Every month, there’s a new AI tool popping up, but honestly, only a few really make a difference in my daily workflow. I’ve tried out tons of these tools, and some have really saved me time and boosted my productivity. So, here’s a list of the ones I use the most in 2026 to make my job easier，whether it's content, SEO, ads, email, or just cutting down on busywork.

1. Cryzo

I actually made this one myself for my website because I was tired of switching tabs, and adding technical complex workflows. It connects to Reddit, Google Ads/Analytics/search console, Linkedin, Meta ads and more. This way I saved myself a lot of time by having all my tools in one place and speaking to them in just plain english.

2. Semrush

Before making my tool. I used Semrush and it helped me analyze my website’s traffic sources and optimize my SEO. It’s great for figuring out what’s working and make improvements to your website

3. Canva

This is my go to for designing any poster's and also editing videos I and my mom both use it for our businesses. The drag and drop is really helpful to make the process easy. Glad to use it and I can't recommend it to enough.

4. Grammarly

Grammarly is a lifesaver. I've been using it since High School to but I found it also helped transition into my business workflow. It helps me catch grammar mistakes, improve sentence structure, and refine my tone.

6. Mailchimp

The golden standard for email marketing. I used to run email marketing campaigns pretty regularly, for my mom's business and it makes it so much easier. The automation setup for this was really a time saver.

In Summary:

Although I built my own, these AI tools I previously used saved me hours of work and allowed me to focus more on the creative side of digital marketing. Whether it's automating tasks, or optimizing my workflow, these tools have made a huge impact on day to day tasks.

What’s in your AI toolkit?

What AI tools have you been using this year that really made a difference? Whether it’s for content creation, ad optimization, or automating workflows, drop your recommendations in the comments! I’d love to hear what tools are helping you work smarter, not harder.

I have launched my first saas project this week and ended up getting my first paying user faster than i expected.

It was such a motivation seeing someone pay!

For those of you who’ve been through this:

•Is a first paying user usually a real validation signal, or often just luck / early curiosity?

•What did you focus on right after that first payment?

Would love to hear your experiences for this early phase

For anyone interested its Cryzo

I have launched my first saas project this week and ended up getting my first paying user faster than i expected.

It was such a motivation seeing someone pay!

For those of you who’ve been through this:

•Is a first paying user usually a real validation signal, or often just luck / early curiosity?

•What did you focus on right after that first payment?

Would love to hear your experiences for this early phase

For anyone interested its Cryzo

I have launched my first saas project this week and ended up getting my first paying user faster than i expected.

It was such a motivation seeing someone pay.

For those of you who’ve been through this:

•Is a first paying user usually a real validation signal, or often just luck / early curiosity?

•What did you focus on right after that first payment?

Would love to hear your experiences for this early phase

For anyone interested its Cryzo

If anyone is looking to make a website

for their business here's Cryzo

Here's a website I generated from one prompt

https://reddit.com/link/1th3hek/video/i7grtrjf1z1h1/player

Hello,

I've seen this posted here a lot of times and I wanted to let you guys know the process behind why Manus has an incredibly bad credit system.

Manus connects to tools and how they work is as MCP servers. Its like a USB connector for your Ai to external services and this is great because the Ai takes action across different apps. They have certain tools that tell the agent what to do with that specific server. Think connecting to Gmail, when you connect to gmail and want a request like finding your 5 newest gmails it has tools in there to help that task get done. Now the main problem is that Manus uses MCP servers wrong.

Manus loads all tool definitions upfront directly into context, exposing them to the model using a direct tool-calling. Tool descriptions occupy context window space, increasing response time and costs. In cases where agents are connected to thousands of tools, they’ll need to process hundreds of thousands of tokens before reading a request. For example, connecting to gmail if you notice the manus computer loads a bunch of tools and with this you notice your credits get vaporized like it's nothing.

If you've ever wondered why your credits burn so quickly and response time is slow this is exactly why its a primitive system. So I built Cryzo to solve this issue. Unlike Manus where everything gets loaded and its slow and expensive. Cryzo takes a different approach by loading only specific tools for a task. This lets the agent load only the definitions it needs for the current task. This reduces the token usage from 150,000 tokens to 2,000 tokens—a time and cost saving of 98.7% and while doing this your responses are also faster aswell. For example, doing the same task with gmail only loads about 1-3 tools instead of loading 15+ tools giving you speed and better cost. Im doubling the usage for a limited time so feel free to use it.

For any proof of this system works Anthropic wrote an article about it and thats what we use: https://www.anthropic.com/engineering/code-execution-with-mcp

Hello,

I've spent time researching how different apps grew and this story caught my eye. It's basically a calorie tracking app called Cal Ai that lets you take a picture of your food and get calories instantly. It was made by Zach Yadegari who was 17/18 at the time. So here's the story:

The Idea: The Idea came when Zach wanted to bulk up in the gym and was tracking his calories with MyFitnessPal. However 3 days in Zach quit using it and this was because it required him to weigh his food on a scale and manually type out every ingredient. So what he did was team up with some other founders to build it and it was dead simple, take a picture and get your calories. So he had a major problem which was tedious calorie tracking manually and he built a solution for it.

