FoundStep

FoundStep is project management for solo developers and indie hackers with AI built into the workflow.
Most solo developers start more projects than they finish. Notes app fills up. Repos pile up. Nothing ships. FoundStep breaks the cycle.
The AI MVP Planner takes one paragraph about your idea and returns a 4-week MVP plan with features and subtasks and effort estimates and dependencies and architecture hints. You review what you want then import it with one click. Five generations per workspace.
The AI Next Action watches your todos and lock state and deadlines and unlock count and lifecycle phase. It surfaces the single most important task right now and updates every 2 seconds. Every action is tagged Critical or Warning or Celebrate or Action. One button. No decision fatigue.
Before you build anything you walk through a 7-step validation questionnaire. You can ask the AI for feedback on your answers before you commit to a verdict of Build or Wait or Reject. The feedback helps you spot weak ideas before you waste a weekend.
The AI sits inside a 13-status lifecycle. Validation gates the build phase. Scope locks once features and todos are planned. Every post-lock change is timestamped in a permanent Shame History and shown publicly on the Ship Card. Shipped projects auto-build your Harbor portfolio.
Free trial. Full feature access. No credit card required.