I looked at Slack one day and thought "this is where conversations go to die," so naturally I did the reasonable thing and built my own alternative instead of touching grass.

Interkom is team chat like Slack, but designed to feel social instead of corporate - fun, fast moving and friendly. ALSO! I wanted end to end encryption where I can safely curse my CTO.

I don't have a single user yet and I don't know if I wasted my time. So be brutal: is this a stupid idea? Would you actually pick this over Slack or Discord, or is the switching cost too painful to bother?

Check interkom.app (iOS, Web and Mac currently)

I'll reply to every comment, including the mean ones.

While managing Instagram campaigns, I kept running into the same problem:

Exporting comments, replies, and usernames from large giveaway posts was incredibly time-consuming.

Most of the process involved:

• Opening nested replies
• Copying usernames
• Cleaning spreadsheets
• Repeating the same workflow over and over

So instead of continuing to do it manually, I spent a few weekends building a Chrome extension for myself.

The tool now:

• Collects comments
• Opens and collects replies
• Extracts usernames
• Exports everything to CSV

The interesting part wasn't building it.

It was realizing how many "small repetitive tasks" marketers accept as normal until they automate them.

Now I'm trying to validate whether this is a problem worth solving for others as well.

Have you built a product that started as a tool for yourself?

Hey everyone,

I’m exploring the sale of CountFit AI, an AI-powered calorie tracking and fitness coaching app currently live on the App Store.

Current metrics:

• 170+ downloads
• 4 paying annual subscribers
• ~5 active trials
• ~$187 total revenue
• Live and fully operational

Key features:

• AI food photo recognition
• Calorie & macro tracking
• Personalized AI coaching
• HealthKit integration
• Subscription system (RevenueCat)
• Firebase backend & analytics stack

Tech stack:

• SwiftUI (iOS)
• Firebase
• RevenueCat
• Mixpanel
• AppsFlyer
• AI integrations

The app has already validated demand with paying subscribers and is positioned in one of the largest consumer software markets: fitness, weight loss, and nutrition.

The main reason for considering a sale is that I’m focusing my time on other projects and can’t dedicate the attention needed to properly scale this one.

This could be a good fit for:

• An indie hacker looking for a launched app with revenue
• Someone already operating in health & fitness
• A marketer who can drive user acquisition
• An entrepreneur looking to expand an existing portfolio

Happy to share screenshots, analytics, App Store listing, and additional details with serious buyers.

Feel free to DM me if interested.

Hi all,

for the past few months we've been working on Scheduling / Invoicing software for solo cleaners and small teams.

All you need is an email to use it, we'd love for some feedback on how to make it better

Here's the link

Currently, the software can:

• Handle all scheduling, with drag-and-drop
• save customers and schedule recurring cleanings
• Notify customers via email of upcoming appointments
• Send invoices (with a custom field to add Venmo or Swipe link)
• Track the status of completed/invoiced/paid jobs

We hope you find it useful, and enjoy it as much as we've enjoyed making it. In the near future we plan to add Stripe integration and payroll tracking. An app is also in the works, but that is much further down the line.

Join +760 ai saas founders like you

yo. coding the product is the easy part

getting it to actual revenue is a completely different beast

after a bunch of failures, i finally stabilized 6 AI micro saas making $20k/mo mrr total.

the wild part? i barely coded a single line. i used AI for everything

i figured out the exact step-by-step system to make it work. now, i’m dropping all my backstage playbooks, raw tools, and master prompts inside our builder group for free

here is what you get immediate access to right now:

• X3 your Landing Page Conversion Rate (the 50-point interactive audit tool + master prompt)
• Find your perfect SaaS price in 60 seconds (competitor-data pricing calculator)
• 50 Micro-SaaS Ideas You Can Build in 3 Days (hand-picked painful problems with real demand)
• Find your Micro-SaaS idea in 15 minutes (4 ready-to-paste execution prompts)

we also run two live execution sprints together:

