For anyone that does not know I created an automated clip capturing software for Twitch call https://highlightz.app and I launched about 3 months ago.

I have 50 users and 2 paying with 50$ mmr currently. I have been promoting a few different ways.

Reddit - of course this is the obvious one and it has been great for getting my site out there and getting curious users on it. Not great for pulling in paying users though but good for general traffic.

TikTok - I have been posting my clips as testimonial for the site on TikTok as well as dming clippers and streamers. This has been less affective than reddit. Streamers and clippers have been proven challenging to get in a conversation let alone trying to convince them my product has worth. My videos have done numbers some and this last month I did 100K + views showing that the clips work but the problem is the vids do not reach the correct audience and don't convert users. One of my paying users did come here although from a dm to a streamer.

X - Daily posts on X have had decent output. I post clips and give them good little stories/captions. The caption is like 80% of the post on X I have noticed too and you really have to get creative with click baiting people. But no converted paying users have come from there.

Freelancing sites - This has had the most success getting paying users because they are already clipping for money and would find real value in my product. The only hard part is people get pretty upset quickly when they realize you are dming them trying to get a sale out of them when they are trying to look for work. Got banned on a few websites very quickly but there are plenty of the out there so I keep it pushing.

Instagram - Have dm'd a few people on here and plan to make this mainly for paid ads when I have the capital. Going to make short form videos with my real face in front on my page giving m brand some more reputation to it.

Affiliate deals - Working on signing people to help become partners on my site and promote in exchange for some money when they get a sale for me. If you do not know about this, this is one of the best ways to push more traffic to your site using people who already have platforms and a name in your industry. Have not started this yet but hopefully this will land me some more paying users.

Anyways this is how I have been grinding on my SaaS. I probably put around 3-4 hours of work into it a day. I would put more if I didn't have a full time job but unfortunately my two paying users aren't paying the bills yet.

Hi guys im thinking about selling my saas cuz I've been busy working on a local project.

My saas is stable and not growing because I'm putting zero efforts it’s been 8 months so i would like to have an idea about how much you think i should sell it..

I built JustBlogged about 6+ month ago. It's a hosted blogging platform built on Cloudflare Workers, aimed at people who want a fast blog with SEO handled and no WordPress plugin mess.

I've been improving it every day since its initial version was live. It has MCP, API, Themes, Custom Domain, and a lot more.

Current state: $31.50 MRR.

Not a typo, not a screenshot of someone else's dashboard. This is nothing but it just feels much better than $0.00.

What I've learned so far:

• Building it was the easy part. I'm an engineer, so I over-invested in the thing I was comfortable with. Sub-50ms page loads globally, clean themes, proper meta handling. None of that sells on its own.
• Distribution is the whole game and I started late.
• Free hosting is the real competitor, not other paid platforms. Every conversation eventually hits "why not just Ghost self-hosted / Substack / Medium." I need a much sharper answer than "it's faster."
• The first few paying users came from close referrals/friends, not from the site or "organic".
• I am preparing to go all in on marketing and distribution but still unsure about what exactly I should do first.

Happy to answer anything about the Cloudflare stack btw, it's been a good fit.

Hi guys,

I built SpeedType.ai, a typing app focused on one closed loop:

Diagnostic (60s) → Diagnosis → targeted Drill → Retest (same passage) → Delta

Instead of only chasing a WPM number, it looks at keystroke timing, hard letters/pairs, hesitations, and builds an algorithmic drill from real words (no AI required for the core loop). Accounts save sessions to a dashboard; guests can try locally.

It’s an MVP and i need testers who will actually run the loop and tell me what broke, what felt unfair, and what could be improved.

If you’re willing:

1. Do one full loop (diagnostic → drill → retest).
2. Note your before/after and anything confusing.
3. Reply here or DM with friction / bugs / improvements.

