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I am my target user, but organic TikTok and Instagram videos aren’t doing the trick. How should I get my first 100 users? Just friends and family?

Hey everyone! I’ve decided to build my project completely in public, so here is the very first screenshot of my analytics dashboard after 7 days of being live. To give you some context on these numbers: I recently launched a small micro-SaaS with two subscription tiers ($12/mo and $29/mo). It’s a tool designed to help freelancers streamline their client onboarding and brief creation, which is a problem I personally faced a lot. The Week 1 numbers: Uniques: 47 Sign-ups: 4 Paying us...

The original idea for my side project was an AI creator for Notion widgets. You describe what you want, choose a style, and it generates and hosts the widget so you can embed it in Notion. That was the product from the beginning. I added a catalog of ready-made widgets later because the site felt a little empty without them. I thought the free catalog would make the platform more useful and eventually lead people toward the AI creator. The free part ended up becoming the main source of tra...

Every single time I ask Claude or ChatGPT to build a UI, it spits out the exact same generic SaaS layout. Same rounded corners, same glassmorphism, same boring structure. So I built VibeCurb . It’s completely free and open-source. There's no app to install or wrapper to pay for, it’s just a collection of extremely strict skill.md files that you drop directly into your AI workspace. What it actually does: Kills the generic glassmorphism and rounded-corner spam Enforces viewport-s...

I'm a staff product designer by trade and was working in big tech. I hated that most of my week became alignment and reporting, like standups, end-of-week updates, devs asking what changed in my file. I spoke with a bunch of other designers, and this was the biggest complaint they had also. So I built Design Recap, a Figma plugin that reads your file and writes up what you've recently worked on, plus a changelog. It covers the end-of-week update, when you're drawing a blank at standup, and t...

Problem: macOS has desktop widgets, but Apple's Photos widget only shows "Featured Photos" it picks for you. You can't say "show this photo of my dog." Apps that fix this are paid. Solution: PhotoWidget — real macOS native widgets (WidgetKit). Not an overlay app pretending to be a widget: macOS renders these itself, so nothing runs in the background. Open the app only when you want to add or organize photos. How to use: Drag photos into the app (crop box appears ...

Hi everyone, I am a software developer by profession, and over the past few months I've been working on a side project called PodTyper. You can access it at https://www.podtyper.com Instead of downloading audio files or uploading episodes manually, you just paste a podcast URL (Spotify, YouTube or Apple Podcasts) and it generates a transcript along with AI-powered summaries. I originally built it because I found myself constantly wanting to search through podcast episodes instead of list...

Launched LeaseSnipe this week. You upload a lease PDF and get a plain-English report in about 60 seconds: risky or unusual clauses flagged, real move-in costs broken down, and each flag checked against the landlord-tenant law of your state (all 50 + DC). The idea came from watching someone I know sign a lease with a security deposit at 2x the legal cap in her state. She found out afterward. The asymmetry bugged me. The landlord has a lawyer, the tenant has a PDF and 24 hours. Stack: TypeScri...

It really depends on the side hustle you are really working on like for example if you are trying to do freelancing the market is just really crowded with people for that you may start posting on tiktok or youtube about your video editing skills which will makeyou look more trust worthy among others and you are trying out saas its IMPORTANT that the product have a genuine interest in the customer market orelse you will not succeed with it probably if you are in here you should just start network...

I kept seeing claims about how crazy the card market is right now and realized nobody could actually answer “is the market up or down?” So I built an index the same way the S&P 500 works, price-weighted, divisor adjustments, membership updates daily, using TCGplayer market prices, with history back to Feb 2024. I’m hosting it for free as a passion project at https://poke500.com/ if anyone wants to take a look. The newsletter automatically sends out a weekly update as well every Friday if t...

Hi everyone! I recently launched Folivy, an iOS app I built to make plant identification feel like an ongoing discovery experience rather than a one-time scan. You can take a photo to identify a plant, save it to your personal herbarium, view your discoveries on a map, and explore nearby observations shared by other users. My goal is to help people gradually build their own plant collection and personal nature journal. I’d really appreciate honest feedback on the idea, user experience, and w...

After working as a 3D artist in the film and advertising industry for the last 17 years, I decided to give gamedev a go. I joined a random facebook group and I met an amazing programmer and together we started working after hours to produce videogames. It's been months and months of hard work after our actual jobs that are also hard work 😂 This is our 3rd attempt at it. It is a game called Skinator. It's a game where you can steal your enemy's body parts and install them into your own body. We...

I’ve been working on Prolo Ring, a wearable input device designed to control different types of devices without carrying a separate controller for each one. In this demo, I’m using the same ring across: Laptop Phone Tablet AI glasses VR headset A Tap + Hold switches control from one device to the next. Once connected, the ring can handle things like pointing and clicking, scrolling, media controls, page turning, teleprompter navigation, and VR interface control. The bigger ...

Hey everyone, I spend way too much time hunting for new tools, APIs, or data sources for my own projects. Here are 4 of the most interesting open-source repos that surfaced over the last few days that are actually great for solo builders: hasaneyldrm/exercises-dataset (HTML | ⭐ 13.7K): A massive dataset of 1,324 fitness exercises, including animation GIFs, muscle-group data, and instructions. If anyone here is sketching out a health, habit, or longevity tracking app, this is an absolute ...

For the past 10 years, we've experienced a massive improvement in translation technologies. We went from robotic-like translations to systems that not only understand the meaning of each word in a sen

Every fast-growing engineering team eventually hits the same wall. A developer needs a new staging environment, so they file a ticket. The platform team queues it. Two weeks later, the environment exi

PDF documents are frequently used to share invoices, contracts, reports, legal records, customer documents, financial statements, and internal business files. But before these documents are shared, th

Creating pop-ups and modals on your site can be a complicated process. And it often requires a lot of boilerplate code to get started. But the real challenge comes when you want to make that modal or

In this tutorial, I'll show you how to evaluate a local AI agent with a simple, repeatable evaluation harness. The harness runs the agent against a set of test cases, checks the results with both rule

Every application, at some point, has to deal with a fundamental challenge: something happens, and several other things need to react to it. A user logs in, and the app needs to save a token, cache th

In this tutorial, you'll build a production-ready PayPal payment service using NestJS microservices. Along the way, you'll learn how to isolate payment logic into its own service, communicate between

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Here's something that tends to surprise developers who are new to security: most web vulnerabilities aren't the result of sophisticated attacks. They come from code patterns that look completely reaso

Every engineering team has said it at least once: "It works on my machine." The phrase has become a running joke in software, but it's rarely funny when it happens in production. A feature passes ever

Today, diffusion models power some of the most impressive AI systems ever built. They generate photorealistic images, create videos, synthesize speech, design proteins, and increasingly influence fiel

A randomized A/B test is the cleanest form of product experiment available. The coin flip that splits users between the new prompt template and the control removes every possible confounder by constru

I was helping a team that had a 200-page API documentation PDF. Every new engineer spent their first two weeks Ctrl+F-ing through it, asking the same questions in Slack, getting redirected to the same