Launching today
Pre
Pre makes anybody an operator.
118 followers
Pre makes anybody an operator.
118 followers
Lack of momentum kills startups. I've done YC 3 times and built Pre to productize the focus and accountability of batch office hours. Pre's AI agent knows exactly how you're really doing from your connected data. Set your North Star, commit to weekly goals that move the needle, and every week it sends a no-spin progress report to whoever you don't want to disappoint. No editing. No excuses.
This is launch of the week for me. Love this product and plan for our team to use it.
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@bubs Pre has been awesome keeping me on task with what actually matters. It’s a no brainer for solo founders like myself!
As someone who just spent 3 hours debugging a deployment because our junior dev didn't understand the difference between staging and production variables, I can see why you'd want to abstract away the operator role entirely. The real question is: how do you handle the edge cases where someone needs to SSH into a box at 3am because the automated rollback failed, or when the "simple" deployment requires understanding the intricate dependencies between your Redis cluster and PostgreSQL replicas?
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@lliora Ugh. That's a rough one. Our focus is on the operations (ideation, talking to customers, getting validation, founder led sales, etc.) of early stage startups, not the Dev Ops. But I imagine the coding agents will get smarter as services are integrated into them so they understand the full dev environment and test and debug end to end.
I've been watching this product since its early concept days and I'm super impressed with the newest version. It has always provided accountability for founders, but this latest version makes it so much easier to get going – and keep going. Great work!
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@turoczy Thanks Rick, every founder deserves somebody supportive like you in their corner... we'll do our best to make the Pre agent as Rick as possible. :)
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Snippets AI
The no-edit Friday report sent to someone you don't want to disappoint is a clever forcing function — most accountability tools fail because founders can reframe their own narrative before sharing it. Does the AI advisor push back in real-time when you set weekly goals that are clearly too safe or disconnected from your North Star, or does it only surface that gap in the weekly report?
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@svyat_dvoretski Totally agree, we're great at spinning things but that doesn't give the real story. And yep it sure can. MVP form is an "audit" button for each goal, we're making that a proactive analysis/audit this week. So Pre will automatically push back when you're setting goals that don't matter, or aren't specifically driving your North Star.
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Trufflow
How does the system get context with regards to where I am at in my startup journey? Are they solely based upon the "north star" I set or are there ways to get more personalized feedback once it understands the industry and product that I'm trying to sell?
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@lienchueh You connect Pre to your data... Supabase, Stripe, etc. So your agent knows not just what you're building and who it's for... it knows if the work you're doing every week is actually moving the numbers.
Really interesting concept: an AI chief of staff that tracks your real progress and sends honest weekly updates could be huge for founders trying to stay accountable. Congrats on the launch! How does Pre decide what data signals actually matter when measuring whether someone is making real progress toward their North Star? 🚀