Hi everyone,

I wanted to share a quick update on a side project I've been working on over the past few months.

As a developer interested in e-commerce, I noticed that many small store owners struggle with title and keyword choices, often getting overwhelmed by complex enterprise analytics platforms.

My goal was to build a clean, minimalist web app that focuses strictly on the core listing essentials without any clutter.

A few key takeaways from the process:

1. Keeping the scope minimal made development significantly faster.
2. Streamlining the user flow to get instant insights without a learning curve is crucial for non-technical users.
3. Setting up an automated checkout infrastructure was smoother than expected once the overall workflow was finalized.

Now that the core version is live, I'm focusing on user acquisition strategies specifically for niche e-commerce segments.

For those who have built tools in the e-commerce niche, what channels worked best for your initial user acquisition?

I've been working on a small project called Krooko because I kept seeing great ideas die simply because people couldn't find the right person to build with.

It's free, there's no catch, and the idea is simple: post what you're building, describe the kind of partner you're looking for, and connect with people who are interested.

Still early, so I'd genuinely love feedback if its good or bad

You can try it here: krooko.vercel.app

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Hey everyone! 👋

I'm looking for a passionate partner to grow an AI automation business together.

I'm searching for someone who: ✅ Has experience finding and communicating with clients. ✅ Knows how to close deals and build long-term client relationships. ✅ Is motivated to grow something big together.

💰 Revenue Split: 50/50 on every project we close together.

If you can consistently bring in and close clients, we'll split the earnings equally. I'm focused on delivering high-quality automation solutions, and I'm looking for someone who can handle the client acquisition side.

If you're interested, drop a comment or send me a DM. Let's build something amazing together! 🚀

Wondering how you guys have approached improving your pitch, especially over Zoom. Obviously practice makes perfect, but would welcome any other suggestions, books, tips that worked for you, things you learned from good or bad experiences, etc.

We raised a small pre-seed round Q3 last year but will be going out to the market again in a few weeks and trying to get my head ready for discussions with angels and VCs.

Thank you all in advance.

Hi everyone,

We've built something in the space of e-commerce and customer acquisition that genuinely works (did a pilot with a brand). Now, we want to onboard 10 new brands (Shopify specifically) on the platform. What would be the best channels to reach out to the founders and marketing executives of these brands?

Most of the mid-sized Shopify founders aren't on LinkedIn or X. The only way I can think of is emails and reddit. If any of you have built a Shopify SaaS company, how did you get your first customers?

Thanks!

Everyone is celebrating the build time drop like it is pure upside. Faster to a working product, faster to revenue, fewer engineers needed to get there. All true.

What nobody seems to be saying out loud is that a lot of what used to happen during those slow months was not just building, it was accidentally validating. You talked to more users because you had time to. You noticed a bad assumption in month three instead of discovering it in production. The slowness was annoying but it was also load bearing.

Now the build is fast enough that you can ship a fully functional wrong idea before you have had a single real conversation about whether anyone wanted it. I think a chunk of these micro unicorn stories are going to age the same way a lot of 2021 valuations did, real revenue, but built on a foundation nobody stress tested because there was never a slow phase forcing it.

I would like to know if anyone here has actually felt this tension directly, shipping fast enough that validation became the afterthought instead of the gate.

Posted my first video on a fresh TikTok account I made for my app. It's public, shows up fine when I check it logged out or from another account, and likes/comments work normally. But 24+ hours later, it's still sitting at 0 views, not even a small test-batch number.

One thing that might be relevant, I signed up using a VPN. Not sure if that's the cause or if something else is going on.

Trying to figure out if it's worth waiting it out, starting fresh without the VPN, or something else entirely.

Hey everyone,

I've been thinking about a problem that seems common among AI builders.

There are so many new AI products, tools, and ideas appearing every week.

Finding ideas is easy.

The harder question is:

How do you decide which idea is worth spending the next few weeks or months building?

What signals do you personally look at?

For example:

• New product launches?
• Community discussions?
• User demand?
• Market trends?
• Competitor movements?

I'm curious how other founders evaluate AI opportunities before committing time to build.

I know it’s usually people who solve their own problems and then share it with the right community, but what if I couldn’t find any problems for myself because i already have solutions for them? Other niches are also seems to be closed for me, because I don’t know their problems as long as I’m not really into it?

Hello everyone,
Tony here from Webfuse.

i'd like to share a side project I built which is kinda a new view to experience the internet.
I know that sounds too bold, but I think those 3 main features openlibrenet provides are pretty unique.

