r/Indiehackers - Top Weekly Reddit
Where independent developers share their path to success, focusing on bootstrapping, product building, and insightful discussions.
 | Most people haven’t heard of Monkey Taps, but they’re quietly killing it with a portfolio of simple, well-executed apps. Think daily quotes, affirmations, and word-of-the-day stuff - nothing revolutionary. But together, their apps pull in over $1M/month in revenue. What’s wild is how consistent their success is:
No onboarding rating prompts. No flashy features. Just a tight UX, emotional design, and a smart growth engine. A few things stood out to me: 🔁 The Cross-App Flywheel 🌇 Emotional Design > Fancy Features 📈 ASO Over Everything
ASO seems to be their #1 growth lever. Once you’re ranking, that feeds downloads → ratings → higher rankings → repeat. 🌀 The Daily Ratings Loop 📊 Organic + Paid = Moat
Most devs pick one lane (paid or organic). They’re doing both. What I like most is that none of this relies on virality or luck. It’s just tight execution - good design, smart ASO, solid retention, and flywheel thinking. If you liked this breakdown, I share more case studies like this on Twitter. [link] [comments] |
 | Hey! I'm a Computer Vision engineer who spends a lot of time doing research work. For the last 5 years I've been dreaming about the perfect Infinite Canvas app for the research and engineering I do. After two years of work and iteration, I'm excited to announce Ahmni: Infinite Canvas now supports both Infinite Zoom and PDFs on the canvas. The rendering engine is written from the ground up for high performance on Apple Silicon using Metal and Swift. Feel free to reach out with any feedback! App Store Link: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/ahmni-infinite-canvas/id6468889981 [link] [comments] |
 | Hey Reddit, Most money apps fall into two buckets: – They show too little (just transactions) – Or they ask for too much (logins, syncing, ads, tracking) None of them actually made me feel in control of my finances. So I built my own. It’s called MoneyTool — a private, offline-first money app built for clarity and focus. Here’s what it does: -Track everything in one place: expenses, income, budgets, investments, debts -Get the full picture: net worth, savings health, future goals, pension forecasts -Clean UI, no bloat, customizable dashboards -Fully private: no logins, no syncing, no ads -Works offline: your data stays with you It’s live now on Android and iOS, free to try: themoneytool.com/download Would love to get your honest feedback: – What frustrates you about current money apps? – What features do you wish existed? Happy to answer any questions or get into the weeds in the comments. [link] [comments] |
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 | Hey everyone, After a year of inconsistent posting and perpetual writer's block, I built a tool that changed how I approach social media. As a dev, I wanted to build in public and establish a presence on social media. But every time I tried to be consistent, I'd eventually run into these walls:
I sometime end up procrastinating for weeks or months and feel guilty about it. Some stuff I tried:
Finally got fed up and tried to build my own solution. It took a year and 5 different versions to get it right, but now I have something that I'm actually using consistently without feeling like a chore How it works:
The key insight that made this work: all of us have unique stories, experiences and perspectives inside us - we just need help getting it out in a structured way. What used to take me a whole day to create is now just 1-2 hours a week. It's way less pressure to simply brain-dump during the week and then use the app to transform these messy notes and conversation into posts with substance. It's hard enough juggling both building and marketing as a solopreneur so it's nice to have at least one thing be a little easier. If you struggle with the same things I did, give it a try and let me know what you think! It's still rough around the edges and only handles text content right now, primarily for x/twitter, linkedin, bluesky, threads, mastodon. Fair warning: Takes about ~5 min to set up your profile, but it makes a huge difference afterward! App Store: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/conteflow/id6743172168 Google Play: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.conteflow.app (There is a web app version too, currently offline to revamp with the new backend and features) [link] [comments] |
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 | We're two final-year college students, and we just launched FastCut – an AI-based tool to help creators, coaches, and marketers quickly turn long-form talking-head videos into short-form content (Reels, Shorts, TikToks). The goal is simple: FastCut does the following:
We were frustrated with how much time and effort it took to make short videos look decent — so we built this for ourselves, then decided to share it. This is our first real SaaS product, and we're still figuring things out. We're aware there’s a lot to improve, both in the product and on the landing page. So: We’d love your thoughts. Website: fastcutai.co We're here to learn and improve. Thanks for reading! [link] [comments] |
 | Hey everyone! 👋 I’ve been working on a side project, a website that lets you upload a screenshot of your app and instantly generate animated mockup videos. It's an early version (still pretty rough), but the core functionality is live, and I just made it public for the first time! Right now it’s free to try, and I’d really appreciate any feedback on the concept, UX, or features you’d like to see. Link is in the comments 👇 Thanks in advance, and if you're into this sort of thing, I'm happy to share updates down the line 🙌 [link] [comments] |
 | Hey everyone, I’m a broke student who spends way too much time on YouTube and recently got burned by options trading 😅 So I built a pricing engine for youtube videos and made a game surrounding it called YouTube Collect. You get 100 “YouCoins” to start. Invest in real videos. If they go viral, your balance grows. If you hold too long, prices decay (or crash). There’s a global leaderboard, a full pricing engine (likes, comments, channel size, etc), and crash risk based on milestones (100%, 200%, etc). Built it solo. It's live now. Only have like 1 real user. Would love feedback on:
Appreciate you reading :) Note: Not real money lol, just a game :) [link] [comments] |
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 | Hi fellow indie hackers, I’ve been using ChatGPT to analyze my entries and to reflect with. It works great, I really liked it. I’ve managed to gain some good insights about myself and made improvements. However, there are a few problems:
So, I decided to build my own AI journal system. What started out as a scrappy app on my terminal, eventually turn into a full fledge journalling app. And thus, Pensiv is born. What can Pensiv do for you?
