Shipping BETA AI Co-Founder, a Co-Builder and a General Advisor into one platform tomorrow. Two weeks of building in public.

Two weeks ago IndieAIs launched on Product Hunt with 395 visitors and zero revenue.
Today:
1,500 visitors
6,000 pageviews
4.07 pages per visit
36 minutes 44 seconds average session
58% bounce rate
$0 MRR

The $0 is honest. The 36-minute session is the number I keep coming back to.
People who find IndieAIs are not skimming it. They are spending more time on a two-week-old platform than most people spend on platforms they have been using for years. That tells me the discovery experience is working. The challenge is still getting more of the right people to find it.

What actually shipped in two weeks

The core directory launched first. Curated AI tool listings, categories, upvoting, the Builders Network community forum, notifications, report system, badges, Traction Board, Feature Voting, Sunset Projects archive, Looking For page, Buy and Sell marketplace, Investor Ready page, email integration, cookie compliance, account deletion, platform updates broadcast, page tours, 7-screen onboarding flow and 20 pieces of editorial content.
Then came Compass AI.

What Compass AI actually is

Most AI advisors make you describe your product before they can help you.
Compass AI already knows your tool before your first message. Your listing data, your category, your traction numbers, your competitive landscape, all loaded before the conversation starts.
But that was just the beginning.
Today Compass AI launched with three distinct AI modes:

Co-Founder, strategic thinking, positioning, branding, investor readiness, listing audits, competitive analysis and document drafting. When you ask for a brand guide or a pitch deck outline it generates the full document in a dedicated viewer you can edit and download.

Co-Builder, technical architecture, code generation, feature planning and stack decisions. Code responses open in a proper code viewer with syntax highlighting, line numbers and a download button.

General Advisor, open conversation, research, market knowledge and general guidance. No credits consumed. Just a genuinely knowledgeable thinking partner available whenever you need it.

Each mode has its own AI brain, a separate system prompt built specifically for that role. Switching modes switches the intelligence behind the conversation.

The thing nobody else is doing
Compass AI can crawl other AI directories, There Is An AI For That, Futurepedia, AI Tool Hunt, TopAI.tools, and tell you whether your tool is listed on each one and how your positioning compares. When you ask about distribution it does not just give generic advice. It checks where you actually are first.
It also has persistent memory. Compass AI remembers what it learned about you and your tool across sessions. The more you use it the better the advice gets because the context compounds rather than resetting.

The honest part
The 58% bounce rate is still too high. The people finding IndieAIs through targeted channels, builders, AI enthusiasts, indie developers, stay for 36 minutes. The people finding it through broader traffic bounce fast. That gap tells me the platform is right but the distribution targeting needs tightening.
Zero revenue after two weeks is fine. The foundation has to be solid before monetization makes sense. The credit system is live, Stripe is integrated, Pro and Business plans are built. The monetization infrastructure exists. The next step is getting enough builders genuinely using Compass AI that the paid plans become obvious purchases.

What is coming next
The early access waitlist for Compass AI is open. Everyone who joins before public launch gets 100 founding member credits on top of the 5 free daily credits, added automatically the moment it opens publicly.
If you are building an AI tool right now, or if you tried to get strategic advice from ChatGPT and got something that could apply to any product, Compass AI was built specifically for that frustration.

Join the waitlist: indieais.com/IndieAIsCompass

And if you have a tool worth listing, it takes five minutes and it is free: indieais.com

Still building. More next week.

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