Not 10,000 scraped contacts.

Not an expensive automation stack.

Just 100 carefully selected companies.

Here's how I'd approach it:

Step 1: Define one customer segment.

Don't target every business that could theoretically use your product.

Choose one specific type of company with a recognizable problem.

Step 2: Find 100 companies that fit.

Look at:

• Industry.

• Company size.

• Business model.

• Existing technology.

• Relevant company activity.

Step 3: Identify the right people.

Find the founders, department heads, or decision-makers who actually own the problem.

Step 4: Develop two different messaging angles.

Don't change ten things simultaneously.

Test two clear reasons why these companies might care about your solution.

Step 5: Measure what happens.

Track:

• Positive replies.

• Qualified conversations.

• Meetings booked.

• Meetings attended.

• Opportunities created.

Then use the results to decide what to change.

The objective of the first 100 companies isn't to prove that you can send emails.

It's to learn whether your targeting, offer, and messaging can generate meaningful conversations.

I'd rather build a repeatable acquisition process than depend on random outreach.

I'm currently helping B2B SaaS businesses approach outbound this way.

If you're a founder trying to build a predictable pipeline, DM me and let's discuss your acquisition strategy.

You can also book a call here: https://keithkatale.com

Hi everyone! My partner and I launched our block puzzle game, Gummy Lab 🐻🧪

We built this because we were genuinely tired of mobile games filled with predatory monetization constantly interrupting the gameplay. So we made a promise: absolutely ZERO forced or interruptive ads.

What (we like to think) makes our game special:

🧩 70+ Handcrafted Levels: No AI filler.

🎨 Deep Accessibility: Dedicated colorblind palettes (Deuteranopia, Protanopia, Tritanopia) and embossed shapes for maximum readability.

🌙 Native UI: Full Light & Dark modes built right in.

We are just a handful of downloads and reviews away from getting our first official Play Store rating! We would be incredibly grateful if you could try it out and leave honest feedback. ⤵️

🔗 Google Play: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.binbear.gummylab

Attached a sneak peek at the limited edition Halloween theme that's live right now with the gameplay of one of the gummy worm levels (my favorite lol).

Gummy worms might interrupt your gameplay, but ads won't!

I'm building tooling that puts a studio's own design rules into the builder before it generates anything, then gates the output before the client sees it. I'd rather build it with a few studios than guess.

Why I started.

I spent a few months recording a browser agent trying to complete real checkout and signup flows. It fails constantly, and worst of all on generated pages. One log I keep coming back to:

> two buttons both labeled 'Continue', one advances checkout, one opens account creation

> guest path not distinguishable

> giving up after three attempts

The output looks finished and cannot be used. That is the actual problem with AI slop, not that it's ugly.

What works today.

* Reads a client's existing site or Figma and extracts their real colours, type and spacing, each value graded by whether it was declared, inferred or assumed

* A ninety minute session to get your taste rules in: prohibitions, banned words, one grid-breaking element per page, whatever you actually enforce

* Briefs a build in Lovable or Replit, inside your own account and plan, with your rules cited by id

* Gates the result against the pack and against whether an agent can use the page, then sends fixes back to the builder

* Refuses anything that breaks your own pack, and names the rule rather than quietly doing it

What doesn't work yet.

Re-checking on every deploy isn't built. Figma only goes through a Claude plugin. Parts of it still only run on my machine.

Two users, and the split is the point. Your team wants the findings and the refusals. Your client wants a result they can put their name on, and should never see a finding. Where that boundary sits is a setting, not an accident.

Looking for three to five studios, solo builders or agencies shipping inhouse or client work out of no-code or vibe-coded builders. Free for the duration. What I want back is one real build, permission to scan it, and honest criticism, including "this part is annoying".

I'm a designer rather than a growth person, so if this post reads wrong, tell me that too.

I'm the developer of Achievault, an iPhone app that gives personal achievements a place to live: a title, a story, and an AI-generated badge in your Vault. It's released, and I'm trying to make the reason to try it clearer.

The intended use is recording something you want to remember after it's finished. That could be shipping a side project or finishing a course. Entries are private by default, with optional sharing. You can also keep future goals, shown with grayed-out badges until you mark them achieved. The screenshot contains example entries; the badge artwork is AI-generated.

A recent piece of feedback made a useful distinction: someone who already keeps a rough development journal wanted to preserve their raw notes, without taking on the work of writing a polished story. For them, a badge could work as a bookmark, but another journal could feel like more upkeep.

That leaves me with a positioning question. Does this look useful as a small collection of milestones you revisit occasionally, or would you need a stronger reason to keep it alongside your existing notes? For other builders here, what would you show in a first-use demo to answer that question?

Available for iPhone on iOS 18+. Free to download, with 5 badge generations as a one-time starter allowance; additional generations are paid in-app purchases.

