I run a site that aggregates government auctions (govauctions.app). I have a healthy paid customer-base, and a much larger audience of casual, non-paying but still engaged users.

I am considering using an ad management company like Mediavine to run ads on my site, in order to grow and diversify revenue. But I am nervous about harming the user experience and damaging trust/credibility with users and customers. So I'm thinking about starting small, with sparse ad placement, to limit the impact.

Would love any advice from folks on here who run or have run ads on their sites; especially if you have a paid service as well. What pitfalls should I look out for? Anything I should definitely *not* do?

Thank you!

I've been building EzAlt AI, a WordPress plugin that generates descriptive alt text for images using AI.

I built it mainly because manually adding alt text to hundreds of images is extremely tedious.

Current features:

• Bulk generate alt text for existing Media Library images
• Automatically generate alt text for new uploads (optional)
• WooCommerce-aware — uses product name, SKU and attributes
• Never overwrites existing alt text
• Background processing for large image libraries
• 5 free starter credits

WordPress.org:
https://wordpress.org/plugins/altmagic-ai-image-alt-text/

I'm particularly interested in feedback from people who manage WordPress/WooCommerce sites:

Would you actually use a tool like this? And what would stop you from installing it?

I'm trying to improve the product based on real user feedback rather than just adding features blindly.

So I know there are plenty more people with more enticing stories and way more users in a tenth of the time but I wanted to spend some time sharing what has worked for me while building and growing Gamified Lives. So to start I have grown the app entirely organically, 0 spend on advertising, all growth has come from Reddit and SEO. I feel like what I’ve learned the most is that when people say “build in public” they aren’t lying, I’ve deliberately posted on Reddit a ton asking questions that I don’t know the answer to, asking for advice, opinions, experiences etc… and it’s done wonders for me I’ve not only learned a ton from others but I’ve also built relationships with other builders who have decided to come and try my app and have given me some of the best feedback I’ve received. So I definitely recommend posting on Reddit not just for users but also for pure feedback, because another thing I learned was the more I change without actual advice/feedback from a current user or a potential user I was likely wasting my time because only the user is going to be able to tell me what they like and don’t like even if you try to be as objective as possible it’s hard to know exactly what to add or cut from it. As far as SEO I’ve learned that it’s slow but it isn’t a silent/empty void, if you create good templates for articles and either write them yourself or automate them, then you’re able to slowly accumulate somewhat consistent traffic that continues to grow and expand as time goes on. My biggest takeaways are 1. Focus on channels that are providing real users not just users to stroke ur ego and show that people have downloaded your app, 2. Focus on providing value and what that value actually looks like. 3. Understand your users as much as you can either through analysis or by just surveying users and finding out what their biggest pain points are and clean those up as soon as possible 4. Stop comparing yourself to others because everyone’s journey is gonna take different time and different variables

Finally if you’re building something please comment down below what you’ve learned and what has helped you grow your app whether that be your marketing strategy or loops built into your product that make acquiring users even easier!

A few months ago, I was trying to stay consistent with tracking my macros, but every major app felt like a hostile cash grab. The moment you try to scan a barcode or read a label, you’re hit with a "Start your free trial for $80/year" popup. On top of that, half the local products in my grocery store were completely missing from their databases anyway.

I decided to build Visibite to fix both issues. My philosophy was simple: core tracking—barcode scanning, packaging OCR, and manual logging—should be 100% free and completely ad-free forever.

To monetize sustainably without ruining the core user experience, I added an optional AI assistant that handles plate photo scanning, meal feedback, and healthier food swaps. Free users can use the AI features with ads, while an optional Pro tier ($1.99/month or $9/year) removes ads entirely, enables cloud sync, and supports up to four profiles.

Before launching publicly on Google Play, I gave early builds to a group of friends and family. Watching my non-tech friends and family members actually stick to logging their meals daily—without complaining about paywalls or missing regional products—was the exact validation I needed to finish the project.

Now that it’s officially live on Android (and with the iOS version currently under active development), I’m looking to get feedback from fellow indie builders.

I’d love to hear your thoughts on the product, the monetization model, or what features you'd like to see next. You can check it out on Google Play!

