Hey Product Hunt 👋
I'm Nico, co-founder of BrainGrid. Tyler and I (ex-Twilio) have been building software for the last 25 years, across startups, enterprise teams, and everything in between. We've seen every era of the stack. This one is different.
AI coding tools changed everything. Domain experts, creators, and founders with no engineering background are now shipping real applications. That's extraordinary.
But the bottleneck moved. Writing code is no longer the constraint. Planning is.
A vague prompt produces a fragile app. A clear, structured spec produces software that works. In traditional teams, that thinking is done by a Product Manager. In this new era, that role doesn't exist for most builders. So they get stuck.
BrainGrid is the AI Product Planner, the missing layer between your idea and what your coding agent actually builds.
Here's what we're shipping today:
- AI Product Planner. Turn messy ideas into structured epics, fully specified requirements, and engineering-grade prompts. Readiness scoring tells you exactly what's ready to build and what still needs thinking. Dependencies surface blockers before they slow you down.
- Designs. See what you're building before you build it. Describe what you want, get a real design (not generic AI output), iterate by chatting or annotating, and hand your coding agent both the spec and the visual reference. Frontend rework cycles drop dramatically.
We've already helped over 2,000 builders ship real AI-native SaaS products with paying customers. Not prototypes. Shipped products.
A few stories that keep us going:
Saymon, a senior engineer in Brazil, cut a two-day planning session to 30 minutes. The feature shipped in two weeks instead of four, and his client used it for an event that generated $1M in revenue.
Kaleen, a mechanical engineer and Pilates instructor, broke her app trying to add a feature. After days of spinning, she started fresh with BrainGrid and had it working immediately. She's now onboarded her first paying studio owner.
Audris came from a marketing background. In three months he went from no engineering experience to a live app with OAuth, cross-device sync, shared focus sessions, and full Google Calendar integration.
The pattern is always the same. AI coding tools are powerful. BrainGrid makes them productive.
We'd love your feedback on the product, the positioning, anything. We read every comment.
Let's build what wasn't possible before. 🚀
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Hey Nico, really very impressive onboarding flow! Did you build this solo? I’m navigating my own launch today (ToolXray) as a solo dev, so I have huge respect for what you've executed here. Great job! Congrates.
@toolxray Thank you! We're a small team behind BrainGrid.
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Really interesting positioning — how does BrainGrid handle the handoff from planning to actual execution? That's always where things fall apart for solo builders.
Congrats on this @acossta This is lovely! Does this support a Linear integration or does it locally help you track your to-dos, issues, etc as you go from plan to product?
Congrats @acossta & @tyler_wells2 ! I've used BrainGrid over the last few months and am very intrigued with all the new features.
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Congrats on the launch! Loved testing out BrainGrid and believe everyone should add it to their vibecoding workflow 🫡
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I'm a user and it's a great product. I suggest it to teams who are working together and using AI tools like Claude or cursor, so they can get organized with their requirements on projects while moving fast and building.
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I have been Using BrainGrid for a while. Great to see it doing well here on Product hunt. I have been suggesting it to teams who are working together and using AI tools like Claude or cursor, so they can get organized with their requirements on projects while moving fast and building.
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@acossta the point about planning becoming the new bottleneck resonates.
AI tools removed a lot of the friction from writing code, but vague prompts still produce fragile apps.
The ‘AI product planner’ layer makes sense in that context.
Curious about one thing.
Do you see BrainGrid mainly helping non-technical founders ship their first SaaS, or also helping experienced developers structure bigger projects with coding agents
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Propel
Hey Nico, really very impressive onboarding flow! Did you build this solo? I’m navigating my own launch today (ToolXray) as a solo dev, so I have huge respect for what you've executed here. Great job! Congrates.
Propel
@toolxray Thank you! We're a small team behind BrainGrid.
Really interesting positioning — how does BrainGrid handle the handoff from planning to actual execution? That's always where things fall apart for solo builders.
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BrainGrid is the first thing I open before any serious Claude Code project. Not an exaggeration.
Propel
Congrats on this @acossta This is lovely! Does this support a Linear integration or does it locally help you track your to-dos, issues, etc as you go from plan to product?
Propel
Congrats @acossta & @tyler_wells2 !
I've used BrainGrid over the last few months and am very intrigued with all the new features.
Congrats on the launch! Loved testing out BrainGrid and believe everyone should add it to their vibecoding workflow 🫡
I'm a user and it's a great product. I suggest it to teams who are working together and using AI tools like Claude or cursor, so they can get organized with their requirements on projects while moving fast and building.
I have been Using BrainGrid for a while. Great to see it doing well here on Product hunt. I have been suggesting it to teams who are working together and using AI tools like Claude or cursor, so they can get organized with their requirements on projects while moving fast and building.
@acossta the point about planning becoming the new bottleneck resonates.
AI tools removed a lot of the friction from writing code, but vague prompts still produce fragile apps.
The ‘AI product planner’ layer makes sense in that context.
Curious about one thing.
Do you see BrainGrid mainly helping non-technical founders ship their first SaaS, or also helping experienced developers structure bigger projects with coding agents