Most “founders” never launch anything.

They build a project for months, never complete it and eventually scrap the product. Or launch it and get no customers.

Startups are truthfully a numbers game. Even the best founders have hit rates under 10%. Just look at founders like Peter Levels.

So how do you maximize your chances of success?

The honest answer is to increase the number of startups you launch.

I’m going to get hate for this: but you should NOT spend hundreds of hours building a product… until you know for certain that there is demand.

You should launch with just a landing page.

Write a one pager on what you will build, and use a completely free UI library like Magic UI to build a landing page.

It should take you under a day.

Then what do you do?

Add a stripe checkout button and/or a book a demo button.

And then launch. Post everywhere about it(Reddit, X, LinkedIn, etc) and message anyone on the internet who has ever mentioned having the problem you are solving.

Launch and dedicate yourself to marketing and sales for 1 week straight.

If you can’t get signups or demo requests within 1 week of marketing it 24/7... KILL IT and START OVER.

Most “startups” are not winners. And there are only THREE reasons why someone will not pay you, either:

1. They don’t actually have the problem.
2. They aren’t willing to pay to solve the problem.
3. They don’t think your product is good enough to try and pay for.

If people do sign up and check out with a stripe link you simply come clean with a paraphrased version of:

“I actually haven’t finished the product yet, but I’d love to talk to you about the problem you’re facing. I put a sign up link on the website to see if anyone would actually care about my product enough to pay for it”

Then you refund the customer.

This is where I’m going to get hate:

1. It is not unethical to advertise a product you have not finished building.
2. It is not unethical to put a checkout link and collect payments for an unfinished product to test demand… as long as you simply refund “customers”.

When you do eventually get sign ups or demo requests, the demand is proven. Only then do you invest 2 weeks in building a real product.

Do not waste hundreds of hours of your valuable time building products no one cares about.

Test demand with a landing page and check out link/demo request link.

If demand is proven: build it.

If demand isn’t proven: start over with a new idea.

Repeat.

You will get a hit if you do this… eventually.

This is personally how I tested 39 different startups… and killed 37 of them with little to no revenue to show for it.

For context: Of the 2 startups that DID get traction from this strategy:

1. One went on to hit $50M+ in GMV
2. Rivin.ai went on to raise an investment from Jason Calacanis and works with multi-billion dollar e-commerce brands to analyze Walmart sales data.

Stop wasting your time building products no one cares about. Validate. Build. Sell. Repeat.

A few months back I had like 12 different SaaS ideas scattered across Notion docs and honestly no clue which one people actually gave a shit about

You know the drill - everyone says "talk to your users" and "validate first" but like... where exactly are these mystical users hanging out? And what am I supposed to ask them without sounding like a weirdo with a survey

Did what any rational developer would do - ignored the advice completely and just started building stuff

Built two different projects. First one got exactly 3 signups. Second one never even made it past my localhost because I lost steam halfway through

Classic mistake: I was building solutions to problems I had, not problems other people were willing to pay to solve

Then I got curious about using AI differently. Not for idea generation (because that usually spits out generic nonsense) but for actual market research

Here's what I did:

On Claude, I activated the research option and then prompt it to scrape through real user content - Reddit threads, Quora answers, G2 reviews, anywhere people complain about stuff. Told it to focus on one specific area: "cold email personalization problems"

It came back with this insane 3-page breakdown. Real quotes from sales people bitching about how their templates suck, how manual personalization takes forever, how their reply rates are trash

Then I asked it to rate the opportunity 1-10 based on demand vs competition. Got an 8.5 with solid reasoning about why the market gap exists

That was enough validation for me to actually commit, cause the AI was mainly using the researched data as source of truth, not their knowlege :)

Built Introwarm - you upload your prospect list and it generates personalized email openers by checking what they're posting, reacting to, sharing, etc. online

Soft launched it without any fanfare. Got my first paid customer ($29) in week 2 after launch. Now sitting at $2.3k MRR and growing mostly through cold outreach (yes, using my own tool) and posting in communities like this

