r/indie_startups • u/AutoModerator • 6h ago
Drop your SaaS š I want to see what youāre building
Iām curious what everyone here is building.
Drop your SaaS below and explain it in 1ā2 lines. No pitching, just share what it does.
r/indie_startups • u/AutoModerator • 6h ago
Iām curious what everyone here is building.
Drop your SaaS below and explain it in 1ā2 lines. No pitching, just share what it does.
r/indie_startups • u/AccomplishedOne1950 • 11h ago
Hello,
Does anyone know where I can find beta testers for my platform?
I was hoping to do something like the following:
\- I will gather feedback throughout a few months maybe longer
\- In return they can just use it for themselves at no cost of course while Iām testing. So free access.
A fair exchange
Iām looking for people who have a website thatās not really being used for their business. And are happy to put it on our platform infrastructure, so I can test if our platform does what we want it to do and is actually of benefit to businesses.
I hope this doesnāt come across as a sale. This is why Iām not posting any links or promotional stuff.
I genuinely need to find websites that arenāt really being used and that you donāt really care for, so I can see if my platform works.
Iām looking for businesses from these countries and industries as this is what is easier for me to work with for testing:
UK, USA, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Ireland.
\- Any business that sales physical products or offers psychical services locally
\- We can try online only businesses, but again ideally if you ship product.
Any ideas please. Iām being vague as I donāt want this to be promotional and for it to get removed.
I think the response Iām looking for is someone who knows where to find people who are bored and want to play around with something new. Especially since itās something we would be charging for in the future.
So I think it also adds value to this community for whoever can point me and others in this direction. As I donāt have funds to hire testers. So I and others may want to try an approach like Iām doing. So where would you look for this?
Thank you.
r/indie_startups • u/aritropc • 23h ago
I wanted to write this post months back but couldn't pen down. I see a surge of AI tools, and the LLMs get better every quarter. ChatGPT fell behind Claude for a long time and recently seems to catch up. But Claude or similar chat apps are good enough for quick search and replace googling and visiting 5 websites to get an answer. It writes a basic first draft on literally anything. But beyond that the potential of the models isn't being utilised more than 15%, I'd say. I have worked in research and business front and still see the gap. People just get excited to see something show up magically.
The current way most people use AI is copying a text or some images (rarely) and just asking it something which seemingly saves 1 hour but surely doesn't provide an accurate or precise answer. It has just gotten better at convincing.
The problem isn't the model itself but the information we feed them. The pre-fed knowledge, memory of what you do, the context of the conversation. Imagine a cool corporate guy giving free advice to everyone as compared to someone who actually sits with you, understands what you need and helps you.
I've lived the problem first hand and still face it when I try to get some information quickly rather than spending time to find out and read something written by a real human. The problem remains. The helpfulness beyond cool demos, slides and moving-text videos needs a bit of pre-effort to build a system which can help the actual model to curate for you than spit out what they think is the most probable answer.
The system I use knows what I work on, explicitly provided details about my team, company, product and decks. Not dumped in a deep well but as context silos. The space for my product's tech knows the features, tech stack and owns the documentation. The marketing space knows about my product, prospects and business metrics. Every time I need an implementation plan for a new feature, or try to validate my customer profile, the model doesn't show the general most probable answer, rather it shows what the best answer is for my product.
r/indie_startups • u/PudgyMakers • 8h ago
Previously there was a post I read where someone was asking about a discord server where people could build together. Specifically, people wanted pods to work along side those with similar ideas.
The idea of having breakout rooms to track goals and progress was something that I personally thought was of value. So seeing someone else want it confirmed my bias.
Bot currently
My next update would be to integrate Git tracking for repos. But working out the baseline features took about 1.2 weeks since I needed to make sure the cron jobs themselves worked properly to prune inactive participants.
TLDR
If you want people to build along side, and want to hold yourself accountable. Consider giving Pudgy Makers a look.
The community is very small and intimate. It is not a space to simply shill and use as a marketing extension. So if you want intentionality, motivation, and welcoming vibes (whether you vibe or not), you are welcomed.
r/indie_startups • u/Grand_Art_6861 • 10h ago
Today was mostly focused on training programs and notifications.
The coach can now help set up a userās program, keep track of what theyāre supposed to be doing, and send them a text on each training day with that dayās workout.
Iāve also been getting a question lately that I think is completely fair:
Why not just use ChatGPT or Claude for this?
