the first person who pays for your app tells you something a thousand “cool idea!” replies can’t. They want it enough to spend money. Getting to that person is why we’re launching FirstUser today. It’s for solo founders and small teams who’ve built something people can use but haven’t figured out how to reach the people who’ll buy it. Here’s where we start: You send us your link. A real person opens your product and uses it as a new visitor would. We look at what your landing page promises, what signup asks for, how quickly someone reaches value, and how pricing fits into the journey. Then we tell you: - Who we think is most likely to pay - Which channels fit your app - Where the funnel needs work - Whether we think we can help The review is free, with an answer within 24 hours. No card required. If we work together, our team handles the organic growth work. If you’d rather post yourself, FirstUser Agent starts at $10/month and finds content formats you can adapt, backed by real examples and performance comparisons. No guaranteed customer counts. A plan for your product, and clear reporting on what happens. Your product is ready for someone to try it. Let’s find the people who have a reason to care. firstuser.si

Trying to solve the hardest problem for solo builders. Getting your first PAYING customers within 20 days of launch. Building an app is easier than ever. Getting your first users? That's the real challenge. That's why I'm building FirstUser. To help solo builders get attention, reach the right audience, and turn that attention into paying users. Launching in a week.

Hey @X 👋 Looking to connect with people who are building things. Would love to meet: → Indie hackers → Founders → SaaS builders → Developers → Indie makers → AI builders If you're building something too, drop a “hi” below 👇 Let's connect 🤝

Not really. People still pay for software because they just don’t want the headache. Example: I need a social media scheduler. I could try building one with Claude connect Instagram, YouTube, X, deal with all the API keys, tokens, rate limits, random errors… it’s annoying. Or I just pay $30 for Buffer (or whatever) and use Claude on top of it. Done in 5 minutes. Most people will always pick the second option. Software isn’t dead. People just hate unnecessary friction.

i saw this post about a 27 year old in china who bought 100 mac minis with his own money and filled his apartment with them. he rents out the compute to small ai teams for light fine tuning and data labeling. he put in about 60k. broke even in three months. now it brings in 25 to 30k a month and he mostly just dusts them. the part that stuck with me is he keeps one mac mini separate. that one only runs arbitrage scripts on polymarket. it looks for tiny gaps under a dollar and flips them. it’s already done 29,000 trades and just sits there making money on its own. the rental side and the trading side don’t interfere with each other. both are mostly hands off at this point. one setup pays the bills. the other one just runs in the corner.

My domain portfolio is worth more than my MRR How many domains do you own? 👀

Another .si domain added to my portfolio 🔥 Something big is coming soon

Everyone is digging for gold in the AI era. I think the real gold rush is selling the shovels. 👇 200K+ apps launch every day? (Maybe not, but the point stands.) Building software is getting ridiculously easy. → Codex or claude can build apps in hours. → AI can handle most of the coding. → Anyone can launch a SaaS with a laptop. But here's the problem: Building an app is easy. Getting customers is hard. Most indie hackers struggle with: → No marketing budget → No content strategy → No distribution → No users. No revenue. And that's where the opportunity is. Look at the creators teaching people how to build apps. They're making money from YouTube, paid communities, and distribution not necessarily from the apps they're teaching people to build. They understand something most founders don't: distribution is the real business. So here's the opportunity I'm seeing: Build an agency that helps indie hackers get customers. → Turn their apps into viral content. → Create Reels, Shorts, and demos. → Get their products in front of the right audience. → Help them turn attention into paying customers. And the best part? Our potential clients are already everywhere on X, building and launching products. We don't need to build another app. We need to help the people building apps get customers. Everyone else is digging for gold. Maybe we should be selling the shovels.

Who’s your Jarvis? A) Muse B) Dot C) Grok bot D) Hermes E) OpenClaw

I got 5 paying customers in 3 days with basically ZERO audience. No big ad budget. No YouTube. No Instagram. No existing audience. Just → X + Reddit. Here’s exactly what happened: → I launched my app → I had ~370 Reddit followers + 26K+ karma → I learned I could about marketing on Reddit → I posted my app in a few relevant communities → 1,200+ people visited my app → 5 actually became paying customers And this point I felt it's very easy to grow app😅 I knew Reddit was strict about self-promotion. But there’s one thing I love about Reddit: → If you get the right post in front of the right community, you can get thousands of visitors without spending money. Then... I got banned.💀 And now my MRR is basically stuck. That experience taught me something: Building the app wasn't the hardest part. Distribution was. So I'm curious: → How are you marketing your app? → What distribution channel is actually working for you right now?

