Running a small website which provides users some tools which saves their time, currently charging them for per use, they buy a Coins and spend them to use tools, so my doubt is should i continue this way or provide monthly subscription with unlimited use? what's the proven way in long time?
Hey guys, I created a virtual fortune reading website via AI lovable and would like to get some feedback to enhance the site. Do try out the 1 free full reading and compatibility reading per month using the link provided. Share with me your feedback so that I can make improvement to the site. Thanks in advance.
One thing I’ve learned from building a product for myself is that feature creep does not always feel like feature creep.
Every new feature can solve a real problem, which makes it easy to justify adding it. The harder question is whether all those useful features still form one coherent product.
I’ve been writing code for more than 15 years, and throughout that time I created small tools to make my own workflow easier. About three years ago, I started building Arezgit. It was originally a visual Git client, but I gradually integrated tools I was already using separately: database management, test-data generation, API requests, a Pomodoro timer, a task board, and more.
My answer to the scope problem, at least for now, has been to keep Git and the commit workflow as the clear center of the product.
The latest update focuses heavily on that. It can scan files for passwords, API keys, and other secrets locally and without AI, remove code comments in bulk, and optionally review code and generate commit messages using your own Gemini or OpenAI API key. The source code is never sent to Arezgit’s servers.
Most features are free, including visual Git for both public and private repositories. There are paid features, but around 90% of the system is free.
For transparency, I have used AI during development for things such as translations and some front-end work. I am mainly a back-end developer, although I also wrote much of the front end myself. Everything AI-assisted was reviewed several times, and I rewrote anything I did not fully understand or agree with.
This is the biggest project I’ve built, and I’m still improving it constantly.
I would be interested in hearing how other builders think about this: can a product remain coherent while bringing several adjacent tools together, as long as one workflow stays clearly at the center? Or would you split these tools into separate products?
Any honest feedback would help a lot.
I built tryproduck.com/audit, it walks your app like someone opening it for the first time and sends back every bug and confusing bit it hits. Over 650 startups have run it so far.
I want to validate a mobile app concept with real users. Putting a raw app straight onto the App Store/Play Store is practical or like what?
I keep seeing founders say the hard part isn't building the product — it's getting the right people to actually discover it.
For those who have launched recently, what has brought you the most users so far?
Reddit, SEO, X, short-form content, communities, cold outreach, or something completely different?
I'd especially love to hear from founders who started with basically zero audience.
hello,
Right now, I'm using Fable 5 at the medium thinking level as my architect and auditor (through the OpenCode IDE), and GPT Terra at xhigh as my coding agent (through the ChatGPT desktop app).
I'm using both agents through GitHub Copilot (yes, I'm using the Startup Program credits , the "$10k" 😅), but I'm getting pretty close to burning through the credits. I have only $5k left, and I want to choose another good agent to use as my architect and auditor.
My SaaS business is pretty strict, every error in this business can result in a penalty (chargeback) for the user.
Thanks!
Drop your website below and I’ll reply with the strongest content angle hiding on your homepage.
I’m testing a simple idea: a small business website already contains enough context to create useful social content, if the AI understands the real audience, offer, proof, and brand voice.
Comment with:
Your public website URL
One sentence about what you sell
For the first 20 businesses, I’ll personally reply with:
• The clearest hook I see
• One specific social post idea
• The audience I’d target
I’m building Marka around this workflow. You can also try Marka free for a week at https://www.marka.social
I've been developing a platform for learning ASP.NET Core Web API in a more practical way for some time now. The idea is to combine guided lessons, code examples, and challenges. At the end of each challenge, you can submit your solution and receive feedback from an AI that evaluates it according to certain criteria, highlighting what you did well and the areas for improvement.
for now, the lessons use YouTube videos as support. Later, I'd like to create my own content, but first I want to validate the idea.
if you're interested, you can go to the landing page and join the waitlist to be notified when it's available. Thanks!
I’m thinking about building a loyalty platform for small businesses like cafés, restaurants, barbers, etc.
The basic idea:
● Customers get a digital stamp card directly in Apple/Google Wallet
● No separate customer app or account
● Customers show their Wallet card when visiting
● Staff use a simple app to scan it and add stamps
● Businesses get a dashboard to manage their loyalty program, customers, staff and branding
Basically:
Customer → Wallet
Staff → Scanner app
Business → Dashboard
Do you think this solves a real problem? Would you use something like this as a business owner or customer?