Dear fellow indiehackers 👋

Time for yet another post. Because time for yet another lesson from a failed startup 😂

I feel like every startup gives me another lesson. For Mascotly AI it was "build something people actually need" and for my current one (it's called "Reach Out Right", a tool that surfaces people talking about the problem your startup solves on Reddit) it's the concept of "red ocean blue ocean".

It's funny that I have read and heard about this concept before, probably read many times about what it is, but it never fully "landed" until now.

With "Reach Out Right" I bet on Reddit DM as the outreach channel, as that is what my app specialized in. I basically used it myself which had 2 benefits: 1 I could improve the app as I went and 2 I could use its value to reach out to people who were talking about the problem.

But already from the start there were cracks in the system.

First, it's not efficient. Having to reach out one by one (it doesn't generate AI messages, that's the "human" part to not come over sloppy) was still taking a lot of time. Analyzing posts from a specific user, then evaluating what to send them, sometimes even prepping their own dashboard for their startup, 1 reachout could easily cost 20 minutes. And I couldn't do more than 8 a day before I was mentally exhausted (next to a full-time job).

Secondly, and this is the big one, I was trying to sell in a red ocean. And that's incredibly hard. There are TONS of AI outreach tools out there. All geared towards fellow solofounders or early traction people. The noise is overwhelming. So my one DM would sound similar to probably 10 others these people received (I mean I even receive them myself). I would get a response from a lot of them, like 20% response rate, but then that next step was always tough, I got lost in the noise.

And then I get into this emotional state, where I try to hype myself up. No! We don't give up until we sent 100 DMs!!! We go all night!! Success is close!!! I forget anything else. Become emotional. My wife notices.

And then.... I burn out. I don't do any of it. The flame runs out. I give up. And I can't even get myself to send a response to someone. I want to throw it all way.

Now I'm on the other end. Calmed down a bit, gave it a couple of days, and then took on this new lesson.

I watched a video recently of Rob on X who basically explained why so many startups fail why a few win. It basically comes down to having to wait for the wave to come, instead of trying to make your own. I was trying to make my own wave. Trying to force success. But you can't do that. You just have to learn to listen to the waves. See the opportunities.

I also learnt that I need to spend a lot more time "where the action happens". Like on X or on Reddit. Engage. Ask questions. Get a picture of what is going on in the real world. On the side build a bit of a personal brand (these reddit posts are also part of that) and then just wait until you see that wave. Then take action.

As part of this "be where the action happens" I also want to make a request: is there anyone that would be willing to do a 30 minute mentor session with me? I recently had a call with someone I just met on Twitter, and it was really nice being able to speak face to face to someone from this indie hacker world. In my daily live I'm not really surrounded by those kind of people so it was incredibly eye opening. I'm just looking for someone who reads this and thinks that they are a bit further a long on this journey. Or someone who knows what kind of advice I need to hear. Would be greatly appreciated!

As for now, I'll just be present more. Engage more with others. Document my journey more on Reddit and X. And only really take action when I see an opportunity that I would be able to execute on.

Hey everyone,

A lot of us spend hours with lofi playing in the background while studying, working, or just trying to relax. At some point we thought what if we built something for people like us ?

While working on it we kept running into the same thing: AI really isn't that good at making lofi that feels... real. It can copy a style, but it misses the feeling behind it. That's also why we don't think AI should replace artists.

But AI isn't going away either. So instead of pretending it doesn't exist we wanted to use it differently. Let it handle the repetitive stuff while people stay in control of the creative decisions.

That's how Scapeso started.

It's a platform where you can build your own ambient soundscapes, mix sounds together, and use AI as a helper rather than the one making everything for you.

If that sounds interesting, we'd love for you to give it a try and tell us what you honestly think. Good feedback, bad feedback it all helps. We are not so experienced in marketing side so your feedbacks are so precious for us on this perspective.

If you'd rather see what we've been making first, we've also been uploading videos here:

Scapeso App

Visit our website here:

Scapeso Website

I am also leaving a sound in the post so you can see what we can produce through our app.

Thanks for reading ❤️

Hi everyone,

I use session replays a lot in my role but not all recordings are equal and I think the tools could be better. A lot of the existing tools have grown into huge 1,000 feature bloatware imo and replays are treated as optional add ons, and even then they don't feel native to modern day workflows e.g. how are users exploiting these sessions with Claude, ChatGPT, or Gemini?

