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No_Computer_1247

u/No_Computer_1247

I told my mom that I’d earned $175 online I think I finally saw pride in her eyes 🥲 I’ve always spent my time developing projects and trying out new ideas. But every time, I hear the same thing: **“Maybe you should find a real job!”** It hurts, and in that moment, when my heart tightens and all I want to do is walk out of the room I keep my head up because I know what drives me. I can’t be understood by everyone, after all. Because everyone has their own journey, and that’s especially true of my parents, who still say “the internet” instead of “internet.” So be it I kept working on my projects, and recently one of them surpassed $175 in revenue! **35 people.** $4.99 for life (we can all agree that’s not my best business plan… 😅) But anyway, I was able to proudly tell my mom about it. And I could tell her expression had changed. I can’t quite explain what it was. But it was like, **“Maybe he’s not such an idiot after all,”** or something along those lines 🥲 In any case, I could tell she was reassured. And you have no idea how good that felt, and how much it boosts morale! Can’t wait to show you what’s next and the other projects coming up! By the way, the project I told you about is [Focus Mode](https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/fcajcgfjhilkdnbnmighhcbogikibkmh?utm_campaign=1310MS), a Chrome extension that lets you focus on a single tab by opening your current tab in an interface without a URL bar, bookmarks, or tabs—and it even works in windowed mode! (I’m sure I’m not the only one with the bad habit of having 45 tabs open every day.) **Thanks, by the way, to everyone who helped make this happen, and with whom I continue to exchange ideas 🙏** Have a great day, everyone! ☀️ And happy building! Alex

Revenue
$175
Users
35

Reddit postProductivity · Browser extension

Focus Mode

A Chrome extension that helps people focus on one tab without a URL bar or bookmarks.

ProblemToo many open tabs make it hard to stay focused.

MOUVAL

u/MOUVAL

Launched my freelance business SaaS on Product Hunt today, after my first month of marketing got exactly 1 signup. Honest numbers inside I build OIO (oio.app), one login for a freelance client business. Projects, tickets, invoices, the money. Freelancing since 2014, got sick of running five apps, built one. Honest numbers: \- First month of marketing before today: exactly 1 signup, from one Discord post \- Launch day today: 11 signups so far, 30 total \- Product Hunt position: #254, near zero votes. Every signup today came from Reddit, Discord, Instagram and YouTube instead \- Paying customers: 1 What I learned so far: 1. Product Hunt without an existing following there does basically nothing. Still worth doing once, it forced me to get every asset, screenshot and line of copy in order. 2. Distribution is the whole game. I spent a year building and a month marketing. Should have been the other way around. 3. Posting where the actual people are beats every launch platform. My one paying customer came from a Discord post, not from any launch. AMA about building solo, the stack (Next.js, Supabase, Cloudflare), pricing, or what I would do differently.

Signups
30
today
Paying customers
1

How they grewDiscord, Reddit, Instagram and YouTube; one signup came from a Discord post

Reddit postProductivity · Website

OIO

An all-in-one workspace for freelance client work, invoices and money.

ProblemFreelancers are stuck running five apps for client work, invoices and money.

So far
1 month

No-Career1273

u/No-Career1273

How I got my first 20 paying customers for my SaaS in 65 days with Google Ads and Organic Reddit Marketing. I have started my side project on June-26 and launch on very next day June 27, Which is fully VibeCoded with white and blue color UI. I just simply clone one feature pdf to link from another big whale, set one Supabase DB for text data and Storage for save pdf. So i just created on small landing page with google login and user able to upload its pdf and share link easily. for next 1 week, i got around 1-2 users only. then i got to know about Google ads and i started with $5 per day budget with India and US Campaign. I started got users like 7-8 users per day. And slowly, I started increase the budget from $5 to $20 per day and i reach to 500 total signups and 9k visitors in total. Then, I started improving ui as user like product. Total 5GB of data has uploaded on Supabase. I migrated storage to CloudFlare R2 and keeping DB at Supabase. Add more tracking like PostHog, GA4 and Clarity. Even, Integrate Google Ads <> GA4 for tracking goals like purchase and signup. After 2 month, August 27 I got 800 signups and now i started post on every social channels like Reddit, X and LinkedIn. And now gradually decrease the ads and i got organic traffic and in total 1.6k+ signups and 60k+ visitors. Also, I got around 20+ users have purchased paid plans after 65 days. And I am still counting and making more strategies. Like how to convert user from free to paid plans. How to make product which really needs users in their daily life. All features in [LinkInSeconds](https://linkinseconds.com) are available based on what user really want and they demand. I continuously tracking user events on analytics, what they uploading such as Image, Video, PDF, docs, csv file, Markdown, Html, (40+ file types supported) etc. Even, they really like to host full HTML website with their custom domains. And there is lot more to we add based on user suggestion and what really needs for real file sharing tool. I am really focusing on big one stop solution with single focus what user really wants. And I will keep building in public and sharing my progress here and X. And I hope one day I will reach to $10k MRR. Thanks :)

