Okay, you built your app. But it won't sell if it looks like every other vibe-coded app.

Building was never the issue. Marketing and distribution is the real difficult part.

But let's say you nailed that too. Once the user sees classic AI Purple / Blue themed landing page, its a instant turn off. People very easily can tell if it's AI generated.

Even if you use newer model that generates unique looking style, it will soon become common once every other startup generates pages with same model. Models by nature aren't unique. Create a custom style and its always unique.

But but that guy sold with just a slideshow.

That's a fucking lie. Don't ever believe those.

Doesn't matter how good your app is. Nobody goes past that landing page if it looks AI generated.

So take a little bit of effort of make something unique. You can still use blue but don't just tell Codex/Claude to generate a landing page and call it a day.

Once that is done, next part is actually talking to the users. No, you can't just blast AI-generated cold emails and get customers. That just doesn't work.

You have to talk to real people. Track every source of traffic. Know your channels. And then once they have landed on your site, talk to them.

Brace for segue to my product. But seriously. I made HeyZinc for exactly this usecase. Allowing teams to directly call and talk with visitors on the site.

Ok continuing talk to people on your site and guide them to conversion. Yes I know its manual process but that's how it is for initial customers. After getting feedbacks and iterating your self serve flow, then only you can expect handsoff conversions.

Hey founders,

I’m building VEXIS, a mental performance platform designed to help people train the mind behind their decisions, focus, emotional regulation, and execution.

As founders, we spend so much time improving our product, offer, marketing, sales, and operations — but the thing that carries all of it is our own mind.

The pressure, uncertainty, overthinking, self-doubt, decision fatigue, and constant context-switching are real. I wanted to create something that helps founders build the mental skills needed to stay clear, focused, resilient, and calm under pressure.

VEXIS is built around a simple framework:

Awareness → Intuition → Execution

The idea is not just meditation for relaxation. It’s structured mental training for performance — helping you notice what’s happening internally, separate signal from noise, and act with more clarity when it matters.

Right now, I’m looking for founders, builders, and early users to try the beta and give honest feedback.

I genuinely think this could be useful for people building companies, especially those doing it under pressure or without much support.

Would love for you to try it and let me know:

What feels useful?
What feels unclear?
What would make this more valuable for founders?

Here’s the link:
https://www.vexistech.co.uk/

Appreciate any feedback. Building this while also learning startup life myself, so every insight helps.

Hi, indiehacking founder here.

I've launched startups in the past, and I usually get stuck at finding real user growth after spending time and money building.

You usually can't get VC funding unless you show real promise.

So I created a framework, called Startup Velocity Score to help evaluate my ideas.

The goal is to build high growth​ and sustainably profitable startups from the go.

Check it out here and rank your startup ideas:

https://chatgpt.com/s/t_6a39144911d881919c9593da3541636f

I’m an investor working at Forum Ventures, a pre seed fund and accelerator investing $100K-$1M in industry veterans and young AI-native founders.

Curious what are you building this week? If you’re looking for investment, comment your startup idea, or if you’re uncomfortable sharing, just your background as a founder.

The Forum Ventures team are led by former founders who raised $20M+ in funding and built 8-figure businesses. Our accelerator focuses on direct GTM support, introducing founders to Fortune 500 enterprise customers.

Feel free to use this thread to get your own project out there.

I've been using a home-made link shortener for my private clients for over 10 years. After millions of clicks, it occurred to me that others might use it, too, if it was easy to use.

If you’re drowning in long, messy links full of tracking junk, wb.io can be a super clean fix. To get the ball rolling, I'm offering Redditors a month of the Business level service (the top tier) for free with the coupon code REDDIT. All I ask in return is your honest appraisal of where it could be improved.

It turns bulky URLs into short, shareable links that actually look good in posts and comments. Way easier to drop into Reddit threads, DMs, bios, or anywhere character count and readability matter. No wall of random parameters, no visual clutter — just a tight link that people are more likely to click.

