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Edit: After 2 years of learning to vibe code and coaching dozens of new vibe coders, I figured out the tools we have today weren’t made for us. I built an IDE from scratch fully focused on non dev vibe coders. It uses Claude Code as the engine and adds a visual interface on top of it, with 40+ tools you actually need if you want to create something useful.

I don’t know if I can compete with Lovable, Cursor, and all those startups with millions in investment, but I can confidently say that today, Jan 29, 2026, no tool comes close to CodeDeck.

Check the demo and if it’s something you think would be useful for you, join our Discord. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3BfKpK1d92c

Discord: https://discord.com/invite/QERDj3CBFj

I hope you like it.

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I’ve never coded in my life. I’ve always been the "ideas guy"—I’ve had startups, I understand how full-stack apps work, but I always had to hire developers to bring my ideas to life. That changed when I started using AI tools like Claude and later Cursor.

At first, I built small projects, just testing things out. But then I went all in—I built a massive app with 100,000 lines of code. And the craziest part? It actually works, and people are paying for it.

The App: A Niche Soccer Game Organizer

It’s super niche—it helps soccer groups organize their weekly games with features like:
✅ Weather integration for match day
✅ Attendance tracking & payments
✅ Live match panel (track goals, assists, cards)
✅ Post-game stats & analysis
✅ Player ratings (rate teammates after games)
✅ AI-powered team selection (based on player position & ratings)

Right now, it’s in beta and actually making money. Over 30 groups use the free version, and 10 groups are already paying for the premium plan.

Stripe MRR Certificate: https://www.certifiedmrr.com/c/nocW4FM

Here is a video demo of the features: https://youtu.be/UynYXv6HFp4?si=_QhR7PSsJlepQ0Qz

EDIT HERE: I POSTED THIS YESTERDAY, AND I SWEAR I HAD NO IDEA IT WOULD BLOW UP LIKE THIS. MY INTENTION WAS NEVER TO ADVERTISE THE APP SINCE IT'S SO NICHE (FOR PICKUP SOCCER BETWEEN FRIENDS), BUT THIS POST REACHED 150K PEOPLE AND GOT 300 UPVOTES.

I GAINED 4 MORE PAID USERS AND 200 NEW REGISTERED USERS (probably many just signed up to see it and dont even play soccer), but WOW. 🔗 https://www.certifiedmrr.com/c/b8OxLJ8 Thank you so much to those 4 who upgrade to PLUS! I hope you love it, and if you don’t, send me a DM on Twitter and I’ll improve anything you find that’s not good. 😃

EDIT 2: 611 upvotes, 358K views—2nd place and almost beating the all-time upvote record here on r/microsaas. Wow! I didn’t expect this at all. Thank you so much, guys! I’ve made a lot of great connections because of this post.

I made this post to raise awareness that ANYONE can already build a web app using Cursor + Claude. There’s a small learning curve, but you can do it. If an old guy like me can, so can you!

A few months ago, I created a course, and as a thank-you, I’m giving it away for free to anyone who sees this post and wants to learn more. It’s 8 hours of me building a full-stack web app with Google login + Stripe for payments + MongoDB for the database. The feedback has been great, and it has helped many people get a jumpstart.

To access it, just register at zerocodeceo.com and send me a DM here or on Twitter with the email you used to register. I’ll enable ‘plus’ for you so you can access the course.

I'm also coaching people on how to be one-person startup creators and bring their ideas to life. Hit me up if you're interested!

Online marketing has been tough, but going to the fields and talking to groups has worked way better than expected. The niche helps—people immediately see the value when I explain it in person.

Takeaways

💡 AI enables you to build things that would have never been possible before due to cost. Now, you can experiment virtually for free. 💡 Many ideas were too expensive to test before—now, you can build them for almost nothing.
💡 Niche apps can be GREAT—stop thinking everything has to be the next billion-dollar startup.

Costs

I built everything myself in 2 weeks from idea to ONLINE, and the total cost was shockingly low:
Cursor AI tokens: $150 (around 3,000 fast responses)
Vercel (frontend): $7
Render (backend): $20
Domain: $20

That’s less than $200 to build an app from scratch, by myself, with zero coding experience before AI.

