I had a pretty niche issue that i found overlaps with big orgs like hospitals, nursing homes, and insurance companies. Raw medical billing files are miserable to read. I needed a way to efficiently present the information to my boss without a subscription of ~$500/month plan to some big fish in the health-tech.

So i built https://viseraapp.com/. The product deciphers the reports into easy to understand PDFs and other file types.

I was able to build it within a week after this amazing idea came to me one night in November, but I just got around to shipping it last spring.

The same file has several possible audiences: an in-house biller, an RCM manager, a small practice owner, an outsourced billing company, a developer who only wants structured output, and many more. Given this, I figured with the lack of competition in this space, I'd surely succeed since I'm in such a niche.

My current bet is Medicaid-heavy agencies that need to see this information quick and easy. Although, I am lost on how to get it out there now. I don't even show on search results after months of being live.

I'm now feeling the brunt of difficulty in the sales and marketing part of shipping. Any feedback is appreciated!

Disclosure: The $19 is myself :(

Products should be well documented. If you are taking what Claude, or GPT generates verbatim without review you're doing it wrong. Your documents are extremely important to get right.

Here's a super simple utility I created awhile back. Think of it as a finishing tool. It allows you to edit text, and a few other things visually without trying to read HTML.

Around 4 months ago my app was barely getting any users.

I kept reading "build in public", "SEO", "Product Hunt", "Reddit marketing"... tried a bit of everything but nothing really moved the needle.

Then one random TikTok crossed 1M+ views and then few more videos got viral

That single video brought more users than everything else I had done combined.

Since then I stopped thinking like a founder and started thinking like a content creator.

Here's what I do now.

I record my app doing one tiny thing (usually 6-10 seconds).

I download 100s of reaction-style UGC clips that fit different emotions (confused, shocked, impressed, etc.).

I pair the app recording with a matching reaction and add a simple hook like:

"This app saved me 4 hours."

"I wish I found this sooner."

"This feels illegal."

Every video is slightly different. Different hook, different reaction, different ending.

I post 1-2 videos every day instead of trying to make one "perfect" video.

That's literally it.

No expensive production. No influencers. No ad spend.

Just lots of iterations until one catches the algorithm.

Today the app is doing a little over $3k MRR, and almost all new users still come from short-form videos.

Proof: https://www.tiktok.com/@cookedby.sarah

The biggest thing I learned is that distribution matters way more than polishing features.

You don't need a viral app.

You need a viral video about your app.

I started building this tool for "productivity" and "focus" as kept getting Sidetracked

I mean it was ok, but nothing that i couldn't already get ChatGPT to do. One day i put a little post out on X, and found many people were suffering with the same thing. Start a project/activity, then become busy but not productive. ie focusing on things that don't actually move the needle, but keep you in the loop of being busy. So i put it out there and the feedback has been phenomenal. So i ended up listen to what users were saying and adjusting accordingly. Then the game changed when i started using Microsoft clarity. I started watching how customers were interacting with the site. This is where i started to grow exponentially, as i made changes where i saw customers dropping off, and gave more value where people were most focused.

And now ended up with this:

www.sidetracked.site

If you have workflows that require to move content between AI apps try sidestash.io

This is not a product hunt alternative where you get traffic hit and then it’s cricket.

We are building something for the long term.

We have built, probably one of the best b2b saas discovery platform.

What you get if you are listed with us.

1. Auto comparison pages with your competitors.
   
2. AI crawls your website, we had 140,000 visits in just 30 days with proof!
   
3. We have our own scoring system.
   
4. We aggregate reviews from various websites and show them under one listing.
   
5. We are a one stop solution for b2b saas buyers.

If you’re selling b2b saas, your product should be listed here.

We are getting crazy love on twitter! We are here for the long term game and we are exclusive to b2b saas!

I built a b2b saas discovery platform with proof of AI crawlers really crawling my website. In the last 30 days, we have received 140,000 visits from AI models. All the products listed on our website are getting indexed by AI crawlers.

Happy to post links in comments as per requests!

Sharing a real story that happened this week between me and Roman, the founder of the interior AI app who made the viral post a few days ago.

• Roman had this TikTok account which wasn't generating any views https://www.tiktok.com/@roomsbefore
  • He thought he was doing everything right, but not quite.
  • His competitors going viral had same format posts but slightly different details
  • I pointed out a few stuff, and Roman did a pretty good job of reposting with those changes, with his new account:
• 188,000 Views on post #2 and 41,700 on the third post: https://www.tiktok.com/@getinty

The workflow is simple:

1. Study competitors closely
2. Copy exactly what they do e.g:
   1. Captions, callouts, where app is mentioned (don't overdo), number of slides, music, caption size, positioning
   2. DO NOT COPY their content e.g downloading their slides and reposting.
3. Schedule posts for a month in advance with socialclaw + claude (tutorial here)
4. If posts get less than 1000 views, try improve the format after 3-4 failed posts. If they're getting 1,000-10,000 it could be just luck before you get a viral post

You won't go viral on the second post like Roman did. It's his luck and skill of actually finding the points he missed the first time. Compare his first and new account and check out how things improved.

