lazy susan (lazysusan.dev), a free directory for first time solo founders, is now fully live. It holds 100 hand picked tools spread across 19 categories, sorted into six stages: still just an idea, making it exist, making it yours, wiring it up, going live, and getting found. Every stage comes with its own ready to paste AI prompt.

Most tool directories sort by category (design, hosting, payments), which assumes you already know what you need. lazy susan asks a different question first: where are you right now? Spin the stage wheel, land on "still just an idea" or "wiring it up" or "getting found," and the site narrows a hundred tools down to the handful that matter at that exact point, instead of handing over a wall of logos to sort through alone.

The site grew out of a habit its creator picked up on an earlier project: bookmarking tool and prompt recommendations wherever they turned up, a screenshot of someone else's prompt here, a half finished blog review there, with no single place holding it together. lazy susan collects that into six stages instead of one long list. Stage one, "still just an idea," has five tools, including Excalidraw for sketching a layout in under two minutes and Answer the Public for finding out what people actually search before a word of copy gets written. By stage four, "wiring it up," the list has grown to 26 tools, covering everything from Supabase for a database and sign in system to Stripe, Square, or Paddle for taking payment, depending on how the money needs to move.

Each stage's prompt is written for whichever AI tool fits that step. The stage one prompt, meant for Claude, asks for five sharper takes on the idea, what already exists, and the one thing that would make this version worth visiting, before any code gets written. The stage two prompt, for Lovable or Bolt, ends with a line most people forget to give an AI builder: "build the homepage first, stop and show me before you do the rest." The stage six prompt, for after launch, asks an AI to list ten things real people would type into Google or ask an AI about the founder's own site, sorted from easiest to hardest to rank for, then outline the pages needed for the top three.

Every listing is chosen by hand, not submitted by the tools themselves and not paid for. Many also carry two or three genuine alternatives with a plain reason to pick one over another. Domain registrars alone split three ways: Namecheap is the familiar name, Porkbun prices close to cost with free WHOIS privacy included, and Cloudflare Registrar sells at cost with no renewal markup, provided a Cloudflare account already exists. Scheduling tools split a similar way: Cal.com's free plan covers unlimited event types and even Stripe payments, while Calendly, the name most clients already recognize, caps its free plan at one event type.

The list is what every one of today's new web developers needs. Not fifty open tabs and a half-finished Notion page, one place that tells you what to reach for at the exact step you're stuck on.

At a glance:
- 100 tools, hand picked, across 19 categories

- 6 stages: still just an idea → making it exist → making it yours → wiring it up → going live → getting found

- Tool counts per stage: 5, 13, 21, 26, 25, and 32 (tools repeat across stages when they genuinely apply to more than one)

- A ready to paste AI prompt included at every stage

- Free to use, no account required

- No paid placements. Nothing is on the list because someone paid for it

About lazy susan
lazy susan is a free directory of tools and AI prompts for first time solo founders building and launching a website, organised by the six real stages of getting one live, from having just an idea to actually getting found. Every listing is chosen by hand. lazy susan is available now at lazysusan.dev.