🔥 5 Epic Tools To Launch Your MVP Now

Whether you’re a solo founder, an indie hacker, or a CTO, one thing matters more than anything: shipping fast. Thanks to AI, a new wave of tools makes it possible to go from idea to product in record time.

We’ve picked 5 that cut out the usual pain and let you move straight to building.

UploadThing

UploadThing is a modern alternative to S3 built for developers. It handles the heavy lifting of file storage and delivery while giving you a type-safe API, a CDN, and simple routes you control from your code.

You decide what files can be uploaded, add auth and metadata with middleware, and process results on completion. It integrates with all major frontend frameworks and has backend adapters for Express, Fastify, H3 and more.

A clean developer-first way to add secure file uploads without the usual S3 pain.

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Manifest

Manifest is an open source backend to ship fast. It allows you to define your backend in a single file. It has simple code approach easy for developers to read and write and easy for LLMs to generate.

Most existing backend tools are painful. They are bloated, they force you into endless configuration, and they lock you into complexe dashboards. Manifest takes the opposite path. You just describe your backend in a YAML file to instantly get data, logic, auth, storage and an admin UI.

It runs self-hosted out of the box with SQLite, Postgres, MySQL or MariaDB. A Cloud version with AI is coming soon. It will take you from an idea to a production backend instantly.

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CopyCoder

CopyCoder is an AI-powered tool that lets you clone and scaffold complete web applications in minutes. By uploading screenshots of your target app, CopyCoder generates optimized prompts that can be run directly in Cursor to build a working frontend almost instantly.

And by the way, it works perfectly with Manifest, presented just above. Install Manifest to your project in Cursor and let the chat spin up the backend for your frontend.

Perfect for solo founders who want to turn ideas into production-ready apps without wasting time on boilerplate.

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Tally

Tally is the simplest way to create online forms without coding. It works like Notion but instead of blocks you add fields, type your questions and build a form in seconds.

You get unlimited forms and submissions for free with advanced features like conditional logic, payment collection, file uploads, e-signatures, hidden fields and integrations with tools like Notion, Google Sheets, Airtable and Zapier.

When you publish your form, you get a shareable link and all the responses land in your dashboard. It gives you exactly what you need when you want to ship a prototype with a form to test an idea or collect insights from real users.

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Rork

Rork is an AI-powered no-code platform focused on mobile apps. You describe your idea in plain English and it generates a working iOS and Android app using React Native and Expo. You can preview your app instantly in the browser or on your phone with Expo Go, then publish it to the app stores.

It’s especially useful if you want to ship a mobile app quickly, whether it’s a social app or a fitness tracker. You can also import Figma designs and iterate with prompts.

There’s no free plan though, you’ll need a paid subscription starting at about 25€ per month to export and actually use the apps you generate.

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Conclusion

These 5 tools remove the friction that usually slows you down and give you the shortest path from idea to product.

If you need to ship a product fast whether it is an app, a prototype, an MVP or even to win a hackathon these tools will save you precious time.

If you use them let me know what you think in the comments and feel free to suggest other tools

😉 Thank you