From listening
to production

RESEARCH
MATCH
BUILD
APPROVE
DEPLOY

We find problems people complain about online, validate them, build the product, and ship it — all automated. You review and approve every decision.

erslabs / listening > building
# Cycle started at 08:14 UTC
> Scout found 847 problems across Reddit & Hacker News
> Analyst ranked top 3 by revenue potential
> Builder confirmed: HIPAA compliance tracking
> Shipping Compliancedesk in < 4h
> awaiting your approval · 6 agents on standby
>human_required:review_needed
You approve everything before money is spent

Pipeline

The loop that runs 24/7

01RESEARCH

Scout agents continuously scan Reddit, Twitter, HN, and 50+ communities. Hunter agents filter signal from noise — real pain points, not trends.

847 sources monitored 24/7
02MATCH

Profile agent researches the target user. Matcher confirms fit: market size, competition, your skill adjacency. No gut feelings — data.

92% match threshold
03BUILD

Build crew ships the MVP: PM, frontend, backend, reviewer, security, QA. Full-stack, tested, Stripe wired. You stay hands-off.

6 specialized agents
04APPROVE

Nothing moves forward without your explicit approval. You review the business plan, the spec, the economics.

you are in control
05DEPLOY

Once you approve, Deploy crew launches: Fly.io backend, Cloudflare Pages frontend, custom domain, Stripe webhooks, SSL.

production in < 4h
You approve at step 04 — nothing ships without your say

The Engine

17 agents, 7 crews

Specialist CrewAI agents working in sequence, from discovering a real complaint to deploying a paying product and responding back to the community that voiced it.

Discover
Validate
Engineer
Ship
Showcase
Harden
Respond
RESEARCH2 agents

Research

research_crew

Finds real, monetizable pain points where people are already paying for bad solutions or loudly asking for better ones, with concrete evidence not speculation.

  • Demand Hunter
  • Commercial Validator
MATCH2 agents

Match

match_crew

Sharpens the ICP and makes a crisp Go / Modify / Kill decision on each opportunity using evidence, not enthusiasm.

  • Customer Intelligence Analyst
  • Opportunity Qualifier
BUILD6 agents

Build

build_crew

Ships a revenue-ready Next.js + Stripe MVP in 1-2 weeks. PM cuts everything off the path to paid conversion; engineers, reviewer, security and QA enforce the gates that matter.

  • Strategic Product Manager
  • Senior Frontend Engineer
  • Senior Backend Engineer
  • Senior Code Reviewer
  • Security Engineer
  • QA Engineering Lead
DEPLOY2 agents

Deploy

deploy_crew

Backend to fly.io, frontend to Cloudflare Pages under <slug>.erslabs.net. Then proves the product actually works for a paying customer on the live URL, not just /health.

  • Deployment Engineer
  • Production QA Verifier
PORTFOLIO1 agent

Portfolio

portfolio_crew

Keeps the ErsLabs portfolio current by adding each newly validated and shipped app to the public portfolio.json data file.

  • Portfolio Maintainer
SECURITY3 agents

Security

security_crew

osv-scanner produces a merged vuln report; planner turns it into a per-package action plan; refactor developer applies fixes until the build and tests pass with zero known vulns.

  • Dependency Vulnerability Scanner
  • Security Remediation Planner
  • Dependency Refactor Developer
SOCIAL1 agent

Social

social_crew

Composes helpful, genuine community responses that share the new solution back to the source threads, without sounding spammy or promotional.

  • Social Response Specialist
complaint heard
live product shipped

Case Study

From Reddit post to live product

A real example of how our agents discovered, built, and shipped an app, end to end, autonomously.

ComplianceDesk

compliancedesk.erslabs.net

LIVE

The Discovery

John healthIT

“I spend 10+ hours every week just tracking HIPAA compliance paperwork. There has to be a better way than spreadsheets...”

+ 23 similar complaints found across 4 communities

What the agents built

An automated HIPAA compliance tracker for small healthcare providers. Auto-generates audit trails, tracks training deadlines, flags policy violations, and produces ready-to-submit compliance reports, replacing 10+ hours/week of manual work.

Next.js 14 + Tailwind frontend
Stripe Checkout from day 1
Security audited, zero critical issues
Deployed on Cloud

Timeline

08:14
Problem discovered
08:16
Match confirmed (92%)
08:22
Build started
11:47
Code review passed
12:03
Live on erslabs.net
Total time: 3h 49m from discovery to production
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Portfolio

Shipped products

Every app started as someone's real frustration. Here's what our agents built.

Building now

Our agents are currently building the first batch of products. Check back soon.

About

Software that starts
with listening

ErsLabs is not a typical software company. We don't start with ideas. We start with evidence. Our autonomous agents monitor communities where people describe their daily frustrations.

When enough people share the same problem and show willingness to pay for a solution, our pipeline kicks in. Design, build, test, deploy. All automated, all in hours, not months.

See the full pipeline
17
AI Agents
50+
Sources Monitored
<4h
Discovery to Deploy
24/7
Always Scanning