Hi HN, I’m Nico, one of the co-founders of BrainGrid. We built this after spending the last year building software almost entirely with AI coding tools like Claude Code and Cursor. Writing code was fast. Finishing anything reliably was not. Coding was not the bottleneck. planning was. It was everything before the code: unclear scope, missing edge cases, poor sequencing, and vague intent. Once a project went beyond a single prompt, small changes started breaking unrelated parts of the app. In traditional teams, product managers and tech leads handle this. I was a Director of Product at Twilio for over a decade. In AI-native development, that role is missing, especially for solo builders and non-technical founders. BrainGrid is an attempt to fill that gap. It’s a product planning agent that helps you think through what to build before asking an AI to write code. You describe a feature or product idea, and BrainGrid: - asks clarifying questions - maps basic user flows and specs UIs - writes structured requirements - produces clean, scoped inputs you can hand to AI coding tools The output is not code. It’s a plan that AI tools can actually execute without drifting. The product is live today. You can try it in the browser, or hand tasks to Claude Code or Cursor via copy-paste, CLI or MCP. There’s a free tier, and you can explore it without committing to anything heavy. |