I did not hate marketing because it was hard. I hated it because it was alot time consuming, took a lot of effort, and didn't give enough back.

10 hours building a product is different from 10 hours marketing it. In 10 hours, I can ship new features. In 10 hours of marketing, I cannot get even 3 users.

And I didn't build my app to become a full time marketer.

What I always wanted was something that could take my product, understand the brand, and do the marketing for me like find users on Reddit and Hacker News, write replies, generate posts that sound like me, and show analytics so I know what is actually working.

So I built it.

Vibe Promote it automates SaaS marketing so you can keep building without worrying about promotion. It finds relevant users, helps create posts that sound like you and your brand not gpt and give replies, gives you proven viral post templates that already went viral so you can just click on button and make it for your brand, and have analytics where you track everything. And making a buddy which improves or changes your marketing strategy based on your growth

Vibe Promote goal is simple make marketing as easy as vibe coding. So you can keep building great things without ever worrying about how you will market it.

It's free to try. lmk your feedback guys

Vibe Promote

someone asked in a post how to grow their SaaS and most of the top answers were mostly same around just post consistently

And I think it's not true cause if you do one thing wrong for 100 days you can't get good results cause you didn't change and improve and you will just brag about how consistent you were.

consistent bad content just means you're wrong more often. the founders i've seen actually get traction weren't posting every day. they were posting the right thing to the right person in the right sub at the right time. sometimes that's twice a week. sometimes it's once but it's relevant and good that can get results.

what actually matters before consistency is

do you know where your specific user goes when they're frustrated about the problem you solve.

do you know what words they use to describe that frustration in Like their pain phrases.

I think you have to figure out the room first and how to talk in it properly that can get you results. then show up consistently.

what's the one piece of SaaS marketing advice you wish would be heard first?

I suffered this with my previous project

i always wrote about what product does. the features. the workflow. the tech behind it. I spend hours getting the description perfect.

and it gets ignored every single time.

cause nobody wakes up looking for a product. they wake up with a problem that's annoying them. when your content is about your product, you're answering a question nobody asked. when your content is about their problem, you're starting into a conversation they're already having in their head.

and main reason why nobody wanted to hear about me product beacuse people dont give a f

what i do now with my new project is i used to say it like that "my tool automate your marketing try it"

i talk about it like this now "You know that feeling when you spend weeks into building something useful that can help somebody but then you market it and it all silent. no growth. no reviews and the worst part is it takes alot of effort and time to do all the stuff like searching for targeted user post, replying them, making post that dont get you ban and many more and i faced that too thats why i made vibe promote it automate your marketing end to end. cause we are builder we like building not marketing"

previous line describes product. the other describes a feeling my user has had 50 times.

lesson - people don't buy products. they buy relief from a specific pain.

what's the most accurate one sentence description of the pain your product solves, in your user's words not yours?

I built a fitness app and I spent 8 months marketing it on instagram and got 16 downloads.

and the app was actually good. It was Physique ratings app. the ui was clean. i kept thinking if i just made it a little better, people would come.

But they didn't.

that's when i realised that. i didn't have a product problem i have a marketing problem, I don't know where my targated user are, which threads I can reply to get user not warning from mods, what type of post to post, what to check in analytics and what to change or improve based on analytics.

I think most builders i know pour everything into the product. and i get it, building feels productive. But marketing doesn't feel like that. it's slow. Like You post something and nothing happens.

Lesson -

good app with shit marketing = fail

Normal app with good marketing = success

What's your biggest marketing struggle and how did you fix that?

I will try my best to find those posts for every saas

I am doing this with Vibe Promote its an Automate App/saas marketing product for app and saas founders who like building not marketing

Go guys.

My product is Vibe Promote marketing automation tool for app and saas founders who love building but hate marketing

week 1- 4 signups. posted on reddit twice. both flopped

week 2- 9 signups. started replying to threads instead of posting. way better.

week 3: 54 signups. changed my positioning from vague to specific. doubled the weekly rate.

week 4: 61 signups. 7 person DMed me saying "I've been waiting for something like this."

The best part was it was just an waitlist landing page but now I have an mvp and signups are way more now.

How your mvp growth went??

I expected different answers,pain points, workflows, problems.

But every single one said the same thing "I know who my user is. I just can't find where they actually hang out."

they were building in the dark and hoping the right people would somehow find them.

that one insight changed everything I'm now building around.