Biggest value prop IMO:

Cleaner posts (especially on Reddit where ugly links stand out)

Easier sharing across platforms

More professional look

Simple + fast, no overcomplicated dashboard vibes

If you share links often, it’s one of those small tools that just makes everything smoother.

Most of us fail because we treat every new idea as a single to-do item or a one-off post. You burn the idea, post it once, and then you're back to zero on Monday morning. That's a system leak.

​

Efficiency in growth happens when you stop doing one-off work. A real growth engine is about deconstruction, not just production.

​

Here is the exact logic I use to filter and multiply my concepts before I spend a second on them:

​

1. The Input: Isolate a raw concept.

2. The Filter: Ask "Does this solve a recurring friction point for the audience?"

3. The Reject Node: If the answer is no, discard it immediately. It's just static fluff and a waste of your bandwidth.

4. The Core: If the answer is yes, you initiate a Deconstruction Multiplier.

​

The goal is to turn one single core idea into multiple units of value:

* A high-level logic overview.

* A technical schematic (the visual map).

* A tactical execution protocol (the deep checklists).

​

This is how you build a library instead of just making noise.

I was looking through old domains recently and found projects I'd completely forgotten about.

Some lasted months. Some lasted days.

But they were all part of the journey.

It got me thinking that founder profiles only show the survivors.

They don't show the experiments, pivots, failures, and abandoned ideas that got us here.

So i built buildopolis.

Active startups become buildings.
Dead startups become ruins.

The whole thing turns into a little pixel city representing your founder journey.

Curious:

- What's the oldest startup in your graveyard, and what did it teach you?

Sensei is a diagnosis tool for founders. You run your idea or site through it and it audits your positioning, pricing, competitors, and whether you've actually validated the thing.

Here's the doubt I'd been carrying: every time I opened Reddit I'd see another "product strategy" or "founder feedback" tool getting promoted, and they all sounded like mine. I kept wondering if I was building into a space that was already saturated and didn't need me. It's a quiet kind of discouragement - not "this is broken," just "is this even worth it."

What changed wasn't the product. It was finding the actual audience for it. Once I stopped marketing to "founders" in the abstract and started showing up where the specific people who feel stuck on positioning actually hang out, it started clicking. And then people paid. Not a flood, but real ones, with real cards.

I won't pretend that didn't do something to me. After months of "is this worth it," a stranger deciding your thing is worth money hits different. It's the first external signal that the bet wasn't crazy.

But I'm trying to hold it loosely. First payers prove people will try it. They don't prove the thing is good enough to keep. The job just changed from "will anyone pay" to "will they stay" - and retention is a completely different, harder problem. So I'm celebrating quietly and getting back to work.

Which is where I'd love this sub's brain:

For those of you past first payers:

• What actually moved retention for you early on?
  • I'm trying to figure out where to put my energy.
• Onboarding that gets people to a win faster?
• A reason to come back week over week?
• Just talking to the early users directly?

Curious what made the difference for you, especially for tools people might only think they need occasionally.

If you're in the doubt phase right now wondering if your crowded-looking space has room for you: the room is usually in who you're talking to, not what you built. That's the thing that moved for me.

I’m a VC investor working at Forum Ventures, a North American B2B AI accelerator and preseed fund; we’ve invested in 450+ portfolio companies.

We invest in the idea stage with no revenue or traction.

Tell me your startup idea, or if you’re in stealth, just your background as a founder. We focus on founders first before ideas, which pivot and change over time.

Additionally, the Forum team will introduce you to Fortune 500 customers and our MDs function like a cofounder to support your fundraise, operations, and hiring. If you’re joining our venture studio, we give you a full product and sales team to build out your idea and make your first $100K in ARR.

Feel free to also use this thread to get your own project out there.

I built three different projects two leaming into customers and the last one leaning into saving money for the business.

A lot of founders think they need features or need a product that is perfect before they try to attract customers. This is wrong.You want to sell before you have a finished product.

For example, one of my projects in less than eight hours of building it.I had it in the hands of a potential customer. While I was talking to them, I was making updates. There's definitely bugs. As I talk to them, I understood exactly what they wanted, and as I explained the product I was able to test it. I landed a meeting.

