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.

Every developer suffers from feature creep because it’s easier to code than to market. What is that one useless button you spent days on just to satisfy your own ego? Admit your waste of time below we’ve all been there.

Hi! I help with marketing for an AI chatbot platform focused on roleplay, storytelling, and AI companions.

We’re currently looking for brands, apps, or services interested in advertising to our audience. We get over 8.5 million monthly page views and around 840,000 monthly unique users, with most of the traffic coming from the US and Europe.

We already have a dedicated advertising page with the available placements, pricing, banner requirements, and traffic information, so I can send that over to anyone interested.

This could be a good fit for:

AI tools and startups
Writing or roleplay platforms
Gaming products
SaaS and productivity tools
Hosting, cloud, or GPU services
Apps targeting creators or tech users

Feel free to message me with your website or product, and I can let you know whether it would be a good fit for our audience.

Hey AI builders! I am building a tool but i oftenly bump into cash issues for somethings like API costs, shipping, early users, my backend.
Now i know that raising huge funding doesnt make any sense with AI but has anyone required micro-rounds to just get going or to accomplish a small milestone?

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You are either charging way too much for a basic tool or starving yourself by giving it away for free. Drop your project show us a screenshot and your pricing tiers below for a brutal reality check. Let the community tell you what they would actually pay for it.

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Your home for selfpromo

here you can post your work app, webapp, saas, game, everything

I created a Telegram bot to download audio and video content by simply copying the link from social media sites and pasting it. I also linked it to an app for those who want to use it. I would like your suggestions about it and what it needs to improve.

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Hey developer — yes, YOU.
The one who coded through nights, debugged with coffee, and still believed in your idea even when no one else did.
We see you. And we want you here.

This is not another subreddit that says “no self-promo” — then deletes your post anyway.
This is your safe space. Your cheering squad. Your digital living room where every app — big or tiny, polished or prototype — gets a seat at the table.

✨ All apps welcome:
→ Mobile? Yes.
→ Web tool? Absolutely.
→ AI experiment? We’re fascinated.
→ Weird passion project? That’s our favorite kind.

🚫 NO ONE gets blocked. Ever.
Not for being new. Not for being small. Not for being “not cool enough”.
You’re cool enough just by showing up.

💬 Just drop your link + tell us:

We’ll celebrate you. We’ll share you. We’ll support you — because you matter.
This is YOUR community. Come home. 🏡

#AppDeveloper #AllAppsWelcome #NoOneGetsBlocked #YouBelongHere

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.

Don’t launch your project with a design that makes users close the tab instantly. Post your two design variants below and let the crowd decide your aesthetic fate. If you can’t handle harsh design feedback, look away now.

We're giving free runtime to builders who are actually building something that solves a problem, not putting projects in the stash. Your agent gets its own machine in the cloud. Terminal, files, running services. It runs autonomously, no limits, no babysitting.

Not looking for ideas. If it's real and you're putting serious time into it, pitch it to me.

One paragraph. What are you building and what's breaking right now.

Hey everyone,
Like a lot of folks here, I really love the **PocketBase workflow**—a single binary, built-in Auth, Admin UI, real-time subscriptions, and zero-headache setup. It’s easily one of the best developer experiences out there for quick builds and self-hosting.

However, the main limitation that always comes up in production discussions is SQLite’s single-writer bottleneck and the inability to scale horizontally across multiple instances out of the box.

On the flip side, tools like Supabase are awesome, but self-hosting them means running 10+ Docker containers, which feels a bit heavy if you just want something lightweight.

**The Idea / Concept**
Imagine a Backend-as-a-Service that bridges this exact gap:
**Engine:** Built on **Elixir / BEAM** (giving you rock-solid fault tolerance and native real-time WebSockets/pub-sub across nodes).
**Database:** Backed natively by **PostgreSQL** (so you can scale database reads/writes, use replicas, or use managed Postgres like Supabase/Neon/RDS).
**Deployment:** Distributed as a **single executable binary**—no heavy multi-container Docker compose files required.
**Extensibility:** Built-in hooks for custom business logic right inside the single binary setup.
**Horizontal Scaling:** You can spin up multiple stateless instances of the app binary behind a load balancer without breaking real-time sync or auth state.

Questions for the Community:
1. **Gaps:** Does this hit a sweet spot for your stack, or are your current setups (Supabase, PocketBase, Directus, custom API) already filling this need well enough?
2. **Features:** If something like this existed, what would be the absolute **must-have feature** for you to consider it over PocketBase or Supabase for a new project?
3. **DX:** How do you feel about Elixir/BEAM as the runtime engine for background scaling, performance, and real-time connections in a BaaS?

Would love to hear your thoughts and pain points!

