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...
nice one Vlad. the step where it shows the agent working had too much going on for me, lots of tabs. one example would be enough i think
@dmitry_bergelson had the same feeling going through it, didn't know where to look first. we're cutting it down to one example, the rest tucked away. was there a tab you'd keep?
@dmitry_bergelson thanks 🙏 We built that screen to prove it really read the whole site. Turns out one good example proves it better than ten tabs
Congrats team and good luck today! We’re launching tomorrow ourselves so I’m watching how you handle the Hypership thing 😄 Added a request for a weekly email report, honestly that’s what would make me come back to the dashboard every week
@margarita_s88 good luck tomorrow! saw your weekly report request, makes sense, nobody remembers to open a dashboard. what would you want at the top of it, new leads or which AIs visited?
@olia_nemirovski Thanks! :) It would be great if one could choose any of the two. I would start with what AIs visited, would love to check whether our efforts to rank among AIs pay off.
@margarita_s88 AI visits first, got it. being able to pick what's in it makes sense too, adding that. what are you launching tomorrow?
@margarita_s88 good luck tomorrow! Your weekly report request is on our board, AI visits on top. One tip from today: stock up on coffee ☕
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!
@matthew_gladyshev glad the MCP did most of the setup for you. which part of the dashboard felt like too much, the first screen or the settings?
@matthew_gladyshev a checklist that sends you to a step locked behind "Publish agent first" is on us, adding it to the list. if you drop it as a New request at the top of the page, you'll see when it's fixed
@matthew_gladyshev thanks for the detailed walkthrough, super useful. You're right, that checklist shouldn't offer a step you can't do yet. It should show what's needed to publish first and unlock the rest after. Glad the MCP saved you there 🙂 Mind dropping it as a New request? We'd love to ship it today
@vlad_shipilov kudos for dedication, will drop the request in a moment! 🫶
@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 🙌
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
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
@valentina_skakun it only answers from what the business made public, pages, prices, docs, and the owner can fix anything by just telling the agent. if something isn't covered, it says so and offers a person. have you been burned by a bot promising too much?
@valentina_skakun also the booking part doesn't rely on the model's word: it checks the connected calendar live, so it can't promise a slot that's already taken