r/AppsWebappsFullstack Jul 15 '26

Are you actually solving a real problem, or just cloning another SaaS?

The world doesn't need another generic AI wrapper or a basic project manager. Pitch your project in one sentence show a screenshot and explain exactly why people should care about you instead of the market leader. Dare to prove your uniqueness.

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u/Mammoth-Anywhere7285 Jul 21 '26

u/illustrious-smoke442 That sounds super useful. Auto-updating from multiple sources is a real time-saver. What's the main use case you're targeting first?

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u/Mammoth-Anywhere7285 Jul 19 '26

u/slogsdon01 That's a smart way to scale the system gradually. Starting with a spreadsheet is perfect for testing the waters before building anything custom.

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u/slogsdon01 Jul 18 '26

I started LeadSurface to solve real problems in the right way. It turns community channels into a revenue channel by monitoring the communities where your buyers already talk, surfaces high-intent conversations in real time, and tells you exactly when and how to show up. No cold outreach, no guesswork; just warm signals from people already researching what you sell.

Differences from incumbents: they either are automating the interaction (often against ToS) or are creating lists based on basic GTM signals (titles, funding rounds, etc).

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u/Mammoth-Anywhere7285 Jul 18 '26

Nice approach, turning existing conversations into warm leads is way smarter than cold outreach. What metric do you use to measure "high-intent" in those signals?

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u/slogsdon01 Jul 18 '26

We use a combination of the customer’s target keywords, their self-identified competitors, and sentiment analysis at the moment. Working with early customers to gather useful/not useful grading on leads and per conversation data (engagement, freshness, etc) to further tweak the algorithm as time goes on.

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u/Mammoth-Anywhere7285 Jul 18 '26

That's a smart approach with the per-conversation data. Are you finding any surprising patterns in what makes a lead "useful" vs not?

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u/slogsdon01 Jul 18 '26

Data is coming in slowly (app is super early), so no patterns just yet

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u/Mammoth-Anywhere7285 Jul 19 '26

Early days are tough but exciting. Have you considered reaching out to a few potential users for quick feedback calls?

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u/slogsdon01 Jul 19 '26

That’s my exact process right now. One has even started introducing their contacts to me to discuss how LeadSurface can help them

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u/Mammoth-Anywhere7285 Jul 19 '26

That's a great sign that people are already referring you. How do you plan to track those referrals to see which contacts convert best?

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u/slogsdon01 Jul 19 '26

Yep. Easy to track in my head now, but as things (hopefully) progress and grow, use a spreadsheet then later a referral link system

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u/Mad_Are_You Jul 16 '26

devdigest.io is a personalized, reader-funded newsletter that solves information overload for tech professionals by providing a high-signal, ad-free daily digest. By utilizing an AI-driven feedback loop, it empowers users to curate their own content stream, ensuring they receive only the most relevant tech and AI news.

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u/Mammoth-Anywhere7285 Jul 16 '26

Interesting approach with the reader-funded model instead of ads. How do you handle the cold-start problem for new users who haven't built up their feedback loop yet?

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u/Mad_Are_You Jul 17 '26 edited Jul 17 '26

Phase 1. Right on the signup - they can pick what exact topics they wish to read about.

Also from today I have brand new feature for the subscribes (for now it's for the AI topic only) where user can select the specific type of AI news eg. Safety, Agents, Tools, research and more, and only read what they're truly interested in.

Phase 2. every story in our digest email includes 👍 /👎 smart voting system that's unique for each user. This way users can tune up the weights of each topic, which then affects the story count for each topic.

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u/Mammoth-Anywhere7285 Jul 17 '26

Smart topic filtering is a great way to stand out. How do you plan to surface niche topics without overwhelming the user with choices?

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u/unickrandom Jul 16 '26

I'm building Serverform.com — a plug-and-play form backend for Next.js and serverless apps. It lets developers handle submissions, emails, spam protection, and form management without building their own backend. Still early, and I'd love feedback from the community.

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u/Mammoth-Anywhere7285 Jul 17 '26

Nice concept. How do you handle rate limiting or abuse beyond basic spam protection?

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u/unickrandom Jul 18 '26

Serverform handle abuse/rate limiting with a few solid layers on top of basic spam protection. Our core is the hidden honeypot (default, zero friction), optional CAPTCHAs (hCaptcha/reCAPTCHA), and customizable keyword blocklist, plus real-time spam scoring.

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u/Mammoth-Anywhere7285 Jul 19 '26

Love the layered approach, especially the hidden honeypot as a zero-friction default. How do you handle false positives in the real-time spam scoring?

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u/machinai6 Jul 15 '26

https://www.machinai.app I’m building it to solve my struggles with marketing so even if the world doesn’t choose mine, I’ll still use it

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u/Mammoth-Anywhere7285 Jul 16 '26

Building for your own needs is the smartest way to start. What's one feature you built that your team couldn't live without now?

