After four long years of grinding, building, fundraising, and hiring, we decided to pivot. I wanted to write down my thought process and timeline because I wish I d seen more honest pivot stories when we were stuck. Not just we pivoted and everything was instantly great but the real version where we kept trying to make the original idea work for way too long because we already put so much into it.
I went through YC S20 (the first COVID batch) as a solo founder working on @Basedash. After YC, I did what you re supposed to do. I talked to users. I built product. I did founder-led sales. I hired a great team. It felt like progress because I was constantly busy and the product kept getting better.
The funny thing about building an AI product right now is that the hard part keeps changing.
A couple years ago, I was obsessed with offline evals. They felt clean. You write a test, you run it every time you change something, and you get a number you can trust. If the number goes up, you ship. If it goes down, you fix it. It s the kind of engineering loop that makes you feel like you re in control.
We ve been growing really fast (30%+ MoM ARR) at @Basedash since launching last year. Most of that growth has been the result of hard work, but we ve also had a secret weapon: an AI agent that acts as both a data analyst and a PM, working 24/7 to optimize our product s activation and conversion rates.
For decades, companies have been making product decisions based on intuition and manual data analysis. We wanted to see what would happen if AI could take the wheel completely.
We ve been growing really fast (30%+ MoM ARR) at @Basedash since launching last year. Most of that growth has been the result of hard work, but we ve also had a secret weapon: an AI agent that acts as both a data analyst and a PM, working 24/7 to optimize our product s activation and conversion rates.
For decades, companies have been making product decisions based on intuition and manual data analysis. We wanted to see what would happen if AI could take the wheel completely.
Autopilot is an AI agent that acts like a superhuman PM. It digs through all your connected data sources, finds correlations you’d never think to check, and sends you the most important insight (plus what to do about it) on whatever schedule you choose.
We first launched @Basedash earlier this year as an AI-native chart builder. You just describe the chart you want, and Basedash uses AI to visualize your data, no SQL required.
Now we're gearing up for our biggest update yet, launching here on Product Hunt tomorrow. Without spoiling anything, it should enable many more business users to finally get the data answers they need, without bugging engineers or data analysts on their team.
Hi Makers! This thread is dedicated to you if you are: (1) launching soon or recently launched (2) looking for beta users (3) asking for feedback on a landing page First, start by helping out another maker. You can check out their launch, give their product a review or share a comment on their launch post. Once you've helped someone else out, share your product link here and BE SPECIFIC about who your target audience is and how we can help.
BaseDash is the ultimate collaborative database tool. View and edit data with beautiful UI-based workflows, track the edit history of each record, and write queries collaboratively with your teammates. Simply the best way to manage data for teams.
Copy Stash is a curated directory of landing page header copy to use as inspiration to build your startup. It includes 100+ startups across 12 different verticals, with a focus on B2B SaaS tools.
A fully-featured internal tool you'll actually enjoy using. Integrates with PostgreSQL, MySQL, Redshift and most other SQL databases. Now with a new redesign, Slack notifications, auto-generated charts, full keyboard navigation, on-prem deployment, and more.
The inaugural 2022 State of Database Survey by Basedash asked developers at hundreds of companies, ranging from startups to enterprises, to give their opinion on database tech.
Use it to find trends, uncover tools, and see where the industry is headed.
Just connect your database and choose a layout for your data. Everything just works out of the box, from CRUD operations, to real-time multiplayer, to API calls with actions.
Share your macOS dock and see who else has docked the apps you use.
To add your own dock, just run `npx dockhunt` in your terminal, or run our desktop app. It's 100% open source.
With dashboards, every team in your workspace gets its own customizable page to show data like daily signups, WAU, or anything else you store in your database.
Create views and queries with AI in seconds, then build a dashboard to share with your team.