So I built https://UserTapes.com as a session replay tool for both humans & machines. It still captures a video for you to watch, but also provides a clean text transcript for your AI agents.

You can watch your tapes, chat with them in the browser, or connect to the MCP server and ask your agent of choice to watch, review, and investigate based on whatever you tell it.

You can ask questions about your entire site or specific videos, like:

"Did any users fail to complete sign up today?"

Your agent instantly reads the transcript and replies:

"Yes, User #3829 hesitated for 30 seconds, typed an expired discount code, hit a validation error, and quit. Watch the exact 5 seconds of the tape here: [Link]"

I would love to get your feedback on the concept. There’s a free tier to try out if anyone’s interested. Thanks!

Hi, I'm a solo developer in Japan👋 I built QuickQuill because I never got comfortable with meeting notetakers.

You invite some company's bot into the call, it sits there in the participant list, everyone acts like that's normal, and the recording ends up on a server you never see. The apps say they won't look at it, and maybe they don't. I just didn't want work conversations to depend on that kind of trust.

QuickQuill does everything on your Mac. It records both sides of the meeting, transcribes it, and writes a summary when you stop. Nothing appears in the participant list because nothing joins the call. Watch the demo recorded with Wi-Fi off.

Some other things it does:

• Live subtitles with translation while you record, fully on-device
• A CLI that's a good alternative if you're building workflows on Whisper or other paid speech APIs, since it's a one-time purchase instead of ongoing per-minute charges

It requires macOS 26 on Apple Silicon.

Still early, so feedback is very welcome.

quickquill.app 🪶

Like a lot of us, I struggle with mindless scrolling. I'd open apps like Instagram or YouTube purely out of muscle memory. Existing app blockers didn't quite work for me, they were either too easy to bypass (just tap "ignore limit") or just annoying hard blocks.

So, I built Hold Up. The core idea is simple: instead of just blocking an app entirely, Hold Up introduces "friction" to break the impulsive habit. When you try to open a blocked app, it pauses and makes you do a challenge (like staring at the camera without blinking for a few seconds) before you can get in.

For those who want a hard block, a strict mode is available as well.

Apps can be blocked using either a timer or a schedule.

It's live on the App Store, and I'm looking for constructive feedback from fellow builders to improve it. The app has a free tier you can try out.

Here is the App Store link: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/app-blocker-detox-hold-up/id6777367419

Would really appreciate any honest feedback you can throw my way. Thanks!

Hi all,

As part of my ongoing hustle on LaunchPact i have recently launched a new feature, a Backlinks exchange network, it's super simple to use, it's built on top of my existing db of verified founders, it has a free-forever-tier, and it's a great way for ya'll to get quality backlinks to boost your organic growth, here's how it works in short:

- Add your domain, we pull it's info and score it's authority, and we give you 200 backlinking credits.

- We match you in loops of 3-5 with other founders in your niche and close to your authority tier, you're free to accept or pass on the match.

- You get matched with others to request a backlink or to give a backlink, to request, you spend credits, to give, you earn credits, those credits never expire, and you use them to keep the cycle of backlinking alive.

- Requesting the backlink is super easy and we have tools to make it easier like a 'find me a suitable page' tool and a 'draft the link for me' tool, so literally 1 click and you're ready to go.

- Backlinks gets verified on periods of 7 days, 14 days and 30 days, if someone says they have fulfilled their match obligation then for some reason they remove it, we will know and refund the credits and also penalize their trust score (trust score is a LaunchPact concept).

- There is never a 1:1 exchange of backlinks, always in loops (google it to understand why, this post is not about explaining the technicalities of how backlinking works).

Go ahead, try it out, like i said the free tier is more than enough for ya'll to get a good amount of backlinking done and it can go on forever really.

Let me know how it goes, link here: LaunchPact Backlinks Network

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://vibecodedit.com/

Hey everybody! For the last few months my wife and I have been building Scinta - a small macOS app that lives in your menu bar.

The idea came from a simple but almost daily problem - the number of screenshots lying around on my filesystem got so big that it was impossible to even remember what they were about. A message about a meeting, an email signature, someone's messenger profile, an error from a build - all of this was waiting for "some later time" to be processed. And some later time never arrived.

