Top Posts for the month of 2026-05 - Indie Hackers

May 2026

I’m launching on Product Hunt in 12 days with zero customers. Here’s my exact plan.

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AI runs 70% of my distribution. The exact stack.

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Solo dev here. nobody using my app. how do you actually do marketing?

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Still no paying users. So I'm doing something different.

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I'm trying to get 50 users in 25 days with zero audience. Here's my exact plan

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I built a SaaS in 10 days. 3 weeks live. 0 paying customers. Here's the data.

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Agencies charge $5,000 for a 60-second product demo video. I make mine for $0. Here's the exact workflow.

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The most embarrassing realization I had this week: Our startup was completely invisible to Google.

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Most startup advice sounds good until you actually start building

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I've been building for months and made $0. Here's the honest psychological reason — and it's not what I expected.

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I used $30,983 of AI tokens last month in Claude code on $200/mo plan

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I'm a solo founder. It took me 9 months and at least 3 stack rewrites to ship my SaaS.

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Most AI agent failures are actually workflow failures

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Show IH: I built a tool that tells site owners what content to create — looking for 10 people to break it

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30 days ago I posted here with $0 revenue. Here's what actually happened next.

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Product Hunt is done. I have 1 sign-up and $0 MRR. Here's how I'm thinking about finding my first paying customer.

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I built an AI to kill the 3-week Excel research grind. It got 8 PH upvotes. What did I do wrong?

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Most startups don’t fail because the founders are lazy

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Validating a startup idea: AI helps us ship code faster, but who makes sure the business data is still correct?

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I made a mistake every first-time founder makes — I built first, validated later. Here's what I'd do differently.

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