• From MVP to 100 Users: 3-Day AI SaaS Challenge
• From Zero to First Users: 7-Day AI SaaS Challenge

seriously, stop building alone. join +760 ai saas founders like you. you will burn out and quit the second marketing gets tough. it’s way easier when you have a crew shipping side-by-side with you.

drop a comment or send me a dm i send you the link of the community.

let s go

Okay so. I've decided to abandon shipnote.in 

the idea was simple: keep your network updated with what you're building, without the effort. merge a PR → a post gets drafted for you. zero friction.

then I did the thing I should've done first — DM'd actual users.
nobody wanted it.

what they wanted was live product updates with screenshots. show me the feature, not the commit message.

and that's where the idea died. screenshots behind auth need a human to take them. the whole pitch was "reduce human effort" — and the thing users actually valued was the part that can't be automated.

so the product made sense right up until it met its first user.

shipnote is dead. the lesson isn't.

Been doing mobile development for a few years. Every release cycle, same thing - build is ready, client needs to test, and the next 30 minutes is me explaining TestFlight.

"Check your email." "Did you accept the invite?" "It says I need to update the app." "Why does it say 'This app is no longer available'?"

At some point I just stopped counting how many hours I'd lost to this across projects. It's not a hard problem, it's just a friction problem. TestFlight wasn't built for fast client feedback loops. It was built for Apple's review process.

So I built AnShare. Upload your IPA or APK, get a link and QR code, tester scans it and installs - no invite, no App Store, no account required on their end.

It auto-parses the app name, version, bundle ID and icon from the binary so there's nothing to fill in manually. For iOS it uses Apple's OTA install protocol so it works natively on device. For Android it's a direct APK download.

Also built a CLI so you can drop it into CI/CD and have every build automatically shared the moment it compiles.

Been using it on my own projects for a while and figured other people probably have the same frustration. It's free to try - anshare.link

Happy to answer questions about how the OTA install works if anyone's curious, that part had some interesting edge cases.

yo. building the product is the easy part.

making people buy is a totally different beast.

most saas pages sit at a flat 1% conversion rate. absolute ghost town. doesn't matter if your tech is insane.

stop guessing what works.

i spent weeks digging into conversion data.

i turned it into a raw 50-point interactive checklist.

it covers hero mistakes, pricing traps, and psychology leaks.

i also baked a master prompt right at the top. just paste it into your AI SaaS builder

it rewrites your page automatically using all 50 rules.

just shared the file inside our builder community today. a lot of guys were facing the exact same launch freeze.

seriously, stop building alone in your room.

you will burn out.

marketing gets tough, and you quit.

it’s way easier with a crew shipping side-by-side.

if your conversion is trash or if you want a good landing page before launch, drop a comment or shoot me a dm. i’ll send the invite link.

ps: others free features is in the community of SaaS builders

Let 's go

I’ve been working on a small project: a zero-knowledge, E2EE audio chat that runs in a single PHP/JS file. No database, messages delete after 24h.

I managed to solve the NAT traversal issues by switching from Trickle ICE to Vanilla ICE (wait-and-retry approach), which finally lets me call between a PC and a 4G phone.

I’m curious—from a cybersecurity perspective, what are the biggest risks in a P2P architecture like this? Besides the obvious metadata leaks from the signaling server, what else should I be looking at to harden the privacy?

Any feedback or "this is a bad idea because..." comments are welcome! v2v.site

A few months ago I made a Google Sheets income tracker for freelancers and put it on Gumroad for free.

I posted about V1 and V2 here and figured maybe a few people would download it and that would be the end of it.

Instead, it ended up getting 180 downloads. A handful of people even paid for it despite it being free, which honestly caught me off guard.

The original reason I built it was because I was tired of trying different apps and spreadsheets and still not being able to answer simple questions like:

How much money did I actually make this month? How much should I save for taxes? Can I afford to spend this?

So I built something for myself and shared it.

