The stack
The real tools. In the order you’ll need them.
Eight tools professional teams use, all free to start. You won’t study them one by one; each one moves your own product a step closer to live.
How the pieces connect
- 1
Think
Decide what to build
- 2
Write code
Agents type, you direct
- 3
Save and ship
Keep it safe, put it live
- 4
Data and money
Users, records, payments
You decide what to build with Claude, direct Cursor or Codex to write it, save every step to GitHub, and Vercel puts it live. Supabase holds your users and data; Stripe or Polar takes the money.
An AI assistant from Anthropic that is strong at reasoning, writing, and reading long documents.
In BLDR you’ll
turn interview notes into a problem brief, pressure-test your idea, and draft the PRD your coding agent will follow.
A code editor with AI agents built in. You describe the change; it proposes the edit for you to review.
In BLDR you’ll
build your app one small change at a time, read every diff, and keep the agent inside the scope of your PRD.
OpenAI’s coding agent. It can work through a task in your repository and hand back a change to review.
In BLDR you’ll
hand off well-scoped tasks, like a settings page or a test, and compare its approach with Cursor’s.
Where your code lives. Every change is saved as a commit you can read, compare, and undo.
In BLDR you’ll
commit after every working step so nothing an agent does is ever unrecoverable.
A hosting platform that turns your GitHub repository into a live website, with a preview for every change.
In BLDR you’ll
deploy to a public URL, connect your own domain, and set production environment variables.
A Postgres database with sign-in and file storage built in, managed from a friendly dashboard.
In BLDR you’ll
store your product’s data, add sign-in, and write the rule that user A can never see user B’s records.
The standard way to take card payments and run subscriptions online.
In BLDR you’ll
add checkout in test mode first, then switch on real payments once the flow is proven.
A payments platform for software products that acts as merchant of record, so it handles sales tax for you.
In BLDR you’ll
an alternative to Stripe when you want the simplest path to selling a subscription.
Tool pricing changes; check each provider before subscribing. Tool costs are separate from the sprint price.
Learn the stack by shipping your own product.
Live by day 30 or your money back