Quick context so you know this isn't recycled from some youtube guru. I've shipped 8+ products in the last 18 months. My reddit posts have done over 1.5M organic views total and I have never spent a dollar on ads. That turned into thousands of users, paying customers, and running growth for a YC backed company. At 18 lovable invited me to their HQ to demo one of my products to their team. One founder I helped with this exact playbook went from zero to $1.6k MRR in 3 days. Another got 80 users from a single post. My most recent win was 2.3k users in 3 weeks using only reddit.

I skipped college to do this full time, so this is literally all I do. Here's the entire system, nothing held back.

1. Find where your users actually hang out

Most founders post in r/SaaS and r/startups and wonder why nothing converts. Those subs are full of other founders, not your customers. Figure out exactly who your ideal customer is, then find the 3-5 subreddits where THEY spend time. If you're stuck, literally ask claude "where does my target customer hang out on reddit" and it'll map it out for you.

2. Study what goes viral in that specific sub before posting

Sort by top this month, read the top 20 posts, and reverse engineer the titles, formats and tone. Every subreddit has its own culture. A post that kills in one sub dies instantly in another.

3. Accept that nobody cares what you built

"I built X" posts flop because readers are selfish, and honestly that's fair. Every post needs to GIVE the reader something. A story, real numbers, a full guide, a laugh. Your product gets mentioned subtly at most, or only in the comments.

4. The title is 80% of the post

I write 10+ titles before touching the body. Use numbers, they do insane work. "I got 400 signups from one reddit post" beats "how to market your product" every single time. Nail the title first, then write the post.

5. Use the formats that are proven to work

The ones that consistently perform for me: milestone posts (build in public, share your journey with real numbers, people genuinely root for you), receipt posts ("I tried X, here's exactly what happened"), value posts where you give the whole playbook away free (like this one), and humor, which is massively underrated for goodwill.

6. Keep links subtle in the posts.

Safest bet is to drop the links in the comments when someone asks for it. If youwant to get more clickws though, having it in the post body works better. The further up you have it in the post, the moer clicks you would get, but the risk of you getting shown as a promoter increases.

7. The first 20 minutes decide everything

Reddit pushes posts hard based on early engagement. Post tuesday or wednesday morning US time, then live in your comments for two hours. Reply to every single comment, even negative ones. Especially negative ones honestly, a little ragebait keeps the thread alive and reddit counts arguments as engagement.

8. One post is never one post

Winners get adapted and reposted to other subs weeks later. My views didn't come from one viral moment, they came from running this loop over and over for every product.

That's the whole system. None of it is complicated, it's just a grind, and doing the grind while also being the one building the product is what kills most founders. I've felt that on every launch.

Which is why the thing I'm building now is basically this playbook turned into a product. It's called sentrive.

You plug in your product and it spins up marketing agents based on what you're building, they figure out your ICP, where those people hang out, and run the distribution for you. I automated my own job because I've done this loop manually 8 times and I know exactly what it's supposed to look like.

Ask me anything about the playbook in the comments. And if your posts keep flopping, drop your title below and I'll tell you exactly why nobody's clicking it

19, building from sweden

The idea is simple:

A lot of founders are good at building products, but get stuck when they have to explain, position, and market them.

Generic AI tools help a bit, but the output often feels vague because the AI does not really understand the product.

Sitesyn starts with your product URL.

It scans your website, builds a product memory, and uses that context to generate marketing assets like graphics, positioning ideas, and promo videos.

The goal is to help founders turn what they already built into usable marketing without having to start from a blank prompt every time.

sitesyn.com

Would love honest feedback.

Let me start with: Building != Work. You are just avoiding selling and lying to yourself.

I have probably seen this a thousand times. And you also probably have heard it a thousand times.

But for some reason people think it won't apply to them. Not gonna lie, I was no different. Let me tell you from my experience on my previous project.

This is especially hard for technical founders. Building is so easy for us, selling is not.

Its too easy to feel like you are WORKING when you are build. Its a big fat lie you tell yourself. Make no mistake, people raising millions with waitlist page is also a lie.

Build MVP quickly. Then stop. Stop building. Go sell the thing.

So how do I sell my product? How do I get the first customer?

• Straight to the point: You have to do manual work. Lots of it. Few years back cold emails used to work great but nowadays don't even waste time. LinkedIn works better. Twitter also works somewhat.

Next extremely important thing:

• Implement PostHog. Seriously! If you haven't already, do this right now. You need to know what people are doing.

Then talk, talk, talk. Talk to real human not fucking Claude or ChatGPT.

You CAN'T be SHY about this. If you are introvert like me, create a persona in your head. Think you are just acting. Then yap everywhere. Twitter, LinkedIn (yea cringe I know), Facebook (if boomers are your target), Instagram. Everywhere.

