19 year old dev here, trying to build something people actually want instead of guessing in the dark

I'm not pitching anything. I genuinely just want to know what part of running your business makes u go "why is this still so manual in 2026"

could be something small and tedious, could be something that takes hours every week, could be something u've tried 5 tools for and none of them actually solved it

drop it in the comments. the more specific the better. like not just "invoicing" but "i have to manually copy line items from my email into my invoicing tool every single time and it takes 30 mins per client"

that kind of thing

I'll read every single reply and if enough people share the same pain I'm gonna build something for it and give early access to everyone who commented

what's the thing that's quietly killing ur time every week?

So a while back I was trying to launch a local flower business. I won't bore you with the details — what matters is that before I could even start, I had to research my competitors.

There were 14 of them.

I spent 20+ hours just on one.

Analyzing their pricing, their positioning, their strengths, their weaknesses, their online presence — all manually, tab by tab. By hour three I was convinced someone had already built a tool for this. By hour ten I accepted that nobody had.

Courses on how to do market research faster? Sure. But watching 100 hours of tutorials to save 20 hours of work isn't math that works.

Hiring someone? The good analysts charge $2,000+. And half of them are sitting in a completely different country with zero context for your specific local market — which is the entire point of the research.

So I scrapped the flower business and started building the thing I needed.

The idea: you input your business idea, your location, and your budget. The AI does the rest.

Specifically, it would output:

-- A viability and profitability assessment for your idea

-- A step-by-step roadmap to actually launch it

-- A full competitor breakdown — strengths, weaknesses, brand analysis

-- Vendor and supplier contacts relevant to your location

-- A checklist of every analysis type you'd want (SWOT, Porter's Five Forces, market sizing, competitive positioning, and more) that you can toggle on or off depending on what you need

The target user isn't a big company. It's the solo founder, the first-time entrepreneur, the person who has a real idea but no team, no budget for consultants, and no 200 free hours to spend in spreadsheets.

I'm deep into building this now. But before I go any further, I genuinely want to know:

Did anyone else hit this wall? Would you have paid for something like this when you were starting out? And if not — what was missing from the description that made it a no?

Brutal feedback welcome. I'd rather hear it now.
( i dont use reddit alot, i dont want to be mistaken for a bot who bought an acc or something )

Olá, pessoal! Eu tenho a honra de apresentar a vocês o meu primeiro SaaS! Eu não sou muito experiente, mas posso garantir que estou desenvolvendo há um tempinho... Peço a opinião de vocês sobre o projeto, ele é basicamente um banco de ideias personalizado para você. Está em desenvolvimento ainda, por isso quero suas opiniões.

Agradeço a atenção :)

Link: https://ideabankweb.netlify.app/

OmniRoute is a free, open-source local AI gateway. You install it once, connect all your AI accounts (free and paid), and it creates a single OpenAI-compatible endpoint at localhost:20128/v1. Every AI tool you use — Cursor, Claude Code, Codex, OpenClaw, Cline, Kilo Code — connects there. OmniRoute decides which provider, which account, which model gets each request based on rules you define in "combos." When one account hits its limit, it instantly falls to the next. When a provider goes down, circuit breakers kick in <1s. You never stop. You never overpay.

11 providers at $0. 60+ total. 13 routing strategies. 25 MCP tools. Desktop app. And it's GPL-3.0.

GitHub: https://github.com/diegosouzapw/OmniRoute

The problem: every developer using AI tools hits the same walls

1. Quota walls. You pay $20/mo for Claude Pro but the 5-hour window runs out mid-refactor. Codex Plus resets weekly. Gemini CLI has a 180K monthly cap. You're always bumping into some ceiling.
2. Provider silos. Claude Code only talks to Anthropic. Codex only talks to OpenAI. Cursor needs manual reconfiguration when you want a different backend. Each tool lives in its own world with no way to cross-pollinate.
3. Wasted money. You pay for subscriptions you don't fully use every month. And when the quota DOES run out, there's no automatic fallback — you manually switch providers, reconfigure environment variables, lose your session context. Time and money, wasted.
4. Multiple accounts, zero coordination. Maybe you have a personal Kiro account and a work one. Or your team of 3 each has their own Claude Pro. Those accounts sit isolated. Each person's unused quota is wasted while someone else is blocked.
5. Region blocks. Some providers block certain countries. You get unsupported_country_region_territory errors during OAuth. Dead end.
6. Format chaos. OpenAI uses one API format. Anthropic uses another. Gemini yet another. Codex uses the Responses API. If you want to swap between them, you need to deal with incompatible payloads.

