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From datasheet → working firmware → moving to paid (here's our pricing)

One week ago I posted about HardcoreAI here and got incredible feedback from this community. Thank you — genuinely.

You told me the most painful parts of embedded development:

  • Clock tree configuration on STM32H7 that silently breaks peripherals

  • DMA setup where one wrong transfer size bricks the board

  • I2C address conflicts that take hours to trace

  • Errata bugs documented nowhere except page 847 of a reference manual

Every single one of those is now in our fault decoder.


What changed since the last post

We took your feedback and shipped.

The workflow now:

Research first. Generate second. Flash last.

Upload your datasheet and errata. HardcoreAI indexes everything — reference manual, errata, schematics, vendor docs — before generating a single line of code. Every generated line cites the exact page and register it came from. On fault, it reads CFSR, HFSR, BFAR, MMFAR directly, maps the fault bits to the exact peripheral configuration that caused them, corrects, and reflashes automatically.

We caught a clock tree conflict on STM32H7 where the documentation said the configuration was valid but the fault decoder flagged it as physically impossible on that silicon revision. That is the class of bug this exists to catch.


Pricing — straightforward and honest

Free Launch Offer — $0
1 complete embedded project workspace. MCU reference manual indexing. Hardware constraint mapping. Ground-truth firmware generation. No credit card. No waitlist.
Try it: hardcore-ai-inky.vercel.app

Individual Developer — $30/seat/month
Unlimited projects and workspaces. Multi-thousand-page vendor RAG. Register and clock constraint engine. Priority execution and support.
For professional firmware engineers building production products.
Reserve: hardcoreai.in/#seat-survey

Engineering Teams — $25/seat/month
Everything in Individual plus shared team workspaces, centralized hardware rule index, and team license management.
For hardware engineering teams collaborating across schematics and firmware.
Reserve: hardcoreai.in/#seat-survey


Why we are moving to paid

Free users give you opinions. Paying users give you requirements.

We need requirements from engineers who actually ship embedded products for a living — people for whom a wrong register address costs a board respin, a week of delay, and real money. At $30/month, the tool pays for itself the moment it catches one configuration error before it reaches the board.

One prevented respin saves $10,000–$150,000. The math is not complicated.


The honest ask

If you tried HardcoreAI after my last post — email me directly. I want to know what worked and what broke.
sricharan.srikrishna@gmail.com

If you have not tried it — first project is free, no barriers.
hardcoreai.in

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    Love how you took the feedb
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    Love how you actually listened to the feedback and shipped real fixes instead of just talking about them. That clock tree catch is exactly the kind of "impossible" bug that makes embedded dev so brutal — congrats on getting that working!
  3. 1
    Love the pivot to "research first, generate second" — that's exactly
  4. 1
    Love how you actually listened to the community feedback and shipped real improvements—that fault decoder mapping CFSR/HFSR directly to peripheral configs is exactly the kind of tool that saves us from those "page 847" nightmares. Congrats on the launch!
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    Love how you actually listened and shipped based on the feedback — that fault decoder reading CFSR/BFAR directly is exactly the kind of depth that makes this stand out from generic AI codegen. The free tier being genuinely useful with no credit card is a great way to build trust too.
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