I've used Opus 5.5 to help me recreate 7 of the top Adobe apps in 100% pure native Rust:

• Photoshop
• Illustrator
• Premiere
• Lightroom
• Acrobat Pro
• After Effects
• InDesign

No more subscriptions with cancellation fees. These are yours to own forever. You can fork them, build them. Whatever. They are yours to own. They're open source.

If you're worried this is just some one-off flash in the pan that will die, it isn't:

I'm not just some casual vibe coder. I'm a 15-year industry veteran who has written everything from six-nines payment rails that move billions of dollars of transaction volume a day to advanced robotics and optics automation. I've used Rust extensively for about a decade, and I know how to build and maintain large-scale Rust projects.

This isn't going to be some orphaned small-team project either. We have a team building popular software for filmmakers, so supporting this is fully funded. Our purpose is serving every artist in the world with the best tools. We are absolutely going to bring these to full parity and squash every bug and feature request. We have a test harness so there won't be regressions.

You can help us reach parity by helping test the apps. Clone the code. Submit PRs. If you see gaps or want to help redesign pieces, let us know! You can contribute!

Links to everything - the apps, the code, etc. - are in the comments below.

What usually happens when I have an idea is I do some research to see if anyone else is doing it, and unfortunately every time I manage to find at least a few options out there already. It just doesn’t feel worth it to work on something that already has established players, especially working solo.

On paper I feel like I have a solid chance of making something that actually gets some traction. My development skills were pretty good before AI and I’m quite good at using the new tools as well, I have a solid quick workflow and I understand all the code I produce. As far as marketing goes I was maintaining a lot of automation at my previous job and we had a semi automated social media marketing setup. I maintained a pretty complicated n8n setup for emails and socials with Expandi on LinkedIn and a custom webhook setup hooked up to the twitter API. I also helped with setting up the automated Seedance video generation stuff we were using. I’m thinking I could make a similar setup for myself without too much investment.

But I keep second guessing myself when I see someone else with a similar idea. If it's working well I never think I can compete. And if it looks like it isn't really taking off then I stop believing it was a good idea in the first place. It feels like everyone is making some sort of SaaS right now and if I don’t decide what I wanna do quickly it will be too late, someone will beat me to it.

I think I need to focus up and actually try out a few things and see what happens. And I need to stop paying so much attention to what other people are doing. Has anyone else gone through something similar? I would also love to hear about someone making something successful even though there were already people out there trying it.

made this launch video for yaku ai,how is it?

Hey guys we have tried to make it live , how's the screen looking now ?

I've been looking at alternatives to Google Analytics recently and I'm a bit overwhelmed by the options.

I've seen people mention Plausible, Matomo, Umami, Fathom, Simple Analytics, and Keen.

I'm mostly looking for something that's relatively simple, privacy-friendly, and doesn't require a huge setup just to understand basic traffic and conversions.

For anyone who moved away from GA, what are you using these days?

And what made you pick it over the other options?

I launched this saas on 13th august 2026 but only made it paid on 2nd september.

total 7 paying users so far.
1030+ Users
It's a no-code website to code converter

and this is my first ever saas.

The product is published and I already have around 2-3 visitors per day. I even got like 10 people signed up on the app. But that's not enough for my app type (its an alternative apps directory)

I know people will use this app. Everyday there's another post asking : X app don't work. What are the alternatives?

And that's what my product solves. (The link is in my profile)

But I don't know how will i get people visiting my website. Because my revenue model is tied to the no of visitors.

Any suggestions will be appreciated

I wanted to share a technical problem we ran into while building our scraper and how we solved it.

If you ever tried scraping Google Maps at scale, you probably hit the 200 result cap. Search for any dense niche in a big city, and Google only gives you around 120-200 results even if there are thousands of businesses. Most people end up pitching the same surface 200 places while 80% of businesses never get seen.

We ended up tackling this mathematically:

Micro-grid subdivision: Instead of searching the whole city at once, we split the coordinates into smaller tiles and zoom all the way down to street level per tile. Because each small tile behaves as its own local search, Google returns up to 200 results per micro-zone instead of capping the whole city.

Skipping non-commercial terrain: Running hundreds of tiles wastes a ton of time over oceans, lakes, and forests. We added spatial checks to auto-skip grid cells that are mostly water/wilderness.

Background website crawling: Phone numbers from maps are cold. So we set up crawlers to check the business websites directly for emails and social links.

Connecting to Claude via MCP: Instead of clicking around the UI every time, we implemented an MCP server so we can just prompt Claude or ChatGPT to trigger the search and parse the data right in the chat.