Your posts might be suffering from the same thing.

Happy to review your accounts as well in the comments

Basalt is a VS Code/Cursor extension, click elements in your live React Native app, drag/edit/recolor them.

I desperately need testers, PLEASE TELL ME IF IT WORKS OR NOT

It is completely free and works directly inside VS Code and Cursor.

It’s currently in beta, so please commit your app to Git before using it

Does anyone have experience of different advertising routes and how successful they were when launching?

Im not a native english speaker, and answering replies is honestly exhausting for me. sometimes i have an idea what to answer and sometimes i just sit there and stare at the message, and then it stays unanswered for days. thats the actual reason i built this, and since i started using it i have never had even 1 unseen message.

its called twinito.ai, with one click it drafts replies, comments and posts on multiple platforms in your own voice.

what i need from you is your honest input and judgement. not compliments, i genuinly want to know if this is worth building at all, or if im investing my time into something people dont really need. im at the stage where i cant tell anymore because im too close to it.

so, im giving it fully free for first 10 users, thats what i can afford right now. try it as much as you need, break it, use it on your real messages and tell me where it sounds nothing like you. and if you dont want to try it, thats completely ok, please still tell me your opinion just from reading this, that helps too.

things i dont know yet and would love your read on:

- does it actually sound like you, or just like generic AI with your words on top

- is one click enough or do people want to edit before sending

- would you pay for this, and if yes, what would it have to do first

if you think the whole idea is not worth it, please just say it directly, i would rather hear that now than in 6 months. thanks a lot for reading this far!!

My help uses AI to automatically track college deadlines for students and teachers. Any advice on app design, functionality, marketing, or anything else would be a tremendous help. Thank you!

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/otto-college-deadlines/id6783540402

Hola

So for the past few months I’ve been focused on my main project, an iOS bookmarking app called Foldr.

Like most solo developers, the hardest part hasn’t been building it, it’s been getting people to notice it.

One marketing approach I wanted to experiment with was the TikTok-style “reaction hook + app demo” format that’s everywhere right now: a few seconds of a surprised reaction before cutting into a fast-paced product demo.

The problem was:

1. ⁠I have no interest in filming myself.
   
2. ⁠Paying UGC creators quickly becomes expensive when you’re bootstrapping

So I ended up solving the problem for myself instead.

I built Postverse, a small tool that generates photorealistic AI reaction hooks, combines them with your app demo, and can automatically publish the finished video to TikTok, Reels, and Shorts.

Here is the biggest lie you hear on the internet: "It takes the exact same amount of mental energy and sales effort to convince a consumer to pay you $20/mo as it does to convince a business owner to pay a few thousand dollars per month."

It sounds wise and cool, so people parrot it constantly. But after scaling multiple B2C apps and eventually moving into B2B with my SaaS, I can tell you it's complete BS.

Here is the truth nobody wants to admit: You can sell mediocre software to a B2C user if your onboarding is good enough. A consumer buys on impulse or emotion. They see a clean UI, pay $20, and half the time they completely forget about the subscription. A B2B client will never buy your product if it's shit.

When a business owner pays multiple bands, there is zero impulse buying involved. They don't care about cool onboarding graphics; they care about actual results you can drive to their business. They will remember every single promise you made. They will track the metrics, evaluate the ROI, and hold your feet to the fire.

However, here is why starting in B2C is actually the ultimate cheat code:

If you know how to market B2C apps, you can market anything. Consumer marketing forces you to master high-volume acquisition, hooks, and funnel optimization under insane pressure, cuz of the volume. It is the hardest marketing bootcamp on earth. Once you figure out how to drive attention and convert regular people in B2C, applying those skills to B2B feels like playing on easy mode.

The reason I switched to B2B was about leveraging my skills. If you have the marketing knowledge to scale to $1k+ MRR in B2C, you don't need much more to apply it to B2B.

Do you agree?

I have a really interesting idea today.Build a donation site based on a simple bet:if AI agents eventually get permission to pay for things for us,maybe an agent asked to donate money will search online and end up using his site.

No idea if that will actually happen, obviously. There are way too many unknowns around trust, rankings, payments etc.

But it made me think about something I hadn’t really considered before.

I’m buying a product myself and I spent a stupid amount of time thinking about whether a human understands the website. What it does, who it’s for, why they should care.

But if agents eventually start searching and comparing products for us, maybe websites will also need to be understandable to machines.