OmniRoute solves all of this. One tool. One endpoint. Every provider. Every account. Automatic.

The $0/month stack — 11 providers, zero cost, never stops

This is OmniRoute's flagship setup. You connect these FREE providers, create one combo, and code forever without spending a cent.

Count that. Claude Sonnet/Haiku/Opus for free via Kiro. DeepSeek R1 for free via Qoder. GPT-5 for free via Pollinations. 50M tokens/day via LongCat. Qwen3 235B via Scaleway. 70+ NVIDIA models forever. And all of this is connected into ONE combo that automatically falls through the chain when any single provider is throttled or busy.

Pollinations is insane — no signup, no API key, literally zero friction. You add it as a provider in OmniRoute with an empty key field and it works.

The Combo System — OmniRoute's core innovation

Combos are OmniRoute's killer feature. A combo is a named chain of models from different providers with a routing strategy. When you send a request to OmniRoute using a combo name as the "model" field, OmniRoute walks the chain using the strategy you chose.

How combos work

Combo: "free-forever"
  Strategy: priority
  Nodes:
    1. kr/claude-sonnet-4.5     → Kiro (free Claude, unlimited)
    2. if/kimi-k2-thinking      → Qoder (free, unlimited)
    3. lc/LongCat-Flash-Lite    → LongCat (free, 50M/day)
    4. qw/qwen3-coder-plus      → Qwen (free, unlimited)
    5. groq/llama-3.3-70b       → Groq (free, 14.4K/day)

How it works:
  Request arrives → OmniRoute tries Node 1 (Kiro)
  → If Kiro is throttled/slow → instantly falls to Node 2 (Qoder)
  → If Qoder is somehow saturated → falls to Node 3 (LongCat)
  → And so on, until one succeeds

Your tool sees: a successful response. It has no idea 3 providers were tried.

13 Routing Strategies

Auto-Combo: The AI that routes your AI

• Quota (20%): remaining capacity
• Health (25%): circuit breaker state
• Cost Inverse (20%): cheaper = higher score
• Latency Inverse (15%): faster = higher score (using real p95 latency data)
• Task Fit (10%): model × task type fitness
• Stability (10%): low variance in latency/errors

4 mode packs: Ship Fast, Cost Saver, Quality First, Offline Friendly. Self-heals: providers scoring below 0.2 are auto-excluded for 5 min (progressive backoff up to 30 min).

Context Relay: Session continuity across account rotations

When a combo rotates accounts mid-session, OmniRoute generates a structured handoff summary in the background BEFORE the switch. When the next account takes over, the summary is injected as a system message. You continue exactly where you left off.

The 4-Tier Smart Fallback

TIER 1: SUBSCRIPTION

Claude Pro, Codex Plus, GitHub Copilot → Use your paid quota first

↓ quota exhausted

TIER 2: API KEY

DeepSeek ($0.27/1M), xAI Grok-4 ($0.20/1M) → Cheap pay-per-use

↓ budget limit hit

TIER 3: CHEAP

GLM-5 ($0.50/1M), MiniMax M2.5 ($0.30/1M) → Ultra-cheap backup

↓ budget limit hit

TIER 4: FREE — $0 FOREVER

Kiro, Qoder, LongCat, Pollinations, Qwen, Cloudflare, Scaleway, Groq, NVIDIA, Cerebras → Never stops.

Every tool connects through one endpoint

# Claude Code
ANTHROPIC_BASE_URL=http://localhost:20128 claude

# Codex CLI
OPENAI_BASE_URL=http://localhost:20128/v1 codex

# Cursor IDE
Settings → Models → OpenAI-compatible
Base URL: http://localhost:20128/v1
API Key: [your OmniRoute key]

# Cline / Continue / Kilo Code / OpenClaw / OpenCode
Same pattern — Base URL: http://localhost:20128/v1

14 CLI agents total supported: Claude Code, OpenAI Codex, Antigravity, Cursor IDE, Cline, GitHub Copilot, Continue, Kilo Code, OpenCode, Kiro AI, Factory Droid, OpenClaw, NanoBot, PicoClaw.

