u/Due-Tangelo-8704

I fine-tuned a 27-billion parameter Qwen 3.6 model with Claude Opus-level reasoning entirely on a 36GB Mac, no cloud GPUs. The industry says you need A100s for this. I wrote 11 custom memory optimizations freezing 75% of layers, nuking GPU cache every training step, building an autodiff-safe loss function to prevent gradient corruption and got peak memory down to 25.6GB. The model is distilled from 14,000+ Claude Opus reasoning samples and is live on HuggingFace.

currently I can not offer equity but only share profit, it has high margin so if you can get high sales volume the immediate rewards will be great. Eventually we can also offer equity and add you to the cap table to our US LLC.

Dm to discuss more

Start small, stay small - Rob Walling, Microconf

One nugget i would like to drop here that will open up eyes for lots of vibe coders.

When starting a new project, prioritise your focus in this order
- market
- marketing
- design
- features

Now my own thought why it is absolutely true based on my personal experience even before reading this book.

You have to nail YOUR market the very first thing, i highlighted your because what generally new founders do is see others market and think if they are succeeding i would to, but it doesn’t work because you may not have same access to the market as other person has. So how do you find YOUR market, it is the one closest to you and you can reach it, surround yourself with it, a simple test i have come up with is, if every week you can personally reach out to 100 leads into that market it is YOUR market.

Now marketing, promote about your app in your market, talk about it, share updates, new findings, drop free resources, all of this even before building your product, start 6 months before your launch date. And consistently keep pushing yourself deeper and deeper into that market.

Design, believe it or not in the same market with similar positioning a better designed product will get more traction even if it has less features. Thats how human psychology works as that is what you are dealing with here not the deterministic behaviour of your compiler

Features, it should just work. Dont over think it and it is actually better to just offshore it even if you love to build because you dont want to get caught into intricate details here to keep a global vision about your product, you must be the first user of your own product not the developer.

Vibe coders, believe me i can vouch for if you build your app following the above process you would find your early customers very fast, you have seen those reddit posts i got x users in the first week of launch, this is how its done. They never appear in an unknown market without any prior marketing, with bad design and non working product that gets them their first week launch users.

I am happy to discuss more on this topic, does it raise any doubts in your head after reading this? Ask me i will respond to the comments.

With just one clear product shot image upload you can test 5 unique styles for a video reel

First find out which category product belongs to
What style goes well with which category
Per style try theme variations

Gets you 5 unique style for your product shot

Extremely easy for Etsy sellers and Shopify store owners

I want run an instagram ad for my etsy store

5 video reels with unique hooks for each
A few feed posts
Also a carousel

I have few product shots and want to create all of the above for my instagram ad campaign

How much are you guys paying for it?

Been deep in the AI ad creative space for a while and keep seeing the same complaint everywhere: "I generated 10 ads and they all look identical."

But that’s how most tools work.

They change the copy and maybe the background color, but the structure stays the same. Same hook format, same text placement, same pacing, same visual layout. Your customer scrolls past ad 3 the same way they scrolled past ad 1 because their brain already pattern-matched it.

What actually fixes this is structural variation i.e. different templates, different hook strategies, different visual flows. Not just "blue version vs green version."

I ran into this enough times that I found a tool around it. It takes a single product photo and generates 13 ad creatives across 5 completely different visual templates. Each template has its own layout, animation style, and color system. Each reel uses a different hook angles like social proof, curiosity, urgency, transformation, problem-solution.

So when you upload a hot sauce photo, your bold template reel looks and feels completely different from your viral template reel. Different structure, different pacing, different hook.

$9 per bundle without any subscription that contains video reels with AI voiceover + feed images + carousel cards.

it is a system you can implement to your saas that made me from invisible online to first stripe purchase

First this is what I did

- identified current issues with online presence
- find organic channels best suited for distribution
- setup up a landing page with intent capture
- build funnel to convert traffic

Then i started my organic distribution on one chosen channel and it started sending traffic to my landing page and into my funnel after 7 days i literally woke up with first purchase on my Stripe dashboard

But that is not the end of story, i measure and tweak my landing page, messaging and funnel every week. It is a repetitive process of running experiment collecting data building a hypothesis and running the next one.

