🧪 TESTED BY ONLYFREEPROMPTS
Should I Actually Buy This?
Let AI challenge the purchase before it recommends another shiny thing.
It starts with your real constraints, separates needs from wants and demands dated evidence before recommending a purchase.
It works because the model has to understand your real constraints before recommending anything. Current prices, specifications and availability still require live sources, which the prompt explicitly demands.
MAKE IT YOURS
Tell the prompt what it needs
YOUR PROMPT
1175 charactersI am considering buying a premium robot vacuum for about €900. My situation: two children, a dog, mostly hard floors and very little storage. My dealbreakers: messy cables, subscriptions and noisy devices. Do not recommend anything yet. First ask me up to seven short questions that would genuinely change the decision, including what problem I need solved, what I already own, how often I would use it, my budget ceiling and what inconvenience I will tolerate. After I answer: 1. State the strongest case for buying it and the strongest case for not buying it. 2. Separate needs, wants and marketing claims. 3. If live web access is available, check current specifications, total ownership cost, warranty and credible recurring complaints. Give direct sources and the date checked. If live access is unavailable, say exactly what I must verify myself. 4. Compare it with keeping what I own, buying used and one cheaper alternative. 5. Give one verdict: BUY NOW, WAIT, BUY USED, CHOOSE THE ALTERNATIVE or SKIP. 6. Name the single fact that would most likely change your verdict. Do not invent prices, availability, reviews or features. Do not use affiliate-style language.
WHY TRY IT?
Most product prompts begin by shopping. This one begins by checking whether the product fits your actual life.
Let AI challenge the purchase before it recommends another shiny thing.
EXAMPLE RESULT
VERDICT: WAIT. Your main problem is dog hair, but the subscription and cable handling conflict with two stated dealbreakers. A used mid-range model is the lower-risk test.
Answer the questions honestly. If you hide your budget or dealbreakers, the AI will optimise for the product instead of for you.
WHAT HAPPENED WHEN WE TESTED IT
It works because the model has to understand your real constraints before recommending anything. Current prices, specifications and availability still require live sources, which the prompt explicitly demands.
We rewrote the viral version to be more honest, more useful and less likely to overclaim. The prompt above is our better version.
Its evidence labels, sceptical validator and file-backed memory make research unusually traceable; the five-agent setup is still heavier than most people need.