You can build anything.
That's the problem.
Side-project paralysis is the well-documented condition where having infinite options and no constraints leaves engineers with eleven half-finished repos and zero shipped products. IdeaTwister applies the constraint for you.
One slash command, 15 parallel agents, 50+ ideas force-ranked by commercial signal - not by how much you want to try a new framework. The top 5 ship with a 30-day validation plan baked in. You pick one and you ship it. That's the deal.
- Local-only
- No vendor lock-in
- One-time payment
- 7-day refund
Recognize any of these?
HN threads on side-project paralysis read like group therapy. The patterns are identical across thousands of engineers.
You start three projects per quarter, finish zero.
Excitement at week one becomes boredom at week three. The cycle repeats. By December you have 11 stale repos and no shipped product.
You picked Bun + tRPC + Drizzle before you picked the user.
When you can build anything, you optimize the stack instead of the buyer. Six weekends in, the auth flow is great and nobody knows what the product does.
Your "MVP" has settings, themes, and a marketing site.
Engineers ship features. Founders ship outcomes. Without a hard scope and a deadline, the MVP keeps growing until energy runs out.
You skipped the 30-day validation plan because "I'm a builder, not a marketer."
And then nobody bought. The validation step is what separates a side project from a side income.
What it looks like in your terminal
IdeaTwister installs as a slash command in Claude Code, Cursor, Codex CLI, Gemini CLI, Copilot CLI, or OpenCode. No SaaS. No web app. No login. Just three commands and a local HTML report.
Why it actually fits how you work
- →Local-first, no SaaS account
Runs on your machine via your existing Claude/Cursor/Gemini CLI subscription. Your idea never leaves your hardware.
- →Output is a self-contained HTML
No database, no auth, no expiring share link. Open it in Chrome, share it as a file. The artifact is yours forever.
- →Resumable runs
~40 min pipeline writes a `.state.json` after each phase. Kill the process, run it again, it picks up exactly where it stopped.
- →Built-in deadline
Every top-5 variation ships with a 30-day validation plan. The deadline is the plan. The plan is the deadline.
- →Escape hatches
Don't like the top pick? You have 49 more variations to scan. Don't like any? Run it again with a sharper prompt. The engine is yours.
$39< one wasted weekend.
You spend more on terminal-emulator licenses, mech keyboards, and conference tickets every month. This one buys you a finished engine.
Stop deliberating, start shipping - $39