PM Buddy

A personal tool for product managers. All five tools ship in the current version, powered by the same plug-in feature architecture:

• Meeting Notes — extract decisions, action items, and open questions from raw transcripts (Claude).
• RICE Scorer — score and rank ideas by (Reach × Impact × Confidence) / Effort (local CRUD, no LLM).
• Feedback Themes — cluster raw user feedback into named themes with counts, sentiment, and example quotes (Claude).
• Competitor Tracker — log competitors and their moves (launches, news, updates); optionally paste text and let the AI summarize it into a structured entry (Claude).
• PRD Formatter — turn rough notes into a structured PRD with problem, goals, non-goals, solution, metrics, risks, and open questions (Claude).

Stack

• Client: React + Vite + TypeScript + Tailwind CSS
• Server: Node.js + Express + TypeScript
• Database: SQLite (via better-sqlite3) — single file at server/data/pm-buddy.sqlite
• LLM: Anthropic Claude via @anthropic-ai/sdk

Setup

Requires Node.js 20+.

# 1. Install dependencies for root, server, and client
npm run install:all

# 2. Configure your API key
cp .env.example .env
# then edit .env and set ANTHROPIC_API_KEY

# 3. Start both server and client with one command
npm run dev

The client runs at http://localhost:5173 and proxies /api/* to the server at http://localhost:3001.

Repo layout

pm-buddy/
  server/     Express + SQLite backend, feature-scoped modules under src/features/
  client/     Vite + React frontend, feature-scoped modules under src/features/
  shared/     Types shared between client and server

Each tool lives in its own features/<tool-id>/ folder on both client and server. Adding a new tool = drop in a new folder and register it in client/src/features/registry.tsx (and, on the server, server/src/features/index.ts).

All LLM-backed features use the shared server/src/llm.ts helper (callClaudeJson) so they stay consistent on model, error handling, and JSON parsing.

Environment variables

Variable	Required	Description
ANTHROPIC_API_KEY	yes	API key for Anthropic Claude
PORT	no	Server port (default 3001)