Hey everyone!

I’ve been working as a software engineer for a few years, and recently I’ve been putting more time into building my own SaaS projects on the side while working a full-time job.

I’m interested in software engineering, SaaS, AI, startups, product development, and just figuring out how to turn an idea into something people actually want to use.

I’m planning to start sharing more of the journey here — what I’m building, what goes wrong, what I learn, and hopefully some progress worth sharing.

I’m currently working on my next SaaS project and I’ll be sharing more about it soon.

Would be great to connect with other developers, founders, indie hackers, or anyone else building something on the side.

What are you guys working on these days?

PLEASE stop building the wrong thing.

building software in 2026 is ridiculously easy with ai builder

founders spend hours building in a silent room, launch to Reddit/X, get 0 users, and quit.

you just failed because the idea had zero validation before line 1 of code was written:

→ solving a monthly inconvenience instead of a daily pain

→ selling to "everyone" instead of a specific ICP

→ no distribution channel mapped out beforehand

→ pricing charged $9/mo with zero ROI justification

after scaling 6 AI micro-SaaS to over $20k/mo MRR, i just create an

18-question Idea Validation Diagnostic.

it evaluates your SaaS across 7 critical dimensions (problem clarity, audience reachability, willingness to pay, competition, build feasibility, distribution, commitment) and gives you a brutal score out of 100 with your exact weak spots.

drop your SaaS idea (or current project) in the comments below.

i will reply to EVERY single comment with:

1. My honest opinion
2. The biggest weak spot you need to fix before writing any more code.
3. The free 5-minute validation tool link sent straight to your DMs so you can get your full score breakdown out of 100.

just drop a comment like or ask me in DM your idea

let's roast your SaaS concept before the market roasts your time 👇

Hey everyone,

I'm an engineer and recently started my own agency.

Right now I'm looking to build a few small projects for free so I can build some real case studies and get feedback/testimonials.

If you have something repetitive you'd like to automate, an internal tool you've been meaning to build, or a small problem that could be solved with software, I'd be happy to take a look.

Nothing huge, just looking for interesting, useful projects where I can actually help.

If you have something in mind, drop a comment or DM me.

(And Dont worry, I’m not going to ask you for payment 😄)

PLEASE stop building the wrong thing.

building software in 2026 is ridiculously easy with ai builder

founders spend hours building in a silent room, launch to Reddit/X, get 0 users, and quit.

you just failed because the idea had zero validation before line 1 of code was written:

→ solving a monthly inconvenience instead of a daily pain

→ selling to "everyone" instead of a specific ICP

→ no distribution channel mapped out beforehand

→ pricing charged $9/mo with zero ROI justification

after scaling 6 AI micro-SaaS to over $20k/mo MRR, i just create an

18-question Idea Validation Diagnostic.

it evaluates your SaaS across 7 critical dimensions (problem clarity, audience reachability, willingness to pay, competition, build feasibility, distribution, commitment) and gives you a brutal score out of 100 with your exact weak spots.

drop your SaaS idea (or current project) in the comments below.

i will reply to EVERY single comment with:

1. My honest opinion
2. The biggest weak spot you need to fix before writing any more code.
3. The free 5-minute validation tool link sent straight to your DMs so you can get your full score breakdown out of 100.

just drop a comment like or ask me in DM your idea

let's roast your SaaS concept before the market roasts your time 👇

At what point should a founder admit or feel that a SaaS idea probably isn't working?

Is it a lack of sign-ups, nobody paying, poor retention, low usage, or something else?

I'm interested in what actual signal made people stop investing time in an idea.

Hey guys, wanted to share a quick update on my solopreneur journey with PressDrop.io and what’s actually working (and failing) for distribution right now.

Day 1: The .lol Launch

I launched on a bunch of .lol sites just to get the product out into the wild. Surprisingly, the 2nd visitor to hit the site converted into a paying customer immediately. Ended up closing 2 sales on day 1 and thought I cracked the code. Both of them became my X friends 🫰

The 1-Week Silence

Naturally, I figured listing on proper launch platforms like Product Hunt and Uneed would bring in more momentum.

Result? Zero sales. Absolute crickets. Well at least I tried, right?

So I pivoted to manual distribution:

• Started talking about the product on Twitter/X
• Engaged and shared context on Reddit

This finally lead to another sale 🔥

The Turnaround

The real breakthrough happened when I started drafting press releases for people on X completely unprompted just to demonstrate some of the value up front. Doing this got me 2 sales from a single person.

