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I've been building AI-assisted developer tools for the past year, and I've started questioning one assumption that almost every AI coding tool seems to make. The assumption is: AI should generate everything. After hundreds of experiments, I'm starting to think that's actually inefficient. Things like: authentication RBAC CRUD routing project structure migrations validation API scaffolding are deterministic problems. There are already well-known patterns and be...

Something I've learned running a B2b saas in Korea, the market here is just small when you start building something new, everyone draws that imaginary revenue curve, right? "How far could this thing actually go?" I did the same. But I eventually realized that in Korea with a fairly closed business culture and a small number of startups to sell to it's genuinely hard to grow meaningful revenue with b2b saas And honestly, that's okay. I was never chasing a massive exit. What keeps ...

Last year I spent months away from home. My wife and I talked every day, but our chats were mixed with work messages, which never felt right. So I built VeryClose. It’s a simple app where you open it and you’re instantly in a private chat with your person. I also added a walkie-talkie feature because sometimes hearing a voice is better than texting. Many features, like invite links, swipe to reply, and dark mode, came from Reddit feedback. It’s now on Android with just over 100 downloads. St...

Aside from my remote job in software development, I run a boring little QR code generator - solo and bootstrapped. Every paying customer so far came from search or an AI assistant, not from me posting anywhere. That's the only reason I have something worth writing up. In numbers : - $100 MRR 🎊🎊 🎊 (Proof: TrustMRR ) - ~500 registered users (Only 13 paying 🙃) - AI Assistants now refer more sessions than Google organic does - ChatGPT first, then Gemini (Perplexity & Claude were blocke...

Not naming the product, don't really want this to read as a plug. But I checked Stripe this morning half asleep and just stared at the number for a solid minute. $8k MRR. Genuinely did the math three times because it didn't feel real. Then I remembered that's before taxes, before tooling costs, before the months I paid myself basically nothing to keep it alive, and "rich" evaporated pretty fast. Still feels like a big deal though, so I'm just going to sit in it for a day before m...

Hey everyone, Like most of you, I absolutely despise calling customer service. Last week, I spent 45 minutes on hold with a brand just trying to get a simple refund, listening to awful hold music and getting passed between automated bots. As a software engineer, it hit me: companies spend millions building AI agents to exhaust us and protect their bottom line. Why shouldn’t consumers have their own AI shield? [ 1 , 2 ] I am working on a solo project to flip the script. The idea is simple:...

Context: small businesses and SaaS products get reviews scattered across way too many places: Trustpilot, Google, Amazon, App Store, Google Play, G2, Etsy, wherever you're listed. Nobody has time to check all of them every week, so the same complaint can sit unread in three different spots for months. Sentor connects to all of it automatically and breaks reviews down by topic instead of just an overall star average, so you can see something like "shipping speed" quietly dropping acro...

Hello beautiful people. My name is Nick, I am 30 y/o and this is the first time creating a sincere post of what has been troubling me with my, let's say, "career". I already work for a big company so this is extra. Hopefully, I will make it my main job. I have made a bunch of projects. I can't even count them. I got more than 30 repos, 8-12 successful PoCs, 2 product ready projects and just 1, finally, completed end-to-end product that is out there hosted on a VPS. My problem is...

imagine adding all these tools to replace 'manual work' with more maintenance work

It is time for physical products. I am an inventor at heart, not a software dev, it was just what was accessible to the kid me. 7 years and 20+ attempts at apps, websites, games…etc, and in the end I managed to find success while running on fumes. I will go to school again, spend 4 years studying engineering, and this time, I wont be wasting any minute. I learned enough not to.

It feels fast and convenient, but the real question is not speed. The real question is: what happens to your code, your data, and your business logic when you trust a tool too much? Coding is not just “writing code.” For a lot of founders, coding is the business. If the code, data, or workflow gets exposed, copied, or reused the wrong way, the damage is bigger than people think. I’m not AI. I think AI is useful. I just feel like people forget that privacy and trust still matter. Do y...

Nearly every business guru will tell you to assess demand before you launch. Validate the market. Create a waitlist. But how do you actually do it successfully? You post in Reddit and try to raise awareness but your posts are banned? It’s very easy to say create a waitlist, build an audience, but how do you successfully build that audience if you don’t have a following and are genuinely starting from zero? [link] ...

I recently built mistco.io , mainly as a portfolio project and to learn how AI, telephony, transcription and payments work together. It is basically a smart voicemail for businesses. When a call is missed, the caller hears a custom greeting and leaves a message. The system then: transcribes and summarizes the call; extracts details such as name, phone number and address; labels the call by category and urgency; creates a structured lead; emails the business with the details and ...