What actually worked:

• People are constantly venting online about their problems. That's free market research if you know where to look
• AI can synthesize patterns way faster than manually reading through hundreds of complaints
• You don't need perfect validation - just enough signal to know you're not completely delusional

If you're stuck between ideas, try this instead of endless brainstorming: find where your target users are already complaining and let them tell you what to build

Hey I'm a second time founder now and i truly love the work i can create with AI, but also since i am a technical person i can say don't trust ai to build your ur websites or app backend. And now a lot of freelancers are jumping on this trend and costing their clients MILLIONS these v"vibe coders" are the unwanted outcome of the AI era so i advise you to not trust them i know it costs money to hire a real developper but trust me a real Developper or engineer will become an imvestment not a cost.

Update: i love how all of you interacted with this that's why I create r/realdevs for you to just express your opinions on this matter

After 6+ years building SaaS products as a freelancer, here are the stupidly simple features that always get the best user feedback. Nothing fancy, just stuff that works.

• One click templates - Add a "Copy this example" button that pre-fills workspaces. Users hate empty dashboards. Takes 30 minutes to code, doubles engagement.

• Progress animations - Little checkmarks and loading spins so users know their stuff saved. Cuts support tickets by 20% because people can see it worked.

• Smart welcome messages - "Hey [Name], welcome back to [Company]" on login. Users call it premium. Takes an hour, feels personal.

• Google/Apple login - Skip the long signup forms. Email + social login bumps conversions 30-40%. Less friction equals more users.

• Quick win onboarding - "Set up your first project in 60 seconds" flows with templates. Gets users to success fast instead of staring at blank screens.

• Undo buttons everywhere - Let users reverse mistakes without calling support. "Restore deleted" or "Undo last action" saves tons of headaches.

• Keyboard shortcuts - Add common shortcuts like Ctrl+S or Ctrl+Z. Power users love feeling efficient, spreads by word of mouth.

• Auto-save everything - Save drafts automatically every few seconds. Users never lose work, builds massive trust in your app.

• Smart defaults - Pre-fill forms with sensible options instead of empty fields. Reduces decision fatigue, gets users moving faster.

• Status indicators - Show "Online," "Syncing," or "Last saved 2 minutes ago." Users want to know what's happening without guessing.

Each of these takes a day or less to build but gets mentioned in reviews constantly.

We started a note-taking company focused on sales meetings back in 2021. Raised $2M in a pre-seed round. At the time, the space was still fresh, only a handful of players. We rode the early AI wave, even hit $1M ARR at one point.

But over the past year, things have changed dramatically.

Now there are literally 1000+ tools doing the exact same thing. The space is overcrowded. Some are cheaper, some more accurate, some have distribution via big platforms. Even OpenAI is entering the space. It’s become insanely difficult to compete.

Our product just isn’t selling anymore.

And I’m now under pressure from investors to bring in $500K revenue in the next 6 months.

One of them asked: “What’s your moat, beyond just tech?”

And honestly, I’m still trying to figure that out. The only unique asset I see is the meeting data we’ve collected over 4 years. It’s a goldmine of sales calls, but I’m not sure how to leverage it.

So I’m stuck at a crossroads: • Should I double down, find a moat in the current business, and pivot around what makes us unique (maybe the data)? • Or should I stop fighting in a saturated market and start exploring new ideas within the sales domain?

Would love to hear thoughts from fellow founders or operators who’ve been through similar situations. What would you do?

• Everyone wants automation. No one wants complexity.
• Most teams already have a “good enough” workaround. You’re not just solving the problem, you’re replacing a habit.
• Internal tools are way harder to displace than they look from outside.
• Your UX is your onboarding. If they’re confused, they’re gone.
• Every user hates logging in. Make that step magical.
• Real B2B users don’t care about pretty dashboards. They care about decisions.
• Templates > Tutorials. Every single time.
• If it doesn’t integrate with what they already use, it doesn’t exist.
• Enterprise buyers love checklists. Give them security, compliance, ROI in plain English.
• Build for your busiest user. If they can win, anyone can.