Hi all! Recently, I started a Discord community to help SaaS founders promote their products, and it has over 150 members now.
If you want to show what you're building and get some feedback, share it here -> https://discord.gg/sb6AgHZxpT
Your website can look perfect and still be invisible to ChatGPT.
We’ve been checking websites for AI visibility, and one thing keeps surprising us: even established, well-funded companies can fail basic checks that affect whether AI search engines can discover and understand their site.
Before spending money on “AI SEO,” check your foundation first.
Leapd offers the best AI visibility audit for free. In about 10 seconds, it checks the basics and shows you what’s working, what’s broken, and what you should fix.
Enter your URL. See what AI sees.
I'm building VibeHarbor — a community for builders to share what they've actually shipped and connect with collaborators, backers, and early users. The one rule: every product is posted by the person who built it. Real products, real makers.
It's early, and I'm looking for the first cohort of builders to post their work. If you've shipped something — a SaaS, an app, a tool, even a weekend project — I'd love to have it on there.
What you get as an early builder:
• Early visibility to other builders
• Feedback and your first followers
• Founding-member status as the community grows
Post your product 👉 vibeharbor.dev — or reply with a link and I'll help you get set up.
I’m building a small AI tool for Excel and we’re currently in beta.
We recently got our first real group of users, mostly from a Facebook campaign. Right now I’m not really focused on monetizing them. I’m trying to understand how people actually use the product before we spend months building things nobody wants.
So I started going through the requests real users were making.
I expected people to mainly ask for formulas, data cleaning, fixing errors, calculations, charts, etc.
And they do.
But one thing showed up way more than I expected: dashboards.
A lot of different users were uploading an existing spreadsheet and asking for some version of:
“Turn this into a dashboard.”
“Create a professional dashboard with KPIs.”
“Clean this file and make a dashboard.”
“Make something I can present to management.”
That made me question whether I’ve been thinking about the product the wrong way.
Maybe the real problem isn’t:
“I need an AI assistant for Excel.”
Maybe it’s closer to:
“I have this messy spreadsheet. Make it useful, professional and presentable for me.”
And now I’m at that awkward early-stage point where I don’t know how much I should trust this signal.
Do I keep building a broad Excel AI that can handle lots of different tasks?
Or do I take what users are already telling me through their behavior and go much deeper into dashboards, reports and turning raw spreadsheets into something actually useful?
I don’t want to pivot based on one early signal, but I also don’t want to ignore the first obvious pattern coming from real users.
If you were building this, what would you do next?
Would you double down on this use case and test it harder, or keep the product broad for longer?
From lurking to posting, yikes its a scary change! I’ve been building a project called RamenSplit, and I wanted to share to the community what it was. I keep posts and realize i havent contributed anything to the sub yet 😅
For a while, I was trying to figure out how to get leads for projects without spending ridiculous amounts of money on ads. As a small (indie?) builder, it’s frustrating to see how expensive customer outreach can be.
You can have a useful product, but getting it in front of the right people often requires paying for clicks, impressions, or lead lists before you even know whether the audience cares. It feels like one must throw money at an idea without having a guarantee that the right people will see it. At the same time, I kept seeing different “idle-pay” or “passive income” software products promising that people could make money while their computers sat unused on X.
A lot of those products felt fake, or designed more around hype than trust. Most of their websites looked low quality, and while they boasted about hundreds of users It was difficult for me to understand:
- Where the money was actually coming from
- What users were agreeing to
- What data was being collected
- Whether the earnings were real
- Who ultimately benefited
That made me think about whether there was a more transparent version of the idea. I really wished passive income could exist, and wanted to see if I could make something that rewards all participants.
Instead of pretending that people are earning money from invisible background activity, what if users were rewarded for something they are visibly doing, like spending time waiting for an AI response?
That became the starting point for RamenSplit.
The goal is to build something community-sourced for the community:
- Advertisers (indie devs or small startups trying to drive first users) get a more affordable way to reach people actively using AI who would be interested in their products.
- Users who view an ad make a small cut of the revenue the advertiser paid to post the ad (50%-75% split among all viewers)
- A platform that allows advertisers to track metrics and see what they need to work on before they start paying for more diverse ads.