And don't use GPT to write to peoples. We can see its LLM and nobody fucking reads LLM bullshit.

Now that I have given you the basics. Next step.

You should be getting at least some traffic if you do the above. Now you need to talk to people who have landed on your site.

Brace yourself. I am about to yap about my product but it is IMPORTANT.

I built this whole thing just to stop founders from failing. So yea. It's HeyZinc

It literally rings your phone and forces you to talk to them when someone is live on your site. No more waiting for demo bookings or emails. Start the conversation first. You likely have to handhold first few users. In the initial MVP, your onboarding is not optimal, few thing might even be broken. So handholding is necessary. So you call and interact with customer, answer their question and basically pitch your product. If you do all this, chances of them converting them is very high.

Okay. You did all this. Got a few customers. How do you scale this now?

I will cover this in next part.

Hey everyone

For the last several months I've been building Xgrowkit, a tool aimed at people who want to grow on X but don't have hours a day to spend on content, scheduling, and replying to comments/mentions.

What it does:

- Learns your writing style and helps you draft posts that sound like you, not generic AI output

- Schedules posts at the right times

- Surfaces mentions worth replying to so you're not digging through notifications

Why I built it: One of my biggest struggles has always been writing.

So I started building XGrowKit.

The goal isn't to replace your voice—it's to help you express it, stay consistent, and join the right conversations without spending hours every day.

It's $29/m, one plan — no upsell ladder.

I just opened the waitlist today: xgrowkit.com

Genuinely here for feedback, not just signups — if the idea sounds useful, terrible, or "this already exists and is better," I want to hear it.

I see the same story in this sub every week. Someone spends six months building, ships, posts a launch thread, gets forty visitors, and concludes the product is bad. The product is usually fine. What is missing is distribution, and most of us treat it as an afterthought because building feels productive and marketing feels like shouting into the void.

Here is the mental shift that changed things for me: marketing is not a launch event, it is a daily habit that starts before the product is done. If you only remember one thing from this post, make it this. One piece of content per day, on one channel, for ninety days, before you judge anything. Not five channels. One. The founders you see everywhere are not everywhere, they are consistent in one place and it creates the illusion of omnipresence.

Choosing the channel matters less than people think, but the logic is simple. If your users are developers, write where developers read, meaning here or on Hacker News or in dev newsletters. If your users are normal humans, businesses, creators or shoppers, short form platforms are the cheapest attention available right now, and you do not need to show your face. Slideshows, screenshots with text on them and screen recordings all work fine faceless.

On the content itself, the mistake I made for months was talking about my product. Nobody cares about your product, people care about their problem. Every piece of content should name a specific pain your user recognizes, in their words, before your product is ever mentioned. "Your churn emails are ignored because they all say the same thing" will always outperform "check out my retention tool". A useful exercise is to write down twenty complaints your target user would say out loud, then turn each one into a piece of content. That is your first month done.

The last piece is expectation management. Weeks one to three will feel like posting into a void, and this is where almost everyone quits. Algorithms need time to figure out who your content is for. My own curve looked exactly like that: a first month where total views barely reached triple digits, a second month of slow movement, and then a sudden spike that came out of nowhere. The curve is not linear, it is flat and then it jumps, and you have to survive the flat part.

For transparency, I am the founder of Cinerads, which automates the short form part of this system by turning a product URL into daily TikTok slideshows. I built it because I could not sustain the daily habit manually. If you want to try it, comment and I will DM you a discount code, but honestly the system above works whether you automate it or grind it out by hand. What I would love from this thread is to hear which channel finally worked for you, because the ninety day rule applies everywhere but the right channel differs by product.

Earlier last month I decided to talk to a few of offline businesses I know in hopes of trying to find a problem I could solve.

One thing that caught my attention was that there is still a majority of the businesses don't have some sort of AI chatbot on their website. I feel it is a very low hanging fruit to capture leads from the website, also, I think there is a growing trend of website visitors expecting some kind of chat experience where they can ask questions. When I probe further, I realised these businesses don't want just a chatbot who can answer questions but they need an AI agent who can also take actions.

For e.g: Gather lead's requirements and sync it to the CRM with notes on next action so their team can plan better.

Taking this requirement, I spent entire month building a simple AI agent tool called Supadesk AI that can not just respond to questions but also can take necessary actions.

Basically, AI agent can be provided with API access of various tools and given instructions on how it use them when responding in conversation. So now the AI agent can trigger Zapier/Make/n8n workflows when a specific scenario.

For instance, Call this tool after visitor has provided their contact details, etc.

