Validate business ideas before investing significant time, money, and resources.
Evidara is a web-based platform for the structured validation of digital business ideas.
The platform helps founders, startup teams, innovators, and product builders systematically test assumptions, collect evidence, and make informed decisions based on real-world learning rather than intuition.
Instead of focusing on building products as quickly as possible, Evidara focuses on validating whether a business idea is worth building in the first place.
Evidara supports the complete validation workflow:
- Create and manage business ideas
- Model assumptions using the Business Model Canvas
- Define testable hypotheses
- Define metrics and validation thresholds
- Plan experiments
- Record measurements
- Automatically derive validation results
- Analyze validation progress
- Create iterations and pivots
flowchart TD
A[Business Idea] --> B[Business Model Canvas]
B --> C[Hypotheses]
C --> D[Experiments, Metrics and Measurements]
D --> E{Are the critical hypotheses validated?}
E -->|Yes| F[Business idea validated]
E -->|No| G{Next step}
G --> H[Iteration: refine the current idea]
G --> I[Pivot: change direction fundamentally]
H --> C
I --> B
Validation is treated as a repeatable learning loop:
- Make assumptions explicit.
- Test assumptions with measurable criteria.
- Derive evidence-based outcomes.
- Continue with iteration or strategic pivot.
The platform does not make business decisions.
It helps users document assumptions, run validation activities, and evaluate evidence in a structured and repeatable way.
- Create and manage business ideas
- Version-based idea evolution
- Iteration and pivot support
- 9 standard canvas sections
- Structured business model documentation
- Problem hypotheses
- Solution hypotheses
- Market hypotheses
- Monetization hypotheses
- Execution hypotheses
- Quantitative validation criteria
- Configurable comparison operators
- Automatic evaluation
- Experiment planning
- Status tracking
- Documentation of validation activities
- Measurement recording
- Threshold comparison
- Automatic validation status derivation
- Validation overview
- Risk visibility
- Progress tracking
- Dimension-based analysis
Available when the production system is active.
https://test-idea-validation-platform.jcloud.ik-server.com/
Available when the test environment is active.
The backend follows a Clean Architecture approach with separation of concerns.
Core principles:
- Separation of concerns
- Framework-independent business logic
- Dependency inversion
- Stateless request handling
- Explicit validation
- Replaceable infrastructure
For details see:
- Nuxt 4
- Vue 3
- TypeScript
- Nuxt UI
- Tailwind CSS
- Nuxt Server Routes
- PostgreSQL
- Prisma ORM
- Better Auth
- Zod
- OpenAPI
- Docker
- GitHub Actions
- Vitest
- ESLint
- ...
Current maturity level:
- Functional MVP completed
- Core validation workflow implemented
- Subscription support implemented
- Active development continues
Future features may be added, modified, or removed.
This repository is publicly accessible for educational and portfolio purposes.
The source code may be viewed and studied.
Usage rights are governed by the repository license.
See:
Evidara is a validation tool.
The platform does not provide:
- legal advice
- financial advice
- investment advice
- business consulting
All business decisions remain the sole responsibility of the user.
This project was developed as part of the final diploma thesis for the degree:
Dipl. Informatiker HF, Application Development Specialization: Application Security
The project demonstrates the design, implementation, documentation, and security considerations of a modern full-stack SaaS application.
Luca Knobel
- GitHub: https://github.com/LucaKnobel
- Website: https://lucaknobel.ch
Built as part of the Diploma Thesis Project 2026.