Something I've been noticing lately. The speed of turning an idea into a shipped product has never been faster, thanks to vibe coding tools. But that speed comes with a side effect, idea saturation. Everyone has a really good idea now, and everyone can ship it in a few days. The result is that I've gotten numb to it. When I see a product launch post scroll by, my first reaction isn't curiosity to click in and check the features anymore. It's more like "ahh, another vibe-coded product.&q...

I used to spend that first hour every day doing the same three things: >checking Search Console for what people actually searched to find us >scanning Reddit and Hacker News for mentions, >then trying to turn both into a post before anyone on the team was even awake. Some mornings I'd get through it. Most mornings I didn't, and the content just... didn't happen that day. The tension wasn't laziness. It was that marketing work needs data first, and pulling data from five differen...

​ Ngl I made this cause I was tired of emailing myself files or plugging in a cable every single time I wanted to get screenshots, videos or project files off my phone onto my Mac. It was getting annoying. Been using it myself for a bit, cleaned it up, and decided to just release it already. What it does: Send photos, videos, docs, or even really big files over your local Wifi Don't need internet for it to work Doesn't use any mobile data It's peer to peer only so your files...

Five days ago, I launched DipLangs, a language learning platform I've been building in my free time. My tool reached its first 50 users, and they're from Germany, India, the US, Ireland, Pakistan, Canada, Japan, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Bangladesh, and a few other countries. I haven't done any SEO yet. I haven't spent anything on ads. So far, I've only shared DipLangs on Reddit, LinkedIn, and Facebook. The biggest thing I've learned this week is that getting users is only the first step. U...

Two months ago I started building Ditther because I couldn't find a simple browser-based tool for creating retro image effects like pixel art, ASCII, halftone and more with a single click. I had no audience, no launch list, and no marketing budget, just an idea I wanted to use myself. Still I launched Ditther a month ago and focused almost entirely on posting content, sharing progress, and talking to users. No ads. No paid marketing. Month 1 results: $1,341 in revenue 50 Pro user...

(and this is coming from an optimist who desperately wants to believe in the best in everyone) Most of you have a completely shit work ethic and don’t have what it takes to be an entrepreneur. Very very few people have any remote idea of what it takes and most people can’t focus on the boring everyday work. Most of you are all talk and you have no idea how much you cringe tf out of anyone doing anything for real. You’re looking for outside validation and you have no ability to put your h...

Got my first paying user recently 🔥🔥

I built a saas product for small businesses but I am struggling to even talk to potential early adopters. Does anyone have any ideas besides just cold emailing or posts. Im at the point where Im not even trying to sell but just see if there is interest in the product

I started marketing it on Instagram using multiple accounts and tested different content formats, but I still haven’t been able to generate enough traction. What makes it more frustrating is seeing similar apps perform really well while my numbers remain low, even after months of work. To be honest, I’m more of a product person, so marketing has been difficult for me. I’m still trying to understand what works and where I might be going wrong. For anyone who has successfully marketed a cons...

Everyone's been sourcing leads from Clay/Apollo/Lemlist and personalising emails using AI and blasting them to leads using instantly ai or any other email marketing tools Potential Leads are increasingly becoming aware of ai personalised emails and are becoming numb to that personalisation I needed something to break this pattern, one answer was personalised landing pages with personalised content at scale for each outbound lead Most Potential cold outbound leads don't recieve a personalis...

A few days ago, I got my first trial and finally got converted. This situation seems unreal because I never imagined that someone would pay this amount. This is the best market and product validation I have. My SaaS is basically a consumer SaaS a social accountability platform called HabitHook. Fun fact:- My First launch was nearly 2 yrs back on 16th July and yesterday 19th July I made my first international dollar. [link] ...

As AI agents become increasingly powerful, I've been thinking about how that affects traditional apps. If the agent becomes the new operator... then we need to rethink what an app actually is? I don't have the answer to this, so I started an open source project to explore it: https://github.com/getmunin/munin . Still figuring out the shape of things. Building it forced me to boil the problem down to these areas: MCP-first: Instead of building UI-first and bolting on an API later, you b...

Hi All, I am a security consultant with over 10 years of experience and have worked in multiple firms, including Big 4, across different countries and in various positions. I have been dreaming about starting my own business and can't stop thinking about it. For over a year now, almost every day, I keep thinking about it. I built an affordable autonomous penetration testing platform which costs less than $500 per test, but I'm so afraid to quit my job. How did you manage to quit your job...

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I am building an app to send digital postcard, posto.ink - I buit it to inspire people to share their moments, create memories.