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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. 🤝🎉
I appreciate all y'all are doing! making Buildhop more awesome every week, keep up the hard work.
Thank you for doing that! Is there a chance to add a public release and possible roadmap? That would be cool to add. "suggest a feature" button somewhere
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.
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Woot! The feed is now publicly viewable, more exposure for everyone using it!
You and Claire are awesome people for creating another resource for people that are trying to win. Not time to slow down - it's time to go HARD!
We just released our MCP / agent skill for FreeScan single-page audits and pro accounts. We’ve also made the free single-page audits extremely readable for agents. https://www.freescan.app/agents
What's everyone working on today? Any new features? What can I personally help you with today?
Trying to fix my new one - no I'm not building a new one - but one I built yesterday, fun concept, but video creation stuff is always complex and now with my AI agent friends having issues, not getting too far - AlternatePast.com
We're now live on ProductHunt and would greatly appreciate any and all support on our launch over there. https://www.producthunt.com/products/freescan-app?utm_source=other&utm_medium=social
If you've used FreeScan please do us a favor and leave a comment or review on the PH launch, it means a lot!
What does everyone think about this feedback?
love the ui/ux in the landing page and the scan looks very useful however the ui is cluttered and kind of confusing in the results page (mostly everything from 'Why this scored this way to the bottom).
FreeScan.appReplying is worth 50 points · 100 with Spotlight
Hop ProductI actually absolutely agree with this feedback, I have a big polish pass coming soon to the audit pages. 🤝
I somewhat agree with that. There's A LOT of information that FreeScan returns - it's often overwhelming and hard to decide what to look at.
A little more context on what our scans mean and why they’re important. https://www.freescan.app/blog/website-audit-scoring-methodology
What does everyone think about this feedback?
Super-cool product. However, your "copy" buttons don't work and just report a "Copy failed" error.
FreeScan.appReplying is worth 50 points · 100 with Spotlight
Hop ProductIs anyone else experiencing this? I can not replicate this on any environment and the prompt copy button works fine on every test.
Personally nope, not experiencing any issues at all; and now that I last checked there are huge improvements on the platform UI and UX experience is getting better and better! GJ :D
I've made HUGE improvements for sure! Scans are different, way more context provided. FreeScan will only continue to improve!
We added deeper website performance insights to FreeScan.app, individual LLM AI crawler access checks, and over a dozen quality of life enhancements. As always FreeScan.app is 100% free to use. Check it out https://www.freescan.app/
What does everyone think about this feedback?
looks great, how does it differ from other coding agents?
LaunchChairReplying is worth 50 points · 100 with Spotlight
Hop ProductIt’s interesting this person thought it was an agent, as said on the website this is meant as an MCP and companion to your agent, it’s a second brain for context, creates a spec, and PRD, then writes prompts for your agent from spec.
maybe they just glanced at the site? I just gave it another once over and I can see how on a quick read it could come off as an agent - some of the taglines mention "your agent" or "the agent".
I know what the product is so it doesn't read that way to me, but yeah. some minor wordsmithing or a section that explicitly says "NOT A FRIGGIN AGENT BUT A TOOL FOR YER FRIGGIN AGENT" perhaps? 😂.
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
Been running this on both SublimeKeys and BackDrop_'s pages — genuinely the best feedback widget I've integrated. Real, actionable comments straight from actual visitors, not just launch-day noise 👌
is there any way to track if feedback came from the widget? might be helpful in some way? Camprtron is rockin it now
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?
hmmm. I think it might make it a bit "busy". but maybe that's what y'all are going for and/or the other changes might make that not true
It would probably be a tab and not clutter the homepage, we’re doing it purely for backlinks and SEO, better exposure for people posting to the feed.
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
"Give a man a mask and he will tell the truth." - Oscar Wilde This feature will be very useful, great to see BuildHop improving!
Holy heck you guys are going nuts on the launch feedback today! Keep it up, this is awesome and so incredibly helpful to founders with new products!
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.
Genuine question: how does BuildHop handle the security tradeoff here? Some products intentionally block third-party framing to reduce clickjacking risk, especially when login or payments are involved.
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
We’re no longer offering dofollow to every launch… Next week we’re going to push our SEO and DR hard so a dofollow is going to require a badge on your website. More on this next week 🤝
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
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