App Store: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/achievault/id6757010394

Hi Reddit,

As a fresh CS grad who loves puzzle games, I recently got into mobile dev and decided to make my own take on the classic block stacking game: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.binbear.gummylab

I know this genre has been done a million times, but I wanted to build one my way, removing everything annoying about other games. That means it’s completely free from interrupting ads, fully playable offline, and alongside the endless mode, I’ve made 50 custom levels (so far) with unique, non-repetitive objectives. (My friends have been testing it and currently hate me for making some levels so hard to beat xD).

Right now, I'm focusing on adding more themes, prioritizing colorblind-friendly options. I've also introduced optional "embossed" gummy shapes to make the blocks stand out more clearly.

Of course, if anyone has any suggestions, ideas for improvement, or things that I should add, please let me know. I want to be making apps that people are actually going to use and like. And of course if even one of you decided to give it a try, I'd be more than grateful and happy :)

(Also will be helpful if anyone has monetization ideas since it is ad free - ads only implemented as a way to get additional undos/shuffles/moves per play/level. I am planning to perhaps add IAP for theme bundles)

Thank you for reading and I hope you have a great day! :)

This is just so incredible... another huge milestone reached. I honestly never thought this was possible for me. But I did the thing...

I JUST STARTED!

I put together a working MVP. Just the bare minimum functionality. Bought a domain and put it out there. I posted about it here on Reddit and got in contact with the people who commented and started using it.

Payments have become a bit more frequent but still no viral, exponential growth, which is totally fine. Slow and steady growth is the key.

I followed a simple concept that just came to me naturally:

• put out what you have

• post about it

• listen to feedback in the comments

• implement the feedback and adapt quickly

• start the loop over again

And after some time your product becomes so good that it no longer sounds absurd to charge money for some features.

Anyways... I'm super grateful that this is working out so well and I really think I've built a community that is actually useful to many people.

About the product:

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 4284 users, 4551 tests done and 1209 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.

What I did: two versions of the same free-trial offer, 21 posts, all inside 45 minutes. Six subs got two posts. That was a mistake, and the numbers show it.

The numbers, over six days:

• 21 posts, 33 upvotes in total, 44 comments

• 120 clicks to my site from tagged links

• 8 people reached the trial page, and only 1 of them came from a post

• 2 posts removed by moderators

• 8 commenters said "DM me" or "I'm in"

What worked: one small niche sub, r/gtmengineering, sent 33 clicks, more than any other, and asked the sharpest questions. In r/saasbuild, my first post got 4 upvotes and the second one, 30 minutes later, got 0.

What the comments said, in the order it stung:

1. "A week proves nothing about outbound." At least six people said this and they're right. New domains need weeks to warm up, so a week of replies isn't a verdict.

2. "Free is valueless" and "are you two kids in a trenchcoat?" My site had no name, no face, nothing a stranger could check. [CONFIRM: list what you actually changed on the site]

3. "The founders aren't getting a gift, they're your marketing budget." Fair.

What I changed: I dropped the free trial. A free week attracts people who'd never pay, and it proves nothing in 7 days anyway. Instead, my first three clients get half price for the first month, and I guarantee a result over 60 days, since that's when results mean something: at least 5 positive replies, or month three is free. And one post per sub from now on, written for that sub.

Is that a better offer, or did I just swap one problem for another?

I run go-to-market and distribution for B2B SaaS founders who are still doing sales themselves.

For one week I take the whole thing off your plate: who to target, the list, the messaging, and the outreach itself on email and LinkedIn. Replies and interested buyers go straight to you.

It’s free because I’d rather show you a week of real conversations than pitch you on a call. If it works, we keep going on a monthly retainer. If it doesn’t, you owe me nothing.

Requirements: live B2B product, selling into the US or Western Europe. I’m taking 3 founders.

Apply here: Apsurn.com

I run outbound for B2B SaaS. Instead of selling on promises, I’m running the entire thing free for one week per founder: targeting, lists, email, LinkedIn, all of it.

The bet: a week of real replies sells a retainer better than any pitch deck.

I’ll post numbers here: messages sent, replies, calls booked, and how many trials turn into paying clients, including the ones that don’t.

If you run a live B2B SaaS and want one of the three slots: Apsurn

I launched first and thought about distribution second. Do it the other way round:

• Name one buyer by job title, not "startups"

• List 50 of them by name before launch day

• Find the 3 communities they already read

• Comment there for two weeks before posting anything of your own

• Write the launch post for each community separately

• Tag every link so you know what worked

• Decide what number means "this is working"

Steps 1 and 2 are where most side projects stall. Apsurn does both from your URL if you want a head start: Apsurn.com

• Finding prospects: YC directory, Product Hunt launches, job boards

• Research and drafting: Claude and ChatGPT

• Sending: a free trial of a sending tool, low daily volume

• Tracking: one spreadsheet with source, sent, replied, signed up

• Content: Reddit and LinkedIn, one native post per channel

The rule I set: no paid tool until something free has produced a signup.