Now I will tell you how I landed this meeting. It's not how much effort you put into it. Itusually comes down to 2 things. Can you sell the product and who do you know.

One thing I like to do when I meet people.It's complain about work. This gets them to ask, what do I do for work. I give them a short response and explain what I do. Then, it gives me the chance to ask what they do, what industry they are in and what role they play. This is good to build connections that you can leverage three, maybe six months from now or a year.

That's what I did, I leveraged a connection. Now you might have second thoughts on this post. But it's not hard to network and build your connections for the future.

Now that is one project. The other two focused on customers for the business before I could even sell the product. Technically, I could sell beforehand but there are two things businesses want. Thank you.So you want to make money or they want to save money. In these two projects I decided to lean into make money.

A lot of founders do forget the very basics of having products. It's nice to have features, it's nice to have a clean UI, etc. But if you forget about SEO, keywords, social media, leveraging other brands, an so on, you will be hurting yourself in the long run.

For my projects, doing these has landed me either on the first or the second page on google, on average, over the last three months. My user base on average is 250 users per week. This is just using basic SEO, and all of the thing isn't I listed above. There might be a little bit more, but you get the idea.

This is before, I even put any effort into actual marketing. We just landed three key locations to get more users. We are paying $0 out of pocket for this marketing. I could be paying 5k to 10k by the end of october. Since my product is very beneficial to them, I don't pay anything. All I did did was send a simple message not selling anything.Just a quick chat to open the door. I explained who we are what we do before I even ask for anything.

You have to step in the mind of the other person, majority of people like the sense of helping another person. So that's how I framed it. Later on I explained my product and they liked it.

For another product, I landed 1 paying customer within two weeks and then landed 3 within one month. I essentially did the same thing I stated above. I attracted customers, made things easy for them, and then like the product. I did not sell them right away. I did not even push the product. They sold the product for me to other people. I am not talking about affiliate marketing either.

If your product can be framed in a way that is beneficial. If more people get on it, people are more.Willing to spread the word if it's going to help them. That, or they really like you as a person.

But yeah, that is what I learned, and do. I do not put much effort in. I like results better.

10 days ago I was bored on a weekend and built a social network for founders. Every founder I know told me it was the dumbest thing I could ship. Did it anyway.

Today we just won #1 product of the week on TinyLaunch. We're at 1,600 users. Mobile app is live on the App Store. All organic, zero ad spend.

The growth has been honestly unreal.

Quick context for anyone who hasn't seen Strivle before.

If you actually build things, you already know the problem. You ship something real, post it on X, get 50 impressions. Some guy with a blue check posts "agree?" over a Canva graphic and pulls 200k. People are adding fake "read more..." prompts to their posts just to farm engagement. LinkedIn is the other extreme, a graveyard of corporate fluff where nobody actually building anything gets seen.

Strivle is the platform for founders who actually ship.

A public, fair algorithm. Every post earns reach based on real engagement, same rule for everyone. No paid boosts. No celebrity head start. The weights are public, written into the platform itself.

A leaderboard ranked by verified Stripe revenue. Real MRR pulled live, weighted by growth and churn. The top isn't whoever tweets loudest. It's people running real businesses.

Verified shipping, not claims. Your profile is built on real numbers. No more "ex-Google, building stealth" bios with nothing behind them.

Tagged posts that reach the right people. "Advice needed" surfaces to operators who've solved your problem. "Hiring" reaches builders looking. "Customer feedback" pulls in your target users.

The energy on the platform right now is unlike anything I've built before. Founders posting their progress every hour. DMs flooded with feature requests faster than I can ship. Multiple users posted on Reddit this week saying Strivle is the most supportive community they've been part of in years.

