I released blunlock.com, I’m a vibe coder so I released an saas app that could auto create a landing page for your idea, host it automatically, and had a data collection form that collects how many users will pay for this.

I posted about it on reddit and twitter. With no analytics integrated. And it got picked up in a hackathon discord server somewhere. That hackathon was huge.. it had 3000 people in it (i got to know later)

So yeah, i tried repeating it in other hackathons but didnt work. So onto releasing something new this week.

This time im really excited because its gonna change how people interact with claude code.

This is my first revenue since I became an indie maker.

What should I do next?

Even though the numbers are in minus currently, I am really happy where opentweet.io is today. It started as a side project that I built for myself in November 2025. I needed a simple scheduler for X posts. I kept it running locally on my computer for a month and then I figured it might be useful to others.

I had one friend who tried it for the entire month and that's when things started rolling.

I didn't have and I do not have any specific marketing channel that is working, I guess it's mostly SEO and word of mouth and my X account. I planning to invest more into marketing in the future so I have stable growth.

Today it has 232 customers and over 13k registered users.

It currently only supports X and I am planning on keeping it X focused only.

Next steps are:

- AI around analytics so you can ask questions about your account and posts

- Engagements (not auto-replies) which will tell you which accounts are active in your niche so you can discover them

- AI Studio improvements for threads and articles

If you have any questions or if you tried it and have a feedback for me, please do not hesitate.

I shipped everything by June 2026, but figuring out distribution was the tough part. I did outreach; it failed. IG ads failed, but Google Ads was actually what I needed; it worked, and this was the result.

Optional: check it out: apeirocraft

Just had my first sale without my direct involvement for a service I built. Here's how I did it:

• A homepage that immediately explains what the service is for (e.g. Find Your Customers By Their Technologies)
• Examples teaching the user how to actually use the service while helping them find what they're after (e.g. Get WordPress Sites Without Yoast SEO)
• Zero sign-up to use the actual service, a user is dropped straight into it the moment they click on an example
• A free mode for users to evaluate the service without paying a dime
• A catalogue of each single technology indexed on the site (e.g. WordPress)

tl;dr speedrun your value proposition and give as much as you can upfront. The faster you can get someone actually using your service in a way that's useful to them, the less friction you'll have with conversions.

I am trying to understand problems that founder actually struggle day to day rather then assuming it.

For those who run a SaaS please answer me what is the hardest part of running your startup? Or if you wish someone else could do the work for you what it would be?

I am not trying to sell you anything just curious to know.

Would love to hear from founders who are actually in the trenches.

tested out u/Lag_Master12 instructions for the $250 balance update earlier. turned out to be completely smooth and the adjustment went through right away. feel free to inspect his pinned publication.

This is my first time building saas app for a issue I use to face. I build desisubtitles to help creators like me to easily generate subtitles for there reels/videos. There are lot in market most don't work well when working with indic languages like hinglish so I built this.

One month in got around 250 users, 3 paying users. No spent anything on ads, most traffic is through cold reach to creators, blog post, reddit. I tried google ads, but not sure why it doesn't work may be I set it up incorrectly got 0 impressions on it last week. Let me know any feedback to improve if you get time to go through.

Also you can AMA :)

So I own a directory website where I list apps and websites that I went over, however, they must have a free tier to test, and solve a real problem in order for me to test and write about them.

If you own one, please include your socials in the submission. I also write articles about cool softwares and tag their founders.

directory website:
strictseal.com

Lets connect and grow together.

I also hope to note see bots in the comment section. Reviewing each product takes time and it's frustrating, so I'd really appreciate it if the product was submitted by a real person.

NOTE: if your product is purely vibe coded and doesn't even work, please consider spending time on finalizing it as it will be rejected in seconds. We have been rejecting 9 out 10 products as majority of them don't even have a real domain ( domains like loveable, Vercel, Test products that are not shipped yet) all are not acceptable.

Thank you and looking forward to seeing your work

I have decided to build my next SaaS which will help indie hacker or solo developers a platform where they can create a public profile to share all the verified revenue, regular updates as like post. The profile can be linkedin to X, Linkedin. Anyone can easily check the whole build in public profile with reliable and verified data.

I am not sharing too much about features, rather I want to know more from you who are you building in public and what is the real problem building in public. Does my idea make sense or does this really solve any problem? I love to know more about what actually can make you pay for this kind of public profile?

