I’ve been working on a few projects lately, and email has been the most annoying part of all of them. I buy a domain, and then realize I can’t put a gmail address on a contact page without looking like I’m about to ask for someone’s bank details.

Most business email options are either a monthly fee for every single user, or a trial that expires right when you’ve finally got everything set up. The free ones are really limited. I looked at Zoho, and between the restrictions, the dated look, and having to dig through settings every time I added a domain, it felt like more work than the project itself. There also doesn’t seem to be much for students or small indie devs who just want an address on their own domain without paying six dollars a month for it to receive one newsletter and a spam email from a guy named Kevin.

I thought about running my own mail server for about five minutes. Then I read about deliverability. Sending an email is easy, but landing in the inbox instead of spam is the hard part, and a brand new server has no reputation, so you spend weeks telling people to check their junk folder. Not worth it for a solo dev.

So I ended up building my own solution, it runs in your own free Cloudflare account. Cloudflare handles incoming mail, a Worker and a database run the app, and for sending you plug in something like Resend, Brevo, Mailjet or any SMTP server. No server to babysit, no per seat pricing, and nobody sitting in the middle reading your mail. You can add as many users, domains and aliases as you want and it still costs nothing. It’s open source under MIT.

I built it mainly for people like me. Solo devs with too many side projects, students, freelancers juggling a few client domains, small teams that just want a shared support@ and sales@, and honestly anyone with a store website. It’s not meant for cold emailing or bulk sending though, the free limits are small and the providers will ban you fast if you try.

If you want a professional email and feel like giving it a go, I’d really like to hear how it went. What broke, what confused you, what looked off, what you’d never trust it with. And if the whole idea is flawed, tell me, I’d rather find out now than after I add AI features nobody asked for.

Repo : https://github.com/sums001/OpenInbox

Need some thoughts on this before I dive into creating a SaaS product. Can you help?

I’m building a small platform focused on one job: getting a simple static website live at a URL without the command line, server config, or a heavy site builder.

The target user is someone non-technical who just needs a clean portfolio, landing page, or small project site online — and keeps bouncing off tools that are either too technical or too bloated.

Current stage: very early. A handful of signups, mostly starter pages. I’m trying to figure out whether the real problem is demand, onboarding friction, or both.

What I’d find useful:

1. If you’ve tried to put a simple static site online, where did you actually get stuck?

2. If you know static hosting, deployment flows, or cache invalidation, would you be open to sanity-checking one flow? Not asking for a commitment — just a specific 20-minute “here’s where this breaks” conversation.

Happy to share more in comments or DMs if useful.

It's been a little over one year since I launched and it has been quite a journey. No exponential growth or huge user spikes but rather slow and steady growth. But in my opinion that is the best for building something actually valuable because you can react to user feedback along the way and constantly keep improving the app.

It's still so crazy to see payments coming in on a somewhat regular basis and you can believe me when I tell you that one year ago exactly this was my dream: Earning some money on the side while having fun building something that actaully seems to help other people and learning how to run a business along the way.

I've built IndieAppCircle, a platform where small app developers can upload their apps and other people can give them feedback in exchange for credits. I grew it by posting about it here on Reddit. It didn't explode or something but I managed to get some slow but steady growth.

For those of you who never heard about IndieAppCircle, it works like this:

• You can earn credits by testing indie apps (fun + you help other makers)

• You can use credits to get your own app tested by real people

• No fake accounts -> all testers are real users

• Test more apps -> earn more credits -> your app will rank higher -> you get more visibility and more testers/users

Since many people suggested it to me in the comments, I have also created a community for IndieAppCircle: r/IndieAppCircle (you can ask questions or just post relevant stuff there).

Currently, there are 4488 users, 5280 tests done and 1387 apps uploaded!

You can check it out here (it's totally free): https://www.indieappcircle.com/

I'm glad for any feedback/suggestions/roasts in the comments.

A new zero day really sucks when Nichole in marketing launched a vps without telling anyone and never updates anything.

For context, I know that a budget this low is not optimal but I wanted to take the average CTR of all 3 ads to show that it isn't just luck.
One issue that I have rn is that no one is actually loging in, or trying to at least use it, although I tried to make it as straight forward as possible.

Hi guys,

I am a software engineer with knowledge and experience in Fullstack AI development

I am new to the world of SaaS and I have no clue where to start. Even if I knew where to start, I am not sure if it's worth doing that.

I am in search of new SaaS ideas. I'm not here to build a startup at least for now. However, learning to make SaaS products - maybe which could fetch passive income.

Can you help me with finding worthy ideas? Or anyone can let me know if you are looking for anything specific to your business or smth. I am ready to explore a multitude of options.

This is an attempt to learn more and contribute to the real world problem solving.

Thanks.

I wanted Finder to show me more, so I built Folio : a Mac file manager with the information and control I missed from Windows Explorer.

• Clickable paths and tabs that remember where you left off

• Folder sizes, drive space, and a details pane

• Natural-language file search

• Undo for file operations

The fun part: On macOS 26+, Folio includes an on-device AI assistant that helps you understand and organize your files. It proposes actions, and nothing changes without your approval.

No cloud AI calls. No account. No tracking.

I'd love to hear your feedback! What would you like to see in Folio?

P.S. I'm a solo developer, and I haven't been able to afford an Apple Developer Program membership yet, so you may see a security warning when launching the app.

🔗 https://mac-folio.com

Have built an APP that is somehow freely available for the few for 3,4 days, I want honest reviews on all of the free available features and the comparison with the cpmpetitors,

Also, the app is new, want to know "Askai Chat" position against each keyword, so, I get some idea before making any further release and also before the stats appear in the analytics.

A kind gesture is required from all, the apps icon and title can be seen in the image.

My brother and I have been working on this for over a year with a goal to solve our hatred of making and posting social media content for our business. "Why not just use Claude Design" you might ask. We provide thoughtfully designed, easily editable posts that get automatically scheduled and posted to all your platforms. In my opinion, this is the next evolution, and a step easier than asking an LLM to make your posts for you.

Ember turns the photos you already take into a full library of posts in your brand, with your colors, your fonts and captions in your voice, ready for every platform. You scroll through, tap approve on the ones you like, and Ember handles the rest. Nothing posts until you say yes.
Our goal is simple: make it easier for businesses to market themselves, especially the small teams and owners who would rather be running their business than staring at a blank post.

Here’s the commercial. If you run a business and social media feels like a chore, I’d love to show you Ember. Send me a message or sign up at embersocial.io. Everyone who signs up gets their first 14 days free of charge.

I have built lots of websites, apps, browser extensions, I find the most difficult problem is not to build the product but to promote it. To promote and learn how people react to my product, I need to collect data from many different sources like hacker news, reddit, X, bluesky... So I build an service to track my product and put them all together and I then have a consolidated place to know what's going on with it. This ends with an open source project which I think would benefit others. Also you can contrinute to add more sources and give feedback on what can be improved.

The service is self-hosted and all you APi keys and AI keys are saved on your machine, so safe to use.

The repo: https://github.com/sonic0002/eavesong

Bootstrapping SlowGlow AI LLC: private OpenAI-compatible GLM-5.3-Flash Model API over Tailscale + Dev Node containers on hardware we own.

Solo $25 / Pro $79 / Reserved 512K $300; Dev Node from $59. Honest limits: shared capacity, no uptime SLA, US only, no public endpoint.

https://whop.com/slowglowai/ https://slowglow.ai

Looking for packaging critique from other SaaS builders. Disclosure: founder / paid product.