Paying users
20+
Signups
1.6K+
Visitors
60K+
Signups
800
after 2 month

How they grewGoogle Ads, Reddit, X and LinkedIn

Reddit postProductivity · Website

LinkInSeconds

A file sharing tool for people who want to upload files and share links easily.

ProblemPeople need an easier way to upload files and share links.

Built in
1 day
So far
65 days

kostasa124

u/kostasa124

Finally created my first SaaS: Connecting multiple links to one URL Sharing multiple long URLs isn't exactly clean. They take up space, get lost in conversations, and when you're sharing something with a client, colleague, team, or even friends, sending a wall of links doesn't look particularly professional. That's why I built WeLinkly. WeLinkly lets you combine multiple links into a single organized Project with its own shareable URL. Instead of sending: • one link to a document • another to a website • another to a video • another to Google Maps • another to a shared resource you send one WeLinkly URL containing everything. But I didn't want it to be just a page full of links. Each link can have its own title and description, so the person receiving it knows what they're opening before they click. Projects are also saved and can be organized into folders, so you don't have to search through old messages, bookmarks, or notes to find them again. How I built it I built WeLinkly as a web app and have been developing it feature by feature rather than trying to build everything at once. A big part of the process has been keeping the creation flow simple while gradually adding things like custom Project URLs, different link display modes, folders, QR codes, collaboration, analytics, and a Chrome extension. One thing I've learned while building it is that adding features is the easy part, keeping the product simple as the feature set grows is much harder. I'm now trying to be much more selective about what I add instead of turning it into a collection of unrelated link tools. Some early numbers So far: • 23 Projects • 10 new users • 0 paying users I've also started testing Google Ads: • 520 impressions • 70 clicks • €1.28 average CPC • €89 spent It's obviously still very early, but I'm sharing the numbers because I think the building/marketing side is just as interesting as the product itself. The goal with WeLinkly is simple: Make sharing multiple links cleaner, more organized, and more professional. You can check it out here: welinkly.com I'm actively working on it and would really appreciate your feedback — both on the product itself and on how I'm approaching the build. What would you improve? Also I would love your feedback on the Google Ads!

Projects
23
New users
10
Impressions
520
Google Ads
Clicks
70
Google Ads

How they grewGoogle Ads

Reddit postProductivity · Website, Browser extension

WeLinkly

A web app for people who need to share several links as one organized URL.

ProblemSharing many links in one message looks messy and hard to follow.

Taniai_

u/Taniai_

I didn’t make $1M in first 45 days. But 39,000 people told me why they wouldn’t trust my SaaS. 10 days ago I posted my $9/year email service here. That post got 39,000 views surprisingly. I was very happy about that for roughly five minutes. Then I started reading the comments. "This is too cheap to trust." "At $9/year, expect spammers." "How are you even covering the hosting costs?" They were all fair lol. When you build a normal SaaS, people worry about wasting $10. When you build an email service, people worry about losing password resets, invoices, customer conversations and years of business history. Cheap gets attention. It doesn’t automatically get trust. So instead of working on another landing page or trying to squeeze more signups out of the traffic, I spent the next week on the boring stuff. Every FranklyMail mailbox can now have its own 2FA, backup codes and separate passwords for mail apps. A company can also require 2FA for everyone on its domain. Adding the 2FA screen wasn’t actually the difficult part. The difficult part was introducing it without breaking the logins of roughly 1000+ existing mailboxes. We started with one of our own domains, found an old account edge case, fixed it, iterated couple time, heavily tested it in our staging environment and only then opened it to everyone. Nobody had to reset their password or suddenly found themselves locked out. I didn’t 10x revenue this week. There is no beautiful MRR screenshot that shows I became millionarie :D But 39,000 strangers showed me the biggest reason they wouldn’t buy, and 10 days later the product is better because of it. Honestly, that made me felt like a win. Yet our paying users exceeded 100 as today which is a huge milestone for me. And best thing is that having feedback from them even without asking that saying it is a simple and nice product and that really made me happy. I started FranklyMail thinking the message was: "Business email shouldn’t cost this much." Now I think it’s: "Affordable email still has to earn your trust." I am curious what’s the harshest Reddit comment that actually made your product better?