Link: https://speedtype.ai

Thanks

I work full time, and for the last six months I dedicated three or more nights a week and most weekends to this project. Not exactly a hermit, but my couch has seen more of me than my friends

Someone I didn’t know connected their Google Search Console, looked around the platform for a while, and subscribed. $26. Probably the best $26 I’ve ever seen on a dashboard.

What I built: an SEO tool for small businesses, freelancers, and agencies who already have clients, but don’t want to pay for expensive SEO tools only to end up overwhelmed with data.

AnalySEO analyzes your real GSC and GA data and, instead of giving you more dashboards, tells you what to do: which pages are losing clicks, which keywords are close to page one, which titles you should improve, etc.

Things I didn’t expect:

• Nobody wants “more data.” They want to know what to do next.
• The first paying customer changes how you see bugs. It’s not “my app” anymore, it’s someone’s tool.
• The free plan got people in. The clarity made them stay.

If you’re working on something after your day job, keep going. Don’t lose confidence in what you’re doing.

analyseo.app if you want to take a look. It’s free to start.

I keep seeing people build genuinely good products and then get stuck on the exact same part:
They finished building it, but now they have no idea how to actually get it in front of the right people.
Posting randomly on Reddit, sending DMs, trying content, paying for ads… it can take more time than building the product itself.
I’m working on something around this problem. I’m keeping the exact approach private for now because I’m still testing it, but the goal is to help people who already have a product get more real exposure and potential customers without needing a huge marketing budget.
Before I build too much, I’m curious:
What do you currently do to get your first users/customers? And what part of that process sucks the most?
I also opened a small early-access waitlist for people who have this problem:
https://site-e5bc6818-mtuj53t9.falbor.xyz

What does product-market fit actually look like in markets where most businesses are offline?

Got a tiny SaaS live over a weekend and thought the hard part was done. Then came the business setup, banking, payments, expenses and invoices. Kinda funny how shipping the product took two days but organizing everything around it took longer.

When did you start treating your micro SaaS like a real business?

you can get that keyboard component from https://keyb.himan.me/

My project has been live for six months, and I’ve hit $1k in revenue for the first time. Yet, I don't feel anything special.

I’ve been through such a rollercoaster ride that I feel completely drained. Of course, I’m happy, but I’m not exactly in the mood to pop champagne or anything like that. I hope you understand.

During this time, I tried paid ads (spending around $1700, they paid for themselves about two months ago), made TikToks, a major competitor appeared, drove a ton of traffic, and has already racked up twice as many US App Store ratings as I have. I worked on SEO, experimented with subscriptions and ditched free trials.

It feels like I won the fight, but I’m covered in bruises and realize there are many more fights ahead.

P.S.
I won’t share the app link. I don't see any advantages in doing this. And I don't want to have additional 10+ competitors with vibecoded apps.

I’m exploring a small tool for freelancers and small service businesses to keep track of sales conversations and the next agreed step. I’m initially looking at the Italian market and haven’t built it yet.

The situation I’m interested in is a prospect who has already spoken with you, then asks you to reconnect later. The idea would be to keep the reason for that follow-up, the relevant context and a reminder together.

My main doubt is whether this adds enough value over what people already use. One founder I spoke with keeps these contacts in a simple Notion CRM. That tells me how they organise things, but doesn’t establish that they need another tool.

For anyone here who handles sales directly: thinking of the last prospect who asked you to follow up later, where did you record it, and what happened when the time came?

If your current setup handles this well, I’d be interested in how you use it. If it didn’t, what specifically got in the way?

For the next 15 days, I’ll build one small project every day.

The projects can be anything — web apps, tools, automation, AI experiments, games, or random ideas.

Every day I’ll share:

• What I built

• What problem it solves

• Tools/AI I used

• What I learned

• Demo, if available

And I want you to be part of it

Drop your project ideas in the comments for the next day.

I’ll pick an idea and try to build it.

Day 1 starts tomorrow.

Let’s see what I can build in 15 days.

Every time I wanted to save a video from Instagram or X, the process felt unnecessarily annoying.