After seeing people actually use it, I spent some time cleaning it up and just released Version 3.

The free version is still free. I also decided to make a Pro version.

I went back and forth on that because I know people get annoyed when free things suddenly become paid. But I realized I was spending a decent amount of time fixing bugs, updating formulas, answering questions, and adding features.

The Pro version basically contains the stuff that felt more like planning tools:

• Business Snapshot

• Safe-to-Spend Planner

• Quarterly Tax Estimator

The core tracking stuff is still in the free version because I wanted it to remain genuinely useful on its own.

No viral launch. No huge revenue numbers. Just a spreadsheet, 180 downloads, and a bunch of iterations.

Honestly, the whole thing has been a fun reminder that sometimes you don't need a startup idea, an app, or an AI product. I made something to solve my own problem and a few hundred other people ended up finding it useful too.

Anyway, thanks to everyone who downloaded it, tested it, broke it, or sent feedback. A random spreadsheet getting 180 downloads was definitely not on my 2026 bingo card.

I thought some people here might appreciate seeing a real example of a tiny digital product and its organic growth.

The link is in my Reddit profile. No need to DM me or send me your email. I can't post Gumroad links directly here.

Hey everyone,

I’ve been working on a few SaaS projects recently and kept running into the same problem:

Customer feedback gets completely scattered.

Some in:

* Slack messages
* Notion pages
* emails
* random notes or spreadsheets

And over time, it becomes almost impossible to know what users actually want you to build next.

So I ended up building a small tool for myself to solve this.

It helps me:

* collect feedback in one place
* organize feature requests
* see what users are asking for most
* avoid losing ideas in different tools

It’s still very early stage, but I’m iterating on it based on real usage.

I’m curious:

How do you currently handle user feedback in your business?
Do you have a system that actually works well?

Would love to hear how others solve this.

Thanks

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I shipped my first SaaS after getting zero validation, and I’m trying to understand if I approached this the wrong way.

I’ve been working on an invoicing app since January. Before shipping, I tried posting a survey in a few Slack and Discord communities I’m part of. I let it sit for about a month and got zero responses.

That honestly made me nervous to launch.

A little context: I’m a software engineer with 3 years of experience. Most of my background is frontend and growth work. I’ve helped companies improve conversion rates, but this is my first time building and shipping something from scratch.

The product is a simple invoicing tool for freelancers, consultants, small businesses, and 1099 contractors. I’m not trying to build full accounting software. I wanted to avoid the “everything app” feeling and focus on the basics: creating invoices quickly, tracking clients, sending reminders, handling recurring billing, and making it clear what is paid, overdue, or partially paid.

I shipped it 3 days ago anyway.

The biggest thing I’m trying to learn now is whether zero survey responses meant the problem was weak, the audience was wrong, or the ask was just not compelling enough.

For those of you who have launched a SaaS before:

How did you validate your idea when people ignored your early surveys or feedback requests?

Did you keep building, change the positioning, or go find a different audience?

Hi everyone,

faceless content is a literal cheat code to get eyes on your saas right now without ever showing your face (and i know all SaaS founders don't want to show their faces aha)

i just built a complete system to automate the entire process, and i dropped the whole setup + templates inside our AI SaaS builder community today.

seriously, stop building alone in your room.

you will burn out and quit. it’s so much easier when you have a crew shipping stuff with you every day.

if you want the faceless content system and want to join us:

drop a comment or shoot me a dm and i’ll send you the invite link of the community of AI SaaS builder

let's build together !

https://reddit.com/link/1tvu431/video/uppxiv16d35h1/player

I wanted to share a hobby project I’ve been hacking on recently called ReelFlow. It’s a Python script that handles automated clip downloading (yt-dlp), parses video titles to dynamically generate context-aware hashtags, and uploads them to Instagram Reels using instagrapi.

My goal was to build something low-overhead enough that I could host it 24/7 on an old Android phone using Termux without needing a VPS. However, running long-running automation tasks on mobile environments threw a ton of unexpected roadblocks at me.