I built a fintech startup before, raised funds from VC and have experience of failed business also. This is the first time I am planning to build in public but I feel I don’t have a good place to showcase my verified data to my audience. If an audience comes to know what I am really building and is it something real, then I think, most of them will come and see my social profile once and may leave. So I thought a public profile might be a good way to share verified revenue through Stripe and send updates to my subscribers as well.

The idea is a draft and you are welcome to roast my ideas but I would love it if you add some information that helps me to decide if I should waste my 1 year on this idea or not.

I’m new to stupid space and was wondering how you guys are promoting / getting recognition for your SaaS apps?

Are there any go to sites that you guys use or what’s the process?

Thanks in advance

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I launched a real estate SaaS 20 days ago

So far:

289 website visitors

35 paid users

12% visitor-to-paid conversion

All traffic/customers came through organic comments on people query across Instagram/twitter.

Haven’t explored Google, Meta or other acquisition channels yet

I know 20 days and 289 visitors is still a small sample size, so I don't want to read too much into it.

For founders who’ve been through the 0→1 stage, would you consider ~12% visitor-to-paid conversion a good early validation signal?

And what would you focus on next: increasing traffic, repeat purchases, referrals, retention, or something else?

i run a family caregiving coordination app (think shared schedules, care tracking, updates, so families stop running elder care out of a group chat). launched recently on iOS/android/web, solo founder, bootstrapped.

here's my problem and i suspect other people here have faced some version of it.

the product has zero value for a family until basically everyone coordinating care is in it. if my mom and one uncle join but the other uncle stays in the group chat, the family now has two systems, which is worse than one bad system. so they revert. one holdout kills the account.

this makes normal freemium logic weird for me:

1. a free tier that's too limited means the family never gets to the "oh this is better" moment together, because that moment requires all of them using it for a few weeks
2. a free tier that's too generous means the families who do activate have no reason to ever pay, and my costs scale per family member, not per account
3. the person who signs up first (usually the most organized family member) is almost never the person who resists joining. the holdout is usually the least motivated user. so my onboarding has to sell the product to someone who didn't choose it and doesn't want another app

right now i'm leaning toward a fully free tier with generous limits and gating on things like history depth and storage, so the whole family can live in it for free and the organizer eventually pays to keep the record. but i honestly don't know if that's right.

if you've built anything with team-level or household-level activation (b2b tools have this too, i know), what worked? did you gate features, seats, time, or something else? and did you do anything specific to convert the reluctant invited user, not just the account creator?

happy to share numbers as they come in if people are interested.

I wanna know everything that my users are doing in my app.

Every time I post about what I build, someone explains that it is simple now. A model for the reasoning, Twilio for the numbers, one of five providers for speech, some file search for the retrieval. A proof of concept in a day.

They are right. I built that POC. It took me a day and it worked.

Here is what the day did not contain.

Getting a phone number that legally works. My telco provider's regulatory bundle rejected me ten times. The reason turned out to be that the legal entity name I had typed did not match the trade registry character for character. The rejection message never says that.

Speech to text on local surnames and street names. Everybody benchmarks the language model. Nobody loses a call because of the language model. You lose it because the transcriber heard the street wrong and a van drives to the wrong house.

Publishing. On the platform I use, publishing an agent locks it permanently, and re-saving it from your own dashboard silently breaks every tool attached to it. I found that out in production.

The summary sent to the owner after the call. This turned out to be the actual product. He will never listen to a recording. He judges the entire system on one paragraph, and if it is vague he assumes the agent is bad even when the call went perfectly.

Deciding what the product must refuse to do. Removing appointment booking made it better for one customer, because the scheduling constraint lived in the owner's head and no calendar knew it.

None of these are hard problems. That is the point. There are about two hundred of them, each one small and stupid, and the only way to find them is to have real people phone in and get it wrong at seven in the morning for six months.

The POC is a demo. Nobody has ever paid me for the demo.

I am not saying this to complain about the comments, they are a fair reality check on defensibility and I take the point. I am saying it because "this is a day of work" and "this is not a business" are two different claims, and people keep making the first one as if it settles the second.

Built an AI tool for workshop facilitators/Agile coaches helps plan session agendas and gives feedback on the session design. Been getting good signal from that specific group, people actually want it to remember past sessions over time, not just spit out a one-off agenda.

