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Hey! I’m a product builder and editor. I got fed up with how badly social media apps ruin the quality of high-end video edits, so I decided to build a solution.
I vibe coded an Electron-based desktop app that includes a media encoder, compressor, and asset downloader specifically tuned to bypass aggressive social media compression. I've already done the heavy lifting—the full UI is built, the code is running, and I have my own VPS hosting the landing page and app installers.

What I need:
The tech is basically there, but I need a partner to help me bring it to market. I’m looking for a co-founder who understands social media posting inside and out, has basic video editing knowledge, and knows how to get a product in front of creators.
You’ll help me manage beta testers, figure out the best export presets for platforms like TikTok/Shorts, and lead the growth strategy.

Current Stage: Private MVP is built and deployable. Currently gathering beta testers.
If you want to partner up on a creator utility tool that already has a functional product and distribution pipeline ready to go, let’s chat! I'm totally down to jump on a quick call and screen-share a demo of how it works.

Been analyzing a bunch of indie SaaS landing pages this week out of curiosity. Same issues kept showing up:

1. Headline explains the product, not the problem "AI-powered project management for remote teams" — tells me what you built, not why I should stop scrolling.

2. The same 6 words on every page Seamlessly. Streamline. Leverage. Cutting-edge. At this point these words mean nothing. Readers skip them automatically.

3. CTA friction "Get Started" sounds like commitment. "Try it free" sounds like nothing to lose. Massive difference in conversion.

4. No personality The pages that convert best sound like a person wrote them. The ones that don't could belong to any product in any category.

Curious if others are seeing this too. Anyone here changed their copy recently and seen a difference?

Background : I am an engineer with little experience in computer vision who recently learned about motion magnification (MM) from videos. This technology is useful in non invasive sensing like vibration analysis, medical monitoring. I noticed that the most used MM software is by RDI technologies and the state of the art algorithms are patented by MIT. RDI's software is expensive (>1000s of USD per year) and licencing MIT's algorithm is expensive too. This seems to be something that only MNCs or large scale businesses can afford.

I created an algorithm that is not as robust as MIT's but can get the job done. I aim to target small and medium scale businesses and to that end I created a waitlist website page. The plan is to patent my algorithm and write a desktop app (it is computationally high) if I see the demand.

Question:

1. How do I attract SMB's to my waitlist? What platforms or companies can I reach out to? How would or did you do it?

2. How do I determine the pricing of this software? I don't know how much SMB would spend on this kind of analysis or how much it saves them or how they would determine if the price is high.

Many thanks in advance.

Lots of requests here for Indian names that work in English-speaking countries. I put together a site with names from Sanskrit, Tamil, Punjabi, Urdu, and Bengali traditions — each with meaning, pronunciation guide, and a "Works in English" flag for names that English speakers can say without coaching.

It's at naamkaro.com Happy to answer questions about specific names in the comments too!

My SaaS generated around $7.5k in 1.5 months.
But the point is not about recurring users, but about a constantly new stream of users.

This is a crypto SaaS with several sections: Market Making, Delta Neutral, and AI Trading. It works on 5 DEX exchanges via API. Non-custodial connection.

The main revenue-generating section is AI Trading, which runs on a major exchange HyperLiquid. Essentially, the user connects their exchange to the bot, and the AI bot trades on their account. In this mode, a sub-mode is automatically activated if the user balance is $500 or more, and the bot trades until full execution and guarantees 66% profit from the user balance via built-in fees to us. This is the official fee allowed by HyperLiquid, and for the user it simply appears as an exchange fee. With a user balance of 500 USDC, we guarantee around $350. If the user balance is $5000, income from one user will be $3500 guaranteed.

We also have an army of 200 people who send marketing cards all over Twitter for a constant stream of users. We pay them $0.20 per comment that does not get flagged as spam and gets impressions. They fill all links in a separate section of our website for workers and we manually verify all applications.

In 1.5 months we generated $7.5k (there are 3 of us in the team), and around $700 went to salaries for people doing comments.

Since none of the three of us have a stable income, this money is too little to support us. This can be scaled through good targeted advertising; the traffic is literally the entire crypto world — everyone who is curious to try trading with AI.

We are looking either for a co-investor: $25k for 25% of recurring profit. The money will be used for advertising on Instagram Reels, Facebook, and others. Or we are ready to sell our service with all workers and everything included for a separately agreed price.

DM me and I will share more info, all links, and answer any questions. All revenue data is on-chain, so it can be easily verified.

Armé un sistema autónomo por WhatsApp. No es un bot aburrido que tira un menú; es un recepcionista virtual inteligente. Atiende y contesta preguntas típicas, agenda y cancela turnos, agenda en Google Calendar y calcula la caja del día en un Sheets automático.

Pero lo mejor es esto: si alguien cancela con 24 horas de anticipación, el sistema detecta el hueco vacío y le escribe proactivamente al siguiente cliente de la lista para ofrecerle adelantar su turno. El bot reacomoda las piezas solo. Al final del día, el barbero se enfoca en cortar, el cliente tiene una experiencia premium y los huecos muertos desaparecen, al final del día creo que ningún barbero quiere estar respondiendo mensajes en su hora o dia libre, acá solo te preocupas de cortar y mas nada. Que les parece? tienen alguna recomendación?

Main idea:
people share authentic moments from places so others understand:

• vibe
• emotional feel
• social energy
• comfort
• real experience

instead of relying mostly on ratings/reels.

Current questions I’m struggling with:

• What would make this genuinely useful?
• Why would users contribute regularly?
• What would make people trust the content?
• What features would make this feel different from Instagram/Google Maps?

Would genuinely love brutal feedback.

I run a new ecommerce amazon store in the home & kitchen niche (organizers, lunch boxes, kitchen accessories, etc.). Business is too small now. Right now I’m not looking to import directly from China due to financial reasons.

I’ve been sourcing through IndiaMART, but in many cases the pricing/margins don’t really work out.

Which places/cities in India are best for getting good wholesale or manufacturing prices for these kinds of products? I’m open to travelling and visiting markets/manufacturers if needed.

a year ago bought shopsocial.in thinking to start a creator storefront for creators from Instagram but platform was becoming escrow. which add gst rule and what not, so decided to pause and think. but not able to figure.

I'm looking for actual problem you people has faced. anything you can think of. just not looking for as payment aggregator ideas for now as solo developer.