Ideas

Score an idea
before you build it

Each idea gets three scores from 1 to 5. The priority score is excitement plus market size, minus difficulty, so an idea you like, with a big market, that is easy to build comes out highest. Sort the list by score when you are choosing what to start next.

• ›Three scores from 1 to 5: excitement, difficulty and market size
• ›Priority score: excitement plus market size, minus difficulty
• ›Sort the list by newest or by score
• ›Promote an idea and it becomes a project in the Planning stage, with its name and description carried over
• ›Promoted projects count toward the 4 project limit on the free plan
• ›Archive an idea without deleting it, and restore it later
• ›Think With Me reads an idea description as you write it and raises points you have not covered. It uses AI credits.
• ›Add an idea from the command palette (Cmd+K) or with shipchart ideas add. Writing from the CLI, API or MCP needs a paid plan.