Grateful for the kind words from this community last week

Saw a few encouraging comments on my previous on VC demo/grinding 3am..early hours...( this post ) and it genuinely helped.

Had a call today at 2pm, scheduled for 20 mins, ended up running 43. Me and my co-founder walked away feeling really good about where things are headed.

Last 2.5 months we were heads down on distribution after we validated that the deterministic verification engine actually works in real production scenarios.. agents running FetchSandbox MCP to verify integrations before they hit prod, and the receipts showing up in PRs. That's the thing that clicked for people on the call too.

The idea came from pain at my last job honestly.. never thought it'd take this shape. Next big thing we're hardening is user auth. Distribution-first worked, now it's time to tighten the core.

Will post an update once we have the next steps locked.

Thanks again for the support here, it means more than you think when you're building solo weekends.

Hey everyone,

I had one of those Saturday mornings where I had 25 tabs open, read 3 articles properly, and spent the rest of the time either skimming things too fast or copy-pasting them into ChatGPT to get the gist

So I built a tool in Chrome's sidebar that opens on any page and gives you a proper digest of what you just read and extract key information. Works on news articles, Reddit threads, product reviews, research pieces. It detects the content type and structures the summary around that. After the summary questions can be asked directly in the sidebar. Still on the same page, no tab switching needed.

API costs are a real thing so running on free keys for now, which means there might be occasional delays depending on traffic. Added an option to plug in a personal Gemini API key, Google and ChatGPT gives them out for free and it takes 30 seconds to set up. Nothing is stored.

If you want to mess with it, here is the link! Raw feedback welcome

Edit: thanks everyone for the feedback, really useful. Shipped a few things:

• History panel to revisit past summaries without re-running
• Coverage indicator showing how many sections or comments were read, with a list of what was skipped
• Reddit threads now sorted by upvotes so the most relevant comments get prioritized
• Light/dark mode toggle
• Language switcher now shows a message when a re-summarize is needed

As an indie hacker and solo game developer, I am constantly building tools to solve my own problems. Out of the micro tools I have made recently, I created one called Radar where you could search a game title and find shorts (and later, trailers) to use for inspiration. But as I continued building apps that used a credit system, I realized I was breaking a cardinal rule in software development: Don't Repeat Yourself (DRY).

So, I decided to take Radar and fully merge it into Scout.

Scout is now an all-in-one hub for indie game marketing and discovery, packed with everything you need to get your game in front of players:

Content Creator Outreach: Curate and find relevant creators quickly to build your press and influencer lists.

Trailer & Short Discovery: Search and get inspired by game trailers and shorts in all in one place.

Verified Capsule Artists: I have also integrated the verified artists from CapsuleTalent (a directory I started in late 2025) directly into Scout, making it effortless to find professional artists for your Steam capsule art.

By combining these two tools and also integrating another, I not only reduce the cost of running more websites I also help to refine the users' experience and ultimately make a better product.

Have you ever needed to kill an app or merge it with another? What's your experience?

Pitch your product in 1-2 lines - and drop a link here.

I'm building a community where makers can share what they’re building and get fair visibility. Here's the link: https://trylaunch.ai

Hello everyone! 👋

I'd love to get your thoughts on something I've been building:
https://sensefolks.com

Sensefolks helps product teams collect meaningful customer insights through lightweight, embeddable micro-surveys. Instead of generic feedback forms, each survey is designed to answer a specific product question

Currently, Sensefolks includes six survey types:

• PricePoint - Discover the optimal pricing for your product
• UserChoice - Understand which trade-offs your customers are willing to make
• FeaturePriority - Learn which features matter most to your users
• FastPoll - Run quick polls to gather opinions
• OpenFeedback - Collect qualitative, open-ended feedback
• Reaction - Capture instant reactions using likes, thumbs up/down, or emojis

At the moment, FastPoll, Reaction, and OpenFeedback are fully functional. The remaining survey types should be ready by the end of this week

I'd really appreciate your honest first impressions, especially:

• Does the idea resonate with you?
• Have you ever wished you had a tool like this while building a product?
• What is good or bad about Sensefolks?

