u/Gullible-Angle4206

I’m starting to see a flood of posts that talk about MRR increases and sales done in a really short period of time and all these seem hard to believe. As a solo founder myself and trying to grapple with selling the product after talking to people and understanding their problems and still finding it difficult to get 10 visitors on my website, it seems impossible that vibecoded apps are making all efforts look moot.

now every subreddit is just filled with these success stories and people being sceptical about it (me included). theres just too much. the actual conversations are getting far and fewer.

As someone who is interested in getting into the indie music scene, I had a couple of questions. I have always thought that reaching out to bands or anyone in the music industry is a little intimidating so sorry if I come across as naive or ignorant.
- How do bands usually find gigs to play? How do you manage the bookings

- How do you find locations that would be good (as in how do you rate those venues)?

- Do you always need a band manager to help book shows and venues? or does all the logistics/bookkeeping happen without the need for a manager?

- What are your favorite locations to play at (I play rock music mainly)

- What are things I need to watch out for when reaching out to venues for bookings.

the ability to add job boards is amazing. gives anyone to add jobs they are interested in. but that also means crowdsourced data that needs to be verified.

one of hiring.cafes initial value prop was hiding away ghost jobs, but I’m seeing more showing up. if the service is automatically filtering out fake jobs, can you score each job and show it to users and let users filter them out based on different scores.

i saw this feature pop up on another job board and will be awesome to have here

This is a quick share for anyone running outbound-heavy workloads — scrapers, enrichment APIs, batch crawlers. I am sure most of these could be standard lessons, but I learnt it the hard way so thought of sharing.

Last week my provider killed my prod VM in the middle of the night. The termination email cited "DNS tunneling, SYN flood, port scanning, SSH brute-force." My first reaction was that we were compromised and I spent 5 hours rotating all my secrets on the app servers, databases and VMs. I asked them to share the logs before arguing further. These were the actual numbers

- 12.7M DNS queries in 16h, peak 62,106/hour (provider threshold: <5K/hour)

- 4.4M outbound TLS connection attempts

- 8 destinations tripped SYN-flood thresholds (>1K SYN/min sustained)

THis was all my scraper running with no DNS cache and having 4 different user-agents scattered across the codebase

What actually fixed it (in priority order):

1. Local unbound resolver with caching on the VM. This cut external DNS volume by 95%+. and was the single biggest win. We were re-querying the same few thousand domains over and over.

2. One canonical User-Agent across the codebase.

3. Pooled connections & per-host exponential backoff on 429/503. Stops any one target getting hammered when it slows down.

Everytime I open up my reddit feed, I see success stories of people successfully launching their app and getting X number of users on their platform and a lot of them are through reddit. How do you get traction on Reddit? I feel like this platform is so averse to product showcasing -- while I understand the need to filter our bots and spam, the real product showcases get affected.

I'm lost now and am not able to get a foot in the door. Any suggestions will be greatly appreciated.

Can you make the company view more prominent? Like a job view and the company view.

The company view on this site is an absolute gold mine especially if you have specific companies to target. However, this view is not so easily visible. Currently I have an automated script navigating me to the company view based on the company I am interested in...but its not so well integrated with the rest of flow I have set up on the site.