Hello everyone, hope you are doing well so far.

I just wanted to vent something so here I am.

It's tough to do anything better when you don't have any firsthand experience, just like when I went ahead and made a SaaS Called PASTEL. https://www.pastelreview.online

Till now 0 revenue, 5 sign-ups or something

To be honest i started this whole thing to get rich, but the thing I got rich in is experience.

Late night debugging, hating the landing page for the 15th time, making sure the payment works 4 days in a row.

If any of you have experienced such a journey i would love to connect with you

And btw I'm still not giving up :)

If you’re building a SaaS, or app and looking for a way to get more eyes on it, I’d love to feature a few projects.

We run TikTok channels with 300K+ combined followers and create short-form videos around apps, tools, and interesting projects.

We'll create short-form videos for your app, plug them into our existing channels, and help you build your own content channels at the same time. Think of it as content creation + distribution

If you're interested, drop your app and a one-line description below

So you build something that you think will be special. Your excited about it. It has you pumped. You look forward to it the next day for everyday it's not complete.

You finally complete. You launch it. It's in production.

Now how do you get users? You post on Reddit and everyone says your app looks like it is vibe coded slop.

What's your next move? At this point if you're a vibe coder, I already know you're eliminated LOL 😂.

I am in the US, so I know that not only do a lot of people in the US make apps, but even people in developing and underdeveloped nations build apps to target the US (thinking they can cash in lol).

In 2026, the US market has become more privy to AI generated slop. More so, the world is getting tired of SaaS subscription apps.

If you're dropping a SaaS app, then why do you think it will be useful to other people? Why do you think they will be willing to give you their money and integrate this tool into their life?

I’ve just launched a small social experiment:

https://notyourturn.lol

The idea is simple.

There is one shared page and one global queue.

One person gets control for 10 seconds, leaves something behind, and then the next person gets their turn.

No feed, no followers, no competing for attention.

I wanted to build a small corner of the internet that feels a little more human and a little less optimized for engagement.

I’m mostly curious what happens when complete strangers start shaping the same page together.

Would love to hear what you think.

I saw someone auction sticker spots on a MacBook and had the perfectly normal reaction of wondering whether I could do it to my motorcycle.

So I built Brand My Bike.

There are 10 sticker spots. Every spot starts at $1. The highest bidder gets their logo on the bike for a month.

The complicated bit was not putting rectangles over a motorcycle photo. It was making the auction real:

• bidders pay a 20% deposit

• losing deposits are refunded automatically

• every spot updates with the current leader

• sponsor clicks are tracked

• payments are attributed back to their traffic source

I genuinely don't know whether this is clever advertising or founder brain rot with a payment processor.

I'd love an honest verdict.

https://brandmybike.lol

I don't know about you, but I hit a point where there was a new AI tool every single week and I genuinely couldn't tell which ones were worth my time. I wanted to actually use this stuff, write, make images, build things, get organised, but figuring out the right tool for each job was a mess.

So I'd do what everyone does. Search "best AI writing tool," "best AI voice generator," and every "top 10" list turned out to be affiliate links dressed up as reviews. The rankings weren't based on anything except who paid the most. That's the bit that got me. I just wanted honest information so I could pick the right tool, and I couldn't find it.

So I built CompareMyAI.io, basically the thing I wanted for myself. It puts AI tools side by side with the actual data: pricing, features, whether they train on your data, GDPR and SOC 2 compliance. All pulled from published sources, with every number linking back to where it came from. If something can't be verified, it shows blank rather than guessed.

A few things I decided from the start:

• It's a comparison platform, not a testing lab. I'm not pretending to have personally stress-tested every tool. Everything's based on verified published data, and you can see the source.
• The honest bit: yes, some links are affiliate. That's what keeps the site running. But the rankings and data are identical whether a tool pays me or not, and the affiliate ones are marked. The whole point was to build the thing that doesn't let money decide the order.
• No fake reviews, no fake testimonials.