I used to think more features = more value.

But it’s actually the opposite. Most users want fewer steps. Fewer clicks. Fewer decisions.

I run an AI SaaS, and for a long time, I was stuck at around $15K MRR with a brutal 19% monthly churn. No matter what I tried, I just couldn’t get past that.

Then a buddy at Klap AI (they’re doing $4M ARR) told me about this cancellation flow they use to reduce churn. Honestly, at first I thought, “There’s no way just adding a few extra steps on cancel will fix my churn.” It felt too simple.

But I decided to give it a shot.

For those who don’t know, a cancellation flow is a series of steps designed to give people reasons to stay instead of cancelling. It could be offering a pause, discounts, support, or just reminding them why the product’s worth it. The whole point: convince them not to leave.

Here’s the exact cancellation flow I built (in 3 clicks with dontchurn.io):

Step 1: User clicks “Cancel my plan”

Step 2: Offer to pause their plan (up to 3 months)

Step 3: Offer a 50% discount for 3 months if they stay

Step 4: Trigger a smart survey with conditional questions:

• If “Too expensive” → Offer 1 free month
• If “Technical issues” → Connect to support directly
• If “Prefer ChatGPT” → Ask “What do you find better?”
• If “Missing features” → Suggest switching to another plan
• If “Other” → Ask for more details

Step 5: Remind them what they’ll lose — saved content, credits, history, etc.

This simple flow dropped my churn from 19% to 11% almost overnight. That helped me push my MRR from $15K to over $35K in just a few months.

If you don’t have a cancellation flow, honestly, you’re losing money.

I regret not doing this earlier.

Would love to hear if you’ve tried something similar or if you have other strategies that helped reduce your churn.

Built a SaaS product. Fully functional. AI-powered content creation, blog posts, social media, brand voice, image generation, scheduling.

Three months later? Zero active users.

Here’s how we did it:

Step 1: Skip validation

Talking to users is awkward. Trust your gut instead.

Step 2: Build everything

Forget MVPs. Go straight to the “all-in-one” platform no one asked for.

Step 3: Avoid all feedback

Feedback slows you down. Stay in the zone. Build what you think people need.

Step 4: Launch with hope

Toss money at ads with zero targeting. Watch bots drain your budget while real users continue not to care.

Step 5: Let the ghosting begin

Some signups trickle in. They open the app, poke around, and disappear forever.

What followed was the obvious-in-hindsight realization: we built something without ever really knowing who it was for, or if anyone truly needed it in the way we imagined.

Now we’re rebuilding. Talking to real people. Stripping away features. Trying to replace assumptions with actual conversations.

But the truth is, time and motivation have already taken a hit. We spent months building, launched to silence, and came uncomfortably close to giving up. And honestly, it’s hard to tell if there’s enough left in the tank for another pivot or if we’re just chasing something that was never there.

If you’re earlier in the process: talk to people first. Validate your idea. Skipping those steps doesn’t save time, it just postpones reality.

If you’ve been through this and found your way out, I’d love to hear how you did it.

Edit:

Short video of the app here - https://www.reddit.com/r/SideProject/comments/1lulfde/built_a_tool_to_automate_blog_and_social_media/

Website - https://stryng.io/

I am selling source code of my SaaS

I’ve built a serious Chatbase competitor called Chatclient.ai, featuring:

• A robust RAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation) framework
• Optimized chatbot response speeds
• Clean and intuitive UX
• File upload, API function calls, image input, and more
• Chatbots integrate with Whatsapp, Slack, Zapier, etc.
• Currently generating $3.5K MRR

I know this platform can be a huge asset for anyone with an existing B2B distribution network, agency clients, or a SaaS customer base — so I’m offering the source code license to only 5 buyers.

