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Approval-first Agent OS for solo founders
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Soloop - Approval-first Agent OS for solo founders

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Soloop is an agentic company-building system for solo founders. It takes you from idea to revenue with an AI CEO to plan, manage and prioritize, an AI CTO to build and execute, and an AI CMO to find users and sell. Keep your own judgment and ownership while delegating the unfamiliar work that usually requires a team.

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Congratulations

Maker

 Thx very much!

Maker

 Thanks~~

I have built my site already. Can I use your product CMO to put together a marketing plan, find and get users and sell? Or is your solution only usable from the onset of an idea?
Maker

 Spot on. You’ve highlighted a critical transition phase. Right now, our core focus is taking users from 0 to 1 (ideation). However, scaling from 1 to 100—structuring a GTM plan, driving traffic, and optimizing acquisition for an existing site—is exactly where we are heading next.

We are actively building the infrastructure to onboard existing products for this exact purpose. Since you are facing this bottleneck now, I’d love to connect and hear more about your current site to ensure what we're building solves your specific growth hurdles.

Maker

 Thanks for asking! It’s not available yet, but we’re shipping support for existing products within a week. Then the CMO can build your marketing plan, find users, and help sell what you’ve built.

Congrats on the launch.. Is there a level of autonomy planned to baked in? Also is the product only meant for solo folks - or in future can also accomodate co founders. Last connected issue is that our calendars, emails and usually slack - are filled with discussions and clutter - could those be connected and baked into the plan. Last but not the least -- can real product signals from say feedback widgets, posthog, newrelic/sentry, langfuse traces etc automatically be parsed to create and suggest product stories (sorry having been a PM for so many years - this is something I keep thinking about, product discovery).

Have signed up will try to take this out for a spin soon :-)

Maker

 Love these questions—this is exactly the kind of PM-level thinking that makes building this fun.

Quick takes on each:

Autonomy: We're building toward "human sets the direction, AI runs the execution." The bar for when something needs your approval will get smarter over time, but you always have final say. Full autonomy without human oversight isn't the goal—reduced decision fatigue is.

Co-founders: Right now we're laser-focused on solo founders (that's where the pain is sharpest), but multi-person teams are definitely on the roadmap. The handoff and coordination problems get even more interesting with 2-3 people.

Calendar / email / Slack integrations: 100% on the list. The whole point is that your company's context shouldn't live only inside Soloop—it should pull from wherever the work actually happens.

Product signals → product discovery: Okay, this one is the most exciting to me. The idea that real user data (feedback, analytics, error traces) could feed directly into the roadmap and suggest what to build next… that's the good stuff. Our product team has been obsessing over this exact thing.

Really stoked you signed up—would love to hear what you think once you've taken it for a spin. PMs are our favorite users to talk to, no bias at all 😄

I'm a solo founder who spent about a year building my app wearing every hat alone, so I get exactly the problem you're solving. Keeping the founder's approval on big decisions is the right call. Congrats on the launch.

Congrats on your launch. Wanted to try the app but it asked me to request to sign up.
Maker

 😂😂

what's that for
Maker

 

Oops, we made you knock first 😅You can try it free now, and we’re offering a big Product Hunt discount too.

I like the "approval-first" philosophy. It feels like a more realistic way to introduce AI into company building. Curious....how does Soloop resolve situations where the AI CEO and AI CMO recommend conflicting priorities? Does the founder just choose, or does the system surface the tradeoffs?

Soloop is a bold step toward empowering solo founders. Being a solo entrepreneur means juggling countless tasks, and having agentic AI roles — CEO, CTO, CMO — that handle planning, building, and selling can significantly improve efficiency. The balance of keeping judgment and ownership while delegating unfamiliar work is exactly what makes this system exciting. Look forward to seeing it envolve.

Maker

 Thank you so much, this really means a lot! We believe agents will keep gaining the skills founders need, and we’re all in on helping every solo founder turn an idea into revenue 🚀

Hey, everyone from Soloop, do you use agents to seed your posts here with your tool, or do you actually posted it yourself (I don't assume you put time to write it :))

Maker

 Yep, we do use our own agents to help with the writing and the post. :) We’re a small team and simply don’t have enough hands to do everything manually. It’s also a great way to dogfood Soloop. We still review and approve everything ourselves, and this is exactly how we keep improving our agents’ skills.

Seems like there is a problem...

Maker

 Thanks for flagging this, and I’m really sorry that was your first experience with Soloop. About nine hours ago, a spike in traffic caused roughly an hour of downtime and a few related issues. Everything is back up and running now.

We’d love for you to give Soloop another try. Thanks so much for bearing with us!

Approval-first is the hill I’ve been dying on all year, so congrats, you built my argument.

I’m a solo founder running 25 AI marketing agents, and the two rules that keep that sane are exactly your premise: agents produce drafts, not actions, and when they’re missing information they ask instead of inventing. (Mine once invented an employee named Teri and assigned her support tickets. Approval-first is why Teri lasted one document review instead of reaching a customer.)

So here’s the question I’d ask before subscribing, because it’s where I’ve watched this model strain: how do you fight approval fatigue? At some volume, “approve” stops being a decision and becomes a reflex, and a human rubber-stamping fifty prompts a day is arguably worse than no gate at all, because now there’s an audit trail saying someone reviewed it. Do you do anything structural to keep approvals meaningful: batching, risk-tiering, surfacing only diffs, anything?

Genuinely asking. This is the design problem I think decides whether approval-first scales or becomes approval theater.

Maker

 OK. "Approval theater" is such a perfect way to put it—and you're exactly right that it's worse than no gate at all because it gives you a false sense of security. We've had so many internal debates about this.

Here's what we're working on structurally to fight it:

Risk-tiering first. Not every approval is equal. A copy tweak on a landing page? Low stakes, batch it up and show you the diffs once a day. A pricing change or a new feature direction? High stakes, surface it immediately with full context. The goal is that your attention only goes to decisions that actually need your judgment.

Diff-only approvals. You shouldn't have to re-read a whole document to approve one changed paragraph. We show you what moved, why it moved, and let you say yes/no in seconds.

Batching by default. The default mode isn't "ping me for everything"—it's "here's everything that happened since you last checked, organized by what needs your call." You set the rhythm, not the AI.

That said—this is still the hardest design problem we're working on, and we haven't cracked it perfectly. The line between "meaningful approval" and "rubber stamping" is thinner than people think, and it moves as you scale.

Honestly, I'd love to swap notes with you more on this—someone running 25 agents has way more battle scars than we do. Want to chat sometime?

 

This is a genuinely good structure, and the fact that you’ll say “we haven’t cracked it” in public tells me more about the product than the feature list does. One battle scar to add to your tiering model: consider tiering by novelty, not just stakes. The riskiest approvals in my system aren’t the high-stakes ones, because those get my full attention automatically. They’re the ROUTINE ones performed by an agent doing something for the first time. My working rule: any new task type gets full review until it’s produced two consecutive clean rounds, regardless of stakes. Once it’s proven twice, it earns batching. Stakes tell you how bad a miss would be. Novelty tells you how likely one is. You need both axes or the familiar-looking failure walks right through the low-stakes door.

(Ask me how I learned that. His name was a generic mid-market budget template wearing my brand colors.)

And yes to swapping notes, gladly! I launch here on the 18th and my calendar is in lockdown until then, but the week after I’ll have fresh battle scars to share. Grab me then?

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