BFor indie hackers, solo builders & weekend founders · v0.14

You don't need another
dashboard.
You need $10k MRR.

The tool that takes solo builders from $0 → $10k MRR in months, not years. We listen across X, TikTok, Reddit & HN, score what's actually working for founders in your shape, and hand you 3–5 plays to run this week. No dashboards. No vibes.

▶ Watch the 90s demoOr skip to your playbook ↓
$10k
median MRR target for our pilot cohort
~47d
median time-to-10k followers in tracked cohort
3–5
playbooks per run, ranked by what already worked
90s
from your context to your first plays — no signup

Tell us what you're building

▸ TELL US WHAT YOU'RE BUILDING~90s · no signup · 3–5 plays returned
+ Category+ Target user+ Stage+ Founder URL+ Competitor
scans 4 platforms · 11-agent pipeline · audit-trailedGet my playbooks ↗
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How it works

11 agents. One pipeline.
Zero hand-waving.

Watch a real run. Each agent has a narrow job, a narrow prompt, its own eval, and persists every artifact with a schema_version. Below — the same flow we ran for the indie-hacker playbook above.

live.bravestep.run / 11-agent pipeline
stage Setup · 1/3elapsed +00.0s
▸ SETUP STAGE
01
Identity
02
Market Graph
03
Query Pack
FANOUT
×4
04a
TikTok
04b
X
04c
Reddit
04d
HN
05
Attribution
06
Organic Evidence
07
Algorithm
08
Deep Crawl
09
Pattern Mining
10
Synthesizer
11
Recommend
▸ live agent logartifacts · 0
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[01] Identity · running
step 01 / 11
● recording
01

Identity Agent

Normalize your product / founder context.

fast
02

Market Graph Agent

Map competitors, alternatives, related founders.

graph
03

Query Pack Agent

Generate search queries by platform & intent.

LLM
04

Social Scouts (×4)

Scan TikTok, X, Reddit, HN in parallel.

parallel
05

Attribution Agent

Classify: founder vs product vs creator vs hybrid.

classify
06

Organic Evidence

Score organic growth vs paid growth.

scored
07

Algorithm Analysis

Label distribution stage + platform signals.

labels
08

Deep Crawl Agent

Scan history of high-signal founders.

gated
09

Pattern Mining

Extract hooks, formats, CTAs, narrative arcs.

LLM
10

Playbook Synthesizer

Rank 3–5 reusable playbooks via RRF.

ranked
11

Recommendation Agent

Match playbooks to your founder identity.

output
The shift

Stop doomscrolling growth twitter.
Start shipping plays that already hit $10k MRR.

Built for indie hackers who'd rather spend Saturday shipping than reading 50 founder threads.

Stop doing
  • ×Skimming 50 founder threads a week.
  • ×Copying tactics from random Twitter gurus with 50k followers and zero MRR.
  • ×Pretending paid and organic growth look the same.
  • ×Guessing which channel is actually working.
  • ×Staring at dashboards that won't ship for you.
Start doing
  • ✓Run plays ranked by RRF — not vibes.
  • ✓See attribution: organic vs paid, founder vs creator.
  • ✓Get the exact hook, format & CTA that hit MRR.
  • ✓Match plays to your stage — $0, $1k MRR, $10k MRR.
  • ✓Ship by Tuesday. Measure by Friday.
An actual output

One play. One MRR target.
Shipped by Tuesday.

Three to five of these per run, plus a one-page strategy brief. Every play traces back to the founders who ran it — and how far it got them.

PLAYBOOK · 01 / 04RRF 0.84 · organic 0.91

Build in public on X with a daily shipping receipt.

Run a 5×/week "what I shipped" post — screenshot + one metric, no CTA for the first 30 days. Of the 14 indie-hacker devtools founders we tracked from $0 → $10k MRR, 11 ran this exact play. Median time-to-$10k: 4.2 months.

Hook
"day 47 / building <product> in public"
Cadence
5×/week · 9am local
X · primaryReddit · echodevtoolsstage 0–10k
142 posts · 14 founders · $10k MRR median outcomeOpen full playbook →
Schedule + measure

We don't just hand you plays.
We schedule them, ship them, and track them to MRR.