What you’ll get:

• Full source code of the platform
• Setup guide and deployment instructions
• AMI image to host your own copy of chatclient.ai
• Support call in case you face issues during setup
• White-label rights: change branding, domain, content, and UI as needed

Who it’s for:

• Agencies looking to offer a powerful AI chatbot builder
• Entrepreneurs wanting to launch their own SaaS product
• Indie hackers with an audience or sales channels who want to skip development time

All you need is your brand and domain — I’ll help you get everything else live.

Book a call: https://cal.com/chatclient/demo

Availability: Limited to 5 licenses, first come, first served
If you're interested, send me a message here on Reddit or email me at [[email protected]](mailto:[email protected])

Let’s build something big.

I'm currently the co-founder & CEO of my startup, but still an indie developer from blood.

I've been in this space since 15 years. I first starting burning CDs for a small charge in ~2008. Then worked as a wordpress developer for neighbourhood stores. My first real project was a used book ecommerce site in 2014.

Since then I've failed multiple times, had some minor and some major successes. Built an appointment scheduling app in 2016 that eventually did $100K+ in total revenue. Also had my own software services agency till 2020 where I built digital twins and EV Charging Software.

All in all - I've worn all hats at some point or the other - software, marketing, sales, development, devops, product, design, GTM & finance.

One thing I have missed all my life is constructive, genuine, feedback. People are usually just too sweet, or just want to roast you for the fun of it. Or worst - just ghost you.

Share your startup here, I'll spend some time using your product and then leave some constructive feedback.

Cheers 🎉

Update: Thank you for the overwhelming response, I've been trying to analyse every project but it's taking much more time than I expected. I will try to check & respond to every project that has been posted until 9th July 5:30AM UTC. For the ones who are late, i'll come back again but will need to get back to work now. Thank you once more! You can always reach out to me on LinkedIn for more feedback.

Hey folks,

We’re MigmaAI: 2 devs, bootstrapped, grinding for a almost a year.

Day 1 we shipped a tab called Projects → push your brand in, crank out on-brand emails.

Later we thought “Projects” sounded coder-ish, so we renamed it Projects / Brands (yeah, ugly slash, we know, it's hard to make changes everywhere in the docs).

Today NewDotEmail by Resend (previously raised $18M) rolls out the exact same flow:

- UI = carbon copy.

- Copy text = same.

- They even kept the confused name split: Projects on pricing page, Brands in docs. 😂

- Their product is still a skeleton, no templates, no analytics, just our copied tab wobbling in the wind.

- Bonus: Their “Save” button still 500s. Ours has been live since March.

Proof (screenshots/GIF): in comments

So I’m half flattered, half ticked:

- Nice to know our roadmap is their shopping list.

- Kinda sucks feeling like I’m PM-ing two products now ours and theirs.

- Hilarious they cloned our mistake too.

Fellow founders: Any advice? Out-ship them? Just curious how others navigate this

Hey everyone, I’m Bo. I run a startup that helps American expats and digital nomads legally move their residency to Florida, saving them money on taxes and simplifying their financial lives.

June was our best month ever—we reached $45K in monthly recurring revenue (MRR), officially crossing the halfway point toward our $1M ARR goal.

What’s especially interesting this month is that we achieved record-breaking revenue despite bringing in 28% fewer new paying customers than usual. A major contributor was the successful launch of our new premium plan, which significantly boosted our average revenue per customer.

One of our biggest challenges right now is optimizing our Google Ads Performance Max campaigns. We’ve been targeting visitors of competitor websites in countries popular with American expats. Still, this approach has led to a surge in low-quality traffic and sign-ups that don’t convert well. We’re actively working to refine this targeting.

Here’s the actual attribution breakdown of our new customers in June:

• Google Ads: 21 customers
• Direct traffic: 18 customers
• Google Organic: 13 customers
• Bing Organic: 2 customers
• DuckDuckGo Organic: 2 customers
• ChatGPT referral: 1 customer

Organic traffic saw interesting changes this month. Our overall impressions doubled and visits grew by 27%. However, Google’s new AI-powered search overviews mean many users now find answers directly within search results, cutting our click-through rate roughly in half. On a positive note, our recently launched interactive tax calculators began generating clicks, achieving a promising 4.5% CTR in their first month.