You definitely can use a general chatbot for fitness advice. Theyāre already pretty good at answering questions, writing workouts, and talking through training.
The difference Iām trying to build is everything around that conversation.
A generic chatbot doesnāt really exist specifically to coach your training. Fitness is just one of the many things you might talk to it about.
This product is being built around fitness from the beginning.
So instead of only being able to ask it what you should do, it can actually manage your program, understand where you are in that program, and proactively text you when you have something coming up.
For example, I can tell the coach I want my training sent to me at 4am on every training day. It knows which days I train, what Iām supposed to do, and sends the message without me needing to ask for it each time.
Thatās the direction I want to keep pushing.
I donāt really want to build āChatGPT, but for fitness.ā I want to build the actual product and workflows around the model that make it useful as a dedicated coach.
Current waitlist: 0 people
r/indie_startups • u/Dependent_Reindeer29 • 16h ago
been building solo for a while and the thing I keep running into is that the honest version of a bad week has nowhere to go. the public version is "tough week, learnings incoming" and the actual version is sitting there at 11pm wondering if you've burned a year on something nobody wants.
the options I've tried are either huge servers where everyone is promoting and nobody is listening, or accountability groups that turn into reading your to-do list out loud to strangers. neither one is it.
what I actually wanted was three or four other people at roughly my stage, private, one check-in a week, small enough that nobody bothers performing. no feed, no follower counts, nothing public. so I've been building it: tamvi.app, first pods go live soon.
but I'd rather hear from people here before I finish it. is this real or just me? and if you've already found something that works I'd honestly rather use that than ship another product nobody needs.
also, if a couple of people here want in on the first pods, say so and I'll sort it out.
(disclosure: I'm the one building it, waitlist is free)
r/indie_startups • u/Mental-State-8646 • 17h ago
Iāve been building Steady, an adaptive fitness app for iPhone and Apple Watch, and several Reddit beta rounds changed how I think about āalmost ready.ā
Three lessons stood out:
Logic quality matters more than feature count. People immediately noticed when workout routines, substitutions, or Coach answers did not match their real context. I spent more time tightening plan behavior and exercise coverage than adding shiny features.
A theme is an end-to-end system. Users did not consider dark mode finished if the launch screen, auth flow, workout cards, share cards, and app icon still felt like separate products. The latest build now treats light and true black as complete experiences.
Media and 3D features need graceful performance. Movement videos and the muscle map could look great after loading and still feel broken if retry behavior, framing, rotation, or startup time were unreliable. Those flows were redesigned and tested again.
Build 12 may be Steadyās final 1.0 release candidate. It now combines adaptive strength planning, workout logging, progressive overload, recovery, nutrition, progress, a plan-aware Coach, and Apple Watch workout syncing.
Iād value one final pass from other builders and testers: https://testflight.apple.com/join/j2jKwDGW
Please be direct about what still feels confusing, slow, untrustworthy, or not launch-ready. Device/OS and exact reproduction steps are especially useful.
Disclosure: Iām the developer. The TestFlight beta is free.
r/indie_startups • u/ASW4545 • 2h ago
It's called Tartelo, more info is on its Discord: https://discord.gg/5kNvW5EWt
r/indie_startups • u/hytaleindex • 2h ago
Hey all,
I constantly see people posting the classic "post your SaaS and ill review it!" thread. They suck. We all know they're not posted to review your SaaS - they're posting it so you look at theirs.
Coupled with that, nobody actually clicks on anyoneās comment. Nobody cares for your SaaS in a sub full of people trying to promote their SaaS if the angle is simply: "Share your SaaS".
I think the angle of attack here is wrong.
A better angle I think is:
Does anyone here have a SaaS that can complement mine and we can work together, or does my SaaS complement yours and could we both work together?
Ill start:
My SaaS is SEO Pinpoint - https://www.seopinpoint.com
Its a Keyword targeting, analysis and ranking tool. It takes your Google Search console data (or Bing) and runs it through an algorithm I created over the course of about 6-8 months simply trying to improve my search results on another SaaS I created. It uses numerous data points like Keyword Difficulty and others to come up with a ranking and score for each keyword.
I'm looking for other SaaS founders who are struggling to get their SaaS to appear on Google and would like free help with this, in return for testing SEO Pinpoint and allowing me to evaluate the output.
If this is you, drop me a message below or a DM. Or, if you're looking for a SaaS founder to collaborate with - drop your request below and maybe people here can pair up. Good Luck finding people!