The Lesson: First, think about a problem you have and ask yourself "how can I solve this". Then look at existing solutions that are outdated and then make the process easier with Ai for the actual user. For example, Myfitnesspal has been around since 2005 and was bloated, complicated, and didn't innovate in years which gave the perfect opportunity for Cal Ai to make something simpler by you taking a picture and having Ai give you calories instead of you inputting it manually.

How it grew: This is a master class in Growth. Zach says this explicitly " If you had the perfect app but the worse marketing you will get no downloads, but if you had the worst app with great marketing you will still get downloads" and then he mentions "Marketing beats just building." What Cal Ai did was Influencer marketing on Tiktok and Instagram. They followed this Content Formula: 1. A hook 2. Stealth Promo 3. Payoff. The Hook was an attention grabbing formula that mimics successful formats in the fitness niche. Stealth Promo is a natural integration within the content and it was shown in about 15 seconds and the Payoff is a satisfying conclusion to the original hook. They specifically targeted influencers in the Fitness niche and gave them creative freedom. This worked because if you saw a traditional ad saying Download Cal Ai you would click off it but if you saw a video of your favorite influencer naturally using it. It feels like a recommendation from a friend, and everytime and influencer used it people in the comments asked what the app was and it drove a lot of users to the platform.

The Lesson: In the new age of Ai distribution matters more than building. Everyone can build now but if you cant distribute like Zach said "you will get no downloads." To apply the growth strategy to you if building a consumer product. Find 20-30 creators in whatever market your app is. Then DM then showing them what your app does and why it would be beneficial for their audience. Then offer a rate for them which can be a CPM like they get a $1 every 1000 views. Then give them creative freedom, they know what works with their audience so give them app and tell them to show it in the first 15 seconds the less that it looks like an ad the better it'll work. Lastly track everything by looking at when the video was posted, the number of views it got and what your downloads and revenue looked like then do what works cut out the bad content and the one that doesn't convert and grind on what works.

What am I doing this:

Watching their growth shows that distribution beats building. Obviously still build a great product but you need to distribute it if not no one will use it. Thats why I developed Cryzo it lets one build web apps and market them.

Unlike other no code tools that have limited social app integrations and only build. Cryzo gives you everything in one place. It lets you connect to Reddit(hi), Linkedin, Meta ads and more and also build great looking web apps without needing to switch tabs or add any API's/MCP servers.

If you're building right now: How did you go from idea to execution and what distribution channel are you betting on?

Hello,

I've spent time researching how different apps grew and this story caught my eye. It's basically a calorie tracking app called Cal Ai that lets you take a picture of your food and get calories instantly. It was made by Zach Yadegari who was 17/18 at the time. So here's the story:

The Idea: The Idea came when Zach wanted to bulk up in the gym and was tracking his calories with MyFitnessPal. However 3 days in Zach quit using it and this was because it required him to weigh his food on a scale and manually type out every ingredient. So what he did was team up with some other founders to build it and it was dead simple, take a picture and get your calories. So he had a major problem which was tedious calorie tracking manually and he built a solution for it.

The Lesson: First, think about a problem you have and ask yourself "how can I solve this". Then look at existing solutions that are outdated and then make the process easier with Ai for the actual user. For example, Myfitnesspal has been around since 2005 and was bloated, complicated, and didn't innovate in years which gave the perfect opportunity for Cal Ai to make something simpler by you taking a picture and having Ai give you calories instead of you inputting it manually.

How it grew: This is a master class in Growth. Zach says this explicitly " If you had the perfect app but the worse marketing you will get no downloads, but if you had the worst app with great marketing you will still get downloads" and then he mentions "Marketing beats just building." What Cal Ai did was Influencer marketing on Tiktok and Instagram. They followed this Content Formula: 1. A hook 2. Stealth Promo 3. Payoff. The Hook was an attention grabbing formula that mimics successful formats in the fitness niche. Stealth Promo is a natural integration within the content and it was shown in about 15 seconds and the Payoff is a satisfying conclusion to the original hook. They specifically targeted influencers in the Fitness niche and gave them creative freedom. This worked because if you saw a traditional ad saying Download Cal Ai you would click off it but if you saw a video of your favorite influencer naturally using it. It feels like a recommendation from a friend, and everytime and influencer used it people in the comments asked what the app was and it drove a lot of users to the platform.

The Lesson: In the new age of Ai distribution matters more than building. Everyone can build now but if you cant distribute like Zach said "you will get no downloads." To apply the growth strategy to you if building a consumer product. Find 20-30 creators in whatever market your app is. Then DM then showing them what your app does and why it would be beneficial for their audience. Then offer a rate for them which can be a CPM like they get a $1 every 1000 views. Then give them creative freedom, they know what works with their audience so give them app and tell them to show it in the first 15 seconds the less that it looks like an ad the better it'll work. Lastly track everything by looking at when the video was posted, the number of views it got and what your downloads and revenue looked like then do what works cut out the bad content and the one that doesn't convert and grind on what works.

