u/No-Doctor3790

Okay, I have to admit I’m genuinely blown away. I absolutely did not expect

Qwen 3.8 27B Q4_K_M with MTP, capped at 64k context, running on a single RTX 3090 with the OpenCode harness.

A single prompt:

“Build a realistic ocean water scene with lighting, etc. using Three.js or another engine if more appropriate.”

20m 34s of work, and this is the result (with controls added as a bonus).

I don’t know what you guys think, but I find it pretty incredible that my single GPU managed to generate something like this in one shot. Not that long ago, only the best commercial models could reach this kind of quality in such a short amount of time.

I know for a fact Qwen3-Coder and Qwen 3.6 27B weren’t giving me results like this. This is clearly a step above.

Feel free to ask if you have any questions!

My full hardware setup for those wondering:

- CPU: AMD Ryzen 9 9950X
- GPU: RTX 3090 FE 24GB (Gelid thermal pads)
- RAM: 64GB DDR5 (2×32GB) Corsair CL30 @ 6000 MHz
- Motherboard: Gigabyte B650 DS3H
- CPU Cooler: Thermalright Peerless Assassin 120 SE
- SSD: 500GB M.2
- PSU: Corsair RM1000x
- Case: ASUS Prime AP201 Mesh

Hey everyone, I posted here recently about a SaaS I built, being convinced the idea was awesome, that the paid options were cheap, and decided to go ahead and run hundreds of dollars of Google, Reddit and X ads for basically nothing. Discussing with a few people here, I learned the hard way that I should discuss first with people about their interest in that tool.

As a disclaimer, it's the second time I'm trying to run a SaaS and attract users. I did publish iOS apps before, one of them worked surprisingly well but had no monetisation inside, it was entirely free.

Obviously I already asked my relatives and friends, and I'm now looking to see what you'd say here before taking it any further. This is not an advertisement for the tool but a feedback request, whether I should change anything with the product itself, or my methodology.

Here's the idea: auto-generation of launch videos for your projects, or for updates on your projects, that actually doesn't look AI-generated like most similar tools currently on the market. With the possibility to apply corrections.

I thought I'd make a difference by actually rendering high-quality, deterministic (kind of), structured videos rather than just AI-hallucinated "prompt to image/video" outputs. There is background work, even though I'm still using AI somewhere in the pipeline, it isn't the one doing all the work. Actually, the AI only helps assemble the final video together.

I think the results are quite good and I thought people would be interested in this for their own projects.

Here is the home page: https://shipcut.app, with demos right at the beginning when users first open the page.

So, contrary to the other SaaS that failed, I made sure to show enough examples and proof to try to convince the user before they click on the "Subscribe" button. From the previous experience, I noticed the users were not convinced and some didn't even understand what the tool was for.

This time, I have real demonstrations of the product:

- https://shipcut.app/examples - real examples, with prompts used, on fictional products, on real existing websites, on my own products...

- https://shipcut.app/library - the library used to assemble the videos, so basically all the possibilities for assembling a "standard" video (premium videos are entirely custom and do not use this library)

- https://shipcut.app/why - a "why us" page trying to explain to users why my product is better than others, showing real concrete advantages.

And other things like https://shipcut.app/changelog, with a changelog and roadmap to show proof of active work, and https://shipcut.app/faq trying to answer most questions.

For the occasion, I generated two 15s videos for a hypothetical Reddit ad:

- https://shipcut.app/v/r4443cys (Standard mode)
- https://shipcut.app/v/2dgyqsny (Premium mode)

I still worry that the pricing page might be a bit complicated because I struggle to find the right balance, and it's a bit hard to put everything into one package. I tried to explain a lot of things on the page but at the same time it makes it a bit heavy and users might feel overwhelmed. The menu is also a bit messy, but I'm not sure how I can improve it while still keeping everything there.

It's currently working as expected, the only issue is that it runs on a sub-optimal server in the beta version, but I can quickly upgrade it if I see the product works and attracts users.

On the SEO side, I also tried to make it easily indexed on Google, maintaining a sitemap and registering it on https://search.google.com/search-console.

I don't want to make the same mistake and run expensive ads before getting initial feedback, so that's why I am here. I'm happy to hear anything positive or negative.

I'd be happy if you could test it and let me know what you think, and I'd also be happy to provide free "Starter" or "Pro" accounts to anyone interested in testing it in depth.

Thanks in advance!

Hey everyone, this post is not an advertisement for the tool itself but only me (the developer) trying to understand what went wrong and where. Basically, it's not the first time I've built and released something: I previously built iOS apps and got a good amount of downloads, all were free.

Now it's different. I worked on a project I truly thought would succeed and get engagements. I built aigr.ee, which is basically an inventory of summaries of ToS & privacy policies of popular services online. I know other alternatives exist for such services, but I wanted to make a difference with an "almost real-time" change detector and an email-based alert service for users when their favourite apps quietly change the privacy policy or terms of service, and other features, showing a summary of what changed (the summaries are AI-generated). Only this email alerts part is paid (4 euros per month), everything else is free.

I released the project, made a few posts on X, worked on the SEO, and even tried running ad campaigns on Reddit, X, and Google. For Reddit and X, the engagement was so low and costing so much that I had to stop. For Google, the campaign is still ongoing and I had ~900 clicks for 30k impressions, and it cost 100 euros so far. Nobody subscribed to the alert service. Deep inside, I feel that something is wrong and I'm starting to question myself. Is it the ad, is it the product itself, is it too expensive, or not clear enough...

I was sure some people would like it because I thought "if this service existed, I would have paid for it".

Anyway, I'm here looking for your feedback, not only on the product but also on my methodology about how I advertise it, how I try to sell it, etc. Looking for any kind of advice. If it's stupid and not worth continuing, I'm also ready to hear it.

Thanks in advance!