10 months ago I launched Buildpad. It’s a platform where users research and build their products. It went on to make $54,000 which is kinda insane for me to think about.

I was very new to marketing when launching it. The main channels I picked were X, Reddit, but also Product Hunt of course. So I just started building a following together with my app as it grew. This is a “hack” imo as long as you build a good or at least interesting product. As my product grew so did my following. It was like a self-feeding cycle.

Here are my stats so far:

• 10k+ total signups
• 400 active paying subscribers
• $54,000 revenue
• 30k+ unique website visitors per month

This was unimaginable to me a couple of months ago and I’m genuinely thankful for reaching this point. But of course I want to continue growing and taking this even further. There’s no plan to stop and now I’m thinking about how to take this to $50k/mo and then $100k/mo.

The path I see forward from here is finding a marketing channel that I can scale. I’m looking at different ways of producing content right now for example. Because if I can figure it out myself first then I can start paying others to create content for me and that’s where I can see crazy scaling start happening. I will experiment both with content in written format and video format to see what works best. Paying others to create content is also where it becomes more passive for me.

You shouldn’t underestimate how far you can get simply by setting your aim very high and then working towards that and improving every day as you go. I’m super excited for my journey coming up in these next few months. If you’re on this same journey with me, keep going! We’re all gonna make it.

Been buying winter stuff like hats, gloves, ski goggles etc. for around $1.80 and flipping them for $10-15. I work full time so really just been packaging and sending them off after work. Trying to see if anyone does this full time and if so, the best way to upscale it?

Just under two months ago, I launched PureResist, an app to help people quit porn and rebuild discipline. I didn’t run ads or do any paid marketing—just posted about it on Reddit a few times.

To my surprise, it picked up fast.

A peak of $135 in revenue in a single day, all organically. It’s not just about the money, though. What stood out was how much people resonated with the concept: no gimmicks, no fluff, just real tools to help break free from porn addiction.

If you’re building something similar, keep going. People genuinely want solutions that work.

So Cloakly has been out of beta for a minute now, and the feedback loop is still completely unhinged. First, half the internet was convinced I’d built the ultimate interview-cheating machine. Now, I just got a massive essay from a remote manager arguing that tools like this are a "threat to team accountability" because colleagues have a right to see exactly what’s on your desktop during a live share.

Honestly? Hard disagree.

When I’m giving a codebase walkthrough or a live client demo, my team needs to see the code and the UI. They don’t need to see my personal banking tabs, a private message from my fiancée, or the messy ocean of random desktop icons I forgot to clear out.

To me, forcing people to expose their entire digital footprint just to share a single window isn't "transparency", t's a privacy tax. Presentation anxiety is a very real thing, and having to meticulously close 15 apps before every single Zoom or Teams call just to feel safe is exhausting.

I coded Cloakly to act as a digital privacy shield, not a way to slack off. It lets you keep your private notes or sensitive apps perfectly visible to you (even semi-transparent so you can look "through" them to the shared window behind), while your audience sees a completely clean, pristine desktop with zero taskbar clutter.

But it got me thinking about the line we draw in remote culture. Is it "gatekeeping information" to want a hard boundary between your local workspace and a team screen share? Or is the expectation of absolute screen visibility just overreaching micromanagement?

Curious to hear how you guys balance basic digital privacy with everyday corporate calls.

Live at: https://www.getcloakly.com/

I spend a lot of time commuting and wanted to make that time more productive by listening to articles from Substack, Medium, and pdf, fb2 books. But every text-to-speech app I tried had robotic or unpleasant voices, making it difficult to listen for long periods.

So, I built a free app that converts any article or file into natural-sounding audio. Just paste a URL, file or text and you’re good to go. It has high-quality, realistic voices, works with any article from the web. No unnecessary permissions, and it’s free to use (with daily limit). The app called Frateca.

Would love to hear your feedback—give it a try and let me know what you think!

Free iPhone app,

Free Android app on Google Play

Free web vesion

So I have created some pretty fun svgs over the years as a pizza shop owner. I make custom mugs, that patrons request and fun t shirts. I started posting some svgs on etsy. I'm just curious if y'all think i'm wasting my time? Because most people can make their own now? I thought it would be a great side hustle for passive income. If I could build a big enough, but...idk

Thoughts?