What am I doing this:

Watching their growth shows that distribution beats building. Obviously still build a great product but you need to distribute it if not no one will use it. Thats why I developed Cryzo it lets one build web apps and market them.

Unlike other no code tools that have limited social app integrations and only build. Cryzo gives you everything in one place. It lets you connect to Reddit(hi), Linkedin, Meta ads and more and also build great looking web apps without needing to switch tabs or add any API's/MCP servers.

If you're building right now: How did you go from idea to execution and what distribution channel are you betting on?

Hello,

I've spent time researching how different apps grew and this story caught my eye. It's basically a calorie tracking app called Cal Ai that lets you take a picture of your food and get calories instantly. It was made by Zach Yadegari who was 17/18 at the time. So here's the story:

The Idea: The Idea came when Zach wanted to bulk up in the gym and was tracking his calories with MyFitnessPal. However 3 days in Zach quit using it and this was because it required him to weigh his food on a scale and manually type out every ingredient. So what he did was team up with some other founders to build it and it was dead simple, take a picture and get your calories. So he had a major problem which was tedious calorie tracking manually and he built a solution for it.

The Lesson: First, think about a problem you have and ask yourself "how can I solve this". Then look at existing solutions that are outdated and then make the process easier with Ai for the actual user. For example, Myfitnesspal has been around since 2005 and was bloated, complicated, and didn't innovate in years which gave the perfect opportunity for Cal Ai to make something simpler by you taking a picture and having Ai give you calories instead of you inputting it manually.

How it grew: This is a master class in Growth. Zach says this explicitly " If you had the perfect app but the worse marketing you will get no downloads, but if you had the worst app with great marketing you will still get downloads" and then he mentions "Marketing beats just building." What Cal Ai did was Influencer marketing on Tiktok and Instagram. They followed this Content Formula: 1. A hook 2. Stealth Promo 3. Payoff. The Hook was an attention grabbing formula that mimics successful formats in the fitness niche. Stealth Promo is a natural integration within the content and it was shown in about 15 seconds and the Payoff is a satisfying conclusion to the original hook. They specifically targeted influencers in the Fitness niche and gave them creative freedom. This worked because if you saw a traditional ad saying Download Cal Ai you would click off it but if you saw a video of your favorite influencer naturally using it. It feels like a recommendation from a friend, and everytime and influencer used it people in the comments asked what the app was and it drove a lot of users to the platform.

The Lesson: In the new age of Ai distribution matters more than building. Everyone can build now but if you cant distribute like Zach said "you will get no downloads." To apply the growth strategy to you if building a consumer product. Find 20-30 creators in whatever market your app is. Then DM then showing them what your app does and why it would be beneficial for their audience. Then offer a rate for them which can be a CPM like they get a $1 every 1000 views. Then give them creative freedom, they know what works with their audience so give them app and tell them to show it in the first 15 seconds the less that it looks like an ad the better it'll work. Lastly track everything by looking at when the video was posted, the number of views it got and what your downloads and revenue looked like then do what works cut out the bad content and the one that doesn't convert and grind on what works.

What am I doing this:

Watching their growth shows that distribution beats building. Obviously still build a great product but you need to distribute it if not no one will use it. Thats why I developed Cryzo it lets one build web apps and market them.

Unlike other no code tools that have limited social app integrations and only build. Cryzo gives you everything in one place. It lets you connect to Reddit(hi), Linkedin, Meta ads and more and also build great looking web apps without needing to switch tabs or add any API's/MCP servers.

If you're building right now: How did you go from idea to execution and what distribution channel are you betting on?

Hello,

I've spent time researching how different apps grew and this story caught my eye. It's basically a calorie tracking app called Cal Ai that lets you take a picture of your food and get calories instantly. It was made by Zach Yadegari who was 17/18 at the time. So here's the story:

The Idea: The Idea came when Zach wanted to bulk up in the gym and was tracking his calories with MyFitnessPal. However 3 days in Zach quit using it and this was because it required him to weigh his food on a scale and manually type out every ingredient. So what he did was team up with some other founders to build it and it was dead simple, take a picture and get your calories. So he had a major problem which was tedious calorie tracking manually and he built a solution for it.

The Lesson: First, think about a problem you have and ask yourself "how can I solve this". Then look at existing solutions that are outdated and then make the process easier with Ai for the actual user. For example, Myfitnesspal has been around since 2005 and was bloated, complicated, and didn't innovate in years which gave the perfect opportunity for Cal Ai to make something simpler by you taking a picture and having Ai give you calories instead of you inputting it manually.

