Rareș's activity on Indie Hackers

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Shipped a free directory submission tracker

0 customers after 2 months, and the most useful feedback I got was "it looks vibe coded"

Spent years defaulting to Stripe. Turns out "merchant of record" was the decision I never actually made.

3 cancelled interviews while trying to keep my SaaS alive. Senior engineer hiring is brutal.

Using my own framework to validate my next product. It's harder than I thought.

First time actually validating a side project before building. 6 days in, here's what's surprising me

I took advice from a founder who built 9 startups to $5M ARR to improve my product

My LinkedIn post got 17K impressions. Only 2 followers. The profile was killing conversions.

The "10 people" rule for killing ideas fast

5 distribution tactics I found in founder post-mortems ($20k-$37k MRR, zero ad spend)

Trying to win a hackathon with a product nobody wants. Lessons on validation.

I wrote an honest comparison of my product vs every competitor. Here's what I learned about my own gaps.

Your burn rate is higher than you think (if you count opportunity cost)

First time validating a problem. Turns out nobody needs what I'm building.

First time validating a problem. Turns out nobody needs what I'm building.

I added up every SaaS expense I pay while at $0 MRR

My break-even math says this product alone won't get me to $2K MRR

I built 5 free tools to rank on Google. 6 weeks later, here's the honest numbers.

Building my first fully vibe coded SaaS for the Polar x Lovable hackathon

I built an AI agent that tells you to Kill your idea (before you waste months on it)