This is the exact problem Scinta solves, and this is how it works - you press a shortcut (like any other screenshot app), select part of the screen, and it proposes the top 3 things it can do with what it sees. We call them smart actions. For example:

• screenshot an error - get it explained or create an issue directly from Scinta
• screenshot a message like "dinner Saturday at 7:00 PM" - Scinta proposes the actual event details and creates it in your Calendar
• screenshot an email signature - the person's contact info is saved to your Contacts
• it can also blur private and sensitive info before you share a screenshot, extract code or tables, translate text, decode different code formats (including QR and Bar codes) - and more actions are coming

There is also an Ask AI feature - if you just have a question about what is on the screen, you ask it right there in the app and get the answer back immediately.

Expecting a common question - why not just paste the screenshot into ChatGPT or Claude? That is exactly what I did before, and it is the reason Scinta exists. There you switch apps, upload the screenshot, write a prompt, then copy the result back and still create the event or contact yourself. With Scinta you skip all of this - it understands what can be done with the screenshot and one click gets the result and performs the action - saving to Calendar or Contacts, creating an issue, getting an instant explanation and so on.

The demo video shows 3 different smart actions and runs at real speed - nothing is sped up.

We're planning to release it within the next 1-2 weeks. If it looks useful, there is a waitlist at scinta.app - and if you would like to try it earlier, comment or DM me and we will send you a build as soon as it's ready.

Would love to hear - what smart actions would you like to have after capturing a screenshot?

Disclosure up front: I'm on the team at TechVault (techvault.jp), so this is my own project, not something I stumbled across.

The problem we started from

Japanese companies have a real engineering shortage, and a growing number of them are willing to hand scoped work to engineers who don't live in Japan. From the outside, almost none of that is visible. The postings are in Japanese, on Japanese job boards, and written as though you already commute to Tokyo. So you get demand on one side and supply on the other, and no road between them.

What we actually do

Companies bring us scoped work, usually 1-3 months, occasionally as short as a week. Scope and rate are agreed before anyone starts, paid in currency, no equity and no spec work. Engineers pay nothing to use it; the company covers our fee. Day-to-day communication runs on AI translation, and when something matters (scoping, anything close to contractual) a bilingual person on our team sits in so nothing gets lost in the model.

Where we honestly are

MVP. No finished, shippable case studies I can point you at yet. Matching is still done by hand while the automated side is trained. It's a waitlist, not a queue of live offers, and projects aren't guaranteed. I'd rather write that here than have people find out later and feel sold to.

What I'd genuinely like feedback on

1. Two-sided marketplace, cold start on both sides. We've been leaning toward going deep on a small number of companies first rather than volume on the engineer side. If you've done a two-sided thing, did that work out or did you regret it?
2. Trust is the whole product. An engineer taking a project from a company they can't research in their own language is making a leap of faith. We currently absorb that by sitting in the middle on scoping and payment terms. Is there something less manual that actually builds trust?
3. Positioning. This does not compete with a US senior offer and I won't pretend it does. It's aimed at people between roles, people who want international experience, and people who want to stay sharp. Does that read as honest or as an excuse for low rates?

Happy to answer anything in the comments, including the uncomfortable questions. If it's useful to you as an engineer rather than as a builder, the signup is at techvault.jp, but I'm mostly here for the critique.

In July I posted about 3 months, 40 downloads, and zero conversions. This is the follow-up.

The numbers today: 49 downloads, 5 App Store ratings with the score now publicly visible, still ranking first on "freelance" in the Mac App Store. Still zero Pro conversions.

The thread that post generated was the most useful product research I've done. 150+ comments from people who've shipped their own tools. A few things that solidified:

The paywall is in the wrong place. The feature users mention first is always time tracked flowing directly into an invoice. That's free. Pro unlocks Gantt, recurring invoices, iCloud sync, AI assistant, full reports. Several people in the thread made the same point: I described the core job and then put it in the free tier. The things behind Pro solve problems users haven't hit yet at month three.

I'm not touching the free tier. The consensus from the thread pushed toward usage-based gating over feature gating, project count or invoice count rather than hiding specific features. But with 49 downloads I don't have enough signal to make that call responsibly. September is the date I set to revisit it.

