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think and usually means one of two things - either the product isnt solving a real pain point or the onboarding is confusing enough that people bounce before experiencing value. I made this…

For early/test users, the best channel has usually been direct conversations, not launches. Find people who already complain about the problem, reply/help first, then ask if they’d be…

Where do/did you get your first/test users? Hey guys, real question here. We have launched our first product about a week and a half ago (soft launch with pretty much no marketing or warmups). So…

I went through the same “this sounds sick on Twitter, let’s build it” loop and burned like a year on ideas nobody was actually begging for. What changed it for me was forcing everything through a…

The manual Reddit phase is underrated and most people skip it. Doing it by hand first actually matters — you develop intuition for what “real pain” looks like versus venting or feature requests that…

The founder of Zignalify posted recently about using AI to scrape Reddit for natural complaints, scaling to $2.3k MRR almost immediately. People treat these subreddits like a massive, unstructured…

This resonates hard. I did the same thing, building stuff that sounded cool, only to realize nobody asked for it. The "actively frustrated right now" vs "sounds cool" distinction is everything, and…

The hard part for me is separating "people complain about this" from "pell change behavior for this." I like that you're looking for repeated pain across communities, but I'd still want one manual…

This seems like the solution to the problem of maximum people bcs we can build something but we dont know what to build We can now find the actual pain points people are facing and build a solution…

I was building the wrong things. So I built a system to stop doing that. When I started looking for my next idea, I had no process. I'd scroll Twitter, see something interesting, get excited, start…

We changed our onboarding and pricing model and went from 9 users to 20+ in 3 days. I made a post here last week about trying to get the first users for Causo and got a lot of genuinely useful…

I got tired of 'we should hang out soon' going nowhere, so I built this app prototype. Is it useful or overthought? Roast it. Does anyone else's friend groups suck at coming up or committing to…

This solves a very real but underrated pain point, especially for indie developers and small teams shipping internationally. App Store localization is one of those tasks that looks simple on paper…

Automating localized App Store screenshots solves a real pain point — indie devs often spend hours tweaking visuals for each language. A local Mac app with direct App Store Connect upload is a smart…

This honestly feels like one of those painful workflow problems that only becomes obvious after someone actually ships products internationally The localization side of app distribution is…

Building tools to solve your own pain points is the best product validation you can get. I spent months manually A/B testing email subject lines before I realized I could automate the whole process…

Smart terminal app idea Have an idea for a smart /agentic AI terminal Where it operates and functions like a terminal but with extra UX functionalities, and overall better UI you will finally hable…

I was tired of manually creating App Store screenshots for 10+ languages, so I built an agent to do that! So I built a small Mac app for myself. You connect your own AI (Claude/Codex), describe your…

This is a better early-stage metric than most vanity signup numbers. If you know the names and situations, your landing page can stop describing features and start describing those moments.…

This hit hard because I'm at the stage *before* this — zero users, just launched my first SaaS. Reading this made me realize I'm actually looking forward to the "know every user by name" phase.…