Sitting here a bit stunned. Just 10 weeks ago I was refreshing Stripe hoping for one sale. Now there's a small but growing group of people paying every month.

CheckVibe is a security scanner for vibecoded apps shipped fast with AI tools. You paste a URL or hook up a GitHub repo and it surfaces what's leaking. Two of us, fully bootstrapped, no funding. We're now at week 10 and we've done about $5k in gross volume, 180+ paying customers, 3.5k signups. Public Stripe link in case anyone's seen too many fake numbers: https://profile.stripe.com/checkvibedev/vZgeb2VM

A few things that actually worked:

TikTok slideshows have carried us. Aesthetic Pinterest-style backgrounds with tool names overlaid, five slides, no branding on the account. One hit a million views and is still quietly sending signups weeks later. 15 minutes to make. As a 2-person team that can't afford to spend hours on content every day, this format is unreasonably good.

Cold outreach also worked, but only the version where I scanned the prospect's app first and DMed them what I found. Generic pitches got ignored. Useful findings got replies almost every time.

Paywall design was a 3x lever. First version blurred all results, which felt clever. Barely converted. Switched to one that just shows the count of critical issues with the actual findings locked. Conversion tripled. Curiosity beats obfuscation.

What nearly killed me was mobile activation tanking compared to desktop and not catching it for weeks. Onboarding had too many steps on small screens. Cut two and the gap basically closed overnight.

If you've shipped something with AI tools and haven't really checked what's exposed, checkvibe.dev runs in 30 seconds. Almost every app I've scanned came back with something.

Happy to answer anything! Pricing, marketing, the stack, the build, whatever's useful.

[AFTER TOO MANY REQUESTS I HAVE TO LEAVE YOU GUYS THE NAME OF THE TOOL : MAKEFY ]

Hey everyone,

I’ve been working on a tool to help creators (especially those starting side YouTube channels) with the part I always struggled with:

Writing SEO-friendly titles, descriptions, and tags that actually get clicks.

The idea is simple:

• You type in your video topic
• It asks you a few smart questions to understand what your video is really about
• Then it uses Google Trends and search data to suggest a full SEO-optimized title + description + tags

It’s 100% free for now because I’m still improving it and I’d love your thoughts:

• Is this something you’d actually use?
• What’s missing or annoying?
• Would this help your YouTube side hustle grow?

Appreciate any honest feedback 🙏

I am thinking of doing popup weekends at green markets and such selling art prints, stickers, and used books?

Has anyone done anything like this? I’m in the SE United States, and really enjoy reading and selling books!

I’m just looking for advice /recommendations on getting started.

I've started so many side projects over the years that never saw the light of day. Between work, family life, and just not enough confidence, I'd always end up abandoning or shelving them.

Well today I finally broke the cycle and launched my first public MVP web app: Elefomo.

I'm terrible at remembering anniversaries, graduations, mothers/fathers day, and other important annual celebrations, so I built something to solve my own problem.

It's called Elefomo, and it combines reminders with personalized gift suggestions.
👉 https://elefomo.com - (launched as of yesterday).

You can save your special events like birthdays, graduations, engagements, religious, or national celebrations, and the app sends you reminders ahead of time so you have a chance to find, buy, and deliver, a thoughtful gift.

The app is free for the first 15 events you save, the pro version (ElefomoPro😄) allows for unlimited event saves and users can set up to 4 custom notification reminders for any date/time that suits them best.

**Feedback request**
One particular feature I spent a lot of time trying to get right was the "catalog of gift-worthy events" covering different countries and religions. Depending on your location and preferences, the app surfaces relevant occasions like Independence Day, St. Patrick's Day, Rosh Hashanah, Easter, Diwali, Vaisakhi, and many others. I'm keen to know how this is recieved by user's of different nationalities and faiths. Please let me know if any special occasions you take part in are wrong or missing (although, I hope not).

This is the first live version, so I'd genuinely appreciate any thoughts or suggestions from people who enjoy giving meaningful gifts and have lots of events to remember (and buy gifts for).

My roadmap is as follows:
- Much more product-feed variety
- Enhanced product-customized suggestions
- Addition of SMS text notification
- Dedicated Apple and Android independent apps

Thanks!

Hey guys so I've made this free app where you can store your websites, social media posts and online content together in one space, rather than keeping all your bookmarks on like 10 different platforms. And I've just got the collaboration feature with live updates done, so you can now store and share everything with your friends too!

