I’m non-technical, tried to add RAG to my AI agent… and ended up building Lumine now I’m stuck — need your advice
A few months ago, I tried to build a simple AI customer support agent using n8n.
Sounds easy, right?
Then I realized: to make the answers actually useful, I needed RAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation).
And that turned out to be much harder than I expected.
🧩 Why it was harder than it looked
I’m not a technical founder.
So I looked for existing RAG solutions, hoping for something “plug & play.”
Instead, I found:
Complex docs
Assumptions that you already have infra knowledge
Vendor lock-in everywhere
For someone who just wants to build fast, it felt… impossible.
⚙️ What I did next
It took time (and a lot of trial & error) to find the right technical partner.
Together, we built a tiny service to scratch our own itch:
Upload files
Get an endpoint
Done
We called it Lumine.
🚀 Where Lumine is now
Right now Lumine is in beta:
You can upload your docs
You get an endpoint to query them
No forced vendor lock-in
Faster and simpler than what we tried before
Target users?
Honestly… still figuring it out. Could help:
SaaS builders
Automators
AI agent creators
🤔 Where I’m stuck
We have a small waitlist (about 20 people).
But no real users yet.
I’m not sure how to get:
The first few real users
Honest feedback
Ideas on how to position & market this
🧡 Why I’m writing this
If you’ve built something similar, or faced the same RAG pain, I’d love to hear:
How did you validate early?
Where did you find your first users?
What would you do if you were me?
Also: if anyone wants to try Lumine and share feedback, tell me and I’ll DM you access.
Not a pitch — a real question:
What would you do in my place?
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