Show HN: PDR AI – Open-source startup accelerator engine for non-technical chaos(github.com)
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Show HN: PDR AI – Open-source startup accelerator engine for non-technical chaos
https://github.com/Deodat-Lawson/LaunchStack
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Nice work shipping this. One thing that's often overlooked in Show HN launches is the distribution strategy after the initial HN traffic spike. The spike-then-trickle pattern is brutal if you haven't set up organic discovery channels (SEO, community presence, integrations with existing tools). The projects that sustain momentum tend to have at least one organic acquisition channel running before they launch.
A couple weeks ago I shared PDR AI as an open-source tool for startup doc mess[](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47258661). Since then I've doubled down on the core vision: it's not just another RAG chat—it's an AI-powered accelerator engine that helps technical founders skip the non-technical pitfalls and move faster.
As a solo technical founder, I wasted too much time on fragmented marketing plans, incomplete PRDs, onboarding docs, legal templates. PDR AI centralizes it all in a self-hostable knowledge base and actively accelerates progress by:
- Document Sanity Chekcer (Verifying the content validity and consistency in the documents, extracing key information) - Marketing pipeline: Content ideas/trends for Reddit/X/LinkedIn/Bluesky, optional web-enriched analysis. - Team acceleration layer: Role-based access, invites, approvals, audit trails—great for small teams or accelerator cohorts reviewing docs. - Real-time dashboard: Tracks usage, accuracy (~99% on samples), compliance gaps, productivity. - RAG basics done right: Upload PDFs/Notion/Slack/GitHub exports, OCR support, pgvector semantic search, page-level citations, fast responses.
Fully open-source (MIT), self-host via Docker/Vercel, bring-your-own LLM keys (OpenAI/LangChain now; Ollama/local coming soon). No lock-in, full privacy.
Website: https://pdrai.online Repo: https://github.com/Deodat-Lawson/LaunchStack (formerly PDR_AI_v2; 788+ stars and growing)
Looking for: - Indie founders / small teams using it to "accelerate" their non-tech side - Accelerator programs / mentors testing it for cohort doc reviews - Feedback: Does the accelerator framing land? What marketing/product workflows hurt most? - Contributors: PRs/issues welcome, especially agent improvements or integrations