Today, Stride was recognized as a Featured Product on Product Hunt and finished among the top products of the day.
We're incredibly grateful.
To everyone who explored the product, upvoted, left feedback, challenged our thinking, shared the launch, or simply took the time to learn what we're building thank you.
What started as a simple frustration became Stride.
Software teams have more tools than ever before, yet execution remains fragmented.
Requirements live in one place.
Architecture in another.
Tickets somewhere else.
Tests, releases, documentation, and AI conversations scattered across the stack.
We built Stride around a simple belief:
Execution works better when context stays connected.
Today's launch wasn't the finish line. It was the beginning of a much larger conversation with builders, product teams, engineers, and organizations looking for a better way to move from idea to delivery.
A special thank you to everyone who supported us throughout the launch and to the Product Hunt community for the thoughtful discussions and feedback.
If you'd like to follow the journey, connect with us:
Website: https://www.stride.page
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We're just getting started.
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Hey Product Hunt 👋
I'm Kunal, the founder of Stride.
https://www.stride.page/
Here's the moment that made me build it. I was "planning a feature" and counted the tabs open to do one job: a board for the tickets, a whiteboard for the diagram, a doc for the spec, a tracker for status, and three AI chats I kept re-explaining my project to from scratch. None of them talked to each other. I was the integration layer. And I was exhausted.
So we built Stride: one AI-native workspace for the whole journey from idea to shipped.
📋 Plan — a flexible board with custom stages, WIP limits, and issue tracking that bends to how your team actually works (not the other way around)
🎨 Design — architecture diagrams, solution design, and PRDs, drafted and refined with AI right next to the work
⚙️ Optimize — map, model, and mine your processes to see how work really flows and where it gets stuck
✅ Verify — close the loop on quality: define acceptance criteria, build test plans, validate that what ships actually matches what you planned, and catch gaps before they reach users
🤖 Agent — an AI teammate that lives inside your real project. It creates, updates, and moves work for you, and plugs into Claude Code and Codex over MCP
⚡ Ship — go from idea to PRD to shipped without ever leaving the app
The thing I'm proudest of: the AI isn't a bolt-on chatbot staring at a blank box. It sits inside your actual project data, so it already knows your tickets, your stages, and your context. It does the work instead of just talking about it. Less "write me a prompt," more "handle this."
We're a small team and every comment today genuinely shapes what we build next, so I'm parked in the thread all day. One question I'd love your honest answer to: what's the one tool-switch in your workflow that makes you sigh every single time? Plan to design? Spec to tickets? Reply and I'll tell you exactly how (or honestly, whether) Stride kills it for you.
Thank you for being here. It means a lot. 🙏
The "plans, designs, and ships" framing covers a lot of ground, and the interesting question is where the handoffs happen. Most tools like this are solid at one of those three and then quietly hand you back the wheel for the others. Curious whether Stride is actually driving the design-to-code transition itself, or whether "designs with you" means something closer to a Figma-adjacent whiteboard that you then feed into the build step. Also wondering how the Vercel tie-in works in practice: is deployment genuinely wired into the workspace so shipping is one action, or is it more of a pre-configured export target?
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@fberrez1 - Really sharp question, and you're right that the handoffs are where most tools quietly give you back the wheel.
Two clarifications on today. First, "design" in Stride means system and architecture design, not Figma-style UI. Think scored solution options, ADRs grounded in your past decisions, and versioned C4, sequence and deployment diagrams, all tied to the same graph your stories and tests live in.
On the design-to-code transition: Stride doesn't try to be the IDE. It drives the handoff by producing the artifacts that feed the build, and its architecture review can draft a real GitHub PR. The code itself gets written by your coding agents, Claude Code or Codex, plugged in through our MCP server, so they work from the full product context instead of a snippet. And on Vercel, that's the Product Hunt launch event, not a deploy integration. "Ships" today is the delivery layer: releases, release notes from real commits, and quality gates that block a release with gaps.
But you're pointing right at where this naturally goes. UI design and one-click deploy are both extensions of the same core idea, that everything lives in one connected graph the AI can see end to end. As the coding agents close the design-to-code loop, owning more of that transition, and eventually the deploy step itself, is exactly the direction we're building toward. Today we're deliberately deep on plan, design, verify & optimize first, then we earn the rest.
Happy to go deeper on any of these.
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@diggiwalabhishek - Honestly this is my favorite kind of feedback. The flashy AI stuff gets the attention, but the quiet win, not having to reassemble context in your head every morning, is the part we care about most. And you said it perfectly: you don't feel the weight of it until you go back.
Really glad the switch landed. Thank you for sharing this. 🙏
plans, designs, and ships are three very different modes. plan is about exploring options, design is about constraint, ship is about commit. curious how Stride keeps context coherent across these without flattening them. does it know when to push back on something planned because the design phase showed it's not feasible, or does it just keep building?
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@thenameisarian - This is a genuinely good way to frame it: divergent in plan, narrowing in design, committal in ship. We think about it the same way.
What keeps them from flattening is that they aren't one document, they're different kinds of nodes in one graph. A story isn't an ADR isn't a test case. Plan stays exploratory (multiple options, draft stories), design is explicitly evaluative (the Solution Designer scores three to five options against constraints, so "not feasible" shows up as a low score with reasons, not a vibe), and ship is where the quality gates actually commit or block. The same context flows between them, but each mode keeps its own shape.
On your real question, I'll be honest rather than oversell. Stride won't silently build over a conflict. Because everything's linked, when a design decision or an ADR contradicts something planned, that tension is traceable back to the stories it touches, and a quality gate can block a release with gaps. What it does today is surface the conflict and make you decide, the human stays in the loop on the renegotiation. What it doesn't do yet is autonomously rewrite your plan because design hit a wall, and honestly we think that call should stay human for now. Making the AI flag those conflicts more proactively is exactly where we're headed.
Happy to go deeper on any of it, this is the kind of question we enjoy.
An AI workspace that goes from planning all the way to shipping is a neat all-in-one approach. Does Stride integrate with tools like GitHub or Figma?
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@doganakbulut Thanks! Yes to GitHub, connect your repo and Stride can even draft a real PR. We also import from Jira and plug into Claude Code or Codex via MCP. Figma's an honest not yet, since our design layer is architecture (C4, ADRs, deployment diagrams) rather than UI, but UI design is on the path ahead. What's your stack? Happy to share what connects today.
Great platform! The ability to generate test cases directly from requirements and maintain traceability throughout the development process has been particularly valuable for our team. 👏
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@manav_bhattacharya Thank you! Traceability is one of those things that sounds boring on a slide and then quietly saves you the day something breaks and you can actually follow it from story to test to defect. Genuinely glad it's earning its keep
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I've tried a lot of project management tools, and most of them eventually turn into places where information goes to hide.
What I like about Stride is that I spend less time searching and more time actually building. Requirements, discussions, and execution stay connected instead of being scattered across multiple tools. It's one of those products that feels simpler the longer you use it.