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June 18, 2026·2 min read·FounderOS

Connect your first product in three minutes

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FounderOS is a single-user tool for people running their own products, not a multi-tenant SaaS asking third parties to authorize an app. That distinction is why every integration is credential-based — an API key or personal access token — instead of OAuth. It's simpler for you, and it's simpler for us: no app review, no redirect URI allow-lists, one less thing that can silently break.

Adding a product

From Products, click Add product and give it a name, a domain, and a color. That's the whole form — everything else fills in once you connect a service.

Connecting a service

Open the product's Connections tab and pick a service. Every adapter asks for exactly what it needs and nothing more:

Every credential is AES-256-GCM encrypted before it's written to the database, and decrypted only inside server-only route handlers — the key never reaches your browser.

What happens next

The moment you connect, FounderOS runs a test() call against the real API before saving anything — so a bad key fails immediately instead of silently syncing nothing forever. Once saved, it syncs automatically, and you can trigger another sync any time from the Connections tab or the portfolio-wide Integrations page.

From there, your Overview widgets stop showing placeholders and start showing your actual MRR, your actual open issues, your actual deploy history — scoped to that one product, rolled up into the portfolio view on Today.

No dashboard to build. No spreadsheet to maintain. Just the numbers, where you already are.

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