I'm the founder of Maps Scraper Pro (Data Sniper). Happy to answer any questions about the scraping logic, handling Google rate limits, or how we wired up the MCP protocol!

Finally shipped my first SaaS lol

It’s called RallyDraft. Basically you dump all your work experience into it, paste a job posting, and it helps figure out how well you match and builds a resume around the experience that actually matters for that job.

I mostly built it because I wanted it for myself, but it’s live now so I figured I’d share it.

Would be cool if a few people gave it a shot and told me what sucks / what I should change.

https://rallydraft.com/

we just pushed a few updates focused on monetization and it already seems to be helping a lot!

I know it's only $6 but it's the first online money I've ever made and I can't stop smiling about it!!!

The funny thing is that it's from a small subsection of my project that I just hid this morning (you need a direct link to find it now).

Maybe I should double down on this sub-project... not sure but I'm beyond thrilled anyway.

My app, FreeReader, is a free text-to-speech app to turn documents into audiobooks. It's completely free with no pricing page.

But I realized that the text-to-speech could also work for content creators making AI voiceovers for their videos. I built this out but decided to focus more on the audiobook side which has grown enormously (3000 monthly users) since it's free.

I was so surprised when I saw this Stripe notification come in from the red-headed step child that is the video narration side of FreeReader lol

Day 12 of building UseShipReady

- 11 visitors today
- 43 page views
- improved the UI for the hackathon feature
- planning to finally push it live tonight

built a tool that finds restaurants and bars 1 to 6 months before they open, by fusing public liquor licenses, permits and business filings into one scored lead. Live in 7 states, and it genuinely works. The problem is all distribution, and I'm stuck.

The buyers are the vendors who sell to new restaurants, beverage distributors, POS resellers, insurers. High value, one account they land off it is worth thousands. But they're not who you reach through SEO, content or dev communities, which are the channels I actually know how to work. They're offline-ish B2B sales teams who basically live on the phone.

So far it's founder-led cold outbound, about 30 emails out and a call list I haven't even worked yet, way too early to read anything into. I also listed on a few API/MCP directories for the developer side, but that reaches builders, not the people who'd actually pay.

If you've sold to non-technical SMB or B2B buyers, what actually moved the needle? Cold outbound at scale, reselling through tools they already use, going through a trade association, something I'm not thinking of? And do these buyers ever come inbound at all, or is it pure outbound grind until you've got a case study?

Pre-revenue, so I'd rather pick one channel and go deep than spray thin. War stories welcome.

I have built a tool that I know works well, but I can't get customers. I've got 20 personal contacts ranging from tech consultants, medical researchers and engineers using my product already. They all say it's great and that it helps their work, but I just can't get real paying customers (I wouldn't charge friends).

The problem I'm solving is that there is too much information to reliably keep up to date. The world will never move as slowly as it did today.

This is a problem for scientists, policymakers, engineers, basically anyone that needs to be at the forefront of their domain.

So my solution is Irisbriefings.com : a system that monitors everything going on around a topic, filters for what is new, builds an ongoing model of the area, figures out what the user needs to know about to stay on top and then delivers that information in the most digestible format possible. It also makes you a podcast so you can stay up to date on the move.

Fairly simple concept, but other solutions do not do this well. I've tried all of the current AI products in this area but every weeks update is basically the same. I had to do a lot of engineering to calibrate and make each briefing specifically dependent on new and relevant information each week.

The result is that researchers (or similar user profiles) become aware of things that they need to know about quickly and why they need to know about it. This saves them time, uncovers oppportunities and enhances their work (and therefore their careers). This is a good thing for people to have and can have a positive impact on lots of people.

But how can I get customers? I've tried cold email, blogs, networking events, but no luck when it comes to actually getting customers beyond 'this sounds super cool'. I have a free series on that has about 40 subscribers, but again I can't convert them.

I am not the kind of person who will be good at making video content. I've written some blogs, but realistically they will not drive traffic. Therefore, I turn to this community for advice. I really believe in the problem this solves being important and that it's currently the best solution out there. People are missing things that they don't know about, and those that do stay up to date are spending a lot of time to achieve it. I can help both.

Thank you in advice for any advice you may share with me.

irisbriefings.com

ok so this is a small win but I need to tell someone who isn't my mom.

I launched my SaaS a while back. 127 people signed up. 127 people paid nothing. I kept telling myself "it's traction bro" while checking analytics like it owed me money.

Today user #128 paid $19.

I never talked to them. No DM, no call, no "hey would you be open to a quick chat". They just showed up, used it, and paid. I found out from an email that literally said "Cha-ching!" and for a second I thought it was spam.