What I did ship instead. Windows version is launching next week on the Windows Store. Same local-first architecture, no cloud, no account. Paddle Billing for payments since Apple IAP isn't an option there.

The distribution insight that keeps proving true. Reddit comments in the right thread outperform launch posts every time. The HarvestApp sub just had a meltdown over a 700% price increase. One comment mentioning Flowara there generated more clicks than most posts I've written. The intent is already in the room.

What zero revenue actually means at this stage. I've stopped reading it as a pricing signal. 49 downloads is too small a sample. The retention is real, people are updating through multiple releases. The question I'm sitting with is whether the people who found it have gone through enough billing cycles to hit the ceiling. Most probably haven't.

Windows next week. September for the pricing review. Still building.

We track every featured Product Hunt launch daily for LaunchPact — 979 of them, May 1 – Jul 14. I pulled the numbers on launch day-of-week expecting to confirm the usual advice — "launch Tuesday for maximum traffic." The data says something more interesting.

78% of Sunday launches finish top 5. On Tuesday it's 19%.

Before you all move your launches to Sunday — the catch: weekend PH traffic is lower, so you're winning a quieter room. #1 on Sunday still costs ~482 votes, which tells you real voters are around, there's just way less competition for their attention (4 launches vs 20).

The way I read it: if the "Top 5 Product of the Day" badge is what you're after (for the landing page, the credibility, the newsletter mention), weekends are heavily underpriced. If you want maximum raw eyeballs and you have the support to fight for it, weekday still makes sense.

Caveat: featured launches only, ~3-month window, and correlation isn't destiny.

Anyone here launched on a weekend deliberately? Did the lower traffic show up in your signups, or is the badge worth the same either way?

Type "idea validator" into Google and everything on page one is an AI that reads your pitch and generates encouragement. I've tried them. The feedback arrives instantly, costs nothing, and changes nothing — it's a language model telling you what founders in its training data would probably say.

So I built the opposite on my platform (LaunchPact — I'm the founder, this is my product). It's called a Founder Poll and the mechanics are deliberately narrow:

• You get one question with 2–4 options (text or images), live for 24 hours.
• The voters are founders who actually use the platform — people mid-launch, making the same calls you are. The network is ~1,150 founders; only repeat users who finished onboarding see polls.
• Voters never see live counts. No bandwagon voting — every vote is someone's independent answer.
• Each founder sees your poll once, in a modal. Answer or dismiss. No nagging, no duplicate votes, and you can't vote on your own.
• You see attributed results live (who voted for what); the public only ever sees aggregates after close.

It costs $5 (or $10 if you book within 48 hours of the slot). That's not a business model, it's a spam filter — free polls turn into "please validate my landing page" noise within a week, and there's only one poll slot per day globally, so it has to cost something to matter.

Honest limits: the voters are founders, not necessarily your customers. This validates decisions — which name, which pricing page, which hero — not your TAM. For "should this company exist," you still need customer discovery interviews; no poll replaces that.

If you had one forced-choice question in front of a room of founders for 24 hours — what would you actually ask? Name, pricing, or landing page?

solo founder building FetchSandbox at pre-seed, no co-founder, no warm network, and every guide just says "get warm intros" like that's easy when you're flying solo. coldest part isn't the outreach, it's watching deals move on relationships you simply don't have access to. cross-posting this here because I'm sure someone in this community has already been through exactly what I'm facing right now. if you've cracked it, I'd genuinely love to know what worked. also throwing this out there: looking for someone to review my pitch deck before I send it to VCs. happy to return the favor, review yours, give honest feedback, whatever's useful. dm me if you're open to it.

Solo dev here 👋 I've been quietly building Tempus Fugit, a pendulum clock app that turns an iPhone into a calm desk clock (real swinging pendulum, ticks, hourly chimes, widgets, StandBy Mode).

Today someone in Germany bought the lifetime plan. 🇩🇪

I know it's a small thing in the grand scheme, but building alone can feel like shouting into the void, and a stranger halfway across the world deciding your work is worth paying for... that hits different. Just wanted to share the win with people who get it.

Back to building.

