About pitch-pit
A weekly contest for ideas that deserve to exist.
Most startup ideas die in a notes app. pitch-pit is a public, weekly forum for ideas worth pulling out of one. Submit a pitch, get rated by an AI reviewer trained on the gstack/YC office-hours framework, and let the community decide which one earns a build.
How it works
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Submit
60–3500 characters. Anyone can pitch — anonymous or signed in.
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Get scored
Claude Sonnet 4.6 rates your pitch 1–10 across six dimensions: demand, wedge, founder edge, feasibility, defensibility, distribution.
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Get voted
The community votes. Final score is 50% AI + 50% community, normalized to 0–100.
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Win the week
The pit closes Monday at midnight EDT. The week's top score gets built as a free MVP.
The rubric
Scoring isn’t arbitrary. The AI reviewer evaluates each pitch against six fixed dimensions and produces a structured verdict — score, strengths, concerns, reasoning. It’s the same rubric a YC partner would apply in office hours.
See the full rubric for the breakdown.
Why it exists
Founders don’t lack ideas. They lack a forcing function — a public moment where an idea has to either survive or die. The week is the forcing function. The AI score is the filter. The community vote is the gauntlet.
If your idea wins, we build it. No equity, no fees, no strings. You keep what you ship.
Who runs this
pitch-pit is a side project run by one engineer with too many ideas in their own notes app. Reach me at hello@pitchpit.app.