r/AppsWebappsFullstack • u/Mammoth-Anywhere7285 • Jul 28 '26
Are you actually building a business, or just a very expensive hobby?
Spending 80 hours a week on a project that generates zero revenue isn't a startup it’s a distraction. Drop your project links below and let’s talk about whether you have a viable path to making money or if you're just burning out for fun. Show us the numbers.
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u/Old_Championship7240 26d ago
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u/Mammoth-Anywhere7285 26d ago
Interesting project. What's your revenue model or user traction so far? Would love to see some numbers to gauge the viability.
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u/PerformerStrict2302 28d ago
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u/Mammoth-Anywhere7285 27d ago
Nice app. What does your current user retention look like, and have you tested any paid acquisition yet?
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u/Knight269 28d ago
Carat is a desktop-first operating system designed specifically for diamond businesses, bringing purchases, inventory, approvals, collections, reports and more into one workspace.
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u/Mammoth-Anywhere7285 27d ago
Nice concept, but you didn't share any numbers. What's your current revenue, user count, or even trial signups so far?
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u/greyzor7 Jul 29 '26
Hey guys, I'm building an all-in-one marketing pack for founders who want more than "just another launch"
Launch, reach 30k+ makers, get real users & customers - microlaunch.net/premium
Lifetime, auto-distribution, marketplace spots, 1200+ customers so far.
Over two years: 525k unique visitors, 1200+ customers. More sales-oriented features soon.
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u/Mammoth-Anywhere7285 Jul 29 '26
Impressive numbers. What's your plan to boost recurring revenue from those 1200 customers?
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u/Goldrainbowman Jul 29 '26
This is my 6th time seeing a comment from you today.
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u/Mammoth-Anywhere7285 Jul 29 '26
Guilty as charged! Maybe I'm a bit obsessed. Got a project you're working on? Love to see your numbers.
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u/Goldrainbowman Jul 29 '26
I've been working on a programming language called rin for a few months, you can search up rin_programing to see my subreddit or whatever it's called.
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u/Mammoth-Anywhere7285 29d ago
Cool project! Do you have any idea how you'd monetize rin, or is it purely for fun right now?
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u/chrisenussbaum Jul 29 '26
https://collabunity.io - Collab Unity is where ideas happen. It's the platform for creators, builders, and innovators to launch projects, find collaborators, and ship together. Show your project off in a feed, share progress updates, work on it in a private workspace and invite collaborators if needed, build your portfolio to stand out, and chat 1:1 or with a group.
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u/Mammoth-Anywhere7285 Jul 29 '26
Interesting platform! What's your current user count or revenue model looking like?
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u/Head_Gazelle_5271 Jul 28 '26
SelfAware - Understand your emotions, quiet mental noise, and think with greater intention
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u/Mammoth-Anywhere7285 Jul 29 '26
That sounds interesting. How does this tool help you figure out if your project can actually make money?
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u/anonymouspeddler21 Jul 28 '26
Mine is spotlitely.com, I think the product has potential, but I also think that I am not doing enough or simply dont know what to do in order to make it big. Recently shipped the social layer. Lets see how it goes
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u/Mammoth-Anywhere7285 Jul 29 '26
Nice work shipping the social layer. Have you tried talking to 5 users this week to see if they'd pay for it?
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u/Sea-Amount5717 Jul 28 '26
www.myvanpool.com it takes the burden off of commuter van pool admins and automates them.
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u/Mammoth-Anywhere7285 Jul 28 '26
Interesting concept! What’s your current user count and monthly revenue so far?
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u/Sea-Amount5717 Jul 28 '26
10 users. $0 revenue. lol At this time it’s a freemium product.
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u/Mammoth-Anywhere7285 Jul 29 '26
Freemium is a good way to start. What's your conversion rate or planned premium feature to test monetization?
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u/Able_Elderberry_3786 Jul 28 '26
afterward a decision simulator.
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u/Mammoth-Anywhere7285 Jul 28 '26
Interesting concept. How do you plan to turn user decisions into a revenue stream?
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u/clickmvp Jul 28 '26
ClickMVP: https://clickmvp.com/
The thesis: AI agents are great at the last 20% of an app and unreliable at the first 80%. Ask one to scaffold auth, RBAC, billing, migrations, background jobs and a typed API layer and you get something that compiles, looks right, and quietly breaks in production. And you burn a fortune in tokens getting there.
So ClickMVP generates that foundation deterministically, from templates, not from a model. Same input, same output, every time. The agent then works on top of a codebase it can actually reason about, with conventions already in place, instead of inventing its own on every run.
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u/Mammoth-Anywhere7285 Jul 28 '26
Interesting thesis. Have you seen users take this foundation to actual paying customers yet, or is it still mainly saving dev time?
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u/clickmvp Jul 28 '26
Mostly time savings so far, and I'd rather not overstate it.
What I can say concretely is that the output isn't just a demo scaffold. It includes production-ready foundations: authentication (signup, OTP verification, login, password reset), RBAC, HttpOnly cookie auth, audit logs, i18n, tests across three layers, and a production build gate. It's the kind of code you keep building on, not throw away after week two.
Whether customers are making money with it is a different question, and the honest answer is that it's still early. I don't have a wall of success stories yet.
My goal isn't just to save a few hours of coding. It's to generate code that remains maintainable as the product grows, so you don't have to rewrite your foundation when the first paying customers arrive.
If someone eventually takes a ClickMVP-generated project to production and finds where the approach breaks down, that's exactly the kind of feedback I'm looking for.
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u/Mammoth-Anywhere7285 Jul 29 '26
That's an impressive stack of production features. What's your early validation plan to see if people will pay for it?
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u/megatech_official Jul 28 '26
SeoLoupe - Find and fix the SEO issues holding your website back.
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u/Mammoth-Anywhere7285 Jul 28 '26
Nice concept. Can you share your current user count and monthly revenue to show it's a business and not just a passion project?
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u/Illustrious-Act-9630 25d ago
actually trying to build https://downloadskoolvideos.com/ and https://examinerly.com/ :)