To diversify our content distribution, we’ve started ramping up our YouTube presence. We hired two freelance editors and plan to produce four long-form videos in July, each accompanied by 3–4 short clips.

We’re also considering launching a free newsletter explicitly aimed at American expats to serve as an additional marketing channel, distribute our content more widely, and build a deeper community connection.

Happy to discuss any of this or answer your questions!

If you want to learn more details and see screenshots, I publish them on my blog and newsletter: https://bohdandrozdov.me/p/june-2025-results

Hey all, we’ve been getting more and more project requests lately from people who started building apps using AI tools like Bolt, Cursor, Replit Ghostwriter, etc. – and then justgot stuck at 80%.

Maybe the backend got messy, maybe auth was a pain, maybe scaling broke everything. We stepped in and helped finish some of these – like, took their AI-generated MVPs and made them actually launchable.

Out of the last few we helped: • 2 apps made it to real users and are doing pretty damn well • some others didn’t survive validation (idea wasn’t strong enough, etc.)

So now I’m thinking: Is this an actual pattern? Like are there tons of folks getting stuck after the AI part? Or is it just a short-term wave?

We’re a dev agency btw – we’ve got a healthy flow of projects for now, but honestly I feel like we’ll need to pivot soon. We use tools like Bolt on a daily basis ourselves, and they’re getting insanely good. It’s clear that the way people build software is shifting fast.

We’re considering launching a service for exactly this (finishing AI-started apps, making them production-ready), so curious if others ran into the same thing.

Hit me up or comment if this resonates.

After ~3 months of building, testing, and promoting my app, I finally got my first paid user!

It might seem small, but that €2 MRR felt like a big win — it’s a huge motivation boost to keep going.

App name: AIdeaVoice (only in App Store currently)

Here are my current stats: • Active Trials: 0 • Active Subscriptions: 1 • Monthly Recurring Revenue (MRR): €2 •. Revenue (last 28 days): €30 • New Customers (last 28 days): 77

I’ve been documenting my journey and learning a lot from the community. Just wanted to share this little milestone with you all.

If you’re also building and want to exchange feedback or support each other, let’s connect!

In the last 45 days, our SaaS went from 0 to 20k MRR.

And while that sounds like the dream, I’ll be honest.

It wrecked my personal balance.

I’m a dad to a 2-year-old. I have a partner I love. I try to stay in shape. And now I’m also leading a company that books over 300 demos a month.

Let me walk you through what that really looks like behind the scenes.

Wake up after 5 hours of sleep.
Reply to Slack before brushing my teeth.
Take a call with a client while my kid screams in the background.
Miss lunch because I’m debugging a lead enrichment workflow.
Push bedtime stories to 10pm because a customer needed a custom signal to close a deal.

I knew things would get intense when we launched but I didn’t expect to lose control this quickly.

It’s a weird mix of gratitude and guilt.

Gratitude because this is what we dreamed of. Clients are excited. The product delivers. We’ve hit product-market-momentum.

Guilt because I’ve been absent. From my kid. From my wife. From my body. I haven’t trained in 3 weeks.

I canceled a trip we had planned months ago.

I’m not complaining. I signed up for this.

But I want to document this phase honestly. Not just the revenue growth, but the emotional cost that comes with it.

If you’re building something and feel like your personal life is barely holding together, you’re not alone.

I know this pace isn’t sustainable.

The next challenge is not just scaling the company.

It’s scaling myself.

Hiring the right people (I'm hiring a SDR right now).

Delegating fast. Protecting what matters.

Because if we hit 1 million ARR but I lose the people I love or my health in the process, then what’s the point?

If you’re in the same situation, let me know how you’re navigating it. I’d love to hear.