Paying users

100+

How they grewA Reddit post got 39,000 views and feedback from comments.

Reddit postProductivity · Website

FranklyMail

An email service for businesses that adds account protection like 2FA and separate passwords.

ProblemAffordable email still has to earn your trust.

So far
10 days

GenJeppo

u/GenJeppo

I got returning users for a problem that was probably already solved. How do I find more of them? I built a very simple photo/file-transfer site because I wanted an easy way to move photos from my phone to whatever computer I happened to be using. Things like getting receipt photos onto my company computer for reimbursement. To be fair, this is probably a problem that has already been solved 500 times, but I thought it would be fun to build my own solution 😆 Still, it now does around 20–100 file transfers a day after being online for a year or so, and some users actually keep coming back. Google Search Console shows about 2.5k impressions with a 5.1% average CTR over the last 27 days, and Analytics shows both new and returning users from all over the world. So apparently there is a small group of people who, despite all the alternatives, actually like this thing. It is free for up to five photos/files per session and I originally charged $9.99/year for unlimited use, which went about as well as expected :D So I just dropped it to $2.99/year. Doubt it will help but lets see. My questions are: - How do I find more of this demographic, because there must be more since I have returning users? - And how would you convert some of them to paid users? The million dollar question I guess? My wife already bought it out of mercy and my kids got it for free, so that growth strategy is exhausted 😂 Feel free to roast or toast the idea. This is definitely not the most important project in the world for me, but I'd find it satisfying if it could at least pay its own $5/month Railway hobby bill. Dont worry though, I'm going to support the free tier for as long as I can afford the railway services for $5/month and the name server fee of $20/year. You can check it out here if you are interested: https://quickbeam.app And if you give me a genuinely good idea - I'll be the judge here 🧑🏼‍⚖️, I'll happily give you a year of Unlimited for free :) That's an $2.99 worth offer no one can refuse i think. Cheers! PS: It also have free AI analysis of the images transferred with one prompt per image but that is hardly used by anyone.

File transfers
20–100
per day
Search impressions
2.5K
last 27 days
CTR
5.1%
last 27 days

How they grewGoogle Search Console; Analytics

Reddit postProductivity · Website

Quickbeam

A photo and file transfer site for people moving files from phone to computer.

ProblemMoving photos and files from a phone to a computer is awkward when you need them on another device.

So far
1 year

ictfs

u/ictfs

Solo desktop app, 55k downloads in a year, two subscription tiers and a one-time plan. Ask me about the parts that did not work

Downloads

55K

in a year

Reddit postProductivity · Desktop

A solo desktop app with subscription and one-time plans

ProblemUsers need a desktop app with flexible purchase options.

So far
1 year

Stock-Comment-61

u/Stock-Comment-61

how a 4 sentence cold email got our tiny biotech saas from 0 to 11 pharma clients in 14 months (long post, lessons at the bottom) using a throwaway since a few of my old coworkers lurk here. so about two years ago my cofounder and I launched a small software tool that tracks biological samples through freezers, shipments and handoffs. think package tracking, but for tissue samples and cell lines. the problem is super real. labs lose samples or break the cold chain all the time, and every lost sample can mean weeks of rework. we had a working product, zero clients and roughly 8 months of runway. what didn't work we started out doing it the "normal" way. linkedin ads, a webinar that literally nobody showed up to, and these long emails listing every single feature we had. I sent something like 300 of those in the first month. got 4 replies. two were unsubscribe requests and one guy asked if we were hiring lol what changed everything one night I was venting to my sister about it, she's a lab manager at a university. she just laughed and said "nobody in a lab reads vendor emails. but if you asked me about the time a courier left our samples on a loading dock over a holiday weekend, i'd write you a novel." that stuck with me. scientists don't care about software. they care about the disaster they're still angry about. so I rewrote everything. the new email was literally 4 sentences: Hi Dr. [Name], quick question from someone who builds sample tracking tools: what's the worst sample loss your lab has had in the last year? I'm not selling anything in this email. I'm collecting stories to understand where things actually break. even a one line reply would help a lot. that's it. no link, no attachment, no logo. results sent it to 180 lab directors and ops managers at mid size biotechs. 41 replied. some of them wrote 3 paragraphs. one guy sent me a photo of a thawed shipping box. I replied to every single one with an actual follow up question, no pitch. after the 2nd or 3rd back and forth, about half of them asked what we were building. that's when I told them. out of those 41 convos we got 17 demos, 6 pilots and 4 paying clients within 5 months. two of those clients referred us to their partners at bigger pharma companies. 14 months in we were at 11 clients and break even. lessons I'd pass on to anyone doing outbound in biotech or IT - ask about their pain, not your product. people love telling war stories - keep it short enough to read on a phone between experiments - actually mean the "not selling" part. if you switch to a pitch in your first reply you lose them - reply to everything personally. the follow up convo is where the trust actually gets built - your best prospects are usually angry about something specific. find the anger and you've found the budget happy to answer questions in the comments