How it grew: This is a master class in Growth. Zach says this explicitly " If you had the perfect app but the worse marketing you will get no downloads, but if you had the worst app with great marketing you will still get downloads" and then he mentions "Marketing beats just building." What Cal Ai did was Influencer marketing on Tiktok and Instagram. They followed this Content Formula: 1. A hook 2. Stealth Promo 3. Payoff. The Hook was an attention grabbing formula that mimics successful formats in the fitness niche. Stealth Promo is a natural integration within the content and it was shown in about 15 seconds and the Payoff is a satisfying conclusion to the original hook. They specifically targeted influencers in the Fitness niche and gave them creative freedom. This worked because if you saw a traditional ad saying Download Cal Ai you would click off it but if you saw a video of your favorite influencer naturally using it. It feels like a recommendation from a friend, and everytime and influencer used it people in the comments asked what the app was and it drove a lot of users to the platform.

The Lesson: In the new age of Ai distribution matters more than building. Everyone can build now but if you cant distribute like Zach said "you will get no downloads." To apply the growth strategy to you if building a consumer product. Find 20-30 creators in whatever market your app is. Then DM then showing them what your app does and why it would be beneficial for their audience. Then offer a rate for them which can be a CPM like they get a $1 every 1000 views. Then give them creative freedom, they know what works with their audience so give them app and tell them to show it in the first 15 seconds the less that it looks like an ad the better it'll work. Lastly track everything by looking at when the video was posted, the number of views it got and what your downloads and revenue looked like then do what works cut out the bad content and the one that doesn't convert and grind on what works.

What am I doing this:

Watching their growth shows that distribution beats building. Obviously still build a great product but you need to distribute it if not no one will use it. Thats why I developed Cryzo it lets one build web apps and market them.

Unlike other no code tools that have limited social app integrations and only build. Cryzo gives you everything in one place. It lets you connect to Reddit(hi), Linkedin, Meta ads and more and also build great looking web apps without needing to switch tabs or add any API's/MCP servers.

If you're building right now: How did you go from idea to execution and what distribution channel are you betting on?

Hello,

I've spent time researching how different apps grew and this story caught my eye. It's basically a calorie tracking app called Cal Ai that lets you take a picture of your food and get calories instantly. It was made by Zach Yadegari who was 17/18 at the time. So here's the story:

The Idea: The Idea came when Zach wanted to bulk up in the gym and was tracking his calories with MyFitnessPal. However 3 days in Zach quit using it and this was because it required him to weigh his food on a scale and manually type out every ingredient. So what he did was team up with some other founders to build it and it was dead simple, take a picture and get your calories. So he had a major problem which was tedious calorie tracking manually and he built a solution for it.

The Lesson: First, think about a problem you have and ask yourself "how can I solve this". Then look at existing solutions that are outdated and then make the process easier with Ai for the actual user. For example, Myfitnesspal has been around since 2005 and was bloated, complicated, and didn't innovate in years which gave the perfect opportunity for Cal Ai to make something simpler by you taking a picture and having Ai give you calories instead of you inputting it manually.

How it grew: This is a master class in Growth. Zach says this explicitly " If you had the perfect app but the worse marketing you will get no downloads, but if you had the worst app with great marketing you will still get downloads" and then he mentions "Marketing beats just building." What Cal Ai did was Influencer marketing on Tiktok and Instagram. They followed this Content Formula: 1. A hook 2. Stealth Promo 3. Payoff. The Hook was an attention grabbing formula that mimics successful formats in the fitness niche. Stealth Promo is a natural integration within the content and it was shown in about 15 seconds and the Payoff is a satisfying conclusion to the original hook. They specifically targeted influencers in the Fitness niche and gave them creative freedom. This worked because if you saw a traditional ad saying Download Cal Ai you would click off it but if you saw a video of your favorite influencer naturally using it. It feels like a recommendation from a friend, and everytime and influencer used it people in the comments asked what the app was and it drove a lot of users to the platform.

The Lesson: In the new age of Ai distribution matters more than building. Everyone can build now but if you cant distribute like Zach said "you will get no downloads." To apply the growth strategy to you if building a consumer product. Find 20-30 creators in whatever market your app is. Then DM then showing them what your app does and why it would be beneficial for their audience. Then offer a rate for them which can be a CPM like they get a $1 every 1000 views. Then give them creative freedom, they know what works with their audience so give them app and tell them to show it in the first 15 seconds the less that it looks like an ad the better it'll work. Lastly track everything by looking at when the video was posted, the number of views it got and what your downloads and revenue looked like then do what works cut out the bad content and the one that doesn't convert and grind on what works.

What am I doing this:

Watching their growth shows that distribution beats building. Obviously still build a great product but you need to distribute it if not no one will use it. Thats why I developed Cryzo it lets one build web apps and market them.

Unlike other no code tools that have limited social app integrations and only build. Cryzo gives you everything in one place. It lets you connect to Reddit(hi), Linkedin, Meta ads and more and also build great looking web apps without needing to switch tabs or add any API's/MCP servers.