Cheers

Hi all- I run an early stage SAAS and here are 5 simple SEO hacks that have consistently returned some results. Before I share these, let me be honest- SEO won't most likely get your first customer. SEO is a long term strategy that is meant to reduce your overall cost of customer acquisition over time. It most likely can't be your only strategy as well. Having said that, here we go

1. Make sure you have a sitemap that indexes all your public pages and and is submitted to Google Search Console.
2. Have an FAQ section on your website. It helps with both SEO and improve conversions on your landing page.
3. Write atleast a blog every week around questions your customers are already searching for on Google. Overtime some will start showing up on Google as a top result hopefully and get you organic traffic. You can use SEO tools like Frizerly to figure out which ones have a balance of volume/competition/difficultly.
4. Spy keywords that is working for your competitors- specifically keywords they are ranking on the first page of Google and try to hijack them by writing content around it. Again you can use SEO tools for this!
5. Crosspost your blogs on all socials like LinkedIn etc to increase backlinks and improve rankings.
6. (Bonus) Use Reddit as a hack: Look for questions on Google, Reddit ranks as a top result, add your comment on these posts and get your team to upvote it to be a top comment. You'd be amazed how many customers you can get like this.

And that's about it. Almost all of these steps can be done using free tools. But if you can afford, I suggest investing in a good all-in-one SEO tool like Frizerly which should allow you to automate a lot of these steps.

Did I miss your favorite hack? Would love to learn below!

I launched the tool less than 48 hours ago and already got almost 300 signups. But I was still a little skeptical if anyone would actually pay for it.

I received a lot of appreciation the tool clearly solves a real pain point for indie hackers. But man, true validation only comes from that first paying customer.

Out of nowhere, I got the notification on my phone and for a moment, I couldn’t believe it. It was exactly the motivation I needed. The best part? The tool itself was the reason for the sale it automatically reached out to the user and closed the deal.

Also, huge shoutout to this community your support has been a big part of this. Thank you all!

Proof: Screenshot

I've been programming for around 2 years now and been serious about building startups for a year, recently hit 3k$ MRR for one of my AI startups in the Ed Tech space. I'm still a student (Computer Science) but eventually I would like to build cool stuff full time. Hitting the MRR goal was a huge confidence boost and it's cool seeing something you built grow and provide actual value to other people.

feel free to ask questions!

I got 70 users in 4 days for my Chrome extension that shows cheaper prices on other stores, all without spending a cent, spamming, or having any big following.

Here's what worked:

Reddit was the biggest driver. I posted on r sideproject and a couple of frugal/tech subs. I was transparent. just said I built something and wanted feedback. No hype, no spam. I shared how it works, added a quick demo, and stuck around to answer every comment.

Twitter helped too. I had no followers, but I tweeted my progress using #buildinpublic and replied to a few people who were actually looking for price comparisons. I also joined two Twitter Spaces and briefly shared what I made surprisingly got a bunch of installs from that.

No ads. No hacks. Just being honest, helpful, and responsive. Let me know if you have any questions!

Earlier this week I completed my 4th acquisition of micro SaaS apps. This acquisition took the total MRR across my portfolio to $6.1k MRR.

My long term goal is to reach $20k MRR. I'm now 31% of the way there.

The opportunity

About 6 weeks ago I came across a listing on Acquire.com that immediately caught my eye. The listing was for a collection of 3 SaaS apps, 1 Slack app, and 2 Monday.com apps. The sellers were asking for $15k USD for all 3 apps.

Since my 2nd and 3rd acquisitions were Slack apps, and I know Monday was growing quickly, I was intrigued.

All 3 apps were making money. The Slack app was making roughly $300 a month, and the Monday apps were doing $258 and $197 in MRR. In total the 3 apps were doing roughly $750 MRR, or $9k ARR. 15k to purchase 9k in ARR is a great multiple and since both the Monday apps were growing consistently month over month, the economics of the opportunity looked fantastic. I would get the majority of my investment back in the first 12 months and it would be difficult to lose money on this deal.

I sent over a letter of intent (LOI) to purchase the apps for $15k and fortunately the sellers accepted it. I got started on my due diligence which took about 2 weeks.

I was lucky that the sellers were two great guys who were very supportive throughout the entire process. During the due diligence I didn’t see any red flags and decided to move forward with the purchase.