Every playbook drops straight into your calendar with hooks ready, posts queued, and KPIs auto-set to your stage. Bravestep is the difference between knowing what works and actually shipping it.

01 · OUTPUT
Playbook
4 plays · ranked by RRF
→
02 · SCHEDULE
Calendar
7-day drops · multi-platform
→
03 · TRACK
KPI Tracker
daily · weekly · monthly
→
04 · OUTCOME
$10k MRR
~4.2 months median

This week's drops

Mar 04 — Mar 10 · auto-generated from your 4 plays
Mon
04
9:00X"day 47 / building bravestep in public"ready
19:00TT"founder POV: my biggest pivot"ready
Tue
05
9:00X"what I shipped this week + 1 metric"scheduled
Wed
06
10:00RD"How I hit $1k MRR" · r/SideProjectqueued
Thu
07
9:00X"day 50 / shipping receipt"queued
Fri
08
12:00X"the metric I'm watching this week"queued
Sat
09
rest day · auto-snapshot MRR + log to weekly review
Sun
10
19:00TT"week in review · what worked"queued
Connected · X · TikTok · Reddit · Buffer 1-click draftsOpen calendar →
Today · Mon Mar 04on track
Posts shipped2 / 2
Replies handled8 / 10
Hook variations tested3 / 3
This week · 92% to targeton pace
X followers+124 / +150
Reply rate4.2% / 3.5%
MRR delta+$184 / +$200
Founder-attributed signups4 / 5
$10k MRR roadmap16 weeks remaining
$1,840
/ $10,000 target
Signups · founder-attributed (lifetime)18 / 120
Posts shipped (lifetime)64 / 420
Median time-to-$10k (cohort)4.2 mo
PACE
18% to goal
Sources

We listen where founders actually live.

Four platforms in parallel. Shallow scout for breadth, gated deep-crawl for the founders who matter.

TT
TikTok
Founder POVs + product demos. Algorithm-driven discovery.
~ 4.2M founder posts indexed
𝕏
X / Twitter
Build-in-public threads, launch announcements.
~ 12M posts · live scout
RD
Reddit
Subreddit founder posts. Niche category signal.
~ 240 subreddits scanned
HN
Hacker News
Show HN + launch threads. High-signal early adopters.
via Algolia · free tier
Three plays I'd never have thought to try. Two worked inside a week. Hit $10k MRR in 92 days — solo, weekends only.
Sam K.
Indie hacker · devtools · $0 → $10k MRR in 92 days
Pricing

Indie-hacker pricing.
Pays for itself at $200 MRR.

Free tier is real, not a trial. Pilots cancel anytime.

Scout
$0 / forever
For hackers kicking the tires before picking a category to bet on.
  • 1 pipeline run per week
  • Shallow scout across 4 platforms
  • 1 playbook returned per run
  • Public playbook archive
Start free
Most teams pick
Pilot
$199 / month
For solo builders chasing their first (or next) $10k MRR.
  • Unlimited pipeline runs
  • Deep crawl + evidence export
  • 3–5 playbooks + strategy brief PDF
  • Slack drop-in + MCP server access
  • BYO API keys (Anthropic Claude)
Start pilot →
Founder
Custom
For founders running multi-product portfolios or growth agencies.
  • Custom data sources
  • API + MCP enterprise tier
  • White-glove onboarding
  • Custom challenge configs
Talk to us →
From the founder

I spent two years watching founders grow and couldn't tell what was working for whom.

Bravestep is the tool I wish I'd had: it listens across the platforms founders actually post on, attributes the growth (organic vs paid, founder vs product), and ranks the plays platform-neutrally. No dashboards. Just three to five things you can do this week.

Chris Nguyen
founder · bravestep
FAQ

Quick answers

Is this just another social listening tool?−
No. We output ranked playbooks, not dashboards. Organic-vs-paid is scored. Ranking is platform-neutral via Reciprocal Rank Fusion — most tools bias toward whichever platform has more posts.
What platforms do you actually cover?+
Do I need to bring my own API keys?+
How do you handle competitors?+
Is the architecture open source?+

Your first $10k MRR
is a playbook away.

Watch the 90-second demo over a real golden case. Then run your own. No signup, no card, no fake urgency.

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