Top Posts for the week of 2026-09-28 - Indie Hackers

Sep 28thtoOct 4th, 2026

Your AI Is Smart Enough. Does It Know When to Stop?

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

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I built TidyLedger to turn messy invoices into clean Excel reports

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I built a browser extension for the thing that was eating my day

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

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

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The number that made us rethink our entire positioning

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

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My first paying customer came from 151 impressions. What their first day looked like

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WakeWin is finally on the App Store. Here's what App Review made me cut.

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I priced my transcription app against Otter, Rev, Sonix and HappyScribe. Here's where I lose

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Show IH: I built a free check for mobile app submission evidence gaps

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

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You changed the page. How long before you judge whether AI answers moved?

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I shipped recently of an open-source architecture guard for AI coding agents

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Shipped a big update to our onboarding agent, wanted to share the details

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

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Enrichr: Open Source AI system that reverse-engineers any site's animations + WebGL shaders

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i built an open-source Minecraft server dashboard with AI agents in 5 days. now looking for the first 20 servers

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I checked why our own site has zero visibility. Found two bugs in ten minutes.

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