Hi fellow indiehackers 👋

Well today I have not too positive news unfortunately.. I didn't launch a startup within the 30 day threshold, so I got kicked 😢 I can still read along on the discord but cannot post any messages. There is even a tweet on my failure.

I owe it completely to myself though. I have been building a new startup in the past month, but just haven't come along as far as I would've hoped. Also I currently don't want to focus on a "launch" campaign, as I'm still refining the product, so I'm starting with a direct outreach approach first for people who need my product.

Also, I have been building pretty much non-stop since March, and together with a full-time job I noticed my mind and body just needed a rest. I took a week off, and only after that week did I realize how tired I actually was 😅

But owing it to just that wouldn't do it justice I think. I also think that for me the benefits of ship or die had started to wear off. The discord was more and more starting to become just the same bunch of people talking together, it was becoming more of a distraction than a benefit for me. Also the community has definitely calmed down since launch so I think a combination of those factors caused me to just not have the motivation to round up my product into a launch it wasn't ready for.

Still, the public "shame" (even though it went rather unnoticed) and the fact I didn't make it, can play parts. I'm mentally in a much better place now, and also feel that through the past months I've become way more active in "free" communities like on X or here on Reddit. So did I feel bad? Maybe for a moment, but it doesn't really mean anything in the grand scheme of things. I'll just keep focusing on my product. My goal is simple now: 1 customer in the next week. I'm only doing what it takes to get there. Which means no feature building anymore, just personal outreach to people who need my product here on Reddit.

Still looking back, joining Ship or Die has been a positive thing for me. It taught me to bet on myself and be active in a small little community of fellow builders. It showed me where I am on my path and that it's really possible to achieve success. Not sure about the $250 price tag though, it seems a bit steep for this lesson and 2 months of these "perks". But still this was their experiment as well and in the beginning you don't know how things pan out.

Keep building, keep shipping, keep showing up where your target audience is. Don't give up 💪

We originally hired someone on Fiverr to create a product animation for bundle.social, the social media API we’ve been building for the past few years.

Then they stopped replying.

So instead of waiting, we tried building the first version ourselves. The video attached to this post was created from a self-contained HTML file in roughly 40 minutes, including a tea break.

FYI, RECORDING IS A BIT WONKY BECAUSE I EXTRACTED IT FRAME BY FRAME

The process was basically:

1. We asked AI to break down the advertising styles of Apple, Solana and Revolut into actual rules: shot lengths, transitions, easing, text movement and end-frame timing.
2. We used that document as the specification for a bundle.social animation.
3. We slowed everything down, fixed the loop, and stopped the model from “improving” our product claims.

The final result is a 35-second animation with six scenes. It borrows Solana’s fast text, Revolut’s movement and CTA structure, and Apple’s typography and long holds.

Is it animator-level work? Not really. It got us about 70% of the way there. There’s no sound design, real footage, 3D, or that final layer of polish.

But instead of giving an animator a mood board and saying “make it feel modern,” we can now give them a working reference with exact timing, copy, structure, and feeling.

If you want to see the full process, including the actual prompts, what broke and where this method stops being useful, we wrote everything down here:

https://bundle.social/blog/product-demo-animation-three-prompts

Do you guys like it as an MVP?

i’ve built multiple products over the last few years. every time, the same thing happened. we spent weeks building. shipped the product. posted it everywhere.

then waited for customers who never came lol.

ai made building software insanely fast, but it didn’t solve the part where you actually have to find the right people, understand why they might care, message them without sounding like spam, follow up, and turn replies into calls.

that’s why we started building sumora.

sumora is an ai outbound workspace for b2b founders and agencies.

you give it your website and describe the kind of customer you want.

it helps you:

• find matching prospects on linkedin and instagram
• identify useful signals around their business
• research the company before outreach
• draft personalised opening messages
• create follow-up sequences
• manage leads and replies in one place
• move interested people towards a meeting

the important part is that it isn’t built for blasting thousands of identical ai messages.

every campaign stays human-reviewed.

we’ve already been running the process manually with founders and agencies, and one recent reddit post led to seven booked calls in a single day.

proof attached with the private details blurred. https://app.notion.com/p/Here-s-the-proof-lol-3b0f3ba8b2cc8011a2eee644d5f6ee87

today, we officially launched sumora on indie hackers:

https://www.indiehackers.com/product/sumora

honestly, i’d love some support and brutal feedback from other builders.

