Founder First Club
Build faster with open source.
A calm, curated library of workflows, ideas, and open-source tools for founders building in the AI era.
No newsletters. No noise. No hype. Just practical building guides.
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Step-by-step guides for common founder tasks.
6 workflows IdeasProduct ideas with customer segments and monetization.
3 ideas ToolsCurated open-source tools and when to use them.
5 tools StacksComplete architectures for common products.
3 stacksHow it works
- Have an idea
- Find a workflow
- Choose a stack
- Use open-source tools
- Ship it faster
Popular workflows
- Ship It
Put your site on the internet, on your own domain, that redeploys itself every time you push — and only if the tests pass.
- Chat With Your Docs
Retrieval-augmented chat: answer questions from your own documents, with citations — so the model quotes your text instead of making things up.
- Build an AI Chatbot
A streaming chatbot powered by Claude. Answers appear token-by-token, and your API key never touches the browser.
- Build a Waitlist Page
A working waitlist page that stores signups in a database and sends a confirmation email. Deployable in an afternoon.
Why this exists
Software got easy to build.
The hard part is deciding what to build.
No trends. No daily news. No endless tool lists. Just practical workflows and building blocks that compound over time.