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We put soo much work into BuildHop this week, hope you guys love the new features and refinements we’ve made. Next week I need to put a little work into https://www.freescan.app, which if you haven’t tried yet is an absolute life / time saver. 🤝🎉
Question 1 of 7
I’m a product designer and design engineer with about 15 years of experience building everything from native consumer apps to complex enterprise automation platforms. I like problems where the technology is powerful but the product still makes people work too hard. I’m happiest talking to users, untangling the system, designing the details, and then working in code with engineering until it ships.
Question 2 of 7
Most of my time is going into three products I'm designing and building with my wife Claire. LaunchChair (https://www.launchchair.io/) helps founders research an idea, define the right product, and give coding agents enough context to build it properly. FreeScan (https://www.freescan.app/) gives anyone a free, practical audit of their website, while BuildHop helps independent products get discovered without requiring founders to already have an audience.
Question 3 of 7
Mostly frustration. AI made it much easier for me to ship software, but research, product decisions, QA, and distribution were still fragmented across a pile of tools. LaunchChair came from needing a better way to manage the build itself, FreeScan came from repeatedly auditing my own sites, and BuildHop came from seeing useful products disappear because their founders had no reliable way to reach people.
Question 4 of 7
I used to think faster development would be the biggest advantage. Now I think code is becoming the cheapest part of building a product. Knowing what to build, keeping the product coherent, earning trust, and getting it in front of the right people matter much more than generating another feature quickly.
Question 5 of 7
LaunchChair passed that test when users started using it to drive entire builds instead of treating it as a prompt generator. More than 100 early users have tried it, roughly ten products have been completed through the workflow, and several are now earning MRR. That showed me the living context, build cards, agent loop, and QA process were solving a real problem.
Question 6 of 7
Distribution, honestly. I can build and improve products very quickly now, but earning sustained attention without turning into a full-time content machine is still difficult. BuildHop is partly my attempt to solve that problem for myself and other independent builders while keeping discovery useful rather than turning it into another spam-filled directory.
Question 7 of 7
Build something useful for one specific person before worrying about turning it into a large SaaS business. Put it in front of people early, watch what they actually do, and instrument enough of the product to tell whether it helped. Shipping quickly is valuable, but only when each release teaches you something.
The notch that Windows never gave you. Made for your developer and personal work.
Form your US company in a 5-minute AI chat
Better workouts. Better together.
Exchange ads with other products.
Beautiful web analytics you'll actually want to use
Strangers become teammates. Friends become rivals.
Personal aggregator and assistant with a workspace
Connect any AI agent to 1,000+ apps via one MCP server.
Free video and audio tools. Nothing gets uploaded.
Know exactly who visited your website, not just what they clicked.
Run your whole Mac from a touchscreen. Touchscreen driver for macOS
One AI briefing from all your sources
Prefab Building Marketplace
Studying with Claude or ChatGPT? Add the Kasauti plugin to your chat and get a real test on what you just learned.
Unified mailbox for your work email and personal inbox.
Post video proof of your best plank, climb the founder leaderboard, and put the thing you built in front of a new crowd.
Free QR codes that never expire - no signup, no tracking.
Build ATS friendly resumes and create tailored cover letters
One cockpit. Every AI CLI.
An experiment in turning ego into impact.
What does everyone think about this feedback?
looks great, how does it differ from other coding agents?
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The FreeScan.app blog is now live and we’re looking for partnerships and backlink trades. https://www.freescan.app/blog/how-to-rank-keywords-grow-domain-rating-truedr
You can collect anonymous feedback and get votes for your launch when people visit your actual website by using the new BuildHop feedback widget, click this link to find your widget in your dashboard https://buildhop.io/app#website-feedback
We’re going to be updating the BuildHop homepage a little for SEO / AEO reasons, but wanted to ask everyone how they feel about this founders feed being on the BuildHop homepage?
This feature is live now for all users with approved launches! It’s in beta and we still have some enhancements to make but it’s working very well! Give it a try 🤝🙌 https://x.com/JacobCounsell/status/2081450599229370468
Little reminder for everyone, if your site blocks BuildHop from framing it and your website doesn’t work within the Hop discovery our system automatically hides you from discovery. No views. No feedback.
We're not suggesting not to have security headers, we're suggesting you set "frame-ancestors 'self' https://buildhop.io" on your homepage and for basic security have all auth and payment pages set to "frame-ancestors 'none'"
We listened to our users and uncapped project limits for all pricing tiers! Now the $19 a month tier has unlimited projects. The only difference in plans now is seats. https://www.launchchair.io/
Every LaunchChair build starts with an agent ready boilerplate worth $500! This boilerplate has auth, admin, blog, agents / design.md, hooks for Stripe / Resend / PostHog, security, and great SEO out the gate. https://www.launchchair.io/
LaunchChair now has a full agent loop API / MCP so you can have Claude or Codex build a market informed SaaS that doesn’t suck without writing a single prompt. https://www.launchchair.io/
Now, on top of Fixes, Opportunities, and Insights, FreeScan also gives you prompts you can use with your agent of choice to make immediate improvements to your site. https://www.freescan.app/
LaunchChair has a full agent API and MCP with fully functional endpoints for your agent. Our CLI is also finished but not live yet as we’re still testing a few things. https://www.launchchair.io/docs
Love seeing tweets like this! https://x.com/oscargaske/status/2070136260383899966?s=46
LaunchChair is an agentic loop, but not the hand-wavy kind. https://www.launchchair.io/blog/launchchair-is-a-loop
The way vibe coders are building is broken… How LaunchChair fixes this. https://www.launchchair.io/blog/vibe-coding-is-broken
The easiest way to validate your product idea! https://www.launchchair.io/features/startup-validation-workflow
Why use an agentic product development tool like LaunchChair to build MVP’s versus just vibe coding with an agent? https://www.launchchair.io/compare/launchchair-vs-vibe-coding
A little more context and information about LaunchChairs auto-generated prompts. https://www.launchchair.io/features/spec-aware-prompts
Hey guys! We just released founders feed V2, this update should make it a lot easier to use the feed, you can now actually reply to replies. We condensed the launch post spam, and we fixed a few things. Let me know what you think!
LETS ACTUALLY GO!! 🔥🔥🔥 https://x.com/jacobcounsell/status/2055775513755394368?s=46
A little context for everyone on fake DR! https://x.com/JacobCounsell/status/2055265853889732631?s=20
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