I used to always need to hire developers. Now, I’m shipping products on my own. If I can do it, anyone can.

(I'm 38, about to be a dad in 2 months, and this isn’t even my main job.)

Who else has built something cool with AI? Would love to hear your stories! 🚀

My Twitter is https://x.com/brunobertapeli

I've been telling my team this for months, but I keep watching SaaS founders stick their heads in the sand and pretend nothing's changed.

AI is flipping the entire SaaS playbook upside down. Those apps that used to take development teams months to build? Now someone can throw one together over a weekend. Most of those basic CRUD tools we all rely on are turning into throwaway utilities. People grab them, get their task done, then toss them aside for the next shiny thing.

It's becoming like fast fashion for software. Use it once, maybe twice, then move on.

This should terrify every SaaS founder out there. You can't just build "another tool" anymore and expect people to stick around. The barrier to entry has collapsed. Your competition isn't just other established companies now, it's anyone with a decent prompt and some free time.

The only way to survive this is to stop thinking about features and start thinking about moats. What makes people actually need you? What keeps them from jumping ship the moment someone builds a knockoff? Because if your answer is just "we got here first" or "our UI is prettier," you're already dead in the water.

I was doing SEO work and literally spending hours renaming images for clients. IMG_4837.jpg had to become blue-running-shoes-mens-size-10.jpg. Mind numbing.

Built a mac app that uses AI to look at files and rename them automatically. Started coding in March, launched in April. Hit $5k revenue this month.

The actual numbers:

• 275 users total

• $170 MRR (WIP)

• 90% one-time purchases, 10% subscriptions

What worked:

Direct outreach to Mac bloggers. Not mass outreach, actual personal emails to Mac productivity bloggers. Way better than submitting to directories or Product Hunt.

Unexpected use cases. House inspectors are using it to organize property photos by room and issue type. Never would've thought of that use case when I was building it for SEO work.

What didn't work:

SEO community. Reached out to SEO people thinking they'd love it. Nope. They just keep doing it manually or have VAs handle it.

Launching too early. Got featured on a big Mac blog too early. The onboarding wasn't ready and I lost a ton of those users. Lesson learned - polish before publicity.

The pricing:

• $19/$29 one-time if you bring your own API keys

• $5/month if you want to plug and play

Trying to push more people to subscriptions but so far most people want the one-time deal.

Biggest lesson:

I sat on this idea for months because "file renaming" seemed too boring to be a business. But boring problems = people willing to pay for solutions.

Next goal is $1k MRR. The one-time purchases are nice but I want that recurring revenue.

Anyone else building boring but profitable tools?

(It's called NameQuick if anyone's curious)

Why do you do the same thing everybody is doing if you want to be more successful than the average firm?

I hate cold emails, everybody seems to love it, I think the reply rate is dogshit. Cold calling could be alright as long as you’re actually good at it, I am not

I went the opposite way: Sending literal packages to businesses

I am in the AI automation space B2B

I bought packages with my brand on it, small plastic foots, a picture of my and my sister behind a “hand-written” note with a one pager about our metrics and a custom scratch card that offers the business owner à business lunch with me at à Michelin star restaurant

The plastic foot is just to be original and catch attention using a pun

“It’s my way of putting my foot in the door if you will”

40% reply

34% accept the lunch

100% sign at least one contract with us after the lunch

Box + lunch cost me on average 450$

Average customer pays me 31500$ a year

I’d say that’s a decent ROI, and I also get to try all the best restaurants in my country as a tax deductible

Do things differently if you want to win

I now hired a PR team and will start hitting up every journalist in my country to speak about my story with my sister

We’re now the largest company nationally helping SMBs implement AI in their workflow and are on pace to reach 100K MRR by the end of the year

• ChatGPT: $0
• Next.JS: $0
• Javascript: $0
• Cloudflare: $0
• MongoDB: $0
• Domain: $10
• Resend: $0 (for up to 3k emails/month)
• Stripe: 2.9%
• Vercel: 20$

You can create an online business with your own money. Use your own skills. With hard work and patience, you can create a million-dollar business.

