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

Hey IH,

I got tired of the same problem every team has: you assign a task in Slack, it gets buried in threads, the person never saw it, nothing gets done. You follow up. Repeat forever.

So I built Qevo — an inbox-style task manager where tasks are pushed directly to people's personal queues. No searching, no missed assignments, no "I thought you were handling that."

• Everyone has their own task queue (like an inbox for tasks)
• You push tasks to specific people. They land in their queue, guaranteed
• They manage their own queue and work through it at their pace

What I built in ~3 months:

• Personal task queues (free forever, no limits)
• Email-to-task: forward any email → instant task
• Slack integration: /qevo in any message → task created (Still pending their final approval)
• Chrome extension for one-click task capture from any webpage
• Team plan for pushing tasks across teammates
• Shareable queues + productivity stats

Why another task app? Most task managers are project centric (Trello boards, Jira backlogs). Great for planning, terrible for the actual handoff. "I assigned it to you" means nothing if it's buried in a 200 card board. Qevo is person-centric - each person has their queue, and things land there directly. You can also see how busy someone is if they share their queue.

Where I am:

• Launched about a month ago
• Free plan for individuals, Team plan at $3/seat/month
• Have a Chrome extension live on the Web Store

What worked:

• The email-to-task feature gets the best reaction. People immediately get it
• Starting with a free personal plan (no credit card) removes signup friction completely

What I'm struggling with:

• Getting the first paying teams (individuals love it, converting to team plan is harder)
• Finding the right channel to reach project managers and team leads

If you manage a team and hate losing tasks in Slack/email, I'd genuinely love feedback. Happy to give anyone here extended trial access.

Link: http://www.getqevo.com

"Why would I pay if discovery is random?"

I answered this question roughly 40 to 50 times across 450 comments on my Wandoria launch posts. The answer that kept landing was not about the randomizer at all.

It was about the three things that are not random - the SEO page, the weekly email, the category filter.

Reframing from "you might get lucky" to "here are three concrete outcomes" changed everything.

The lesson: if the same objection keeps coming up your positioning has a hole. The objection is showing you exactly where to patch it. And to identify these holes, Reddit has been awesome.

127 founding spots still open at wandoria.io - first year free if you want to claim one before launch.

What objection keeps coming up for your product?

I love building, fixing bugs, and getting feedback. I'm able to pump out a decent looking website in probably 2-3 days.

Whats killing me is trying to make content for my brand and watching it get stuck at 200 views (or just 0).

Ngl after a couple weeks I was burnt out, I did thinking about marketing agency but my god they cost so much. 

Instead I outscored the marking to small UGC creators like really small. I looked for everyday consumers who would do quick, 30-second authentic videos for ($20-$50 yes they do exist haha). I found them mostly on tiktok, insta, reddit and jrivecontent. From these videos I was able to generate my first sale for my app! (Still unprofitable but at least something is working lol) 

Just wanted to share my journey with marketing with everyone! 

A self-serve SaaS platform that helps small hotels go online and start getting bookings fast.

Think of it as:

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After conferences, I’d always end up with a bunch of names and no real memory of who was who a week later.

I tried notes apps, taking photos of business cards, and even just relying on LinkedIn requests, but it always turned into a mess. I’d have scattered info everywhere and still couldn’t connect names to conversations or where I met them.

So I built something for myself. Quickly capture people you meet, add context like where you met them, and keep everything in one place offline.

Planning to launch next week and curious how other people handle this at conferences right now, and would love any feedback before I go live.

Hey guys!

Hope you all had a good weekend! As promised, continuing our Causo.ai saga here.

Small recap if you didnt see my last posts:
- We soft launched 2 weeks ago
- Already reduced price and switched model to fremium
- Did a ProductHunt launch and secured top 5 spot
- Had 110+ visitors on the day, 68 signed up, OK conversion to paying users (TBD as not enough data to draw meaningful conclusions)

Still very early, but some interesting patterns already showing up.