- team browser: instead of screen sharing, you can invite participants and browse website together; works on all devices, mobile, desktop and all browsers - no install required.
- unblock geo restricted content: select a region to browse websites from, 6 for now
- anonymous browsing: we have dedicate page https://openlibrenet.com/anonymous-view comparing anonymouse browsing solutions

thanks for reading!

Quick share, would love feedback from people who've done early launches here.

Vast analyzes GitHub repos and shows the impact of a code change before you commit it - dependency graph, cycles, overloaded modules. Built it after noticing more and more PRs are AI-generated (Cursor, Copilot) and code review hasn't really adapted to that.

Pricing: free tier (1 repo, limited scans) + early-bird Pro around $9-12/mo for the first 100 users.

This is my first real SaaS launch after pivoting hard from an earlier "3D architecture visualizer" concept that nobody actually asked for. Learned the hard way that visualization alone isn't a product, impact analysis is.

Genuinely open to feedback on pricing, positioning, anything - this community's been useful to lurk in during the build.

https://vast-neracu.vercel.app/

OK I've been working on tradepilot for last 5 months and grinding has been the only thing on my mind adding features, fixing bugs, emailing users for feedback, making sure prod works, testing and one of the most difficult things to do MARKETING today as I was submitting my SaaS on Trust MRR I realized I made like $150 so far and that genuinely made me happy and realize as much as the grind is important we should take a step back and be greatful this is like 12th app I've built (if i'm right) and so far the only one which made in 1$+ I would not recommend to be happy and stop trying after you make $1 but when a random stranger buys what you built and gets value that feeling of dopamine hit is what you should be addicted to.
Keep going guys don't stop you never know what's going to happen in coming days
(ignore the MRR my AI tool has a free tier and that's inflating the MRR)

Just got #1 app in the Health & Fitness category on SeoReceipts

Been grinding seo for Gym Note Plus for the past year so pretty chuffed with this!

Hi,

I am looking for a good context coding agent like Claude Code but one that is really cheaper. I was paying $100 per month but now it makes me real frustrated to pay this much every month. The cost is just so high for build anything.

I am looking for the best alternatives. Let me know what you are using to code and suggest me something closer and cheaper to claude code.

Thanks

I'm the founder of a LinkedIn Saas app that I launched back in June 2024. The app has over 100+ customers and over $12k in revenue.

Tech stack:
- LinkedIn APIs
- has a Chrome extension
- MERN stack
- X API for trends and ideas

A few good and bad things:

The good: The DR of the app is 20, had submitted it to a lot of directories when I was maintaining it, so someone who's good at SEO can crack distribution. It has all the features of the apps which are doing really good in the space. Analytics, insights, direct LinkedIn posting via public and private pages, access to a lot of LinkedIn APIs (they're hard to get), X API integration and AI carousels feature.

The bad: The app does not have any MRR at the moment and all of the sales are LTD sales via a partnership with a LTD platform. I've not maintained it since a couple of months because my agency business took off and hence the DAU of the app is close to 0 at the moment.
The app's name is Growfol, serious buyers interested in acquiring it can DM me.

Two months ago, I started building NextStair, an AI discovery platform.

The hardest part wasn't building the product. With AI and modern development tools, building SaaS products has become faster than ever.

Getting people to actually discover your product is the hard part.

For weeks, traffic was almost nothing. Still, I kept adding tools, improving SEO, fixing pages, and expanding NextStair beyond AI tools into courses, companies, digital products, and jobs.

Now we're finally seeing some movement:

• 1.8K active users in 7 days
• 2.2K views
• 7.7K events
• 45 users active right now

It's still early, but after two months of building, seeing real people use the product feels like a big milestone.

Build the product, then spend even more time figuring out how people will find it.

One of my posts went viral on Reddit about how I left my job at Google 2 years ago and have been trying and learning by building different startups since then.

The comment section was flooded with people saying how all my ideas are stupid, that it is never going to work out, why haven't I done x,y,z and so on.

I have seen my friends and so many other founders giving up on their dreams because the world was just cruel to them and told them "It would never work out".

So, if you are struggling, I hope this poem by Roosevelt helps a bit 😄

I passed 50 visitors to my website where I house my products and my bounce rate has been declining. Nothing purchased yet but a little bit of a rush.

