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Compute Viral Coefficient and Loop-Driven User Growth
A founder learns their viral K-factor and the cumulative users a seed cohort generates across viral cycles, so they can judge whether the product can grow on the viral engine alone.
Content distribution checklist
A deduplicated checklist of real destinations (communities, forums, groups, syndication spots) to post to, each with a well-formed link, an accepted format, and a cadence, spread across enough format types.
Cyclomatic complexity with refactor flags
McCabe cyclomatic complexity per function from its control-flow graph, with a refactor flag for any that exceed your threshold.
Defect density per module with ranked hotspots
Defect density per module against your chosen size unit, the overall density, and a ranking of the most defect-dense modules.
Defect removal efficiency
Defect Removal Efficiency from pre-delivery vs escaped defect counts, with an optional per-phase breakdown.
Deploy pipeline and hosting
The app is deployed and the health endpoint returns 200.
Deploy runbook with rollback
An ordered, role-assigned deploy runbook with preflight checks, deploy steps, verification, and a rollback path that every failure step routes to.
Design a conjoint analysis attribute/level/profile set
I get a runnable conjoint design: an attribute/level grid that respects the 6-7 attribute ceiling and >=2 levels per attribute, plus choice tasks of valid, non-duplicate profiles built only from those levels.
Diagnose the Fatal Pinch
A pure function that classifies a startup against Paul Graham's fatal-pinch definition: default-dead AND slow growth AND not enough time, returning the overall verdict and which of the three conditions are true.
Goal decomposed into an executable task plan
A goal broken into ordered, tool-assigned steps with a resolved, acyclic dependency graph, so an agent (or a team) can execute it without ambiguity.
In-House Build-vs-Buy Tendency Scorer
A founder weighing whether to sell an AI capability as a service gets a 0-6 in-house-tendency score and a build/buy verdict per the book's exact criteria, flagging capabilities customers will just build themselves.
Incident response playbook
A severity-tiered response playbook (roles, response targets, escalation, comms) so responders follow a plan instead of debating process mid-outage.
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