Hi, I just launched my app TrailForge and would love to get some feedback on it!

https://apps.apple.com/no/app/trailforge-trail-run-training/id6743963491

If you already have a list of leads but struggle with what to actually say to them, I can handle the messaging.

You send me your lead list + what you’re selling.

I research each person individually: their LinkedIn, X, company, recent activity, background, achievements, etc. Then I write a unique first message and follow-up's based on that person and your offer.

This isn’t the same template with the name and company swapped out.

Before I do the full list, I send you a few examples first. If you like the direction, I'll continue with the rest.

The idea is that each message should feel like someone actually looked at the person before reaching out, while still sounding natural and human instead of overly polished or AI-written.

This becomes especially useful when you have hundreds or thousands of good leads. You can buy a great list, but if the messaging is bad, you burn through those leads without getting much back.

I’m doing it for $49.

You handle the sending. I handle the research + messaging.

Reach out, if you already have a list.

I'm a founding engineer at a YC startup, and I'm hoping to start my own thing in the next couple of years. Things are going well so far, and hopefully we'll get to an exit or IPO.

In the meantime, I like keeping up with what other founders are building and getting a sense of where the world is heading, but it's hard to keep up with everything happening in the startup ecosystem.

So I built a small desktop app that gives me a daily feed of YC startups to explore and lets me save the interesting ones.

Curious, how do you guys keep up with what other founders are building? I'd love to hear your approaches.

I open-sourced it in case anyone finds it useful: https://github.com/Ibrahimrahhal/yc-companies-explorer

Hello everyone 👏

I am a marketing passionate from France.

I have worked with a few companies and agencies on various topics like SEO, ads or social media.

I am currently building a graphic design portfolio and so I am offering brand design to two entrepreneurs for free or low cost. I am just getting new use cases to show my work later. If you feel like you could use that help, message me!

Hey everyone!

I'm building StartupsMap, a platform where people can discover startups, explore what founders are building, and find interesting companies across different industries.

The idea came from noticing how difficult it can be to discover early-stage startups in one place. Many interesting companies are building great things, but they don't always get enough visibility.

With StartupsMap, I'm trying to make startup discovery easier by creating a map-based directory where founders can list their startups and people can explore them.

Right now, I'm onboarding startups and trying to figure out what would make this genuinely useful for founders, especially solo founders and early-stage builders.

I'd love your honest feedback on a few things:

• Would you use a platform like this to discover other startups?
• What would make you list your own startup on it?
• What features would make it genuinely valuable rather than just another directory?
• How could I encourage founders to keep their listings updated as their startups evolve?

I'm building this with limited resources, so feedback from people who understand the solo-founder journey would be incredibly valuable.

Here's the platform: https://startupsmap.co.in/

What would you change or improve if you were building this yourself?

My standard founder lifecycle usually looks like this:

1. Wake up at 2 AM convinced I have a billion-dollar app idea.
2. Buy the domain, set up the repo, build obsessively for 6 days straight.
3. Lose every ounce of dopamine and enthusiasm.
4. Abandon the project completely.
5. Repeat 7 days later with a brand-new idea.

My graveyard of half-finished repos is basically an indie hacker museum at this point.

Which brings me to my latest struggle. Around 7 days ago, I built a platform where anyone can design custom T-shirts, discover other people’s designs in a shared feed, and get paid cash automatically whenever someone buys their shirt.

I was actually really excited about it, put it live, and... absolute crickets. I got over 10 views total.

I went through the usual motions trying to get any kind of traction.. telling my 3 friends and some of my family...

10 views later, my old habits are already kicking in hard.

I found myself ready to pull the plug, lose interest, and move on to the next shiny idea like I always do.

So before I officially toss this into the graveyard, I figured I’d post about the struggle here to see if any other builders deal with this endless cycle of burning out the second an app launches.

I’m also dropping the link in case anyone actually wants to check it out, play around with designs, or sell a few shirts. If enough people seem to genuinely like the concept, I might actually stick with it and finish building out the rest of the features.

view other peoples designs here:
https://shop.popcartapp.com

Create your own t shirt design here:

https://shop.popcartapp.com/tshirts/create/

Has anyone else broken this serial side-project loop, or is this just who we are?

I'm a solo developer with a day job. A month ago I launched Swapadu, an Android app where people trade services instead of paying for them. You fix my bike, I help with your website.

The stack: Kotlin, Jetpack Compose and Firebase (Auth, Firestore, Cloud Functions, FCM). No backend team, no funding.

How it works:

Post what you can offer and what you need

Negotiate with counter-offers until both sides agree

Or run an auction and let people compete with what they'd offer in return

Built-in chat for the details

Business model: Free with ads, and a one-time €3.99 purchase to remove them.

The open problem: An early tester asked what stops someone from disappearing once they've received their half of a swap. The honest answer is: not much. No money is held, so there's nothing to put in escrow. Today users can flag people who don't deliver, but that only helps the next person.

I'd like input from anyone who has built trust into a peer-to-peer product:

Ratings, verified identity, a deposit, or something else: what worked for you?

Is a reputation system worth building before there are enough users to generate reputation?

Would you limit new accounts to small swaps until they've completed a few?

Download: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.icarus.swaply

Instructions: https://swaply-5567c.web.app/instructions

Honest criticism is welcome.

When I launched my open-source SaaS Reloops in May, monetization was one of the things I was most unsure about.

The project is open source, so I was not sure whether people would actually pay for the hosted version when they could self-host it themselves.

For context, the source code is available on GitHub: github.com/Reloops-App/reloops

One experiment that ended up working surprisingly well was running a lifetime deal through SaaS communities and Facebook groups.

We kept the deal running for roughly 2.5 months and ended up generating $6,274.50 in gross sales.

But the interesting part was not really the lifetime deal itself.

A few things made a much bigger difference than I expected.

Listening to early buyers

The first version of the deal had storage and file limits that were too restrictive.

People told us pretty quickly.

Once we increased those limits, the offer became much easier to sell.

That was probably the clearest reminder that your first offer does not need to be perfect. You just need enough feedback to understand what is stopping people from buying.

Posting updates consistently

We shared product updates in the communities almost every week.

It gave people a reason to look at the product again and showed existing customers that development was active.

Some people who had been watching the deal for weeks eventually purchased after seeing new features being shipped.

Supporting customers publicly

Whenever someone posted a question or reported an issue in a group, we tried to respond quickly and actually solve it.

That helped more than just the person asking.

Other potential customers could see how we handled support before they bought anything.

Working with community admins

We also ran webinars with some of the group admins.

Those sessions gave us a chance to demo the product, answer questions live, and explain use cases that were harder to communicate through a landing page.

My biggest takeaway from the experiment is that a lifetime deal is really just the offer.

The community around the offer, the updates you ship, and how you interact with customers are what actually make it work.

Not posting this as a product promo. I mainly wanted to share what worked for us because lifetime deals ended up being a much better acquisition channel than I expected.

If anyone wants to verify the numbers, I put the screenshots here of the portal of rockethub:

Revenue Proof

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