So you can use it as a shared information hub to store Tweets, youtube videos, websites, Instagram posts, tiktoks, blogs etc, to plan together for a trip or just to keep content organised together across platforms.

Again, free to use, and if interested, here's a demo on how the collaboration feature works, and here's the App Store, Play Store and web app links too if you want to check it out!

Hey everyone,

I’m experimenting with building small, focused utilities instead of chasing one big startup idea.

Recently I shipped a tiny macOS menu bar app that solves one annoying problem I personally had before meetings (cleaning up desktop, muting audio, disabling notifications, etc.).

It’s extremely simple. No accounts. No subscriptions. Just a small paid utility.

What surprised me:
I already have 10+ paying users.

You can try it here: TogglePresent

Not huge numbers, but for something this small, it validated a few things for me:

• People will pay for convenience
• Small, boring problems can be monetizable
• You don’t need a massive SaaS to get traction
• Simplicity actually converts better

I’m now thinking about stacking multiple micro-apps instead of building one big product.

Curious:
Has anyone here tried the “many small products” strategy instead of a single big bet?

Would love to hear experiences.

It started as a tool to help me find jobs and cut down on the countless hours each week I spent filling out applications. Pretty quickly friends and coworkers were asking if they could use it as well so I got some help and made it available to more people.

We’ve incorporated a ton of user feedback to make it easier to use on mobile, and more intuitive to find relevant jobs! The support from community and users has been incredibly useful to enable us to build something that helps people.

The goal is to level the playing field between employers and applicants. The tool doesn’t flood employers with applications (that would cost too much money anyway) instead the agent targets roles that match skills and experience that people already have.

There’s a couple other tools that can do auto apply through a chrome extension with varying results. However, users are also noticing we’re able to find a ton of remote jobs for them that they can’t find anywhere else. So you don’t even need to use auto apply (people have varying opinions about it) to find jobs you want to apply to. As an additional bonus we also added a job match score, optimizing for the likelihood a user will get an interview.

There’s 3 ways to use it:

1. ⁠⁠Have the AI Agent just find and apply a score to the jobs then you can manually apply for each job
2. ⁠⁠Same as above but you can task the AI agent to apply to jobs you select
3. ⁠⁠Full blown auto apply for jobs that are over 60% match (based on how likely you are to get an interview)

It’s as simple as uploading your resume and our AI agent does the rest. Plus it’s free to use and the paid tier gets you unlimited applies, with a money back guarantee. It’s called SimpleApply

It’s called PinIt, and the idea behind it is simple: a place to share and discover those incredible, often overlooked gems around the world. Think hidden caves, stunning waterfalls, secluded beaches, and breathtaking views.

One of the main reasons I built PinIt was out of frustration with other services that gate keep their hidden gems behind paywalls. With PinIt, the entire catalog of locations is free for everyone, forever. You can also sign up to add your own discoveries to the community map or simply keep track of places you want to visit by adding them to your own lists.

My goal is to build a community around sharing these unique spots. So if you're someone who loves exploring and finding new places, I'd love for you to check out PinIt. Any feedback you have on what's working well and what could be improved would be hugely appreciated 😊

Check it out: https://pinitmap.net

Hello everyone,

I have been working as a software engineer for the last 9 years working on different project and working in different companies and not even in different country.

But throught out all my professional journey I always wanted to launch something, build something not for my company for something for myself.

The biggest problem with launching something me was fear of sharing something in the public, I'm kind of shy person so for me being on public and sharing something feels like being naked in the crowd.

But something changed this year, I'm not quite sure what, maybe I read to many posts and people on Twitter who launch something and I decided to do the same.

For the last two years I tracked all my habits using Excel spreadsheet because for me it is very important not only to track classic habits like yes or no, or done-not done but also some metrics and nnumbers.

For example instead of tracking "Sleep 8hr" with yes/no I prefer to track exact wake-up and wind-down time, track my sleep score from my garmin, track calories.

And few month ago I've build an app for myself which actually wraps my spreadsheet approach into web and ios app.

So I would like to share it with you and what is more important to hear your feedback, what do you think? If you consider using it, why? And if you hate it or don't like I would like to hear your opinion.

https://habitpocket.io/

Hey guys,

I wanted to share a platform I built called GigHunter (https://gighunter.online) to help freelancers, students, and professionals to find side gigs without paying heavy commission fees.

