Hey Gang đź‘‹
My partners and I opened up the public beta for Devplan, a tool we’ve been building to scratch our own itch. Like a lot of you, we’ve been trying to use AI coding tools (Cursor, Claude Code, Windsurf, JetBrains AI, etc.) to build faster. They’re powerful, but they can also be chaotic:
Devplan is our attempt to fix that. It gives builders a shared workspace to go from idea to structured build plan, with AI-executable coding prompts you can actually drop into your tools.
The last time we posted, we had PRD generation, a tech design agent, and a build plan with coding prompts. Since then we’ve added quite a bit.
✅ What’s new:
Contextify open source (https://github.com/devplaninc/contextify) for repo + web context was been updated to handle large repos way better, create smarter summaries and more rich context
Effort/complexity estimates get automatically generated for each user story
Linear + Jira integration allow you to push project docs and tickets straight into your ticketing system
Image uploads in projects: drop mocks, diagrams, or screenshots to kick off or refine specs
Export options: download coding prompts as files, or work with them in the CLI tool that we've built
Expanded coding support: structured prompts now tailored for Claude Code, Cursor, Windsurf, and JetBrains AI
🤔 Where I’d love input now:
Should we lean more into planning (PRDs/estimates) or execution (coding prompts/tasks)?
Are the estimates and breakdowns useful, or just noise?
What would make this feel essential vs “just another AI tool”?
We’re still early, but things are starting to click. Would love any feedback, good, bad, or brutal.
You can try it here: https://www.devplan.com
Thanks again to everyone who gave feedback on the first post, it’s been super helpful as we’ve iterated. The community here is awesome.
Happy to answer questions or just jam on product building workflows!
Cheers,
Your product is good and it has potential, the feedback i would give you is that you have to spend more time on value proposition, cuz like imma saas builder myself, but as i visited your homepage, i cant really understand at first what problem your product is solving, i'm specifically talking about hero section, if we scroll down and read whole landing page content, we can clearly tell what problem your product is solving but hero section text can be better, and image in hero section is solid, just work a lil bit on that thing, except for that, i appreciate your work
Right on, thanks for the feedback! Yea, hero copy has been a work in progress and still needs some work. Will take another turn on this soon, suggestions welcome.
I’m working on some early prototypes too — one in compliance automation (https://komplora.com
) and another in founder visibility (https://foundersinno.com
). Different problem spaces, but I’ve wrestled with the same question: lean harder into planning vs execution. Would love to know how you’re deciding which side to double down on.
Nice products! Compliance is a huge pain point.
We are mostly going where the market is pulling us, which seems to be toward execution. However, our belief is that connecting the 2 sides is where the magic is.
Congrats on the public beta—love the wedge of “idea → plan → executable prompts.”
A few thoughts after reading your update:
Planning vs. execution?
If you have to choose, lean into execution. Planning tools are crowded; “planning that pushes code change” is rarer. The killer loop is: user story → structured prompt → PR (branch, tests, codemods) → CI feedback → learnings fed back into the plan. If Devplan owns that closed loop, it’s not “another doc tool,” it’s where work happens.
Estimates: useful or noise?
Useful if they’re calibrated and transparent. Suggestions:
• Show range + confidence (e.g., 3–5h @ 60% conf) and the top assumptions that drive the number.
• Auto-calibrate using repo history (files touched, churn, dependency graph, author familiarity).
• Flag “spikes” when uncertainty is high and propose the smallest discovery task.
• Roll up to initiative-level with risk heatmaps (unknowns, cross-team dependencies).
What would make it essential (not “just another AI tool”):
• Context Pack as a first-class artifact: a portable bundle (repo slice + styleguide + architecture invariants + recent PRs) that any agent/editor can consume. Make it the single source of truth across Cursor/Claude Code/Windsurf.
• Guardrails & patterns: enforce codebase conventions (folder layout, DI pattern, design tokens). Before emitting prompts, Devplan checks against rules and proposes codemods where drift is detected.
• Traceability: every PR links back to the user story, the prompt, and the assumptions. “Which prompt generated this diff?” is one click.
• CI-aware prompts: when tests fail, generate a targeted remediation plan (what to revert, what to refactor, which tests to add).
• Multi-player flow: reviewer checklists, @mentions, and “handoff packets” for new devs (context + tasks + risks) generated automatically.
• Security & control: local mode/BYO keys, read-only SCM access options, clear data retention policy—unblocks teams that can’t ship code to third-party LLMs.
Love from your latest updates: Contextify improvements (big win for monorepos), Linear/Jira push, image uploads for specs, and editor-specific prompt flavors.
Small UX asks:
• One-click “Open in Cursor/Claude Code” next to each prompt.
• Definition of Done generator per story (tests, telemetry, docs).
• Diff-aware summaries after merge: what changed, why, and what to watch in prod.
Positioning (who feels this most): 2–10-dev AI teams drowning in ad-hoc docs and context loss between planning and agents. Your pitch: “Devplan turns planning into shippable changes, not just text.”
Happy to jam more if helpful—this is pointed at a very real pain.
This is great feedback! Really appreciate the ideas here, we've discussed some of these, but there's a couple great nuggets in here we haven't thought about before! I'm going to share this with the team. Would love to jam more. Please drop me a response to any of the automated emails you get once you sign up (I'll see all of them). I can also give you a promo code there for a couple free months to explore.
Awesome—glad it landed! I just signed up and replied from [email protected]—should be in your inbox. A promo code would be great. I’ll run through the product this week and send a tight 1-pager + quick Loom.
Side note: I’m building a lightweight synthetic user interview tool (7-min persona runs → objections + actionable insights). Happy to run your product through it and include the readout in my notes.
Reply sent! Would love to check out the user interview tool. Sounds like something we could absolutely use.