After a few weeks of “handover” the acquisition was done and on Wednesday I indicated to Escrow.com that the handover was completed and that the funds should be released to the seller.

So at this point I bet you’re wondering what are the apps that I purchased? You can see all 3 apps at https://www.change1t.com/.

If you're interested in more details on the acquisition, you can read the full post here - https://justinbutlion.substack.com/p/my-4th-saas-acquisition

Let’s support each other, drop your current project below with:

• A short one-liner about what it does
• Revenue: If you're okay with it.
• Link (if you’ve got one)

Would love to see what everyone’s working on! Always fun to discover cool indie tools and early-stage projects.

Here’s mine: OneManDB – A growing database of 1000+ solopreneurs making $10k–$100k/month, with links to their products, socials, and strategies.

Revenue: $1600 ( in last 3 months )

We built a Notion-inspired resume builder that turns your resume or CV into a personal website on a .cv domain (like yourname.cv) and we’re offering it completely free for the first year.

What is HelloCV?

Think of it as a clean, modern alternative to LinkedIn or traditional resume PDFs with way more flexibility and flair.

Just upload your resume, paste your bio or write from scratch. Our AI does the rest, building a mobile-optimized, SEO-ready, recruiter-friendly profile in seconds.

No design, no code, no BS.

What makes it different:

• You get your own personal site (e.g., opeyemi. cv or akshat. cv)
• Inspired by Notion — clean layout, modular blocks
• AI builds your resume site in under 1 minute
• Add endorsements, videos, links, and showcase your work
• Built-in privacy controls (public or private anytime)
• 100% free .cv domain for your first year (yes, we're the official registry partner)

Why we built it:

So many talented folks get overlooked because:

• LinkedIn feels stiff and cookie-cutter
• Traditional resumes are boring PDFs that can’t be searched
• Building a personal site feels like too much work

We wanted to make building your online professional identity as easy as sending a tweet and help everyone show up online in a memorable, discoverable way.

🔗 Try it here (free for the community): https://hellocv.ai

We're launching jobs & portfolios next, but for now, we'd love your feedback:

• Would you use something like this for your resume or freelance profile?
• What features would you love to see next?

Happy to answer any questions and hear what you think. Deep Thanks 🙏

Share your current projects below with:

Short, one sentence, description of your product.

Status: Landing page / MVP / Beta / Launched

Link (if you have one).

What's everyone else working on? Let's support each other and see some cool ideas! 🚀

Mine: JustGotFound - Launch your product for free, for boosting traffic and exposure for your product.

I'm a techie who spent the last year building and launching three different SaaS products, all solo. All were working well (functionality-wise), and now? All 3 were shut down. Not because I gave up or got lazy, but because no one was using them.

I followed the playbook, picked a real problem, built MVP's launched on Product Hunt, Reddit, Twitter, asked for feedback. Tried to start conversations. And every time, after launch? Crickets. Silence. Nothing. It felt like I was starting from zero again, with no audience, no traction, no retention, just building in a vacuum.

What makes it worse is that most of the advice out there skips this part
"Talk to users" => cool man, where do I find them when no one shows up?
“Build in public” => I did that, then deleted most of my posts out of frustration because it felt like yelling into an empty room.

I’m still building. This isn’t a rage quit post. But I’m tired. It’s draining to keep going solo, trying to figure this stuff out in the dark. If you’ve made it past that brutal post-launch silence, how did you do it? What changed? What would you say to someone who’s built three things, put them out there, and still got nowhere?

I don’t want growth hacks or success threads. I want the honest stuff. The painful, messy in-between that no one talks about but most of us go through. Because I know I’m not the only one stuck here.

I wanted extra cash. So I started an AI girlfriend website. It made some money early on. Enough to pay for my Uber eats. But 8 months later I did make anything from my AI girlfriend website. I don’t run ads just grinding IG. But no luck. Any tips on how to grow the site to at least 1000 paying users so I can quit being a loser