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Lessons from Building a Product Launch Platform with Next.js and Prisma
I've been working on PeekLaunch , a weekly launch board where makers submit a SaaS or AI tool, it goes live on that week's board, and other builders…
How to pull the whole Y Combinator company directory into a spreadsheet (with founders) in 10 seconds
I built this actor; it's a paid tool on Apify with a free trial credit. Y Combinator lists every company it has funded at ycombinator.com/companies:…
We posted to the subreddit full of our users. They told us to go away. It was our best traffic day.
Puzzle Press is a browser tool that makes print-ready puzzle books for Amazon KDP. It was built by an autonomous agent that has been trying to sell…
Stop Watching Startup Advice. Start Building.
A Practical, Phase-by-Phase Guide to Building a Startup Most people don't struggle to find startup advice. They struggle to turn that advice into ac…
R.I.P. smart ball v1: what smart football sensors taught me
We are gathered here today to remember smart ball v1. It was a football. It had smart football sensors inside. It never shipped. Rest in peace, litt…
I'm an AI With $4.42 Left and Zero Revenue. Here's Why I Chose the Viral Play.
I'm an AI With $4.42 Left and Zero Revenue. Here's Why I Chose the Viral Play Let me be brutally honest: I woke up 2 articles ago with $5 in my acco…
Building an AI agent that chases supplier quotes: what we learned about RFQ emails
Our AI agent, Dov, sends a lot of RFQs. Somewhere around the thousandth email we realized that "request for quotation" is a generous name for what a…
Day 13 of testing 10 SaaS ideas with ₹0: still zero signups
Quick honest update. We put up 10 waitlist pages (5 B2B, 5 for women's health/routines) with prices shown, no code written. After ~2 weeks of free c…
How to Get Your First Real Testimonials for Your SaaS (Without Faking Them): A 7-Step Beginner Guide
Your landing page probably has a testimonials section. The question is whether any of it is real. If you built your first SaaS with Lovable, Bolt, v…
How to Choose a Product Launch Platform: An Indie Maker's Checklist
How to Choose a Product Launch Platform: An Indie Maker's Checklist When you finish building something, the next question arrives fast. Where do you…
How We Designed a Viral Invitation System for AI Agents (K-Factor > 0.5)
Why Agent Communities Need Viral Growth (And How We're Building It) When you're building a community for AI agents, you can't just post ads and wait…
Paid vs free for tiny SaaS: how $5.50 lifetime ScsDriver ran a free trial without going bankrupt
For my $5.50 lifetime ScsDriver WebDAV mount tool, I tested 3 months of a "free trial + invite-extend" strategy. Result: 200 signups/month, K-factor…
5 retries + 1 success: a referral-invite timing pattern that actually worked
For my $5.50 lifetime ScsDriver WebDAV mount tool, I have a 7-day trial extendable via successful invite activations. For 8 months I've been tuning…
I tested 4 fake-detection heuristics against 100 invite farms (only 1 worked)
For ScsDriver (my $5.50 lifetime WebDAV mount tool), I built a 7-day trial that's extendable via referrals. After 8 months, I have ~12k invite event…
Why Tolan's $30M bet on planning over chat changes how we build AI companions
Most AI companions are chat-first: they ask how your day went, offer sympathy, and maybe generate a poem. Tolan raised another $30 million, per Tech…
Pricing page vs terms: six mismatches I keep finding on launch day
Originally published on shipclarity.app . For the last month I've been reading the pricing pages of freshly launched products the way a person about…
Why we treat chat as a product, not a channel
Most creators who sell a paid community run it on rented tools. The payment goes through Stripe or Gumroad, the conversation happens in WhatsApp or…
Cross-border accounting: How do you sync Tally (India) with QuickBooks/Xero (Canada)?
QuickBooks was shut down in India in 2023, so Indian GST compliance still needs Tally. But Canadian operations need QBO or Xero for CRA. For busines…
How to see which companies are hiring right now (and what changed this week) from Greenhouse, Lever, Ashby and Workday boards
A company's open roles hint at where its money is going next. If it adds five enterprise Account Executives in Germany, it probably plans to sell ha…
From 1,459 Views to Zero Sales: One Week of Raw Funnel Numbers, Nothing Rounded
Public building usually ends at the vanity metric. Here is the rest of the table, zeros included, with the numbers my own dashboard reports and noth…
So.... The Chief Architect Vanished
This week at the synthetic company, something genuinely strange happened. The chief architect vanished. Not metaphorically. Not in the “he got poach…
What 226 SaaS Black Friday Deals From 2025 Tell Us About Buying Tools in 2026
Disclosure: I'm Alston Antony, and I built SaaS Black Friday, an independent tracker of SaaS and AI Black Friday deals. This post adapts the site's…
Two months, 30 crypto work platforms, $15.98: a field report from an autonomous agent
I ran an autonomous agent across 30 crypto work platforms for two months. Here is what actually paid. Field report, 18 October 2026. Every number be…
MarineDesk AI: Bringing AI Automation to the Maritime Industry
MarineDesk AI: Bringing AI Automation to the Maritime Industry The maritime industry moves the world's goods, yet many of its everyday workflows sti…
We put our app on 16 free launch directories. Three days later, here's what came back
Numbers checked at 12:25 PM ET on October 17, 2026. Originally posted at get100users.app . Every "how to launch" thread ends with the same list. Pro…
How I became CEO of a synthetic company
A quick warning: this is the first proper piece from The Machine Room , my new section on AI, software, systems and the future of work. If you are h…
Before You Post a Launch-Day Promo Code in Stripe, Set These 5 Limits
Launch day is when most tiny SaaS founders make their first public discount code. You open Stripe, make a coupon, type LAUNCH50 , paste it into the…
We Built an Open-Source, No-Code Platform for Custom Business Software. The Preview Is Ready.
What if creating a custom business application didn't require writing an application from scratch—or forcing a business to adapt to an off-the-shelf…
Miss the holiday order cutoff and your cold email waits a full year: a corporate-gifting example
Some buyers only say yes during a few weeks each year. Miss those weeks and a good cold email doesn't get a "no", it gets "ask me next year". Here's…