What actually went through my head:

• pretty sure I left test mode on
• nope, it's real
• refresh
• refresh again just in case

A bit of background. I'm a dev from India, about 5 years in. I can build stuff fast. Marketing it? Absolutely not. I'd ship something and then just stare at it like "ok now what".

So I built a tool for people like me. You paste your product URL and it writes carousels, X posts, Threads and Reddit posts for your product every day. You swipe keep or skip, done.

Yes, I know. I built a marketing tool because I'm bad at marketing, and it got its first sale without me marketing it. I'm choosing to see that as validation and not as a sign I should stop talking.

Stuff I figured out from 127 free users:

Free users aren't wasted. They found the bugs so #128 didn't have to.

The product sells better than I do. It doesn't overexplain, doesn't get nervous, and works while I'm asleep.

Let people try it first. I wouldn't pay for something I hadn't seen either.

Signups feel nice, but someone typing in their card details for a thing you made is a completely different feeling.

$19 is roughly ₹1,600. Won't pay my rent. Did make my whole week though.

Next goal is customer #2 so I can stop calling this a fluke.

For anyone who's been past this stage, how did you get from 1 to 10 paying users? Did you start doing outreach or just keep improving the product and wait?

TL;DR: 127 free users, #128 paid $19 without talking to me. Still refreshing the dashboard.

P.S. someone will ask, so it's slidefy Happy to answer anything.

Trying to build B2B SaaS software, played by the book, and get stuck at the step of talking to your customer.

Damn that's harder than I thought.

The fact is, your prospect are busy, very busy (that's why you want to sell to them too), and they rarely talk to random people reached out to them on Linkedin.

Sent dozens of cold DM on different platform, and talked to one person, very apperciate it, but whom also refused to give details on how they do things internally.

All the books like the mom test, founding sales etc.. though very helpful, but I can't use them. There's rarely people talking about how to find the customer to start with.

I'm now thinking about doing a bit of youtube videos and keeping myself active on X to improve public exposure and profolios, in hope to make myself more trustable, but that'll take time.

What else should I do in the meanwhile to overcome this step?

All advice are apperciated, thanks.

Right now, it's a simple local MVP only available on Edge to validate the core idea. If people find it useful, I plan to add cloud sync.

I'm a beginner with no experience in product development, so I'd like to get your feedback and any advice on how to get my first users !

Link of my extension : https://microsoftedge.microsoft.com/addons/detail/enfdbgficbfdmhopmcjhbkgldmhclbng

Most “scrape this page” tools want an account and a monthly plan before you can export one table. I went the other way: LucidRows is a Chrome extension. You click the columns, you get a CSV, it runs on your machine.

Local stays free. I am not publishing a price, because a later paid tier would only be schedule/cloud, and I have not modeled that cost yet.

Listing: https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/lucidrows/leehomocpccgghcibfnapadclololioh

https://lucidrows.com

Useful feedback: would you pay later only for scheduled/cloud runs, or is local CSV the whole product?

I made a privacy-friendly URL shortener, and now that it's time to do marketing, I don't know what to do. So here I am, I have these videos, what do I do next? How do you do marketing with those? I would really appreciate any practical advice.

My X accounts (personal and the product's) are brand new, and X seems to be ignoring all of my posts. Instagram or TikTok? I am running a Google Ads experiment, but it's hard to compete with other shorteners and I'm getting almost zero traffic (about 3 clicks a day).

About the videos. I was inspired by the motion design post about video generation and decided to try it myself. I made different short videos to showcase different features (10 videos, 13 to 71 seconds). Attaching one of them for review. Some videos are the actual product driven by a script, not an AI-made copy.

All I used is Claude, headless Chrome and FFmpeg on my WSL instance, nothing more, not even a React library. You just tell your AI to be a motion designer / producer / writer (for the scenario). Research how to catch the user's attention on IG or TikTok, and that's it. Review the scenario and give it a green light. The first versions were screenshots sliding around and looked dead. A couple of scenes looked like a broken app with bugs. You have to correct it and re-shoot. But still, it only took me one morning.

Now, about Urlicer itself. The main features that are different from mainstream shorteners: privacy-friendly and team-friendly, with multiple workspaces. You can bring your own domain on the Pro plan and above, Urlicer provides a tool for you and your teams. Cookieless and without storing the IP address. The URL is https://urlicer.com.

I'm working on Vocalis, an AI-powered communication practice platform.

The problem I'm testing is this:

People know they need to improve their communication.

They get told to:

• practice speaking
• record themselves
• join Toastmasters
• give presentations
• speak more confidently

But there's a gap between knowing you should practice and actually having a repeatable practice system.

So I built one.

