u/Consistent-Fix-1701

5 fully-built SaaS starters - $499 each, zero revenue, full source included

5 fully-built SaaS starters - $499 each, zero revenue, full source included

Mods okayed this. Honest pitch.

I build well, lose interest at marketing. Clearing five polished products at $499 each.

Each app has zero revenue, zero customers. You're buying a finished product, not a business. Skip this if you want MRR included.

Each is 1-of-1. Full source included.

  1. Cloak - Mac. Privacy web utility. Native Mac, polished UI. (https://www.yuzool.com/apps/cloak)
  2. Stamp Studio - Web. Template-driven ad creative for agencies. The most valuable on this list to be sold as your next SaaS (https://www.yuzool.com/stamp/)
  3. Invoice Generator - Web. Polished invoice creation for freelancers and agencies. Plenty of paid SaaS in this space charges $10–30/mo (https://www.yuzool.com/invoice)
  4. Email Builder - Web. Drag-and-drop campaign emails. (https://www.yuzool.com/email-builder.html)
  5. VibeShield - Mac. Local URL security scanning. (https://www.yuzool.com/apps/vibeshield)

Included: source code, design assets, 14 days support.

Dossiers, links + screenshots → yuzool.com/delisted

Comment or DM me for more info and offers.

u/Consistent-Fix-1701 — 10 hours ago

After a year of paying $97/month for a cold email tool I used twice a week, I built a Mac app instead

I do client outreach for my consulting work and to try and sell my apps - maybe 500-1,000 personal emails a week. For about a year I was paying Lemlist $97/mo because "that's what you use for cold email." I'd open it Monday, send my batch, and not touch it again until the next Monday.

I realized I was paying ~$1,200/year for what was essentially a glorified mail merge with a CRM bolted on. I never used the AI features, never used the warmup pool, never used the multi-channel stuff.

The web app was slow. Every action took a round trip to their servers. On my Mac, with a list of 100 contacts, it felt absurd.

So I spent a few months building what I actually wanted: a native Mac app that connects to my own inbox via SMTP/IMAP, lets me write a personal template, preview each email before sending, and sends them one-by-one. No web app. No subscription. No AI. Everything stays on my Mac.

Stack: SwiftUI, 1.4MB binary, macOS 14+. Keychain for SMTP credentials. No backend - there's literally no server it talks to. And no electron.

It's on the App Store as Drip Send for $34.99 one-time (currently $19.99).

Genuinely curious what r/macapps would change about it - this sub has the highest concentration of people who'd actually have opinions on a native productivity app.

u/Consistent-Fix-1701 — 1 day ago
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Heads up: fake "clients" on Dribbble/Upwork are sending GitHub repos that malware your machine on `npm install`

Got a normal-looking $3.5k website brief, articulate reply, then "review our current version before the call", then linked repo was a crypto dApp full of junk files and a committed `.env`. It's the Contagious Interview / GitVenom scam (Microsoft + Kaspersky writeups) - install scripts exfil browser creds, SSH keys, and wallets.

Clone is fine, never run a stranger's repo before a contract. Stay sharp. Current market sucks.

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UPDATE: the account has been blocked on Dribbble so that's a start

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u/Consistent-Fix-1701 — 3 days ago

Almost got malware'd by a fake Dribbble client this week. Sharing because the scam is getting too good.

Venting and warning, in that order.

I freelance front-end. Like everyone else I've been on Upwork and Dribbble because that's where the briefs are. You know how it goes (I don't like it but): pay credits to apply, write tailored proposals, mostly silence, occasional reply.

This week a reply came through that looked normal. "8-page modern website, $3,500." The guy's follow-up was thoughtful: wants to schedule a call, drops in some industry-sounding phrases about 'flows, edge cases, and system behavior.' And a price which is industry acceptable not trying to squeeze peanuts. Then: while we wait, take a look at our current version, here's the GitHub.

I click. It's a crypto app. Has nothing to do with the brief. And it's full of weird artifacts - files like `$null` and `npm install.cmd` in the root, a committed `.env`, 3 contributors through me off at first, but no stars, no history of being a real working product.

I got lucky and paused. If I'd been more tired, I'd have run `npm install` to be 'prepared for the call' and that would have been game over.

I then searched around and found this is a known scam (Microsoft and Kaspersky call it Contagious Interview / GitVenom). The fake repo runs a payload that steals browser passwords, SSH keys, .env files, and crypto wallets, exfils to Telegram. One tracked attacker pulled in around $485k from a single victim.

What's bothering me isn't that the scam exists. It's how *normal* the entry point was. A real brief on a real platform. Do they even care and check these things? Not really.

A reply that wasn't full of typos or sketchy links. Just a smooth pivot in the second message from 'let's talk about your website' to 'first, run my codebase locally.'

If you're freelancing in 2026, the rules I'm operating by now:

- Clone is fine, never run. No npm install, no opening in VS Code with workspace trust, no executing anything from a prospect before a contract.

- If the 'current version' they want you to review doesn't match the brief they posted - that *is* the scam. Don't rationalize it.

- Real clients share Figma, Notion, or a live URL. They never need you to install their code to evaluate fit.

- Platforms don't vet posters meaningfully. Login + credit cost doesn't equal safety. I was stupid to think it would.

Also, can we collectively admit Upwork and Dribbble have become genuinely hostile to find clean work on? The scam-to-real ratio keeps getting worse. Cool platforms in 2018, minefields now.

If you've got non-marketplace lead sources that have worked for you, would love to hear what's working. I'm trying to rebuild a pipeline that doesn't run through these platforms. I'm a bit lost.

Stay safe.

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u/Consistent-Fix-1701 — 3 days ago

Looking for feedback: I built widget studio after getting tired of remaking the same web components for every client

Front-end dev here. Most of my client work is landing pages, marketing sites and mini-apps across HTML/CSS/JS and I kept rebuilding the same five components (popups, countdowns, comparison tables, etc.) on every project.

So I built yuzool.com/widgets - a local-first widget studio where you can build, preview, and export embeddable widgets. Drops into any stack (plugin for WP, Squarespace, Webflow, HTML sites etc). Free to try, no signup, your edits stay in your browser.

Would love feedback from anyone here who works with clients across multiple platforms and builds many projects. What's missing? What would you actually use? What would make you pay for it?

(And honest aside: I'm taking on client work this month if anyone needs front-end help. But mostly here for the feedback.)

u/Consistent-Fix-1701 — 3 days ago

Looking for 10 Mac users to test my new macOS app, and send blunt feedback on bugs, UX issues, and quirks.

DM me your Mac model, macOS version, and email provider if you want in.

Appreciate you.

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u/Consistent-Fix-1701 — 7 days ago

Is Kickstarter a good place to post a software project to get some backing during development? I'm making a productivity email app and want to valid the market but also get some presales to justify the development time needed to get to market. I can't seem to find a site where it's possible to do this. I launched on my site but of course there's little benefit to that as I don't have enough traffic yet.

TLDR - is Kickstarter a suitable place for software / apps?

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u/Consistent-Fix-1701 — 17 days ago