u/rrnaude

How do you find your users? Any number would be nice! 😛

To find out more about the whole vibe coding/ Ai scene, I thought the best approach is to actually build things. I built two things that I personally find useful, interesting, or aligns to my hobbies.

- Maramaps.com -> This allows you to take your strava activities, and get some nice maps to share on the socials. I specifically and intentionally don't yet do anything about printing maps, as there are so many services for this. Although, perhaps thats how to monetise eventually.

- Regadvisor.co.uk -> This is something I really like - you plug in a UK car reg, and it review the specific car's MOT history, gives you some advice. I genuinely think its useful if you shop for cars. I very frequently advise friends on their 2nd hand car shopping missions, and this automates it to some extent.

Making money is a nice goal, but personally I'd just love it it people use these sites, its free.

So my question - without going nuts on instagram ads and spamming people on Reddit, how do you realistically actually find users, in any amount? I also don't want to just spam friends/family to check out my latest tool/website.

- Good news story and update -

Hi everyone! I often avoid cancer related social media for mental health reasons. I promised myself that I'll come share good news when it comes.

Brief history:

- Diagnosed T3N1Mx in November 2024. I had "likely benign" lung lesions, and concerning liver lesions. CEA of 23

- Started with 6 rounds of Folfirinox, ending Feb 2025.

- Anterior resection in April 2025. CEA < 1.7

- 3 Months Capox ending September 2025.

- By this point the lung lesions became "Indeterminate" and the liver "likely benign". The September scans identified a concerning para-aortic lymph node near the surgical site. This was big concern, because it would represent cancer that grew during treatment. The next scan would be January 2026.

- January comes, CEA < 1.7, CT+MRI, liver confirmed clean with the original lesions still there and present, likely hemangioma. They say that the one lung lesion is likely cancer, the other 2 probably scars

- The para-aortic lymph node is determined to be a vascular clip used during the surgery 🤦‍♂️

- February 2026, PET scan confirms the only active site is the one Right Lower Lobe lesion. The MDT settles on Ablation

- I run Paris and London marathons for Bowel Cancer UK, raising £9k, week after London I'm ablated and I have a CT scan the following day

- The lung tumour "grew more than expected", 12mm in Feb, 20mm in April, but ablation is successful and tumour is zapped

I have 2 weeks booked off work, waiting for my results on 15 May, and I decide I'm not going to call and ask for results. Mentally an incredibly tough 2 weeks.

Results come, and other than the mention of the 2 lung scars, everything is clean. "Unremarkable liver, pancreas, kidneys, adrenals", no lymphadenopathy, and importantly "No evidence of tumour relapse".

I now continue being scanned every 3 months. I know this does not necessarily mean cure, long road of monitoring ahead, but we are hopeful!

As it is marathon season, I was looking for a way to share nice looking maps on Instagram. All map sites focus on printing and framing. I just wanted some some sharing, so here you go!

Maramaps.com

I had a CT in January and MRI in Feb. One of the lung nodules that has been present since diagnosis in Nov2024 has grown to 10mm.

During my ablation they saw the nodule has grown to 25mm. Even though the procedure went well, the speed of its growth terrifies me.

I had a follow-up CT but I'll probably need to wait a while for the result.

This disease is tiring!