The people using something should have a role in shaping what it becomes.
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Homeroom is an AI app builder aimed at groups rather than solo makers, letting the people who use an app propose, test, and vote on the changes that ship into it. Someone starts by chatting an app into existence, then anyone using it can screenshot a screen, describe what they would change, and turn that feedback into a live proposal that others can preview before deciding whether it becomes part of the product. Approved changes go live automatically, so the app keeps evolving with its actual users instead of a single builder.
The launch matters because AI app builders have collapsed the cost of shipping v1, but iteration is still bottlenecked on one person reading feedback and prompting the model. Homeroom, from Evan Shapiro, is positioned around a thesis of user-built, user-owned software, and this is the first public introduction of the multiplayer building flow after private hackathons with beta testers. Access is opening gradually to small groups of early users, with a waitlist at onhomeroom.com.
The clearest fit is a founder, community lead, or operator who has an idea plus a group of people already asking for changes, whether that is a run club, an internal team, or a niche community that wants its own tool. Rather than routing every request through a product owner, Homeroom turns the user base into a review pool with structured proposals, previews, and votes, which is worth a look for anyone thinking about how AI-built software gets governed once more than one person depends on it.
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Priya Vatti28d ago
Multiplayer app-building is a cute framing but the real test is whether user suggestions actually ship or just rot in a backlog nobody reads. What's the loop that closes?
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Tomasz Bakowski28d ago
We literally had a Google Doc called 'Homeroom' in 2019 for exactly this at my last job. Glad someone actually shipped the vibe instead of writing a PRD about it.
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Mara Ostrowska28d ago
Building in a neighboring lane (agent workflows for teams) and honestly the 'users shape the app' angle is the part I keep circling back to. Nicely framed.
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Keziah O.28d ago
How many of you built this? If it's more than three I'm suing for indie hacker malpractice.
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yuki28d ago
The tweet hook is solid but that video needed one more cut in the first three seconds. You lose people right where you show the cursor hovering.
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Faisal Rahmani28d ago
Docs page or it didn't launch. Also please tell me there's a webhook when a user suggests something, I will build weird things with that.
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Chidinma A.28d ago
Went to the waitlist page on mobile and the CTA is doing that thing where it hides behind the keyboard. First-tap UX matters when your whole pitch is 'let users help build.'
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Renato Caprile28d ago
Interesting positioning but I'd want to see retention past week four before I get excited. Multiplayer feature-building sounds great until three users all want opposite things.
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Leilani Kealoha28d ago
So who owns the IP when a user 'suggests' a feature that becomes core to someone's app? Asking because I've watched this exact fight play out twice.
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Hollis Vega28d ago
The voiceover pacing on the launch video is actually really nice, feels like a person and not a script. More founders should just talk instead of narrating slides.
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Arjun Belliappa28d ago
One more thing: let power users upvote each other's suggestions and you've basically built a mini product council per app. Free feature, take it.
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Sven Toresen28d ago
Curious about the underlying mechanism. Is 'Suggest' generating diffs against the app spec or actually round-tripping through the codegen? Big difference in what users can meaningfully change.
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The people using something should have a role in shaping what it becomes.
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Homeroom is an AI app builder aimed at groups rather than solo makers, letting the people who use an app propose, test, and vote on the changes that ship into it. Someone starts by chatting an app into existence, then anyone using it can screenshot a screen, describe what they would change, and turn that feedback into a live proposal that others can preview before deciding whether it becomes part of the product. Approved changes go live automatically, so the app keeps evolving with its actual users instead of a single builder. The launch matters because AI app builders have collapsed the cost of shipping v1, but iteration is still bottlenecked on one person reading feedback and prompting the model. Homeroom, from Evan Shapiro, is positioned around a thesis of user-built, user-owned software, and this is the first public introduction of the multiplayer building flow after private hackathons with beta testers. Access is opening gradually to small groups of early users, with a waitlist at onhomeroom.com. The clearest fit is a founder, community lead, or operator who has an idea plus a group of people already asking for changes, whether that is a run club, an internal team, or a niche community that wants its own tool. Rather than routing every request through a product owner, Homeroom turns the user base into a review pool with structured proposals, previews, and votes, which is worth a look for anyone thinking about how AI-built software gets governed once more than one person depends on it.
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Multiplayer app-building is a cute framing but the real test is whether user suggestions actually ship or just rot in a backlog nobody reads. What's the loop that closes?
We literally had a Google Doc called 'Homeroom' in 2019 for exactly this at my last job. Glad someone actually shipped the vibe instead of writing a PRD about it.
Building in a neighboring lane (agent workflows for teams) and honestly the 'users shape the app' angle is the part I keep circling back to. Nicely framed.
How many of you built this? If it's more than three I'm suing for indie hacker malpractice.
The tweet hook is solid but that video needed one more cut in the first three seconds. You lose people right where you show the cursor hovering.
Docs page or it didn't launch. Also please tell me there's a webhook when a user suggests something, I will build weird things with that.
Went to the waitlist page on mobile and the CTA is doing that thing where it hides behind the keyboard. First-tap UX matters when your whole pitch is 'let users help build.'
Interesting positioning but I'd want to see retention past week four before I get excited. Multiplayer feature-building sounds great until three users all want opposite things.
So who owns the IP when a user 'suggests' a feature that becomes core to someone's app? Asking because I've watched this exact fight play out twice.
The voiceover pacing on the launch video is actually really nice, feels like a person and not a script. More founders should just talk instead of narrating slides.
One more thing: let power users upvote each other's suggestions and you've basically built a mini product council per app. Free feature, take it.
Curious about the underlying mechanism. Is 'Suggest' generating diffs against the app spec or actually round-tripping through the codegen? Big difference in what users can meaningfully change.