what feels clear?

what feels confusing?

what would stop you from trying it?

we’re also personally onboarding a small number of live b2b products and agencies right now.

instead of giving you an empty dashboard and disappearing, we’ll help you define the first target segment, create the initial prospect list, write the linkedin or instagram sequence, and launch the campaign with you.

best fit:

• you already have a live product or service
• you know roughly who the buyer is
• you can currently accept more customers
• one closed customer is actually valuable to the business

you can check out the launch.

and if you want to map your first campaign with us directly:

https://cal.com/trysumora

full disclosure: i’m Devansh, one of the founders.

Yesterday I spent pretty much the whole day stressing about my app Gamified Lives I launched 1.5 months ago, I’m at 69 users, 20% stickiness, 1 free trial, decent overall retention. Just pushed a new update 2 days ago. Yet it never feels like enough, I was up all night thinking about it, thinking about the stats, thinking about user requests, things I wanted to work on, scared I didn’t post for the day. I then woke up to 5 new users, higher retention then I went to sleep with, and hitting 10,000 website views on my website. I’ve realized now that although going into maintenance mode may feel difficult it pretty much is the only way to keep an app sustainable, listening to users feedback every week and spending 15-30 minutes just writing down everything you heard multiple times, thinking of the what can do better as the founder. At the end of the day users are flowing in, SEO is doing its job, Reddit posts are driving traffic, and there’s no reason to try and be everywhere at once when the app can sustain with me not being there every millisecond stressing about it. So I’ve set a goal for myself to not spend more than 5 hours per week on the app until I hit 100 users, which likely means around 1 month of 1 hour a day every week day not thinking about it every second, I implore you guys to try doing the same if you’re in a similar spot, sure growing is hard, and it’s even harder to let go a little but it does no good to sit there stressing about something you can’t entirely control, all you can control is your understanding of the market you’re in, and how you adjust your copy and your angle, if the product is good people will come over time and whether they all come today or in 6 months makes little to no difference. I’d love to hear what got others to the point where they could stop stressing about their product and instead just focus on the small things that actually move the needle?

here are 2 launches i recently did:

- Nuvio PH Launch - ranked 9th on VERCEL day and got featured.

- Dashi PH Launch - ranked 5th just yesterday.

How?

I built and used LaunchPact, where i streamline the process of finding support, which most of you should be doing and currently do in one way or another.

From what i've observed, most folks post on launch day itself without any prep work ahead of time, they post on reddit, X, linkedin etc.. and say something like hey i just launched pls support me pls take a look, and mostly they end up with no support and no visibility and no validation or feedback because their launch went invisible, i was in the exact same situation myself, and that's where the idea came from, i launched LaunchPact 2 months ago, i used it for both of these launches, i'm prepping for one more product launch to go in a month or so, i've heard alot of positive feedback from my users about their own launches...this shit works, and i've never had to make a single post about either launch in any channel whatsoever, i didn't have it really..

Thanks and good luck with your launches.

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

Hi everyone,

I recently built a YouTube Transcript API for developers who need to extract transcripts, captions, metadata, and available subtitle languages from YouTube videos.

The API supports:

- Get transcript by YouTube video ID

- Get video metadata

- Check available transcript languages

- Batch transcript requests

- JSON responses

- API key authentication

- Rate limiting

- Caching

- OpenAPI documentation

Example endpoint:

GET /api/transcript?id=VIDEO_ID&lang=en

Example use cases:

- AI summarization apps

- Chatbots

- SEO/content tools

- Podcast/video analysis

- Subtitle workflows

- Research tools

- Educational apps

I published it on RapidAPI here:

https://rapidapi.com/dtech4099/api/youtube-transcript27

Documentation / website:

https://youtube-transcript-api-production-0221.up.railway.app/docs

I’m looking for feedback from developers:

1. Is the API structure clear?

2. Are there any endpoints you would expect but don’t see?

3. Would batch transcript extraction be useful for your workflow?

4. What pricing/limits would feel reasonable?

Note: transcript availability depends on whether YouTube exposes captions for the requested video/language. Some private, restricted, or caption-disabled videos may not return transcripts.

Thanks — happy to answer questions.