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+type: idea
+title: life guide
+tags: [advice, crowdsource, software]
+status: raw
+first_captured: 2025-12-22
+updated: 2026-04-10
+sources:
+ - sources/ideaflow/2025-12-22_life-guide-projectidea.md
+ - sources/google-sheets-ideas.md
+---
+
+# life guide
+
+a guide for practical life skills — how to do taxes, apply to programs, etc. nuggets of wisdom that are super useful but scattered. acknowledged issue: "runs into advice issues" (liability, individual circumstances). could try crowdsourcing. "similar to some other forum things? e.g. reddit with r/lifeadvice."
+
+**spreadsheet evaluation:** originality 4/10, excitement 4/10, MVP 2-4 weeks. competitive landscape: WikiHow, Reddit (r/lifeprotips, r/personalfinance), Adulting.com, and various life-skills sites exist — advice quality problem is real but crowdsourcing makes it Reddit-like, hard to differentiate without strong curation or AI synthesis. content curation is the product not the tech. competes with ChatGPT/Claude for most queries. tech depth 2/10, labeled [ARCHIVE] ("content/community, not tech").
+
+---
+
+## timeline
+
+- [2025-12-22] captured — practical wisdom aggregation
+- [2026-04-10] google sheets evaluation — 4/10 originality, 4/10 excitement, [ARCHIVE] tier