Replies
41
lab directors and ops managers
Demos
17
from 41 convos
Pilots
6
from 41 convos
Paying clients
11
14 months

How they grewCold email to lab directors and ops managers; replied personally and kept follow-ups non-pitchy.

Reddit postProductivity · Website

A sample tracking tool for biotech labs

ProblemLabs lose samples or break the cold chain all the time.

So far
14 months

Longjumping-Touch205

u/Longjumping-Touch205

Pricing my niche farm software: first client pays $400/month and now wants custom sensor integrations I've been building a web app for running farms in aquaculture. My first client used paper logs and a mess of Excel files. Now their day-to-day work lives in one place: stock, feeding, water conditions, losses, plus dashboards and reports. They've been using it daily for about a month and pay $400/month for now/ Now they want more: connect a bunch of different sensors and change the software to work with them. That's real custom development on top of the product. The software is mine. I'm not selling the code, I want to offer it to other farms too. Most potential customers still run on Excel and paper. There are a few competitors, but none of them publish prices, it's all "contact us for a quote", so I have nothing to compare against. Questions: Is $400/month per farm too low, too high or about right for this kind of product? How do I charge for the sensor work? Hourly, a fixed price per integration, or a higher monthly plan? The client pays for these integrations, but I want them to stay part of my product so I can reuse them. How do you usually handle that? Numbers from your own experience are super welcome. Thanks!

Revenue

$400/month

first client

Reddit postProductivity · Website

A web app for running farms in aquaculture

ProblemFarm teams are stuck using paper logs and messy Excel files.

MRR
$400
So far
about a month

chhunsour_seng

u/chhunsour_seng

Small SaaS win today :) Someone found the attendance app I’ve been building organically, created a company workspace, and started inviting their team. No ads or outreach involved. It’s only 2 users so far, but seeing a real company actually start using something I built feels way more exciting than just seeing signup numbers. First little sign that maybe I’m building something people actually need. Website: https://slidesclock.com App Store: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/slidesclock-attendance-app/id6804278786

Users

2

How they grewOrganically; no ads or outreach

Reddit postProductivity · Website, iOS

SlidesClock

An attendance app for teams that need to track check-ins and work in a workspace.

ProblemTeams need a simple way to manage attendance in one place.

educationnext_2022

u/educationnext_2022

We launched Eddie for your Mac’s notch and it already got 3 paid users We launched our Mac app 24 hours ago. We already made 3 sales. This feels unreal. We’ve been building Eddie for the last little while, and yesterday we finally put it out into the world. 24 hours later, three people have actually paid for it. I know 3 sales isn’t a huge number, but when you’ve built something yourself and a stranger decides it’s worth paying for, it feels like the biggest thing ever. So what is Eddie? Eddie lives in your MacBook notch, so the stuff you keep reaching for is already at the top of your screen. You can use it for: Clipboard Notepad Music controls Focus timer Seeing today’s sales And a few other little things If you run coding agents like Claude Code or Codex, Eddie also shows you when an agent is working and lights up when it needs your attention. One of my favourite things we’ve heard so far is that people like being able to leave their agent running while they’re doing something else in the browser, and only come back when Eddie tells them the agent needs them. That’s actually the idea behind Eddie: Don’t keep checking your computer. Let the things you need come to you. We’re still very early and figuring out what Eddie should become. But getting those first three sales has given us a ridiculous amount of motivation to keep building. If you’re a Mac user, I’d love for you to check it out and tell me what you think. Check Eddie here

Paid users

3

24 hours

Reddit postProductivity · Desktop

Eddie

A Mac app that keeps clipboard, notes, music controls and timers in your notch.