If you're building right now: How did you go from idea to execution and what distribution channel are you betting on?

Hello,

I've spent time researching how different apps grew and this story caught my eye. It's basically a calorie tracking app called Cal Ai that lets you take a picture of your food and get calories instantly. It was made by Zach Yadegari who was 17/18 at the time. So here's the story:

The Idea: The Idea came when Zach wanted to bulk up in the gym and was tracking his calories with MyFitnessPal. However 3 days in Zach quit using it and this was because it required him to weigh his food on a scale and manually type out every ingredient. So what he did was team up with some other founders to build it and it was dead simple, take a picture and get your calories. So he had a major problem which was tedious calorie tracking manually and he built a solution for it.

The Lesson: First, think about a problem you have and ask yourself "how can I solve this". Then look at existing solutions that are outdated and then make the process easier with Ai for the actual user. For example, Myfitnesspal has been around since 2005 and was bloated, complicated, and didn't innovate in years which gave the perfect opportunity for Cal Ai to make something simpler by you taking a picture and having Ai give you calories instead of you inputting it manually.

How it grew: This is a master class in Growth. Zach says this explicitly " If you had the perfect app but the worse marketing you will get no downloads, but if you had the worst app with great marketing you will still get downloads" and then he mentions "Marketing beats just building." What Cal Ai did was Influencer marketing on Tiktok and Instagram. They followed this Content Formula: 1. A hook 2. Stealth Promo 3. Payoff. The Hook was an attention grabbing formula that mimics successful formats in the fitness niche. Stealth Promo is a natural integration within the content and it was shown in about 15 seconds and the Payoff is a satisfying conclusion to the original hook. They specifically targeted influencers in the Fitness niche and gave them creative freedom. This worked because if you saw a traditional ad saying Download Cal Ai you would click off it but if you saw a video of your favorite influencer naturally using it. It feels like a recommendation from a friend, and everytime and influencer used it people in the comments asked what the app was and it drove a lot of users to the platform.

The Lesson: In the new age of Ai distribution matters more than building. Everyone can build now but if you cant distribute like Zach said "you will get no downloads." To apply the growth strategy to you if building a consumer product. Find 20-30 creators in whatever market your app is. Then DM then showing them what your app does and why it would be beneficial for their audience. Then offer a rate for them which can be a CPM like they get a $1 every 1000 views. Then give them creative freedom, they know what works with their audience so give them app and tell them to show it in the first 15 seconds the less that it looks like an ad the better it'll work. Lastly track everything by looking at when the video was posted, the number of views it got and what your downloads and revenue looked like then do what works cut out the bad content and the one that doesn't convert and grind on what works.

What am I doing this:

Watching their growth shows that distribution beats building. Obviously still build a great product but you need to distribute it if not no one will use it. Thats why I developed Cryzo it lets one build web apps and market them.

Unlike other no code tools that have limited social app integrations and only build. Cryzo gives you everything in one place. It lets you connect to Reddit(hi), Linkedin, Meta ads and more and also build great looking web apps without needing to switch tabs or add any API's/MCP servers.

If you're building right now: How did you go from idea to execution and what distribution channel are you betting on?

Hello,

I used to run an E-Commerce brand and I stored my inventory in Google sheets. Now Google Gemini for me did not have context across google sheets, gmail and why you may ask. When ever I got inventory from my supplier via email they always sent a link to a spreadsheet but the problem was I had to manually go copy and paste data into my store and edit cells one by one and honestly I got sick of it.

So I built something to combat that. For me I didnt want to switch tabs and with how limited gemini is across its own tool stack (GOOGLE FIX THIS) I improvised. So when ever an email arrived I simply said in plain english "Turn the data from this gmail into an spreadsheet and update the spreadsheet with the newest products that got added" that was it. I went from hours to minutes of using these tools.

Right now I'm doubling usage for a limited so for anyone who wants to try it it out and connect their suite here is Cryzo

Hello,

I've been a user of Microsoft services well quite frankly all of my life and I've liked their progress over the years. However with recent updates especially to copilot ive been questioning some things.

Well for me I used to run an E commerce business with eBay and had used excel for inventory data, Word for writing reports, and also Powerpoint(rarely to make slides) but I always found my self having to switch tabs and manually edit sections in those tools one by one. Even my friend in school had that problem. Copilot is good but the task automation in my opinion is subpar.

So instead of doing nothing I decided to make my own tool to fix it. Now one might think but doesnt Claude and Copilot do this? Yes and you're not wrong but here's where it differs. Claude is focused on general Ai agentic capabilities and unlike them where you get rate limited alot. I use local models hosted elsewhere to automate tasks and rather than relying on one ai i have many that step up if one fail. My friend had used this tool to turn Excel data into a Powerpoint without having to resize manually and edit cells or do things manually he just said it in plain english and it got done which went from him doing things for hours into mere minutes.

Im doing doubling usage for Cryzo for a limited time so one can can automate their work. Let me know if you have any feedback for it.