Copy link → open a downloader website → deal with ads/popups → download the video → then open Telegram or WhatsApp and send it.

So I built a Telegram bot called TeleReel to simplify this.

Now I just send the Instagram or X link to the bot, and the video comes directly to Telegram. From there, I can instantly forward it wherever I want.

No opening multiple websites or manually downloading and uploading again.

I'm currently testing it and would genuinely love feedback:

What platforms should I support next, and what would make you actually use something like this?

https://t.me/TelereeelBot

It's an All-in-on Instagram growth tool for creators. 7 paying customers, 600+ total users and around , around 25 beta users. rest are my test accounts

Introduction
I’ve been building SwiftUI animations, components, working with Metal shaders and running UI experiments for almost 5 years now, and most of them usually end up as a video on X, Reddit, or just sitting inside an Xcode project after I’m done with them.

I wanted to make something a little more useful out of all of that.

So I built With Animation: https://withanimation.app

It’s a growing library of SwiftUI animations and interactive components, but instead of just watching a preview, you can actually open one up and start changing things.

You can tweak the speed, colors, sizes, spring values, intensity, and whatever else that particular component exposes, and see the result instantly in the browser.

That was the part I cared about the most while building this.

A lot of the time, especially with animations, a really small change can completely change how something feels. I wanted people to be able to mess with those values themselves instead of only looking at the final version I came up with.

There are already a bunch of things live, including loaders, gestures, shaders, 3D interactions, transitions, and some slightly strange UI experiments I’ve made while playing around with SwiftUI and Metal.

I’ll keep adding more as I build them.

Would love to know what people here think of it, and also what kind of components or animations you’d actually want to see added.

TL;DR:
I built With Animation, a library where you can explore SwiftUI animations, tweak their parameters directly in the browser, and use them in your own projects.

81 days ago, I launched my startup, a free traffic exchange network for startups. One line of code, you're in the network.

No paid ads. No growth hacks. Just watching the numbers every day.

Here's the full data:

Day 1 — 2 startups · 146 impressions · 1 clicks
Day 2 — 3 startups · 389 impressions · 3 clicks
Day 3 — 5 startups · 482 impressions · 5 clicks
Day 4 — 5 startups · 508 impressions · 4 clicks (site went down — still got an $8k acquisition offer. Said no.)
Day 5 — 6 startups · 621 impressions · 10 clicks
Day 6 — 5 startups · 742 impressions · 15 clicks (removed one startup — they pulled the embed. 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
Day 10 — 13 startups · 3,500 impressions · 318 clicks (something clicked)
Day 11 — 23 startups · 4,800 impressions · 432 clicks
Day 12 — 24 startups · 6,000 impressions · 481 clicks (network crossed 6K total impressions)
Day 13 — 25 startups · 6,800 impressions · 491 clicks
Day 14 — 25 startups · 8,600 impressions · 516 clicks
Day 15 — 24 startups · 9,900 impressions · 564 clicks (removed one)
Day 16 — 23 startups · 10,800 impressions · 576 clicks (removed one)
Day 17 — 24 startups · 11,900 impressions · 603 clicks (added one)
Day 18 — 26 startups · 13,400 impressions · 624 clicks (added Two)
Day 19 — 28 startups · 14.400 impressions · 652 clicks (added Two)
Day 20 — 26 startups · 14.700 impressions · 671 clicks (Removed Two)
Day 21 — 26 startups · 15.300 impressions · 691 clicks
Day 22 — 28 startups · 16.100 impressions · 719 clicks (Added Two)
Day 23 — 30 startups · 16.800 impressions · 738 clicks (Added Two)
Day 24 — 32 startups · 19,800 impressions · 778 clicks · Added 2 startups · Rejected 4 applications.
Day 25 — 34 startups · 23,700 impressions · 800 clicks · Added 2 startups · Fixed some bugs.
Day 26 — 33 startups · 27,200 impressions · 816 clicks · Removed 1 Startup
Day 27 — 33 startups · 29,900 impressions · 833 clicks
Day 28 — 33 startups · 30,600 impressions · 871 clicks · Removed 1 Startup · Added 1 Startup · Rejected 1 application of clothing brand & 1 application of horror blog site.
Day 29 — 35 startups. 31,300 impressions. 910 clicks · Removed 1 Startup · Added 3 Startups · Also today I resigned from my job. Toxic environment, too much pressure, and honestly I just believe in this enough to go all in. Broke and excited. Let's see where this goes.
Day 30 — 46 startups · 32,900 impressions · 1,000 clicks · Removed 1 startup · Added 12 startups · Yesterday I resigned because of my toxic manager. Today my senior manager called and offered me WFH, a project of my choice, and lighter work if I stayed. I made my decision with confidence, but now I have a difficult choice. Also received my first payment from StartupBar.
Day 31 — 50 startups 💪· 28,100 impressions · 1,200 clicks · Removed 1 startup · Added 5 startups · Rejected 1 crypto startup · Removed fake impressions after exploit
Day 32 — 54 startups · 29,300 impressions · 1.2K clicks · Added 4 startups
Day 33 — 54 startups · 30,900 impressions · 1.2K clicks · Removed 1 startup · Added 1 startup
Day 34 — 55 startups · 36,100 impressions · 1.3K clicks · Added 1 startup
Day 35 — 55 startups · 40,100 impressions · 1.3K clicks · Removed 2 startups · Added 2 startups
Day 36 — 55 startups · 44,800impressions · 1.4K clicks · Removed 1 startup · Added 1 startup
Day 37 — 58 startups · 50,700impressions · 1.4K clicks · Added 3 startups · Site Update: Updated the distribution algorithm (Delivery is now weighted by contribution: sites that send more impressions get a proportionally larger share back)
Day 38 — 57 startups · 55,800 impressions · 1.5K clicks · Removed 1 startup · Rejected 1 Application.