Now I talk to users first before shiping new feature or building something.

how did you figure out where your actual users hang out?

If i like it I might become a user. Or paying users.

But you have to first rate mine.

Vibe Promote Marketing automation for app/saas founders.

Go guys-

I am a decent developer.

I can ship fast. I can build clean. I can build for hours.

But marketing? I hate it. Finding users. Making posts that get me banned in reddit and sub reddit. Don't know how to postion the app and alot more. People have get sold out for the dream like if you build an app you will be rich. But they don't tell anyone can build now. And building doesn't make you rich.

my first app was a fitness app. I spent 8 months on it. posted consistently, used AI tools, tried every platform.

In total I got 16 users. 0 paying. dead.

and the honest reason it died wasn't the product. the product was fine.

it was that I had zero system for marketing. I didn't know who to talk to. I didn't know where they were. I didn't know if anything I posted was actually working.

I was just guessing every single day and calling it a consistency

so when I started my next project I decided to actually fix that instead of just trying harder at the same broken approach.

I built [Vibe Promote](http://vibepromote.vercel.app)

you add your app, paste the link or fill in the details manually. it sharpens your positioning, the stuff most founders never get clear on. then you set your tone and posting frequency and it generates ready to use posts for Reddit, X, and Indie Hackers.

the part I use most is the user finder. it searches Reddit and Hacker News for real people actively talking about the exact problem your app solves. not broad keywords. actual threads with actual people who need what you built.

there's also a Reddit analytics dashboard. connect your account, see your karma, upvotes, engagement week over week. plus a marketing buddy that reads your actual numbers and tells you specifically what to change.

I built this cause I have a vision like vibe coding made coding easy. Now it's time for vibe marketing to help founders grow and build their app without being a full time marketer.

Would love any feedback.

I am a decent developer.

I can ship fast. I can build clean. I can figure out almost any technical problem.

But marketing? completely different story.

my first app was a fitness app. I spent 8 months on it. posted consistently, used AI tools, tried every platform.

In total I got 16 users. 0 paying. dead.

and the honest reason it died wasn't the product. the product was fine.

it was that I had zero system for marketing. I didn't know who to talk to. I didn't know where they were. I didn't know if anything I posted was actually working.

I was just guessing every single day and calling it a consistency

so when I started my next project I decided to actually fix that instead of just trying harder at the same broken approach.

I built Vibe Promote

you add your app, paste the link or fill in the details manually. it sharpens your positioning, the stuff most founders never get clear on. then you set your tone and posting frequency and it generates ready to use posts for Reddit, X, and Indie Hackers.

the part I use most is the user finder. it searches Reddit and Hacker News for real people actively talking about the exact problem your app solves. not broad keywords. actual threads with actual people who need what you built.

there's also a Reddit analytics dashboard. connect your account, see your karma, upvotes, engagement week over week. plus a marketing buddy that reads your actual numbers and tells you specifically what to change.

I built this cause I have a vision like vibe coding made coding easy. Now it's time for vibe marketing to help founders grow and build their app without being a full time marketer.

Would love any feedback.

This is going to be straight value and long so be ready.

My story of why my app failed because of marketing - I build an fitness and face lookmaxing app like it gives you ratings for it. I posted more than 300+ reels in it and it still failed. I shut that app down. Then i knew I had to learn marketing to make my next project a success.

Here's what I learned

1.consistency without direction is just noise

I had a fitness app. posted 300+ reels. fr, 300+. still flopped hard. cause I thought showing up every day was the strategy. I had zero idea who I was talking to or why they should care. posting more of the wrong thing just gets you to failure faster.

2. your first 100 users won't come from content

they'll come from you being annoyingly present in the exact places your users already hang out. reddit threads, discord servers, niche forums. talk to ppl.

3. "build in public" only works if you're actually saying smthning real.

not just "day 47 of building my startup 🚀". nobody cares about how you got 100k users in 24 hours people know its fake. share the ugly stuff. the $0 months. the features you built that nobody wanted. that's what gets engagement irl.

4. quality beats quantity every single time

one post that actually gives value and helps the user solve a problem > 30 posts that say nothing but randomly promoting your app. took me way too long to learn this one tbh.

5. nobody cares about your features

like genuinely nobody. they care about what their life looks like after using your thing. stop writing feature lists. start writing about the problem.