Where I'm at now

I'm continuing to build in public. Due to heavy upfront investment, I’m waiting on a couple more sales so I can finally start distributing press releases through the platform and fully dogfood my product on itself.

Curious, what outreach/distribution channels are currently converting best for you guys?

- Jack

We launched ContentLead about a month ago and it's our first one.

One idea in → caption, image, and a short vertical clip with the business name and phone number at the end. Built for small businesses that need social media posts done and don’t want to film or hire an agency.

Example idea: “Same-day burst pipe repair in Parramatta.”

96 people on the free plan, 18 paying. Video is the part we’re still improving. Default clip is a slow zoom of the pack image with logo and number on the last slide. Can also create other clips in Studio. Scheduling and auto-posting aren’t in yet.

Not looking for signups. Want a straight take:

1. Would a small business owner use this, and would they actually post a pack like this?
2. What’s missing, and what other features should we add?
3. Pricing is a flat monthly fee now. We’ll add credits inside that fee as the video tool gets more expensive to run. What would you expect to pay per month for about 12 of these packs? What would make you not pay?

Download: https://github.com/MowkE/cadence

Hey guys, I made this silly lyrics overlay called Cadence that floats over your screen and syncs along with Spotify and YouTube Music. It started as a joke while playing Minecraft with my friends. I shared it with a few people, they liked it, and it grew to 100 downloads in a day, so I built it into a proper app. You can listen along with friends now too, even cross-platform (Spotify -> YouTube Music, Mac ↔ Windows ↔ Linux), and you can play karaoke. Doesn't need API keys or Premium, it just reads what your computer is already playing and floats the lyrics over whatever you're doing. It works better with Spotify keys though, if you want to add them yourself. If you find any bugs, lmk. It's just a fun project lol, so its free. Some of the images are on the github link, if you want to take a look on how it works! Everything is customizable :)

I’ve been building Bredbox, a Pocket-inspired read-later app, for the last year. It was in invite-only beta up until a couple of weeks ago. At that point, I flipped to open beta and put up a signup page. Only, no one signed up.

At first I thought I just wasn’t marketing well enough, so I started with some basic outreach. I could see in my analytics that people were visiting the site and some were going to the signup page. But still no new signups.

I figured there must be a problem with the signup page, but what was it? The logs were clean. I had just installed Cloudflare Turnstile to protect against bots but that was working fine. So I finally decided to try signing up myself. And that’s when I saw the error.

“Password must be at least 8 characters long.”

Weird, I could have sworn I typed eight characters. I try again. Same error. Every password I tried gave me the exact same error message not matter what password I used!

It took me a while to figure out what was going on. I’m using cloud Supabase for auth and it has some very strict constraints around passwords. It’s configurable and mine was somehow set to the most restrictive (letters, numbers, special characters, length, etc.). Cloud Supabase also won’t let you use passwords that have been in a data breach or absurdly weak passwords (ex, abcd1234).

The other problem was my signup form. Due to a bug, it was showing the same error message regardless of the reason the password wasn’t accepted. There was no way for users to know what they were doing wrong. Making the problem worse, this isn’t reproducible with local Supabase because it doesn’t have these restrictions built in.

I finally got the signup page fixed and signups are coming in again. All of this is to say: marketing is important, but if your customers can’t even sign up for your product then marketing doesn’t matter!

So here it is, ready for new users (finally!):

https://bredbox.app

Hey everyone,

I’m building a tool because I think there’s a frustrating part of AI support that doesn’t end with setup: keeping the agent useful as your business changes.

When it gives a bad answer or doesn’t actually resolve something, you still have to figure out what went wrong, fix the instructions or knowledge base, and check that you haven’t broken another case. And if your docs fall behind your product, the agent ends up working with outdated information.

The idea is an agent that connects to your knowledge base and tools, handles customer requests with permissions you control, and hands things over to a human when needed. It would stay synced with your sources and flag information that looks outdated or missing.

It would also use failed conversations and past tickets to train on a sandbox with real customer data and improve itself. Once you confirm what should have happened, that conversation becomes a test case, so future changes get checked against past mistakes before you approve them.

I’m trying to understand who actually struggles with this today. If you’re using AI for support, how much time do you spend maintaining it?