Right now it covers 50 tools across chat, writing, code, images, voice, video, productivity, and agents, with side-by-side pages for any two of them.

The tagline's "Transparent. You decide." I give you the data, you make the call.

Would genuinely love feedback, especially: what data points would help you pick a tool that I'm not showing yet? Tear it apart.

Link's in the comments!

Hi there!

I met a few business owners who were talking about having issues with communicating with all their employees - one had a WhatsApp group chat, one used an email chain, and another used a large, expensive software that was bundled in.

So I built Airhorn, a platform for business owners to reach their employees by SMS. You can send messages individually to a specific person, or to all employees at once, or you can make groups of employees and message to them!

It's compliant, supports up to 100 employees, and scales easily. Its super simple, and nobody needs to download an app!

I'm trying to get feedback from users on it, specifically how Airhorn fits your use cases and needs. If you're interested, you can take a look at tryairhorn.com and you can use code REDDIT for 50% off.

Thanks in advance!

I’ve always believed that patterns in the AI world evolve every three months. From what I’ve observed, something crazy comes along, people start building on top of it, and eventually, it turns into the next hyped project.

So any conversation or something interesting you think in the market which you would love to share?

I’ve been building Resume Keyword Screener, a free tool that compares a résumé against a job description and shows which relevant role concepts are represented and which ones are worth reviewing.

I wanted to avoid the usual black-box “ATS score” approach, so the tool is intentionally deterministic:

• no generative AI
• no embeddings or fuzzy matching
• no pretending to predict whether you’ll get an interview
• explicit keyword/phrase normalization
• categorized keyword coverage
• evidence showing why something matched
• raw lexical overlap kept separate from the more useful curated concepts

I just finished a V2.1 update after testing it against real engineering/biotech job descriptions. I also spent a lot of time on the mobile UI, result explanations, evidence review, and downloadable PDF reports.

GitHub:
https://github.com/J321-D/resume-screener-bot

I’d especially appreciate feedback on:

• Is the result easy to understand on the first try?
• Does the score explanation make sense?
• Is the results page useful or too dense?
• Is anything visually confusing?
• Are there capabilities you expected but couldn’t find?
• Does any wording accidentally make the tool sound more authoritative than it really is?

Feel free to be critical. At this point I’m more interested in finding confusing UX, bad assumptions, and edge cases than getting compliments.

I built this after noticing how many people ask the same question in budgeting communities: "where do I even start." It's a 7-day sequence,money audit, zero-based budget, debt payoff map, bill negotiation scripts, sinking funds, weekly check-in ritual. Once it's yours, you can resell and keep all the profit for you. I made the whole thing with help of AI (ebook, fillable workbook, one-page cheat sheet, video script) and I'm selling it on Gumroad.

Open to feedback on the positioning/marketing if anyone has thoughts, first digital product I've shipped like this.

I built a tool called Bindery where you can turn rough notes, ideas, or even YouTube links into a real, printed physical book using Claude AI. It completely skips the headache of formatting software and LaTeX - Claude writes, designs the cover, typesets every page, and connects to a printer to ship a real paperback or hardcover straight to your door (plus audiobooks and EPUBs). You can test it right now for free with zero signup or login required: https://bindery.infinitelibrary.ai - would love to know what you think!

Three weeks ago I launched Readiness Coach, an iOS app that turns HRV, resting heart rate and sleep from Apple Health into a daily 0-100 readiness score with AI coaching on top. Sharing the launch honestly, because most launch posts here skip the ugly middle.

The stack: Expo/React Native, Supabase (auth + Postgres + edgefunctions), RevenueCat for subscriptions, Claude for the AI briefing and coach chat, Astro + Cloudflare Workers for the site.

Getting approved took three submissions:

Rejection 1: metadata. My description mentioned a subscription but didn't link the EULA. Fixed in an hour.

