AI Command Bar - Turn your user's words into actions
Imagine Spotlight with superpowers... That is what Stepsailor's AI Command Bar is aiming for.
Let your user describe what they want to do, and the command bar will automatically run the required actions within your product.
No need for prompt engineering.
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Hey people!
I am Pascal, technical co-founder of Stepsailor.
I gotta say... launching this product... even having the idea of building this wasn't an easy road. In fact, there is a small graveyard of products that haven't made it to Product Hunt.
So here I am, launching my first hunt! I realised today's products all turn out to be chat interfaces. And there is a good reason for that. Language is a powerful user interface.
Essentially, there is no onboarding required since you only have to explain the gist of it so the user knows what to ask.
But there are many different kinds of products out there. Visualisations will always have a spot. But buttons and input fields surely will look different in the future.
When developing products in reality, you don't want to learn or hire another specialist that creates a chat interface that controls your product.
You want to focus on the core value of your product... the business logic, and make it accessible quickly.
So I want to bring AI into SaaS products in the right way. DX first and simple APIs. Control over what model is used and where it's located.
The AI Command Bar is just the beginning.
Please let me know what you think about it!
Feel free to reach out on pascal@stepsailor.com
Or check out our website
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@pascal_lohscheidt1 Congrats on the first launch Pascal!
Sindo
Congrats on your first Product Hunt launch, Pascal! 🎉 Really respect the journey—and the persistence it takes to ship. You're absolutely right: language as a UI is powerful, but integrating it meaningfully into SaaS without losing control or adding complexity is still a huge gap. Stepsailor feels like a thoughtful solution for devs who want to keep focus on core value while still enabling intuitive, AI-driven interfaces.
How customizable is the AI Command Bar in terms of commands, branding, and model choice?
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@susaana_s Thanks for taking the time to leave a comment! I appreciate it a lot!
In regards to your questions. The commands itself are highly customisable already.
About branding and model choice... the goal for this month is to make this solution customisable with css variables. And even let the developer decide how deep "models" think or which models to use.
In other words the command bar should be integrate-able into every product without destroying any branding by 1st of May :)
So you are spot on with your question!
Sindo
@pascal_lohscheidt1 Looking forward to try it :)
The SDK syntax looks very clean, I could see this being implemented in <1h for smaller workflows ;)
Looks great @pascal_lohscheidt1!
Gotta try this for a client project's admin interface soon ;)
From your experience: How detailed do the tool descriptions have to be for the AI to pick up on them and utilize them correctly? Especially for more complex use-cases
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@julian_krug most of the time I am using one small sentence. But for core things, especially when the user is not familiar with the terminolgy I am using longer ones.
The SDK actually will receive a context field, so that action can be put into the context of the product better.
However the idea to keep those prompting efforts low. Similar to good programming a good name for an action is half of the bet. At least that I see so far.
Picter
I got to test this product early, integrating it into an internal admin tool. It’s wild how easy it is to plug in and how powerful it is at wiping out repetitive click-click-click grunt work from the user journey.
It’s a killer combo: this AI bridges natural language with deterministic actions, keeping humans in the loop but automating everything that doesn’t need a brain. Defining these actions is dead simple and completely framework-agnostic. I tried it in an old React app using Redux, and it just worked.
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@mattilohThanks. I was also super happy about the result of the test. Always good to have some hackers in the family who happen to have a big redux app among their products ;)
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I am happy to give every single one of you a personal onboarding.
(This is very crucial for feedback)
I emptied my calendar so you can book a slot!
https://cal.com/pascal-lohscheidt/talk-with-the-ceo-about-stepsailor
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@pascal_lohscheidt1 will this work for my web app magicslides.app
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@indianappguy Hey yes it will :) If you are intrested we can also look at this together and you can tell me whats missing for you
Strawberry
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@benjamin_astrand another good question. I think when it comes to the number of possible actions you have to consider the following...
There are two things that make this interface interesting. One is this shortcut nature of describing something you would normally most definitely do manually and the other is this fire and forget feeling.
So lets say you open an application you have a couple of tasks to do. You write them down and a human would never write 1000 actions down but rather they would structure their flow in 4 main tasks. But of course you can defineActions in a way that they handle 1000 of small actions. Imagine it would be "analyse data group(s)" which contains groups of data points which can easily be tens of thousands of functions but you would wrap those in something digestable.
However there is also a clear limit to how big these flows can get. I am bit hesitant to introduce loops and control structures since we all know they make it impossible to statically analyse an action definition (=program)
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Big congrats on your first launch, Pascal! 🎉
The idea behind Stepsailor and the AI Command Bar really resonates — not every product should be reduced to a chatbot. Giving devs a dead-simple way to integrate AI with thoughtful DX and model flexibility feels like the right move in a landscape that’s drowning in rigid AI wrappers.
Love that you’re thinking about how AI should show up in SaaS — not just that it should. Looking forward to seeing how this evolves beyond the Command Bar. Keep sailing forward — you’ve already crossed the hardest part 🚀⚓
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@williamrobertscott thank you so much for encouraging! I really appreciate it.
I think I haven't yet completely solved it. But I am agreeing that the how is a very important question.
I honestly dislike the view on AI products like "operator" since they imagine you can just understand products purely visually. However each SaaS product has a core value because it solves a problem. So the AI solutions for that have to bent to solve the problem and most often need that specific domain knowledge to solve it.
Maybe thats a bit off topic though ;)
Awesome tool!
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@charvibothra thanks a lot!
Good job, just like Cursor which turn the user's words to codes
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@tibelf yes exactly - maybe subconsciously I just followed this idea :)
Love the natural language capabilities! 👀
Looks great, congrats on the first launch!
Big congrats on the launch, Pascal! 🎉
This really feels like the future of handling daily tasks—no more endless clicking through menus. Not everyone wants to build complex workflows with n8n or rely on AI agents just to get things done. Sometimes, a focused tool like AI Command Bar is simply the better, more practical solution.
Again, congrats on the launch, Pascal!
This is next-level UX! ⚡️ Turning natural language into real actions without prompt engineering? Stepsailor’s AI Command Bar sounds like magic in motion.
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@maskarachico Hey yes you can integrate it every existing web app but you need to write a little bit sdk code to connect it to your logic
Congrats on your first Product Hunt launch, Pascal! 🎉
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this is quite interesting but it is not clear how can i add it to my app. And most improtantly how hard it is
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@indianappguyHey thank you for the feedback. I will improve that for my future launches. It is quite easy. Its a bit copy and paste then just conencting your api endpoints. It works with any web app