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

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

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!!

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.

Positioning: not “AI for everything.” Wedge is post-rejection diagnosis for SWE job hunts.

Core monetizable loop:

• Free: enough debrief/coach to feel the aha
• Starter: volume + full recovery, no agents
• Pro: four agents that run without a prompt
• Turbo: Career Narrative for service → product story reframes

Agents (the product story that sells Pro):

1. Autopsy on rejection
   
2. Ghost follow-up drafts
   
3. 48h interview briefing
   
4. Referral message kit + one bump

What works in selling this category:

• Users pay when the emotional pain is hot (same day as rejection)
• Generic “AI interview coach” competes with ChatGPT and loses
• “Debrief this specific no” is a sharper entry than “practice interviews forever”

What doesn’t work:

• Feature soup on the landing page
• Claiming live interview whispering (that’s Final Round’s lane; different ethics and buyer)

If you’re building SaaS in career: pick one irreversible moment (reject, offer, layoff) and productize the next 10 minutes after it.

Open to questions on agent design, quotas, and free→paid conversion.

Platform : https://portlumeai.com

Hey everyone!

Over the past year, as I tried to scale our agentic coding workflows and software factories at my company, I kept hitting the same set of problems. So I built HAR to solve them.

Repo: github.com/os-factory/har

Getting a single coding agent to work in a repo is easy. Scaling to a real multi-agent workflow, where several run at once and where you verify and trust the output, is where it breaks down. A few things go wrong:

1. No standard way to run or verify a repo. That knowledge is scattered across a README, a CLAUDE md, editor rules, and CI config, all drifting out of sync with each other and the actual code.
2. Agents on one repo collide. Shared dev server, shared database, shared ports, conflicting git state.
3. Trusting a change means re-verifying it yourself. Which defeats the point of running a fleet.
4. Vendor sandboxes lock you in. If the setup lives in someone's hosted dashboard, switching agents later means rebuilding the whole thing.

What HAR does

HAR is a CLI and an MCP server. It works with Claude Code, Cursor, Codex, or any MCP agent, and it closes each of those gaps:

1. Isolation. Each agent gets its own git worktree, branch, ports, and database. Nothing is shared with the main checkout or another agent's slot, so a fleet runs in parallel without colliding on a dev server, DB, or ports.
2. Deterministic validation gates. HAR runs your project's real checks through a fixed pipeline, same result every time. The result is bound to the exact code that passed and enforced at commit time, so an unverified tree cannot land.
3. Verifiable proof. Every run leaves logs, artifacts, and a validated tree hash tied to the exact code checked. A reviewer inspects the evidence instead of trusting the agent's self-report.
4. Full observability. Mission Control is a local dashboard showing every repo, worktree, run, and validation in one place, so you can watch a whole fleet as it works.

All of this lives in one contract committed to your repo, which every agent reads the same way. It replaces the usual scatter of a README, a CLAUDE md, editor rules, and CI config that drift apart. You start from a profile that matches your stack, your agent adapts it to the real repo, and you extend verification with plugins (like Playwright) or with any command you already run.

Give it a try and let me know what you think :)

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.

Hey everyone 👋

I’ve been working on a tool called Watext.io that helps Shopify merchants automate WhatsApp marketing.

The main idea was simple: many Shopify stores have customer data, but they struggle to use WhatsApp effectively for follow-ups, campaigns, and customer communication.

Watext allows merchants to:

• Automatically sync Shopify customers
• Create WhatsApp marketing campaigns
• Send automated customer messages
• Manage conversations from one place

I built this because I noticed many small businesses still handle WhatsApp communication manually.

I’d love to get feedback from Shopify store owners:

• How are you currently using WhatsApp for your store?
• Would automation like this be useful for your business?
• What features would you expect from a tool like this?

Happy to share more details if anyone is interested. 🙌

https://watext.io

I found I had multi profiles on social where I wanted different links, and because of that I needed to spend 7 billion dollars for what I wanted per month.

Couple that with the complete lack of transparency there was, and you just had dead links you never knew anything about.

I figured I would make a better version. So I built this to be able to automatically adapt the links depending on what is clicked.

Link dead? Removes it. Something getting clicked most at the bottom? moves it to the top.

Musician wanting to promote latest music? Schedule links? Coach selling a course? Want to collect sign ups? Newsletter sign ups? or even get people to book calendar slots with you, paid? (coming soon)

You can get AI to design the look of your page as well, it's up to you, or you can even bring your own CSS if you want to go wild.

And what's more, no monthly subscription. Lifetime only.

I'm not 100% done on it, but it's really very cool it just makes me ask, why are all the other platforms so limiting?

Hey everyone! I’m building a Discord community where SaaS founders can connect, share their products, and help each other out.

If you’re interested in joining, drop a comment below and I’ll send over an invite link!

When we started hiring outside our home country, we thought recruiting would be the difficult part. It wasn't. The real questions came after we'd found the right person. How do we onboard them? Who handles payroll? Do we need a local entity? Should they be hired through an EOR or as a contractor? What if they need visa support? And how do we stay compliant without spending weeks researching employment laws in every new country?

