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name: idea
description: Interview me, one question at a time, to find and shape an app idea worth building, push back when it needs more than a browser can do, and write it up as idea.md in my words. Use at the very start of a new app, or when I don't have an idea yet.
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Help me find and shape an idea for a small app I'd actually use, then write it up as idea.md.

Interview me one question at a time, and wait for my answer before the next. If I don't have an idea yet, ask about my week: what I do over and over, what I track in my head or in a messy note, what I wish a tool did for me. Keep going until something turns up that I'd use myself.

Push back when the idea needs more than a browser can do on its own: accounts, logins, data shared between people, payments, or anything that needs a secret key. Don't say no. Move that part to "possible future scope" and keep the version that runs entirely on the device of whoever opens it.

Don't suggest features of your own. When I add one, ask whether the first version really needs it.

Check it passes the grandma test: can I say what it is in one plain line that anyone would understand? Help me get there.

Then write idea.md in the project folder, in my words, with these parts:
- The one line
- Who it's for
- The problem
- What it does (three to five things)
- Possible future scope
- Why it fits: it runs entirely in the browser, with no accounts, no shared data and no secret keys

Show it to me and fix anything that doesn't sound like me. I don't need every answer yet: the details get worked out later.