Show HN: I built a tool that helps break down your SaaS idea into AI coder steps (doc.onlift.co)

1 points by juarasw ↗ HN
After struggling to effectively use AI coding tools (Cursor, Bolt, ChatGPT) on larger projects, I realized the problem wasn't the AI - it was the lack of planning out exactly what all the features will be in advance, and how everything will work/look.

I discovered, if I really thought things through, in details (what features, what the frontend will look like, etc.), I would get way better results. (Making proper product requirements documentation)

The tool is simple: - Describe what you want to build - Get a clear and structured breakdown of - features and components - Use the documentation as a guide and as context for the AI.

Example: Instead of asking "build me a blog", it helps you break it down into: - Core features - Sub-components - Architecture decisions - Frontend descisions - etc.

This structure helps me get much better results from AI tools (like bolt.new, Cursor, Lovable, etc.), regardless of which one I'm using. The AI suggestions are more accurate because I'm giving them better context.

I built it for my own projects but figured others might find it useful. You can try it at doc.onlift.co (pay-per-use since it uses AI APIs).

If you decide to use it, let me know what you think of the results!

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you lost me by only support google auth. also this would be way better as an IDE plugin instead of a web app.
I added the manual login, feature for you, it's live. And making it into an IDE plugin is an interesting idea, I didn't think about this before, but seems like a cool next step. Thanks for the tip!
even better if you can just zip up the docs so I can extract into my project under ./docs
I think the idea is interesting. I, like you, have found that planning and structuring your prompts give way better results; particularly using structured outputs.