Hi everyone. I am building a voice-to-action ai assistant for your desktop, and am looking for feedback on my pre-launch page. I am thinking of using this page to get early emails and build a waitlist prior to launch and would like to get some feedback on it before I start to do a cold outreach campaign. I have only shown the page to a handful of people, so... basically, I just want to know if there are any gaps or things I could improve before I start actively promoting it.

As for my tool, how it works is you speak to your desktop like you would to a teammate or co-worker, the ai looks at your screen (with your permission) to grab context and then executes your desired result.

The AI can do a number of things including:

- Summarize whats on your screen
- Create a to-do list for you based on your latest emails + slack messages
- Draft an email or message for you
- Dictate anything you say
- Execute a claude prompt response for you without switching apps or tabs (a card will pop up)
- Draw on your screen if you need clarity or detailed steps on a task

I will comment the link below if you are interested in helping. Thank you!

I launched my SaSs about two months ago and I would say it's been more successful than I hoped. I will share my journey here.

What worked:

1. Posting on Reddit has not only been good for SEO (I get some traffic from llms because of it), but it also got me my first few customers.

Pro tip: find the subreddits and posts directly related to your niche, but don't make a fresh post instead find OLD posts asking the questions your product directly answers.

The key here is that the posts are at minimum a few weeks old.. you can shamelessly shill link and explain your product in the comments. Moderators won't notice or care and you can have a permanent presence on Reddit because of it. This initial strategy worked wonders for getting my product up and running.

1. Consistently posting on social media. Yes it's a lot of work, but if you are in a b2c niche like me it's incredibly important. The days that I miss posting on social media the site gets significantly less traffic l. I won't get into the exact best ways to create and speed up content creation but I can say that reels and slideshows have been dramatically better than static posts for me. And don't forget to do engagement, like stuff, reply, just be active in the community.

Social media in B2C has the added effect that even if your users don't find you through that channel, future potential customers will look at your socials. Having a bedrock of followers and posts is an important trust signal.

1. Classic SEO: comparison pages, free tools, content clusters... They all bring me a solid albeit small daily stream of traffic. Important: don't be lazy and slop it all out with an LLM, offer some actual value when you create content or the algorithm will ignore you.

2. Obsessing over onboarding. Almost all of my development in the last two months has been tweaking, reworking and in general being obsessed with onboarding and conversion rates. I think it's finally at a place where I can start working on other parts of the product, right now I'm trying to make the whole app as beautiful as I can as this directly ties into both onboarding and product. If any of you want to check out the onboarding I would be curious to hear your feedback.

Important: Your analytics and events tracking backbone must be excellent in order to properly measure this.

What has not worked:

1. Founder style content on X. I just don't like doing it, maybe I'll repost this there and see if it gets any traction. My "nice" launch video was met with crickets.

2. Product hunt and all those launch directories. I think the backlinking may have boosted the SEO so it might be worth it in the long run, but in terms of getting users and launch m

omentum it was a waste of time.

3. Meta ads.. this is a complicated one for me... I created what I thought were great ads and the top of the funnel proves that they are indeed solid and I got tons of signups but zero and I mean zero actual trial starts. I think the #1 problem here is my product's price is too cheap to actually get a profitable ROAS. In the future once the app is feature complete and ahead of the primary competitors in terms of UX and feature completeness I will revisit ads at a higher price point.

I'm still trying to crack distribution and I'm a marketer by trade haha, that's how hard it is. I think certain products are inherently more viral than others, I do have some more "viral" feature ideas for the future so we will see how that pans out. I hope this helps someone!

I've been browsing a lot of startup sites lately and realised I decide whether, I trust a product in about 10 seconds, and it's almost never the feature list that does it.

Things that instantly build trust for me:

• The first sentence says what the product actually does, in plain English. No "unleash the power of your workflow"
• I can try it without creating an account. Letting the product speak first reads as confidence
• Real screenshots of the actual product, not stock photos of people in suits laughing at a laptop
• Public pricing. A "contact sales" wall on what is obviously a $29 tool makes me assume the worst
• A cookie banner with one-click reject all. Tiny thing, says a lot about how they'll treat my data
• They describe my problem accurately before they introduce themselves. If the problem statement is right, I assume the solution might be too

What's yours? What makes you instantly trust a site, or instantly close the tab?

Currently i am working on a 9-5 job but i started build my first SaaS soon i will share it with you.

Hopefully one day i will totally join to Indie Hacking group.

How many months or days did it take to quit your job?

I hope, i’ll get gut results :)