The goal: from invisible online to selling to real customers

I am also helping builders run this system, share your brand below if you are looking for help

Here's what I told each of them. Sharing because most of you reading this have the same problem.

1. Search your own product name on Google. If you don't show up, nobody will find you.

This is the top most and easiest to fix. Find a unique name, you will be competing with others, your name must be unique to remember and drop without a link in any post or comment. Also, 10 min but overnight traffic firehose step, most of your apps have competitors listed in some article for your target keywords, if you do seo yourself would take min 6 months to even rank for those, instead approach the listicle publisher and offer them to put your name their too, even without a backlink is fine it is like you are sharing podium with other winners, free publicity and traffic.

2. Your users aren't searching for your features. They're searching for outcomes.

A dev built an AI component generator for Angular. Nobody is googling that. They're searching "UI component library for SaaS dashboard." Position for the outcome your user wants, not the tech you built.

3. You're in the wrong room.

Someone built a daily prayer app and was trying to distribute on Reddit with next planned target platforms Tiktok and IG but their users are in Facebook Groups thousands of prayer and devotion communities with 10K-100K members each. Find where your users already gather. It's rarely where you think.

4. "I tried a couple channels" is not a distribution strategy.

One founder had flat MRR for 5 months and said they'd "tried a couple of acquisition channels." That's a weak commitment towards distribution. Pick one channel. Post consistently for 90 days. Then decide if it works.

5. If 2000 people visited your site and nobody signed up, your value is not visible.

One builder blamed magic links for zero signups. If nobody signed up, they didn't understand what your product does within 3 seconds.

6. Building tasks disguised as shipping tasks will kill you.

One founder admitted "the product is probably more done than I want to admit." He was tweaking pricing tiers and edge case features instead of launching. Ship with one tier. Get 10 users. Then figure out the rest.

7. Be in conversations that already exist. Don't start new ones.

Instead of posting "check out my app," find the 5 subreddits where people complain about the exact problem you solve. Reply to those posts. Describe the pain and your fix. No links drop your brand name. Let them find you, free google seo clicks and better signal.

Every one of these founders had a decent product. But bad distribution, I helped each one of them to discover these gaps and they are getting their products to more users hands while offering massive value to them

I help builders with saas distribution and i can help you also, comment your app name below, only brand no links.

You *wink* *wink* spoiling your health and waste your energy that leads you no where in life

Similarly you build saas after saas without shipping one and doing the distribution has fallen victim to similar disease.

Building just for the dopamine hit of building spoils your financial health and gives no growth

Coming back to same analogy, committing to a women fixes that *wink* *wink* problem

So to solve for your saasturbation issue you also need to commit to one saas

Finish it, ship it, do the distribution, find users, compel them to buy it, get feedback, iterate on it

Do this with repetition, 10, 100, 1000 times get better at just building and selling one saas

Pick one. Just one. Not the coolest one. The one where a real person is losing real money on a broken workaround RIGHT NOW.

Then stay. When it gets boring stay. When the shiny new idea whispers stay. When your first user asks for something tedious build it and stay.

The builders making $5K-10K/mo aren't smarter than you. They just stopped saasterbating and became committed to their one saas

One SaaS. One audience. One year. That's the whole game.

Hey founders/indiebuilder — I'm an indie SaaS founder who's been doing his own saas distribution for months. It's the part most founders hate and skip. So I'm packaging what I already do for myself and doing it for you.

The "Saas Distribution" Package

✅ Reddit seeding campaign — 10 posts 10 genuine, in-depth posts about your product placed in the subreddits where your buyers actually hang out. Real reviews from someone who used your product. The kind that get read, get commented on, and get clicked. No links will be included just your brand name in authetic context.
Agencies charge $500-1,000 for this.

✅ Permanent SEO backlink A dedicated page about your product on my site - 14K monthly impressions, page 1 rankings, 2 months old. Dofollow link. Stays up forever. A single backlink from a ranked, indexed site runs $150-300.

✅ Custom landing page A dedicated landing page for your product, hosted by us, custom domain included. Share it, drive traffic to it, capture emails. Landing page design runs $200-500.

✅ Directory submissions — 5+ platforms Product Hunt, Indie Hackers, MicroLaunch, and every relevant directory for your niche. Done for you. You'd burn a full day doing this yourself. Directory submission services charge $100-200.