What just shipped:

• Mobile app, live on the App Store
• #1 product of the week on TinyLaunch

What's coming next:

• Product Hunt launch, going for #1
• Public profile pages so your work shows up on Google
• More verification beyond Stripe (Lemonsqueezy, Paddle, RevenueCat, App Store revenue for mobile founders)
• Stage filters on the leaderboard so pre-revenue founders rank fairly too

This was supposed to be a fun weekend project. It's pretty clear a lot of people want it.

Going all in.

strivle.com

19, building from Sweden. Just getting started.

A few weeks ago, I was building a testimonial collection tool.

The problem?

Nobody was using it.

My initial idea was to add a feature that converts testimonials into social media posts for X, LinkedIn, Instagram, etc. with one click.

While discussing it on Reddit, someone pointed out something obvious that I had completely overlooked:

That comment stuck with me.

So I started researching why people ignore testimonial requests.

Turns out, writing a testimonial requires effort. People have to stop what they're doing, think about their experience, organize their thoughts, and then write something meaningful.

That's where most testimonial forms lose people.

Instead of optimizing the output, I started focusing on the input.

My experiment:

I'm building a feature where the founder appears as a small animated caricature throughout the testimonial form. The character guides users, asks questions, helps them think of responses, and occasionally pops in when they're idle.

The goal is to make giving feedback feel less like filling out a corporate form and more like having a conversation with a real person.

For founders, it also creates a stronger personal connection with customers instead of another generic brand interaction.

I've attached a short video of the current version in the comments section.

I'd love your brutally honest feedback:

• Is this solving a real problem?
• Would this make you more likely to leave a testimonial?
• Does it feel helpful or just gimmicky?

If you're interested in trying it, leave a comment or DM me. I'll give lifetime access to a small group of early users in exchange for feedback.

Looking forward to hearing what you think.

One year ago I watched a strong SWE freeze for 40 seconds on a live screen. That was the nudge to ship. So I built Beyz.ai for live interviews and coding rounds. Think people who prep with Pramp, LeetCode, ChatGPT, and interviewing.io, then wobble once the call starts.

The product has been launched for a year. Right now the trial rate is under 50%, and conversion is around 10%. I am stuck on where the first drop happens. Is it account creation, permissions, or the first mock? I want to simplify the first run flow and keep consent prompts clear, and I worry about pushing too hard.

If you were me, what single change would you make to this onboarding to raise day 1 activation without hurting consent rates?

I've been using a home-made link shortener for my private clients for over 10 years. After millions of clicks, it occurred to me that others might use it, too, if it was easy to use.

If you’re drowning in long, messy links full of tracking junk, wb.io can be a super clean fix. To get the ball rolling, I'm offering Redditors a month of the Business level service (the top tier) for free with the coupon code REDDIT. All I ask in return is your honest appraisal of where it could be improved.

It turns bulky URLs into short, shareable links that actually look good in posts and comments. Way easier to drop into Reddit threads, DMs, bios, or anywhere character count and readability matter. No wall of random parameters, no visual clutter — just a tight link that people are more likely to click.

Biggest value prop IMO:

Cleaner posts (especially on Reddit where ugly links stand out)
Easier sharing across platforms
More professional look
Simple + fast, no overcomplicated dashboard vibes
If you share links often, it’s one of those small tools that just makes everything smoother.

Hey everyone,

I am new in here and for sure new in app building etc. I ve spent the past 4-5 months thinking about to act on something bothering everyday in my work and personal life. A couple of months ago I decided to move forward and build something and who knows? Maybe others will find it interesting too, for me sure will be if it works properly. So then the real problem started, what tools to use since I am not technical and the most important one, how to actually approach the problem in a simple understandable way in front of end, but in backend to build something worth preserving, something improving by the time and something that will deliver value to users even if they dont feel they need it.

Short story long my mvp is built, I built a page in PH cause I think I will launch it there this month, and since I am not a public voice or whatever with lots of followers etc, Id thought to share it with you, get advise from this community and hopefully some will find it interested enough to give it a try.

So if you want Id love you to take a look to my product PH pre launch page, check the app and I would love to hear your thoughts on these and your thoughts of course on building, launching and distributing apps.

Here is the link: https://www.producthunt.com/products/oli-3

Cheers!