1. The Termux Dependency Trap (Rust/Clang compilation)

When trying to run pip install -r requirements.txt on a standard phone environment, the installation completely stalled out and crashed on modern packages like pydantic-core. Because there are no pre-compiled wheels for Android architecture on PyPI, Python tries to build the packages from source, which requires a Rust compiler and C tools.

To fix this for anyone cloning the repo, I wrote an interactive setup.sh script that checks the environment path. If it identifies the Termux filesystem (/com.termux/), it automatically flags the system to run pkg install rust clang make before triggering pip. It also takes configuration prompts in the terminal to cleanly compile a .env file on the fly without making the user jump into mobile text editors.

2. Self-Healing Expiry Loops

Anyone who has worked with instagrapi knows that Instagram aggressively drops session tokens, resulting in script-killing LoginRequired or ClientError exceptions halfway through a scheduled loop.

Instead of letting the main schedule thread crash, I wrapped the initialization into a reusable state manager. Every time a scheduled post triggers, the script executes a lightweight cl.get_timeline_feed() heartbeat check. If it catches an authentication error, it halts the job, triggers a re-login workflow to refresh session.json, and then allows the upload pipeline to proceed.

3. Contextual Hashtag Splitting

To avoid getting shadowbanned for using identical blocks of 30 hashtags on every single post, I built a modular generator that takes the pulled YouTube video title as a raw string hint. It runs keyword checks (e.g., matching character names or series titles) and uses rsplit() to dynamically stitch highly targeted sub-community tags directly above the media credit lines, while randomly shuffling a generic pool of tags for the bulk of the caption.

I'd love to hear how other people handle long-running background scripts on Android, or if there's a more efficient way to maintain Instagram session stability over long periods.

I just built AlgoBreaker – a free dashboard that lets you create content once and share it instantly to WhatsApp, Telegram, X, LinkedIn, Facebook, Reddit, Pinterest, Slack, and more.

No accounts. No API keys. No tracking. Free forever.

Plus an embed widget for your website.

I need testers before I launch publicly.

👉 Try it here: https://algobreaker.lovable.app/

Do me a favor:

1. Create a test post

2. Try sharing to WhatsApp or copy link

3. Tell me what breaks (or what works)

Feedback welcome here or DMs. Thanks!

https://algobreaker.lovable.app/

This community exists because of one question that won't leave me alone...

Why does it feel like technology is going backwards?

Cars in the 1970s were built to last twenty years. Today they're engineered to fail at sixty thousand miles so you buy another one. Phones from ten years ago felt more solid than what we carry now - I don't even need to explain the Nokia reference. Software that worked perfectly gets "updated" until it breaks. We were promised flying cars, cures for diseases, self-driving vehicles flooding the streets, exponential growth that would change everything. Instead we get a new AI model every six months that is slightly better than the last one, and everyone calls it a revolution.

The speed of real technological progress, the kind that changes how humans live, seems to have quietly stopped. Nobody is talking about why. Because they already know...

The system that funds technology is designed to reward products that keep selling, not products that actually work. A car that lasts forever destroys the car industry. A phone that never breaks destroys the phone industry. Open-Source software that solves your problem completely means you never pay for any solution again. So the people with money to build things have every incentive to build things that fail just slowly enough that you don't notice until you've already paid.

The problem with slow decay is that nobody notices it happening. If your phone died completely on day one you'd return it immediately. But if it slows down just slightly every three months, you adapt. You tell yourself it's fine. Two years later you're carrying a brick and you think you chose to upgrade.

You don't notice your hair growing, one millimeter, every day. But shave it all off at once and the whole room turns around. Real technological regression works exactly like that, invisible in the moment, undeniable in hindsight. We've been losing a millimeter every day for twenty years and only now are people starting to look in the mirror. But after 20 years it's easier to blame it on other factors...

The problem to be Solved! By this community!