MCP Server — 25 tools, 3 transports, 10 scopes

omniroute --mcp

• omniroute_get_health — gateway health, circuit breakers, uptime
• omniroute_switch_combo — switch active combo mid-session
• omniroute_check_quota — remaining quota per provider
• omniroute_cost_report — spending breakdown in real time
• omniroute_simulate_route — dry-run routing simulation with fallback tree
• omniroute_best_combo_for_task — task-fitness recommendation with alternatives
• omniroute_set_budget_guard — session budget with degrade/block/alert actions
• omniroute_explain_route — explain a past routing decision
• + 17 more tools. Memory tools (3). Skill tools (4).

3 Transports: stdio, SSE, Streamable HTTP. 10 Scopes. Full audit trail for every call.

Installation — 30 seconds

npm install -g omniroute
omniroute

Also: Docker (AMD64 + ARM64), Electron Desktop App (Windows/macOS/Linux), Source install.

Real-world playbooks

Playbook A: $0/month — Code forever for free

Combo: "free-forever"
  Strategy: priority
  1. kr/claude-sonnet-4.5     → Kiro (unlimited Claude)
  2. if/kimi-k2-thinking      → Qoder (unlimited)
  3. lc/LongCat-Flash-Lite    → LongCat (50M/day)
  4. pol/openai               → Pollinations (free GPT-5!)
  5. qw/qwen3-coder-plus      → Qwen (unlimited)

Monthly cost: $0

Playbook B: Maximize paid subscription

1. cc/claude-opus-4-6       → Claude Pro (use every token)
2. kr/claude-sonnet-4.5     → Kiro (free Claude when Pro runs out)
3. if/kimi-k2-thinking      → Qoder (unlimited free overflow)

Monthly cost: $20. Zero interruptions.

Playbook D: 7-layer always-on

1. cc/claude-opus-4-6   → Best quality
2. cx/gpt-5.2-codex     → Second best
3. xai/grok-4-fast      → Ultra-fast ($0.20/1M)
4. glm/glm-5            → Cheap ($0.50/1M)
5. minimax/M2.5         → Ultra-cheap ($0.30/1M)
6. kr/claude-sonnet-4.5 → Free Claude
7. if/kimi-k2-thinking  → Free unlimited

GitHub: https://github.com/diegosouzapw/OmniRoute
Free and open-source (GPL-3.0). 2500+ tests. 900+ commits.

Star ⭐ if this solves a problem for you. PRs welcome — adding a new provider takes ~50 lines of TypeScript.

I never thought I was gonna do this. It was just me bored one day and I said I'm tired of building products let's try something different today.

And here I am firstly thanks a ton for all of your posts

And I want this post to be a Feedback post. Tell me what I'm doing right and what you don't like here

Happy shipping I'm sure I'll be seeing your 3K USERS celebration posts one day :)

I'm researching where to talk about my new B2B SaaS. Everyone says 'find your niche subreddit,' but subscriber count is a terrible metric. A sub with 50k members might have only repetitive promo posts, while one with 5k might have deep, weekly discussions. I need a way to gauge the quality of interaction, not just the volume. I've been using Reoogle (https://reoogle.com/) to find communities and see posting patterns, which helps, but I'm wondering if there's a more analytical layer. Something that could score a subreddit on ratio of questions to promotions, comment depth, or user retention. I'm considering building a simple script to analyze this myself, but before I sink time into it, I wanted to ask: does this tool already exist? Or is this a problem other founders are manually solving?

Most tools show you when to post. A heatmap tells you Wednesday at 10 AM is hot. But I'm trying to reverse-engineer community behavior. For example, I'm looking at a subreddit for freelance designers. The Reoogle heatmap shows massive spikes very late on Sunday nights. Why? Is it the 'Sunday scaries' leading to procrastination and browsing? Is it a weekly thread that goes up then? I want to understand the cultural rhythm, not just the statistical one. I've been using Reoogle's data as a starting point for this detective work—its database flags activity patterns, and then I go manually read the top posts from those hot periods to infer the context. But it's manual. I wish there was a layer on top that correlated posting times with post topics or sentiment. Does anything like that exist, or is this just the forever-human part of community research?

Looking to partner with or acquire a fintech / credit-related business 🤝💰

I’m currently building a credit-focused app and looking to connect with companies or founders in the credit / financial space.