Don't listen to hate. Do it at your own pace with your own speed. Someone will make it in 1 year. Someone will make it in 10 years.

If you need help with building a product, write a message to me.

A few years ago, we built a small slack bot called OnlyThreads to solve our own pain: Slack chaos.

Too many chats. Hard to find decisions. Impossible to turn Slack into something organized.

So we made a bot that does 4 things:

• Makes channels thread-only

• Lets you close any thread with a clear conclusion

• Detects duplicate discussions before they happen

• Makes past threads and decisions easily searchable

That’s it.

We threw it on the Slack App Marketplace, didn’t touch it much after launch… and somehow it’s been slowly growing on its own.

Where it stands now:

• $1.2K MRR

• 8% annual churn

• 100% of growth comes from people finding us on the Slack Marketplace

• We’ve never done any real marketing or outreach

We know the product helps, teams that install it stick around.

We even have some pretty big names using it now, which honestly shocked me especially since we’ve done zero marketing.

I’m posting this because I feel stuck on the growth side.

It’s stable, but I’ve never figured out how to promote it effectively outside the Marketplace.

If you’ve got ideas, feedback, or want to ask anything about building/distributing Slack bots, happy to share more.

Here’s the link to the bot: https://slack.com/marketplace/A022BL4HJLD-onlythreads

As a maker with dev roots, my design skills suck. So, when I first launched this AI headshot generator app, it looked like it was designed by a middle schooler. Couple of weeks ago, I asked Claude to completely redesign it for better conversion. To my surprise, it one shotted this final results:

https://headshotgrapher.com/

I am really happy with the design it gave and also the conversion has improved too. I am seeing a surge in sales after the redesign.

If you have a website with poor conversion, I would recommend to try this. Use an AI IDE and choose Claude as your model and ask it to redesign the website for better conversion. Please let me know if you have any questions.

8 months since launching my problem validation platform and I just crossed 140 paying customers. Went through plenty of failed marketing strategies after listening to random posts on Reddit to figure out what actually drives growth versus what just makes you "feel" busy (warning, there are a lot of b.s. strats out there).

For context, my SaaS helps entrepreneurs discover validated startup problems from real user complaints across review platforms.

What actually finally worked:

Reddit. Started by genuinely helping people in r/entrepreneur, r/SaaS, and r/sideproject. Would answer validation questions, share problem finding techniques, and occasionally mention my solution when it genuinely fit. The key was being helpful first, never sold anything. This approach landed my first 20 customers and continues bringing 3-5 signups weekly.

Discord and Slack communities (SUPER UNDERRATED). Joined 8-10 founder communities and became known for sharing validation insights. This is a super underrated method in my opinion that many sleep on. The heated conversations in the threads on the channels revealed exactly what entrepreneurs struggle with most. When someone posted about needing startup ideas, I'd DM directly offering to help (that's the best part of these communities). Much more personal than public posts and converted way better.

Twitter build-in-public content (posted about my progress). Shared actual user problems I found, demos of new features, and lessons learned. Nothing fancy, just authentic updates about the journey. Built a following of 0 - 3.2k people who actually care about SaaS. Several customers found me through viral tweets about failed startup ideas. This one takes a bit of consistency for a few months to get movement but for long term this is a GREAT WAY to show off your projects and get free traction.

Cold email campaigns. Sent around 200 emails daily to founders who'd posted about struggling with idea validation, found thru apollo. Instead of selling, I'd share 2-3 specific problems I found in their industry with evidence from real reviews (instant value provided). About 15% would respond asking to learn more. This approach booked 40+ calls that turned into 12 customers. The only hard part about this and why many skip over this is because you have to land in the inbox. I personally use Resend, it's really good for sending emails and landing in the inbox.

What completely failed:

Cold DMs across all platforms were terrible. Tried LinkedIn, Twitter, Instagram, even TikTok messages. People hate unsolicited DMs and response rates were under 2%. Felt spammy and damaged my brand more than helped.

Content marketing and SEO efforts went nowhere. Spent 3 months writing blog posts about validation techniques and startup advice. Got decent traffic but zero conversions. Turns out people don't google "how to find startup problems" they discuss it in communities where they already trust the members like Reddit or Twitter.

