# Brainstorm the idea

A step of the [Cloud application](https://gradus.kazet.blog/tree/cloud-application) tree on Gradus, in the Product area: Idea, users, decisions, feedback.

Page: https://gradus.kazet.blog/tree/cloud-application/step/product-idea

Brainstorm with your assistant until one idea is worth a few weekends: who it is for, what it does in one sentence, what it deliberately does not do and why now, written to docs/product/idea.md.

Usually comes after: [First commit](https://gradus.kazet.blog/tree/cloud-application/step/first-commit).

Leads to: [Users & their jobs](https://gradus.kazet.blog/tree/cloud-application/step/users-and-jobs), [Project knowledge base](https://gradus.kazet.blog/tree/cloud-application/step/knowledge-base).

## Prompt for your AI assistant

```
Help me brainstorm a small software product I can build and run in the cloud over a few weeks. Ask me about my interests, my experience and the problems I see around me, propose five ideas sized for one person, push back on the ones that are too big, then help me pick one. Write docs/product/idea.md with: the problem, who has it, what the product does in one sentence, what it deliberately does not do, why now and a short note on my experience and the time I can give it. Write no code.
```

Every step of the tree: https://gradus.kazet.blog/tree/cloud-application/llms.txt