Aymane - أيمن

Building Waitly the journey, lessons, and experiments behind building a SaaS.

[Aymane - أيمن @AymaneOnX]

I'm building a waitlist tool for indie hackers.

Right now, the landing pages users can create include:
- Logo (optional)
- Headline
- Description
- Email input
- CTA button

That's it.

Would you use this for your next launch, or would you expect more (screenshots, FAQs, feature cards, testimonials, etc.)?

I'd love your honest feedback 👇

[Aymane - أيمن @AymaneOnX]

I'm at the start of my journey as indie hacker (3 months), and it's been a week since I'm trying to get visitors on my SaaS website.
Those are the results so far:
- 203 impressions
- 1 click
- 0.5% average CTR
- 19.1 average position
Are these good signs?
#buildinpublic

[Aymane - أيمن @AymaneOnX]

@smoothcode97 Did you knew before building this app that it's going to make you money or is it just luck?

[Aymane - أيمن @AymaneOnX]

@hridoyreh Do you think SEO strategies can change from business to another? How about SaaS?

[Aymane - أيمن @AymaneOnX]

@hridoyreh Thanks man

[Aymane - أيمن @AymaneOnX]

@cyrilgupta It mainly helps with collecting email addresses of people interested in your project and sending broadcast emails to those subscribers to inform them about the project advancements or if it's ready for launch.

[Keval Shah | Ecom SEO + AEO @SEOKeval]

I don't understand people who say you don't need link building to improve your brand's SEO.

Whenever someone tells me that, I know to disregard whatever else they say.

I mean, take a look at this example:

Ecom brand came to me for SEO help in March.

I fixed all the technical and on-page issues within the first two weeks.

Usually, Google recognizes those changes within a few weeks and you see a jump in organic traffic.

That didn't happen.

So what did I do?

I started building backlinks.

Lots of them.

Over 20 a month from relevant sites with real organic traffic.

(It looks like this tools hasn't registered a lot of them for whatever reason)

I appropriately spaced them out between the homepage, product category pages and blog content.

And four months later, I've moved 50+ target transactional keywords onto the 1st page.

Organic traffic has gone absolutely vertical as a result.

Show this to anyone who says link building isn't needed anymore.

You can literally see the positive correlation between referring domains and organic traffic.

[Aymane - أيمن @AymaneOnX]

@BrianEDean Great content × consistency = growth.
Poor content × consistency = more poor

Consistency isn't overrated. It's a multiplier.

[Aymane - أيمن @AymaneOnX]

@BrianEDean Great content × consistency = growth.
Poor content × consistency = more poor

Consistency isn't overrated. It's a multiplier.

[Semrush @semrush]

SEO is no longer just about ranking in Google. In 2026, it also means being visible in AI-driven search surfaces like Google’s AI Overviews and ChatGPT.

This SEO checklist covers tasks that can help you gain visibility no matter where your audience is searching 👇

https://t.co/OGQBCyv4dD.

[Aymane - أيمن @AymaneOnX]

@Ahmadullah_Faiz I wasn't expecting that answer. I don't think I phrased my question very well. I wasn't really asking about the number of features. What I meant was: How do we know we've reached enough value to justify launching?

[Aymane - أيمن @AymaneOnX]

How do we know when an app that we're building has enough features that would make people want to use it? 🤔

[Hridoy Reh @hridoyreh]

Find users on Indie Hackers.

Your target audience is already there.

Steps:

1. Create an account.
2. Share your progress.
3. Publish case studies.
4. Answer questions.
5. Ask for feedback.
6. Build relationships.

Invite members to test your product.

[Okara @askOkara]

https://t.co/Nr2dIN1TSa

[Hridoy Reh @hridoyreh]

Reddit marketing hack that works:

1. Find 20 subreddits your customers use.
2. Join and leave only helpful answers.
3. See if anyone else is promoting.
4. Analyze and note the hook.
5. Mention your SaaS if necessary.

Marketing on Reddit is not easy.

Use Reddit like a user, not a marketer...

[Aymane - أيمن @AymaneOnX]

@hridoyreh I think the hardest part is resisting the urge to mention your product. Most of the time, helping first pays off more in the long run.

[Okara @askOkara]

i've seen startups get 100k visitors a month and still make almost no money from seo

it's almost always the same reason. they chase top-of-funnel keywords that bring traffic but never bring buyers

bottom-of-funnel keywords are where the money is. lower volume, much higher intent, and most of them sit completely untargeted

how to find bottom-of-funnel keywords
> list every competitor
> search "[competitor] alternative"
> search "[competitor] vs [competitor]"
> search "[category] for [use case]"
> search "best [category] for [icp]"
> search "[category] with [feature or integration]"
> search "[competitor] pricing" and "[competitor] review"
> group similar searches together
> build one strong page per group

once you find out what they want, you can target them appropriately per page (no stuffing). then juice those pages with good internal linking

okara finds these gaps and writes the pages for you

[Aymane - أيمن @AymaneOnX]

@nikitabier Appreciate this update. Hopefully my feed starts showing more builders sharing real experiences instead of engagement farming.

[Aymane - أيمن @AymaneOnX]

@nikitabier Appreciate this update. Hopefully my feed starts showing more builders sharing real experiences instead of engagement farming.

[Nikita Bier @nikitabier]

Some updates on the creator rev share program:

1. Soliciting engagements (“I’ll follow everyone who replies”) 3 or more times will results in removal from the program and your account will be forwarded to the policy team for suspension. Grok now catches all of these.

Nearly 4000 accounts were removed from the program today.

2. Our new model now detects duplicated content at 3x the rate of the previous model. Adding watermarks, intros and other edits will send monetized impressions to the original uploader. This also includes copying viral text posts (most common one: “Twitter is like the smoking section of the internet”).

We detected 1.5 million posts that were stolen this cycle. Repeated or intentional circumvention will lead to removal from the program.

With these changes, over $1 million will be given back to original content creators.