I have tried a number of AI-journalling apps, but most of their core experience emphasize on interacting with AI first, journalling second. My vision with Pensiv is to have journalling still be the core of your experience, and having AI to support you for deeper analysis and more insightful reflections. My eventual goal is to have a DeepReserach-like AI Agent that could analyze all your past entries and conversations and give you tailored insights and advice. If this interests you, I’m looking for early beta testers for Pensiv. It’s completely free to use. Sign up here! https://pensiv.me [link] [comments] |
 | Hey indiehackers! Wanted to share something I realized recently: "Our developer brains think of marketing as a non-productive activity" This is the main reason why we sometimes tend to avoid the marketing part and jump on new features/ideas... We need to condition our developer brain to see marketing as productive. Shipping code without users is like writing a book no one reads. Marketing feels unproductive, but it's what makes the work matter. Because a great product without users is just an expensive hobby... [link] [comments] |
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 | A couple weeks ago I launched an LTD (lifetime deal) for my product Refgrow — an embeddable affiliate program for SaaS. It brought in $3,900+ in 14 days 💰 Most of it came from:
Here’s the reality check: I’ve been building in public, iterating fast, and just launched a credit-based Referral Exchange to let SaaS products trade affiliates — which got some buzz. But now I’m fully switching focus to:
If anyone here has advice on converting LTD buyers into long-term users (or lessons from the trenches), I’d love to hear it. Happy to answer anything! [link] [comments] |
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 | Hey folks, I’m a startup founder working on something new — and I’d love your honest take. It’s called Cofo AI — a small AI-powered desk device designed to act like a daily co-founder. Imagine something that talks to you like ChatGPT — but knows when you’re stuck, frustrated, or zoning out — and steps in with support. It helps with coding, productivity coaching, and even emotional resilience (like detecting burnout). For builders, founders, solo-founders, devs, artists or remote workers: Would you want a desk AI like this in your setup?
Also what would be the price you will be willing to pay? Be brutal, honest, curious — I’m not selling anything. Just want to build something that’s actually needed. Thanks in advance! [link] [comments] |
 | Hello everyone, I wanted to share a milestone that feels massive to me, I finally got my first paying users! The tool I made is called CheckYourStartupIdea.com. It basically validates users' startup ideas. Users input their idea, and the software searches through the whole of Reddit for relevant Reddit posts that are either discussing the idea itself or the problem the idea is solving, then it extensively searches through the whole web to find if your startup idea has direct competitors or not. Basically, our tool finds out if your startup idea is original and has market demand. You get a list of the Reddit posts, and a list of your direct competitors (if they exist), and also a comprehensive analysis summary, conclusion, and originality/market demand scores. We launched 3 days ago and have already reached 45 paying users, which is such a big milestone for me. It's not life-changing money, but it's the most motivating thing that’s happened to me in a long time. If you’re grinding on something, please just keep going, that first sale is out there. I would love some feedback on it, so if you'd like to try it out here it is: https://checkyourstartupidea.com [link] [comments] |
 | 🆕 **Edit (April 21):*\* The full system is now available on Gumroad — including all workflows, prompt templates, and database structures. ✅ [Starter Edition](https://short.bons-ai.de/starter) Hey everyone, I’ve been building and refining an automated faceless video production system for the past 3 weeks — completely from scratch, no prior experience with YouTube, video editing, or social media. I started with zero followers, zero views, zero knowledge. Everything is powered by n8n, JSON2VIDEO, Baserow, and a few other tools I stitched together. 🧠 1. Main Orchestrator Workflow
📤 2. Upload Workflow
🎬 3. Intro / Scene / Metadata Generator
💡 4. Automated Idea Generation
📊 5. YouTube Metrics Collector
🐿 6. Special: Reddit Video Scraper
💬 7. YouTube Auto-Reply Bot
💸 8. Affiliate Promo System
🧷 9. Auto-Affiliate Comment Drop
📱 10. Shortform & Longform Video Support
Everything is 100% automated — once a video idea lands in Baserow, the rest is handled by the system. Atm. I'll spend like 60 cents per shorts video! If you’re building anything similar or want to chat about video automation / monetization, happy to connect! Examples: 💡 Feedback, suggestions, or questions welcome! [link] [comments] |
