Public leaderboard · this week
Hall of the slain.
Every week, founders submit ideas to the dungeon. Most don't survive. The carnage is public on purpose — your idea performs against this baseline.
24verdicts this week
11dead on arrival
3survivors
Roast of the week — lowest score
02
Channel acquisition cost exceeds lifetime value.
Vertical AIkilled by · The Incumbent6d agoby second-time founder
The kill wall
Sorted by survivability — lowest first.
AllDevtoolsFintechVertical AI7d
04
Compliance kill in EU markets — regulated industry.
HRIncumbent · 2d ago
05
Distribution moat impossible without enterprise sales team.
FintechVC · 6d ago
07
GDPR Article seventeen — fines up to four percent of revenue.
MarketplaceRegulator · yesterday
08
Already paying for a tool that does seventy percent of this.
SaaSRegulator · today
14
Stripe ships this on a Tuesday and prices it at zero.
ProductivityCustomer · today
15
Compliance kill in EU markets — regulated industry.
HRCartographer · yesterday
16
Already paying for a tool that does seventy percent of this.
DevtoolsCartographer · 5d ago
21
Compliance kill in EU markets — regulated industry.
HealthcareVC · 6d ago
23
Three funded competitors already own the wedge.
FintechCustomer · 2d ago
23
Dies in the partner meeting — no differentiated signal.
FintechRegulator · today
35
Channel acquisition cost exceeds lifetime value.
DevtoolsCartographer · 3d ago
35
Consumer behavior change required — too expensive to teach.
DevtoolsCustomer · yesterday
40
ICP cannot pay above twenty dollars per month.
FintechVC · 3d ago
41
Compliance kill in EU markets — regulated industry.
ProductivityIncumbent · 6d ago
42
Consumer behavior change required — too expensive to teach.
HRRegulator · 6d ago
45
Switching cost is one quarter of engineering time.
CryptoCustomer · 4d ago
49
Already paying for a tool that does seventy percent of this.
ProductivityVC · 3d ago
49
Compliance kill in EU markets — regulated industry.
FintechVC · 3d ago
49
Twelve-month window before incumbents catch up.
SaaSCustomer · yesterday
58
Already paying for a tool that does seventy percent of this.
HealthcareVC · yesterday
74
Three funded competitors already own the wedge.
HealthcareCartographer · 6d ago
86
ICP cannot pay above twenty dollars per month.
ConsumerCustomer · 2d ago
87
Channel acquisition cost exceeds lifetime value.
ProductivityVC · 4d ago
How does your idea survive?
Five adversarial agents. Sixty seconds. A verdict card built to spread.
Enter the dungeon