I'm someone who got interested in how Ai can Impact our workflows and through random research one day I found Maor Shlomo a Solo Founder who built and scaled Base44 to $80M in 6 months.

Here is how he did it.

For the Idea: he started with a personal problem he had. Instead of chasing a hot new trend or doing market analysis. The idea for base44 came from his own girlfriend's struggles of using Clanky drag and drop builder and also a non-profit being quoted "a million bucks" for simple software.

Another Case study is Cal Ai. The founder had used MyfitnessPal and had to input his calories manually, one by one which was a slow process

Now although there was existing competition Maor did something they didnt at the time. Compared to Replit, Lovable and existing tools he added backend, Db, and hosting without needing extra integrations which helped make the building process faster and easier.

So the Lesson here? Look at existing software(Apps, websites) that is probably outdated or requires a lot of manual process and then build something where AI can make the process easier and save time for people.

How he built it:

1. Maor has ADHD and he used Rescuetime to manage ADHD and enable deep work.

For his Tech Stack heres what he used:

IDE: He used Cursor and he used his own App Base44 to Build Base44 which I thought was insane.

Hosting: he used Render

Database: He used MongoDB

Payments: He used Stripe to collect payments

LLM Engine: Models - From his own words "Claude 3.7 is still the workhorse (via Bedrock, with fallback to Anthropic’s own API).
But Gemini 2.5 Pro is catching up — I’ve seen it handle complex coding tasks with cleaner solutions. " This is outdated but back then this was what he used and this might be still true today Claude dominates

How grew Organically

Step 1: When starting out Base44 Maor found 3-5 friends and demoed his MVP for them. He personally sat down and watched them use the product and break so he fixed it and kept iterating.

Step 2: Instead of paid ads he decided to grown in public and he utilized one channel that worked which was Linkedin. He built in public there showing people the mistakes and failures but he kept iterating on user feedback which eventually drove growth.

Step 3: Using referrals for users helped them invite others to use the product. this is a great playbook because when someone would run out of credits they had the option to invite others and in turn users gained credits for that. This helped as it promoted growth to the product by word of mouth. This same playbook repeated in history Paypal offered money if you invited people to the platform, Dropbox offered storage if you invited people to their platform and Maor did the same too people used credits as his core product so he offered that as a referral system. Base44: Invite friends and get credits, Dropbox: Invite friends and get storage

The Lesson for Organic growth?

Start of small with people you trust and listen to their feedback so you can improve your product, then market your product to where your users are in this case people on Linkedin where also builders so he marketed his product there. Then next find a way to use a referral system for word of mouth if your product offers storage like how Dropbox did use that for people to use it

What I'm Doing With This

Watching his own growth personally and just hearing his own story inspired me to follow the same path to build something

I noticed something with how Maor did things in Base44. He made things to write his own content on Twitter/Linkedin, and tools to manage users, payments and etc.... Which got me thinking since that was a lot of manual process for him and alot of other vibe coders have the same issue I built my Saas for this issue to be solved. It lets vibe coders build and scale.

Although there are competitors like Base44, Replit, and Lovable. Unlike them that only Build and have limited connectors to social apps. Cryzo lets you Build, Scale and Market your product with app integrations such as Reddit, Linkedin, Instagram, Excel etc... So that you can do something like building an e commerce store based on Inventory data in excel, then making a post about it in Linkedin, Facebook.

Now I'm applying these playbooks to my own growth. Starting with Reddit (hi), Linkedin, and building in public. It's my roadmap, and I'm following it in public.

If you're building right now: How did you go from idea to execution and what distribution channel are you betting on?

Sources: https://youtu.be/L9KvV_UOs3A?si=TSOsWdH5_Qx6cq2l

https://www.inc.com/ben-sherry/how-this-founder-sold-his-vibe-coding-startup-for-80-million-just-4-months-after-launching-it/91225024

I was researching and one day I found the story of Wix. I think the story is interesting and can help anyone who is trying to get into the Ai space and and help small businesses.

Here is how it all started

Wix was founded in 2006 by Founders Avishai Abrahami, Nadav Abrahami, and Giora Kaplan.

When they started they experimented with 11 different concept ranging from MySpace customization tools to e-cards. Each was tested but none gained significant traction. So here's what they did to combat this

The Idea: They moved to solving problems and they had one in common. Building websites at that time required either technical skills or expensive developers. The same applied to the public most people wanted to build websites but where overwhelmed by complex tools like Dreamweaver.

By solving real problems for Small businesses, Wix became their go-to platform for building and managing websites.. As said by Avishai "Users showed us the path to success-beautiful, user-friendly websites" and

The Lesson: Stop building in silence and building things that are unproven. Focus on specific problems a group of people have and provide the solution, now another thing is to improve on whats already there, look at things that are complex and make it easier for people to use. Just like Wix people wanted to build websites and the existing things out there where too complex so they made the process simpler.