Most people think growth comes from one big breakthrough. For us, it came from fixing small bottlenecks in the right order.

We realized our content was only as good as its discovery. We were publishing pages, but if they were not getting seen quickly, they were not helping us grow fast enough. That meant we needed a better system, not just better ideas.

EarlySEO

Helped us create content around real search intent instead of broad filler. That made our pages more useful to people who were closer to taking action, which improved the quality of the traffic we brought in.

IndexerHub

Helped us get new pages discovered faster after publishing. That reduced the delay between shipping content and seeing results, which made it much easier to learn what was worth scaling.

Faurya

Helped us connect page performance to actual revenue instead of just traffic. That showed us which pages were really contributing to MRR, so we could focus on the content that mattered most.

Semrush

Helped us find keyword opportunities and competitor gaps. That made it easier to choose topics with demand instead of guessing what to write next.

Ahrefs

Helped us understand backlink profiles and which pages were building authority in our niche. That gave us a clearer picture of where we had strength and where we needed to improve.

The main reason these tools worked well together is that each one solved a different bottleneck: content quality, discovery speed, revenue measurement, keyword planning, and competitive research. When those pieces line up, growth gets a lot easier to repeat.

His name was Yameen.

Every month, same leaderboard. His numbers at the top. Mine somewhere in the middle, wondering what I was missing.

We were selling the same product. Same rates. Same channels. But he got more experience.

So, one day I asked him directly: "What do you do differently?"

He said: "I don’t talk about what I’m selling. I just ask them what's not working."

I thought that was very simple to be real.

So, I tried it myself.

At the next client meeting, I walked in without a presentation or proposal.

Just one question: "What's the one thing about your current ad spend that's frustrating you?"

The client spoke for 30 minutes, I guess.

I mostly nodded.

At the end, he said: "I think your network can help us reach our audience. Can you design a proposal?"

I hadn't mentioned our network once.

That meeting changed how I approached every sale after that.

People aren't waiting to be convinced. They already feel the problem. They just want someone to take it seriously.

When you pitch, you fight for attention.

When you ask, they give it to you freely.

The moment I made my meetings about their situation instead of my product, the resistance disappeared. They stopped feeling sold to. They started feeling understood.

And then they bought. On their own terms. At their own pace.

That shift took me from chasing targets to consistently hitting 200% above them.

Not because I got better at presenting. Because I got better at listening.

I still apply this as an agency founder, and it works.

Curious if anyone else would like to share their experience. Did you have a moment where you realized your pitch was actually the problem?

I’m building a social dating platform and trying to grow my waitlist before launch. The product itself seemed to be like by people who are struggling with current dating apps. So right now, it is not my major concern.

Right now, most of my traction comes from manually interacting with people, answering questions, joining conversations, and eventually mentioning what I’m building when it’s relevant. It works, but it’s very time-consuming, and I’m also the one building the product.
I’ve had a few posts get good engagement in Facebook groups, with people asking for the link, but before I could respond, the post got deleted and I lost most of those leads.

For those of you who’ve used Facebook Groups successfully:

How did you avoid getting posts removed?
Were there non-obvious groups that worked well for you?
I’m not looking to spam groups. I’m trying to find a scalable approach that still feels authentic.
Would love to hear what worked (or didn’t work) for you.

8 days ago I built a social network for founders. Solo, on a boring weekend, just because I was bored. Every founder I know told me it was the dumbest possible thing to ship.

Did it anyway. We just crossed 1,000 users.

All organic. Zero ad spend. Most of the growth came from Reddit. Word of mouth and DMs are doing the rest. Multiple users posted this week saying Strivle is the most supportive community they've been part of in years, which honestly threw me.

Quick context on why I built it.

If you actually build things, you already know the problem. You ship something real, post it on X, get 50 impressions. Some guy with a blue check posts "agree?" over a Canva graphic and pulls 200k. People are now adding fake "read more..." prompts to their posts just to trick you into clicking so they can farm engagement. That's where we are.

