DodonLabs prototyping client — founder Alexandru Dodon — AI tools for indie devs. Dodon came to ProtoForge needing a working prototype of his AI tooling concept fast enough to put in front of real users before the consulting market priced him out of validation.
Dodon needed a working prototype to validate his AI tooling idea with indie devs. The conventional route — a three-to-five-person consultancy at roughly $1,200 per day each — would have run four to six weeks and cost somewhere on the order of $50,000 before he had a single line of code in front of a user.
That timeline didn't fit the validation window. Every extra week was a week of runway burned without learning whether the idea was real. The PowerPoint-at-the-end-of-an-engagement model is the wrong shape for a prototype whose only job is to answer one question: does this work for users?
Three steps, no workshops, no stakeholder decks, no requirements docs. The same pipeline applied to every ProtoForge build:
Dodon described the business challenge in plain English: indie developers needed AI tooling that did X. What process is broken for them, what tool is missing, what would ship value in a week.
In about twenty seconds ProtoForge produced the full prototype spec — tech stack, feature breakdown, database schema, architecture, build timeline, and risk assessment.
On spec approval, ProtoForge built and deployed the prototype — a live URL, a real database, a real API, working in front of real users within 48 hours.
A working prototype, deployed to a live URL with a real database and a real API, in front of real indie developer users — for roughly one tenth the cost of the consulting engagement Dodon would otherwise have bought.
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