ProblemPeople keep reaching for the same tools instead of letting them come to them.

So far
24 hours

Your product here

Sponsored

Put a logo, one line and a screenshot in the stream makers scroll for ideas. It is the size of a product card and appears after every 12 products, on every catalog page.

Sponsored · In-feed slot

Book this slot for $100/week

price
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shown
every 12 products

max parnian

@MaxParnian

DAY 24 BUILDING IN PUBLIC -0 users -638 followers on X -0 mrr It’s crazy how it’s almost been a month building in public.🙂 I promised I’d launch last week then Apple’s dev hurdles hit. Now I have most of it under control. Tomorrow: full run-through for final fixes. 🐛 Hopefully submitting by the end of the weekend, then we scale.🚀 If you want to know what I’m building? Day 23 has the answer. FOLLOW FOR THE JOURNEY AHEAD

Users
0
MRR
0

X postProductivity

An app still in prelaunch final fixes

ProblemThe app is not ready to launch yet.

Built in
1 month
So far
24 days

pc

@pcshipp

For the first time, I reached 2 trials 🎉. I'm finally not at zero trials anymore! - $15 MRR - $11 revenue - 907 active users My app is growing slower than a tortoise 🐢

MRR
$15
Revenue
$11
Active users
907

X postProductivity

A productivity app that tracks trials and users

ProblemTracking early product growth can feel stuck at zero.

MD Waliullah

@engwaliullah

Just crossed 50 downloads my first android app. Next target 500 downloads. Goal: $10 MRR #solofounder #buildinpublic #indiehacker

Downloads

50

X postProductivity · Android

An android app that crossed 50 downloads

ProblemEarly app launches need proof of demand.

Said

@Saltan_PK

Partexia hit $110 MRR today and it has been only a week since we launched on the App Store.

MRR

$110

today

X postProductivity · iOS

Partexia

An App Store productivity app that reports MRR a week after launch.

ProblemProductivity apps need traction fast after launch.

So far
1 week

Blaida

@kedytcom

launched my app 28 days ago $805 revenue 35 active subs $274 MRR $195 away from my first $1k month if I don't hit it, I reset to $0 and start counting again next month will I make it? 👀

Revenue
$805
Active subs
35
MRR
$274

X postProductivity

A productivity app with recurring subscriptions

ProblemProductivity apps need paying users to sustain recurring revenue.

So far
28 days

Yahia Abdelkarim

@YahiaAbdelkari

looking to sell my app $10K mrr, 250K downloads. it's a rlly simple app WITH SO SO MUCH room to grow this was my first so was vibing through marketing spend, app analytics onboarding etc. never used github once, no cpm tracking , nothing. litterally goldmine to make $$ with it. im just done wanna focus on other stuff and uni rn. dm me if interested:) @maubaron @jakecastilloooo @lottsnomad @ErnestoSOFTWARE @marclou @LinoLeighton gents can u plz help 🫡

MRR
$10K
Downloads
250K

How they grewMarketing spend

X postProductivity

An app for sale with simple marketing and analytics

ProblemThe maker is done and wants to focus on other stuff and uni.

Rafa Chacon

@rafachaconn_

I'm 19 and just built my first app ever. One month after launch: $4.3K in revenue and $1.1K MRR. This is the first business where I've actually made real money. Now the goal is to scale it to $10K/ month. Building in public. Let's go 🚀

Revenue
$4.3K
one month after launch
MRR
$1.1K
one month after launch

X postProductivity

A first app that makes money for a young builder

ProblemFirst-time builders want a product that can make real money.

So far
1 month

Nayan

@ndhabarde11

After selling my first app, it took me 8 long months to get here: $200+ MRR on mobile $100+ MRR on web That looked impossible with the first version of the product. Here's everything I did to make it work: - SEO for the website - Built a mobile version of the website that works just like the app - Did keyword research multiple times - Updated the app listing every month and tracked rankings on ASOMobile All of this is organic. I've spent maybe 15 days on ads in total, but that traffic never converts. It was only to boost downloads and get the 1K+ badge on Google Play. Now I'm running ads again to reach the 5K+ badge. Next up: Reddit and TikTok marketing. If you're wondering whether organic works, it does. It's just slow. Bonus: I also made $115 from a Arcstudio which is a macOS/iPad only app.

