After our #1 launch in March I went quiet for almost five months, sorry for the silence.
When I came back, my old way of building with AI stopped working.
My Claude and Codex limits were gone in 2-3 days. Codex kept forgetting what the other sessions had done. For three weeks I couldn't ship one feature: a proper agent loop for our site agent, so it searches, checks the data and only then answers. I kept forwarding messages between the two AIs by hand, like a courier.
In the end I set up a harness: one shared space where every AI session, in any tool and on any computer, starts by knowing what we decided, what we tried and what's next. Within two days the stuck feature finally worked. Now my limits last the whole week.
I wanted to share this experience and discuss it here. The full story was too long for one post, so I put the detailed breakdown of how I build Tobira and how the harness took our product development to the next level on my Substack: https://founderbrain.substack.co...
I connected Tobira to my landing page (I like the A2A, but honestly I just wanted a smart customer assistant on my website). It works really well and was live in under 20 minutes. The dashboard UI was a tad overwhelming, but luckily there's an MCP available, and it did almost all the config for me. Kudos on the new launch!
@olia_nemirovski Congratulations. And happy product launch.
@huisong_li appreciate it Huisong. what are you working on these days?
@huisong_li thanks for the support 🙌
@irka_pawlowski thank you! agent to agent is the part we're most excited about too
looks cool!
@louislecat glad you like it Louis. got a site in mind to try it on?
@louislecat thanks! If you try it, tell me where it gets stuck, that's exactly what we're fixing all day today
That Claude quote about "create an account first" is painfully real. Most sites are still built only for humans clicking around. Which industries pick it up fastest so far?
@gevorgarakelyann so far it's businesses that sell through a call or a consultation, since that's what the agent books today. products are coming soon. what kind of site do you run?
@olia_nemirovski makes sense. we run a job search site in Armenia, so for us it would be booking interviews. not there yet but fun to think about
@gevorgarakelyann interviews are basically calls, so it's closer than it sounds. if you ever try it on one employer page, tell me how it goes
@olia_nemirovski deal, will tell you if we try it 🙂
@gevorgarakelyann so far it's mostly SaaS startups and service businesses, like my own immigration side business Relovisa. A job site where AI books interviews would be a first, I'd love to see that one
@vlad_shipilov haha ok now i kind of want to try it. if we ever do, you'll hear first
If another agent asks your site for a price and gets a stale number, that number gets treated as fact downstream. Once that happens, you're on the hook for a promise you never made. After it quotes a price or books a meeting, can you see the exact words it used, or do you only get a lead summary?
@0x47xavier you see the whole conversation, not just a summary: Inbox, All has every chat, and there's a filter for AI assistants only. the agent quotes only prices you've made public on your site or in your docs, and if one goes stale you fix it by telling your agent in the owner chat
the "booking is whatsapp only" bit got me lol, thats how half the small businesses i know take orders. when the site agent books a call does it land straight in google calendar
@eldarmiensutov it books into the calendar you connect, so with Google Calendar the call just shows up there. the lead can land in your WhatsApp too. are those mostly service businesses, like salons or repairs?
@eldarmiensutov ha that was a real answer from my test 😄 On the calendar: you connect Cal.com or Acuity, and if your Google Calendar is linked there, the call lands in it. Leads come to Telegram or email, and if the client prefers WhatsApp, the agent saves their number so you can reply there