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Stuck between automating simple issues and letting AI handle full conversations. Simple tasks are safer to automate but they may not reduce enough work. Full automation could save more time but one bad handoff can turn a small issue into a mess. For teams that have tried both where did you draw the line?

For the past 7 days I marketed my product with nothing but Reddit. No ads, no SEO, no audience. Just 10 posts, across 7 subreddits. So I made my first post... and it got deleted almost immediately. Turns out, posting on Reddit isn't as simple as writing something and hitting Publish. There are a lot of invisible rules, and if you don't understand them, Reddit will reject you before anyone even sees your post. I learned this the hard way. I sold my last startup for $300,000 but it could'v...

Hey Reddit, Here’s a project I’ve been working on. I just finished the first version. So the issue is, when you’re working in a team you’ve got git and all that, but sharing the same live version of your app, having the same Claude setup, same context… it’s not really easy. And it often leads to problems, especially when you’re stressed and you don’t have time, like in hackathons. That’s why I built Murmell. It’s a shared cloud canvas where you can spawn AI agents, see their work in a live...

Not ChatGPT. Not Notion. What's the one underrated tool that genuinely saves you time, money, or headaches? Looking for hidden gems.

A few months ago, we were all seeing how vibe coders were laughed at, but after probably Claude Code I dont see it too often. Has the perception changed? The issues that were raised earlier regarding security, are they not an issue anymore? What are the issues still?

Yesterday I got my first few paying customers for Brainloot. It’s only a few, but after months of building, changing direction and wondering whether anyone would actually pay for it, seeing that first payment felt massive. Brainloot started as a broader visual project-management app, but conversations with developers kept pointing towards the same problem: game teams already have task boards, but they often stop updating them once they are working inside the engine. That pushed me to build...

I’m looking for a Chrome extension that can do reliable playback for UI testing. The ones I’ve tried break way too easily. If a button moves like two pixels, it stops working. It’s making me want to give up on testing entirely but I know that’s a terrible idea lol What I need is something built for Chromium that semantically understands the DOM, so it knows that the goal is to click the primary CTA in a checkout form rather than click a specific position. Does anyone know of a tool that un...

I submitted my Y Combinator application and closed the laptop with the particular finality of a man who has posted something he cannot un-post. Then, because I have no self-control whatsoever, I opened it again to stare at my website analytics. This is a foolish habit. On an ordinary day my analytics are a flat line, interrupted occasionally by my own mother, or by me, checking whether the analytics still work. It is not a page that rewards attention. Five minutes after I pressed submit, a s...

we ship from a single cdn url so every fix goes live for everyone instantly, which is great until a css change breaks someone's layout at 2am. thought about pinning versions per-customer but then we're supporting five builds forever and nobody upgrades on their own. anyone found a middle ground that doesn't turn into permanent long-tail maintenance?

Going to be honest because I'm tired of pretending I've got it figured out. I'm a strong builder. Give me a spec and I'll ship it, clean, fast, working. That was supposed to be the hard part. Everyone says the hard part is building. It isn't. For me the building is the easy, comfortable part I can hide in for weeks. The actual wall is this: I have no idea what to build. And I've started to suspect that's not a small gap, that's the whole game and I've been avoiding it. Here's my pattern. I...

Hello All, This is my onboarding flow for my SaaS. Blocked sensitive information and SaaS name. Does this scream vibe code or amateur? Thanks. P.S. Critique /krəˈtēk/ To critique something means to carefully study, evaluate, and judge an item or work by looking closely at both its strong points and its weak points

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we thought white-label meant swapping a logo and some css vars. it actually meant hosting 40-something customer domains, each with its own cert, and being the person who gets paged when one fails to renew at 3am because their dns is behind a proxy we can't see. if you're pricing a white-label tier, price the ops, not the branding. the branding took a week and the domains have taken a year.

so i’ve already introduced you about my nutrition scanning app presto. mostly just because i got sick of squinting at food labels trying to figure out if something was actually healthy or just good at marketing. didn’t think anyone else would care, but last week it somehow made $450. not life changing money, but enough to make me go "huh, maybe this isn’t just a waste of time." and.... i'm really happy!!!! still super early, i want to add comparison features, fix the UI (it’s ugly...

Hey everyone, My co-founder and I built an event ticketing and access control platform. We already proved it works in our local market, but now we want to take it international. Let's be real: the market is an absolute bloodbath. You’ve got giants like Ticketmaster locking everything down, Eventbrite everywhere else, and a million smaller players fighting for scraps. We aren't trying to out-market them with endless cash or boring corporate software. We want a smarter angle. I’m looking for...

I’ve been looking at AI sales coaching as a way to help managers save time and give reps more feedback. It can review real conversations and spot patterns that managers may miss but can it really replace ride alongs and one on one coaching?

Thanks to this sub, I got some initial sales even though I never promoted. A while ago, I posted an explainer video and asked for feedback, which ended up driving some sales. Thanks for that, guys. For context, I built a self-hosted alternative to Instantly and Smartlead called Cleanmails . It lets agencies and businesses run their email outreach without paying recurring SaaS fees, while maintaining the same core functionality and keeping all their data on their own infrastructure while doing...

Feels a bit surreal to see people actually using my site. Looking forward to what’s to come - don’t stop building!

After spending a lot of time looking at early-stage SaaS launches, I've noticed one pattern that comes up over and over. Founders put everything into launch week. Product Hunt, X, Reddit, LinkedIn... then they move on to building. What often gets overlooked is what happens a month later. If people can't discover your product after launch, it's easy for momentum to disappear. Working on StartupSubmit has made me think about discoverability differently. I spend a lot of time looking at...

Hey everyone, I built a small Android app called ELI5 for people who spend half their day texting, emailing, or writing posts but don't always get the wording right. Instead of copying your text into ChatGPT every time you want to fix grammar, spelling, or awkward phrasing, you can just highlight the text and proofread it instantly inside the chat. Some features: Grammar & spelling fixes Improve clarity without changing your tone Explain selected text in simple English (ELI5 ...

​ If you're building anywhere near an established player, the fear is that they out-feature you. So the reflex is to race them on the feature list. I've come around to thinking that's exactly the game you can't win and shouldn't play. Why feature-racing a bigger competitor is a trap: They have more engineers, so any feature you ship, they can ship too, and eventually will. Competing on breadth is competing on the one axis where their size is an advantage. You spread thin trying to m...

Specifically right now I'm thinking about Rainbow 6 Siege, due to their in depth match replay system. I'm working on a tool that reads your match replay files and generates a breakdown of your gameplay. Not just stats, but recognizing trends across matches and giving personalized feedback. For example: "You died 3 times this match pushing without a teammate to trade you, usually on your second push of the round" instead of just a K/D number. Trying to figure out if this is actually w...

Not asking about the "how did you stay motivated with zero customers" version of this question more like, you've got some traction, some real users, but it's still slow and unglamorous. No big launch moment, no viral post, just steady grinding. What's actually kept you from either burning out or giving up in that stretch? Curious what's real vs. what's just survivorship-bias advice repeated in every founder post. [link] ...

Hello guys! Today I want to present you the SaaS I've been developing for the last couple of months, and I would like to ask you for advice. My SaaS is basically a manufacturing price comparator for PCBs (electronics boards) between different manufacturers. My idea came from the fact that to get a quotation from various manufacturers, you have to spend quite a lot of time uploading the production files to different webs (or even in some of them you have to enter the data manualy, losing eve...