Social media and creators

The quietest bug I've shipped: a feature that worked perfectly and was completely invisible 121 installs, zero reviews. Here's what I got wrong. I built a Chrome extension for identifying songs in Shorts and Reels. It's been live about a month, it's free, 121 installs, and it has zero ratings. Zero. My first thought was the usual suspects: the listing doesn't convert, the niche is too small, nobody cares. Then I went and read my own code instead of guessing. The review prompt existed. It was fine, well placed, good copy. It just lived in the extension popup — and the button 90% of my users actually click is a floating button on the video itself. The result shows up in the page. The popup never opens. So the prompt was rendered into a panel that wasn't on screen. 121 installs, 121 people who have no idea they were ever asked. I guess my question is bigger than reviews: how do you audit the path between "user got value" and "user got asked"? Because I shipped a prompt that had never once been displayed, and I only found out because the review count was zero. Zero is a very quiet bug — nothing errors, nothing looks broken, the metric is just a flat line. Has anyone else shipped something that worked fine and was still completely invisible to the people using it?

My SaaS has crossed $1100 MRR in 49 days ​ Edit: I mistakenly wrote MRR, its the net revenue after 49 days Every single user and every single penny gives me the excitement that my 9-5 job has lost When I started building this, I started with my own problems as an Instagram creator to solve all those problems, and how can I make it better? At the same time, I reached out to a few of my creator friends who I thought could be a great beta tester for this product because they might be using a similar product or they might be having the same problem that I had. A few of them enrolled into the beta because I had to wait for around 2-3 months to get all the approvals from Meta. As I am using official Instagram APIs for every feature that we are building on this platform, I had enough time to do the market research to work on SEO to do the initial analysis of what my app should be after it's been fully launched, and then I was constantly in touch with all the beta testers to gather their feedback, their feature requests, and their issues that they are facing. 49 days later we are at 800+ users with 13+ paid users. The starting spike in the graph that you see is the day of the launch when I had three lifetime deals, and the later graphs were a couple of yearly deals being sold, and now I am getting one paid user on every other day for the past few days, which is great. Most of the traffic is coming from ChatGPT and my building in public on X and some from Instagram. But SEO has been great help so far. I've started doing the public outreach using Instagram DMs and X. Let's see how it goes Sometimes we just overcomplicate things in our minds, thinking, "Why would someone want this product?" We have to stop thinking, and we start asking customer what would want in a product to pay for it. And that changes the whole game trustmrr link: https://trustmrr.com/startup/reeldrop

How they grewChatGPT, building in public on X, Instagram, SEO, Instagram DMs

ImNotAVirus

@ImNotAV1rus

Getting to 1,000 followers suddenly feels possible. Getting one person to pay for my apps still doesn't 😅 My last 3-month challenge ended at $0 MRR New one: 30 days to find my first paying customer and hit 1,000 followers. Maybe 1,200 if the account keeps growing like this 🚀 x.com/ImNotAV1rus/st…

Taras

@tarasshyn

RedReplier just hit $300 MRR 🎉 While I'm preoccupied with AdaptlyPost's AppSumo release, RedReplier is quietly making an absolute comeback

Scott Simson

@imscottsimson

For 7 years I have been building my YouTube agency on a retainer model. $5k-$10k per client...great MRR. We built it to multi-seven figures. ...but I was tired of blowing up channels and not participating in the growth. We switched to a performance based model a few months ago and this happened... Our channels blew up. Of course we take the risk in the beginning, but the back end is so much more lucrative and our clients become partners. We launched this channel on May 13th 2026. It now pays me 8x the amount we used to charge in monthly retainers. If you're truly good at what you do, performance based is the way to go. If you have a successful YouTube channel and you want us to make it more successful for a cut of the growth, hit me up.

Serg

@karakhanyanS

There is more today, blogr passed $1,000/MRR

Alec Kremins

@aleckrem

August 4th, 2025: I got fired from beehiiv. August 6th, 2025: I found out I was going to be a dad. So I had two options: find another job, or bet on myself at the worst possible time. I bet. I posted about getting fired 20 minutes after it happened. It got 100K views in 24 hours. Nine days later, I launched @rallyupteam with no product, no customers, and no plan besides posting every day about what I was building. Then I spent 6 months building the wrong thing: Software to get employees posting on LinkedIn. Only 2-10% of them ever do. So we flipped it. Start with one exec, and do it for them. That's the company now. We build audiences for founders and execs who have something worth saying and no time to say it. We pull their real context (their talks, their customer calls, their actual opinions), and an expert writer/content engineer writes their post. My own account is the proof: → 23,500 followers, all organic → ~5M impressions in the last 12 months → My investors, my customers, and my first hire all came from posts, not outbound I post about building this in public, what actually works on LinkedIn and X/Twitter, and the parts of founder life nobody screenshots. This is on top of being a new dad and building from Israel. If you're a founder or exec who has over 5M in funding or ARR and you know you should be posting but still aren't, DM me. 🤝 P.S. I'm offline 25 hours every week for Shabbat. If I go quiet until Sunday, that's why.

