I built a tool for the weirdest bottleneck in AI-first development: waiting
Lately I noticed something about my AI workflow:
Most of the time, I’m not actually working — I am waiting.
- Waiting for Claude to finish a task.
- Waiting for a code edit.
- Waiting for a response loop to complete.
So I started opening a random markdown editor while the AI worked, just to plan the next prompt ahead of time.
And weirdly… that changed everything.
Instead of sitting idle, I was always one step ahead of the AI.
The problem was every editor felt generic. They weren’t built for prompt planning at all. No structure, no flow, nothing designed around AI-first development.
So a few hours later with Claude, I made something for myself:
Prompt Planning — basically a notebook-style workspace made specifically for planning AI prompts and workflows.
It has stuff like:
- rich text editor
- token estimation for the prompt (cl100k_base token estimation)
- reusable templates
- context snippets
Nothing fancy for the sake of being fancy. Just tools that remove friction when I am building with AI all day.
The biggest thing for me is that it keeps momentum going.
You stop waiting on the AI and start parallelizing your thinking instead.
Also:
- no signup
- no cloud dependency
- everything stays in your browser
Honestly built this because I personally needed it, but figured other people doing AI-first dev might feel the same pain.
Would genuinely love feedback from people here.
Thank you guys!!
Try it here: https://prompt-planning.vercel.app/