I'm sincerely looking to get some thoughts and honest feedback on the tool - Supadesk.ai (use the free trial)

Hey indie hackers!

Like most solo founders, even I subscribed to dozens of micro-SaaS tools, AI APIs, and hosting platforms. A few months ago, I realized we were wasting over $150/mo on forgotten trials and unused seats.

I looked into SaaS spend trackers, but hated that every single one requires Plaid or online banking credentials.

So I built SubNuke (https://www.getsubnuke.com).

How I built it without bank logins:
Instead of scraping bank feeds, SubNuke is a read-only inbox and receipt scanner. You forward your invoice emails or connect a read-only inbox, and it parses billing receipts locally to build your subscription dashboard.

To make it even more useful, I mapped out the cancellation flows for over 500+ SaaS tools so you get direct 1-click cancellation links and pre-written customer support refund scripts.

I just launched our public beta with a 3-day free trial.

Would love feedback from fellow Micro-SaaS builders: How do you currently keep track of your recurring software stack and server expenses?

Hey r/microsaas , this is my first product and my first open-source project, so I'd genuinely value your honest feedback.

The problem I kept hitting: I'd ship code all day, then have to context-switch to write a "look what I built" post — and the switching killed the focus I needed to actually ship. My git log was already proof I was building. It just needed a voice.

So I built git-to-x. You connect a GitHub repo and your X account once.

Every morning it takes that day's commits, renders a designed stat card (commits, additions/deletions, streak), and posts it to X automatically.

There's also a CLI (g2x "shipped dark mode") and an MCP server, so you can post from your terminal — or from Cursor / Claude Code — without leaving your editor.

A few things I focused on:

Trust, since it touches your repo: it's read-only (GitHub enforces it — the app physically can't write or push), and it reads commit stats via GitHub's GraphQL API, so your actual code and diffs never reach the server. It's open source (AGPL), so you can audit it or self-host with your own keys.

Motivation: 8 rotating card designs, plus weekly and monthly milestone cards, so a streak becomes a story worth following rather than a chore.

The model: a free tier (10 posts/month), a 10-day full trial, and a founding lifetime deal for the first 100. Hosted is the easy path; self-hosting is there for anyone who wants it.

It launched today, so I have no traction to share yet — just the product and the reasoning behind it. If you have two minutes, I'd love to know: does the read-only / "we never touch your code" approach actually reassure you, or would you still hesitate to connect a repo? And is "post from your editor" genuinely useful, or a gimmick?

Link (hosted + repo): git-to-x.com

Thanks for reading.

Two weeks ago, one of my friends called me and said he has got a problem.

He wanted to generate a dynamic qr code to print on a t shirt. So, he used some free qr code generator to generate the dynamic qr code and printed it on his t shirt. It was supposed to be a gift for someone. But just a day before his friend's birthday, he casually scanned the qr code, but then the link is broken. Then he found out that the platform he used to generate the dynamic qr code issues only temporary qr codes, and asks for payment for permanent usage. He was asking my help to fix the problem. Of course I couldn't help him, but something strike me. I did some research and found that the problem is real. Almost all qr code generators are utilty tools, and there is no branded and reliable qr platform that users can trust. QR anxiety is a real problem.

So I built QR Egg (qre.gg). It is world's first branded and most reliable qr platform. Any one can generate unlimited static qr codes, and 5 dynamic qr codes for free, that lives permanently on the server. It also provides API's & webhooks for developers. You'll also get complete brand customisation options.

We have also included context aware QR options. A qr code scanned using android can be redirected to different link than that of scanned using ios. A qr code scanned from usa can be redirected to different link than that of scanned using canada. A qr code scanned in the morning can be redirected to different link than that is scanned at night.

Do try out, qre.gg for free and give me your feedback. You can simply add "qre.gg/" before any link in any browser and create the qr code instantly. (For example, qre.gg/example.com/.... or qre.gg/https://example.com/... )

I developed Weather World because I wanted a simpler, more helpful way to stay ahead of the forecast. I truly believe that a weather app should be a tool that makes your life easier, not a source of distraction with ads and confusing menus.

How it helps you: The core of the app is all about visual clarity. I’ve focused on creating intuitive graphs that let you see temperature shifts and precipitation trends at a single glance. Instead of reading through long lists of numbers, you can visualize exactly how your day will unfold. It’s minimalist, lightweight, and built for speed—perfect for anyone who values a clean Android experience.

I’d love your support! Please give it a try and see if it helps your daily routine. If you find it useful, please recommend it to your friends! As a solo developer, your support and word-of-mouth are what help me improve and grow.

In compliance with the community rules, I’ve shared the link via IndieAppCircle. Check it out there and let me know what you think!

Find it here: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.danie.pocasisveta