DM

Founder with the check engine light on. Building One Step Ahead: a simulator where founders rehearse their next move before it costs them. Day 1, in public.

[DM @dm_founder]

How it works in 24 seconds. Pick a hard customer message, watch the AI employee draft a reply, change the tone or shop rule, see the reply change. Nothing sends on its own. Early build, nothing for sale yet.

[DM @dm_founder]

This is NOVA. You pick the look, the level and the skills, then put it through a trial shift on hard customer messages before you hire it. Early build, nothing for sale yet.

[DM @dm_founder]

Meet ORBIT. An AI employee that drafts replies to hard customer messages. You interview it first, then decide if you'd hire it. Early build, nothing for sale yet.

[DM @dm_founder]

@ShefaliKhoja Thank you, that means a lot! Day 1 energy.

[DM @dm_founder]

Day 1 of building Launch Rehearsal 🎬

Before you launch your AI-built app, a cast of AI users runs through it like real people and shows you what breaks.

Uni student, first-time founder, building in public.

What's the worst bug you found AFTER launching?

[DM @dm_founder]

@pierrickselas Ha, the forgotten ones for sure. Thanks Rick!

[DM @dm_founder]

@achieve_wealth_ Appreciate that. Good call on permissions, noting it now while it's cheap to fix.

[DM @dm_founder]

Meet Atlas. I designed him in about a minute.

You can now design your own AI employee like a game character and share its card.

Early build: agents aren't live yet, nobody is charged.

What would you name yours?

https://t.co/VDEdb1ViOb

[DM @dm_founder]

Day 3 of building in public. Honest scoreboard:

✅ Idea to live website
✅ 22 local shop sites scanned
✅ An AI employee you can test
❌ Paying customers: 0

Building was the easy part.

Next: talk to 100 people. Run a small shop? I'd love 2 minutes of your honest opinion.

[DM @dm_founder]

I'm a student with one goal: make AI agents fun to use, not just useful.

First experiment: you design an AI employee like a game character. Pick its look, pick its skills, then interview it before you hire it.

What's the first job you'd hand it?

[DM @dm_founder]

The build log, honestly 😅

[DM @dm_founder]

The doors Claude Fable 5.2 opens for a solo dev are crazy.

Two days ago I had an idea and a landing page. Tonight there's a live product: paste a link, AI shoppers test your site, you get a fix list.

I'm a uni student who's new to coding. If you've been waiting to build, start.

[DM @dm_founder]

It's live.

Paste your website link and AI shoppers rehearse it in about 10 seconds: a score out of 100 plus a plain-English list of what to fix.

Free, look-only, and only for sites you own.

Built between classes. Tell me what breaks 🙏

https://t.co/Uvh1V2lPk7

[DM @dm_founder]

current office ☕

uni by day, building Launch Rehearsal by night: AI shoppers that test your website before real customers do.

[DM @dm_founder]

Want to see what AI shoppers find on your website before real customers do?

Free for the next 5 stores or websites: a launch rehearsal + a plain-English fix list.

Reply with your link 👇

[DM @dm_founder]

AI update for small businesses:

• OpenAI just launched business profiles in ChatGPT, with website click stats. AI is now a traffic source.
• Across 19 studies, AI "digital twins" correlated only ~0.2 with real people.

AI will send you customers. It can't predict them yet.

[DM @dm_founder]

@musclecrabs Feeling this right now. What's helped me so far: real conversations in other people's replies beat posting into the void. 3 good chats > 300 views. Rooting for your app 🙌

[DM @dm_founder]

@iamsimpleneeraj That's wild, love the live edits. Curious: does the contact form actually deliver the message? That's the part I see break most often on AI-built pages, and the owner usually only finds out weeks later.

[DM @dm_founder]

@ivarunchaudhary Good luck with the launch! I'm a student building Launch Rehearsal: AI shoppers that try your site before real users do. Happy to run a free rehearsal on yours before you go live if you want 🙏

[DM @dm_founder]

@shipwithkiran Love this. The flip side: when anyone can push a change live in a minute, nobody checks it first. A quick "did this just break the order form?" step is going to matter a lot for owners like her.

[DM @dm_founder]

@chris_nectiv "Website clicks from ChatGPT" is the big line. AI is officially a traffic source for small businesses now, and those visitors arrive with zero patience. If the page is slow or broken, they're straight back to the chat.