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26 points north_creao | 2 comments | | HN request time: 0.402s | 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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CuriouslyC ◴[] No.44993315[source]
Delightful design, but from the verbiage on your landing page I wouldn't have guessed you were targeting founders, that sort of thin detail is usually reserved for disconnected decision makers.
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1. north_creao ◴[] No.44993910[source]
Auch, your comment is sharp and I do really appreciate that! According to the think detail fact, we are planning to add a community use case page with some solid functional use cases in different categories, or do you have any suggestions? Would love to hear from you!

And here's my email if you would like to have a chat: north@creao.ai

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2. CuriouslyC ◴[] No.44994100[source]
As a founder, when I land on a page trying to pitch me to build on them, I want to think of whatever it is like plumbing, fairly easy to understand, out in the open. I also want to know what your north star is pretty quickly because even if what you have is attractive, if we're going in different directions it's not going to be a good time. Unlike enterprise folks I don't really have the luxury of shrugging to shareholders and backtracking on bad decisions.

As a stealth competitor, I can tell you the biggest challenge in the space (besides actually dialing in the agents and workflows) is integrating AI codegen with a human product and engineering pipeline in a way that is sustainable (review, PM, etc load increased) and respects organizations processes.