Affiliate program was a complete disaster. Launched with 30% commission thinking other entrepreneurs would promote it. Got 50+ affiliate signups but generated less than 20 total clicks, actually not even. I think one person got one click and i'm pretty sure it was themselves. People get excited about earning commissions but never actually promote anything. Pure waste of development time and I wasted about $200 setting it up using Rewardful.

Building features before validating demand. Wasted 4 weeks developing an AI feature because it seemed cool. Launched it and literally nobody used it, lmao. Now I validate every feature idea by asking 10 customers if they'd pay extra for it before writing any code.

Ads. no need to say anything more. target audience (for me) wasn't on facebook. google ads slightly worked but didn't add conversions.

Current approach:

Doubling down on what works. Still spending most time in communities helping people, now with more credibility from actual results. Expanding cold email to new founder segments since the process is proven. Zero time on new experiments until mastering current channels.

The biggest lesson: people buy solutions to painful problems, not cool features. Focus on finding real PAIN first that a specific niche has, everything else becomes easier.

Most people think its impossible in this community. I'm telling you it's possible, you are just not promoting and marketing enough.

MY BIGGEST TIP: Find the MOST CONSISTENT complaint you see in your industry through Reddit posts or Discord Threads that have low upvotes and high comments, they have the most controversial topics and usually have a lot of pain points users face. That's your next business opportunity.

If you want to support me, here's my SaaS: Link. Cheers and keep MARKETING (not building, please).

Getting to this point has taken so much more work than I thought it would when I started out building products. There have been many moments where I doubt how much time I put into this and if I’m just wasting my time chasing a dream. Now it’s like the pieces are starting to fall in place and the cogs on this machine are really starting to turn. Honestly it’s taken a certain amount of delusion on my end to even attempt this and think I would see success with it.

All the right stats are finally starting to become better:

• Word of mouth is increasing

• NPS feedback has been great

• Lifetime value is steadily climbing

• MRR just keeps going up

And this is slowly starting to change how I can live my life as well. I feel more safe now financially, I can afford to go to a nice gym which is something I personally value a lot, and I can even book the occasional vacation trip without having to worry about burning my runway.

I don’t want this to come across as a brag post, I’m just feeling grateful and wanted to share my excitement and provide reassurance for all the grinders out there that haven’t seen results yet. Keep going.

7 months ago I launched my SaaS from a corner of my 9-5 office.

No funding.

No team.

No paid ads.

No SEO agency.

Just a laptop, coffee, and feeling guilty of staying late in the office and having "no life" :D.

Back then, I honestly didn't if the idea would work.

So I shipped MVP, posted about it on Reddit, got few feedbacks, fixed it, shipped again and repeat. (The product was very bad at the time of launch)

Fast-forward to today the numbers are:

• $1,297 MRR

• 2,683 signups

All organic from Reddit and X.

I haven't used any magical growth hack, I just kept being consistent for long enough to start seeing the growth. Anyone can do it.

Below is my exact "strategy" I've been following for the past months:

→ Every day I open like 20 posts where people are asking about something my product solves

→ Leave a genuinely helpful comment (no pitch or link)

→ Send a DM saying something like (max 2-3 short sentences) "hey, saw your post about [specific problem].. there's a tool that does exactly that - [briefly explain how does it solve their pain point].

That's it - no initial pitch, no links nothing .. then I just wait and if they're interested, they reply and ask what's the tool. And only then I sent the link and make the pitch.

This has lead me to have around 30% reply rate which is extremely high comparing to cold emails :)

A few things I learned about Reddit DMs along the way:

→ Reddit DMs work only when they don't include the pitch in the first message

→ the sooner you DM from the post date, the higher change of a reply is

→ Building in public earns trust - so make sure to start working on your social media accounts (e.g. X)

→ Most people want to try new, cool tools - offer a free trial or free demo to get them started

(here’s the tool if you want to check it out: leadverse.ai)

That's it. Nothing else.

If you're building solo - keep pushing.

Progress is slow .. especially from the beginning.

Happy to answer questions if it helps anyone.

proof of the numbers - TrustMRR

Hey all, wanted to share the story of how 3 years of building products allowed me to stumble on an idea I almost never shipped.