MRR
$200+
mobile
MRR
$100+
web
Revenue
$115
Arcstudio

How they grewSEO, keyword research, app listing updates, organic traffic

X postProductivity · Website, Android

A mobile and web app that grows with SEO

ProblemThe first version of the product did not seem workable.

So far
8 months

Howard Roark

@chijuano

29. solo founder. building a mobile app from Colombia. numbers so far this month: - trial churn 50% to 30% - one paywall change, nothing else - still under [X] MRR what are you building right now?

Trial churn
50%
this month
Trial churn
30%
this month

Georgios

@georgios_stav

Krasis, first week on the App Store: 12 downloads, 0 trials, 0 purchases. Also found the pricing experiment I built in August was still a draft at launch. Running now. Last day of Shipaton. Small numbers, posted anyway. #Shipaton #BuildInPublic

Downloads
12
first week
Trials
0
first week
Purchases
0
first week

X postProductivity · iOS

Krasis

An app store app for people considering a trial or purchase.

ProblemUsers did not start trials or purchases after launch.

So far
1 week

Abhinav C V

@abhinavcv007

I shipped my app WAY before perfection. It changed so much since I launched it in June August was when I made my first major change in it's design and overall functionality and now we have 8+ paying users and made $150 in sales

Paying users
8+
Sales
$150

X postProductivity

An app shipped early and iterated after launch

ProblemPerfection can delay a useful launch.

So far
since June

GSR

@xgautamsingh

launched my app few weeks ago $6 revenue 7 active subs $3 MRR $94 away from my first $100 month if I don't hit it, I reset to $0 and start counting again next month will I make it? 👀

Revenue
$6
Active subs
7
MRR
$3

X postProductivity

A productivity app tracking subscriptions and monthly revenue

ProblemTracking early app revenue can feel uncertain and slow.

So far
a few weeks

Your product here

Sponsored

Put a logo, one line and a screenshot in the stream makers scroll for ideas. It is the size of a product card and appears after every 12 products, on every catalog page.

Sponsored · In-feed slot

Book this slot for $100/week

price
$100/wk
shown
every 12 products

jack friks

@jackfriks

recently my SaaS hit $45k MRR so to celebrate i added a brand new feature... dark mode!!!

MRR

$45K

X postProductivity · Website

A SaaS with a dark mode feature

ProblemBright interfaces can be hard to use in low-light settings.

Usukhbayar Batbayar

@unoryas

Just hit $1 MRR. 🥹 To the very first person who ever paid for Progress Clock: thank you. Seriously. I can’t put into words how much this means to me.

MRR

$1

X postProductivity

Progress Clock

A productivity app that helps people track progress and stay motivated.

ProblemStaying motivated while tracking progress is hard.

Mehul Fanawala

@MehulFanawala

Hooray! We hit 25! 🥳 Just received another Lifetime Deal for NagMeLater.com. Customer #25 is from India 🇮🇳 25 people have now trusted NagMeLater enough to pay for it. For a product I started building from scratch, that's a pretty special milestone. 25 paying customers. And we're just getting started. 💚🚀

Paying customers

25

How they grewLifetime Deal

X postProductivity · Website

NagMeLater

A reminder tool for people who want to set things aside and get notified later.

ProblemPeople need a way to come back to things later without keeping them in mind.

Vu Nguyen

@VuNguyenDev

It's been 15 days since I added subscription to SmoothCapture $111 Revenue $90 MRR 3 churns Pretty good result so far, with this rate I will hit $1k MRR in about 5 months

Revenue
$111
MRR
$90

X postProductivity

SmoothCapture

A subscription screen capture product for productivity users.

ProblemScreen capture workflows can be hard to monetize sustainably.

So far
15 days

Shalom

@FlamesInTech

Day 11 of building ShureDesk to $10K MRR. I know distribution is going to be one of my biggest challenges, so I'm not waiting until the product is finished to start working on it. I’ve also built a waitlist page to start getting it in front of potential users. Check comments⬇️

How they grewwaitlist page

X postProductivity

ShureDesk

A productivity app with a waitlist page for potential users.

ProblemDistribution is one of the biggest challenges.

mk_builds

@solobuildpro

My first product taught me a painful lesson about building. Beginning of this year, I published my first KDP book: A gratitude journal specifically for overthinkers. I learned KDP from scratch and launched it within a month. Then I made the classic beginner mistake. I thought: “It's published. Now the sales will come.” I even started calculating my potential MRR. 😂 Then… Nothing. No sales from Amazon KDP. I optimized the profile twice. Still nothing. That’s when it clicked: Publishing is not distribution. Building is not demand. I had built something for a specific niche. But I hadn't built an audience or created a reason for people to discover it. The product wasn't the finish line. It was the starting point. That failure still influences how I build today: → Talk to users → Validate the problem → Build → Distribute → Learn → Repeat What’s a product you launched that taught you a lesson the hard way?