The Freemium Model: Over 10% of Wix users eventually upgraded to premium plans. While many competitors offered required upfront payments or limited trials. Wix freemium model gave it a significant advantage by building loyalty early and their core revenue driver? Subscriptions, also things like the App market and integrations which enhance user experience and also drive revenue.

The Lesson: Don't overcharge or let users pay. The best way to earn trust and loyalty is by letting them try out your product. Let people see and gain value first and if your product is great they'll keep coming back to you and its also a great for people to refer as you wont put a hard paywall.

How they grew Organically: First users where and family and friends but they relied on one thing early on which was user feedback. To get to the first 1000 users which were mainly comprised of Small businesses at this time they promoted themselves through niche blogs and SEO tactics. By doing this and getting user feedback early on they could improve the product. Within the first year they gained 500,000 users on the product but how? By posting tutorials about their product online which helped drive growth. By doing this they showed people how easy it was to use the product and how they can quickly build a website without it having to be complex. Thats' it they didnt do no expensive ads at first, or anything they just showed how their product worked and how easy it was to use.

The Lesson: First go to where your target users are and prioritize the first few users and iterate on feedback. Then post tutorials, or talk about how your product can solve their problems and show how great the product can be.

What am I doing with this?

Watching their growth personally and just hearing their own story inspired me to follow the same path to build something

I noticed something with how Wix did things with one being app integrations which helped the user experience by connecting to tools they already use and it helped keep users on the platform.

Which ended up inspiring me to build my own thing called Cryzo. I know they are some competitors like Lovable, Base44, and even Wix itself but unlike them. Just like how Wix solved the issue of building websites without the process needing to be complex as compared to dreamweaver, and Google sites at the time. Cryzo let's small businesses build websites, scale and market their business with integrations like Meta Ads, Linkedin, Reddit, Microsoft 365 and etc... without you having to switch tabs or setup API key's/MCP's.

Now I'm applying these playbooks to my own growth. Starting with Reddit (hi) and iterating on user feedback, and building in public by showing tutorials. It's my roadmap, and I'm following it in public.

If you're building right now for small businesses: How did you go from idea to execution and what distribution channel are you betting on?

Sources: https://youtu.be/7jkZ-k4Hjvw?si=4bl_v-0LTYfQsCMq

https://www.businessthink.unsw.edu.au/articles/ai-product-strategy-wix-trust-no-code-growth

https://portersfiveforce.com/blogs/brief-history/wix

TL;DR: I analyzed Maor Shlomo's growth with base44. You dont need ads to scale your product. Building in public gets you closer to your users feedback. How I'm using the same playbook for my own Saas.

I'm someone who got interested in how Ai can Impact our workflows and through random research one day I found Maor Shlomo a Solo Founder who built and scaled Base44 to $80M in 6 months.

Here is how he did it.

For the Idea: he started with a personal problem he had. Instead of chasing a hot new trend or doing market analysis. The idea for base44 came from his own girlfriend's struggles of using Clanky drag and drop builder and also a non-profit being quoted "a million bucks" for simple software.

Another Case study is Cal Ai. The founder had used MyfitnessPal and had to input his calories manually, one by one which was a slow process

Now although there was existing competition Maor did something they didnt at the time. Compared to Replit, Lovable and existing tools he added backend, Db, and hosting without needing extra integrations which helped make the building process faster and easier.

So the Lesson here? Look at existing software(Apps, websites) that is probably outdated or requires a lot of manual process and then build something where AI can make the process easier and save time for people.

How he built it:

1. Maor has ADHD and he used Rescuetime to manage ADHD and enable deep work.

For his Tech Stack heres what he used:

IDE: He used Cursor and he used his own App Base44 to Build Base44 which I thought was insane.

Hosting: he used Render

Database: He used MongoDB

Payments: He used Stripe to collect payments

LLM Engine: Models - From his own words "Claude 3.7 is still the workhorse (via Bedrock, with fallback to Anthropic’s own API).
But Gemini 2.5 Pro is catching up — I’ve seen it handle complex coding tasks with cleaner solutions. " This is outdated but back then this was what he used and this might be still true today Claude dominates

How grew Organically

Step 1: When starting out Base44 Maor found 3-5 friends and demoed his MVP for them. He personally sat down and watched them use the product and break so he fixed it and kept iterating.

Step 2: Instead of paid ads he decided to grown in public and he utilized one channel that worked which was Linkedin. He built in public there showing people the mistakes and failures but he kept iterating on user feedback which eventually drove growth.

Step 3: Using referrals for users helped them invite others to use the product. this is a great playbook because when someone would run out of credits they had the option to invite others and in turn users gained credits for that. This helped as it promoted growth to the product by word of mouth. This same playbook repeated in history Paypal offered money if you invited people to the platform, Dropbox offered storage if you invited people to their platform and Maor did the same too people used credits as his core product so he offered that as a referral system. Base44: Invite friends and get credits, Dropbox: Invite friends and get storage

The Lesson for Organic growth?

