Learn how indie founders are mastering building products with AI using real tools, workflows, and rapid shipping methods featured on Built This Week.
Building products with AI is no longer a future dream. It is happening now.
If you are an indie founder or solo developer, you know the pressure to move fast without a big team. You need to prototype, test, and ship quickly. The window to capture market attention is always tight.
That's exactly what Built This Week is all about. Every episode brings you inside real builds using AI tools that speed up development and cut down your iteration time.
Here's how today's indie founders are using AI to build smarter, ship faster, and stay ahead.
AI automates the routine and boosts creativity. It helps you handle complex tasks that used to require a team, like generating code snippets, writing copy, or analyzing data.
Because of AI, solo developers can now deliver MVPs faster and cheaper than ever.
This shift is evident in early feedback from Built This Week listeners who have cut their project timelines by half using AI-assisted workflows.
Using tools like GitHub Copilot and ChatGPT, developers speed through prototyping phases.
These AI coding assistants generate boilerplate code instantly. They suggest fixes and improve code readability in real-time.
On Built This Week, Sam and Jordan showed how they launched a full Next.js feature in days, powered by Copilot.
Design is no longer a bottleneck thanks to AI-powered tools like Figma plugins with AI suggestions, Uizard, and TeleportHQ.
These platforms help you generate layouts and user flows with minimal manual effort.
One community member on Built This Week shared how using AI design assistants reduced their mockup time by 70%.
Building a product is not just code and design. You need words that sell.
AI copywriting tools like Jasper, Writesonic, and Copy.ai draft landing pages, email campaigns, and social posts in minutes.
On Built This Week, the hosts regularly test these tools’ real-world performance beyond hype claims.
AI also supports product iteration by processing user feedback faster.
Sentiment analysis and topic clustering tools help you prioritize features based on actual user sentiment.
Built This Week listeners use tools like MonkeyLearn and Lexalytics to stay close to customer needs without manually sifting through survey responses.
On Built This Week, transparency is key. We share both successes and failures building with AI.
This raw look at tools helps you avoid wasted time on solutions that don’t deliver.
It’s part of your advantage as a builder moving fast in today’s AI-powered landscape.
Each week, Built This Week highlights actual projects in progress using AI tools. This isn't theory—it’s real code, real marketing, and real decisions made on the fly.
Sam and Jordan detail what worked, what broke, and lessons learned to help you build smarter.
You don’t have to trade quality for speed. AI tools let you build smarter and faster without cutting corners.
Built This Week proves that weekly shipping is possible, even for solo founders.
Keep momentum high, ship early, and iterate often.
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