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AI that builds and runs your business, 24/7

I spent 2 decades in corporate America building software for different clients, and in the last 8 years was working as a principal engineer at a unicorn company. But last year, I decided to do something different with my life. It all started when I saw my boss was trying to build a personal website so he could sell his books directly, vs through Amazon, that cost %30+ more.

When he asked me to help him, he had already spent a few months vibecoding the landing page and then got stuck in the payment infrastructure and the database to track purchases, returns, etc. When I looked at his vibe coded app, it was a nightmare, all routes broken, api calls sync, event loops booking, etc -> then I realized, vibe coding is great only if you know what you are building in a technical sense. It took me 2 weeks to fix his app and set up the infrastructure - while doing it from scratch could have only taken a few days.

That is when I realized, what if we train an AI to be a software engineer and then that AI do the building, review, and shipping! I spend few month part time working on it and created the first version last summer, soon it started to grab attention, people started assigning an idea to it and walked away, the agent then built most of the app and asked for feedback when was needed - initially it had memory and planning performance issue and I spent the next 4 months optimizing it and re-launched early this year.

In a few weeks after launch, I got tons of requests for adding automatic marketing and sales agents - so I added email campaigns, Meta ads, LinkedIn outreach, and AI viability agents in the next few months. When I closed the loop, a user could bring an idea, Leapd would build the app, and launch marketing campaigns to bring customers, all on autopilot.

The stack I used is: Vercel for frontend deployment, AWS for backend, Stripe for payment, Postgres/RDS, and S3 for database. And Claude for running sessions and coding + custom agents that do the actual tasks - happy to share more if anyone is interested.

Today, hundreds of businesses are running on leapd.ai, and I would appreciate it if you could try it for free - no card needed - and share your feedback.

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    Will try it ... It's interesting!!!

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    wow ... I was able to build my workshop landing page with payment and lead capture all set up in 20 minutes, then I asked Jack to set up email and meta ad campaigns - it is already driving traffic to my website. For context, I spent 2 weeks on vibe coding tools and wasn't able to get the lead capture working - simply put: Leapd is magic -

    btw my workshop is mid August in Brooklyn love to see you all - check out here: AI-AT-WORK.leapd. ai

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      Thanks for giving Leapd a try and sharing your feedback! Comments like this make all the hard work worth it. 😊

      I just might stop by your workshop to say hi!

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    Would love to see what kind of industry/market distribution those AI generated and run businesses cover. Are there some markets that work better? How much input does the AI need to determine what markets are targeted?

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      Good question @marketotter. We see our founders mostly pick B2B businesses because the upside is higher; some pick B2C and get to first dollar much faster, but long-term, B2B founders on Leapd generate 3-5x higher revenue. Important thing to pay attention to: for any idea, your co-founder does deep market and positioning research and identifies what will work for your idea, location, market segment, budget, etc and only then it gets to work to build and run it

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    I always dreamed of having my own business!. This ai is really helpful and now I can easily run my own business! :)

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      Glad to hear, Sophia - let's go!

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      Hi Sophia. What business are you running?

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    This is dope by the way! No comparison to other vibe coded apps out there when it comes to launching a full stack biz

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      Appreciate you giving it a try and sharing your feedback

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    Which vibe coding app was used by your boss?

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      I think he was using lovable

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    interesting concept ... my website page actually looks dope !

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      Thanks for sharing your feedback

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    What stood out to me is that you kept expanding the automation boundary.

    Building an app is valuable, but connecting product creation with customer acquisition changes the question from "Can AI build software?" to "Can AI operate a business?" That's a much more interesting direction.

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      I appreciate the feedback, Aryan. Exactly, that is the mission: a business that is created and run on its own by AI.

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        I'm glad it resonated.

        Your reply made me think about one implication of defining the mission that way. I'd rather explain it in the context of what you're building than reduce it to a few comments.

        If you're interested, what's the best email to reach you on?

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    cool but how complex the app can be? like just a landing page or more?

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      Well, Leapd builds your frontend and backend. Auth, database, payment, and runs your email, LinkedIn, and Meta ad campaigns - it can build things with low to medium backend complexity on autopilot, but for complex systems, it needs more supervision.

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        thanks for the reply

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    just tried this .. WILD

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      Thanks for giving it a try