I’ve been building a SaaS for a few months and I think it’s ready but I have no idea how to get real user feedback.
Unfortunately none of my family or friends would have use for it 😂 .
Has anyone been through this stage?
How did you find your first users?
i made this instead of doing anything productive with my life. you fill in what you did for your friend, how long it took, how much you suffered, and it calculates exactly how many beers they owe you. there's a "swear word index" slider. it generates a fake PDF invoice from the "High Commission of Buddy Compensation" so you can send it on whatsapp like an absolute psychopath. the whole thing is vibecoded, the css is obviously AI generated and you can smell it from a mile away, there are emojis literally everywhere because AI. its completely free i make zero money from this, i just mass it for the bit. I regret nothing. https://beer-meter.oraclemarin.fr/
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I built it as a pure skill-based arcade game — no complex controls, just timing, physics, and those “one more try” moments.
After struggling with traditional to-do apps, I realized the problem wasn’t only procrastination — it was the feeling of staring at an infinite list of expectations every day.
So I built Kindred.
Instead of managing endless tasks, the app focuses on making a few intentional promises to yourself each day.
The companion exists to make productivity feel more emotionally meaningful rather than mechanical.
Over time, the companion quietly mirrors your habits:
- intentional work strengthens your bond
- overcommitting drains energy
- rest matters
- consistency matters more than perfection
A few things I wanted to do differently:
- offline-first
- no account required
- no ads
- no subscriptions, just a one-time payment
- no social pressure
- no overwhelming setup
- simple UI for beginners, not productivity power users
The app just got approved on the App Store, and I’d genuinely love honest feedback — especially critical feedback.
I’d really appreciate any thoughts, critiques, or feature suggestions. There are also a lot more features and improvements I’m excited to work on moving forward.
App Store:
https://apps.apple.com/ph/app/kindred-kinder-promises/id6768028725
I love seeing what people are building behind the scenes.
If you’re working on a SaaS, mobile app, side project, or even just validating an idea — drop it below.
Share:
-What you’re building
-Who it’s for
-What problem does it solve
-Link (if live)
I’ll go through as many as I can and give honest feedback.
I am building https://builtbyindies.com/ an IndieHackers community to launch products and get feedback
Let’s help each other grow
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I've been building this for 3 years and completely bootstrapped.
No VC funding, and grown to 50k users. Finally launching on Product Hunt on 23rd.
This is a really bug thing for me, and I'm really nervous about things going wrong. I've done all from my end and made sure everything goes smoothly.
Support would mean a lot to us. (I'll drop the link when we go live)
Comment if you want the link delivered directly to your DMs.
Fingers crossed now🤞 Hoping for the best.
A few months ago I realized the hardest part of building solo wasn't lack of ideas.
It was knowing which ideas were real.
Every "AI startup idea generator" I tried gave me plausible-sounding ideas with fake source links. Made-up "users" who don't exist. Fabricated Reddit threads. Vendor blog posts being cited as proof of demand.
I wasn't validating anything. I was just generating slop.
So I built something different.
Pain Radar pulls real founder problems from Hacker News, GitHub Issues, Stack Exchange, and Lobsters. Every idea links back to the actual person describing the problem in their own words. The AI doesn't generate ideas — it clusters real human posts retrieved from official platform APIs. Every source is clickable and verifiable.
Last week it surfaced a card about helping computing instructors integrate AI into their curricula. The source was a real Hacker News post from a University of Illinois CS professor describing exactly that pain, in his own words, written a week earlier.
That's the point. No fabricated evidence. No AI hallucination. Just real people whose problems you could literally cold-email tomorrow.
Free to try at https://ignytes.today
What's the hardest part of validation for you right now — finding real users to talk to, or knowing if the idea is even worth pursuing?
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Generic packing lists are almost always useless. they don't care if it's monsoon season or if you're actually planning to hike — they just give you a generic list of t-shirts and socks. I got tired of manually checking weather patterns and luggage weights every time i moved countries, so i built a dynamic generator.
The tool covers 130+ countries and factors in destination-specific climate data, gender, and specific activities. the logic splits everything into essentials, clothing, electronics, toiletries, health, and carry-on items. it also estimates the total weight of your gear, which is usually the part where people mess up.
It is completely free. I am looking for blunt feedback on the logic for multi-activity trips — specifically if the balance between "essentials" and "other items" feels right for your region.
Everyone talks about how you should design a product that helps you or fixes a personal issue, don't just build something you think people will like.
What was your "Why", and did your product help? Did you end up using your own app?
For me, I spent the last 6 months building an app for my "why", and now I find myself using it every day. Both my partner and I, as well as lots of my friends travel for work. I got sick of my world clock app being messy and full of random cities, so I decided to make an app to help.
You can add your friends, and then app uses your devices timezone to update your city and time, keeping it all clean and automatic.
The person who ended up loving the app the most was actually my mother, which was a great way to test onboarding and features. Turns out when you're the one who made the app everything makes sense, but testing it with someone who's not as tech-literate will humble you very quickly.
If you want to check it out, the app is called TheirTime, and its on the App Store.
