You guys have any recommendations how to market my app, just a developer with no marketing skills so just wanna know from experienced peoples how you guys are doing it for your own app, thanks for guidance.
Not the big things. Not the career stuff. The thing only you and maybe three other people in the world know about.
I'll go first.
I built a tiny tool last year that helps my mom remember to take her medication. Twelve users total. All family. It's been running flawlessly for 11 months.
Nothing I've ever built at work has come close to that feeling.
Not a unicorn story. Not raising a seed round. Not 10x growth.
Just a tool that solves one specific problem for one specific type of person — and they love it enough to pay me every month and tell their friends.
Built it in evenings using vibe coding and a lot of caffeine. Took six months to find the right wording on the landing page. The product was the easy part.
Anyone else building micro and genuinely happy at this size? Also do share your experience about the distribution and have you cracked it?
Shipped three things this month. Two of them work. One of them I genuinely cannot explain how it works to another human being.
I keep waiting for the moment this feels like cheating. It doesn't. It just feels like the new normal.
Anyone else hit the point where you stopped asking yourself if you're "really" coding and just started shipping?
I spent the first three weeks asking AI to just "build me X." Every time. Full feature. One prompt. And every time I got something that technically worked but that I couldn't explain, couldn't fix, and couldn't build on top of.
The thing nobody told me was this: vibe coding isn't about getting AI to build for you. It's about having a conversation until you both understand the problem the same way.
The moment I stopped saying "build me a dashboard" and started saying "here's what a user needs to feel when they open this screen" — everything changed. The outputs got better. The bugs got fewer. The whole thing started feeling like actual building instead of gambling.
Three months in now. Shipping things I genuinely couldn't have built alone. Still learning every day.
What's the one thing you wish you'd known at the start? Doesn't matter if you've been doing this three weeks or three years. Someone reading this thread right now needs to hear it.
Hey all,
I'm a solo founder building a tool for solo and small-crew tradies, and before I go further I want to hear from actual tradepeople whether I'm solving a real problem or imagining one.
Quick context on what I've built so far — not pitching, just so my questions make sense:
The thinking is that Podium, Birdeye and Broadly all do this stuff but charge $300-400/mo and force you into annual contracts and sales calls. I'm building it self-serve at $9/mo for just review automation, and $79/mo for the full thing (messaging, missed-call, webchat, etc).
What I genuinely want to know:
Not asking you to buy anything. Not dropping a link (mods, please don't nuke this). I've been deep in the weeds for months and I need outside-the-bubble feedback before I build the wrong things or price it wrong.
Roast me if it's a dumb idea. I'd rather hear it now than after I waste another 6 months.
Thanks.