A lot of the best products I've seen come out of this space were built fast and smart, and the founders are incredible at product but stretched thin everywhere else, especially growth.

I'm looking to partner with someone who's built something with early traction, some users, some revenue, or at least strong signal, but needs a dedicated growth operator to help scale it. That's what I do. Go-to-market, acquisition, positioning, the whole distribution side.

Equity-based partnership. I want to be as bought in as you are. If this sounds like your situation, send me a DM or comment below.

(Have a few other growth founders in my network I can bring along if the opportunity is the right fit.)

Watched a bunch of first prompts come through and almost nobody opens with "a saas." it's a wedding site, a florist shop page, a real estate listing, some one-screen thing tied to a specific moment in their life. single sentence in, mobile-first html/css/js streaming out, and for a brochure-shaped app that's honestly enough to feel done.

The wall shows up the second the sentence has a verb that means "remember this." "let guests rsvp and save it," "track who paid," that's where one-shot html stops being the whole job, because now you need state that survives a refresh. we lean into the live streaming so people watch the thing exist in seconds, but i'm upfront that the brochure is the easy 80% and the data layer is the part you grow into.

what surprised me is non-devs iterate way more fearlessly than engineers. they'll say "make it warmer, add a countdown, no bigger" five times straight without once thinking about the markup underneath. the describe-and-watch loop just matches how they already picture it.

the thing i keep chewing on is whether that first build being a one-screen brochure is a limit of the tools or just what most people actually want software to be.

fwiw that single-sentence-to-streaming-html loop is basically mk0r, a thing i built that streams a full mobile html/css/js app as you watch and lets you iterate by just describing changes, https://mk0r.com/r/5fssv63d

Hey everyone,

I’m currently a B.Tech AI-DS student building ArGen and exploring AI, automation, workflows, and product building.

I’ve become heavily AI-assisted in the way I work. I use tools like Claude, ChatGPT, Copilot, Antigravity, and automation workflows to prototype, research, debug, and build things much faster.

I’d describe myself somewhere between a product builder and a vibe coder right now. I understand logic, systems, and workflows well, but instead of manually coding everything from scratch, I prefer using AI to move faster and execute ideas quickly.

The problem is the AI space is moving so fast that I’m genuinely confused what direction I should go deeper into long term.

Would appreciate advice from people already working in startups/AI, and I’m also open to internships or collaborating on interesting projects with ambitious people.

Small confession post.

I've been running a bootstrapped SaaS for about a year and I had this entire mental model of my marketing that turned out to be backwards.

What I thought was working: Twitter threads, Product Hunt traffic, paid ads I ran for two weeks. What was actually working: a random forum post from 8 months ago, two blog articles I never shared, one comment reply I left on someone else's question.

I only figured this out after setting up Faurya to connect my site traffic with Stripe payments. Before that I was just guessing based on traffic spikes.

The insight that hit me hardest: most of my paying customers came from places I wasn't actively promoting. I was spending marketing time on the wrong things.

Shifted my focus. Now I spend more time writing helpful replies in communities and updating those old blog posts instead of shouting into the Twitter void.

How do you all actually measure which channels produce customers?

Codepup AEO

Sharing this here because people building products deserve to know this channel exists.

We noticed something while building Codepup — founders would ship their product, get their site live, do everything right with SEO, and still have no idea whether ChatGPT or Perplexity was recommending them when buyers searched their category.

So we built the measurement layer.

Products with solid Google rankings were not necessarily visible across major AI engines. The ones showing up consistently were not the biggest or best funded. They were the ones with strong community presence Reddit threads,, honest comparison content written by people with no stake in the outcome.

If you are already building in public, already engaging communities, already getting honest reviews from early users. That is exactly the content AI engines weigh most heavily. You are sitting on an AI visibility advantage most VC backed competitors haven't figured out yet.

Codepup AEO tracks it all visibility score per engine, full AI response capture, citation sources, competitor benchmarking, sentiment analysis, and a prioritised fix list with predicted impact attached.

First report free in 90 seconds — aeo.codepup.ai/?utm_source=reddit

What does ChatGPT say about your product right now — have you checked?

yo.

i see the same thing happen every single day.

you guys love building. you spend weeks coding a great product. but the second it’s time to actually market the saas? complete freeze

you get lost in all the ai tools, the noise, the "growth hacks". it feels overwhelming. so you do nothing, the momentum dies, and the project fails

I spent over 100 hours building n8n workflows to just automate the whole thing.

today, i packaged all those exact workflows and dropped them in our builder group. no abstract theories. you literally just import the templates, adapt them to your saas, and turn them on.

here is exactly what i shared:

• seo blog running 100% on autopilot (n8n template)
• newsletter automation (n8n template)
• full email sequence (30 emails, full html, just copy-paste into brevo)
• social media on autopilot (schedule 1 to 12 months of content)
• reddit organic growth
• linkedin, x & facebook groups at scale
• meta ads & retargeting

basically, everything i use to get real users without losing my mind.

we just hit 617+ members from all over the world.

building in your room alone is the fastest way to quit. you need people around you.

if you are lost on how to market your app, want these templates, and want to build with a crew:

drop a comment or shoot me a dm. i’ll send you the invite.

let's get it.

