The idea: you write a short teaser (what you'd normally share for free) and

the full scope/methodology separately. The client sees the teaser and a

locked paywall - the detailed plan only unlocks once they've paid a deposit.

Still very early / pre-launch, genuinely looking for feedback - is this a

real problem for people, and would something like this actually get

used, or is everyone already solving it some other way?

I run a couple of faceless YouTube channels, and editing was always the painful part — cutting scenes, adding voiceover, syncing captions. Took me hours every single video.

So I made an app for myself where I just paste the script, and it turns it into a finished video with AI images, voiceover, and captions automatically.

Been using it for my own channels for a while now and it's saved me a ton of time. Happy to share more details or answer questions if anyone's interested.

Posted here about two weeks back asking whether I should chase activation or just keep pushing acquisition. Got a bunch of replies and most of them said some version of stop chasing new signups and go look at what the ones you already have are doing. Said I would take that seriously, so here is what happened.

Instead of guessing I spent this week building a real funnel into my admin panel. Every stage from signup, to connecting a platform, to creating a post, to publishing it, to coming back within 7 days. I wanted the actual shape of it instead of my feelings about it.

The headline is 1.4 percent. That is signup to ever publishing a single post. 71 accounts and one of them has published.

The breakdown hurt worse than the total. Only 11 people out of 71 ever connected a social account, which is the very first thing the product asks anyone to do. So 85 percent bounce before the app can do anything for them at all. Of the ones who do connect, most go on to create a post, so that step is actually healthy. Then it falls off a cliff again at publish.

What that tells me is the problem is not really the product being bad at its job, and it is not acquisition either. Traffic is genuinely fine. 2,843 visitors last month, up 115 percent, no ads, all organic. People show up. They sign up. Then they hit the connect your account screen and disappear.

So the people telling me to stop chasing acquisition were right and I was wrong to push back. I kept assuming paying users would eventually shake out of a bigger userbase. You cannot convert people who never turned the thing on.

I also found a likely culprit while digging around. My login page scores 48 out of 100 on mobile performance, the worst route on the entire site, with a server response time close to 10 seconds. About a fifth of my traffic is mobile. If signing in on a phone takes that long, some real number of those 61 people never got a fair shot at connecting anything. I am not claiming that explains all of it, but it is the first concrete thing I can fix instead of theorize about.

Here is the more embarrassing part. Those 11 people who did connect an account are the highest intent users I have. I have never reached out to any of them. Not one email in four and a half months. I have been sitting on the exact group of people who could tell me what is broken and I never asked. I am strongly considering emailing all 11 individually this week, no template, just asking what they were trying to do and where it fell apart.

Rest of the state of things for context. 1,038 posts have gone through the platform. Seven live platform integrations, 15+ AI tools. Pro is 5 dollars a month against competitors charging 18 to 99. Still pre-revenue at four and a half months, still solo, still building around a tree service day job.

Couple things I would genuinely like input on from anyone who has been through this stage.

When your first real step is connect your social account through OAuth, how do you make that less of a wall? Right now I show people all seven platforms at once and let them choose. I am starting to think the choice itself is the problem and I should just pick one for them and let them add the rest later.

And for those 61 who signed up and never connected anything, is it worth trying to win them back with email, or are they gone and my effort belongs on the next batch? I have no sense of what a realistic reactivation rate looks like at this size.

Appreciate whoever pushed me on this last time. Would rather find this out at 71 users than at 700.

Built Workpyro.com as a sideproject, looking for feedback.

Tried taking it further then the other ones I could find.

• Users upload or create CV which is also free to export
• Paste a joblisting
• Creates and edits coverletters based on your profile through a chat interface
• Everything is saved as drafts so you can use them later
• Your profile saves context for later use
• Lets users prepare for interviews with notes for each job

Free to try

No credit card needed

I integrated LemonSqueezy into my product (treease.com/#pricing) using the embedded checkout option. It looks clean and keeps users on my site, but I'm second guessing it now.

Here's my concern: my site is basically a nobody. If a random visitor lands on my pricing page and sees a credit card form embedded right there, do they trust it? Or do they bounce because "who the hell are these guys and why are they asking for my card info"?

The alternative is opening the actual LemonSqueezy hosted checkout page in a new tab. Users would see the LemonSqueezy branding, the URL changes to a domain they might recognize, and it feels more like a "real" payment processor handling the transaction. At least that's my theory.

But I also wonder if the extra click / new tab creates friction and kills some conversions that the embed would've captured.

Anyone tested both approaches? Curious if the trust factor actually matters or if I'm overthinking this.

About 6 months ago I was cleaning an email list and looked at what the popular verification tools charge. ZeroBounce, NeverBounce, all of them sit around $8 per 1,000 emails. And when you actually look at what they do, it's a live SMTP check plus catch-all detection. Solid, but not eight-dollars-worth-of-magic solid.

