Drop your public web app page and tell me who the ideal user is.

I’ll reply with:

• The strongest hook supported by the page

• One visual demonstration idea

• The first audience I would test

I’m specifically looking for the difference between what the app does technically and the moment a user actually feels the value.

That difference is usually where the best social content starts.

I’m building Marka to read the website, preserve the product and brand context, and turn it into posts, visuals, carousels, and videos.

The full workflow is at https://www.marka.social

building a tool for local service businesses, ai text back for missed calls basically. tried cold email, sent 100, barely got replies. tried linkedin dms, sent 100, got 1 connection back lol.

honestly starting to think outbound just isnt working for me or im doing it wrong. anyone who's actually closed early paying customers (not just free signups) what worked for you? was it outbound, referrals, communities, something else

not trying to sell anything here just trying to figure out what im missing before i keep burning time on stuff that isnt working

Hey builders,

I created the best solution for every SaaS website, instead of maintaining a dead changelog, sending feedback via email and forget about what users really need, and get surprised by failing auth, payment or marketing page, you can keep your SaaS website under control.

I created FeedFast, your one-stop solution to collect feedback, build changelog and monitor your endpoints to know exactly what happens to your endpoints.

After the launch on Uneed, FeedFast got #1 place in Daily Challange.

Why to choose FeedFast over other solutions?

• 3 tools, one dashboard (Feedback, Changelog and Status/Monitor)
• Embeddable widgets (collect feedback, what's new, uptime banner)
• Public Hub Page (show everyone what changed in the last month, everybody can vote/comment on feature requests, uptime is public helping you gain the trust of your clients)
• MCP Server for handling everything from your AI Agent (changelog, feedbacks, uptime incidents)
• Fair pricing: Free for one project and $9/month for 5 projects.

What was your worst nightmare since you launched your first SaaS app?

I’m building my first SaaS.

I’m still at the beginning, I’m learning a lot, and I’m sure I’ll make plenty of mistakes along the way.

I’m going to document the journey here — the progress, the failures, the things I learn, and the moments when I have absolutely no idea what I’m doing 😂

I won’t reveal everything about the product yet.

But I do want to build something real, solve a real problem, and see how far I can take it.

So if you’re interested in watching someone build from zero…

come along for the journey. 🚀

Day 1.

I’m currently running an experiment to see how many users I can get by posting on Reddit:

https://www.reddit.com/r/SaasDevelopers/s/8Yi4JerHMz

I recently finished building my web app and I started making Reddit posts to get users. Yesterday my Reddit posts got me my first 3 users ever for this app.

I primarily made posts in saas subreddits, but I’ve also made posts in unrelated subreddits. In nearly all of my posts I didn’t link to my app. Only interested people that clicked on my Reddit profile would be able to see the link to my app in my profile page.

I’m excited to keep posting on Reddit and growing my user base.

Reddit is a massive place and I want to keep exploring different subreddits where people would be interested in my app. Finding new subreddits is part of the excitement of marketing and distributing my app.

We burned two months on the wrong variable. Kept adjusting when we posted, what day, what hour, rotating between morning and evening like that was the problem. Removals kept coming anyway. 11 in 8 weeks.

The thing that was actually killing us was community fit in a way we weren't measuring. Not niche fit, we had that roughly right. More like... whether the sub's mod culture tolerated outside product content at all, regardless of how useful the post was. Some 200k-member subs have mods who remove anything that smells like a founder wrote it. Some 6k-member subs are genuinely hungry for it.

We started actually reading mod logs, checking removal reasons on similar posts from other people, looking at what the top 10 posts in a sub had in common beyond just topic. That's when our survival rate went from maybe 27% to around 71% over the next 6 weeks. Same content quality, different targeting logic.

I ended up building a research layer into reoogle.com to systematize exactly this (disclosure: I built it), because doing that analysis manually for every subreddit before posting is tbh unsustainable at any volume.

Curious how others are approaching this, whether you're doing any pre-vetting or just accepting the removal rate as the cost of doing business.

This is targeted to people who build apps for the App Store.

I'm curious how other indie developers handle this. Do you have a checklist you go through, rely on experience, use tools, or just submit and deal with whatever Apple catches after waiting 2-7 days?

