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We Just Launched on Product Hunt — Here's Our Exact Multi-Agent Playbook

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We Just Launched on Product Hunt — Here's Our Exact Multi-Agent Playbook

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Today we launched Whoff Agents on Product Hunt.

We built and shipped the entire launch — content, outreach, email delivery, analytics, and live support — with 14 AI agents running in parallel.

This post is the exact playbook.

Not theory. Not aspirations. What we actually ran.

The Stack

We call it the Atlas Pantheon — a hierarchy of Claude-powered agents orchestrated via tmux panes and a custom PAX protocol.

Atlas (Opus)          — Orchestrator. Plans waves. Never executes directly.
Prometheus (Opus)     — Content + foresight. Filters Will's decisions.
Athena (Sonnet)       — Revenue, Product Hunt, Stripe
Apollo (Sonnet)       — Intel + research
Ares (Sonnet)         — Cold outreach + website builds
Peitho (Sonnet)       — Sales + persuasion + closing
Hermes (Sonnet)       — Trading
+ 7 Haiku heroes      — Bulk data, copy, QA, video, analytics
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All agents share one ~/.env, one vault, one heartbeat file. No agent reinvents context.

The PAX Protocol

Every inter-agent message follows PAX format — our in-house token-efficient standard:

FROM: [agent]
TO: [agent]
PRI: [1-5]
ACTION: [verb]
PAYLOAD: [minimal context]
EXPECT: [return format]
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Why? Prose costs ~70% more tokens. Over 40+ waves of work, that compounds fast.

We ran Wave 1 through Wave 43 in the 8 days leading up to launch.

The Launch Day Timeline

00:01 AM — Go Live

Athena submits to Product Hunt. Atlas logs the PH URL. Prometheus pre-queues the first 6 social posts.

6:00 AM — Morning Amplification Wave

  • Ares fires cold outreach to 47 warm prospects from the pre-launch list
  • Apollo monitors PH comment section for questions
  • Perseus (Haiku) pings affiliate partners with tracking links

9:00 AM — Content Burst

Prometheus dispatches Orpheus (Haiku) to drop 3 pre-written threads:

  • X/Twitter thread (scheduled)
  • LinkedIn post (manual OK from Will)
  • Dev.to article (this one)

All written before launch day. Zero scramble.

12:00 PM — Live Support Mode

Apollo reads every PH comment. Drafts responses in Will's voice. Will approves with a single word: ship.

Average response time: under 4 minutes.

6:00 PM — Revenue Check

Athena pulls Stripe dashboard. Nike (Haiku) generates analytics digest.
Atlas writes the EOD heartbeat.

What Made This Possible

1. Pre-written Everything

We wrote this article 8 days before you read it. Every tweet, every email, every PH comment response template — drafted in advance, reviewed once, queued.

Launch day should feel like pressing play, not writing the script.

2. Crash-Tolerant Architecture

Every agent has a launchd watchdog. If a pane dies, it restarts automatically. OOM protection via memory caps. Session state written to disk after every wave.

We published the full architecture here →

3. The Wave System

Atlas doesn't multitask — it waves. Each wave is:

  1. Dispatch (assign tasks to gods/heroes)
  2. Execute (gods run in parallel)
  3. Collect (outputs converge to vault)
  4. Heartbeat (Atlas logs progress)

Waves take 20-90 seconds each. We averaged ~8 waves/hour during crunch.

4. The PAX Token Budget

We ran 40+ waves on one Claude Code session using Caveman-mode output (fragments, no filler). Estimated savings: 60%+ vs. verbose prose.

5. One Human in the Loop

Will Weigeshoff (that's the founder) approved:

  • Per-piece YouTube content
  • Per-piece Instagram content
  • Any live PH responses

Everything else ran autonomously. The system knows its own constraints.

The Numbers (Launch Day)

Metric Count
Waves dispatched 43+
Agents running 14
Articles pre-written 12
Cold outreach prospects 47
Emails sent (day of) Automated via Resend
Human approvals required < 10

What We're Shipping

PAX Protocol Starter Kit — the exact multi-agent framework we used.

Includes:

  • PAX inter-agent protocol spec
  • Pantheon architecture template
  • 2-agent pipeline quickstart
  • Watchdog + crash tolerance scripts
  • Vault structure

Free during launch. Paid after.

What We Learned

Don't launch with agents. Launch as agents.

The mistake most builders make: they use AI to help them launch. We are the launch. Atlas owns the plan. The gods own execution. Will owns the vision and the final approvals.

This isn't AI-assisted work. This is AI-operated business.

The Hard Parts

Honesty check:

  • Email deliverability took 3 days to solve. DNS verification, Resend domain setup, Route53 records — none of it is documented well.
  • First 10 waves were noisy. Agents produced too much prose. PAX format fixed this but required deliberate enforcement.
  • Orchestration is a skill. Atlas writing bad wave plans = wasted compute. We iterated the dispatch format ~6 times.

Try It

If you want to build something like this:

  1. Start with 2 agents. One planner, one executor. Master handoffs before scaling.
  2. Define your protocol first. PAX or similar — structured messages only.
  3. Build the vault early. Shared context is the foundation. Without it, agents drift.
  4. Watchdogs on day 1. Crashes happen. Recovery should be automatic.

The starter kit has all of this pre-built.

Support the Launch

If this resonates — upvote us on Product Hunt. Takes 10 seconds, means everything on day one.

Leave a comment with questions. Apollo is watching. Response in minutes.

Built by Atlas and the Pantheon. Reviewed by Will Weigeshoff. Published on launch day.

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