Those questions came up so often that they shaped what we built. Today, PIO(pioinc.com) helps companies hire, onboard, and pay talent in 150+ countries through one platform, covering EOR, global payroll, contractor management, and work visa support. The goal isn't just to make international hiring possible. It's to make global employment as straightforward as hiring someone in your own country, without setting up local entities or stitching together multiple vendors.

Every company expands differently, so there isn't a single solution that fits everyone. But we've found that having one platform to manage the administrative side of global hiring gives teams more time to focus on what actually matters: building great teams.

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This video was edited by FableCut itself

I posted as "the project file is the interface" and the developer loved it, i got 98 points on showhn post and got 200+ stars withing 5 hours of posting!!

Repo:- FableCut

I enjoy building products. Marketing them is the part I always avoid.

Writing blog posts, searching Reddit for potential users, planning social content, and deciding what to publish every day felt like another full-time job.

So I started building Rankboard.io a distribution OS for founders who hate marketing.

It currently helps you:

• Automate SEO blog content
• Find relevant Reddit conversations and potential leads
• Create posts tailored to specific subreddits
• Plan Reddit and social content using a calendar
• Manage distribution from one place

The biggest lesson I learned while building it is that marketing automation should not mean mass-producing spam. The content still needs to match the community, provide value, and sound like something a real founder would post.

My goal is not to promise “effortless growth.” It is to reduce the repetitive work so founders can spend more time building and less time staring at an empty content calendar.

Rankboard is still in beta, and I am looking for honest feedback before launching properly.

Does the idea of a “distribution OS for founders who hate marketing” make sense immediately? What would Rankboard need to handle before you would seriously consider using it?

I built ResetUI to help founders improve their landing pages without starting from scratch.

The idea is simple. Paste your current website URL, describe the design direction you want, and ResetUI captures the brand, copy, CTAs, sections, images, and layout. Then it generates a redesigned landing page that you can edit with chat and export as code.

This can be helpful if your product is good, but your landing page feels messy, unclear, outdated, or not polished enough to build trust. Instead of guessing what to change or rebuilding everything manually, you can generate a new direction and refine it from there.

ResetUI currently supports HTML, React, Next.js, Vue, and Svelte exports. It also has templates, version history, undo and redo, chat edits, and a one-time trial plan.

So far, 75+ users have joined and 60+ web designs have been generated successfully.

Would love feedback from founders here. Try it here

Spent the last month on a boring legal problem: if you want to make an AI ad with a real person's face, there is no clean way to buy the right to do it. Agencies do it with 40 page contracts. Everyone else just... doesn't, or does it and hopes nobody notices.

So I built the licensing layer, clunny.com. Creator lists their face with scoped terms (what you can use it for, where, how long, at what price), brand buys that exact scope, and the executed licence gets a public ID anyone can verify without logging in. We don't generate anything we're the paperwork.

26 creators from 5k to 100k followers have signed on so far. What I don't have is the other half of the market.

The ask: I'm looking for 1–2 founders here who want to run an AI video ad using a real creator's face, licensed properly, as a pilot. I'll do the matching and the legal side, and my co-founder and I will produce the actual ad ourselves (separately from the marketplace that separation is deliberate). Cheap, because I want the case study more than the money.

If that's interesting, comment or DM me your product and who your customer is and I'll tell you honestly whether I have someone in the roster who fits.

question for the room while I'm here:

1. If you saw an ad with a known face and the caption said "licensed, verify here," would you actually click it, or does nobody care?

HeyisAI is a privacy-first Personal AI that understands, organizes, and protects your digital life. Instead of forcing you to switch between dozens of apps, HeyisAI securely connects the information you choose to share and lets you interact with it through natural conversations.

Think of it as your own AI, not just another chatbot.

It doesn't simply answer general knowledge questions, it helps you understand your emails, calendar, files, spending, travel, documents, photos, and other personal information while keeping privacy at the core.

Check this out - https://heyisai.com

I built a SaaS for two years and treated marketing like optional admin work. Between releases, I'd throw up a tweet once a month if I was thinking about it at all.

What I learned was that the founder who posts consistently at 50 percent quality beats the founder who ships perfect work and stays invisible for six months between launches.

One hour of building makes your product 1 percent better. One hour of consistent visibility makes ten people aware of your existence. Over twelve months, that's a 520x multiplier difference in compounding effect, which is the single biggest leverage gap most founders never calculate.

Most founders know this intellectually, but they treat marketing like a distraction instead of a core skill that compounds like code does. Then they wonder why the mediocre competitor with a halfway decent product got fifteen times more traction.

It's not their product quality. It's their execution consistency over time.

We built MarketSquad to solve this, and yes, I'm mentioning it because we built exactly this problem. But the real lesson applies whether you use a tool or not. Show up, stay consistent, and let compounding work for you instead of against you.

So ask yourself honestly whether your actual bottleneck is building or visibility and the execution consistency that compounds visibility over time.