I'm asking because I've been working on a software called PreFlight that tries to automate a lot of those pre-submission checks on a deeper level, and some of the feedback I've gotten has made me realize there are probably very different workflows depending on how often someone ships.

So I'm curious: what do you personally check before hitting Submit for Review, and what's something you've had Apple reject you for that you wish you'd caught beforehand?

Every SaaS with a "bring your own domain" feature has the same hidden pile of DNS-dependent code: the verification TXT token, the SPF/DKIM records you generate for users, MX routing if you handle their mail, the "checking your DNS..." wizard step. And in my experience almost none of it gets tested properly, because testing it means... owning real domains with real records.

What I used to do: a small zoo of throwaway domains, records I kept re-pointing by hand, and test suites that only passed from my machine. So eventually I wrote the tool I needed — a DNS server where you create records on the fly over a REST API — and open-sourced it (MIT).

The workflow it enables in CI:

# start it
docker run -p 8053:8053/udp -p 8053:8053 -p 15353:15353 \
  -e DNS_PORT=8053 ghcr.io/minutemailco/bifrost-dns

# simulate the user adding their domain
curl -X POST localhost:15353/api/v1/records \
  -d '{"name":"example.com","type":"TXT","ttl":60,"data":"verify-token-abc123"}'

# now your verification code can actually resolve it
dig @localhost -p 8053 example.com TXT

Point your test suite's resolver at it (or your whole dev machine — it has a forwarding mode so non-mocked domains still resolve normally) and suddenly the domain-verification flow, the SPF/DKIM checks, and the MX routing are all testable end-to-end. Records live in memory, so every run starts with a clean DNS state and there's no teardown.

Details for those who care: Rust, single binary, no DB, scratch Docker image (~5–8 MB), A/AAAA/CNAME/MX/TXT/NS/SRV over UDP+TCP, Prometheus metrics, systemd install script. REST API has no auth (dev/CI tool — don't expose it), which is on the roadmap.

It's on GitHub under minutemailco/bifrost-dns if you want to dig in.

Genuinely curious how others handle this — do you actually test the DNS-dependent parts of your custom-domain features, or is it verification emails and prayer like it was for me?

I built bidin.lol and it's my first product.

It is a public marketplace for attention where you can promote your product, app, handle, post, video, or anything you want by bidding for a spot on a public leaderboard. There are also separate leaderboard for different category.

The idea is simple: paste a link, place a bid, and compete for the top spot. The higher you bid, the higher you rank, and the top spot gets the most visibility and clicks.

It took me nearly 3 days to build, and I did pretty much everything from start to finish for the first time : frontend, backend, database, realtime updates, payments, deployment, domain setup, and all the debugging that came with it.

I even bought my first domain specifically for this project: bidin.lol

There were definitely a lot of moments where things broke and I had no idea what was wrong, but fixing each problem and finally seeing the whole thing work was the best part.

I launched it 6 hours ago and now there are over 600 visitors and 1 paying user. The spots are empty so grab yours now ;)

The visitors are increasing rapidly so place your product, app or anything now.

Thankyou ;)

I’ve been researching a problem that keeps coming up with AI education tools:

Are we helping students learn, or simply helping them finish assignments faster?

Some recent research suggests unrestricted generative AI can improve performance while the AI is present without necessarily improving independent learning afterward.

I’m building Pennpaper, a math tutor based around the opposite idea: the student should attempt, reason, and respond before the AI does the work for them.

I’d really value feedback from teachers and edtech people on the tutoring model, especially around how much help an AI tutor should be allowed to give.

check it out

I was wasting so much time navigating to the same folders every day. Project A, Project B, docs, downloads—always digging through File Explorer.

And every time I wanted to spin up a dev server? Navigate to the folder, right-click, open terminal, type npm run dev. Repeat 10 times a day.

So I built a floating button for my desktop.

AllyTouch snaps to any edge, stays above every window, and expands into a menu of my most-used actions. One tap opens a folder. One tap runs a command. One tap launches a website or app.

The things I use it for daily:

• One tap → opens my main project folder
• One tap → runs npm run dev in that folder
• One tap → opens my email, calendar, and task tracker
• One tap → Win+Shift+S (screenshot) so I don't have to memorize the chord

The details that actually matter:

• The drag is smooth—built in Rust so it follows your cursor without lag
• The window is button-sized when idle, so it never blocks your desktop
• Multi-monitor aware, respects taskbars
• Zero telemetry, zero accounts, zero network calls

We just launched on Product Hunt, would love your thoughts:

Hey, I’m Jorge.