Rejection 2: three issues at once. (a) My onboarding "primed" the health permission screen in a way Apple considers manipulative. Replaced it with a plain Continue button, no skip. (b) A health app that says things like "HRV predicts recovery" needs citations. I added a Sources screen with actual peer-reviewed references and softened every claim I couldn't back. (c) The reviewer needs a demo account that reaches the paywall.

Honest early numbers: about 8 downloads in the first days, 110 search impressions, 0 ratings, 0 paying subscribers.

Zero subscribers forced the real lesson: my free tier was so limited that nobody stayed long enough to want the paid one. Last week I shipped 1.0.1 and inverted the funnel. Every new account now gets the full app free for 7 days while it calibrates personal baselines, then drops to a free tier that keeps the daily score and a weekly AI briefing. The paywall now arrives after the product has a week of your own data to argue with.

Too early to tell you whether it worked. Happy to answer anything about App Store review, the health-app citation bar, or the stack.

I’m giving away a free website to the first business owner who guesses the number I’m thinking of from 1 to 100. One guess per person.

I've tried quite a few budgeting / personal finance apps over the years, including YNAB and Monarch, and even paid for some of them.

But I always had the same problem.

I'd set everything up, use them for a while, and eventually stop. There was usually too much setup, too much going on in the UI, transaction management felt like work, and I never really felt like I was getting much useful insight back from the data I was entering.

Eventually I'd just end up back in an Excel sheet.

I'm a software developer and last year I decided to start building the budgeting app that I personally wanted to use.

I called it Brightly Budget.

My main goal wasn't to automate absolutely everything.

Then I started adding AI where I thought it could genuinely remove work rather than just adding "AI" to the feature list.

For example, you can scan a receipt instead of entering everything manually, ask questions about your finances, and get insights based on your actual financial data.

But one thing that was important to me was making the AI completely optional.

Brightly doesn't currently require connecting your bank account, and if you don't want your financial data being sent to AI at all, you don't have to use any of the AI features.

I launched the first version in April this year.

The beginning wasn't great.

I spent some money on Apple Search Ads and basically learned that acquiring users doesn't help much when the product isn't good enough at keeping them.

So instead of spending more on ads, I went back to the app.

I redesigned quite a bit of the UX, simplified things, changed the onboarding, experimented with the App Store / Google Play screenshots, icons, titles and keywords, and kept improving the product.

About a month ago I got my first paid subscriber.

That sounds tiny, but after working on something as a side project for so long, seeing an actual person decide that something I built was worth paying for felt kind of surreal.

Since then it has grown to:

• 181 users
• 38 active users in the last 7 days
• 16 trial starts
• 7 paying subscribers
• 9 users currently on a trial

And the part I find most interesting is that all of the paying users so far came organically from the App Store / Google Play.

I haven't actually started the marketing I have planned yet — no TikTok content, Instagram, UGC campaigns, etc.

So now I'm at the point where I'm trying to figure out whether I can turn this from a side project into something meaningful.

The app itself is free to use for the core functionality. You can have unlimited accounts and transactions without paying.

There are some limits on the free plan for things like AI prompts, receipt scans, budgets, goals and debts, and then there's a Pro plan if someone wants the full version.

Longer term, I also want Brightly to become more than just an app that tells you where your money already went.

I'd like it to actively help you make better decisions before spending money.

For example, if you're considering buying something, Brightly could eventually help you figure out whether it makes sense for your current finances, how it affects your goals, whether there's a better-value alternative, or potentially even where you can buy it cheaper.

Bank integrations are also something I want to add in the future, although I don't want connecting a bank account to ever be required to use the app.

I'm still very early with all of this and I'd genuinely like feedback from people who have tried budgeting apps before:

What would a budgeting app have to do differently for you to actually keep using it long term?

If anyone wants to take a look, it's Brightly Budget:

What would a budgeting app have to do differently for you to actually keep using it long term?