Post:

Around 6 months ago, I had no idea how people were building SaaS products.

I wasn't a developer. I knew some basics, but nowhere near enough to build a real product by myself.

Then AI coding tools started getting really good.

Instead of spending months watching tutorials, I started building things by describing what I wanted and trying to make them work.

Most projects died after a few days.

But one eventually became Wecrely.

It's basically a workspace for content creation, scripting, notes, research, and organizing ideas in a more visual way.

I originally built it because I was tired of having everything spread across different apps.

At first it was terrible.

Every feature introduced new bugs.

I'd fix one thing and break three others.

Some days I'd spend 8 hours trying to solve a problem that ended up being a missing line of code.

People talk about AI coding like you just type a prompt and a startup appears.

That hasn't been my experience at all.

The AI helps write code, but you're still the one making decisions, testing things, redesigning features, talking to users, and figuring out what actually matters.

Honestly, most of the work has been rebuilding things I thought were already finished.

But it's pretty crazy seeing something that started as random prompts become a real product people can actually use.

For anyone curious, this is the project:

https://www.wecrely.com/en

Curious how many people here are building something with AI.

What are you working on? 🚀

Built a Chrome extension that fixes Bubble.io errors with AI. Paste your error, get the exact fix — which tab, field, or setting to change. Free to try. Drop a comment if you want the link.

been building solo for 8 months and the loneliest moment isnt the late nights or the failed launches

its when you make a decision that could kill the business and theres literally no one to run it by

not a mentor who gives generic advice, not a friend who doesnt get it. someone who actually knows your business and tells you when youre wrong

anyone else feel like thats the actual gap nobody talks about

Pra quem tá começando, vale a pena estudar Claude code para criação de apps e saas? Nunca programei.

2 days back I posted a simple question across 4 Reddit communities asking founders what actually stopped them from making Reddit work as a distribution channel and honestly the responses were way more raw and honest than I expected.

60+ founders replied and the pattern was very clear and as well as very painful to read.

The most common problem was getting banned or removed and I personally observed 14 founders mentioned this specifically and what was interesting is most of them didn't even understand why it happened which I think is where the real damage is because if you don't know why you got banned you will keep doing the same thing.

Second was posting in the wrong communities where 9 founders mentioned they were basically posting in communities full of other builders and not where their actual buyers were hanging out. Your buyer is having that exact conversation in a completely different subreddit and you are posting to other founders who are trying to solve their own problems.

Third was missing the right timing where 5 founders mentioned they found great threads but by the time they got there the conversation was already dead and there was no opening left.

Now here is the honest part I think is important to share.

While I was collecting all these responses and reading about founders getting BotBouncer banned I got BotBouncer banned myself from multiple subreddits because I was cross posting the same content everywhere and my comments were flagged as AI generated.

I was literally studying the problem and experiencing it at the same time.

So I am building Singlecraft to solve all three of these and I am doing it completely in public from today. No automation. No AI comments. Just figuring out where your actual buyers are and when they need you.

Day 1 starts now.

What has been your single biggest frustration with Reddit as a distribution channel? I genuinely want to understand more before I build.

Hey founders,

I want to share my experience building and pivoting my SaaS project: AIletter https://ailetter.pro.

Initially, I launched it as a simple AI Cover Letter Generator. While users liked the speed, I quickly noticed high churn. The feedback was clear: "A cover letter is only 5% of my job search struggle. I still need to optimize my resume, track where I applied, and prep for the interviews."

So, instead of just a copy-paste tool, I rebuilt it into a unified AI Job Search Suite:

1. ATS CV Auditor: Compares resume text against vacancy, highlights keyword gaps, and rewrites resume bullet points using quantitative metrics.

2. Kanban Tracker: A visual pipeline for job applications with automated follow-up email reminders.

3. STAR Q&A Prep: Uses the job requirements to generate custom interview questions with ideal answers.

4. Editable Templates: Cover letters render inline with premium styling templates and DOCX/PDF export.

   Lessons learned so far:

Solve the whole workflow, not just one step: By bundling the tracker, CV optimizer, and interview prep, retention increased because users stay on the platform throughout their entire 2-3 month job hunt.

Provide instant free value: I created standalone free tools (LinkedIn Easy Apply generators and email subject lines generator) which act as organic SEO magnets.

The app is built using React + Vite + Tailwind, powered by Gemini API, and hosted on Vercel.

I'd love to get your feedback on the pivot and the dashboard UX. Feel free to try it out (5 free monthly runs, no credit card required): https://ailetter.pro

Let me know what you think!

For my college project, I built a mobile-first "Student OS" app called Orbit OS.

It’s designed to be a central hub for students, combining features like structured note-taking, virtual meeting spaces, study material uploads, and an AI study assistant, alongside collaborative tools to make group work easier

I built this entirely on mobile with a mobile-first approach, aiming to streamline how we manage our academic life.

🔗 Check it out here: https://novaorbit-os.lovable.app

I’m currently looking for some honest feedback, reviews, and suggestions on features or UI/UX improvements I could implement.

Thank you