Benjamin 🐯 | Marketbud | RecFast

MarketBud | because you rather ship than market ! !
RecFast 🐯 | Screen Recordings for Windows. Auto-zooms & ASMR.

[Benjamin 🐯 | Marketbud | RecFast @BenJ_Flow]

1 signup. 0 marketing. No idea where it cames from.

Not a paying customer yet — just waitlist. But I'll take it.

I'm in the @RankInPublic tournament doing almost nothing outside of it.

Here's the meta part:

MarketBud is a CLI that helps devs who hate distribution (me) actually market their stuff.

So the real test is simple:

Can MarketBud market himself?

Round 3 starts now. 19 early bird spots left.

If this works → I built something useful.
If it flops → I learned in public.

Either way, first signup hit different.

What was your first signup moment — and did you screenshot it too?

[Benjamin 🐯 | Marketbud | RecFast @BenJ_Flow]

@eliana_jordan If it's useful like this who cares. Educationnal with good information.

What i can't stand is promoting for shit product and lying openly for sales.

[Benjamin 🐯 | Marketbud | RecFast @BenJ_Flow]

@tibo_maker Sorry i have a french pharmacist background also dev and it's triggers me ...
Glp-1 is for diabete people using it for weight loss push the price up and supply down for people who need it (huge shortage in France).
And 800 fakes doc ugc ...
And he's seen as a model ? I'm sick...

[Benjamin 🐯 | Marketbud | RecFast @BenJ_Flow]

1 sale. 0 marketing. 30 days of doing nothing.

Woke up to my first paid customer this morning. On a project I forgot existed.

Here's what happened:

RecFast (my screen recorder) sat untouched for a month. No updates. No posts. Complete silence.

I was focused on something else - a free French marketplace that hit 270 users in 15 days. All my attention went there.

RecFast? Abandoned.

This morning: payment notification.

Someone found it. Tried it. Paid for it. While I was sleeping.

Free users are nice. But this hits different.

Free = the idea works.
Paid = someone thinks it's worth money.

I'll probably improve the rendering soon - still rough around the edges.

But here's what I learned:

Not every project needs daily content.
Not every launch needs a marketing push.

Sometimes you build, ship, and let it sit.

If it's useful, someone will find it.

Build more. Promote less. Trust the process.

What's a project you stopped working on that surprised you later?

[Benjamin 🐯 | Marketbud | RecFast @BenJ_Flow]

@hustle_fred That's a common syndrome on X.
Chasing shiny object never led anywhere.

[Benjamin 🐯 | Marketbud | RecFast @BenJ_Flow]

242 visitors. 71 signups. 30% conversion. First deal in progress.

40 hours since launch. Zero ads. Zero budget.

Here's the timeline that still feels unreal:

1 year → building a free Facebook group for cleaning pros and property managers in France.

1 week → coding the actual site.

48 hours → 70+ users and the first negotiation happening right now.

30% bounce rate means people find what they came for.

30% conversion means they actually sign up.

First match in progress means it works.

Disclaimer: the site is free. This will probably never make me rich.

But watching a cleaner and a property manager negotiate a deal on something I built 48 hours ago?

That feeling has no price.

Community-first is slow. Until it isn't.

1 year of trust.
1 week of building.
48 hours of results.

What took you longer - building the product or finding people who care?

[Benjamin 🐯 | Marketbud | RecFast @BenJ_Flow]

you might need to search a little more.
i've done that too many times.
quick search no competition.
2 weeks into building find more than 20.

no competitors not a good sign (still research volume etc do some basics market research)
competitors means money but harder to differenciate

[Benjamin 🐯 | Marketbud | RecFast @BenJ_Flow]

@FlorinPop17 @rauchg if you don't choose wisely what you read, it will shrink even more...

[Benjamin 🐯 | Marketbud | RecFast @BenJ_Flow]

saw the same someone who want to "work with me" because i got some traction on a french project niche and he gots some similar project.

did my due diligence : 30k+ followers on linkedin ok seems good
not look a little more => 99% of posts have 0 likes or comments, only ragebait against french governements got 100+

i decline his offer the same day.