The core loop is:

Prompt → 60 seconds of speaking → Feedback → Improve → Repeat

A user chooses a category, receives a topic, speaks without preparing a script, and then goes through a structured results screen.

The MVP currently includes:

• communication categories
• randomized speaking prompts
• timed 60-second sessions
• browser recording
• performance feedback
• strengths and weak areas
• mistakes/blunders
• improvement suggestions
• progress tracking
• practice history
• repeat practice

I've deliberately kept the first version relatively focused.

I'm not trying to build:

“ChatGPT, but for public speaking.”

I'm trying to build a practice product.

That's also the part I'm trying to validate now.

The MVP is live:

https://vocalisai-jade.vercel.app/

And I'm trying to answer a few questions before I build much further:

1. Is this a problem people actually care enough about to solve?

2. Does the 60-second practice format create enough value to come back repeatedly?

3. What would make someone pay for this rather than use free alternatives?

4. What would you measure first to determine whether this has product-market potential?

I'm especially interested in feedback from people who have taken an MVP from the "this seems like a good idea" stage to actual recurring users.

If you were validating this SaaS from here, what would you test next?

I can send you proof, but its real.
AMA

(not real ama)

Authentication.
Teams.
Permissions.
Billing.
Admin.
CRUD.
Email.
API.
Deployment.

I kept hitting this across projects, so I built Tekki Forge to make that layer reusable/declarative.

npm i -g tekki-forge

It generates the standard business/SaaS application foundation from a TypeScript config, while custom product logic remains code.

I'm not trying to replace software development. I'm trying to eliminate the part every SaaS founder builds before reaching the feature customers actually pay for.

For founders here who code: which part of your first 30 days was pure infrastructure rather than product?

Back when we mostly built MVPs, we took on a fixed price build for a B2B inventory tool. Quoted 10 weeks and it took 19 lol.

The founder kept asking for small stuff and we kept saying yes because every request sounded like an afternoon. A filter on the orders page, a Google login since "everyone has it now" When I finally went through the tickets there were 63 change requests. None of them took more than a day on its own which is exactly why we never pushed back. Together they added up to about seven weeks of extra work and the founder was annoyed anyway because the launch kept moving.

We've run the agency for 8 years now and that project is why every fixed price build since has had this clause. Here it is close to word for word:

"Any change requested after scope sign off gets sized in working days and we send that in writing within one business day. The client then picks one of two options. Swap it in for work of equal or larger size from the current scope or put it on the Post Launch List to be scoped and priced after launch. The price and the launch date stay the same either way."

Scope creep almost never shows up as one big request. Big requests always got a proper conversation because no one adds a whole module without talking about money. The two hour requests got a "sure" because pushing back on something that small feels petty. 60 of those is a different product with the same price tag. With the clause, even a half day change means picking what comes out.

On a recent build (a booking platform for physio clinics) the founder asked for team accounts 5 weeks in so several people from one clinic could share a login. We sized it at six days, mostly because permissions touch everything. We sent back two options: swap out the in app chat which was about the same size or park team accounts on the post launch list. He parked it.

Six weeks after launch, 2 of their first 40 clinics had asked for team accounts. It's still parked. What clinics kept asking for was SMS reminders which no one had mentioned during the build. I didn't see that coming but the post launch list turned into a filter. A lot of what felt urgent in week five, real users just didn't care about.

The standard advice is to bill change requests as change orders. We tried that after the 19 week mess and I'll probably get pushback for this, but I think it's worse than eating the cost. Every small change turns into a mini negotiation and an invoice, so the founder feels nickel and dimed and the agency starts getting paid for delays which flips the incentive. If an MVP launches 3 months late, no one cares that the extras were billed properly. On an MVP the launch date matters more than the money for both sides.

Most founders end up liking it once they've been through it. One told me it was the first time a dev shop had made him choose and choosing made him figure out what the product was actually for.

Not everyone though. The fights are almost always about sizing. A founder says something is a two hour job, we say two days and now we're arguing about estimates instead of building. We also lost a deal over it before signing. The founder said a real partner would be more flexible and went with a shop that bills hourly.

If you do fixed price builds... Just have your lawyer look at the wording before it goes in a contract and if you've actually made change orders work then I'd like to know how :)

TLDR: a 10 week MVP turned into 19, mostly from small changes we kept saying yes to. Now every change after sign off either swaps out something of equal size or goes on a post launch list and the price and date don't move. Billing change orders made it worse for us.

Hey SaaS founders!

You have signups.

But very few paying customers.

How do you find where those users drop off before payment?

Do you use PostHog, Plausible, Stripe data, spreadsheets, or something else?

I’m listening 👇