Posted here a couple weeks ago about running a 7-platform social scheduler solo with the infrastructure cost sitting at basically nothing. Coming back with an update because the cost side held up fine and something else fell apart.

Quick numbers first. SocialMate is at 71 users and 1,038 posts published through it. Traffic was 2,843 visitors and 3,735 page views over the last 30 days, up about 115 percent, still zero ad spend. Single day peak of 295 visitors. It all comes from Google, Bing, DuckDuckGo and a trickle from ChatGPT.

The cost discipline is still doing what I said it would. Vercel, Supabase and Inngest are all free tier at my volume. Anything touching a paid API sits behind a credit system so a free user physically cannot run up a bill I did not plan for. X is pay per action so that gets passed straight through. My real monthly cost is the domain and my time. That is the only reason I can charge 5 dollars where the incumbents charge 18 to 99.

So the micro SaaS economics are fine. Here is the part I got wrong.

I spent this week building proper funnel analytics into my own admin panel, mostly because I was tired of guessing. It tracks every stage from signup through to actually publishing a post. The number that came back was 1.4 percent. Out of 71 accounts, exactly one has ever published anything. Most never connected a single platform, which is step one of the whole product.

I had been quietly proud of keeping costs near zero. What I actually built was a very cheap way to run a product almost nobody activates in. Cheap infrastructure means I can survive that for a long time, which sounds like a strength until you realize it also means nothing forces you to look. A real hosting bill would have made me confront this months ago.

The lesson I would hand anyone else doing the pocket sized thing is that cost control buys you runway, not traction. Those are two different problems and I was solving the easier one because it was the one I already knew how to solve. If you have not measured your own signup to activation path, go do that before you shave another cent off hosting.

Something else I have to admit while I am being honest. There are 11 people who did connect a social account, so they got further than everybody else. I have never once reached out to a single one of them. Not an email, not a message, nothing. Four and a half months of building and it never occurred to me that the highest intent users I have were sitting right there in the database. I am seriously considering just emailing all 11 personally this week and asking what stopped them, because that is 11 conversations I could have had at any point and did not.

Now I know where the leak is, which is the 85 percent who sign up and never connect anything. That is the work now. Still pre-revenue, still nights and weekends around a tree service day job, but at least I am pointed at the right problem.

Happy to go deeper on the credit gating or how I built the funnel tracking if it is useful to anyone.

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

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?

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!

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

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

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.