u/joshstewart90

So anyway, I did the totally original 2026 thing and built an AI SaaS.

ChatGPT assured me this was the shortest path to passive income, financial freedom, and probably a podcast interview where I say “we’re just solving our own problem.”

The product is called Slop Swamp

It basically scans AI-generated content, prompts, website copy, and code snippets for “AI slop” — you know, the usual:

“In today’s fast-paced digital landscape…”
“Unlock your potential…”
“Seamless, game-changing, revolutionary solutions…”
900 words that somehow say nothing
Cursor prompts like “make it nice and modern”
Code that technically works but looks like it was assembled during a caffeine emergency

You paste the mess in, it gives you a Slop Score, tells you what’s wrong, and helps clean it up.

Is this website itself AI slop?
Almost definitely.

Was it built by AI?
No comment

Was it also built by a human pretending to be in control of the AI?
Yes.

So the official positioning is basically:
Built for humans, by AI, by a human, to remove the AI from AI.

I’m still working on it, but the idea is to make something actually useful for people using ChatGPT/Cursor/Claude/v0 every day who keep ending up with copy, prompts, or code that feels… suspiciously mushy.

Would love feedback, roasts, feature ideas, or someone to tell me this is either genius or the most SaaS-brained thing imaginable.

Link: https://www.slopswamp.com/

Maybe it’s just me, but Reddit feels absolutely flooded right now with posts like:

“I built an app in 2 days”
“I made a SaaS with no coding experience”
“AI helped me build a full business”
“Here’s my AI tool that does everything”

The funny part is how many people seem to build the thing first, then post it online basically asking strangers to explain why it’s not useful, not viable, or just another layer of AI slop.

And then there’s the backhanded shilling too. The “I’ve been using this tool to do X and it’s actually really good” posts, only for it to turn out they’re the “dev” behind it.
It feels like we’ve gone from “I have a business idea” to “I built a full platform over the weekend, please knock it down for me” overnight.

Curious how other small business owners see this. Is this exciting, oversaturated, useful, annoying… or all of the above?

On a side note… what’s the most ridiculous AI-built thing anyone’s seen so far?

Happy Sunday all! Not sure if this is the right kind of post for here, but I wanted to shout this from the rooftops/tell someone. And no this isn’t a shameless shill, and I get sceptics are going to hate.

A while ago, I helped someone launch a small cleaning business. Nothing flashy or overcomplicated — just worked with him to get his website built, make the business look professional online, and give him somewhere to send people when they asked about his services.

We’ve been talking and he’s now given up his day job working in a bar, is earning more than he ever has before (May was his best month), and has even started employing other people.

Not taking credit for his success. He’s obviously the one who put in the graft, showed up, did the work, marketing his work locally and built the business.

But knowing I played even a small part in helping him get started gave me a proper warm feeling. One of those little reminders of why working with small businesses can be so rewarding.

Happy Thursday all! Not sure if this is the right kind of post for here, but I wanted to shout this from the rooftops/tell someone. And no this isn’t a shameless shill, and I get sceptics are going to hate.

A while ago, I helped someone launch a small cleaning business. Nothing flashy or overcomplicated — just worked with him to get his website built, make the business look professional online, and give him somewhere to send people when they asked about his services.

He messaged me recently to say he’s now given up his day job working in a bar, is earning more than he ever has before, and has even started employing other people.

I’m not taking credit for his success. He’s clearly the one who put in the graft, showed up, did the work, and built the business.

But knowing I played even a small part in helping him get started gave me a proper warm feeling. One of those little reminders of why working with small businesses can be so rewarding.

I’ve been working as a web developer for a good while now — well before the current AI boom — and I’m still doing it today, just with a different set of tools.

One thing I keep noticing is that there doesn’t really seem to be a huge rise in actual entrepreneurship.

What I do see a lot more of is people being convinced they’re building “the next big thing,” often without a clear problem, audience, or reason it should exist. A lot of it feels like vibe-coded SaaS: polished landing pages, impressive demos, but very little real demand behind it.

For me, AI hasn’t changed the fundamentals at all. I mostly use it as a reference or support tool — a quicker way to sanity-check ideas, speed up boring parts, or explore options. Useful, but not a replacement.

And honestly, I don’t feel like AI is anywhere close to “stealing my job.” The hard parts are still the same:

\- understanding real business problems  
\- making decisions, not just generating options  
\- knowing what not to build  
\- turning something into an actual business, not just a project

If anything, it feels like AI has made it easier to build stuff, but also easier to confuse building with validating.

Curious how others here see it:

- Has AI genuinely changed how you run or start a business, or just how fast you can experiment?

- Do you see more real businesses emerging

- or just more tools and side projects?

Would be interested to hear other perspectives.