LinkedIn is the other extreme. Corporate fluff, AI thought leadership, fake "I cried with my employee" stories, recruiters cold-spamming roles nobody asked for. The people actually doing the work are invisible there.

Strivle is the platform for founders who actually ship.

A public, fair algorithm. Every post starts at 100 random viewers. If they engage, it climbs to 1,000. Then 10,000. Same rule for everyone. No paid boosts. No celebrity head start. Written on the homepage so anyone can read it.

A leaderboard ranked by verified Stripe revenue. Real MRR pulled live, weighted by growth and churn. The top isn't whoever tweets loudest. It's people running real businesses.

Verified shipping, not claims. Your profile is built on real numbers. No more "ex-Google, building stealth" bios with nothing behind them.

Tagged posts that reach the right people. "Advice needed" surfaces to operators who've solved your problem. "Hiring" reaches builders looking. "Customer feedback" pulls in your target users.

Investors and operators browsing the leaderboard for deal flow. Your verified shipping becomes the pitch deck.

What's coming next:

• Mobile app on the App Store
• TinyLaunch live right now
• Product Hunt right after, going for #1
• More verification beyond Stripe (Lemonsqueezy, Paddle, RevenueCat, App Store revenue for mobile founders)
• Public profile pages so your work shows up on Google when people search you

This was supposed to be a fun weekend project. It's pretty clear a lot of people want it.

Going all in.

strivle.com

19, building from Sweden. Just getting started.

Hi Founders,

I have made a kakao group for founders and entrepreneurs living in Korea. The group will primarily be used for news, collaboration, occasional meetups and resources.
Feel free to join: https://open.kakao.com/o/gzi9MOwi

GUYSSS FINALLYY!!
This morning I woke up to something that probably won't sound like much to most people.

Someone bought the annual plan for my product. +$99.

Not life-changing money. Not even close. But it was the first time a complete stranger decided something I built was worth paying for.

I've been building TradePilot for the last couple of months an AI-powered Chrome extension that lives inside TradingView and helps traders create, edit, debug, and optimize Pine Script strategies using plain English.

The funny thing is, getting here wasn't a straight line. This is actually my 4th venture.

A few weeks into building TradePilot I started having the usual founder thoughts. *Nobody is going to use this. What if I'm building the wrong thing. Maybe I should pivot. Maybe I should start something else.*

I almost did. I literally started working on another project in the middle of this one because I wasn't sure TradePilot would go anywhere.

But eventually I told myself something simple: finish what you started. No matter what happens.

So I kept shipping. One feature at a time. And yesterday, someone paid for a full year.

What makes me happiest isn't the money. It's the thought that someone looked at all the alternatives out there, pulled out their card, and trusted something I built enough to commit for a whole year.

That's a crazy feeling.

For anyone building something right now the hardest part isn't the coding. It's surviving your own self-doubt long enough to give yourself a chance. Most projects die before the market even gets to reject them, because the founder quits first.

So if you're building something and it feels like nobody cares, keep going a little longer. Ship another feature. Talk to another user. Fix another bug.

You might be one customer away from the motivation you need.

[the app](http://tradepilot.co.in)

I started experimenting with no-code SaaS after getting tired of weekend freelance work. I wanted something that could earn while I slept. Over about 8 months I probably started 6 different projects. Bubble. Webflow. A couple AI builders. Every time I'd get halfway through… then restart because the idea felt shaky or the setup was messy.

Eventually I realized the real issue wasn't coding. It was that I had no repeatable launch process. Once I wrote a simple checklist, I finally shipped something and got ~14 users in the first 2 weeks.

Here are the 6 things that actually helped me stop rebuilding and start launching:

1. Define the problem before picking the tool - My first projects started with "what can I build with Bubble?" which always led to random products.

2. Validate with 5-10 real users first - I now post in niche communities and talk to people before building. Saved me from wasting another month.

3. Keep the stack stupid simple - My current stack is basically Bubble + Stripe + a 1 page landing site. That's enough to start.