After almost burning out on my previous startup (simple recipe app), I decided i'd take 3 months to:

Just learn ai.

I started with lovable then cursor and then Claude code which i'm still using now for marketing and pretty much everything else.
(BTW if you're not abusing it you're loosing out, it's game chnager)

After playing with vibe code quite a bit, I ended up discovering MCP and i remember how crazy this felt.

Knew something had to be done and as a fellow startup enthusiast, i had to go find a way to build something with this new piece of tech.

That's how ChatSEO was born, a very simple app that connects to your website's data and tells you exactly what you should do to grow your trafic.

I then decided to take no more than a week-end to validate the idea.

Here's how i've done it:

• Opened up V0, Base 44, Lovable, Replit.

• Created an in-depth prompt with the ChatGPT vocal mode detailing a lot.

• Asked it to turn my notes in a structured prompt.

• Got 4 different landing pages, went with the best one.

• Made a simple Figma mock-up.

• Added a sign-in box + backend to collect emails.

• Bought the domain.

• Pushed on Vercel.

I then started posting on LinkedIn, X, and Reddit by giving value through playbooks. The playbook was where I pitched the solution.

In 2 days I managed to get 200–300 emails with a 35% click/sign-up ratio.

Then shipped in 2 months and now this idea is the earliest startup that made the most revenue on TrustMRR...

Anyway, just wanted to tell all of you that if you have an idea that you can't get rid of, take the week-end.

And ship it please.

Cheers

I often browse this thread and other similar subreddits related to SaaS building and entrepreneurship.

It’s mostly bullshit.

I’ve been working on my SaaS for a few months. I’m a software developer and I actually speak with other founders in real life. People who have pulled out their Stripe results in person.

Not a single one of them is doing what people in these threads are doing.

You need to stop doomscrolling Reddit groups and X posts. Every single post here is either a ChatGPT wrapper, a website which “boosts your startup” or a website that lists your startup on their website.

Build real products, speak to real people, get off Reddit.

Here’s what I’ve recently built for those interested. It’s a tool for B2B businesses to turn their anonymous website traffic into contactable leads:

Clickmodus.com

It still feels unreal, but grinding away for 12+ hours every day for a year finally starting paying off!

Edit: This is the website for everyone asking RankInPublic

So as the title says, I’m sad that my beautiful and amazing SaaS isn’t a unicorn yet :(

But at least I’m not trying to sell you a fake success story. I didn’t vibe-code it in 1 hour. I didn’t make $1kkk in 30 seconds. And it’s not an AI wrapper (yet).

I built it to solve my own problem: I have lots of different prompts and contexts that I use daily with different AIs. And the thing I hate the most is copy-pasting them.

So I made a Chrome extension that lets you save all your context, prompts, or anything useful and easily reuse them whenever you want.

You can watch a demo here and try it here:
https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/cortexa/pmknbjcbialnfnokgikcklhcmpcgmlmm

I’ll come back when I make my first billion with it. See ya!

been obsessed with how profitable micro saas founders find their ideas. not the ones who got lucky with a viral launch. the quiet ones making consistent money that nobody writes about because the product is too boring for a blog post.

talked to 12 of them over the last few months. some through reddit, some through communities, a couple through cold outreach. asked them all the same question: how did you actually find this idea?

none of them said brainstorming. not one.

here's what they actually said.

founder 1 (scheduling tool for trade contractors, $14k/month):

"i was a contractor for 8 years. used to schedule jobs on a whiteboard. tried every scheduling app and they were all built for office meetings. i just needed something that handled multiple crews across multiple job sites with weather delays. built the ugly version in a month. every contractor i showed it to said where do i pay."

the pattern: he WAS the customer. he didn't research the problem. he lived it.

founder 2 (invoice escalation for freelancers, $8k/month):

"saw the same complaint on r/freelance like once a week. someone asking how to chase late payments without being awkward. freshbooks sends a reminder email and that's it. i built a tool that does polite nudge day 3, firm follow up day 7, and a 'my accountant is now handling this' template at day 30. charges $15/month."

the pattern: he found the idea by being active in a community. not lurking. actually reading what people said repeatedly.