How they grewAmazon KDP; optimized the profile twice

X postProductivity

A gratitude journal for overthinkers

ProblemOverthinkers need a way to practice gratitude without feeling generic.

Built in
1 month

vikesh dass

@shadygoneinsane

In 2016, I built Keep Me Out, an app that locks you out of your phone. It passed a million downloads. I ran the 2016 code on my Pixel 8 for these. The last one is Mindful Lock today.

X postProductivity · Android

Keep Me Out

An app that locks people out of their phone to reduce distraction.

ProblemPhone distraction makes it hard to stay off the device.

Nihal

@imNihalN

Day 7 → Road to $10K MRR 🚀 Almost finished building a Mac utility made for you. 🖥️ Superpowers, packed into one icon. ⚡️ Planning to release it soon… Stay tuned. 👀 #BuildInPublic #SaaS #MacApp #IndieHacker #MacOS

X postProductivity · Desktop

A Mac utility that puts superpowers in one icon

ProblemUseful Mac tools are often scattered across different apps.

David

@David_cbolt

A year ago I built my first app. It took 1,723 commits. It was an inventory management app called Stckr. You'd stick a QR code on something you own, scan it, and your phone would pull up the manual, the receipts and when it was next due a service. I worked on it for 81 days. Nearly half the commits were fixes, and I rolled the whole thing back 66 times when something broke. Getting a scanned QR code to open the app on the right item took weeks. Getting Google sign-in to work took 34 commits over two days. Today I could build it in an afternoon. I wouldn't swap those 81 days though. Doing every piece by hand taught me how apps actually fit together. A year later I've launched my first profitable product, and I'm about to hit £1,000 MRR for the first time.

MRR

£1K

about to hit

X postProductivity

Stckr

An inventory app for people who want manuals, receipts and service dates on owned items.

ProblemKeeping track of manuals, receipts and service dates for owned items is messy.

Built in
81 days
So far
81 days

Adi Loloi

@Adi_loloi

I'm Adi. Solo founder building in public, road to $100k MRR. Right now: - Agent Jeremy: rental alerts in Amsterdam &amp; Rotterdam, ~$1K MRR. agent-jeremy.com/nl - Dendedo: iOS app that turns a big goal into today's tiny task, ~$100 MRR. dendedo.com

MRR

$100

X postProductivity · Website, iOS

Dendedo

An iOS app that turns a big goal into today's tiny task.

ProblemBig goals can feel too large to start.

INDIE | KAI

@adityaa_behera

I’m 19. A solo founder. I am doing graduation I built a lot of random things: Barcode scanner Own customer finding leads Pdf generator But every project taught me something. I built a small utility $0 revenue 97 users Would love to connect with builders and tech people!

Users
97
Revenue
$0

X postProductivity

A small utility for productivity tasks

ProblemPeople need small utilities for everyday productivity tasks.

MRR
$0

Moin Channa

@moinchanna

She was deleting photos one by one and snapped at me. So I built the app. Now she says I saved her life. Still zero paid users. Still shipping. #Shipaton #BuildInPublic #indiedev #solodev

X postProductivity

A photo cleaner that makes deleting pictures easier

ProblemDeleting photos one by one is tedious and annoying.

Your product here

Sponsored

Put a logo, one line and a screenshot in the stream makers scroll for ideas. It is the size of a product card and appears after every 12 products, on every catalog page.