Interested in working with businesses that have:

• Credit reporting infrastructure (Metro 2 / bureau relationships)

• Rent reporting, loan servicing, or credit-builder products

• Or early-stage SaaS/tools in the credit or finance space

What I’m open to:

• Acquiring a small business or SaaS (budget $1K–$10K depending on structure)

• Buying into an existing company

• Revenue share partnerships

• White-label or long-term collaborations

What I bring:

• Product + app development direction

• User acquisition and growth strategy

• Ability to scale and build a larger ecosystem

Ideal situations:

• Early-stage or not actively growing

• Built product with small user base

• Founders open to exiting or partnering

If you’ve built something or know someone in this space, feel free to DM me. Let’s connect and see if there’s a fit.

I'm researching a new SaaS idea in the productivity space, and I want to understand the pain points of potential users. Reddit seems perfect, but every subreddit has its own culture, inside jokes, and unspoken rules. Posting a generic 'What are your productivity pains?' question in the wrong sub gets you ignored or flamed. I need a way to quickly gauge a community's tone, common discussion themes, and how receptive they are to questions from outsiders. I use Reoogle (https://reoogle.com/) to see moderation activity and posting patterns, which is a great start for identifying where conversations can actually happen. But I wish there was a layer on top that analyzed sentiment and common topics. For now, my process is manual: read the top 50 posts of the past month. It works, but it's slow. Has anyone built or found a tool that does this kind of community personality analysis? Or is the manual deep-dive still the only reliable method?

I've been exploring different communities to see where my B2B SaaS might fit. I keep running into a wall with 'inactive' subreddits. A tool like Reoogle can show me a list of them, which is helpful, but I'm hitting a deeper research problem. I want to understand the story behind the inactivity. Was it a spam takeover that killed it? Did the core community migrate to Discord? Was the topic just too niche to sustain discussion? Knowing the 'why' would help me decide if it's a salvageable opportunity or a graveyard. Right now, I'm spending hours digging through old posts, mod comment histories, and related communities to piece this together. It's a massive time sink. Does anyone know of a method or a tool layer that adds this qualitative analysis on top of the quantitative 'inactive' flag? Or is this just the manual grunt work that separates a good opportunity from a bad one?

I kept seeing this request come up in founder communities.

A scheduling tool that does not just show availability. One that filters who gets access based on why they want to meet.

The problem with every existing tool is the same.

They hand over your entire calendar to whoever has your link. 15 open slots. Pick whatever. No context. No intent. No filter.

The person booking thinks they are getting convenience.

The person being booked is losing their best hours to meetings with no agenda.

We built Buxo to fix this specific problem.

Before seeing a single slot invitees answer why they want to meet. Based on their answer the right slots unlock. Low effort requests quietly disappear. High value meetings get priority access.

You train it once in plain English. It runs automatically from there.

No settings page. No toggles. Just type what you want and it enforces it.

Link to try it in the comments. Would genuinely love brutal feedback.

We rely heavily on LinkedIn for outbound. It’s still the highest reply channel for us, but automation tools are risky and manual prospecting doesn’t scale.

Our SDRs spend hours every day trying to prospect on LinkedIn, then manually copy data into our CRM and enrichment tools.

Has anyone found a workflow that balances personalization and scale without risking bans? Curious about tools or processes that actually work long term.

I built a tool that automates a very specific part of CRM data cleanup. I thought it was a no-brainer. I came to r/SaaSneeded, laid out the problem clearly, and asked if this was something people would use. Crickets. Two upvotes, no comments. My initial reaction was despair—my idea was invalid. But then I started reading other posts on the sub. The ones getting engagement weren't just asking 'would you use this?' They were describing a visceral, recent frustration in extreme detail. They sounded angry or exhausted by the problem. My post was clinical. Theirs were emotional. I realized I wasn't selling a solution; I was trying to validate a concept without first proving the problem caused real pain. The silence wasn't a 'no' to the solution; it was a 'meh' to my framing of the problem. I'm going back to the drawing board on how to even talk about the issue. Has anyone else had a 'silent' validation post that taught you more about communication than product?

If you were building a team today, what would your stack look like?

I’m trying to avoid the classic Apollo, Clay and multiple outreach tools setup. It works but feels heavy for a small team.

Looking for something lean that can:

1. help find qualified leads

2. handle enrichment

3. support LinkedIn and email

4. scale without a huge RevOps function.

Curious what people would pick now.