Write one sentence
No forms. We infer your market, business model and differentiation from that sentence, then show you exactly what we assumed so you can correct anything we got wrong.
A drafted profile you can edit
Get scored on four axes
Market opportunity, differentiation, go-to-market and team fit. Scored against real Y Combinator companies rather than an abstract rubric, with the ten underlying dimensions a click away.
A score out of 100, and your percentile
Fix the one thing
Not a list of twelve improvements. The single weakest axis, why it scored low, and the evidence behind that judgement, with every claim linked to the page it came from.
One weakness, with cited sources
The comparison
Most idea validators score you against nothing.
A number with no cohort behind it is a horoscope. Truewick scores against companies that actually got funded — every Y Combinator batch, searchable, and the same data you can open yourself before you sign up for anything.
- 6,247
- YC companies indexed
- 51
- batches represented
- 10
- scored dimensions, each with a rationale
- 0
- credits to score an idea
An illustration of the percentile you get back — your own is computed against ideas scored at your stage, and is marked provisional until that cohort is large enough to mean anything.
Free forever
Three things that cost you nothing
No card, no trial clock. Credits only buy the research that costs us money to run.
The YC directory
Every Y Combinator company, searchable by batch, stage and team size. No account, no credit, and it is the same data your score is measured against.
Open the directoryCited evidence
Every score comes with the forum threads, reviews and competitor pricing pages it was drawn from. It runs in the background after each evaluation and costs you nothing.
Scoring an idea
Score a sentence before you have an account, and keep scoring after you do. The three credits you get on signup are for the research that costs real money to run — not for the score itself.
Pricing
Credits, not seats
Scoring an idea is free and unlimited. Credits pay for the research that costs us money to run: live web searches, simulated panels, and full site scans. You get three when you sign up.
| Action | Cost |
|---|---|
| Score an ideaUnlimited, and it never asks for a card | Free |
| Cited evidenceGathered in the background after every score | Free |
| The YC directoryAll companies, searchable, no account | Free |
| Market researchLive web search on demand and competitors | 1 credit |
| MVP health checkPerformance, security, accessibility, SEO | 1 credit |
| Copilot conversationGrounded in your own pitches and scores | 1 credit |
| Synthetic interviewsA simulated panel of your target users | 2 credits |
One-time packs never expire.