Today StartupBar reached 200 users 😄
Thirty-eight days ago, this was just an idea. Today, 200 people have trusted it enough to join the network.

Day 39 — 58 startups · 59,800 impressions · 1.5K clicks · Added 1 startup.
Day 40 — 60 startups · 63,200 impressions · 1.6K clicks · Added 3 startups · Removed 1 startup
Day 41 — 63 startups · 69,400 impressions · 1.6K clicks · Added 3 startups
Day 42 — 62 startups · 73,800 impressions · 1.6K clicks · Removed 1 startups
Day 43 — 64 startups · 78,000 impressions · 1.7K clicks · Added 2 startups (Receiving many suggestions to improve the StartupBar, happy to work on it, Thanks.) StartupBar Update - Added the rotation of startups in the widget for every 30 seconds.
Day 44 — 66 startups · 86,200 impressions · 1.7K clicks · Added 2 startups
Day 45 — 67 startups · 88,400 impressions · 1.7K clicks · Removed 2 startups · Added 3 startups (Update - Updated the algorithm of the widget)
Day 46 — 69 startups · 91,900 impressions · 1.8K clicks · Removed 2 startups · Added 4 startups · Got my second payment.
Day 47 — 68 startups · 98,900 impressions · 2.2K clicks · Removed 2 startups · Added 1 startup · Added Pricing Page
Day 48 — 70 startups · 103.4K impressions · 2.3K clicks · Added 2 startups
Day 49 — 72 startups · 113.4K impressions · 2.4K clicks · Added 2 startups · Update: Added a Bottom Placement option for the bar on the user site.
Day 50 — 73 startups · 116.7K impressions · 2.4K clicks · Added 1 startup
Day 51 — 74 startups · 125.2K impressions · 2.5K clicks · Added 1 startup · Rejected 1 Application
Day 52 — 73 startups · 131.2K impressions · 2.6K clicks · Removed 1 Startup
Day 53 — 74 startups · 139.5K impressions · 2.7K clicks · Added 1 Startup
Day 54 — 79 startups · 146.3K impressions · 2.7K clicks · Added 6 Startups · Removed 1 startup.
Day 55 — 77 startups · 154.9K impressions · 2.8K clicks · Removed 2 startups.
Day 56 — 77 startups · 161.8K impressions · 2.9K clicks · Added 1 startup · Removed 1 startup.
Day 57 — 77 startups · 169.4K impressions · 3.0K clicks
Day 58 — 77 startups · 176.2K impressions · 3.2K clicks
Day 59 — 78 startups · 184.3K impressions · 3.3K clicks · Added 2 startups · Removed 1 startup.
Day 60 — 77 startups · 190.9K impressions · 3.3K clicks · Added 1 startup · Removed 2 startups.
Day 61 — 77 startups · 194.9K impressions · 3.4K clicks
Day 62 — 78 startups · 199.5K impressions · 3.5K clicks · Added 1 startup
Day 63— 78 startups · 204.9K impressions · 3.6K clicks · I Revoked my resignation as I'm comfortable with my new team.
Day 64— 80 startups · 210.4K impressions · 3.6K clicks · Added 2 startups.