Start of small with people you trust and listen to their feedback so you can improve your product, then market your product to where your users are in this case people on Linkedin where also builders so he marketed his product there. Then next find a way to use a referral system for word of mouth if your product offers storage like how Dropbox did use that for people to use it

What I'm Doing With This

Watching his own growth personally and just hearing his own story inspired me to follow the same path to build something

I noticed something with how Maor did things in Base44. He made things to write his own content on Twitter/Linkedin, and tools to manage users, payments and etc.... Which got me thinking since that was a lot of manual process for him and alot of other vibe coders have the same issue I built my Saas for this issue to be solved. It lets vibe coders build and scale.

Although there are competitors like Base44, Replit, and Lovable. Unlike them that only Build and have limited connectors. Cryzo lets you Build, Scale and Market your product with app integrations such as Reddit, Linkedin, Instagram, Excel etc... So that you can do something like building an e commerce store based on Inventory data in excel, then making a post about it in Linkedin, Facebook.

Now I'm applying these playbooks to my own growth. Starting with Reddit (hi), Linkedin, and building in public. It's my roadmap, and I'm following it in public.

If you're building right now: How did you go from idea to execution and what distribution channel are you betting on?

TL;DR: I analyzed Maor Shlomo's growth with base44. You dont need ads to scale your product. Building in public gets you closer to your users feedback. How I'm using the same playbook for my own Saas.

I'm someone who got interested in how Ai can Impact our workflows and through random research one day I found Maor Shlomo a Solo Founder who built and scaled Base44 to $80M in 6 months.

Here is how he did it.

For the Idea: he started with a personal problem he had. Instead of chasing a hot new trend or doing market analysis. The idea for base44 came from his own girlfriend's struggles of using Clanky drag and drop builder and also a non-profit being quoted "a million bucks" for simple software.

Another Case study is Cal Ai. The founder had used MyfitnessPal and had to input his calories manually, one by one which was a slow process

Now although there was existing competition Maor did something they didnt at the time. Compared to Replit, Lovable and existing tools he added backend, Db, and hosting without needing extra integrations which helped make the building process faster and easier.

So the Lesson here? Look at existing software(Apps, websites) that is probably outdated or requires a lot of manual process and then build something where AI can make the process easier and save time for people.

How he built it:

1. Maor has ADHD and he used Rescuetime to manage ADHD and enable deep work.

For his Tech Stack heres what he used:

IDE: He used Cursor and he used his own App Base44 to Build Base44 which I thought was insane.

Hosting: he used Render

Database: He used MongoDB

Payments: He used Stripe to collect payments

LLM Engine: Models - From his own words "Claude 3.7 is still the workhorse (via Bedrock, with fallback to Anthropic’s own API).
But Gemini 2.5 Pro is catching up — I’ve seen it handle complex coding tasks with cleaner solutions. " This is outdated but back then this was what he used and this might be still true today Claude dominates

How grew Organically

Step 1: When starting out Base44 Maor found 3-5 friends and demoed his MVP for them. He personally sat down and watched them use the product and break so he fixed it and kept iterating.

Step 2: Instead of paid ads he decided to grown in public and he utilized one channel that worked which was Linkedin. He built in public there showing people the mistakes and failures but he kept iterating on user feedback which eventually drove growth.

Step 3: Using referrals for users helped them invite others to use the product. this is a great playbook because when someone would run out of credits they had the option to invite others and in turn users gained credits for that. This helped as it promoted growth to the product by word of mouth. This same playbook repeated in history Paypal offered money if you invited people to the platform, Dropbox offered storage if you invited people to their platform and Maor did the same too people used credits as his core product so he offered that as a referral system. Base44: Invite friends and get credits, Dropbox: Invite friends and get storage

The Lesson for Organic growth?

Start of small with people you trust and listen to their feedback so you can improve your product, then market your product to where your users are in this case people on Linkedin where also builders so he marketed his product there. Then next find a way to use a referral system for word of mouth if your product offers storage like how Dropbox did use that for people to use it

What I'm Doing With This

Watching his own growth personally and just hearing his own story inspired me to follow the same path to build something

I noticed something with how Maor did things in Base44. He made things to write his own content on Twitter/Linkedin, and tools to manage users, payments and etc.... Which got me thinking since that was a lot of manual process for him and alot of other vibe coders have the same issue I built my Saas for this issue to be solved. It lets vibe coders build and scale.

Although there are competitors like Base44, Replit, and Lovable. Unlike them that only Build and have limited connectors. Cryzo lets you Build, Scale and Market your product with app integrations such as Reddit, Linkedin, Instagram, Excel etc... So that you can do something like building an e commerce store based on Inventory data in excel, then making a post about it in Linkedin, Facebook.

Now I'm applying these playbooks to my own growth. Starting with Reddit (hi), Linkedin, and building in public. It's my roadmap, and I'm following it in public.

If you're building right now: How did you go from idea to execution and what distribution channel are you betting on?

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