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  Build your product on what the market really wants

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  Built to surface signal fast, without hiding the provenance behind each recommendation.

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  Competitor intelligence reports you can bet the next roadmap on

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  14 reports Consultant-grade across core strategy, market intelligence, and GTM execution.

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  Every analysis you run — baseline signals, differentiators, no-go patterns, change alerts — is available over a dedicated MCP server.

The Story of Top-Founders.com

Inspiration

Vibe-coding is very popular and AI tools like Codex made building software accessible to everyone and insanely fast.

Yet many founders skip doing base market research.

And end up wasting months building features their competitors already tried, failed at, and quietly dropped.

My tool transforms publicly available historic web data into a massive, multi-year, market-wide A/B test, giving founders consulting-grade, data-backed roadmaps in minutes.

What it does

Based on competitor URLs list, Top-Founders.com returns a three-layered development roadmap for founders:

Baseline (Table Stakes) — features that become a standard across the niche and are expected of everyone

Differentiation (Lone Bets) — unique features only a few competitors pursue, highlighting whitespace gaps

No-Go List — features competitors launched and later dropped, hinting into expensive dead ends

The platform generates a full suite of 14 interactive reports, including pricing intelligence, competitor battle-cards, market landscape maps, executive briefings, and even leads lists.

How I built it

The application is built on a Next.js, React.js frontend with a serverless AWS backend deployed via CDK.

For development, I've been using the Codex agent powered by GPT-5.6 as well as Github Copilot with GPT-5.3-codex, GPT-5.6, GPT-5.5 models. Feedback ids as sessions ids are in README.md.

Challenges I ran into

Main challege was to collect and summarize a lot of data on a budget and fast. So I used parallel and batch calls as well as an intermediate caching layer.

Another challenge was to make resulting reports to look good, be readable and contain really valuable insights. Custom developed skills were used to improve prompts and a lot of redesigns.

Accomplishments that I'm proud of

Ability to handle hundreds and thousands of urls simultaneously and on a budget.

Really insightful data presented in a beautiful and readable way.

I've built a tool that takes a boring list of URLs and returns a beautifully visualized, evidence-backed strategy report that actually may improve the output of founders' decisions about what to build next.

What I learned

How powerful Codex and GPT-5.6 are.

Also that LLMs needs to be accompanied with carefully designed harness with a lot of mechanical checks to be reliable and on a budget so even cheapest models deliver high quality output consistently.

What's next for Top-Founders.com

Building out a future watch for changes on the provided urls.

And an A/B testing report on urls that have A/B testing software installed.

Improving the reports view and usability.

Please, give it a try at Top-Founders.com

Built With

• amazon-web-services
• next.js
• node.js
• react.js
• strapi
• stripe
• tailwind
• typescript
• zod