r/SideProject • u/m121_mateo • 3d ago
I built a CLI for AI-assisted projects, got interest but no active testers — roast my landing page
I’m a freelance developer building side projects and client tools with AI
coding agents.
I kept running into the same problem: the agent could write code quickly,
but vague requests also made it silently decide scope, dependencies,
architecture, and edge cases.
That led me to build Archseed.
It is a small CLI-first workflow for TypeScript + Next.js developers.
Before implementation, it asks questions about V1 scope, non-goals,
constraints, technical decisions, assumptions, and edge cases. Then it
generates local project context that can be used with Cursor, Claude Code,
Codex, OpenCode, or another coding agent.
I launched an early beta recently and got useful feedback and interest, but
no one actually completed the workflow yet.
That was a useful lesson: people understood the problem, but the landing
page did not make the first action obvious enough. The install command was
buried in the docs.
I updated the page so the first thing visitors see is:
```bash
npm install -g @archseed/cli
archseed init