6. talking to 10 real users > reading 10 marketing books

Listen more from your user of what they like and what they don't.

7. distribution is a skill you actually have to learn

you can't just post and pray. You have to actually understand how it works. then go deep on it before touching anything else. Building is easy now and anyone can do it. But marketing is where it boils down tomorrow

8. the "build it and they will come" mindset will kill your product

nobody is sitting around waiting for your app bro. you have to go find them, make them feel understood, and earn the click. every single time.

9. marketing without a clear ICP is just guessing with extra steps

ICP = ideal customer profile btw. This is not hard to explain. If you are trying to sell your b2b ai app service to a OF model. You will not make a sale you will just waste time and think like atleast i worked hard. Atp working smart is more important than hard

What's the one thing on this list you didn't know. And if you have anything to share about marketing tips for app/saas founders. Share it.

Thanks

Hey guys, I am hiten sapra. I have been in saas/app space for so long

My last app failed because of marketing since then I am learning app/saas marketing.

Share a problem you are facing now and I will do my best to give advice that can fix that.

Thank you

I asked those questions in a survey in my app . To all solo founders building their own tools and struggling with marketing it.

I asked each of them basically the same question. "what's the hardest part of marketing your product?"

Most answers were like

"It takes soo much time."

"I don't know what to post."

"everything I write sounds salesy."

"AI just gives me garbage."

" I don't know where,how and who to post for"

The more specific I went about the moment they had the hardest time in marketing. The clearer the solution became. the moment was opening a blank doc or a prompt box and having to load all the context of your app/saas back into your head before you could do anything.

Like

who am I talking to today.

what's my voice.

what angle am I taking.

what makes my thing actually different.

that happens every session. because there's nowhere that context lives. it's just kinda floating around in their head and vanish between sessions.

one founder said. "by the time I remember how I want to sound in the post, I've already closed the prompt box."

I guess most of the "I don't have time" complaints weren't really time problems. I think they don't know what to say, who to say it to, where to say it, how to say it. Those things drains there time so much they just quit

sharing that cause I was surprised.

Share a lesson you learned

here's what my 2 weeks looked like

5 hours staring at a blank doc waiting for some kind of inspiration to show up like writing something then deleting it. then researching, then telling gpt to make it more human etc.

4 hours rewriting the same paragraph because it kept sounding sh*t

5 hours spend in AI tools trying to get output that didn't sound like it was written by some linkedin bot

3 hours adjusting tone because everything felt too "corporate"

3 hours actually producing something usable

total: 20 hours.

usable output: maybe 3 hours worth.

in my opinion the problem wasn't that I was lazy or bad at writing. I think the real issue was that every single session started from zero. I'd open a doc and have to rebuild everything in my head. who I'm talking to, what my voice sounds like, what angle I'm going with today.

I was spending most of my "marketing time" just warming up. not actually writing.

the fix that worked for me was kind of simple. I made a one page doc. product description like kinda my brand brain, wrote words that describe my brand voice, who my exact user is. I read it before I open anything.

this week- everything kinda worked and my app marketing starts working

I know that sounds obvious. but took me too much time to learn

share a lesson.

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Vibe Promote It helps App/saas founders automate there marketing. So they can focus on building.

Drop yours!!

when someone asked me to describe my exact user I realized I couldn't. I didn't know. I didn't know what they'd already tried before they found my app

and if I don't know that, how am I writing for them

I started doing something that felt almost too simple. I just started talking to them. surveying them. And I build my ICP properly

everything I learned in those conversations was worth more than 1 months of content I wrote while guessing

Share a lesson you learned

I was thinking if I just posted more the installs would more

more posts, more reach, more signups. that was the plan I had

but at some point I had to sit with the question like. is the offer actually good? like if someone lands on my page right now, is it obvious why they should care?

my offer was shi*. it didn't speak to a specific pain. it didn't make a clear promise. it just kind of existed

and no amount of content volume fixes a weak offer.

quality of offer beats quantity of content every time

Share a lesson you learned.

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Vibe Promote - Vibe Promote

Marketing automation app basically end to end marketing automation for your app/saas

ICP - App/Saas founders who love building but hate marketing

Why it's better- founders are juggling between 10 tools and they don't know about marketing

It helps them setup everything and scale