"Obvious is not selling escape. It's selling return. Return to the work that matters. Return to the ambition you've been taught to negotiate away. Return to the idea that won't leave you alone."
we were spending too much time "carrying water" between agents
- here's a spec build it
- address the pr comments
- fix the failing CI
so we made an agent for overseeing the SDLC e2e (Autobuild)
we invited 10 startups to use it last week in SF (NYC next week!)
what it does:
- plans out entire feature builds across dozens of PRs
- oversees the coding agents as they work
- babysits PRs and addresses human and agentic review
- conducts security, performance, and architectural reviews
- QAs the work and records videos of the outcomes
- monitors logs for issues after staging release
- collects ux feedback from humans and address them
- indexes all the concepts in your codebase
- automatically writes updates to your team about what shipped
- knows the current rollout state of features
- maintains running sandboxes with a full dev env
- dogfoods features before reporting success
- engages with you in slack as it builds
- automatically fixes reported issues
- nags you for PR reviews when needed
- optimizes your CI so it's not shit (big bottleneck for velocity)
we're planning on making this the most insane building experience for established companies with a focus on quality/safety and human collaboration while accelerating velocity by 1-2 orders of magnitude
if you want to join us in NYC next week (Thur/Fri - May 7/8) or future workshops lmk - we're onboarding up to 50 companies at a time by helping you ship 12 weeks of roadmap in 2 days - a sort of reset on baseline velocity
no cost to attend beyond the inference you burn (you'll build a lot so not for the faint of heart)
david showed me a demo of @obvious agents a few months back, and it was the first time i saw enough of the stack coming together that a normie startup could continuously and safely delegate complex, multi-hour engineering (and non-engineering) tasks to a non-human.
tomorrow we kick off the 3rd cohort of startups we've invited to use Autobuild, the internal tool driving the insane autonomous build velocity at @obvious (nearing 1000 PRs a day from 10 engineers)
each co is shipping 12 weeks of roadmap
this is the frontier, build accordingly