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iBuild4You

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Helping friends build software through iterative conversations.

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Maybe you have an idea for a tool, an app, or a website but need a helping hand to go from idea into reality. I built this project to help a friend build a real website and other things, and now others are checking it out as a way to get help building things they have dreamed up.

You take on the role of creator/architect/maker through an iterative series of conversations with an AI assistant shepherded by the team here (Nico mostly for now). Each conversation tries to develop your idea to a point where we can build you something cool. The output of these conversations is used to evolve a structured "living brief" — a document that gets richer every session, and that is used to shape subsequent conversations and also software development.

We've been so stunned at how easy it is to build things — sometimes the limiting factor is good ideas and the persistence to see them through. If you want to team up with us/me and see where this leads, just say the word :)

The point is to lower the barrier between an idea and a working prototype.

Feedback encouraged, as always. nico@ibuild4you.com

evolution

Active since March 2026 · 39 sessions · 19 commits

↳ from claude · auto-generated at each session handoff
  1. week of Jun 8, 2026· 1 session

    Shipped a per-project visual identity system — each project gets a deterministic, privacy-safe color, short code, and glyph shown across dashboard, in-app headers, and auto-generated social link-preview images, so users with several projects can distinguish them instantly. Also added an in-context project switcher and smoothed the post-import handoff.

  2. week of Jun 1, 2026· 2 sessions

    This week shipped two pieces of production infrastructure: an automated reminder system that nudges people to continue their in-progress project briefs went live, and a fully sandboxed preview environment with its own isolated database was stood up and verified, so test deployments can no longer affect real user data.

  3. week of May 25, 2026· 1 session

    Shipped a major reframe of the project around new product vocabulary and a named AI assistant identity (Roan), with About-page rewrite and chat-UI updates landing in the preview environment. Filed research-backed follow-up design questions on conventions for distinguishing human-authored from AI-authored content and on restructuring the main dashboard to surface role-based brief activity.

  4. week of May 11, 2026· 1 session

    Shipped a major UI overhaul to a staging environment: renamed the user-facing terminology, rewrote the onboarding About page with role explanations and a glossary, made the requester view phone-first, and converted the operator view to a console-style layout with a side rail on desktop and bottom tabs on mobile. Established a stable preview-domain workflow tied to a long-lived branch, with end-to-end auth wiring. Scoped follow-on cost-observability work with a locked implementation plan.

  5. week of May 4, 2026· 1 session

    Hardened the multi-file upload flow so a single failed upload no longer aborts the whole batch — successful files now ship with the message, failed ones are restored to the picker with an inline warning, and the user keeps any work they had typed.

  6. week of Apr 27, 2026· 1 session

    Overhauled file uploads in three phases — better diagnostics, presigned-URL direct-to-S3 to bypass the 4.5 MB body cap (raising the limit to 25 MB), and routing PDFs and images directly to Claude as document and image content blocks with prompt caching. Discovered a silent deploy outage caused by a hosting-tier cron limit and resolved it by upgrading the plan.

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