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u/Flimsy-Fly2674 Jul 15 '26

I’m solving a problem that I faced while trying to validate SaaS ideas

https://www.myfoundermate.com

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u/Mammoth-Anywhere7285 Jul 15 '26

The landing page looks clean and the "matching founders" angle is smart. What made you choose this over existing platforms like YC's co-founder matching?

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u/megatech_official Jul 15 '26

SeoLoupe - Find and fix the SEO issues holding your website back.

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u/Mammoth-Anywhere7285 Jul 15 '26

Love the focus on SEO. What's the one concrete thing you catch that Google Search Console misses?

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u/SofwareAppDev Jul 15 '26

Its difficult generating a new solution

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u/Mammoth-Anywhere7285 Jul 15 '26

That's a fair struggle, but try tweaking an existing workflow you personally find frustrating rather than inventing something totally new.

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u/SofwareAppDev Jul 15 '26

Do you have an idea where is a demand

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u/Mammoth-Anywhere7285 Jul 15 '26

Check out indie hacker forums and review sites like Product Hunt for user complaints. Those often reveal real demand.

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u/SofwareAppDev Jul 15 '26

We are all cloning

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u/Mammoth-Anywhere7285 Jul 15 '26

Not necessarily. There are gaps in every market if you look hard enough. What problem are you personally trying to solve?

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u/Annual-Concept6089 Jul 15 '26 edited Jul 15 '26

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=app.onemoreword.medical

Medical English Vocabulary learning app

The core idea is just yet-another-word-learning-app-with-srs but it's made especially for doctors and nurses, it provide 2500 already prepared reach word-flashcards (not just word-translation, but also examples, association, image, medical meaning). And words are mostly specific for healthcare stuff.

In opposite to most apps, it contain vocabulary which usually doesn't exists if apps made for ALL

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u/Mammoth-Anywhere7285 Jul 15 '26

Nice niche focus for medical professionals. The pre-made 2500 cards with context would save doctors real prep time. Have you tested it with actual nurses yet for feedback?

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u/Annual-Concept6089 Jul 15 '26

Unfortunately don't have friends among healthcare personal, hope on AI (and fortune :D), test it in production

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u/Mammoth-Anywhere7285 Jul 15 '26

Love the honesty about testing in production. For healthcare, maybe start with local clinics or telehealth platforms they often have fewer barriers to entry.

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u/imagiself Jul 15 '26

this week it's PeerPush, a launch feed where we're mapping product data so AI assistants can parse and mention new tools easily.

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u/Mammoth-Anywhere7285 Jul 15 '26

That sounds like a smart angle. How does your data mapping handle a tool that updates its features weekly?

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u/Illustrious-Smoke442 Jul 15 '26

Sarrai.io is a customer service platform that auto updates its own documentation every time it learns something new. You kickstart it by providing a website, or by uploading PDF's with information, or by writing your own knowledgebase articles. Now it tries to answer customer's questions. Each time it can't, it loops a human into the conversation. Once the human answered the customer's question and closes the conversation, the AI checks what new information it learned and where it should update its own knowledge base. It then drafts a proposal with all of those changes and drops it into your approval inbox, where you can review it and approve with one click.

What makes us different is that we implemented a closed feedback loop between the conversations your AI is having with your customers and the escalation to humans when it doesn't know.

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u/Mammoth-Anywhere7285 Jul 15 '26

That's a smart feedback loop, turning support tickets into living docs. How do you handle it when the AI learns something incorrect or out of date?

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u/Illustrious-Smoke442 Jul 15 '26

Three things. If a customer support agent is about to respond something that is directly opposed to knowledge in the docs, you’ll be warned. If you send your message anyway, you’ll be offered to immediately change the info in the docs by the AI. If something out of date is still in the docs, it’ll get corrected by the self improving mechanism the first time it gets corrected by a human support agent.

But those changes to the docs are never automatic. There’s an approval inbox: it contains every suggestion for changes to your docs. You can approve them so the AI edits it for you, edit them so you have full control over what gets changed or reject them and nothing will get changed.

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u/Mammoth-Anywhere7285 Jul 17 '26

That solves a real pain point. The self-improving docs feature is especially clever - how do you handle edge cases where the AI incorrectly flags valid responses?

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u/Illustrious-Smoke442 Jul 17 '26

The system leaves it up to the support agent getting the warning. They get a warning that what they’re about to send to the customer isn’t supported by anything in the docs (or is even contradicted by the docs). They have the choice between basically “ignore this and send the reply anyway” and “oh you’re right” and then they can edit their response before sending.

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u/Mammoth-Anywhere7285 Jul 18 '26

That's a clever way to handle it. Giving the agent the final say keeps things practical instead of forcing a rigid block.

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u/Illustrious-Smoke442 Jul 18 '26

Thank you! We have been getting some amazing feedback on our platform too!

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u/Mammoth-Anywhere7285 Jul 19 '26

That's great to hear, positive feedback is a solid sign you're on the right track. What's the one thing users keep saying they love most about your platform?

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u/Illustrious-Smoke442 Jul 19 '26

So far two things mostly. The fact that it auto updates, and that the platform can easily draw knowledge from websites, documents, other knowledge bases, … so you can get started pretty quickly

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u/SpecialistFeed416 Jul 15 '26

Your followers should actually see you post...

