Getting started with FoundStep
A full tour of the FoundStep interface — the main menu, pinned workspaces, your profile and wall profile, the public wall button with follower count and stars, the feedback button, theme switcher, and the floating quick-create button at the bottom.
What you will learn
- Navigate Home, Ideas, Workspaces, and Harbor
- Find pinned workspaces and your profile menu
- Track followers and earned stars in the header
- Use the floating button to capture ideas fast
Manage ideas with FoundStep
Capture ideas the moment they hit, then run them through the 5-step validation flow. Write your Build, Wait, or Reject decision with a reason — and remember, only ideas you Build can become workspaces.
What you will learn
- Capture an idea with title, description, tagline, and category
- Filter ideas by status and manage them as cards
- Run a 5-step validation before committing
- Let the AI suggest a verdict, then make the final call
- Lock in Build, Wait, or Reject with a written reason
Manage workspaces with FoundStep
Turn a validated idea into a workspace and ship it end-to-end. Create versions, lock features and todos to kill scope creep, set soft or hard deadlines, track streaks, and mark the project shipped when the work is done.
What you will learn
- Create a workspace from a Build-decided idea
- Set issue code, custom URL, and version
- Add features and todos (manual or AI-planned)
- Lock features and todos to prevent scope creep
- Set soft or hard deadlines and track your streak
- Mark the version as shipped when you are done
Introduction to Harbor in FoundStep
Harbor is where every shipped project lives — automatically. You cannot add things manually, which is the point: only real shipped work ends up here. On rough days, open Harbor and remember what you have already built.
What you will learn
- Shipped projects land in Harbor automatically
- See when each project was shipped
- Share any shipped project to social media
- Add a website URL after shipping if you skipped it
Manage public wall with FoundStep
Set up your SEO-optimized wall profile, then push a shipped project from Harbor to your Public Wall. Cover image, screenshots, features, tech stack, changelog, milestones, and a build timeline — everything a visitor needs to trust what you built.
What you will learn
- Complete your wall profile to 100% for better SEO
- Claim a unique Public ID for your profile URL
- Push a shipped project from Harbor to the Wall
- Add screenshots (5+), features, tech stack, and changelog
- Control visibility of each section before publishing
- View your live project page with cover, timeline, and stars
Home page & extra analytics in FoundStep
Read your Discipline scorecard, overall streak, and full-journey pipeline on the home page. Generate a shareable profile card that pulls in your last 12 projects. Ship more and fill the card up.
What you will learn
- Read your Discipline scorecard — ship rate, clean ships, unlocks
- Track your overall streak across every project
- Watch the pipeline fill from idea to shipment
- See active workspaces, ideas, and shipped work at a glance
- Generate and share a profile card of your last 12 projects
Ready to ship?
Start your first project in FoundStep.
You have seen the tour. Now open FoundStep, validate your next idea, lock the scope, and actually finish it this time.