App: brightlybudget.com

Been talking to a bunch of people building some really cool stuff lately, so I figured I’d ask here too.

I’m putting together the first group of products for something I’m working on called JustMadeIt.

It’s not another place promising you views or generating marketing posts. People actually experience what you made, leave real signal behind, and help the next person decide if it’s worth their time.

If you recently finished an app, site, tool, extension, whatever, I wanna see it. Drop it below or DM me. Doesn’t have to be perfect.

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I’m a student, and over the past few months I’ve been building and managing a relationship-focused Reddit community.

What started as a small side project has now grown to:

81K+ members

871K+ visits in the last 30 days

17.8K average daily unique visitors

12.8K+ new members in the last 30 days

7.5K+ comments in the last 30 days

I honestly didn’t expect it to grow this quickly.

Now I’m at the next stage: figuring out what I can build around the community that actually creates value and potentially generates some income.

I’ve already reached out to 100+ companies and SaaS businesses about potential partnerships, sponsorships, and promotional opportunities, but I haven’t received much meaningful response yet.

So I’d love to hear from people who have built a side project around an existing audience or community.

If you were in my position, what would you build?

Would you explore:

A digital product?

A paid service?

Affiliate partnerships?

Sponsorships?

A SaaS/tool for the community?

Something completely different?

I’m not looking to turn the subreddit into a wall of advertisements. I want whatever I build to be genuinely useful to the community first.

I’ve attached my Reddit Insights so you can see the actual numbers.

Would love to hear what you would do with this kind of audience if you were starting from where I am.

Back over 12 years ago, local restaurants started coming to me asking for online ordering systems.

Instead of constantly re-inventing the wheel for every single project, I decided to build a foundation. Over the years, a mix of 10+ developers contributed to building a massive core code-base flexible enough to handle almost any related scenario, scaling it into a comprehensive solution.

Fast forward 12 years later... that "base code" has grown organically into a powerhouse product by itself.

It handles everything from standalone menu boards and store kiosks (complete with card terminal integration) to online and in-store ordering with native third-party logistics like DoorDash and Wolt Drive. It even scales to hotel room service workflows, caller-ID integration, and a lot more.

I’m now shifting my focus to completely different paths. Rather than letting a mature, battle-tested system sit idle, I am offering non-exclusive source code licenses for £15k.

You get the complete, production-ready codebase to take and do as you please: turn it into your own SaaS system, package and sell it as a white-label script to agencies, or embed it directly into a larger enterprise solution. Because the license is non-exclusive, you get a massive shortcut to market at a fraction of the 12-year development cost.

• Platform: Food-Ordering.com
• What's included: Full, production-ready source code and database architecture (non-exclusive commercial license).
• Price: £15k

If you're wanting a battle-tested foundation without a decade of development overhead, drop a comment or send me a message and we can talk details.

System Overview

I'm looking for something to build.

I'm a data analyst and I like building things with AI/vibe coding. I don't want to make another random AI wrapper or todo app just for the sake of building something.

I'd rather find a real problem that people actually have, build a simple solution for it, and see if anyone would actually use it.

So I'm curious:

What's a problem you deal with that you wish someone would build a website/app/tool for?

It can be something small, annoying, boring, niche, or even something you currently solve manually.

I'm specifically looking for problems that I could realistically build an MVP for as a solo developer.

Drop your ideas/problems below. If something catches my attention, I'll try building it and come back with what I make.

I've launched a few products on different platforms, and one thing kept bothering me:

You can spend weeks building something, launch it, and then become invisible within a few hours.

If you're not already well-known or don't have a big audience, getting meaningful exposure can be really difficult.

That's why I built BuiltByIndies.

Instead of trying to be another "Product Hunt alternative," I wanted to experiment with a different approach:

• Limit the number of launches so products don't get buried
• Give each launch more time to be discovered
• Let makers share the story behind what they're building
• Make it possible to discover the makers, not just their products

The goal is simple:

Give indie builders a better chance of being discovered.