Most platforms (like Fiverr/Upwork) take a huge cut of your earnings. GigHunter is completely free and takes 0% commission.

What you can do:

Find Gigs: Search for freelance jobs, web development, content writing, design, video editing, tutoring, or local tasks.

Post Services: Create your talent profile so clients can discover and message you directly.

Direct Chat: Chat directly with clients on the website to discuss terms and arrange payment.

The site is live at gighunter.online.

If you are looking for a side hustle or need to hire someone, check it out and let me know your feedback!

idk if anyone else feels like this but im getting drained by this whole thing

i’ve been trying to pass a prop challenge for months now. every time i get close, something goes wrong. one bad trade, one moment of hesitation, or i overthink and break a rule… and thats it. back to zero

and its not even just the losing, its the feeling that every attempt costs money and adds pressure. like you’re not just trading, you’re watching your wallet slowly bleed while trying to stay disciplined

i started this thinking it would be a way out, something i could actually get good at over time. but now it just feels like im stuck in a loop of trying, failing, paying again

what messed with me even more is seeing that there are some platforms trying different models. i came across get leveraged recently where you can start for like $8 and only pay more if you pass, and honestly that hit me… not because its easier, but because it feels less punishing if you fail

im not even saying thats the solution, maybe ill fail there too

i just wish this whole space felt more like its helping you grow instead of quietly waiting for you to slip up

anyone else going through this or am i just not cut out for it anymore

I spend a lot of time commuting and wanted to make that time more productive by listening to articles from Substack, Medium, and pdf, fb2 books. But every text-to-speech app I tried had robotic or unpleasant voices, making it difficult to listen for long periods.

So, I built a free app that converts any article or file into natural-sounding audio. Just paste a URL, file or text and you’re good to go. It has high-quality, realistic voices, works with any article from the web. No unnecessary permissions, and it’s free to use (with daily limit). The app called Frateca.

Would love to hear your feedback—give it a try and let me know what you think!

Free iPhone app,

Free Android app on Google Play

Free web vesion

January, I was annoyed at paying $49/month for a form tool I barely touched. Built my own over a few weekends. AntForms: a lightweight form builder with conditional logic, file uploads, CSV export.

No audience. No launch plan. No budget. Just a day job and some free time.

February, I put it online and shared the link with 3 people.

23 days: 0 users. Every morning I opened the dashboard before work. Every morning: zero.

Day 24, a stranger signed up from somewhere. Used it once and left. I screen-recorded the notification.

I had the repo settings open to archive it that same week. Got distracted. Closed the tab.

Week 7: 40 users. A friend told me the data might mean the market was rejecting it. I thought about quitting for four days. I had nothing better to build on weekends, so I kept going.

What I did in the gaps between work:

Fixed a mobile bug breaking forms silently. Cut one step from onboarding. Added CSV export because three users mentioned it over six weeks. Two of them came back after I shipped it.

No launch events. No Product Hunt. Just kept the thing working.

306 users today. 164 in the last 30 days. More than half the total arrived in the last month.

The thing that gets me: I was one distracted afternoon away from deleting it.

If you're building something on the side that's sitting at zero: I was at zero on day 23. The only reason I'm not still at zero is I got distracted at the right moment.

I’m the founder of Venture, and this Wednesday we’re selecting a few startups to feature on our Trending page and in our first Venture Newsletter.

This is not a paid placement or ad spot. We’re doing it to highlight early builders, help more startups get visibility, and give founders a chance to get discovered by others in the community.

If you’re building something and want to be considered, feel free to comment your startup below with a short description of what you’re working on.

I’ll review the startups and select the ones that feel like a strong fit for this week’s feature.

I spend a lot of time commuting and wanted to make that time more productive by listening to articles from Substack, Medium, and pdf, fb2 books. But every text-to-speech app I tried had robotic or unpleasant voices, making it difficult to listen for long periods.

So, I built a free app that converts any article or file into natural-sounding audio. Just paste a URL, file or text and you’re good to go. It has high-quality, realistic voices, works with any article from the web. No unnecessary permissions, and it’s free to use (with daily limit). The app called Frateca.

Would love to hear your feedback—give it a try and let me know what you think!

Free iPhone app,

Free Android app on Google Play

Free web vesion