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I launched SubPulse with 0 users. Here's what happened after 90 days

We turned off paid ads. Daily sign-ups fell about 90% within two days. Here's what we're trying instead.

Scope creep shows up on the invoice

I built TidyLedger to turn messy invoices into clean Excel reports

Are any of you building AI agents that need to pay outside providers?

I built a transparent-video workflow for sites—what would make the embed trustworthy?

We got 152 ad clicks and zero signups. The bug wasn't the ads — it was 3 clicks away from the money.

I built yet another carousel maker. This one is for developers.

Public number: 67 weekly users. So I built a tool for myself instead

The number that made us rethink our entire positioning

One plan, $19 flat, everything included. bold or naive? (0 customers so far)

I’m trying to grow a mobile app without relying on paid ads. Here’s my experiment.

I spent a week building my app's differentiator, then found four competitors already shipping it

Reddit's self-promo rules are killing organic growth for my legal-niche tool — what worked instead?

AI made execution cheap. Did it also make bad decisions cheaper ?

What I'm learning while building an evidence-to-action workflow

I have one AI write my code and a second one review it. Yesterday the reviewer failed 2 changes out of 5. When do you stop and drop a change

Which launch directories actually sent you users, not just a backlink?

NAEOS Technical Build Log #003-What Happens When Policy Changes Mid-Task?

A creator refused to endorse my product. Here's what I fixed because of it.