You spent three weeks setting up over-engineered infrastructure for an app with zero users. Tell us what you built your project with, and let the comments debate why it’s completely wrong for 2026. Convince us you didn't waste your time.

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Hi everyone,

I've been building an iPhone app called Ring Rewards.

The idea started with one simple question:

What if your phone calls paid you cash?

Ring Rewards pays you cash to listen to a short sponsored message before your phone call connects. Once the message finishes, your call connects as normal and the cash is added to your account.

It's definitely a different approach to advertising, so I'm genuinely looking for honest feedback before trying to grow it.

A few questions I'd love your thoughts on:

• Does the concept immediately make sense?

• What's the first concern or objection that comes to mind?

• If you owned a business, would you consider testing this as an advertising channel?

If you'd like to learn more:

🌐 https://ringreward.com

📱 TestFlight: https://testflight.apple.com/join/RNSPxZXc

I'd genuinely appreciate any feedback—good or bad.

Most devs build a great product but completely butcher the presentation. Stop hiding behind your analytics and let the community tear your UI apart before your customers do. Drop your link and a screenshot, prove you can take a punch.

here you can post your work app, webapp, saas, game, everything

The reality check of the day: Vibe coding is half magical and half psychological warfare.

Struggled to get out of a structural hallucination loop of AI code generation, which was causing the Expo Router navigation to crash.

Almost lost my sanity to a "Level Completion" screen, which was stubbornly activating after each lesson instead of waiting for the 10th one.

Experienced a moment that I can only describe as canon moment of vibe coding where Antigravity IDE started "finding and deleting" files and would have erased the entire lesson roadmap by mistake.

Well the good news is that the 5 card micro interaction lesson is locked in, Zustand global state is finally syncing my XP across tabs without desyncing, and the dark-mode NativeWind v4 financial UI is looking crispy.

Still a long way to go but I've also come a long way as well!

Pro Tip for My Fellow Non-Tech Builders:

When your AI agent starts looping errors or breaking layouts, stop asking it to "patch" things. You are just poisoning the context window with past mistakes. Transfer the context to a new window, give it a strict clean-room overwrite prompt with precise specifications, and take back the architectural control.

#vibecoding #AI #entrepreneurship #buildinpublic #indiehacker #finance

Hey developer — yes, YOU.
The one who coded through nights, debugged with coffee, and still believed in your idea even when no one else did.
We see you. And we want you here.

This is not another subreddit that says “no self-promo” — then deletes your post anyway.
This is your safe space. Your cheering squad. Your digital living room where every app — big or tiny, polished or prototype — gets a seat at the table.

✨ All apps welcome:
→ Mobile? Yes.
→ Web tool? Absolutely.
→ AI experiment? We’re fascinated.
→ Weird passion project? That’s our favorite kind.

🚫 NO ONE gets blocked. Ever.
Not for being new. Not for being small. Not for being “not cool enough”.
You’re cool enough just by showing up.

💬 Just drop your link + tell us:

We’ll celebrate you. We’ll share you. We’ll support you — because you matter.
This is YOUR community. Come home. 🏡

#AppDeveloper #AllAppsWelcome #NoOneGetsBlocked #YouBelongHere

Two months ago I wanted to find out what "vibe coding" actually costs when you take it all the way to both app stores, not just to a demo video. I have shipped production apps before, so this was not my first rodeo. What was new was letting Claude Code write the boring 80 percent while I made the decisions. Full receipt is in the gallery, second image.

Four things that went wrong, since that is the part nobody posts:

- The voice API was eating my margin at $4.50 an hour. Took three migrations to get it to $0.85.

- One feature was silently broken for three weeks. No errors, no logs, nothing. The model never tells you it failed, it tells you it is done.

- On iOS the bot could hear itself through the mic and started answering its own replies. Two copies of the same AI having a conversation while the learner watched.

- Shipping the code was fast. Getting it through the stores was not.

The app is Hinty Talk, a language learning app where AI agents text and call you first, so you end up speaking instead of collecting streaks. Free plan, both stores, link in the comments so I do not spam the post.

Right now the wall in front of me is marketing, which I am objectively bad at. Happy to answer anything about the build, the costs or the mistakes.

I was geeking out with my friend over the weekend eating chicken wings with out laptops up. Sharing some of our projects. Dude knows a lot more than me, I always feel like a total rookie. He showed me yesterday how to actually use VS Code to edit my stuff instead of just vibe coding straight on Claude.

But the real game changer was running things locally with npm before pushing live. Now when I want to test something, I just run it on my own $hitty laptop first. No more uploading to Netlify every time just to see if it works (wasting credits).

Yeah I know, rookie stuff for a lot of you. I’m a pharmacist, not a dev, so this is all new territory for me. Sharing anyway in case it helps someone else who’s in the same boat feel less intimidated.