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Former freelance dev.

Built to get my products off the ground faster.

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Your next customer has to find you first.

People find new tools on launch directories.

Is your product there?

I used this method many times in the past, and now I turned it into a product.

Tested it on itself.

DR 0 → DR 29 in less than a week. No paid directories.

Link to LaunchIntel below ;)

(props to Opus 5.5 the GOAT for the amazing launch video!)

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Gemini 4 Carbon is out for everyone now.

Are you trying it for coding, or staying with Claude?

One answer.

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Solo founder, no cofounder, no funding? Let's connect.

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Ready to get your first customer?

- Get backlinks
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- Reuse it on every new launch at no extra cost!

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You shipped. Nobody showed up.

So I wrote 370+ directory playbooks and gave them to my own AI agent.

It listed https://t.co/vmY7H9gZAu one by one.

DR 0 to 30+ in under a week. No paid directories.

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Solo founder, no cofounder, no funding? Let's connect.

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Hey @grok, be brutally honest.

I'm a developer building side projects with AI agents.

Is shipping fast still an edge in 2026, or does everyone ship fast now?

Pick ONE.

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@Nabillahamed How do you keep the rules file from getting bloated over time?

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Hey Claude Code users,

Half my timeline is "I built an agent army in 30 minutes" tutorials right now.

Anyone actually running multi-agent setups in production?

Or is it still one main session and a lot of screenshots?

What am I missing?

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@haydxnqn Same here. If I don't want to use it myself, why would anyone else lol

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If X paid you $3,000/month to post, would you quit your job?

Yes or no.

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@Gdog_RVA Worktrees are underrated for this. Do you run each agent on its own branch?

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@Doublerightvc Nice, those savings add up fast on every release. Are you seeing it mostly in deploy times or in the bandwidth bill?

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Spot the problem.

The Dockerfile builds fine locally. On the server it reinstalls everything from scratch every time.

What's wrong?

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@YourVibeGuy Demos are easy, and production is where the agents start arguing with each other :)

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@haydxnqn ah that's good!

please get those duolingo folks out of the game bro, cuz they focus too much on gamification and not enough on actually teaching people a new language or to speak properly lol

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@Doublerightvc Runway really does protect creators. I learned that the hard way freelancing, one client leaving shouldn't sink you.

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@Doublerightvc Yep, multi-stage is the move. Image size drops a lot too.

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@imsonup_ Same here. One main session with a reviewer on top is plenty for me. The merge conflicts and cleanup are what eat the time.

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@roach998664 fair!

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@JensLee1e8 Clear landing page copy fixes more than people think, and talking to a few real users beats starting another project.

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You launched yesterday. Zero signups.

Do you:

A) post about it again
B) rewrite the landing page
C) submit it everywhere you can
D) start a new project lol

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@Doublerightvc I'd want at least 6 months of runway first, platforms can change the rules overnight.