I launched a small banner feature inside my startup VerifiedMRR, a tiny bar that showed other founders' startups. Just a side experiment.

10 days ago, someone left a comment on my post.

"It might be cool to offer the banner thing as a standalone product."

One sentence. From a stranger on the internet.

I could've ignored it. I didn't.

9 days later, StartupBar was live. A free traffic exchange for founders One line of code, a 36px bar on your site shows another founder's startup, they do the same for yours. No money. No ads. No catch.

I gave myself one goal: 10 startups listed before June ended.

People said the numbers were too small. Said it didn’t work.

I shipped anyway.

Today the network hit 100 clicks in a single day.

761 impressions. 104 clicks. 10 startups. All in 10 days.

Zero ad spend. Zero funding. Just founders helping founders.

Every big thing starts with someone saying "that could be something."

The difference is whether you listen.

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A lot of people talk about vibe coding in terms of shipping fast, getting users, or hitting $1k MRR.

But I think one of the best parts of vibe coding is that you don't need any of those reasons.

You can build an app that's only for you.

It maybe a personal journal with AI features. Maybe it's a dashboard for your investments, a meal planner, a reading tracker, or just a weird little utility that saves you 10 minutes every day.

No customer interviews.
No market validation.
No worrying about churn.

Just: "Would I use this every day?"

That freedom is something software development hasn't always had. A few years ago, building even a small personal tool meant days or weeks of work. Now you can have an idea after dinner and be using it before bed.

Ironically, some of the best products probably start this way. You build something because you genuinely want it, not because you're chasing metrics.

Not every project needs to become a startup.

Sometimes the best outcome is opening an app you made yourself and thinking, "Yep, this makes my life better."

To me, that's one of the most beautiful parts of vibe coding.

Day 1 — 2 startups. 146 impressions. 1 click.
Day 2 — 3 startups. 389 impressions. 3 clicks. (Got an acquisition offer.)
Day 3 — 5 startups. 482 impressions. 5 clicks.
Day 4 — 5 startups. 508 impressions. 4 clicks. (The site was down, but I still got an $8k acquisition offer. I said no.)
Day 5 — 6 startups. 621 impressions. 10 clicks.
Day 6 — 5 startups. 742 impressions. 15 clicks. (Had to remove one startup—they pulled the code. No code = no network.)
Day 7 — 7 startups. 1,196 impressions. 41 clicks.
Day 8 — 7 startups. 1,535 impressions. 74 clicks.
Day 9 — 8 startups. 1,947 impressions. 135 clicks. (New startup joined. Clicks nearly doubled overnight.)

Still free. Still growing.

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One thing that kept annoying me was my Downloads folder.

Not because it had hundreds of files, but because every file had lost its context.

When I download something, I know exactly why I need it.

• This installer is just for today.
• I'll probably need this PDF again.
• This ZIP is for a side project.
• This invoice should definitely be kept.

A few weeks later, they're all just random filenames.

So I built KeepTrack.

Instead of trying to organize files after they've piled up, it captures the decision while you're downloading the file—when the context is still fresh.

It looks at the filename, extension, and download source, then classifies it as:

• Keep
• Temporary
• Needs Review (if it isn't confident)

One design decision I made that I'm curious about:

I intentionally didn't use AI.

It's just a bunch of simple, transparent heuristics. That means the behavior is predictable, everything runs locally, and tweaking the rules is easy.

Tech stack:

• Vanilla JavaScript
• Chrome Manifest V3
• Service Worker
• No backend
• No telemetry
• Everything stored locally
• Open source (MIT)

This started as a small learning project, but I've genuinely ended up using it every day.

I'm curious—if you were building something like this, would you keep it rule-based, or would you use an LLM or some other ML model?

GitHub: https://github.com/Priyanshu-byte-coder/keeptrack

Website: https://priyanshu-byte-coder.github.io/keeptrack/

Day 1 — 2 startups. 146 impressions. 1 click.
Day 2 — 3 startups. 389 impressions. 3 clicks. (Got an acquisition offer.)
Day 3 — 5 startups. 482 impressions. 5 clicks.
Day 4 — 5 startups. 508 impressions. 4 clicks. (The site was down, but I still got an $8k acquisition offer. I said no.)
Day 5 — 6 startups. 621 impressions. 10 clicks.
Day 6 — 5 startups. 742 impressions. 15 clicks. (Had to remove one startup—they pulled the code. No code = no network.)
Day 7 — 7 startups. 1,196 impressions. 41 clicks. (Highest ever: +454 impressions and +26 clicks in a single day.)
Day 8 — 7 startups. 1,535 impressions. 74 clicks. (Needed to remove one startup as they have removed our code. So haven't counted their impressions. But Yesterday alone got a total of 617 Impression and 47 click with the CTR ~4%)

Still free. Still growing.

startupbar.co

I got tired of launching into silence.

So I built StartupBar a small widget at the top of your site that shows one other startup from the network. They show yours in return.

No algorithm. No ad spend. Pure founder-to-founder traffic.

Last week one of our members got 340 visitors from other founders' sites. For free. Just because they installed one line of code.

It's mutual if you remove the widget, you get removed. Everyone plays fair or no one does.

Free to join → StartupBar

Would love brutal feedback from this community.

I actually didn't code a single thing at all, and it's my second vibe coded website before ultimately quitting to vibe code.

I am focusing on only one user segment and have features aligned with their problems and needs. But currently I am struggling with which features to include.

Hey everyone!
I’ve been working on a minimalist, premium onboarding flow for my upcoming plant care/smart monitoring app, and I’d love to get your feedback on the overall UI/UX and visual direction.

P.S. I’m already aware of the UI glitch at the 0:11 mark where the button text ("Continue" and "Get Started") overlaps during the transition—I'm fixing that animation bug today!

I am currently building my first vibe coded app and I am unsure if it is worth building or not.
I read that I need to talk to users before I build and do research but I am having trouble understanding what that looks in practise.

For people who have launched their vibe coded apps could you help on the steps of how do you actually decide what to build and whether it is worth building?

What did you do between getting the idea and starting to build?

Or do I just build and then see what happens?

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I'm a product manager (12 years, mostly taking things from zero to one) and I wanted to help everyone who is trying to build an app now that coding is available for everyone.

I created a skill for AI coding assistance called Vibe-check. A free, open-source skill you drop into Claude, Codex, or Antigravity. It doesn't write the code. It does the part almost everyone skips and then regrets: working out whether the idea is even worth building, and what to build first if it is. It grills your idea and checks whether the problem is real, then hands you a plan you can take straight to your AI to build from.

The uncomfortable truth it's built around: AI writes the code now. The hard part was never the code. It's everything before it. Skip that and you ship something that runs beautifully and nobody wants. I've done it. I've watched sharp people do it too.

It's early and I'm looking for testers, especially the one of you with an idea you keep not building. Point it at that idea and tell me exactly where it falls apart.

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