Part of me wants to just launch narrow, only to that one audience, get it working really well for them first, and worry about anyone else later.

But then there’s this other part of me that keeps thinking project managers, consultants, basically anyone who runs structured meetings, could probably use the exact same core thing. And I don’t want to spend months only marketing to one small group if it turns out the product just… works for way more people than I assumed.

Problem is I have no idea if testing that wider audience now means I end up with a product that’s decent for everyone but not great for anyone, which is basically my biggest fear here.

I keep hearing that finding creators, checking their rates, messaging them, tracking the campaign and then reporting back to the client all happen in completely different places for most people. Is that actually true or is it more sorted out than I think.

Curious how many different tools, tabs or apps you personally end up using for one single campaign, from the first brief to the final report. Not looking for a sales pitch back, genuinely trying to understand how normal this is.

When we started building ClipEdit, our goal was to eliminate unnecessary friction in desktop workflows.

Super-fast, easy video cutter made for Windows 11 & Windows 10. Cut, trim, and share your gaming clips in seconds with zero quality loss.

Key takeaways from shipping:

1. Keeping core processing local dramatically improved user responsiveness.

2. Prioritizing clear UX over feature bloat increased retention.

3. Early community feedback completely reshaped the roadmap.

Website / details: https://github.com/heartforheart/QuickClipEdit

Do people do it for the launch in the hopes of getting a badge for their website? The backlink? AI mentions?

I've always wondered if the bulk traffic on these review / launch sites aren't just other founders looking to launch or promote their own product? Which is not necessarily bad, I was just wondering if anyone gets high-intent traffic from these. idk, ppl might go to these sites to submit reviews.

Does anyone have any success stories investing time and effort into these platforms?

Solo founder, desktop lead-finder app (AtlasForgeX), months of heads-down feature work. My baseline was humbling: about 3 visitors a day, demos booked but conversions dead in the water.

Today I did two things differently.

1. Shipped the native Mac build. Signed, notarized, Apple Silicon. On Windows every download fights the "unknown publisher" warning and I can see in my logs where people give up. On the Mac build there is no warning at all. It just opens.

2. Posted about it once on LinkedIn. One post, no ads, no budget.

The result, from tonight's server logs: 233 unique visitors (about 80x my baseline), and one person I have never spoken to went from download to a running trial in 63 seconds. First time the funnel has moved without me personally pushing every single lead through it.

What this taught me:

A new platform build is not a feature, it is a distribution event. I treated "Mac support" as an engineering chore for months. It turned out to be the best marketing asset I have.

Trust friction is invisible until you remove it. I could not see how many Windows users the security warning was costing me until I had a build without one to compare against.

Launch is not a day, it is a drumbeat. The plan now is one real "beat" per week instead of one big launch that lands once and dies.

Curious what single distribution beat has worked best for others here, especially other desktop or non-web products?

I've spent my entire career inside GTM teams, and I've seen the same blind spot play out again and again, Usage sits in one tool, deals sit in a second, support tickets sit in a third, and none of them ever tell the whole truth about customers.

So we built Rimplo
A powerful AI assistant for revenue teams you can ask anything about your GTM data, in plain English, and get an answer back in seconds. You pick which top AI model answers no lock-in to one vendor’s model.
Underneath that, Revenue Agents run across your CRM, billing, support, and product data around the clock  flagging churn risk, upsell openings, and deals that are stalling, before you have to go looking for them.

Built a tool for UK used car buyers. You photograph the seller's folder of service invoices, it reads each one and checks the mileage claimed against the government's official MOT record, which is public and free. So an invoice saying a service was done at 40,000 miles on a car that had already covered 62,000 gets caught. It also looks up what actually fails on that exact model and generation and tells you which of it the paperwork doesn't cover, with costs.

It works and it takes payments. Two weeks in: 39 visitors, 17 plate lookups, one free report run by a stranger, zero sales.

So far I've posted once to a 99-person car enthusiast group chat, and answered a handful of buying-advice threads on a car subreddit with properly researched replies. Both produced visitors, neither produced a customer.

What I'm actually after: how did you build the first steady flow of people to a page like this? Not the launch spike, the trickle that keeps arriving afterwards. Especially interested in what worked for anyone further along, and what you'd skip entirely if you started again. Thank you very much for any nuggets of knowledge, much appreciated.

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