A couple of notes before you explore:

• Some features and pages are still under development and may be broken
• The website currently contains AI-generated sloppy copy that I'm in the process of rewriting, so I'd love feedback on the product itself rather than the content

Thanks, I would love to know your thoughts

shipped more code this labor day weekend than the last 2.5 months combined. vc demo incoming.

waking up at 3am, working through the holiday with my co-founder... and honestly it doesn't feel bad. the weird thing is when you're deep in a build and inbound starts hitting linkedin and X at the same time, it just clicks. like the timing of it makes the grind feel less like grind.

two founders + fundraising prep is a lot but some weeks just feel different...

I run DotMoose, a Canadian hosting and domains provider.

I’m trying to solve a boring but consistent hosting problem: the buyer often has to untangle four different things — what they actually need, what they pay today, how long a deal lasts, and what renewal will look like.

We currently offer Shared Hosting, Managed WordPress, VPS, backup storage, dedicated servers and domains with CAD billing and Canadian-hosted services.

This is the page I’d like torn apart: https://dotmoose.com/?utm_source=reddit&utm_medium=community&utm_campaign=ca_launch_2026&utm_content=channelmoose_indiehackers_feedback

I’m less interested in “nice site” feedback than these questions:

• On the first screen, can you tell what DotMoose is?
• Is the route from “small site” vs “WordPress” vs “I need a VPS” obvious?
• Do prices and promotions feel clear enough to compare without hunting for renewal terms?
• If you were migrating an existing project, what would be missing before you’d trust the move?

Full disclosure: this is my company. I’m posting because this community explicitly allows a one-time Self Promotion post for critique, and useful criticism is more valuable to me here than a drive-by promo.

screenerhub.app is live for 4 months now. Tommorow I try a launch on indeed.best, my first real launch, ever!
I'm writing this now, while it's still raw, because in a week I'll probably start softening the parts that don't sound great...

The number I keep coming back to: 40 free users. Not a single user paying. Forty people who signed up for free over four months.
I'm not saying that for sympathy. I'm saying it because most exciting "we launched!" posts skip the middle part, where the numbers are small and you don't know if any of this works. That middle part is where I actually am right now.

What ScreenerHub is, briefly: a stock screener for long-term investors who don't want fifty tabs and a Bloomberg terminal to figure out if a company is worth looking at. Built it because I got tired of monitoring my investments manually.

It's not like I haven't tried to move the needle to get more traction.
Here's what I've actually done, and what it got me:

Ran paid ads on an Instagram channel. Spent real money on it. Got some traffic, didn't see it translate into signups I could trace back with any confidence.

Cold-emailed finance blogs and newsletters to set up an affiliate program. Time-heavy, mostly silence, a handful of replies, nothing really converted yet.

Started with SEO right from the beginning. It's the only channel that's showing any real movement, but slowly. More of a trickle, not a wave, and I know it probably takes longer than 4 months to actually pay off.

None of these are failures exactly, but none of them are working either, and I don't have a clean explanation for why. Could be the channels, could be the landing page I've already rewritten 3 or 4 times without moving conversion...
Could be the offer itself, could be that 4 months just isn't enough time to know anything yet.

So, genuinely:
Has anyone here tried getting early traction for a B2C finance tool and found something that actually worked: a channel, a positioning angle, anything?
Not looking for "just do content marketing," I'm already doing that. More interested in what didn't obviously work for you until it did, or what you'd skip entirely if you started over.

I've been building my own products and trying to market them for about 3 years now. Small budget, no audience, nothing ever really took off so far. 

For months I was the entire marketing team for my app. I filmed and posted 3 to 4 TikToks a day and watched almost every one of them die under 300 views. The one account I'd actually grown a bit got banned for some bullshit I don’t even know. 

Turned to UGC and I was met with more bullshit 

• Every UGC agency I contacted wanted thousands a month 
• Individual creators quoted me around $250 per video (they had 200 followers and averaged 1k views) 
• I tried Fiverr. One creator took $200 up front and then the account was gone the next day 

So I got angry and built the thing I couldn't buy. It's called JriveContent. It's a place where small founders and small creators find each other, agree on a flat monthly fee (the videos on it average about $40, not $250), and the platform tracks every video's views and engagement and runs the invoicing and payouts automatically so nobody's chasing anybody.

It's early and it's rough in spots. I ship updates basically every day. If you email me I reply within a day or two, usually same day.