Over the last 72 hours:

• ~250 people visited the site
• 90+ signed up for the free product
• traffic is still 2-3x higher than the weekend before PH
• a few users came back today (Monday) and converted after trying the product over the weekend

What’s becoming clear:

1. Conversion to free users is actually pretty solid
2. Conversion to paid is slower than we expected (idk what we expected though...)
3. A Product Hunt launch gives you attention, but not trust overnight

Current hypotheses for why paid conversion is slower:

• We have basically zero brand recognition yet
• Campaign setup is still too hard/confusing
• Timing is brutal because you need to catch founders exactly when they start fundraising

So this week is mostly about testing and iteration:

• keep momentum going (Reddit/socials/follow-ups)
• simplify campaign setup
• collect real reviews/testimonials
• prep another PH launch later this week
• keep building a side/extension product using the same tech stack

Honestly though, seeing people still come back 72 hours later feels way better than the initial spike itself.

Some weekend numbers:

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Hi dear Indiehacker community!

The past 2 weeks or so have been quite a transition for my mindset towards what to build. I used to build something I thought was cool and could "seemingly" solve a lot of problems, but when it came to distribution, I always hit a wall. People would react with nice words, they thought the product was awesome, my builder skills were great, but then... nothing. I realized that all these words of encouragement, all these positive reactions.. they were all lies.

I read "The Mom Test" last week and that was what brought it all together for me. Especially from what I experienced in the past 2 years (see my other post on an app I went to China for 3 times to promote). We talked to our target audience, pitched our app probably 50-100 times over a 4 week period. We refined this pitch and got a positive reaction out of the people we were trying to sell to 80% of the time. Yet after all this efforts, nothing fruitful has come of it. No follow-ups, no callbacks, it was essentially dead again the day I arrived back in my country after the trip.

We built something no one wanted to buy. And that had some good reasons. The problem just wasn't big enough. We had some competitors, but they solved a whole array of problems, all at once, for these Chinese factory owners. Just having 1 problem solved, yet having to do a lot of admin work upfront just wasn't worth it. These are great learnings to have now. But I think I could've learnt these things way earlier, and probably just on 1 trip to China, instead of 3.

If I had just talked to our target audience, without pitching our product, just asking curiously which problems they were currently facing. What their focus was. What was causing their greatest leverage. I probably would've built a totally different product if at all. I think after just 3 conversations, I would've picked up the onboarding admin cost would've been too much. Or even that the problem we were trying to solve (quotation sheets) was very low in their priority list.

But I'm glad I have learnt these lessons now. It made me look very differently at how the world works. Why some problems have been solved, but others haven't. It's all about whether people feel there is enough value in solving the problem, that they're willing to pay money for it. No money is no viable business. I will take these learnings with me on my next startup venture. Talking to our target audience first. Talking until my picture is complete. What problems do they have? What are they spending a lot of time and money on? Is it the same as I thought? Would a product be able to made to solve their needs? Only after answering these questions fully will I build again.

Six months ago I had zero users and a landing page that looked like it was built in 2014. Now I have 47 people who actually use what I built and honestly that feels more real than any milestone I've ever hit.

The thing nobody tells you about the early stage is how personal it gets. I know that Sarah uses my tool every Tuesday morning before her team standup. I know that Marcus signed up because he was frustrated with Apollo and saw my post in a Slack group. I know that 3 of my users found me because I was just hanging out in communities talking about the problem, not even pitching.

I tried the whole "spray and pray" thing early on. Posted everywhere, DMd a bunch of people, ran some ads with like $50. Got a few signups but nobody stuck. What actually worked was paying attention to who was already talking about the problem I solve. Been messing with getcleed for the signal stuff alongside just manually lurking in communities. Between those two things I started reaching out to people who were actively frustrated, not just anyone with a pulse.

The conversations are so different when someone already feels the pain. Instead of "what does your product do" it's "oh wait this might actually help with the thing I was just complaining about."

I don't know if this scales. Probably not in its current form. But right now knowing my users by name means I build exactly what they need and nothing they don't. My retention is way better than it has any right to be for something this early.

Anyone else at this stage? Where you know every user personally? How do you think about the transition to not being able to do that anymore?

I'll start

Mine is Beatable, to help you validate your project

https://beatable.co/startup-validation

What about you?

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??

So I built a small Mac app for myself.

You connect your own AI (Claude/Codex), describe your app once, and it generates localized App Store screenshot sets automatically.

