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SpecBuddy
Control your AI coding agent — from plan to every step
Chat-coding lets you review code after it's written. SpecBuddy lets you review the plan before: a spec, a plan, then step-by-step execution you can accept, reject, or roll back — in your JetBrains IDE, on top of Claude Code or Codex. Free in public beta.
Hi Product Hunt 👋
I'm Alex. I've spent ~10 years building developer tools on the JetBrains platform, and the last year watching my team — and myself — get frustrated with AI coding agents in exactly the same way.
The pattern is always the same. You write a prompt. The agent generates 200 lines. You read the diff and realize it misunderstood you three turns ago. So you prompt again. And again.
The problem isn't that we're bad at prompting. It's that we only get to review the work AFTER it's done. Code review is the wrong place to catch "you built the wrong thing."
SpecBuddy moves the review earlier. You describe what you want, the agent turns it into a spec and a plan, and you approve that plan before a single line of code is generated. Then it executes step by step — and every step is something you can accept, reject, or roll back.
If you don't want to write specs at all, that's fine too: run your agent in plain chat and SpecBuddy still catches every change as a reviewable diff you can comment on and send straight back to the agent.
Honest scope on day one:
— It installs across the JetBrains family (IDEA, PyCharm, GoLand, WebStorm, Rider, CLion and the rest), 2026.1+. But we built and tested it in IntelliJ IDEA — the others should work, and I'd love to know if they don't.
— Works on top of Claude Code and Codex. We're not another model.
— VS Code and Cursor are next.
— Free during public beta. No billing, no card.
I'd genuinely like to hear where this breaks for you. I'm here all day.
About SpecBuddy on Product Hunt
“Control your AI coding agent — from plan to every step”
SpecBuddy was submitted on Product Hunt and earned 0 upvotes and 3 comments, placing #108 on the daily leaderboard. Chat-coding lets you review code after it's written. SpecBuddy lets you review the plan before: a spec, a plan, then step-by-step execution you can accept, reject, or roll back — in your JetBrains IDE, on top of Claude Code or Codex. Free in public beta.
On the analytics side, SpecBuddy competes within Productivity, Developer Tools and Vibe coding — topics that collectively have 1.2M followers on Product Hunt. The dashboard above tracks how SpecBuddy performed against the three products that launched closest to it on the same day.
Who hunted SpecBuddy?
SpecBuddy was hunted by Alex Shustanov. A “hunter” on Product Hunt is the community member who submits a product to the platform — uploading the images, the link, and tagging the makers behind it. Hunters typically write the first comment explaining why a product is worth attention, and their followers are notified the moment they post. Around 79% of featured launches on Product Hunt are self-hunted by their makers, but a well-known hunter still acts as a signal of quality to the rest of the community. See the full all-time top hunters leaderboard to discover who is shaping the Product Hunt ecosystem.
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Alex Shustanov