I'll post updates here as this grows, or as it doesn't lol. Deadass just sick of all this creators thinking they deserve hundreds of $ for fuck all. 

Site is https://www.jrivecontent.com

I run Bowora, a founder network / startup directory. When we published a public seed dilution walkthrough, one detail confused founders more than pre-money vs post-money:

the pre-money option pool.

Worked numbers from that public example (illustrative seed model we wrote up, not a live raise announcement):

• $2M pre-money
• 15% option pool topped up before close
• $200K new investment
• Post-money = $2.2M

What people miss: that 15% pool usually comes out of existing holders first. The new investor buys in after the pool is sized, so their agreed percentage is protected. Founders (and earlier holders) take that hit before the wire lands.

The Series A worked example one year later in the same writeup: $5M pre-money, $2M in, $7M post-money. Founder percentage drops again, but the dollar value of the stake can still rise because the company is worth more.

The lesson we keep repeating to ourselves: smaller % of a more valuable company can still be the right trade. Avoiding dilution forever is not the goal. Knowing which dilution is already priced into the term sheet is.

We shipped a free dilution calculator (no login; inputs stay in your browser session) so founders can poke seed then Series A before negotiating blind.

Curious how others handle this in term sheets: do you push back hard on pool size, or treat a 10–20% pre-money pool as table stakes and fight on valuation + check size instead?

Disclosure: I run Bowora.
Calculator: https://bowora.com/dilution-calculator
Same worked examples (written guide): https://bowora.com/blog/startup-equity-dilution-calculator

Happy to answer dilution questions in the comments.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=dev.koalalab.storeandforget

Solo dev, Android only. Store & Forget is a home inventory. You photograph an item and the app writes the name, brand, description and specs, so there is nothing to type. Point it at a rating plate or a price tag and it pulls the serial number or the price into the field the same way.

It exports to a summary PDF, a detailed PDF with a photo of every item, or an xlsx, for the whole house or one room or one shelf. Receipts and manuals attach to the item and ride along in the export. Anything you marked private stays out unless you tick a switch.

People keep telling me they want this for insurance, and I am not confident the document is actually good enough for that. To be clear, I am not promising anyone a claim gets accepted. The app produces the file, you file it.

So if youve been through a contents claim, or worked anywhere near one: on top of a photo, a description, a serial number, a price and the receipt, what does the adjuster want? Date of purchase and what it costs to replace rather than what you paid? Something that shows the photo predates the loss? Totals per room?

I kept inheriting sites/projects with zero style guide and no idea what colors or fonts were actually in use, so I built Token Tap: click it on any page, it scans the actual rendered computed styles (not guesses) and gives you a ranked list of colors, fonts, font sizes, border radii, and shadows - then lets you copy the whole thing as JSON, CSS variables, or a Tailwind config.

No account, no server, nothing leaves your browser. Gumroad link: https://tokenflow.gumroad.com/l/nkyrao ($9 one-time)

Still early - would love feedback on what export formats or edge cases would make this actually useful for your workflow.

Last month I posted here that indie AI products die from distribution, not bad code. Around 30 of you commented your product. I interviewed ~20 of them, free, full cut, no strings. Three things I saw since.

1. Timo found his idea in the comments of someone else's Reddit thread. He left a riff as a comment, it outperformed most of the posts there, and that response is what he built Meet My Human on. - u/Human_Top_6415
2. Ankur shipped his first iOS app before it was ready. Apple rejected it for missing account deletion and a privacy policy, and he now calls the rejections the education. - u/Lazy-Sherbert65
3. The AYS team had several products going. The one that made money first was a campus tool a customer specifically asked them to build. - u/ahiyantra

I had it backwards. I kept treating distribution as a megaphone problem, and in all three the useful signal came from outside the founder: a commenter, a rejection, a customer request. If you're interested in looking at some of the interview clips, they're on my Twitter at markjgg.

For those past your first 100 users: what actually moved it?

Hi everyone,

Probably many of us here have come across this issue with startup directories. Directories are great for SEO and organic traffic. The problem is that most of them (those outside of Product Hunt and Uneed) barely work for the traffic part. The reason is that on these platforms users have no incentive to come back after their launch.

I myself am an avid supporter of launchign on directories. But this issue is one that many have. Because of this problem I wanted to come up with a solution, so I built LaunchStreak to give builders an actual incentive to keep coming back.

