Eli Fayerman

Attorney and software engineer · Founder of 1mil.app

I build AI tools for finding and validating startup ideas. 1mil.app is an opportunity scanner that researches a market, surfaces evidence, and ranks the directions worth testing, so founders spend their time on ideas that can actually find a buyer.

My background is unusual for a developer: I practiced as an attorney before moving into software. That mix shapes how I think about validation. Diligence, evidence, and asking "what would actually prove this?" matter more than enthusiasm, and the guides on this site come from building and shipping these tools.

What I work on

• 1mil.app: business idea discovery and validation, powered by an LLM research-and-scoring pipeline.
• Open-source projects, including a curated monthly list of operator-pain-driven startup ideas and other AI tooling.
• Writing the validation and idea-selection guides published here, like how to validate a startup idea.

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