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product-init
9 gates before your AI ships the wrong product
I built this after watching well-engineered products die from no PMF. CB Insights: 43% of startups fail from "no market need" — not bad code. Wrong product. product-init is a Claude Code skill with 9 hard gates between your idea and your deploy. CRITICAL findings block the pipeline. No --skip flag. Works on Claude Code, Codex CLI, OpenClaw. Open source. Free.
Hey Product Hunt! 👋
I built product-init after shipping a product that died in 3 months. The code was perfect, but the market didn't care.
CB Insights reports that "no market need" causes 43% of startup failures. I wanted to solve that by making validation mandatory, not optional.
Product-init is a system of 9 automated gates enforced by Python audit scripts. If the scripts find a CRITICAL issue, the pipeline stops. No --skip flag. No shortcuts.
Gate 1 is the most vital: Who gets fired if this fails? What "job" is the user hiring this product to do? What does failure look like in production?
Until you define the target, build speed is just a faster way to fail.
I'm excited to dive into any questions — why gates over checklists,
how it pairs with Codex /goal, or what Gate 9 catches post-deploy.
About product-init on Product Hunt
“9 gates before your AI ships the wrong product”
product-init was submitted on Product Hunt and earned 0 upvotes and 1 comments, placing #29 on the daily leaderboard. I built this after watching well-engineered products die from no PMF. CB Insights: 43% of startups fail from "no market need" — not bad code. Wrong product. product-init is a Claude Code skill with 9 hard gates between your idea and your deploy. CRITICAL findings block the pipeline. No --skip flag. Works on Claude Code, Codex CLI, OpenClaw. Open source. Free.
On the analytics side, product-init competes within Open Source, Developer Tools, Artificial Intelligence and GitHub — topics that collectively have 1.1M followers on Product Hunt. The dashboard above tracks how product-init performed against the three products that launched closest to it on the same day.
Who hunted product-init?
product-init was hunted by Mehmet TURAÇ. A “hunter” on Product Hunt is the community member who submits a product to the platform — uploading the images, the link, and tagging the makers behind it. Hunters typically write the first comment explaining why a product is worth attention, and their followers are notified the moment they post. Around 79% of featured launches on Product Hunt are self-hunted by their makers, but a well-known hunter still acts as a signal of quality to the rest of the community. See the full all-time top hunters leaderboard to discover who is shaping the Product Hunt ecosystem.
For a complete overview of product-init including community comment highlights and product details, visit the product overview.
Mehmet TURAÇ