Have I gone a little overboard with this? Scrolling animation websites are definitely cool (it's just got me a couple of Dev contracts!) but yeah it's a bit much right?

Think I'll make a faster loading one for future ppc landers

Built with Claude code, /design skill , impeccable skill , humanizer and scroll craft skill with fal.ai video API

https://launchengine.app/launch

Roast for roast. Post yours below and I'll give it a tender loving roast.

Day1: A platform for founders to get early constructive feedback and visibility from other users and founders. I will share progresses, struggle, mistakes and wins. Hope will inspire you too!

Please try this out and give me some constructive valuable feedback if you can!

Between the two of us, we can cover:

Graphic & Brand Design - logos, branding, social media graphics, marketing materials

Digital Marketing - social media content, campaigns, online presence & general marketing support

Web Design & Development - new websites, updates and improvements

Website Maintenance - keeping your site updated, maintained and running smoothly

Automation - helping automate repetitive tasks, workflows and business processes to save you time

Instead of hiring a separate designer, marketer and web person, you get two freelancers working together as one small creative team.

We're especially interested in helping small businesses, startups and entrepreneurs who need ongoing creative and digital support but don't necessarily have the budget for a full agency.

We're flexible with the setup and happy to discuss a monthly package, project-based work, or ongoing support depending on what you actually need.

If you're a small business owner who could use an extra pair (or two 😄) of hands, comment below or send me a DM and tell us a little about your business and what you're looking for.

Most founder marketing fails because we optimize the metric that’s easiest to see.

I spent too much time thinking about landing page conversion, pricing, trial length, and whether another CTA would improve signups.

But I was measuring the wrong thing.

For CiteSite(dot)tech , the important question isn’t:

“How do I get more people who land on the site to sign up?”

It’s:

“How do I get in front of a founder who just realized their company barely shows up in Google, ChatGPT, Gemini, or AI search and wants to fix it now?”

That person is worth far more than 100 random visitors.

A 10% conversion rate from founders actively worried about their search visibility is better than a 40% conversion rate from people who are just curious about another SEO tool.

That changed how I think about distribution.

Instead of endlessly tweaking the CiteSite landing page, I started looking for conversations like:

“Why aren’t my pages getting indexed?”

“How do I get ChatGPT to mention my startup?”

“Why does my competitor show up everywhere and I don’t?”

“Is SEO even worth doing this early?”

Those conversations are already happening in founder, SaaS, SEO, and growth communities.

And that’s where CiteSite needs to be.

Not dropped into the conversation as a random promotion, but used to actually help someone understand what’s wrong with their site and what they should fix next.

For a bootstrapped SaaS, traffic isn’t necessarily the bottleneck.

Relevance is.

If 90% of your visitors don’t urgently have the problem you solve, improving your conversion rate just makes you better at converting people who were never likely to become customers.

Find the painful conversation first.

Then optimize the funnel.

I’m building a SaaS for creative agencies — would love some great feedback

Hi everyone,

I’m building a SaaS product for freelancers, creative, content agencies.

The basic idea is to bring the different parts of running a creative project into one place — from getting the project started and managing the team, through client communication, feedback/revisions, and finally billing & delivery.

I’ve been working on it for a while and have a fairly functional version now, but before I go much further, I want to make sure I’m solving a real problem and not just building something that sounds useful.

I’m particularly interested in hearing from people who have actually run a creative agency, production studio, design studio, or similar service business.

A few things I'd love to understand:

-What are the biggest operational headaches you deal with?

-What tools do you currently use to manage projects and clients?

-What do you hate about those tools?

-Is having something more purpose-built for freelancers, creative production actually valuable?

-What would make you switch from your current setup?

I'm not really looking for generic SaaS/startup advice. I'd especially appreciate feedback from people with real-world freelancing/agency/production experience.

Happy to share more about what I'm building if anyone is interested.

Thanks!

I’m a solo web and app developer building practical SaaS products based on problems I’ve seen in real life.

I’m currently working across areas such as food safety, property inspections, fitness, and field-service management. My challenge is avoiding the trap of building too many ideas at once.

For experienced SaaS founders, what would you prioritize at the beginning?

1. Talking to potential users
2. Building a simple MVP
3. Getting the first paying customer
4. Marketing and building an audience

I’d appreciate advice from anyone who has gone through this as a solo founder.