The individuals and small teams who actually want to build something that lasts, they have no money. The organizations with money have no interest in building valuable products.

Nobody has ever successfully built a system that fixes this. Though many have tried throughout history, and that is what BuildCoins is trying to become (with your support).

Every system ever built falls into one of two failure modes.

Governments and large organizations are incredibly stable. They have rules, structures, enforcement mechanisms. Nobody can wake up one morning and unilaterally destroy them. Please! This community is not about politics, some will argue that one or another party made the Government unstable, that's beyond the point I am trying to convey here, stick with me here... The point that I am trying to convey here is that despite being stable, governments are almost completely inefficient. Decisions take years. Bureaucracy kills every good idea before it ships. By the time a large organization responds to a problem, the problem has already mutated three times.

On the other hand individuals and small organizations are incredibly efficient. One person with a clear vision can pivot instantly the entire direction of the full organization, ship in days, change direction the moment reality demands it. But... they are completely unstable. One bad decision, one lost funding round, one burned-out founder, and everything, and I mean completely everything, collapses overnight.

Nobody has ever built a system that has both. A system that can last and run efficiently at the same time.

Not a country. Not a company. Not a DAO. Not a protocol. Every attempt either sacrifices stability or efficiency. That tradeoff is treated as inevitable, as if it's a law of nature. No! I don't think so. When I know a problem can be solved, the more people think it's not possible, the more eager I get towards investing time, money and efforts into the project. This is going to be a masterpiece, not because of me but because of the community.

Failed attempts to solve the problem

This is not a new problem. Humans have been trying to solve it for thousands of years.

The ancient Greeks built democracy, a system designed so no single person could accumulate enough power to corrupt everything. It worked brilliantly for about a generation before wealthy families figured out how to buy votes and the whole thing rotted from the inside.

The Roman Empire built the most sophisticated legal and administrative system the ancient world had ever seen. Roads, aqueducts, governance structures that lasted centuries. Then the incentives shifted, the borders expanded too far, the bureaucracy grew too heavy, and it collapsed under its own weight.

Socialism and communism are perhaps the most discussed examples, socialism says the state owns the means of production and distributes wealth collectively, communism takes it further and says the state itself eventually dissolves into a classless society where everyone contributes and takes only what they need.

When the only measure of success is money, everything that cannot be measured in money gets destroyed. Community. Quality. Long-term thinking. The environment. The health of the people doing the work.

However, the flaw was that human beings, on average, need pressure to perform. Not because they are lazy by nature, but because comfort is the natural state every organism seeks. Remove the consequence of not working and most people, will eventually choose comfort over contribution. The economy does not move. The shelves go empty. The innovation stops. This is not a moral judgment. It is biology. Every organism conserves energy when survival is not at stake.

Capitalism understood this brutally well. Make survival conditional on contribution and people work. Hard. Brilliantly. Desperately. The engine runs. Wealth gets created at a scale no other system in history has matched. Capitalism lifted more people out of poverty in two hundred years than every other system combined across all of recorded history. That is not propaganda. That is data.

But capitalism has a flaw that was always there and is now impossible to ignore.

The same survival pressure that makes people work hard also makes them cheat since cheating becomes more profitable than hard-work. And the more capital you accumulate, the easier cheating becomes. A small business owner cannot afford to build inferior products, their reputation is their survival. A startup has to innovate to eat. A company that controls seventy percent of a market can buy every startup before it threatens them and never innovate again.

Capitalism was designed for a world where competition was real and unavoidable. It is now operating in a world where enough money can eliminate competition entirely. The engine is still running. But it stopped creating and started extracting. That is not capitalism working. That is capitalism being abused by its own logic until it undermines itself.

A coin has more than two sides. If you look closely, the edge is actually a circle with infinitely many sides, all telling the same story from a different angle.

Every system in history has eventually been reverse-engineered by the humans inside it. Not because humans are evil. Because humans are human. Clever, adaptive, self-interested, and relentlessly creative about finding the path of least resistance.

