Inspiration
Launching a startup online takes weeks: market research, hiring designers, buying domains, building landing pages. Most founders in Latin America and emerging markets can't afford that. We asked: what if an AI agent could do all of it in one conversation?
What it does
Launchpad takes your startup idea and autonomously:
- Researches the market — competitors, TAM/SAM, recent funding rounds, real customer pain points from Reddit and reviews (via SerpApi)
- Finds your positioning — identifies gaps competitors are missing and builds your value proposition from real data
- Generates 3 live landing pages — each with a different visual style (Modern Dark, Clean Light, Bold Latin), tailored to actual pain points found
- Publishes them instantly — 3 live public URLs ready to share, hosted on MinIO object storage
- Searches available domains — across .com .io .ai .app .co via name.com API
- Remembers your startup — saves research findings to Milvus + Ancora memory so future sessions build on prior work
Result: 3 live URLs, a domain recommendation, and a full market intelligence report — in one conversation, in minutes.
How we built it
- Backend: FastAPI on Google Cloud Run with Gemini 2.0 Flash orchestrating 26 tools via function calling
- Parallel research:
asyncio.gatherruns SerpApi, name.com, and memory queries simultaneously — no waiting - Agentic loop: Gemini runs up to 18 rounds of tool use → analysis → generation → publishing
- Memory: Milvus (semantic vector search) + Ancora (persistent observations) give the agent cross-session intelligence
- Infrastructure: k3s on VPS for memory services, Google Cloud Run for the agent
Challenges we ran into
- Generating 3 complete, high-quality HTML pages in a single agentic loop without truncation or repetition
- Running 7+ parallel API calls reliably across SerpApi, name.com, and VPS memory services with different latencies
- Keeping Gemini's function calling schema consistent across 26 tool definitions simultaneously
- Making the full research → build → publish flow feel fast despite the depth of work happening
Accomplishments that we're proud of
- Live in production today — real pages published, real domains searched, real market data
- 26 tools, one conversation — the agent handles research, strategy, design, and deployment autonomously
- Cross-session memory — the agent remembers your startup across conversations, building intelligence over time
- Built by a solo Latin American founder — from Bogotá, Colombia, with $0 design budget
What we learned
That the most powerful thing AI agents can do is replace entire workflows, not just individual tasks. Gemini's parallel function calling made it possible to run a full market research firm, design agency, and DevOps team simultaneously in one loop.
What's next for Launchpad — From Idea to Live Startup in Minutes
- One-click domain registration after the user approves a page style
- Voice input via AssemblyAI — describe your idea hands-free
- A/B analytics between the 3 page variants to find which converts best
- Investor deck generation — turn the market research into a pitch deck automatically
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