I’ve tried cold email, calls, Instagram DMs, LinkedIn DMs, X DMs, and paid ads. X is still one of my favorites for one reason: A potential client can tell you exactly what they need before you ever speak to them. “Looking for an editor for my YouTube channel.” If I were finding my first client today, here’s how I’d use that ↓ 1 → Search for a specific request. “Looking for a video editor.” “Need a landing page designer.” “Hiring a copywriter.” Start with a service you can deliver well. 2 → Check whether the work fits. Read the full post. Look at their content. Choose a sample relevant to what they need. 3 → Follow their contact instructions. If they invite DMs, I’d send: “Hey, saw you’re looking for a YouTube editor. Here’s a sample of my work in that style: [link]. How often are you planning to publish?” 4 → Make sure your profile backs you up. What you do. Examples of your work. How to reach you. The request → gives you context. The sample → gives them something to judge. The question → starts a useful conversation. If I were starting today, I’d look for someone already asking for help.

You can bring Apple’s Liquid Glass look to your website. There’s an open-source project called Liquid Glass that brings the effect to the web and you can try it right now. It’s built for: → Chromium browsers → Safari → Firefox → Electron The video shows it running on desktop Chromium, where it already works well. It’s still early, though. Safari and mobile have rough edges, and the developer is working on those next. If you want to experiment with the look in your own project: → Install: npm i @glass-sdk/liquid-glass → Demo: liquid-glass.glassapp.dev → Repo: github.com/Glass-HQ/liquid-g… Worth a look if you’ve been wanting to try this style on the web.

I’m tired of babysitting Claude and Codex. 7 days of improving the workflow for ONE specific task. Better prompts. Custom skills. Examples. References. Detailed instructions. And somehow… I’m still getting generic, unusable AI slop. At this point, I spend more time telling the AI how to do the work than actually doing the work. Claude + Codex are insanely good at coding. But writing and marketing? I’m tired of babysitting. How do you manage them?

i can’t decide which one feels better 👀 been working on a push-up app. which design would you actually use?

Looking to connect with more people building their own thing. → Indie hackers → Startup founders → Marketers & growth people → Tech builders Let’s connect, swap ideas, and build something together 🫡

i got my first client from reddit. yep, reddit. reddit is seriously underrated. you already have properly categorized audiences sitting inside communities. people are literally telling you what problems they have. so finding potential clients can be surprisingly easy. but here’s the catch: reddit is super hostile to cold outreach and obvious promotion. you can’t just say: “hey, i offer this service. dm me.” you need to be a good copywriter. instead of chasing people, structure your post so the right person reads it and thinks: “wait… this is exactly what i need.” don’t ask them to DM you. don’t sell. just show that you understand the problem and can solve it. if you do it right, they’ll find you. and then the DM comes naturally.

maybe google skipped the LLM race… and chose 🍌 instead. Nano Banana 2.1 just dropped.

5 years WITHOUT a sales call. Frankie says he closes agency offers through 5-minute loom videos instead. But the video is only half the system. Here’s the breakdown: → Find your buyers Connect with people in your target niche on Facebook or LinkedIn. Start where your audience already spends time. → Post an outcome they want “Who’s interested in our PPC services?” makes people evaluate a service. “Who’s interested in getting more calls from people who need emergency plumbing repairs?” gives them a business outcome to evaluate. Same underlying service. Clearer reason to care. → Let interested people raise their hands A simple post: “If we could help you achieve [specific outcome], would you want the details?” Their responses give you feedback before you spend weeks building a website around the offer. → Send a short video Show what the service produces. Explain what’s included. Share the price. Walk through how to buy. Give them a way to ask questions. → Start custom, then reuse For a new offer, Frankie sends personalized videos. Once he understands the recurring questions and objections, he creates one reusable video. The sequence: Relevant audience → clear promise → raised hand → demonstration → price → next step. The useful lesson: make the offer easy to understand before asking someone to make time for it.

how do i BURN through 2 codex resets in just 5 days? cancelled my plan yesterday and have no idea what to throw at the remaining usage. give me your wildest ideas. let’s burn it all.

I made money with n8n. Now I’m putting more of my learning time into communication, marketing and distribution. In 2023, I learned HTML, CSS and JavaScript. I thought I was on my way to becoming a software engineer. Then I saw ChatGPT write code. My thinking changed. Next → I learned n8n. Built automations for businesses. Got clients. Made good money. Then → Claude Code, Codex and another shift in how I work. I kept learning the next tool. But I started questioning how long knowing that tool would remain an advantage. If people can get more work done simply by telling AI what they want, what happens to businesses built around doing those steps for them? Yet the advice keeps repeating: → Start an AI automation agency. → Sell AI agents. → Sell workflows. → Send more cold DMs. New tools. The same business model. More people competing in the same inboxes. n8n made me money. But something working for me before doesn’t automatically make it the opportunity I should keep chasing. Time changes. What people need help with changes. So I’m changing where I put my attention: → Communication: understanding people and expressing ideas clearly. → Marketing: understanding what people care about and why they choose something. → Distribution: learning how to get my work in front of the right people. I want to get better at those decisions, whatever tools I use next. I’m still figuring this out. I don’t have a new playbook to sell. If you’ve made a similar shift, what helped you build these skills in practice?