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Why I built a CLI tool to kill my own ideas

DEV Community·tracekc·about 1 month ago
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We’ve all been there. You get a "brilliant" idea at 11 PM, and by midnight, you’re already git init-ing. You spend the next three weekends wrestling with state management, CSS, and deployment pipelines, only to realize a month later that: The problem wasn't actually that painful for anyone else. A giant incumbent already solves this perfectly. The distribution hurdle is actually a brick wall. As a product developer, I’ve realized that while AI has made the cost of building converge toward zero, the cost of building the wrong thing remains as high as ever. To solve my own "idea-to-code" impulsivity, I built Shakedown . The Concept Socratic Grilling as a Reasoning Primitive Shakedown isn’t a project management tool or a simple checklist. It’s a CLI skill designed to act as a "pressure test" for your concepts before you write a single line of code. Instead of just listing features, it forces you into a Socratic dialogue.…

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