Sponsored · In-feed slot

Book this slot for $100/week

price
$100/wk
shown
every 12 products

Carolina Terrain

@carolinaterrain

Founder update. No polish, just what is on my mind. This year I stopped trying to do everything and focused on the business that pays the bills. It paid off. Best year in Carolina Terrain history. Profitability roughly doubled. Bank account has never looked better. Here is what that focus taught me and where we go next. 1. We are moving toward B2B only. The goal is no more residential. Our target customers going forward are HOAs, property managers, and municipalities. The work is stormwater SCM inspection, maintenance, and compliance under StormwaterSCM.com. 2. We are selling the work trucks. Carolina Terrain is moving to a pure subcontractor model. Licensed, insured subs do the installs. We do the diagnostics, the inspections, the project management, and the paperwork nobody else wants to do. 3. The paperwork is the product. Every HOA with a retention pond, a wet basin, or a bioretention cell has maintenance obligations. Most of them keep records in a board member's inbox or a filing cabinet. Then the county asks for proof and nobody can find it. So I am building a stormwater compliance records repository. Inspections, photos, maintenance logs, reports. One place. Ready when the inspector calls. For the first time in company history, Carolina Terrain will have recurring software revenue. 4. The big players are consolidating. Stormwater compliance software is getting bought up and pointed at large municipal utilities. That leaves a gap: the small HOA with two ponds and nobody watching them. That gap is where we live. 5. Now the honest part about $TRN. Nobody is using it. That is on me. I built the ecosystem and then went heads down on the real business. Posting hype was never going to fix that. Real use will. So here is the plan. The token gets one job, tied to real work: Every compliance record in the repository gets anchored to TerrainGuard for tamper-proof permanence. Each anchor burns a small amount of $TRN. Every burn will be public and traceable to a real inspection on a real site. HOAs never touch crypto. They get a report with a verify link. The chain just proves the record existed and was never changed. The token earns attention by doing work, not by me shilling it. 6. January is build month. Winter is the off-season. That is when the repository, the anchoring system, and a public ledger page get built. I am also putting AI agents to work in the business: field photos in, draft inspection report out. Fixed supply: 1.25B. Mint revoked. LP burned. Founder tokens locked on-chain. I want to hear from you: If you sit on an HOA board, how are your stormwater records kept today? If you are in the trades, where would you want a verified record of your work? If you hold $TRN, what should the public ledger page show? Drop it in the comments. I read all of them. Proof over Promises. CA: Dm7FAcF4kzVgsrn6VPEp2C5bN3tGPkydpWaR26wtDR8m #Stormwater

X postProductivity · Website

StormwaterSCM

A stormwater compliance records repository for HOAs, property managers and municipalities.

ProblemStormwater records are scattered across inboxes and filing cabinets when counties ask for proof.

Petr Homoky

@homoky

The Edicek browser extension 1.0 is done. It finally looks like the share sheet in our iPhone app. But nobody uses a feature they don't know about. So, everything after "done": • a 17-second animation of the old popup turning into the new one, made in the video tool I built with Claude Code • a marketing cut of it with the timeline visible • the changelog entry • 22 drafts of one changelog illustration, generated from the Edicek brand system • 20 drafts of a background for the video • this post, an announcement on @heyedicek, a blog post, Reddit posts I planned 3 hours for that list. It took almost 4 days, and it grew by about 10 things I didn't plan, a YouTube video among them. Until now the Chrome Web Store listing had 1 screenshot, a one-line description, 6 users and a single 1-star rating. That's what "shipped" looked like. Everyone says building is easy and distribution is king. I don't buy it. If you can build a product people like, you can learn to distribute it. The other way round is much harder. But a feature without a moment is a line in a changelog nobody opens. I call them marketable moments, and I'm done wasting them.

Users
6
Chrome Web Store
Rating
1-star
Chrome Web Store

How they grewChrome Web Store listing, video, changelog, Reddit posts, blog post, announcement on @heyedicek

X postProductivity · iOS, Browser extension

Edicek

An extension that makes a browser share sheet look like the one in an iPhone app.

ProblemA shipped feature can go unnoticed if people do not see it.

Paras Dev

@ParasDev964445

From a simple idea to 100,000+ downloads! 🚀 ​Incredibly proud of what we're building at Netraksha AI with the 'When?' app. A massive thank you to our 100K+ users who believe in a privacy-first personal timeline assistant. ​#Startup #WhenApp #100kDownloads #BuildInPublic

Users
100K+
Downloads
100K+

X postProductivity

When?

An app for people who want a privacy-first personal timeline assistant.

ProblemKeeping track of your personal timeline can be hard.

tudorbuildsai

@tudorxjh

Hit 11 paying users for BuildNotch. After tomorrow, the price goes up to 3$, then it might go to 4.99$ after the next 50 users. if you want to be productive on your win desktop, have great-looking timers, a place for all your AI apps + usage, projects and many more, get it now for 1.50$👇🏻 buildnotch.app

Paying users

11

X postProductivity · Desktop, Website

BuildNotch

A productivity app for Windows desktops with timers, AI app usage, and projects.

ProblemProductivity tools and app tracking feel scattered on Windows desktops.