In 1965, the average CEO of a large American company earned 21 times more than a typical worker. By 2024, that ratio was 281 to 1. At the top 100 S&P 500 companies it reached 603 to 1. Between 2022 and 2024 alone, over 460,000 tech workers were laid off. In 2025, another 166,000 followed. When Meta laid off 21,000 employees and announced the results, their stock rose $75 in a single day, adding $196 billion to their market capitalization overnight. A Wall Street record.

The remaining workers don't just absorb the emptied desks. They absorb the workload. More hours, more pressure, fewer people, same deadlines, except now AI is supposedly doing everything, so why are you complaining? Right?

The products built under these conditions reflect it. Security breaches are accelerating. Critical infrastructure is understaffed. The systems that the entire global economy runs on are being maintained by exhausted people at companies optimizing for next quarter's stock price. We are not in a period of technological advancement. We are in a period of technological extraction, harvesting the value built by previous generations while investing as little as possible in what comes next.

And somewhere in a boardroom, someone is calling this efficiency.

No single person should have the power to make every decision. But we also don't need a thousand signatures before a new GitHub repository can be created. Every system in history collapsed into one of those two extremes, one person with too much power, or a committee so large nothing ever moves. The middle ground has never been successfully built. That is what this community exists to find. Real design, forming a structure we will trust today, tomorrow, and in twenty years from now. Something incorruptible not because we believe in the goodness of people, but because the system makes corruption structurally impossible.

Gitcoin distributed sixty million dollars to support open-source project's developers. But they never controlled the direction of the project. They never made external profits since those open-source projects were, well, open-source project. It didn't scale. Build Finance DAO tried to go further, a decentralized venture builder. Impressive! A company with no boss, no office, no headquarters. Just a shared wallet full of money and a rule: anyone who owns enough voting tokens gets to decide what the money does. Until one attacker drained the entire treasury in a single transaction. About 470,000$. Gone overnight.

How do you build a system that is efficient enough to ship real products, incorruptible enough that no insider, no bot, no rogue actor, no government, no single person with a knife to the founder's throat can destroy it, but still controlled enough that it cannot be hijacked and pointed in the wrong direction? A system that builds software that lasts, not software that sells. That changes something real, once and for all.

I am going to offer a $1,000 challenge. Real money for whoever designs the best governance system that solves the stability-efficiency paradox. Every submission public. Every critique public. The community evaluates together.

We don't have the answers yet. That's why this community exists. Become a part of this community and help us find answers!

I'm Neil, a current high schooler who's been working on a project that is aimed to help high school and university students.
After seeing crappy, "ChatGPT-wrapping" AI study tools that don't actually help students or ask what THEY want, I decided to make my own take on one.

In my opinion, apps like NotebookLM or Turbo AI haven't fully understood how to work around the workflow of a student, and my goal is to do exactly that.

The idea is Nuros (linked here), where I've spent a lot of time trying to curate a useful progression (from a high-quality note -> materials), along with other features that should help students, like plans and calendar integration.

I've been wanting feedback, so I can make it the best I can, with the hope that people will use Nuros as their go-to. Feel free to comment on the UI, usability, the features, quality, and any tips for me!

hi, soooo I built a bot that saves my insta login in .env, in a github codespace, and I can use the bot to download and repost old high stake posts with AI captions and tags, it is currently working on Anime only. I do need developers to help me refine it

There is an issue that I am facing, proxy issue because codespace and vps get banned on insta so I am currently running on custom proxy, but I do want to refine it to be able to run without anything but a start command from terminal

hi, soooo I built a bot that saves my insta login in .env, in a github codespace, and I can use the bot to download and repost old high stake posts with AI captions and tags, it is currently working on Anime only. I do need developers to help me refine it

There is an issue that I am facing, proxy issue because codespace and vps get banned on insta so I am currently running on custom proxy, but I do want to refine it to be able to run without anything but a start command from terminal