Shivank

I know organic marketing - Content.

[Jacob Rodri @jacobrodri_]

this app idea is insane

it lets you join step challenges with real money:

1. everyone pays an entry fee
2. goal is to hit a minimum daily step count
3. people who fail lose their money
4. winners split the pot

currently #9 on the app store in the health and fitness category

[Simone Canc @simonecanciello]

you can actually create a $39.99/year running app targeting women and use ai influencers to promote it.

[Social Growth Engineers @wesocialgrowth]

This new app is BOOMING

9 months in, $100K and 500K downloads

With 2 formats only:

[Starter Story @starter_story]

Hell yeah... this guy hit $10K MRR in 35 days 🤯

It's really the best time in history to build something:

[Simone Canc @simonecanciello]

i want an app that scans the food i’m eating at a restaurant and gives me the recipe.

recime is doing $1M/month.

they already have a lot of competitors.

but none of them has this feature.

169k weekly searches for “restaurant copycat recipes”.

who’s building it?

[Jacob Rodri @jacobrodri_]

$10M app idea:

A group chat app where friends can bet on real life events

Example: “Mike will be late to dinner”

1. Anyone who joins the bet puts in $50
2. If Mike is late, the winners split the pot
3. Everyone else loses their $50

[Jacob Rodri @jacobrodri_]

this app that tracks recent follows on instagram just reached $200k MRR in 8 months

build apps for toxic people, absolute gold mine

[Marshall @mdnlabs]

Another diet tracker doing $2,000,000/mo 😭

People feel guilty for not being healthy.

That's why they pay.

Onboarding
- Sex
- Height
- Weight
- Weight Goals
- Exercise Routine
- Other basic stuff on health

Paywall
> 1 Month -> $11.99/mo (NO TRAIL)
> 6 Months -> $47.99 (7.99/mo) (NO TRIAL)
> 1 Year -> $71.99 (5.99/mo) (7-DAY TRIAL)

The longer you commit, the more money you save.

People want to be committed to their health.

They are guilty to themselves and others if they're not.

That's why they pay.

Build your own tracker in Anything.

[Marshall @mdnlabs]

This app makes $10,000/mo by spying on your friends on Instagram 😭

People love being nosey, and these people monetize it.

Onboarding:
- Track your friends
- Give a review to help others
- Demo track anyone you want
- Dynamic "searching" loader screen

Paywall:
- What you'll see when you pay (secrets without the other person knowing)
- $5.99/week
- $9.99/month
- NO free trial.

It's literally the CHEAPEST API call on their end for ^^^ money.

Profit margin of 90% or higher.

Simple solutions for high margins are such a good investment.

Build your own with Anything.

[David Ch @chhddavid]

My SaaS hit $93,000 monthly in <10 mo

What i'd do starting over from 0 👇

1. launch publicly, even if it feels too early our - Product Hunt launch was #7 Product of the Day. it brought hundreds of users, real feedback, and paying customers.

timing wasn’t perfect (a VC-backed competitor launched the very next day and took #1), but visibility mattered more than trophies.

2. be consistent in public - posting daily updates on X and LinkedIn felt silly at first. most posts flopped. then one random post blew up and pulled in real users. you never know which post lands, so consistency beats guessing.

3. target pain with SEO - instead of writing fluffy blog posts, I created competitor vs. pages and articles around frustrations people already search for. those pages still bring some of our highest-intent users. lesson: angry Googlers convert.

4. talk to every user - refunds sting, but every single one became a conversation. the feedback was blunt (sometimes painfully so), but it turned into the clearest roadmap we could’ve asked for.

5. set up retention early - I set up payment failure and reactivation flows early on. even with a small user base, they’ve already saved churned revenue. most founders wait way too long on this.

6. hang out where your users are - I posted on Reddit in builder communities, shared demos, answered questions. a few of those posts directly turned into paying users.

7. show your face - when I posted as just a logo, people ignored me. once I started putting my face out there, conversations opened up. people trust humans, not logos.

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what didn’t work:

1. random SaaS directories: no clicks, no signups. wasted hours.

2. Hacker News: 1 upvote, gone in minutes. some channels just aren’t yours.

traction comes from promoting more than feels comfortable and people don’t want “fancy AI,” they want a painful problem solved simply

ALSO: consistency compounds (1 post, 1 DM can flip your trajectory)

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my 15-day restart plan:

days 1–3: show up in founder groups, comment and add value

days 4–7: find top 3 pain points people complain about

days 8–12: ship the simplest possible solution for #1 pain

days 13–15: launch publicly, price starting from $19/mo and talk directly to users until first payment lands

_ _ _

most indie founders fail because they hide behind code or logos. the only things that matter early are visibility, conversations, and charging real money for real pain.

what’s one underrated growth channel you’ve seen work in your niche?

[Starter Story @starter_story]

The money is not in big ideas.
It's in tiny niches.
Like this one, that makes $16k/month:

[Priyam Raj @priymrj]

anyone cracked on the best way to create and upload US TikTok accounts from India?

[Shivank @doxxwalter]

@samadivisualSM Guide

[Shivank @doxxwalter]

@ramonos Goated play.

[Shivank @doxxwalter]

@AlfieJCarter VID

[Shivank @doxxwalter]

Cloudflare staff rn.

[Shivank @doxxwalter]

Is this a good start?

[Shivank @doxxwalter]

Peak male living experience.

[Hubert Thieblot @hthieblot]

The longer I'm on X,
the more I realize:

Founders with small accounts are the most interesting ones.

- too busy building to posture
- no ego, just shipping
- Zero hype, just reality

don't hesitate to tell me what you are building!

I just want to fund great founders.

[Shivank @doxxwalter]

X &gt; any social media platform.