I wanted something that felt less SaaS polished and more like signal in the noise. The idea is simple: Reddit is messy, but there are real buyer signals hidden inside it. This icon is the first pass at that direction. Would you keep it this raw or clean it up?
Getting users is starting to feel harder than building.
You can ship an app in a weekend now. The bottleneck is figuring out where people already care enough to reply, complain, compare tools, or ask for a fix.
That is why I have been spending more time searching Reddit demand before building more features.
If anyone wants, drop your no code project and I will tell you the kind of Reddit posts I would look for to find early users.
Testing this workflow with Leadline right now.
Getting users feels way harder than building right now.
Most people are posting blindly instead of finding places where people are already asking for the problem.
Drop your project, who it’s for, and I’ll tell you the kind of Reddit threads I’d target first.
I’ve been using Leadline for this lately because manually searching Reddit for buyer intent is painful.
Most Chrome extension launches I see die because people post everywhere before checking if anyone is actually asking for the thing.
I kept running into the same problem while building smaller products. Tons of noise, very little buyer intent.
So I built Leadline. It searches Reddit for posts where people are already describing the problem, asking for alternatives, complaining about workflows, looking for tools, etc.
Been using it mostly to find threads worth replying to instead of blindly posting and hoping something lands.
Curious how people here are handling demand research before launching extensions now.
Everything online feels optimized now.
Profiles.
Followers.
Algorithms.
Perfect replies.
Perfect photos.
Perfect positioning.
We started noticing people speak completely differently once voice and anonymity are combined. More honest. Less performative. Less filtered.
That is basically why we started building Ekcho.
Voice based conversations without the pressure of building an online identity around yourself.
Still early, but the shift in how people communicate anonymously through voice versus text has been really interesting to watch.
I think the hardest part with no code is not building the first version.
It is the moment your product starts needing ugly custom logic nobody planned for.
That was basically the wall I hit.
The landing page was easy.
Auth was easy.
Basic flows were fine.
Then suddenly you need:
better filtering
faster searches
custom scoring
background jobs
edge cases everywhere
And now your clean no code stack starts looking like duct tape.
Still think no code is one of the best ways to validate ideas fast though. A lot of people overbuild before they even know if anyone wants the product.
I used no code tools for parts of Leadline early on just to test whether people actually cared about finding Reddit posts with buying intent.
Way easier to justify rebuilding things later when users already exist.
The building part has been the fun part. The hard part is figuring out where people are already complaining about the exact thing your extension fixes.
I’m testing that with Leadline.dev right now, mostly by scanning Reddit for posts where people are already asking for a workaround or extension.
Drop your extension and I’ll tell you what kind of Reddit demand I’d look for first.
I see the same mistake a lot in ChatGPTCoding.
People build the whole thing first.
Then they ask where to find users.
That order feels backwards.
Before I build anything now, I try to find real Reddit posts where someone is already asking for the thing, complaining about the current way, or comparing bad alternatives.
That is what I am using Leadline for.
It finds Reddit threads where people are already asking for what you sell or build.
Drop what you are building and I will tell you what kind of Reddit demand I would look for first.
I think a lot of side project founders quietly hit the same wall.
You spend weeks building something, polishing onboarding, fixing bugs, tweaking the landing page, then realize distribution is a completely different skill.
Reddit has honestly been one of the few places that still feels usable for early traction because people openly talk about what they need, what they hate, and what they are actively looking for.
The problem is Reddit search is awful once you are trying to consistently find good threads before they die.
I got tired of manually digging through posts every night so I started building a workflow around it. That eventually became Leadline.
Now I mostly use it to surface posts where people are already asking for the exact thing a project solves instead of blindly posting links and hoping.
If you are working on a side project, drop it below with who it is for.
I will tell you the first subreddit or type of Reddit post I would target to find early users.
Most SaaS marketing advice still sounds like it was written for companies with teams, budgets, and months to wait.
Meanwhile most indie founders are just trying to find 10 people who already care.
That is the part I think Reddit solves better than almost anywhere else right now. The demand already exists. People are literally posting their frustrations, comparing tools, asking for recommendations, complaining about workflows.
The annoying part is finding the right threads consistently before they disappear.
I started building a workflow for this because manually searching Reddit every day became a complete time sink. That eventually turned into Leadline.
Now I mostly use it to find posts where someone is already describing the exact problem a SaaS solves instead of trying to force attention with generic content or cold DMs.
If you are building something right now, drop the product and who it is for.
I will tell you where I would look for your first Reddit users.
Getting users is the part with the most friction for me right now.
No-code makes building faster, but it does not really solve distribution. You can ship something clean and still have no idea where the first real users should come from.
I am testing Leadline for this because it finds Reddit posts where people are already asking for tools, services, or fixes like yours.
For anyone building no-code products, where did your last real users come from?
Finding users is the part that makes side projects feel heavier than they should.
I am testing Leadline on small projects right now. It finds Reddit posts from people already asking for things close to what you built.
Drop your project, what it does, and who it is for.
I will run a few searches and reply with the kind of Reddit threads I would go after first.
Posting and hoping something lands starts to feel like a waste fast. Especially with no code projects, because building is usually the easy part.
What worked better was finding threads where people are already asking for something like what I built.
Not generic advice posts. Real people describing their problem and looking for a solution.
I have been testing this with Leadline so drop your no code project and I will show you real Reddit threads where your first users are already asking.
I will run it through here
https://leadline.dev
One of the hardest parts of SaaS is not building the product.
It is figuring out where the people who actually need it are already talking.
Most founders guess. They post in random places, try a few communities, maybe run some cold outreach, then wonder if the product is bad.
I’m testing a more demand first approach with our tool right now, mostly by finding Reddit threads where people are already asking about the exact problem.
Drop your SaaS and who it is built for.
I’ll reply with where I would start looking for users.
Finding users has been the real friction for me lately.
Not building. Not tweaking the product. Just figuring out where people are already asking for the thing you sell.
I have been using my SaaS for this because Reddit has way more buyer intent than people think, it is just buried under random posts and bad searches.
Drop your SaaS and one sentence on who it helps.
I will reply with the kind of Reddit threads or subreddits I would check first.
Getting users is the part I keep seeing people get stuck on.
A Chrome extension can solve a real problem and still sit there with barely any installs because the right people never see it. I am testing my software for this. The idea is to find Reddit posts where people are already asking for tools, fixes, extensions, or workarounds around the problem. Not trying to make a huge promo post. Just finding threads where the extension is actually relevant.
If you have a Chrome extension, where are users coming from right now?
The painful part is not always building the first version.
Sometimes it is launching, getting silence, tweaking the page, posting again, then slowly realizing you do not know if people actually want it.
I started paying more attention to where demand actually exists before building. Been using Leadline a bit for that since it shows threads where people are already asking for stuff.
Where do side projects usually die for you?
Real offer because finding users is still the part that eats the most time for small SaaS founders.
Drop your MicroSaaS below and I will tell you where I would look on Reddit for your first real buyers.
Not generic stuff like post on X or launch on Product Hunt.
I mean the actual subreddits, angles, and search terms I would test first.
I am using Leadline for this since it finds Reddit posts from people already asking for what you sell, so this is a good excuse to test it on real products.
Drop the product and who it is for.
Most social media marketing wastes time when you only track mentions instead of actual buying intent.
Drop what you sell and who it is for.
I will give you one Reddit angle I would check for people already asking about that problem.
I am using Leadline for this since it finds posts from people already asking for what you sell.