u/Individual-Parsnip79

Hey there,

I built a small CLI tool called quickStart because I kept running into the same problem:

Before an AI coding agent writes any useful code, I usually spend 30–90 minutes explaining the product idea, stack preferences, auth, database, features, deployment, and all the little decisions that should have been written down first.

quickStart is a short interactive interview that turns a rough idea into:

- SPEC.md as the source of truth

- CLAUDE.md / AGENTS.md / Cursor / Windsurf / Copilot / Aider instruction files

- suggested build order

- open questions for the agent

- rough infra cost estimate

I also added a non-technical mode after a friend tried it and had no idea what half the stack/deploy questions meant. In that mode, it asks plain product questions and lets the coding agent propose technical choices later.

Quick install:

npx quickstart-ai

GitHub:

https://github.com/NijeMatija/quickStart

I’d love feedback on two things:

1. Are there any questions you’d remove from the interview?
2. Would you rather get a shorter SPEC.md, or a more detailed one that gives the coding agent fewer chances to guess?

Not trying to sell anything, just curious if this solves a real annoyance for other people building with coding agents.

Cheers!

Hey there,

I built a small CLI tool called quickStart because I kept running into the same problem:

Before an AI coding agent writes any useful code, I usually spend 30–90 minutes explaining the product idea, stack preferences, auth, database, features, deployment, and all the little decisions that should have been written down first.

quickStart is a short interactive interview that turns a rough idea into:

- SPEC.md as the source of truth

- CLAUDE.md / AGENTS.md / Cursor / Windsurf / Copilot / Aider instruction files

- suggested build order

- open questions for the agent

- rough infra cost estimate

I also added a non-technical mode after a friend tried it and had no idea what half the stack/deploy questions meant. In that mode, it asks plain product questions and lets the coding agent propose technical choices later.

Quick install:

npx quickstart-ai

GitHub:

https://github.com/NijeMatija/quickStart

I’d love feedback on two things:

1. Are there any questions you’d remove from the interview?
2. Would you rather get a shorter SPEC.md, or a more detailed one that gives the coding agent fewer chances to guess?

Not trying to sell anything, just curious if this solves a real annoyance for other people building with coding agents.

Cheers!

npx quickstart-ai — answers ~20 questions about your idea, writes a SPEC.md + instruction files for whichever AI agent you use (Claude Code, Cursor, Windsurf, Aider, Cline).

Made it because I kept starting projects and watching the agent hallucinate the stack by turn 3. A 5-minute interview upfront saves an hour of "no, use Postgres not Mongo" later.

Free, open source, no API key. Feedback welcome 👇

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