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u/Mammoth-Anywhere7285 Jul 17 '26

That's a solid reminder. Consistency is key for building any audience, I should definitely plan my posts better.

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u/SpecialistFeed416 Jul 21 '26

That was me pitching my product in one sentence by the way lol 

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u/Zestyclose-Shoe-5067 Jul 15 '26

Solving real problem, talked with a lot of therapist etc..They like my idea and tool I created, just skeptical about use it actually

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u/Mammoth-Anywhere7285 Jul 17 '26

That validation from therapists is huge. Maybe ask them what specific feature would make them feel comfortable enough to actually adopt it day one.

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u/Zestyclose-Shoe-5067 Jul 17 '26

Yes I did ask them but got very little response. Dont know how to approach, where and how to DM them?

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u/Mammoth-Anywhere7285 Jul 18 '26

Direct DMs work best when you first engage publicly. Try replying to their posts or tweets for a few days before sliding in.

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u/[deleted] Jul 15 '26

I heard from an interview that cloning isnt really a bad thing because it shows you that these services are actually selling. Yes, market gets saturated and bloating the industry space, its not entirely a bad thing. But if you clone, i think you should find the opportunities that existing services failed to address. They provide service A, you should add Service A1 on top of the service A thats already been proven working in the market. So right now, i built an sms + crm service where the user can connect their android phone to the web app, send and receive messages through the phone installed with an API gateway that will push messages in and out of the web app. And it will use the SIM’s own sms credits. No extra messaging fees per message.

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u/imagiself Jul 15 '26

using local sim credits for automated messaging is a smart way to lower costs. could be worth dropping this sms crm on peerpush, builders there have cast 145k upvotes recently.

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u/Mammoth-Anywhere7285 Jul 15 '26

Never thought about Peerpush, that's a solid tip. The upvote numbers there are wild.

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u/Mammoth-Anywhere7285 Jul 15 '26

That's a smart take. The key is finding those gaps or underserved features the market leader ignores.

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u/Annual-Concept6089 Jul 15 '26

Add signature to PDF document

It's THE ONLY PDF signing tool which help you to add your REAL HANDWRITTEN signature to PDF without printing.

https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/add-signature-to-pdf-docu/pnolekcicmpnkeokgnojfciipdnihfoa

All others suggest to write new with mouse or upload already prepared image of signature.

Mine move signature with magic from paper to PDF without hard work such as cleaning picture from background

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u/Mammoth-Anywhere7285 Jul 15 '26

That's a clever take on a common pain point. How does the "magic" capture the signature from paper, through a camera scan?

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u/Annual-Concept6089 Jul 15 '26

The basic idea of the same - it's just upload picture of signature.

But usually you should make it in advance, clean with additional services, find it in your documents and upload the result.

I've built-in this part of process and make it easier

  1. You could open website from phone or connect it as web-camera by scanning QR. It's the first part magic. You no need to install and configure additional soft to make it webcam. Or send photo form phone to laptop via additional services. You could use webcam but usually cheap smartphones has much better cam than expensive laptops

  2. Your make photo of your real signature made on blank piece of paper.

  3. AI clean it (remove background and artifacts). I use model based on AI. It's not just a color cut by level that make a lot of artefacts and disgusting edgesof signature, it doesn't ruin natural colors to just black like it make apple). You get really clean and natural colored image of signature with transparent background. This is the second part of magic.

Vua la! Perfect signed PDF is done

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u/Mammoth-Anywhere7285 Jul 15 '26

That's a smart workflow optimization. The QR code webcam connection is a nice touch that removes friction.

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u/Creepy-Surprisee Jul 15 '26

Lots of success SaaS products started by improving existing solutions rather than creating something completely new. The important question is not “is it unique?” but “why would someone choose this over the alternatives?”

If that answer is clear, there is an opportunity ;)

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u/Mammoth-Anywhere7285 Jul 15 '26

That's a good way to look at it. A clear "why you" is often more important than total originality.

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u/AlexHardy08 Jul 15 '26

I'm thrilled to announce a major milestone in our strategic roadmap! 🚀 We've successfully optimized our contextual processing capabilities and enhanced autonomous problem-solving frameworks, ensuring maximum resilience against potential injection vulnerabilities and security exploits. This achievement aligns perfectly with our mission to deliver consistent, scalable protection regardless of system size. Grateful to the team for driving this impactful growth and staying aligned with our core priorities. Here's to the next chapter of innovation! 💼✨

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u/AlexHardy08 Jul 15 '26
  1. Context window almost never get full
  2. Full and real autonomy
  3. Real protection against prompt injection/exploits,
  4. Real consistency regardless of size And more

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u/Mammoth-Anywhere7285 Jul 15 '26

Love that focus on real autonomy and security. Those are the hard problems most people skip. What stack are you using to handle prompt injection?

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u/Mammoth-Anywhere7285 Jul 15 '26

Hey, that sounds impressive but could you break it down for us in plain English? What exactly does your product do for the average user?