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Indie developers and solo founders who need a structured system that enforces validation, limits scope creep, and drives them to actually finish and ship their projects
About FoundStep
FoundStep is a discipline-driven project management system built specifically for solo developers who struggle to finish what they start, focusing on enforcing structure across the entire lifecycle from idea to launch. It positions itself not as a flexible task manager, but as a constrained workflow where “the constraints are the product,” requiring users to validate ideas before building and complete all defined tasks before shipping. It introduces a structured process that includes a mandatory 7-step idea validation framework, where users define the problem, evaluate demand, assess feasibility, and decide whether to build, wait, or reject an idea before writing code. Once a project begins, Scope Locking prevents uncontrolled feature expansion by requiring explicit justification for any changes, with every modification permanently recorded in a “Shame History” log to create accountability and reduce scope creep.
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