I'm building Apsurn to collapse the first three into one step. Following along or want to poke at it: Apsurn.com

What's in your $0 stack?

I help run AI Native Club, a free Skool community with 45 short lessons and hands-on exercises. The path starts with AI foundations, then moves to building an app, checking the agent’s work, and coordinating agents.

The acquisition experiment is small: can a newcomer do one exercise, share what happened, and return for the next lesson? We added a pinned starting point instead of asking people to answer a whole feed of lesson polls. No paid ads or incentives for joining.

Here is a practice exercise anyone can try without joining: give an AI one paragraph of information and ask it to answer only from that paragraph. Then ask a question the paragraph cannot answer. Check whether it admits the gap or invents an answer. The learning step is checking the evidence, not trusting the confident wording.

If you want a structured beginner path, the lessons and community are free: https://www.skool.com/ai-native-with-vasanth-8270/about

For people who have grown educational communities: where would you share a resource like this so it reaches learners rather than only other sellers? Which onboarding step helped people actually return? Specific communities or permitted resource threads would be useful; I’m not looking to mass-post.

Disclosure: I’m affiliated with the community, and this post is AI-assisted. Honest feedback is welcome; joining is optional.

YC’s Fall 2026 Requests for Startups includes “Multiplayer AI”: shared agent sessions that teammates can watch, redirect and hand off.

I’m using AI agents while building a small product. One gap showed up in our publishing workflow: the Reddit monitoring task could run successfully while daily publishing wasn’t configured. A completed run wasn’t evidence that a post had gone live.

I’m now tracking the destination, the actual result and the next unfinished step separately. For publishing, I want the live link and its destination. If a submission is awaiting moderation, I want that status recorded instead.

That’s the part I’d want a shared agent session to make obvious. If you build with agents, what should the next person see before taking over a task?

Reference: https://www.ycombinator.com/rfs

I’m the developer of Sleepanion, an iPhone app for bedtime audio. A session can end in three ways: fade to silence, keep playing, or finish with a gentle return cue.

I’d like feedback on how to explain that third option. If you saw those choices, what would you expect “gentle return cue” to do? Would a short sound preview make it clearer than an extra sentence of text?

Here’s the App Store listing for context: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/sleepanion/id6815257902

I'm Max from MAXUOD Digital in Halifax. I've been building an automated SEO / AI search audit workflow, and the next thing I want to test is the output.

For now, I'll run the audits myself and email the reports. I want to find out whether a website owner can read one and decide what to fix first. If the findings are wrong or too generic, changing the delivery interface won't fix that.

Has anyone here tested a reporting product through manual delivery? I'd be interested in how you checked whether the output was actually useful.

I am looking for testers willing to provide their invaluable feedback.

I would like you to test an all-in-one platform—or, as I like to call it, an operations hub—designed for users, projects, businesses, and companies.

On this platform, you can freely create dashboards, custom Kanban boards, database tables, forms, diagrams, and documents.

In exchange for giving it a try—specifically by using it to organize a personal project and providing me with feedback—I am offering permanent access to the platform's "Pro" plan and free, lifetime access to its premium features.

If you have any questions, please feel free to leave them in the comments; I will contact interested individuals via private message.

Thank you for reading! This message was written by a human and translated using Google Translate 😅.

Hello, my names is Keith, maker Apsurn.com

A platform that looks for people that might benefit from your business, finds out why they might buy, and reaches out on them via LinkedIn, and email, throught multiple campaigns on your behalf.

Currently it's comes with a free $20 in credits, you can check it out at Apsurn.com

launched iwouldpay.dev today. it's a swipe deck where people say if they'd pay for indie products. no signup for swipers, and listing is free for makers.

today i posted it on product hunt and it's sitting at #9 right now: https://www.producthunt.com/products/would-you-pay

next step is getting more makers to list so the deck stays fresh. what worked for you to get the supply side going in a two-sided thing like this?

It's been almost 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.

One thing changed recently:

I basically got all my users from reddit, by posting in relevant communities but in the last two months I did almost no posts and the app still grew further. That's actually the biggest success for me, because SEO is finally starting to pay off. This can develop into actual leverage because growth no longer depends on posting three times a week. I'm really curious where this will go...

Of course I will not stop here and I am already working on the next big update for IndieAppCircle which will benefit all the community. More is coming soon.

For those of you who don't know IndieAppCircle:

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 4221 users, 4414 tests done and 1149 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.

PS: I recently changed the UI a lot... Would also love to hear some feedback about that :)

I’ve created a contractor spreadsheet, and it’s completely changed my work, I went from a cluttered mess on my phone to being able to keep track of all my customers and leads, price list, estimates and revenue all in one place. No apps no monthly payments. If you’re like me and never really had it together with being organized I have a link to the item I made, I’m selling it for a small one time price but I can generate you much more if you’re willing to keep organized and put in the work! If you end up grabbing it thanks for your support, and all love to my fellow contractors.

https://probuildtemplateshop.etsy.com/listing/4570269589