[Benjamin 🐯 | Marketbud | RecFast @BenJ_Flow]

@CodeWizard so basically you want people to do your job as an entrepreneur and dev ? 🤔

[Benjamin 🐯 | Marketbud | RecFast @BenJ_Flow]

25 users in 24 hours. 15 cleaners. 10 property managers. 0 ads spent.

On a French niche marketplace that didn't exist yesterday.

Here's the chaos:

Yesterday I DMed 30 people from my Facebook group. One by one.

7pm: site goes live.
7:01pm: first signups. First critical bug.

Registration broke. User roles weren't saving. For a marketplace, that's everything.

Full panic. I'm shipping fixes while people sign up on broken flows.

Reset 5 accounts manually. WhatsApp group saved me - warned everyone live.

9:30pm: finally calm. I'm exhausted.

This morning I check the stats:

25 signups. 20 completed onboarding.
Hérault and Var tied at 3 users each.

For a marketplace? Tiny numbers.

For a solo dev with a Facebook group and 24 hours? Best launch I've ever had.

No Product Hunt. No influencers. No budget.

Just 1 year of showing up in a community - finally paying off.

Community-first hits different.

What's the fastest you've gone from idea to real users?

[Benjamin 🐯 | Marketbud | RecFast @BenJ_Flow]

@jackfriks @postbridge_ apple watching his mac mini sells skyrocketing

[Benjamin 🐯 | Marketbud | RecFast @BenJ_Flow]

100% of my posts are AI generated.

Ok let me rephrase: 100% AI formatted. 0% AI thoughts.

English isn't my first language. AI fixes my grammar, spacing, structure.

But every idea, opinion, and experience in my posts? That's me.

Here's what I actually do:

I built a Python script that checks my drafts against X's open-source algorithm.

It doesn't generate content.
It formats what I already wrote.

Real question:

Do you follow people because of their line breaks?
Or because of what they actually think?

I use AI to format. Not to think. There's a difference.

And since we're being honest:

Fuck AI auto-replies.

If I wanted to chat with an AI, I'd open ChatGPT directly.

I don't need bots commenting "Love this! 🔥" on my posts.

That's not engagement. That's noise.

AI to write clearer = good.
AI to fake human interaction = garbage.

AI-formatted posts with real thoughts beat human-typed replies with zero substance. Every time.

What annoys you more - honest formatting or fake engagement?

[Benjamin 🐯 | Marketbud | RecFast @BenJ_Flow]

@leasdsgn non mais d'accord ils ont une agence mais ça peut etre quelqu'un de sa famille qui se lance et il a dit oui. c'est dans ce sens la.

[Benjamin 🐯 | Marketbud | RecFast @BenJ_Flow]

@arthuryuzbashew @mediafa_st 🙌 more than pretty good

[Benjamin 🐯 | Marketbud | RecFast @BenJ_Flow]

@james_alleyy dans ce cas la c'est autre chose en effet 😁 félicitations.

[Benjamin 🐯 | Marketbud | RecFast @BenJ_Flow]

@james_alleyy ça serait pas mal d'arreter de dire SaaS pour tout et n'importe quoi 😅
ton business est de louer des studios, t'as créé un site web de réservation/automatisation des réservations.
Pas un SaaS.

sinon chapeau pour la réussite.

[Benjamin 🐯 | Marketbud | RecFast @BenJ_Flow]

i like this idea ... i'm in a rush so i might go too quick on projects.
i'll try to get income from dev for people rather than my own project for a time or i might run out of cash.
considering my project as a side hustle to let it the time to grow. Might be way smarter than running after a big hit quick.

[Benjamin 🐯 | Marketbud | RecFast @BenJ_Flow]

@_baretto when do you assess ok this is not working at all and when you keep going ?

[Benjamin 🐯 | Marketbud | RecFast @BenJ_Flow]

@_baretto so prduct market fit can be crafted it's not supposed to be here every time on the first month for exemple ?