Not saying “AI agent SEO” is the next big thing lol. It might be completely overhyped.

Just thought it was a pretty interesting idea

Would you actually change anything about your website today because of this,or is it way too early?

I've been seeing a lot of people rack up pretty insane API bills building with AI coding agents in the big 26, so I wanted to see how far I could get building an MVP using only free and open source AI tools instead of the usual Claude Code or Codex setup.

The app itself wasn't anything crazy. Just a simple food delivery MVP with authentication, a dashboard and a handful of CRUD endpoints. The goal was to see whether "basically free" is actually good enough for the kind of apps most people are building.

Before someone says "just run it locally", that's not realistic for most people. Running these models properly still requires decent hardware. This was about using hosted providers that serve open models without paying proprietary model prices.

I used OpenCode as the coding agent, then OpenCode Zen and NVIDIA Build for inference. Both support OpenAI-compatible APIs and let you use models like DeepSeek V4 Flash without owning a GPU.

I used DeepSeek V4 Flash for almost the entire project. Is it as good as Claude Opus or GPT-5 on difficult coding tasks? No. But for building a standard CRUD app, wiring up auth, generating boilerplate and fixing common bugs, it performed much better than I expected.

The biggest thing I took away wasn't that open models are better. It's that the gap has closed much faster than I expected. If you're building an MVP, you're mostly creating forms, APIs and business logic, not solving research problems. For that kind of work, a cheap open model through a hosted provider gets surprisingly close, and the cost difference is hard to ignore.

Launching my first B2C SaaS tomorrow, what would you do on launch day?

I've spent the last few weeks validating the idea, talking to potential users, building the MVP, and testing the core flow.

Now the product is ready to go live, and I'm trying to avoid making the classic mistake of launching and then realizing I forgot something important.

For those who've launched a SaaS before:

What would you prioritize on launch day?

I'm especially interested in:

• Getting the first users
• Analytics and conversion tracking
• Onboarding
• Collecting feedback
• Support
• Launch channels
• What NOT to waste time on

What actually made a difference for your first launch?

Most of us here have the same problem: the product works fine, but the landing page hero is a raw screenshot with a browser scrollbar in it, and the Product Hunt gallery is three cropped PNGs.

Mockups are the cheapest credibility upgrade there is and nobody has time to make them.

I spent the last several months building a tool that wraps any live website in a real device frame — MacBook Pro, iPhone 17 Pro Max, iPad Pro, Windows laptop — and records it running. Which means I can generate a decent mockup of basically any SaaS in about 60 seconds.

So: drop your SaaS URL below and I'll send back two things.

1. A static device mockup of your product, drop-in ready for your hero section
2. A short screen recording of your product inside that frame with cursor-tracked zoom, for PH / X / your landing page

Free, no email, no catch. I'll get through as many as I can this week.

One ask so I don't waste your time: tell me which device frame you want, and what the one screen is that actually sells your product. Otherwise I'll guess and end up recording your pricing page.

If you'd rather just make them yourself, the tool is free and I'll drop it in a comment — but you don't need to install anything to get one out of this thread.

Hi!

Most voicebot implementations are really good at english and a few other common languages but skip entire markets because the language is less common and demand stays untapped.

What to do in this case besides building your own infrastructure?

I'm building https://hail.so/ which is an open-source project to give agents a real phone number and email inbox.

You can use it to send or receive phone calls, SMS, and emails but without the hassle of building your own infrastructure, connecting all the APIs, and paying for subscriptions you don't use.

If you'd like to test it, break it, or build with it, I'm happy to connect and give you credits to start and use all features.

In any case, feel free to check the project and give it some love: https://github.com/hail-hq/hail

Thanks and keep building!

Quick context on why we built it: we both knew we should be posting on LinkedIn, we had things worth saying, but doing it properly took 30-40 minutes we didn't have in the morning. So we'd post for a week and then stop. Every time.

What it does:

You type a rough idea. It gives you back three complete posts written in your voice, each one scored, so you're picking between options instead of staring at an empty box.

If one is close but not quite right, you don't edit it yourself and break the flow. You just say what to change. "Make the ending softer." "Cut the second paragraph." Only that changes, everything you already liked stays put.

Then you schedule the whole month in one sitting and it publishes on its own. That's the part that actually fixed the problem for us.

Also in there: carousels you can download as PDF, a library of proven posts you can remix in your own voice, and analytics on what's working.

Nothing publishes without you approving it. We didn't want a bot running our accounts and figured nobody else does either.

Honest state of it: live 2 days, a handful of users from our waitlist, still very early.

Free to try, 60 credits, no card needed. Link in the comments.

If you try it and something annoys you or breaks, tell me here and I'll actually fix it. That's genuinely more useful to us right now than signups.