Id love to hear if its as useful to anyone else as it is to me!
a customer messages your instagram store at 11:47pm.
they want to know if the hoodie comes in XL. if you have fast shipping. if you can hold it for them.
by the time you wake up and reply, they've already bought from someone else.
this is the problem we kept hearing from merchants using Stacks. so we spent the last 10 weeks building a Messenger Agent, AI that replies to instagram DMs, WhatsApp messages, and Facebook messenger automatically, 24/7.
it reads your product catalog, answers questions, and drafts the order for you to confirm. you stay in control. it just never sleeps.
we're in beta, keeping it tight - looking for 20-30 store owners to test it and give us honest feedback before we open it up.
if you run a store and lose sales to unanswered DMs, drop a comment or join the waitlist here
what's your current system for handling messages after hours?
Four weeks ago, I released Line Cal - an app that let's users put their calendars on a timeline, with notes and an integrated Kanban task board. I've gotten 40 sign-ups since I launched, am supporting 21 languages, and am continuing to iterate on a consistent basis.
I wanted to share a short demo video of adding an item from the backlog directly onto the timeline to showcase some of what this app can do. Users can use it with or without signing (it uses a local-first architecture, with cloud sync for authenticated users).
I'll keep this short because I know everyone's tired of vague income posts. Real numbers, real timeline, nothing held back.
A few months ago I picked up a small pet blog from NicheBlogHub for $199. It had some content, a bit of existing traffic, nothing impressive. I almost passed on it, seemed too cheap to be real. Kept the existing content mostly as-is, and they replaced the Amazon affiliate tag with mine.
Here's where April landed:
First time I've crossed $1k in a calendar month. I genuinely didn't expect it to happen this fast.
The Creator Rewards seems to be calculated on shipping revenue from referred sales and I don't fully understand the formula. I fell just short of one of the milestones but still got $375. Not complaining.
Commissions were actually higher this month than last ($647 vs ~$550 in March). The bonus was lower, but the total crossed the threshold I'd been watching.
Running totals:
Bought a second site this week. Same niche, similar profile. Curious whether the results are repeatable or if April was a fluke. I'll post an update either way soon.
Hey r/SideProject 👋
I'm an indie dev and every time I shipped an app I'd lose a weekend resizing screenshots, translating captions by hand, and re-exporting per device size. The Mac apps that automate this either cost $30/month or watermark the export until you upgrade.
So I built the tool I actually wanted: https://launchshots.app
What it does:
It's a single HTML file. Everything runs client-side — your screenshots never leave your browser. No login, no watermark, no analytics, no tracking.
Open to all feedback — especially from folks who've actually shipped to the App Store. What did your screenshot workflow look like before? What's missing here?
Classic developer mistake and I made it anyway even though I knew better.
we spent three months building before showing the product to anyone. the logic was "let's make sure it's solid first." so we built. and built. and built.
70+ endpoints. search, scraping, outreach, inbox management, analytics, CRM, webhooks, conversation history, profile enrichment, company data, post publishing, comment replies, reaction tracking. you name it, we probably built it.
Launch day came. people started using it.
turns out 80% of usage comes from maybe 10 endpoints. the other 60 endpoints exist. people just don't use them. some have never been called in production. not once.
the endpoints I thought were clever and differentiating? barely touched.
The boring ones I almost didn't bother building because they seemed too simple? used every single day.
the thing that stings: I knew about this pattern before I started. I had read about it. I had nodded along to the "build less, talk to users earlier" advice approximately one thousand times.
and then I built 70+ endpoints before talking to a single user.
I think what happens is that building feels like progress. every new endpoint is a thing you did, a box you checked, a feature you can put on the landing page. talking to users is uncomfortable and inconclusive and slow.
so you keep building because building is the part you're good at.
the fix for our next version: we're shipping with 10 endpoints. if someone needs something else, they ask, we build it in 24 hours, we see if anyone else asks for the same thing. if three people ask for the same feature it gets added to the core. everything else stays custom.
What's the feature you built that nobody actually uses?
Reqflow : pick an architecture (WhatsApp,
Uber, Netflix…), hit play, watch a request flow through it step by step. Click any component for purpose + tradeoffs. Kill the cache and watch the path change.
15 systems, 18 concept guides, a drag-and-drop Builder with AI review, and a timed Interview mode.
Feedback welcome — especially what's missing from the 15.
What has gotten you results so far? Ideally with a £0 marketing budget.
She runs a four-person flower shop. Her entire post-sale follow-up system was a notebook.
The problem: customers would order for a wedding or event, love the flowers, then never come back — not because they were unhappy, just because nothing reminded them to.
I set up an automated email sequence on an open-source workflow tool. It pulls anniversary and birthday dates from her client list and sends personalized reminders before each one. The logic is maybe 20 minutes of actual work. The other 40 minutes I spent cleaning up her spreadsheet.
Three months later she’s attributing $18k in repeat orders to it.
I still don’t fully believe it. But her books don’t lie.
I told you some days ago...Here it is !
Yes ! It's live !
Go tell me what you think of it !
And the socials are already plugged in with https://mypostfactory.com
Take a look:
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https://www.tiktok.com/@my.menu.factory
https://www.facebook.com/mymenufactory
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All on auto-pilot, auto-share a recipe everyday !
You will notice it's only in french because...you know...food and cooking is french so...
Go ahead, tell your (french) friends !