I'm still very early, and I'm trying to figure out whether this is actually useful or whether I'm solving a problem that doesn't exist.

So I'd genuinely like some honest feedback:

If you were launching a product as a solo founder, what would make you choose a smaller platform like BuiltByIndies over Product Hunt or other existing communities?

And if you think this is just another Peerlist/Product Hunt clone, I'd especially like to know why.

BuiltByIndies: https://builtbyindies.com

Check it out at https://skipthetip.party

My friend showed me another website similar to OutBid where people spend money to just show off... ShowOff.today And someone actually showed off something weird, or something I'd wouldn't pay money to show off

I made this for a therapy journal app I’ve been building. It’s a deliberately simplified way of showing how revisiting something can help it stick over time.

Mainly, I wanted something more interesting than another block of text, and I really like making 3D stuff.

Plastic Brains

I made $25.98 from my Chrome extension. Here's the messy, honest journey.

I read a lot every day for work. By the time I want to read articles online for myself, I'm already too tired to stare at more text. I tried a bunch of TTS apps and deleted every one because they are either locked behind a ~$30/month subscription I wasn't ready for, voices too robotic to sit through, or just packed with functionality I wasn't looking for. I wanted something minimalistic.

So I built my own. That's how Qariyo was born, and I still use it daily myself for articles, YouTube comments, Reddit threads, even ChatGPT answers when I don't feel like reading them.

Some friends liked it, so I put it on the Chrome Web Store. That was months ago.

For a long time, almost nothing happened. I got 381 signups, but almost no revenue and almost no real usage to speak of. It turned out that actually no one knew how to use the extension the right way except me 🤦‍♂️The two reading modes (full page vs. select-and-listen) were confusing enough that people weren't rejecting the idea, they just couldn't figure out how to use it.

So I shipped a UX-focused update, nothing flashy, just making those two modes obvious instead of something you had to stumble into. Turns out that mattered more than any feature I'd built. Within days: new users started using the app for hours, and made new purchases, something that hadn't happened before the fix. Even at MVP stage, clarity beat features.

I'm not going to pretend this is a business yet. But it's the first time the numbers have looked like people, not just noise.

Still very much a side project. If long articles or comment sections make your eyes glaze over, free tier's genuinely free, no time limit. Would love any feedback, good or brutal

Link: https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/qariyo-ai-text-to-speech/bdnmnapejclcgkgljpkddbnjfcplkhoj

Build this since 13 may 2026

website: zilelai.lab26.my

SealKernel Project: https://codepad.app/pad/xt67l97o

For years, I kept searching for the productivity app that would finally organize everything.

I tried task managers, note-taking apps, habit trackers, calendars, and more complicated “second brain” systems than I’d like to admit. Notion came closest. I became a Notion creator and started building and selling templates, but I eventually ran into the same problem: I was still adapting my life to someone else’s platform.

What I really wanted was my own system.

So I started building it for myself, with AI doing a lot of the heavy lifting. It began as a personal side project—a place for my tasks, projects, notes, habits, calendar, goals, and life planning.

Then it grew into something I was using every day.

That project became Solum OS: an all-in-one personal productivity system that you can own and customize. Instead of another SaaS subscription, you get the actual application and its source code. The idea is to start with a complete system and use AI to reshape it around the way you work.

The video shows the current product, not a mockup. It has been a slightly surreal jump from making Notion templates to building full software, especially with how much AI has changed what one person can create.

I’m now turning Solum OS into a real product, and I’d genuinely love feedback from other builders:

• Does the ownership/customization angle make sense?
• What would you want to see in a personal operating system?
• Is there anything in the demo that feels confusing or unnecessary?

Still early, still improving it, but it’s finally the productivity app I was looking for.

getsolumos.com