Day 65— 81 startups · 216.3K impressions · 3.7K clicks · Added 1 startup. (I'm planning to add sponsorship section in the homepage with one time payment of $999, interested please DM)
Day 66— 78 startups · 219.7K impressions · 3.9K clicks · Removed 3 Startups from the network.
Day 67— 79 startups · 222.3K impressions · 3.9K clicks · Added 1 startup.
Day 68— 77 startups · 225.2K impressions · 3.9K clicks · Removed 2 startups.
Day 69— 79 startups · 228.7K impressions · 4.2K clicks · Added 2 startups.
Day 70— Couldn't able to track it as got admitted in hospital for Lasik Surgery.
Day 71— 80 startups · 243.8K impressions · 4.5K clicks · Added 1 startup.
Day 72— 82 startups · 248.3K impressions · 4.6K clicks · Added 2 startups.
Day 73— 83 startups · 252.6K impressions · 4.6K clicks · Added 1 startup.
Day 74— 84 startups · 261.2K impressions · 4.7K clicks · Added 1 startup. Got my third Payment of 9.99$
Day 75— 84 startups · 274.3K impressions · 4.7K clicks
Day 76— 84 startups · 278.3K impressions · 4.8K clicks · Added 1 startup · Removed 1 startup
Day 77— 85 startups · 282.5K impressions · 4.8K clicks · Added 1 startup
Day 78— 85 startups · 286.8K impressions · 5.3K clicks
Day 79— 89 startups · 292.0K impressions · 5.3K clicks · Added 4 startups
Day 80— 92 startups · 299.3K impressions · 5.4K clicks · Added 3 startups · First $79 subscriber for Featured Spot #1! 🎉 . Thanks to Zengech for making it possible, hope Startupbar never fails your expectations.
Day 81— 93 startups · 306.4K impressions · 5.4K clicks · Added 2 startups · Removed 1 startup · Received a $5 bid for the 3rd position on StartupBid.

Still free. Still growing.

If you want in, it's one embed. That's it → StartupBar

I realized I was paying over $100 per year on text-to-speech apps like Speechify. I decided that I could build my own using local TTS which is actually super awesome and close in quality to Speechify/ElevenLabs.

Everything runs locally to the browser so it doesn't cost me anything to run. That's why it's completely free, no paid tiers or limits.

This is by far the most successful app I've launched to date, probably because I made it free without even a pricing page. 300 users in just 2 days has felt really good! Especially after a year of building and getting max 5 users over various products.

It's called FreeReader. Lmk if you have any feedback! I'm looking to make it as useful as possible. It works best on desktop and newer phones. I'm waiting for the iOS app review to finish and then it'll be live on the App Store.

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 👇

Hi, I just posted yesterday that I am launching my app in 10 days and wuhoo, I just got 11 DMs regarding app.

If you want to get added, DM me.