How they grewPosting every day in public; posted about getting fired and got 100K views in 24 hours

Caste

@castedev

$291 MRR. $120/mo costs. $171 profit. Day 1 of $291 → $500. Today: - Built a plugin that creates video and auto-publishes to every social. Until now I was relying on SEO only. - Rebuilt note creation. Old flow dumped too many choices on the user. Now it’s step by step. - Fixed a common bug: images generating in the wrong language. Added a language selector. - Cut free image gens from 4 → 3. Want more? Pay. Day 1 not done yet, keep updating and upgrading

How they grewSEO only, then auto-publishes to every social

Ayush Sharma

@iamayeush

I run @QuickReelHQ We have 350K+ users I'm thing of building in public - all metrics, revenue, challenges & solutions. Is it the right choice? Any indie hacker that can help me out with it?

sandip.

@sandip_dev_07

$0 MRR. 240+ signups in my SaaS. - Slugy: branded links, QR codes, bio pages, analytics. - Track every click that turns into leads and sales. #buildinpublic

Nick

@Nick_333ch

50 PAYING CUSTOMERS. ALL ORGANIC 😭🔥 reugc.com crossed 50 paying customers, with 99% of the traffic and customers coming from google and chatgpt. sales have been coming in without me having to promote it every day. but here’s the less exciting part: revenue this month is significantly down compared to last month. so i spent my saturday giving it some serious attention. “i’ll just improve the landing page.” you already know how that went 😂 the landing page became the onboarding. the onboarding became the dashboard. then the flows. then basically everything. and the updated version already got its first paying customer. ONE customer. i know. it doesn’t mean i’ve fixed the revenue drop. but after a whole day of working through the product, someone coming in and choosing to pay felt SO GOOD. 50 people have paid for something i built. i’m excited about what it could become if i give it the attention it deserves. still a lot to figure out. still need to work smarter. but right now? i feel alive. LET’S BUILD 🔥

How they grewGoogle and ChatGPT

james

@fariraijames

LinkedIn ghostwriting is broken (or insanely expensive). So I built LinkGenie. AI LinkedIn ghostwriter that helped me grow to 25k+ followers and bring in paying users. linkgenie.one

Bree ⚡️

@BreeFlemings

1 billion views...... i keep reading that number and it still doesn't feel real!!! 2022: @jemsocialapp was a beta and a lot of hope. 2023: we launched publicly. 5,000 registered users. no brands yet. 2024: Sway Capital and a group of angels bet $155k on us. 25,000 registered users. still.. maybe just a few brands. 2025: we launched the marketplace intentionally. 120 brands signed up. collaborations started 🚀 2026: acquired @postspaceapp . 1000+ brands signed up. 5000+ campaigns. creators on @jemsocialapp l passed 1 billion views in brand campaigns. 2027: ??? 👀 👀 👀 👀 👀 stay tuned.. that timeline looks clean. because it wasn't. it was rebuild after rebuild. the site, the onboarding, the product itself. it was building in public, every single month, networking, being open for feedback, iterating, doubling down, pivoting and so much more. and tbh, this isn't a "look at us" post. it's a thank you. for believing in us. the product. and me. to our creators: you showed up, made the videos, and turned briefs into real results. this billion is yours, and you did it from all 7 continents. to the 1,000+ brands who trusted creators with your story: thank you. special shout out to Triller, Posh, Social Fest, Sesh Collective, Houston Rockets, Kahlab, BONNEE | The Clothing Swap App, EGO Tequila, Mingle And Muse and SO many more who have been rocking with us since the early beginning because they saw the vision..whether they were a VC backed company or a small business. views were never the point. intentional partnerships and results were such as: → one consumer app (stealth) booked 5 creators for $1,200 and got 15,500 downloads and +$3,400 MRR in 30 days → Triller got 10,000+ conversions at a $0.15 CPA → Kahlab 10x'd their website traffic → Social Fest sold OUT of their very first conference in RGV that's what happens when brands work with creators intentionally, not transactionally. the next few years? we're going even crazier. we're building Jem Social into the engine that takes any brand from idea to live creator campaign, anywhere in the world. brands: imagine what a piece of the next billion could do for you. creators: you can join free, from wherever you are. link in the comments. thank you for being part of this. the next billion starts now, more intentionally.

How they grewBuilding in public, networking, feedback, iterating, and doubling down

Guillaume Bardet

@GuillaumeBardet

Best $20 we’ve ever spent. Yesterday, this UGC video hit 60K views in hours and converted 5 paying users. Today, it’s at 117K+ views. Our 90+ creators are already doubling down on the format.

How they grewUGC video format