✅ UX & bug audit I'm using your product for real to write authentic posts. While I'm in there, I document every bug, friction point, and UX issue I find and document it. A proper QA audit costs $300-500.

Total value so far: $1,250 - $2,500

But I'm not done.

**🎁 FREE bonuses **

🎁 YouTube explainer video — a full walkthrough and review of your product. On my Youtube channel, small base. But it's a professionally made video you can embed on your site, put in your pitch deck, share anywhere. It's yours. A product explainer video costs $200-500.

🎁 X (Twitter) post — dedicated post about your product. Small account, but it's content you can reshare and quote tweet to your own audience. Value: free extra visibility.

🎁 Top-of-funnel blueprint — a 1-page strategy doc showing you what free content product or tool could sit above your SaaS to capture emails, if already not present. I built one that hit 14K impressions/month in 2 months. I'll map out yours. Funnel strategy consulting runs $200-400.

🎁 Competitor gap analysis — 3-5 gaps in your market that your competitors aren't filling. One paragraph each. Actionable stuff you can build on or position against. Market research reports start at $200.

🎁 Subreddit map — 15-20 communities where your target users live, with rules and posting notes for each. Your Reddit playbook. Community research packages run $100-200.

Let's add it up:

What you get	Market value
Reddit seeding (10 posts)	$500-1,000
Permanent SEO backlink	$150-300
Custom landing page	$200-500
Directory submissions	$100-200
UX & bug audit	$300-500
YouTube explainer video	$200-500
Top-of-funnel blueprint	$200-400
Competitor gap analysis	$200+
Subreddit map	$100-200
Total	$1,950 - $3,800

You pay: $149

How it works:*

1. DM me your product link
2. I confirm it's a fit — I only take products I can understand and write about.
3. Stripe invoice from my US-registered LLC (Wyoming)
4. Send me free trial access
5. Everything delivered within 7-14 days with a full report — every link, every post, every asset

Need more? I'm also a full-stack dev with 15 years experience, ex-cto. If you need help with deployment, infrastructure, or working on next big thing - happy to discuss separately. A lot of indie SaaS founders vibe-code the product but get stuck shipping it. I can help with that too.

I'm not an agency. I'm a founder who figured out distribution and is doing it for other founders.

10 spots today, price goes up after. DM me.

Honestly what you are building do you see it having an end goal may be your own desire super imposed within your saas product some sort of mission that you are passionate about?

I have been a freelancer for a long time and i gathered many skills while doing it that has sharpened me as an entrepreneur, my mission is to share my skills and turn the builders who have mettle in them into serious entrepreneurs with my fire power.

Whats yours?

What is the dream of every vibe coder?

To reach $20k mrr

But is there any definitive way of doing it?

I have built one and honestly i am very confident on it

But i invite you to poke holes in it

So here it goes

Find a real business gap, that is a pain some professional is facing that he can not live without getting it solved as he is loosing time or money or both on it

Why a business gap and not a shower thought you ask?

First my method is not stopping you from building whatever you want, work on your dream projects

Follow 80/20 rule, work on 8 business gaps and 2 random ideas

Why?

8 business gaps has high chance of you bringing in consistent revenue, most of your ideas would flop so highly risky

But i dont discount the viral potential of your ideas if they catch on it happens rarely but it does then it could be big winner but that is pure luck

I am aiming for vibe coders to do their vibe coding seriously like a business and that can not be purely luck based

So we do 8 business gaps and 2 ideas, that is the ratio to follow

If you run this weekly as vibe coding can literally build your apps in matter of hours so 7 days is more than enough to launch it

1 launch every week (following the ratio i told above)

I have 520 real business gaps that is 10 years worth of weekly launches, 10 years!!

Mix it with 100 of your lucky ideas based on 20% ratio in that same time

To make it even easier for you i also have 50 growth hacking playbooks that fast growing startups used

So it becomes a machine,

Each week you build a fix for the gap or work on your shower thought, market it using few of the growth channels i have in my playbook

Every repetition you would be improving both building and marketing

I have 10 years of gaps but honestly even in 2 years that is about 100 weekly launches you would definitely hit a few gold but if in rare case you don’t you can run 5x over.