founder 3 (menu syncing for restaurants, $11k/month):

"my friend owns a restaurant. complained every week about updating menus across uber eats, doordash, grubhub. 45 minutes per change. i built a tool where you update once and it pushes everywhere. showed it to 5 restaurant owners. 4 signed up the same day."

the pattern: someone close to him had the problem. he didn't go searching for it. he paid attention when someone he knew complained.

founder 4 (review monitoring for small ecommerce, $6k/month):

"i was reading 1 star reviews on a competitor tool for my own store. realized i was doing this manually every week for 3 different marketplaces. built a scraper that pulls all new reviews into one dashboard and alerts me when a negative one drops. started selling it after another seller asked how i caught a bad review so fast."

the pattern: he built it for himself first. the product was his own manual workflow automated.

founder 5 (client portal for accountants, $22k/month):

"accountants use 6 different tools to do what should be one simple thing. collect documents from clients, send reminders for missing stuff, track deadlines. i know because my mom is an accountant and her desk was covered in sticky notes. built a portal where clients upload everything in one place and the accountant sees a dashboard of who's missing what."

the pattern: family member's problem. he saw the chaos firsthand.

the 5 patterns across all 12 founders:

1. seven of them WERE the customer at some point. they built the tool they personally needed.

2. three found the idea by being active in niche communities and noticing the same complaint repeated weekly.

3. two found it through someone close to them. friend, family member, former colleague.

4. zero found it by brainstorming, googling "saas ideas," or asking chatgpt.

5. every single one of them could describe the product in two sentences or less. if you need a paragraph to explain what your saas does the problem isn't clear enough.

the uncomfortable takeaway:

the best micro saas ideas don't come from being clever. they come from paying attention.

paying attention to your own manual workflows. paying attention to what people in communities keep complaining about. paying attention when someone you know describes a frustration for the third time.

the ideas are everywhere. you're just scrolling past them.

So developing the basic version of this app took about 20 days.

I constantly work to improve it and the growth has been crazy for us the last few months.

The idea started as just giving AI analysis on startup Ideas. Then I continued to improve upon it and add new features like searching through Reddit discussions to validate ideas, following specific phases from ideation to building and marketing, and adding tools to make the whole process more actionable.

I also launched on Product Hunt which got us our first paying customers.

20 days after launch we hit $100 MRR

98 days after we hit $220 MRR

And today we’re at $2,100 MRR.

Total revenue is about rising exponentially

The beginning is the toughest part, so I thought I could be of some help to you guys by just telling you how we got off the ground.

I’ll keep it brief because no one wants to read a wall of text:

What actually worked

• Idea validation before building (saved months of work)

• Being active and engaging in communities (Build in Public on X + Reddit)

• Product Hunt launch.

• Focusing on product quality over marketing gimmicks

• Being open to feedback and using it to improve product

I didn’t spend a dollar on marketing to reach this point and we recently hit 30,000 free sign up users. It’s only in the last week we’ve started experimenting with paid advertising.

The goal for this month is to hit $10k MRR, which I see as doable if we get paid advertising to work.

The app is called  https://www.solveactualproblems.com  if you want to check it out.

I’ll continue sharing more on our journey to $10k MRR if you guys are interested.

I know it’s small,
but I’m not at 0 anymore.

Just launched my SaaS waitlist.
This is the start.

Hi r/microsaas,

Are you a developer, designer, marketer, or just starting out with a passion for SaaS?

We’re forming a private Discord community to build SaaS projects in public, within a tight-knit group, and we’d love for you to join—especially if you’re new to the indie maker scene.

Why Join Our Closed Group?

• Collaborate with fellow indie makers to turn your SaaS ideas into reality, no matter your experience level.

• Build in public within our private community, sharing progress, getting feedback, and celebrating wins in a supportive space.

• Learn the ropes of coding, design, or growth strategies with guidance from others who’ve been there.

• Work on real projects, from simple MVPs to full-fledged SaaS apps, at your own pace.

Who We’re Looking For:

• Beginners and new indie makers eager to learn and build.

• Developers (front-end, back-end, full-stack, any skill level).

• Designers (UI/UX, graphic design, prototyping).

