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26 points north_creao | 1 comments | | HN request time: 0.207s | source

Hi HN! I'm North, DevRel from the CREAO team. We are a 15-20 person startup, and we spent a couple of months building this vibe coding product. We've been exploring the possibilities of how agents should assist people's work for productivity in various scenarios.

Three months ago, we noticed that all small teams and companies are struggling with subscribing to multiple SaaS tools that never fit their exact needs. Pretty much all founders and SMB professionals need customized productivity tools that fit their daily work routines, but they don't have developers to build these lightweight tools for them. So we thought we needed to build a vibe coding product that allows them to ship their own tools in minutes and get rid of these SaaS subscriptions.

For our product features, we built it differently from all the other vibe coding products. We want our users to build something actually useful instead of just a product prototype. But the current well-known code agents are performing poorly at building complex data schemas and integrating APIs. So we fine-tuned a small model for the following features:

1.Automatically builds complex relational data schemas

2.Automated MCP/API connections with existing systems

With these core capabilities, our code agent can then build internal tools that connect with existing systems with state persistence. For example, I built a dashboard to track my X engagement and export results to a CSV file.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1FBBOdrtonlj_56jgQuAoPpGnABB...

This productivity boost is specifically designed for small team founders—you can build your own CRM workflows, data dashboards, revenue tracking, etc. Each of these could cost you $20-50/month in SaaS subscriptions.

We are still in the early stage and improving our user experience. Our team is delivering new features pretty much every week, and we would love to hear from HN to give us some suggestions on how we can do better. You can always reach me at north@creao.ai. I love to shape the product together with community users. I hope you can find our work very helpful for your productivity.

Thanks!

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mkl ◴[] No.44993433[source]
Some first impressions:

- I think you should drop the confusing black loading screen. It is (or should be) a static page, so just display it.

- Under "The Simple Path to Power" the first and third videos don't display for me, and I just get a grey box (I assume there's supposed to be a video there). Chrome on Windows.

- I can't make any sense of the paragraph starting "Software shouldn’t wait for clicks". None of the sentences seem to have meaning. It reads like AI slop with no context of your product.

- "Because they run in your stack, you keep ownership of logic and data, evolve them week by week, and avoid rented, brittle SaaS.": how is what you're selling not a rented, brittle SaaS? Everything else on the page makes it seem to be one.

- The pricing is totally opaque. What is a "credit"? Is the Pro plan really more popular than the free plan, as claimed? That would be surprising.

- When you say "Copilot" are you referring to Microsoft's product? If so, how is it running in your customers' apps, and what does your product contribute? If not, you should probably change it before MS complains about trademark violation.

- The Pricing link at the top doesn't link to the pricing section. Don't even put in Community and Blog links if you've got nowhere to point them.

- The little app mockups at the top can be dragged around (why?!) but not clicked on to find out more. The dragging is pretty buggy for me.

- Three of the five social media logos at the bottom don't link anywhere - don't put them in.

- What do you mean by "stack"? You say "Own the Stack" and "Because they run in your stack" - does that mean self-hosting? You say "Connect your stack automatically", which seems to refer to MCP/API connections to things the customer doesn't own. Where do the apps run?

- You're missing any kind of evidence that your product works, that people can use it successfully, or any other social proof. Link to demos of actual things made with your tool, and show exactly how they were made.

I've read the whole page, but I still have no idea what your product is or does beyond somehow magically enabling vibe-coding of some (unspecified) limited kinds of production apps by non-technical people. That's a big claim to be making, so you need to be backing it up with evidence.

Here, you write "This productivity boost is specifically designed for small team founders—you can build your own CRM workflows, data dashboards, revenue tracking, etc. Each of these could cost you $20-50/month in SaaS subscriptions." which is clearer than anything on the actual site (but still not very clear).

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1. uxcolumbo ◴[] No.44993866[source]
Some good feedback here.

The landing page is confusing and trying to use some clever tricks to impress, like those draggable boxes, which stopped me from easily scrolling (viewing on an iPad) and the wall of text that is fading in.

All this degrades usability.

Keep it simple.