Hal9 - Launch AI-Powered Products in 30 Days
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Hal9 helps non-technical founders launch AI-powered products in 30 days without expensive teams or endless AI prompts. Instead of vibe-coding alone with robots, talk to our AI experts who scope your vision, refine ideas, guide AI agents to build secure scalable MVPs on our platform. It's the most competitive way to ship AI MVPs: experts guide (don't code from scratch), AI handles the heavy lifting, predictable pricing, no lock-in, full customization. Focus on growth while we handle the tech.
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FGA4
@javierluraschi congrats on the launch! Do you also help with fixing vibe coded apps or more starting from scratch?
FGA4
@austin_heaton we help with both! Our plan comes with everything... compute, token, storage AND also 10 hours of real expert help. You can use those expert hours for whatever you want :)
@javierluraschi Congrats on the launch Javier. So this is like aicofounder crossed with base44? How do you deal with product validation?
FGA4
@zolani_matebese we are like base44 / lovabale / replit / etc for AI apps.
In technical terms, an AI app is really a Python App or API that is really good at calling LLMs and using Python libraries.
The AI generation part is nascent, so our expert team will do a lot of the heavy lifting for the AI. That said, our AI platform does have everything automated from the engineering side, so it's 100x faster to build an AI app in Hal9 than to do it by hand.
For product validation, our all-inclusive plan does includes real expert hours, which many of our customer use to have a real person test the product. However, we don't do any market validation. We don't do anything related to business at all. Think of us as your AI / tech cofounder.
We are your fearless nerd mercenaries, equipped with state-of-the-art tech, but everything else is on you.
Congrats on the launch 🙌🏻 Super interesting approach. Curious to know: at what point do founders usually hit the biggest blocker, ideation, scoping, or actually shipping the MVP with AI agents?
FGA4
@thomaxx0 very smart question! It's really all of them. We've helped them on each stage of the process. HOWEVER, if you ask founders, no one thinks they need help on ideation or scope, everything thinks that they just need a little bit of help to "finish" the MVP. Unfortunately, that's usually the tip of the iceberg. There are cases where we do help them finish the MVP, but in most cases, we work with them to understand why the MVP is not getting finished. Could be multiple issues: Scope creep, tech not viable, incorrect tech, right problem but wrong solution, solution too complex, and on and on. So while many would think they just need to "finish" their MVP, once they work with us they usually find ways to do it all over in a much smarter and targeted way that starts getting them customers faster. You want something simple that can get you your first customers, nothing else matters.
We have an article about this but we learn more about this every day: https://hal9.com/articles/why-ai-mvps-fail
FGA4
@vouchy ALL OF THEM! We have a few testimonials in our website hal9.com. For the most part, everyone hits a wall at some point and need help getting unstuck. Different founders hit a wall at different stages, some very early on and it feels like they are missing 80% of their vibe-coded product, others come at 90% and find out they can't get the tech or AI to perform closer to 100%.
Very compelling value prop. How do you balance deep customization with the 30-day launch timeline, especially for products with more complex workflows or data requirements?
FGA4
@cathy_cc we follow the lean startup methodology and make sure the product is built iteratively month over month. So we first scope down the project with you to fit in 30 days, and the deliverable is a minimum viable product using the hours included in our monthly plan, see hal9.com/plans. Once you have an MVP and have user feedback, we can keep improving it over time to an alpha, beta, and eventually releases that are used by millions.
FGA4
@why_tahir great questions! Obviously the founder is driving the product, we are just here to make your vision a reality. We are extremely flexible so you can always guide direction; however, there is a tradeoff. We encourage founders to lock the scope for the first month, let us run with it, provide weekly updates and come back after the first month with the first iteration finished. Make changes in-between is possible, but it pushed the timeline to have your MVP deliver in 30 days.
Congrats on the launch! Love how Hal9 blends expert guidance with AI agents to ship real, secure AI MVPs for non-technical founders in weeks, not months.
FGA4
@zeiki_yu Thank you! Yes we think fully embracing AI vibe-coding + AI expert is extremely important. At least today, working with an AI + Expert, is still way superior than just working with an AI. Maybe that will change in a few years, but not any time soon.
Hal9 looks amazing! Im really digging the promise of rapid AI product development. How well does it handle integration with existing legacy systems? Super curious!
FGA4
@jaydev13 Integration with third parties is supported and encouraged since the Hal9 platform generates and runs Python code. There are so many great Python libraries to integrate with third party and also legacy systems that is hard to think of a system that is not accessible through Python code and our platform.
As a non-technical founder, this actually caught my eye. I’ve played around with AI tools before but I usually get stuck between prompts, scope and figuring out what is realistic to build. The idea of having experts guide the process while AI does the heavy lifting sounds like a different approach. Curious how hands-on the guidance is during those 30 days.
FGA4
@elin_sjoberg our hands-on guidance is capped by number of hours per month, take a look at hal9.com/plans for details. But in general, the expert hours our plan includes are designed to use AI as much as possible. We all believe AI is here to make us more productive, so most of the time our team will use AI to build your product except on those cases were AI can't get it done.
I have tried no-code tools and also talked to a few agencies before. Both paths got confusing fast. Either things didn’t work the way I needed or the plan kept changing. What I like about this is having real people help shape the product while AI does most of the building. That easier than trying to do everything alone or handing it off without much control.
FGA4
@johan_nystrom yes! Many founders come to us cause they are tired to talking to robots / AIs. Eventually, vibe-coding becomes like calling a support line with an automated system that never gets your problem resolved; when you work with us, you'll have the best of both words: automated AI platforms and AI experts that can meet with you.
Too many AI tools let you play around, but it’s hard to actually finish anything. What I like about Hal9 is the clear goal of getting a real product out in a set time. Having experts guide the work while AI does the building feels like a better path than staying stuck trying things forever.
FGA4
@henrik_falk the Hal9 team will get you stuck, that's definitely one of the perks. We've learned that is so much more effective to prompt AI to build products when experts know the technology and can craft the prompts appropriately.