u/Aggressive-Piano-101

Current result: 1 signup.

This week I:

• Posted in 10 subreddits
• DMed 10+ Redditors
• Made 4 LinkedIn posts

Analytics so far:

• 77 users
• 137 views

What worked:

• Posting publicly gets clicks and profile visits.
• Public posts work much better than cold DMs for me.
• People are giving feedback and suggestions.
• Some strangers actually motivated me to keep going.
• Got my first signup (inactive, but still counts as progress).

What didn’t work:

• Cold DMs mostly get ignored.
• Some people get frustrated when I pitch too early.
• Views are not converting into active users yet.

What I learned:

• Just because an idea feels unique to me doesn’t mean people need it.
• As a developer, I’m realizing marketing and sales are much harder than writing code.
• Not every signup is the right user for the product.
• Public building helps a lot mentally when motivation gets low.

What I keep thinking about:

• Am I doing enough in this challenge?
• Is my message reaching the wrong people?
• Is the app actually useful for freelancers?
• Or do I just need more time and consistency?

Thanks to everyone who gave feedback, encouragement, and honest opinions.

Current result: 1 signup.

This week I:

• Posted in 10 subreddits
• DMed 10+ Redditors
• Made 4 LinkedIn posts

Analytics so far:

• 77 users
• 137 views

What worked:

• Posting publicly gets clicks and profile visits.
• Public posts work much better than cold DMs for me.
• People are giving feedback and suggestions.
• Some strangers actually motivated me to keep going.
• Got my first signup (inactive, but still counts as progress).

What didn’t work:

• Cold DMs mostly get ignored.
• Some people get frustrated when I pitch too early.
• Views are not converting into active users yet.

What I learned:

• Just because an idea feels unique to me doesn’t mean people need it.
• As a developer, I’m realizing marketing and sales are much harder than writing code.
• Not every signup is the right user for the product.
• Public building helps a lot mentally when motivation gets low.

What I keep thinking about:

• Am I doing enough in this challenge?
• Is my message reaching the wrong people?
• Is the app actually useful for freelancers?
• Or do I just need more time and consistency?

Thanks to everyone who gave feedback, encouragement, and honest opinions.

Hey fellow freelancers (devs, designers, writers, etc.),I’m trying to understand the real problems freelancers face daily.What’s the one thing that frustrates you the most in your work right now?(clients, focus, prioritization, admin work, burnout, or something else?)Would really appreciate your honest answers

Hey everyone 👋

I’m a solo developer currently building https://www.mantraist.in/ — a productivity app designed mainly for freelancers managing multiple clients and tasks.

The main idea is simple:
most todo apps become giant dumping grounds. I wanted something that helps people focus on only the important work instead of staring at 50 tasks all day.

A few things it does:

• Momentum Mode → shows only the top 3 priority tasks
• Boss Task → forces you to finish the hardest/most important task first
• Client Portal → lets clients check updates without constantly messaging you
• AI helpers for email drafts, meeting summaries, and link summaries

I’m still very early (and learning marketing the hard way 😅), so I’d genuinely love feedback from freelancers or anyone who struggles with staying focused while handling client work.

Would especially love to know:

• What feels useful?
• What feels unnecessary?
• please comment on my landing page copy/design/usability

Thanks for reading 🙌

One thing I’m realizing from my last few Reddit posts:

many people here genuinely took time to share honest advice with me, and one thing I kept hearing again and again was —

“stop coding and start talking to users.”

Honestly, I respect that feedback a lot because it made me realize I spent months focusing mostly on features while not understanding users deeply enough.

A lot of people also pointed out that my messaging/landing page still isn’t clear enough. Some even brutally criticized the product/name itself 😅 but weirdly that feedback helped me more than compliments because now I’m starting to see where users get confused.

So today I’m not building new features.
I’m mainly focusing on:

• improving the landing page
• simplifying the messaging
• understanding what problem people think I solve vs what I think I solve

I’d genuinely love brutal and honest feedback on the product, positioning, or even the idea itself.

I’d rather hear uncomfortable truth now than build blindly for another few months.

Product: https://www.mantraist.in/

Honestly, I thought building the product would be the hardest part.

Turns out getting people to care is much harder.

I’m currently on day 4 and still at 0 signups.

At first that felt discouraging, but after talking with other founders here I realized something important:
I was spending too much time improving features without enough real conversations with users.

So instead of adding more things blindly, I’m now trying to understand:

• how freelancers manage multiple clients
• what stresses them most
• where they lose focus
• and why existing workflows feel messy

One thing I’m learning:
building in public is less about pretending progress and more about sharing confusion, mistakes, and small lessons honestly.

If anyone wants to see what I’m building, here’s the link:
https://www.mantraist.in/

Would genuinely love to hear:
what helped you finally get your first few real users?

Today is day 4… still 0 signups.

I’m a developer, so building the product was the part I was most comfortable with.
Now I’m realizing getting users is much harder. Marketing, reaching people, and explaining the product feels completely new to me.

I’m solo, no audience, no mentors, no budget. Just trying to learn in public.

Right now I’m honestly stuck between:

• improving the product
• posting content
• reaching out to users
• figuring out positioning

For solo founders here:
what helped you get your first few real users when nobody knew you existed?

Say it in one line + drop your link 👇

Mine: Mantraist — a focus-first productivity workspace helping freelancers manage clients, tasks, and updates without juggling too many tools.

https://www.mantraist.in/

As a freelancer, I realized most of my “productivity” time wasn’t actually productive.

My day looked something like this:

• Tasks in Notion
• Client updates in WhatsApp
• Focus timer in another app
• Habits somewhere else
• AI tools spread across 5 tabs
• Files in Drive
• Progress tracking… honestly nowhere consistent

And after a point, managing the system became harder than doing the work.

The biggest problem wasn’t laziness or lack of motivation.
It was context switching.

Every time I jumped between tools, my focus reset. Small distractions became 30-minute detours. Important tasks stayed unfinished because I kept organizing work instead of doing it.

So I started building something for myself first.

It became Mantraist — a workspace designed around deep work and freelancer workflows instead of endless features.

A few things I focused on:

• A “Boss Task” mode to lock onto one important task
• Daily Top 3 priorities instead of giant task dumps
• Built-in focus timers + momentum tracking
• Simple client collaboration without project-management bloat
• Lightweight AI tools that help inside the workflow instead of replacing it
• Habit tracking without guilt-heavy streak systems

The goal wasn’t to build “another productivity app.”
I just wanted a calmer system where work feels clear again.

It’s still early and I’m actively improving it based on feedback.

Would genuinely love to know:

• what’s your biggest productivity pain as a freelancer/creator/dev?
• what tools do you wish worked better together?

Site: https://www.mantraist.in/

Share your SaaS in this format: [link] [description] [target user].

I’ll go first

link: https://www.mantraist.in/

description: Mantraist is a task app that forces you to finish your hardest work first and auto-generates portals for your freelance clients.

Target users: Freelancers, productivity nerds