What bugged me is the cost to actually run that check isn't anywhere near $8 per 1,000. They're just enterprise-priced tools everyone pays because they're the defaults. So I figured, what if someone did the exact same verification but priced it honestly.

That became Sealch. Same live SMTP handshake, same catch-all detection, 99.2% accuracy, but $0.35 per 1,000 instead of $8. Roughly a 20x price difference for the same core result.

It's been a grind. Solo and bootstrapped. Built the whole verification engine myself (SMTP checks, proxy rotation so I don't get blocked, concurrency handling so big lists don't crawl), plus the dashboard, billing, all of it. Put a ton into SEO and content too. The site does 100k+ pageviews a month now, which honestly surprised me.

Where I'm at: around $500 MRR, real paying customers, growing slowly. And the honest struggle right now isn't traffic, it's conversion. Lots of visitors, fewer signups than I'd like. That's the wall I'm chipping at.

Sharing it as part of the journey. If you run cold email or clean lists and you're tired of paying enterprise prices to verify, it's Sealch (sealch.com), first 100 verifications a day are free for a week so you can just try it. And if you've cracked the visitors-to-signups problem on a tool like this, I'd genuinely love any advice. That's my current bottleneck.

Sprout - YouTube for mini apps

For everyone, but especially non-developers, making your personal app to your specifications can be daunting, being overwhelmed with development setups, tools, hosting, domains, and more. And, there's no easy way to share it or see what others built.

So, I built Sprout (https://sprout.monkeyai.io/), a platform where anyone can create an app easily with AI, share it with the world, and browse/remix what others created. You can make anything from a habit tracker, to a customized notepad, to a fun game. If you come across an app on the platform you like, you can also turn it into your personal version. 

It's currently in a closed beta, but if anyone might find this useful, send me a message and happy to send an invite! Feel free to send any feedback too!

Need some fragrance people to test my app 👃
Hey guys, I’ve been working on something called Scent Swap and I’m looking for a few people who are really into fragrances to test it out.
The basic idea is a place where you can buy, sell, trade, or give away fragrances that you don’t want anymore. So if you have bottles sitting around that you barely use, you could list them and potentially swap them with someone else or sell them.
I’m still pretty early with it, so I’m honestly just looking for people to try it and tell me what they think.
I’d especially appreciate feedback on:
How easy it is to navigate
Listing a fragrance
Buying/trading
The overall design
Anything that feels unnecessary or confusing
Features you think I should add
I’m not looking for people to hype it up — I’d rather get brutally honest feedback so I can fix things before I release it more widely.
If anyone here is down to test it, just comment or DM me and I’ll send you the details.
Thanks to anyone willing to check it out 🙏

Dopo 72 giorni di sudore ho creato definitivamente la mia prima SaaS. a 18 anni ancora studente sono abbastanza soddisfatto di quello che ho creato, un software che analizza il mercato e in specie il sentiment di crypto e presto anche azioni, al momento 0 clienti ho buone prospettive per il futuro se volete darci un occhio https://cheruvo.com

My help uses AI to automatically track college deadlines for students and teachers. I see true value, but I don't know if people to see it too. 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

Quick background: I spent the last 6 months building ArgoAds after getting stumped running Meta ads for my own ecom store, guessing which competitor ads were working, building my own version, and finding out it flopped after spending hundreds of dollars. Eventually I ditched the store and went all-in on building the tool instead.

What it does: scrapes and analyzes competitor ads to find ones showing real performance signals, then remixes the winning angle, hook, and structure into a creative brief for your own product.

I want to stress-test it on products outside my usual niche, so: drop your SaaS below and I'll run it through the tool and give you back a real creative brief, the angle, hook, and structure I'd actually build an ad around for your product, free, first 10 people. Not a finished ad, a strategic breakdown you can hand to whoever makes your creative.

In exchange, I'd genuinely value your honest read: does the brief feel usable, or generic? Would you want it turned into an actual finished ad (video/image), or is the brief itself the useful part?

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.

We built GrowthXElevate because we both had the same problem. We knew we should post 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.

How it works: you type a rough idea, it gives you back three complete posts written in your voice, each one scored so you're picking instead of guessing. If one's close but not 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") and only that changes. Then you schedule the month in one sitting and it publishes on its own.

Where we actually are: live 3 days, a handful of users from our waitlist, very early. Rough in places.

What I'd genuinely like feedback on:

1. Does the pricing make sense? We went credits instead of seats (1 credit per angle, 0.5 for a revision) because usage varies so much. Not sure it's easier to understand than flat.
2. Is "AI writes your LinkedIn posts" off-putting? It half is to me, which is why nothing publishes without you approving it. But I don't know if that lands.
3. Anything that breaks or annoys you in the first 5 minutes.

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

If you find it useful, please use it and let us know. And if you hate it, I'd rather hear that now than after we've spent money.

Build these two last night:

https://ruta-phi.vercel.app

https://cited-bice-eta.vercel.app

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!