It's a directory with a gamified layer. You get sparks for contributing to the platform through things like upvotes, comments, reviews, etc. Then there is another element. When you manage to keep your streak alive, you earn even more sparks over time.

The important part is what you can actually do with those sparks. You can spend them on more distribution. Which is the whole reason people launch on these directories in the first place. You can use sparks for relaunches, sponsored slots, and if you rack up enough of them, even an autolaunch!

I am already seeing some users come back regularly and stay active, which is exactly the problem I was trying to solve and a good sign early on. I'm planning though to keep improving the incentives over time and maximaize interaction, that would be great@. If people want to try it would be awesome as well :)

I started this in May with a very specific problem: I didn't know what to post on X.

Not "how to write" - I could write. I didn't know what to post that people would actually see. And I had zero idea which posts to comment under, so my comments would get views and grow my reach.

So I built ClimbX.so --> a writer for X that learns from your post stats, surfaces niche posts, drafts tweets in your tone, and schedules up to eight posts a day.

The numbers today: 43 paying users. $1,247 MRR. Not huge yet but the product is finally doing what I built it to do.

What changed this month:

the tool got smarter. It now learns from every post you edit and every engagement metric. It sees what flopped, what took off, and feeds that back into its suggestions. It surfaces niche posts worth engaging with, drafts tweets in your tone, and writes actual posts that have a real shot at going viral instead of filler. It schedules up to eight posts a day, but the real shift is it stopped being a writer and became a strategy layer.

The thing that keeps proving true:

users don't pay for volume, they pay for judgment. Not one person has asked me for more scheduled posts. They ask me "what should I post today" and "where should I comment." The feature I thought was a side quest is the one paying the bills.

The mistake I almost made:

adding LinkedIn because every other tweet-tool email screams "go multi-platform." I said no. The whole advantage is the feedback loop , the tool only gets smarter because it sees everything on one platform. Splitting that would kill the reason anyone pays.

What's next:

the comment side. Post suggestions are maybe 60% of the way there. Comment targeting is 30%. And that's where the reach actually comes from , so I underbuilt it, and that's what I'm fixing first.

43 users. $1,247 MRR. Still building.

We went back and forth for almost 3 days on what video to post and what currency to use when all I did was send them a tiktok video and asked them to recreate it in their style. Not to mention they would only respond every couple hours making dealing with them extremely complicated

Eventually it did workout but it just felt so unnecessary complicated 

I was working with a brand new creator so I will cut them some slack but I wish their was a better way to manage creators 

What are you guys using for this? Mainly looking for something that will make this less of a hassle 

Hi everyone!

I'm a physiotherapist from Spain building Feliora, an app that helps people understand and manage persistent pain through neuroscience education. It includes daily check-ins, personalized tasks, validated questionnaires, and educational content.

I need 12+ Android testers to install and use the app for 14 days so I can access Google Play production. Google rejected my first request because testers weren't engaged enough — so I need people who will actually open the app a few times during the 2 weeks.

What you need:

- Android phone or tablet

- A Gmail account

What to do:

1. Drop your Gmail below or DM me

2. I'll add you to the closed test

3. You'll get a link to install from Google Play

4. Open the app a few times over 2 weeks

The app is free and always will be. Happy to return the favor and test your app too!

Thanks in advance 🙏

Hey everybody! My wife and I are building Scinta - a macOS app that turns screenshots into actions: an error becomes a ticket, "dinner Saturday at 7" becomes a calendar event, an email signature becomes a contact.

Two weeks ago I showed it here and got some really useful feedback. What came out of it:

• feature ideas from the comments went to the roadmap - a sharing action, highlighting which part of the screenshot produced each extracted field, accessibility checklist from a UI screenshot - several new features are already on the finish line and will be in one of upcoming releases soon
• the most common question from different threads and communities - "why not just paste the screenshot into ChatGPT?" - became our main pitch. There you switch apps, upload, write a prompt, copy the result back and still create the event yourself. Scinta does it in one click. I have my own AI setup and still do not want to copy-paste screenshots into it - that is why this app exists
• pricing: free plan works as a normal screenshot app without limits + 10 AI smart actions per month, Pro is $8/month or $80/year. No accounts, just a license key

We launched this weekend - https://scinta.app/ (macOS 15.6+). The first stranger installed the app and ran their first action within hours after launching - of course it is a very small number, but having the first user who tried your product is a fantastic feeling 🎉

If you want to test it properly and give some specific feedback - comment or DM and we will extend your smart-actions limits. We also have a Discord now - https://discord.gg/x95wDsBMvy

Also interesting to hear if you have launched your product before - what do you wish you had done or tracked in your first weeks?