Main thing I cared about:

• fully local
• your own API keys
• no SaaS dashboard hell
• direct App Store Connect upload

Basically the AI edits a real local React project and generates the screenshots from there.

I originally made it because updating screenshots every release was becoming insanely annoying once I started localizing apps.

Currently testing with a few indie devs before launch.

If anyone here ships apps internationally and wants early access / give feedback, subscribe on the waitlist here: www.releaseframe.com.

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- How are you guys doing? Its me again. Every week, I collect free services offered by other startup founders from across 200 subreddits and manually curate them into a list!
- This list now has 230+ free serives as of now. Mind you, this is not FREEMIUM stuff, not the FREE TIER stuff, not the SIGN UP on my webpage and I'll help you stuff.
- This is stuff the founders and consultants from all walks of life are willing to offer for your startup.

Roundup

- We got guys offering AI Automation setups and audits
- I see a lot of dudes doing tik tok outreach this week like basically promoting your startup on tik tok to a massive audience
- One guy s doing branding and another is doing logos
- There are also a couple of gigs offering to generate reels and videos for your SaaS
- Some are offering website, SEO and automation audits

I update every week, I kid you not

- I may not post here every week because I don't want to keep spamming but I don't stop updating like ever
- Been about 3 months now that I have been on this

Future Plans

- Get all this ported to my website with LLM powered search and tagging while still maintaining the github repo
- Maybe add an interface to submit free offers directly on the website?

Spread the word!

- Here is the FULL LINK TO THE REPO
- What are you waiting for? spread the word on every social platform!

Yesterday we launched Causo on Product Hunt and somehow finished #5 for the day.

Still feels a bit surreal honestly. We’re just two founders trying to build something we wished existed when we were fundraising ourselves.

A lot of people asked how we got traction, so here’s the unsexy answer:

We spent the entire day just talking to people.

Not AI-spamming.
Not fake engagement pods.
Not “growth hacking”.

Just:

• replying to everyone
• posting in founder groups
• messaging friends
• supporting other launches
• hanging around Reddit and LinkedIn all day

Launch day honestly feels a little like a circle jerk sometimes. Everyone launching is supporting everyone else launching. But people can also smell AI-generated slob from a mile away now.

The stuff that actually worked for us was posting real experiences from fundraising and building.

Two of our Reddit posts alone ended up getting 6k+ views because we stopped trying to sound polished and just wrote honestly about how emotionally draining fundraising can be.

24h results:

• ~170 visitors
• 68 signups

So yeah, definitely not one of those “we made $10M overnight” stories.

But seeing complete strangers sign up for something we spent months building was still pretty awesome.

Biggest surprise was how much traffic came from direct shares, Reddit, and random founder communities rather than Product Hunt itself.

Now we’re hoping the PH newsletter sends another wave today. Curious to see how much of launch day is hype and how much sticks long term.

Either way, feels good to finally get things moving.

Proof below:

https://www.producthunt.com/products/causo-hub-free-tools-for-fundraising

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Another update on Causo (I posted here 3 days ago about going from 9 to 26 users after fixing onboarding).

Today we did something scarier. Cut prices in half on both paid plans and made the main investor browsing feature completely free.

• Starter: $25 → $15/mo
• LFG: $150 → $59/mo
• Investor database: now free to browse

When we talked to people who signed up but didn't convert, the same thing kept coming up. Not "I don't see the value." More like "I'm an early stage founder, I have no money, $150 a month feels insane right now." Most also just wanted to peek at the database before paying. We were gating the most curiosity-driven moment behind a paywall.

The $150 LFG tier especially bugged me. We picked it because it felt reasonable for agency-type clients, but our actual users are broke founders trying to raise. We were charging based on what would be nice, not what people could afford.

First day: 5 new signups (vs 2-3 a day before), a couple of paid conversions on the lower tiers, and two people from earlier "no thanks" conversations came back and upgraded.

Too early to know if it's a real lift or a novelty bump. Genuine worry is whether dropping from $150 to $59 just trains users to expect cheap and locks us into low ARPU.

Things I'm trying to figure out:

1. For people who cut prices significantly, did the conversion lift offset lower ARPU long term, or did you regret it?
2. Anyone successfully raised prices back up after dropping them? How did existing users react?
3. Did making your core feature free actually change your funnel, or did most people just freeload?