Show HN: Eze – AI co‑pilot that turns startup ideas into execution roadmaps

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Hi HN,

I’m working on eze, an AI‑powered co‑pilot that turns a raw startup idea into a visual, time‑bound execution roadmap.

It’s not live yet; I’m building it in parallel and wanted to test the waters before going too deep.

Shipping a product has become dramatically easier. With modern AI and “vibe‑coding” tools, a solo dev can stand something up in a weekend.

What hasn’t changed is the "execution planning":

Figuring out what to do, in what order, and why still means endless blog posts, podcasts, videos, and conflicting advice.

Most guidance assumes experience, capital, or a team that many first‑time/solo founders don’t have.

The result is messy Notion pages, random diagrams, and a constant feeling of “I’m probably missing something important.”

That gap—between being able to build and knowing how to execute—is what eze is trying to address.

The vision for eze:

  - You describe your idea in a chat: problem, target user, B2B/B2C, SaaS/dev‑tool/etc.

  - You add context: Where you are now (student, full‑time job, already building, solo vs team).

  - Resources (time per week, money, people).

  - Target launch horizon (1/3/6 months, etc.).

eze generates a visual roadmap:

  - Stages like validation, MVP, GTM, launch, post‑launch, scaling.

  - Milestones with dependencies and brief descriptions.

  - Each milestone is editable, trackable, and can have notes/due dates.

  - You’d get this as an interactive diagram (boxes and arrows), not just a wall of text.

Over time, the plan becomes a guided, time‑bound execution view you can actually work against.

The longer‑term idea is for the AI to increasingly learn from real founder journeys and well‑known startup frameworks, so the recommendations are practical rather than generic checklists.

Right now, this is under active development. I have early prototypes of:

  - Chat → structured roadmap representation

  - Diagram‑style UI concepts

  - Basic milestone/status model

Before going further, I’d like to know if this is solving a real problem for the kind of people who hang out here.

I’d love your honest take on any of these:

  - Is this actually useful, or just a shiny toy?

  - What would it need to do for you to trust it enough to plan a real project?

  - What’s obviously missing, naïve, or over‑complicated?

  - Should I narrow it to a specific niche (e.g., dev‑tools/SaaS only) or scrap the idea altogether?

If this resonates and you’d like to see it evolve, there’s a simple waitlist here:

join waitlist here - https://eze.lovable.app/

Otherwise, any blunt feedback in the comments is extremely welcome. I’d rather course‑correct (or kill it) early than build something that only looks good in demos.