Top Posts for the week of 2026-09-14 - Indie Hackers

Sep 14thto20th, 2026

I built this for myself. It worked, so I'm testing it inside PlanMoon.

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Everyone's adding llms.txt. Almost nothing is reading it.

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How are you getting your first real users for your SaaS or AI product?

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You Launched. So Why Is Nobody Finding Your Product?

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A reply about email lists got me thinking about what I could actually offer!

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I handed my content marketing to agents. 6 months later organic traffic is 34x.

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Did anyone actually pay you before you built the full product?

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Building Is Hard. Getting Discovered Is Harder.

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I built a small tool for getting code into AI. I abandoned it after 3 sales, now it has 12.

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I read 180 reviews of a $116M CRM before we built ours. Here's what small teams actually complain about.

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I let an AI agent run my LLM-security product's whole sales loop for 30 days. Here's what actually broke.

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Shipped a manual net-worth app (no bank sync) — what UX friction would you expect?

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Your Product Might Not Need More Features — It Might Need More Discovery

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I posted a boring intro in a 456k-person community. One line got all the reaction

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What Makes You Trust a New SaaS Product?

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We swept 30 markets and kept 93 of 3430 candidates. Here is what the 2.7% actually taught me.

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I built a CLI to catch Stripe webhook regressions using real event fixtures — looking for 2–3 developers to try it

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A few weeks ago, I shared Tweak on Indie Hackers when we launched the first version.

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Google made me find 12 strangers willing to test my app for 14 days. Nobody warned me how hard that actually is.

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Stripe doesn't issue merchant accounts in my country. I shipped a paid SaaS anyway.

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