Top Posts for the month of 2026-09 - Indie Hackers

September 2026

I think AI agents have an authority problem we're treating as a permissions problem

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

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🚀 Grow Your Business on Autopilot

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80+ people used a feature I never announced. Here's what I learned.

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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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If you had a B2B SaaS with 0 customers today, how would you get the first 10?

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$48 MRR and I can't prove where any of it came from

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I built a free site speed report that names the slow file. Pro Watch ($19/mo) just went live.

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How do you know whether low traction is a product problem or a distribution problem?

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I’m building a runtime governance layer for AI agents — not another prompt guardrail

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I thought I was building a tech blog. Turns out I was building a distribution asset

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The hardest part of my product isn't the tech — it's deciding how much to explain

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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 wanted Letterboxd for stand-up, so I built Standupd

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We got our Shopify app approved in 72 days. Now we're stuck at distribution and people keep offering us paid reviews.

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I built an AI fitness app solo, got banned from Reddit, flopped on Product Hunt, and found traction on Q&A sites. Here's what worked.

OmniCreativeWorks

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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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Built an AI cofounder that remembers my startup's context between sessions

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

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