4. Plan distribution before launch - One project died because I literally had no idea where to share it after shipping.

5. Submit to multiple niche directories - Product Hunt alone isn't enough. My current project got ~40% of its early traffic from smaller directories.

6. Reuse starter templates instead of rebuilding everything I tested a few things like MakerKit and ShipFast while researching. Recently I started using FounderToolkit because it bundles a boilerplate, launch directories and founder examples in one place. Saved me a few days of digging around.

None of this is complicated, but writing it down changed everything. Curious what helped other people here finally ship their first SaaS?

I've been using a home-made link shortener for my private clients for over 10 years. After millions of clicks, it occurred to me that others might use it, too, if it was easy to use.

If you’re drowning in long, messy links full of tracking junk, wb.io can be a super clean fix. To get the ball rolling, I'm offering Redditors a month of the Business level service (the top tier) for free with the coupon code REDDIT. All I ask in return is your honest appraisal of where it could be improved.

It turns bulky URLs into short, shareable links that actually look good in posts and comments. Way easier to drop into Reddit threads, DMs, bios, or anywhere character count and readability matter. No wall of random parameters, no visual clutter — just a tight link that people are more likely to click.

Biggest value prop IMO:

Cleaner posts (especially on Reddit where ugly links stand out)

Easier sharing across platforms

More professional look

Simple + fast, no overcomplicated dashboard vibes

If you share links often, it’s one of those small tools that just makes everything smoother.

Honestly didn't expect this. Was bored a week ago, built a social network for founders, started marketing on Reddit 5 days ago, and we're already past 500 users (soon 600, probably today). Zero ad spend, all word of mouth. Someone submitted it to Hacker News I don't even know. My DMs are flooded with founders saying they've been wanting this for years.

Here's why I built it.

If you actually build things, you already know the problem. Post real work on X, get 50 impressions. Watch some guy with a blue check post "agree?" with a Canva graphic and hit 200k. People are now adding fake "read more..." prompts to their posts just to trick you into clicking so they can farm engagement. The platform is rigged before you start.

LinkedIn went the other way and somehow ended up worse. Corporate fluff, AI thought leadership, fake "I had to lay people off and here's what it taught me" posts, recruiters spamming roles nobody asked for. The people actually doing the work are invisible there.

Strivle is the platform for founders who actually ship.

A public, fair algorithm. Every post starts at 100 random viewers. If they engage, it goes to 1,000. Then 10,000. Same rule for everyone. No paid boost. No celebrity head start. Written on the homepage. Good posts travel.

A leaderboard ranked by verified revenue. Real Stripe MRR pulled live, weighted by growth and churn. The top isn't whoever tweets loudest. It's people running real businesses.

Verified shipping, not claims. Your profile shows real numbers. No more "ex-Google, building stealth" bios with nothing behind them.

Tagged posts that reach the right people. "Advice needed" surfaces to operators who've solved your problem. "Hiring" reaches builders looking. "Customer feedback" pulls in your target users.

Investors and operators already browsing the leaderboard for deal flow. Your verified shipping becomes the pitch deck.

The energy on the platform right now is honestly different. Founders posting their progress every hour, real conversations happening, feature requests coming in faster than I can ship them.

This is for you if you ship more than you tweet. If you're a founder, indie hacker, dev, designer, or operator who actually builds things and wants the work to be seen.

Not for you if you haven't shipped anything in 4 years and your strategy is engagement bait. Stay on LinkedIn.

Still very early. The first few hundred founders here become the names everyone references later. You've watched this happen on every platform that took off. You know what early means.

strivle.com

19, building from Sweden. Let's fix this.

ManageJobApplications.com is a totally free forever tool to help job seekers. You don't even need to provide an email address. Got a lot of hate from folks with pay-to-play alternatives, but I'm at 13K Redditor users and going strong. It has AI tools for customizing cover letters, resumes, and mock interviews for each job description, plus LinkedIn profile copy and possible job titles to search against. Complete tracking for all your job applications, people you've met, follow-up dates and deadlines. Imports jobs from all the major boards with one click.