So if you are 20 or 30 now, following this method by the time you reach 30-40 you are at your dream level, honestly much before than that but for the sake of it lets consider it.

It is simple but it is not easy, it requires discipline and unwavering commitment to this method, try it for even an year see where you land

So?

What do you think are the flaws in it? And most importantly what other way you know off that can take you to your dream outcome even in 10 years definitively!

Tell me the platform you are trying to grow upon and i will give you a playbook

I have built and grown multiple platforms over past decade

I started with growth hacking with my first deals and coupons website

Since then i have grown handful of sites and web based apps, i never tried any mobile apps yet but the concepts are applied to those as well

Ask me anything about marketing

And giving it all away

The very first thing you may think why ?

I have shared my story already in indiehackers sub but here is short version

I discovered during my introspection phase that this is what i must do to be honest with myself

Now next thought you might be having 500 seems too much, these must be thin apps some small tools could not be all serious apps

Bro, I know 500 number sounds insane but i have a solid plan behind it

First they are very real apps, and not a list of chat gpt generated ideas

Every single one of it based on a real business problem for which some one is ready to pay right now

Now the big one, if you are bleeding to death building these then why giving it away !?

You have seen F1 movie?

“This is not about the money”

Then what what it is about you may ask

“………..”

520 validated business gaps and builds, steal it

https://thevibepreneur.com/gaps

I will share my own

Lead magnets: A simple to consume and cost nothing to serve but high value asset

Email captures: Build list using the lead magnets

Funnels: Send regular value to people in the list

CTA: After giving them enough that they are filled with value, ask them to take an action

I found above to be very simple to understand and follow, works irrespective of any industry you are building in or you have any fans or not.

Share more such tips or any hacks you know of growing your saas. Lets make this thread an ultimate place for saas growth hacking!

This post probably belongs on true off my chest but it is very relatable to builders so posting here.

After 9 months as a CTO, which was my dream job since i first stepped into the world of software development, i had quit it.

Initially I blamed AI. I thought my reason to quit was that building some flashy new AI app would be much cooler than building tech infra for a boring accounting startup.

But thanks to ample time after quitting i was able to do some deep introspection and what i found shook me to the core. I discovered who I really am.

For the most part as a software developer I was leading teams. From very early in my career, just 3-5 years in, i was driving junior developers. First at a bootstrap startup then at a well funded unicorn. When you lead a team you are not just a dev, you become the person everyone looks up to. When they face any problem they come to you and it is your job to solve their problem first.

I did this my entire career and honestly i despised it for the most part. I was most productive when i am at it all by myself. I always felt people dragged me into silly things they could have solved themselves. But if the only thing running in your mind is deadlines you really can not be blamed for thinking that way.

So what i actually discovered in that introspection period is this. I am a leader but that word sounds too loaded. Put it simply, I jump into problems first before i would allow anyone else to do it.

And when I saw so many builders around me struggling hard, trying to hit their MRR dreams, getting stuck on "distribution", grinding daily on X for "build in public" with no direction, i took this responsibility upon myself. I must create a simple crystal clear path that every vibe coder can follow to get to their dream outcomes.

So I built The Vibepreneur. And I am not the only one who could be one. Every vibe coder could become one.

What appears on that site is not a grand plan. It serendipitously shaped out to be what it is. First I started with niches, 30 high quality in depth niche reports. Then I discovered gaps and builds. Over previous months I have put together 520 gaps found across multiple industries, every single one validated from real people complaining about real problems. Every gap has a full build blueprint.

Simple math. 52 weeks in a year. In 10 years, 520. So you get 10 years worth of weekly gaps and builds. Take 1 gap and its blueprint, just try it for a week. You can run this experiment for 10 years straight.

Here is my claim,

Vibe coder, I can not hand you a million dollars fair and square. But I can give you a gap every week for your next 10 years. And if you trust maths, because I do being an ML engineer, you would hit a few golds with this. Honestly every one's gold would be different because it is not about the gap. It is about the gap in whose hands. That is what matters.

Among the $4.7 billion vibe coding market opportunity, The Vibepreneur (hint: google search "the vibepreneur gaps") chalks out a million dollar roadmap for you that you can run for the next 10 years.