Self-hosted alternatives to before-you-build
5 self-hosted AI Skills apps to use instead, best rated first.
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claude-to-deerflow
Launchclaude-to-deerflow is an agent skill that lets an assistant send messages and questions to a running DeerFlow instance through its HTTP API. DeerFlow is an AI agent platform built on LangGraph that orchestrates sub-agents for research, code
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open-notebook
Launchopen-notebook is an agent skill for organising research with Open Notebook, a self-hosted alternative to NotebookLM. It arranges sources, notes and AI conversations into research notebooks. Sources can be PDFs, web pages, audio, video and O
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Reactive Resume
LaunchReactive Resume is a free and open-source resume builder for writing resumes and cover letters, checking the work, and tracking job applications. You create a free account, import an existing resume or start from scratch, and see the finish
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self-hosted-funnel-launch
LaunchSelf-hosted funnel launch is an agent skill that takes a funnel from an empty install to published on infrastructure you control, using the Autonnel funnel builder, which is licensed Apache-2.0. The result covers a landing page, checkout, a
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get-convex/convex-backend
LaunchConvex is an open-source reactive database for web app developers. It combines a database, a place to write server functions in pure TypeScript, and client libraries that keep the app's data live, so screens update as the data changes. Beca
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About before-you-build
before-you-build
Pre-build product and feature risk review for founders, product managers
before-you-build is an agent skill from the wshobson/agents collection that runs a short pre-mortem before a product or feature is built. It is for founders, product managers and anyone using AI to build quickly who wants to check the idea first. The skill applies when someone is about to build or ship a new product, MVP, prototype, landing page, SaaS app, marketplace, content site, agent workflow or internal tool, or when a major feature has unclear effects on adoption, revenue, retention, trust or distribution. It also applies before a public launch asset, where weak positioning could waste development and promotion effort. The goal, as the skill states, is not to block building. It is to identify the highest-risk assumption, the smallest validation step that could test it, and the build scope that should wait until there is better evidence. The skill walks through a risk checklist covering the idea. It skips narrow tasks such as an implementation fix, a refactor, a test repair, a dependency update, or a change that is already validated with clear acceptance criteria. It is installed with the skills CLI from the wshobson/agents repository. Its skills.sh page showed about 2.9K installs and passing results from three security audits at the time of the scan.
- Price
- Free
- Made by
- wshobson
- Category
- AI Skills
- Website
- github.com/wshobson/agents/before-you-build