Rocket 1.0

Rocket is a platform that connects research, product building, and competitive intelligence in a single workflow. It generates detailed product strategy documents, including pricing, unit economics, and go-to-market recommendations, and positions itself as the thinking that happens before and after the build, not just the build itself. The platform calls this "Vibe Solutioning": describing a problem once and getting market research, a recommended product direction, production-ready code, and ongoing competitor tracking, all from one system with shared context across every step. It offers over 25,000 templates for every use case, one-click deployment to staging and production environments, and continuous competitor monitoring covering pricing changes, hiring signals, website updates, and social media. Over 1.5 million people across 180 countries have used Rocket to date. Founded in Surat (a city known for diamonds and textiles, not tech startups), Vishal Virani teamed up with Rahul Shingala and Deepak Dhanak to launch Rocket.new, pivoting from their earlier developer tooling venture DhiWise. The startup raised $15 million in seed funding from Accel, Salesforce Ventures, and Together Fund, and has grown from 400,000 to over 1.5 million users since launch. Building from Surat, a global AI platform that competes with Bolt, Lovable, and Cursor, and wins users from Meta, PayPal, KPMG, and PwC, is exactly the kind of story LaunchBase exists to tell.