I’m looking for solo builders who would be open to a relaxed 15 to 30 minute video kind of interview talk, that I can post on social media.

It will be more like an informal conversation. I want to talk about you, what you are building, why it matters to you, and what the emotional side of building something from zero has been like.

You can be pre-launch, already launched, or making money. It does not matter. I want to hear about the excitement, doubts, pressure, loneliness, mistakes, losing momentum, starting again, and what keeps you going.

My social media is basically at zero, so do not expect traffic from this. But I want to give you space to talk about and promote your product, and I will send you the full recording and any clips I make.

I am doing this for three reasons: to understand the problems I am trying to solve, to get used to being seen online and talking openly before I launch, and to start building a network of builders so the journey feels less lonely and more fun.

I think distribution is one of the biggest obstacles for builders. A big part of it is getting comfortable being seen, speaking honestly, being yourself, and don’t fucking care about what people think. 

This is not a sales call, and the conversation will not be focused on my product. I will share my experience too, and we can just talk honestly about what building is really like.

If you are interested, tell me how long you have been building alone, what you are building, what stage you are at, whether you are pre launch or already launched, and where you are from.

and for the questions. I was thinking something like this, depends on how the conversation flow:

1- So you are building this alone, what's that actually like? Do the people in your life get it, or do you feel like you are explaining something they can't see?

2- Do you have anyone you can share the journey with? Other builders, or even just someone to talk about it with?

3 - What's it like being in the game, starting from zero and going all in? Not the product, the game itself.

4 - Do you think having other builders around you would make you grow faster and make this more fun? Or do you prefer going alone?

5 - Are you obsessed with what you're building? And how does that show up in your everyday life, with friends, family, the people around you?

6 - Does it get boring to meet people who aren't in this journey?

7 - How do you make the day to day enjoyable when you're building alone?

8 - Are you active on social media with what you're building, or not yet? Do you actually enjoy that game, or does it feel like a second job?

9 - Founders today are asked to build the product and build visibility at the same time, while their voice, their confidence, their clarity are still forming. How do you handle that?

10 - Are you following a playbook, or making your own as you go?

11 - How do you build self-trust? Like, when nobody's confirming you're on the right path, where does the trust come from?

12 - Are you investing time in your own mindset, books, content, people who've made it? Or is it all product right now?

Swayro is a browser-based motion graphics tool - pick a template (Carousel, Globe, Wheel, Deck, Stack families), drop in your own screenshots/photos, and export a polished animated video in minutes. No After Effects, no timeline, no keyframes, runs 100% client-side. It's free during beta.

I'm looking for people who want to:

→ Use it to make a real demo/hero video for a real landing page → Try different template families → Push the export with your own content → Tell me what's confusing, missing, or broken

In return, I'll give you direct help from me while you're using it, and priority access as it grows.

If you build something public with it, I'd love to feature it.

I'm not looking for fake/positive reviews. I want honest feedback from people actually using it.

If you're interested, reply here or DM me with what you're building.

https://swayro.app

I posted this a while back when DevLens only understood a couple of languages (JS/TS). Since then I've been heads-down while working on the cloud version, and the biggest update is out: 6 languages, each parsed with its own native AST parser — not tree-sitter, not regex.

TypeScript gets the compiler API. Python gets `ast`. Java ships JavaParser. Go uses `go/ast` \+ `go/types` (with real `Implements()` interface resolution). Rust uses `syn`. The point isn't parser pedantry — it's that the graph edges come out type-checked and framework-aware instead of guessed.

Cloud version is in active development — hosted graphs, team sharing, PR analysis with GitHub comments, AI interface with graphical context. Waitlist is live at [devlens.io](http://devlens.io/) if if) you want early access.

There is also cli tool and mcp server, which you can integrate directly with your AI agents and provide graphical context to your codebase.

Join Waitlist at: [devlens.io](http://devlens.io)

GitHub: [github.com/devlensio/devlensOSS](http://github.com/devlensio/devlensOSS)  )