The current product is a Chrome extension that shows a small sponsor card while ChatGPT, Claude, DeepSeek, Perplexity, or v0 is generating a response.
It does not read prompts, responses, page text, or code. It only observes whether the interface appears to be generating. Users explicitly authorize the extension, complete onboarding, and can pause or disable it at any time.
I’ve built the extension, account pairing, user earnings dashboard, advertiser dashboard, privacy controls, offline event queueing, campaign attribution, and production site.
But I’m still very early and nowhere near finished.
There are no impressive traction numbers to share yet. The payout system still needs to be fully activated and tested. There are currently no active production advertiser campaigns. I’m still trying to figure out whether this is a real business or just an interesting idea I got emotionally attached to.
So I’m sharing this before it’s fully polished and released because I want feedback from people who have built websites and platforms with users.
The questions I’m trying to get some help answering are:
Would you install something that monetizes the time you spend waiting for AI?
Does the model feel more trustworthy than typical “idle income” software or methods?
Would a small sponsor card during AI generation feel acceptable or annoying?
Can this actually help small companies get leads without huge advertising budgets?
Is there a real community benefit here, or am I just creating another piece of bloatware?
I’d especially appreciate criticism from people who think the idea is flawed. If you made it this far, congratulations, you have my respect. Apologies about the long post.
I’ve built a research tool (ideafast.pro) that scans communities for recurring problems; the kind of problems people have actually built startups around.
Initially, I offered a free trial that required a credit card. A lot of people signed up, but many churned immediately. The feedback was pretty consistent: “I’m not putting my card in without testing it first.”
So I removed the card requirement and introduced a free tier with one scan. It’s somewhat limited, but every scan still costs me money to run.
That created a different problem.
A lot of people now sign up casually, use their free scan to look for something to build, and leave. Some even create temporary accounts just to scan additional communities.
I understand why users want to try before paying, but as a bootstrapped product, it's hard to sustain giving away expensive usage to people with no buying intent.
I’m trying to find the right balance between letting people experience the product before paying and preventing the free tier from becoming an unlimited research tool.
How would you approach this?
I’m working on a product for founders who want to make better decisions before spending time, money, or traffic on the wrong thing.
The problem I’m trying to solve:
A lot of startup decisions are expensive to validate.
Changing pricing can hurt conversion.
Changing copy can confuse users.
Changing onboarding can reduce activation.
Launching a feature can waste weeks.
Running interviews or A/B tests takes time and often requires traffic you may not have yet.
So I’m building Polyhyle: a simulation platform where you can model a product/business scenario and see how different synthetic user segments might react.
Examples:
To be clear: I don’t think simulated users replace real customers.
But I do think they can help founders narrow down bad ideas faster, generate better hypotheses, and decide what is actually worth testing.
I’d love feedback from other founders:
What’s one startup decision you wish you could simulate before making it?
Built a project management tool for freelancers. Genuinely thought it was good. Clean UI, solid features, priced fairly.
6 months. Maybe 12 signups total. Most of them me testing my own product.
I was ready to kill it.
Last thing I tried before giving up was rewriting the landing page. Not the product, not the pricing. Just the words on the front page.
Old headline: "Project management built for freelancers"
New headline: "Stop chasing clients for updates at 11pm"
47 signups in the next 7 days. Same product. Same price. Same everything.
Nobody was searching for project management software. They were searching for a way to stop feeling like they were always chasing people.
Took me 6 months to figure out that I was selling the tool instead of selling the feeling of not needing it anymore.
i js finished making my saas a couple of weeks ago, since then ive been trying to do distribution,ik its a common problem but its exacerbated by the fact my icp is too specific and i think hard to reach,maybe im wrong but idk,my icp is longform faceless content creators,i dont have much of a budget and even if i did have one id like to get a couple of users first before trying to scale.pls dont give generic advice like go in reddit communities and give advice,im doing that already,js something that works,however difficult it is.
For anyone wondering, the app I'm working on is https://www.AppScout.co.
It helps people discover web and mobile apps from across the internet by showing them one app at a time. People like apps in order to get personalized app recommendations.
If you run a software startup or side project, you can list it for free to get free extra traffic here:https://www.appscout.co/submit/
(Affiliation Disclosure: I'm the sole creator and developer behind AppScout.)