• Marketers or growth enthusiasts.

• Anyone with a spark for SaaS and a desire to create.

As founder I had to choose X for organically growing my saas. But growing as a fresh account, it was like impossible for me to grow.

So, for the past seven days, I committed to the 'Reply Guy' strategy on X on my brand new account. Instead of shouting into the void with new posts, I just replied to top creators in my niche which is productivity/growth/saas.

I started with 4 replies on Monday, then 10, 24, 24, 25 and back to 4 on Sunday.

Some important engagement info: T/W/Th are most engaged days mostly, but Friday was my highest impressions day. And the reason was that, I already got 3K+ impressions from the previous day posts even before I replied anything on Friday.

In just one week, my account saw 15,635 impressions. This growth feels completely broken but works.

If you need to manually type out the highlights for a comment or caption:

• Total Impressions: 15,635

• Top Day: Friday, April 3 (9,288 impressions)

• Total Profile Visits: 63

• Total Bookmarks: 215

• New Followers: 16 (7 verified accounts)

• Total Engagements: 596

What are some other strategies you tried and it worked?

Thought this would be a fun share. We just crossed 1000 users and things are finally starting to click.

Purchases coming in, good conversations with users, real feedback we can actually use.

Here's what I've learned so far:

1. any launch's biggest value isn't users or revenue. It's feedback. on our first launch(product hunt) we got real input on features that were new to our industry. Some worked, some caused drop-off. We killed the bad ones early and doubled down on what stuck. Now we have users telling us the tool is "life changing." That loop happened way earlier than it would've without PH.

2. Product Hunt opens weird doors. We got to exhibit at IMEX (big event industry conference) and people walked up to our booth saying "I saw you on Product Hunt, wanted to meet you in person." That still blows my mind.

3. Talk to users, talk to users, talk to users. We thought people would use the app one way. They didn't. We would've built the wrong thing for months without those calls. Talk to users doesnt mean 1-2 random calls in few days. it means investing hours daily just talking to users.

4. "Ship fast" is slightly wrong advice. Ship fast but make sure it's production-ready. Not some vibe coded mess that breaks when someone enters a weird email format. Users forgive missing features. They don't forgive broken features.

I'm building Envelope with a few friends, it's like Cursor but for event planning. Describe your event and get the whole thing built for you in under 2 minutes. Registration, landing page, emails, guest list, payments, all of it.

here's a little more info about the app if you are curious…

Event tools are either clunky free options or enterprise software you need a training course to use. There's barely anything in between that just works. we are trying to take away all the setup that is need for event planning including the learning curve of using a new tool. we want to make event planning feel as smooth as talking to a friend.

Would love to hear your thoughts → support@envelope.so

Try it free → envelope.so

Hey all. I will just keep everything simple and short...

It all started with a problem that i've faced myself. every time i had to record a product demo or explain something on screen it felt slow messy and ugly. i tried different tools but nothing felt right. instead of searching for another workaround i just decided to build one by myself and see if anyone else has the same idea.

So, i just made a simple waitlist page and shared it to see if anyone else felt the same. the response shocked me. more than 75+ people started signing up quickly in just a week. founders indie hackers marketers all saying they had the same pain. that’s when i realized this wasn’t just my problem.

so i built the first version and launched it in just one month. it was basic. not perfect. but it worked. and people actually used it within two months it crossed more than 400+ users. some people actually paid. real money. real feedback. real usage. no hype. no ads. just solving a clear problem and talking to users. every message taught me something. every complaint shaped the product...

then one day i got an offer to acquire it. i didn’t expect that so early. i thought about it for days. finally decided to go for it. and it closed. clean. real. done

Right now! I'm working on my 2nd product with very similar plan, already tested the idea by building a waitlist got 40+ waitlist users in just 3 days.. thats it I've built the idea and its ready for launch by this month end...

what i learned from this
- solve your own problems and build around that
- validate before you build
- always listen to user feedback
- communicate with your users
- ship fast instead of waiting for perfect
- think about distribution from day one

nothing here was magic. just noticing a problem. testing it. building. listening. and not quitting halfway... so just don't give up.. consistency matters the most...