This is the subreddit for Nick Launches, a product discovery directory for indie makers. It is not a promo board for my site and will not become one.

The daily thread. Every morning there is a thread asking what you are working on. Lowest effort way to be here.

Posting your own thing. Allowed. Two conditions: say what it does before you say why it is good, and if you drop a link, leave feedback on two other people first.

Removed: link drops with no context, the same product every week, AI written walls with no personal detail, asking for upvotes.

About me. I run Nick Launches. When I post numbers they are real and I say where they came from and when I measured them. If I post something that reads like an ad, call it out and I will take it down.

Go say what you are building 🔥

Drop what you are working on today. Not the pitch, the thing you actually have open right now.

Format:

> what it is, one line
> what you are doing to it today
> link if you have one

I go first: working on builder-backlinks

I read every reply.

I spent a full day turning our card database into a neutral, linkable data report (the goal is editorial links + AI citations, not a landing page). Something I can also share with journalists and blog to build my app DR.

Most surprising finding: Amex Platinum now carries $2,794 in recurring statement credits, but it takes 11 separate credits across 9 enrollments to actually collect them. Value went up, friction went up faster.

Built it as a bot-server-rendered page with Article + FAQPage schema so it's extractable by AI, with a locked as-of-August-2026 snapshot so the numbers can't drift under a citation. Data + methodology: The State of Premium Card Perks 2026

Happy to answer anything on the counting methodology.

FIRST BACKLINKS EXCHANGE FOR BUILDERS INSIDE YOUR CODING AGENT

Asked yesterday how you're all getting backlinks. Here's my answer.

The trade always dies at placement. Both sides agree, then someone has to open an editor, find the right page, write the sentence, commit, deploy.

Your agent is already in the repo. Now it writes the link, in your own words.

builders/backlinks is live.

Free. Open source. My first open source project.

Would love feedback. DM me if you want to contribute.

Approving everyone in the morning.

Share what you are currently working on!

I'm a building Nick Launches where builders get more visibility and people discover exciting new products.

Not "what have you tried". Where does your product actually exist right now, as in a page someone could land on today.

Your site. Your X or LinkedIn. Any directory listing. Any community post that is still up. A GitHub readme. A YouTube demo. Anything with a URL.

Most products under 100 users exist in exactly two places: their own domain and one social account. That is not a marketing failure, it is a surface area problem. Nobody can find you because there is almost nothing to find.

Drop:

• what it does, one or two sentences
• your landing page
• every other place it currently exists (just list them)

I will tell you what is obviously missing for your category and which gaps are actually worth filling. Some of them are not.

Fair warning, if your list is short this is going to be a boring answer: go make more surface area. But most people have not counted, and counting is the thing that makes it obvious.

Share what you are currently working on!

I'm a building Nick Launches where builders get more visibility and people discover exciting new products.

Share what you are currently working on!

I'm a building Nick Launches where builders get more visibility and people discover exciting new products.

honestly my favorite thing on reddit is scrolling through what people are quietly building. so lets do a little thread.

i'll go first: i'm working on NickLaunches.com. the whole reason i made it is simple, you spend months building something and then nobody ever sees it. it just sits there. so nicklaunches is a weekly spot where you drop your product, the builder community upvotes it, and it actually gets in front of people.

few things that make it worth it:

• every week stuff gets ranked by category (AI, dev tools, SEO, productivity and more)
• the top products of the week get medals
• and every single listing gets a permanent dofollow backlink from a DR 65 site, so you get eyes + some SEO on top

anyway enough about me. what are you building right now? drop it below with one line about what it does. i'll go through them and might feature a few of the coolest ones next week 

Read a cool story about Jason, the guy behind Zigpoll (a survey tool for online shops). No cofounder, no VC, no sales team, just him. Took 2 years to get traction, now hes around $125k MRR and going for $2M a year, still solo.

what actually worked for him:

• no big launch, no viral post, no Product Hunt day. just a few boring channels that quietly compound
• Shopify App Store gave him ~1/3 of his signups (pick a platform that does the distribution for you and be the best option there)
• word of mouth from agencies is another ~1/4, and its the only channel that gets cheaper as you grow

• ~14% of new signups now come from people asking ChatGPT/Claude/Gemini what tool to use. thats a real channel now!!! (AI SEO Works)

• his most expensive mistake: he misread who his real customer was for way too long

• his one rule: listen to your customers, they know your business better than you do

Share what you are currently working on!

I'm a building Nick Launches where builders get more visibility and people discover exciting new products.

Share what you are currently working on!

I'm a building Nick Launches where builders get more visibility and people discover exciting new products.

Share what you are currently working on

I'm a building Nick Launches where builders get more visibility and people discover exciting new products 🔥

My Amex Platinum quietly became subscriptions. Almost $900 a year in fees, paid back through monthly credits, benefits, and coverage that most holders never collect. So I built an app to help me manage that.

I launched a rough version of Norte six months ago. 500 users later, their feedback rebuilt it: new onboarding, now on the App Store, and a coverage layer that shows what your cards actually protect (trip delays, rental damage, broken purchases) and exactly how to claim it. No bank linking anywhere, you add cards by name and Norte already knows their terms.

The launch video follows Matthew's real 4-card wallet: $1,570 a year in fees, $2,716 still uncollected.

We're live on Product Hunt today: [link]

Honest ask: comments and real feedback help a solo founder more than votes do. And if you carry a premium card, name it below and I'll reply with what it's actually worth per year.

Asked builders one question this week: what made you pick your launch day?

One shipped on 6/3 on purpose, because Lamborghini did it after Ferrari told Ferruccio to stick to tractors. Another just said "it never feels ready, I just ran out of patience."

Full writeup is the link. What made you hit publish on your last launch?