Founder Panel

Put your startup idea in front of the founders who wrote the playbook.

Two Claude Code commands for source-grounded startup advice. Go one on one with a founder, or seat a board that debates your idea. Every answer is drawn from what they actually wrote and cited back to the source.

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Free and open source · Works with the Claude Code you already have · 2-minute setup

Paul Graham, Naval Ravikant, Garry Tan, Patrick Collison and 46 more, argued from their own writing only.

AI research syntheses based on public writing. The featured people do not participate in, endorse, or have any affiliation with Founder Panel.

50founder and investor voices
20,347essays and posts indexed
19.3Mwords of primary sources
2commands, no app, no account
claudesource-grounded
›/founder-conversation paul-graham

Paul Graham seated · reading your idea memo and 229 essays…

›/board-room naval, garry-tan, patrick-collison

3 seats filled · every argument cited back to its source…

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Type /founder-conversation to take office hours with one founder, or /board-room to seat several. Every answer is cited back to its source.

The roster includes Paul Graham, Patrick Collison, Sam Altman, Garry Tan, Tobi Lutke, Matt Mullenweg, Michael Seibel, Reid Hoffman, Caterina Fake, Eugene Wei, Steve Blank, Eric Ries, Dharmesh Shah, Joel Spolsky, Patrick McKenzie, Andrew Chen, Jeff Atwood, Seth Godin, Brian Balfour, Nir Eyal, Lenny Rachitsky, Julie Zhuo, Dan Shipper, Hiten Shah, Jason Fried, David Heinemeier Hansson, Derek Sivers, Pieter Levels, David Cummings, Jason Cohen, Rob Walling, Arvid Kahl, Matt Blumberg, Nathan Barry, Amy Hoy, Noah Kagan, Anne-Laure Le Cunff, Naval Ravikant, Fred Wilson, Elad Gil, Tomasz Tunguz, Brad Feld, Chris Dixon, Hunter Walk, David Skok, Bill Gurley, Marc Andreessen, Balaji Srinivasan, Om Malik, Ben Casnocha.

24-second terminal walkthrough

See the board take shape.

Watch /board-room seat three independently grounded perspectives, frame the central tension, and keep every claim tied to its source.

Founder Panel · Terminal demo1080p · 24 sec · silent

AI research syntheses based on public writing. No featured person participates in or endorses Founder Panel.

One on one when you need focus. A board room when you need friction.

/founder-conversation

Choose one mind. Go deep.

Pick any of the 50 voices. Claude reads your idea memo, pulls that person's most relevant writing, and runs a focused one on one with receipts.

  • One founder or investor at a time
  • Persistent idea context between sessions
  • Canonical links and verified quotations
Founder conversationidea/vertical-ai.md
Paul Graham
Paul GrahamY Combinator · since 2005
Q · We have early users, but they all use the product differently. Is that a warning sign?

At this stage, variety is less dangerous than indifference. The useful signal is whether a small group would be genuinely upset if you stopped. Graham's advice is to do things that let you learn directly from those first users.[1]

[1] Do Things that Don't Scale · paulgraham.com ↗

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/board-room

Seat a board that disagrees usefully.

Choose two to five people. Each member argues only from their own corpus: opening views, cross-examination, and a chair who names the real tension before you get concrete next actions.

  • Two to five independently grounded voices
  • Openings, tensions, cross-examination, synthesis
  • Agreements and dissents saved to your memo
Board room · Round 13 members

Should we sell to operators first, or go bottom-up?

Naval Ravikant
Naval RavikantAngelList

Start with the leverage: what gets cheaper or more valuable every time another customer joins?[1]

Garry Tan
Garry TanY Combinator

Your first job is narrower. Find ten people who feel this problem every week, then watch them use it.[2]

Patrick Collison
Patrick CollisonStripe

The interesting question is whether your product makes a hard workflow disappear, not merely faster.[3]

Chair's tensionIs the wedge a high-touch learning loop, or a product-led distribution advantage?

Built to sharpen your judgment, not impersonate anyone.

  1. Bring an idea

    Start fresh or reopen a private Markdown memo. Your context never leaves your local workspace.

  2. Choose your room

    Select one voice for depth, or assemble a board of two to five for productive disagreement.

  3. Follow every claim

    Advice links to the original essays. When the sources are silent, it says so instead of inventing.

Clone it. Open Claude Code. Start the conversation.

The skills live in the repository and are discovered automatically by Claude Code. No account, hosted dashboard, or API key beyond your existing Claude access. Requires Claude Code, Git, and Bun.

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Free forever · AGPL-3.0 · Star it if it sharpens your thinking

TerminalmacOS · Linux · Windows
# 1. Get the workspace
git clone https://github.com/Shoberman2/startupAdvice.git founder-panel
cd founder-panel

# 2. Install and open Claude Code
bun install
claude

# 3. Run either command
/founder-conversation
/board-room

The founders are sources, not participants.

Founder Panel produces AI syntheses grounded in public writing. It is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or speaking on behalf of any featured person or company. Every response says so.