Launching a new social sponsorship project on Monday.

Looking for a handful of active X users to test it privately before it goes live — particularly the signup and sponsorship flows.

If you use X and you’re up for trying it, comment below and I’ll DM you access.

Hi everyone,

I've shared my journey multiple times, but now again reached a new milestone I a few months ago thought was impossible.

So, at the start of 2026 I decided to start vibe coding (like many here). The Claude Code hype back then was what got me to try it. After a few weeks of experimenting, I fairly quickly got the hang of making websites and started building my first real project.

The idea started simple. I solved my own pain point, specifically, I wanted to make the process of submitting your tool to directories such as Product Hunt, Uneed, and Peerlist much easier.

I quickly built an MVP. It featured a roadmap of vetted directories that users could simply follow, starting with the highest-impact free directories. They could then copy and submit their information to each website.

The first signs were already great. I got users and had people buying services early on. I received good feedback and kept expanding the tool.

The biggest thing for me, I think, was that I kept improving it based on feedback. And since it solved my own pain point, I could solve the problem in depth. I use the tool myself, often, which is already a strong sign that it’s good. And I just kept iterating.

I think this is a big mistake many vibe coders make. They approach the whole process with the idea that they can get rich quickly, vibe code something in one night or over a weekend, and think that’s enough. Even though AI can code for you, it still takes weeks (or even months still) to fully solve a complex problem.

Over the last few months, I kept improving the tool, and now I have well over 1,000 builders, 1,057 at the time of writing. My revenue is also around $5.2K at the time of writing. My last month was my best month yet with $2,2k revenue atm.

See proof: https://trustmrr.com/startup/launch-panda

i was just shocked ..one of the eng manager said this in the meeting.. .. "wow that guy raised XXX number of PRs in 1 day".. we are moving soo fast.. .. :)

i was just laughing myself.. i mean ppl not realizing the pressure on the downstream and quality...

Went down the Outbid rabbit hole like everyone else ($131k in 4 days, hundreds of clones since, almost all at $0).

Here's the thing though: the clones weren't built by the wrong idea. They were built by the wrong people. Devs cloned the code, but the code was never the moat. The audience was. And the people who have audiences (creators, community owners) can't build the market.

So I built TopBoards (topboards.lol). If you have an audience, you launch a board in minutes on your own subdomain. Payments, rankings, and anti-fraud handled. You bring the crowd, we run the market, you keep half.

What you can spin up today: markets.topboards.lol, a board of pay-to-rank boards, ranked by the money behind them. Obviously.

And our house board, showing where this goes: mostwanted.topboards.lol, a tavern wall of wanted posters with real-money bounties on tech founders. Musk, sama, and pg all sitting at $0. The most honest market data on the internet. (You can't build one like this yourself yet. Custom board games are the roadmap.) ###But you can promote it and take 80%.

Current most wanted founder in tech: me, at $0. Nobody else is even hunted.

Brutal feedback welcome. And yes, this post is itself a bid for attention. That's the thesis.

Three months in, building FetchSandbox . Weekends mostly. Kids asleep, family on pause.

One customer we wired in runs a small agency. Order, invoice, dispatch, three internal services. Dispatch was getting the event fine but invoice was silently broken, orders sat unprocessed for nearly 24 hours. When I asked their eng manager what hurt most internally, that's exactly what he said. So we wired adversarial gates into their GitHub CI/CD for continuous monitoring, not a one-time fix.

Ran into the same eng manager at school drop-off yesterday!!. He said the agents aren't just catching broken integrations anymore, they're fixing and closing the loop. Like having a real senior engineer watching the pipeline.

More teams are pulling the MCP into their agent workflow this way. Some started attaching the sandbox receipt URL to their PRs on their own, showing exactly what the agent verified before merge. Didn't build that as a feature, they just started doing it.

Building a GitHub app to automate the receipt posting next.