TurboTags
Smarter Tags. Faster Reach. Global Growth.
Earlier this year, I built TurboTags.app — a free AI-powered tags & hashtag generator for YouTube, TikTok, Instagram, and Facebook. It now supports multiple languages and 30+ regions, and I’ve learned a lot about SEO, growth, and building in public along the way.
Now I want to start my next website/project — something useful, simple, and scalable (like TurboTags).
I’d love to hear from the Indie Hackers community:
What kinds of tools do you wish existed right now?
Are there pain points you face (as creators, indie hackers, or entrepreneurs) that no one is solving well?
Would you recommend sticking to the creator tools niche or exploring something new (like finance, productivity, or utilities)?
I’ll build in public again — and happy to share progress here.
🙏 Looking forward to your ideas and feedback!
A year ago, I was struggling as a small creator. I’d spend hours uploading shorts on YouTube and Instagram, only to see… almost no reach.
I realized one big problem: tags and hashtags.
Most of the free tools I tried were outdated or only worked for one platform. The good ones were behind a paywall.
That’s when I decided to build TurboTags.app.
👉 A free AI-powered tool that instantly generates tags, hashtags, and even SEO-friendly titles — for YouTube, TikTok, Instagram, and Facebook.
👉 Supports multiple languages + 30+ regions, so creators everywhere (US, UK, India, Africa, etc.) can grow faster.
👉 No signup. No limits. Just type your topic and get optimized results.
Since launching, I’ve:
Helped 1,000+ creators test the tool
Added multi-language support (EN, HI, UR, RU… more coming)
Expanded targeting to 30+ regions worldwide 🌍
Learned way more about SEO than I expected 😅
Now, I’d love to get feedback from fellow Indie Hackers:
If you’re a creator, what’s the biggest challenge you face with reach?
Which features would you love to see in a tool like this?
Would really appreciate your thoughts! 🙏
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TurboTags sounds like a game changer..
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Thanks so much, Parag 🙌 Really glad you think so! The whole idea with TurboTags is to make life easier for creators — instead of spending hours guessing titles and hashtags, they can get optimized ideas instantly and focus more on creating. 🚀
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Well, as YouTube also said, no ai AI-generated content wil be appreciated, i think that research from such tools also will not be taken in terms of quality
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But with TurboTags, the focus isn’t on creating content with AI — it’s on helping creators research smarter: finding the right tags, hashtags, and SEO-friendly titles faster. At the end of the day, quality still comes from the creator — TurboTags just gives them better visibility so their work can actually be discovered.
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Really impressive, Khan!
I’m 16 and building Kaelis, an AI Ops Copilot that runs team operations on autopilot.
Seeing how you grew TurboTags to help 1,000+ creators is super inspiring.
Quick question:
How did you get your first wave of users/clients?
Was it mostly Indie Hackers & Reddit, or did you use other channels (SEO, partnerships)?
Would love to learn from your early traction playbook.
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Thanks a lot 🙏 That’s awesome you’re building Kaelis at 16 — huge respect for starting this early 🚀
For TurboTags, my first wave of users mostly came from posting in communities (Indie Hackers, Reddit, Twitter/X). I shared my build-in-public journey rather than just the product, and that really helped people connect.
Then I leaned on SEO — simple blog posts + Medium articles started driving organic traffic slowly but steadily. No paid ads, just consistent sharing and backlinks.
Now I’m exploring partnership mentions (cross-linking with other AI tools) to reach adjacent audiences.
If I had to summarize my traction playbook:
Build something genuinely useful (creators test & share fast).
Share the story openly in communities.
Layer SEO so traffic compounds over time.Curious — are you thinking of growing Kaelis through community-first channels too, or planning to test a more B2B/enterprise path?
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Thanks so much for sharing all that detail 🙏
Super inspiring to see how much came from community + SEO without paid ads.
For Kaelis I’m aiming more at B2B SaaS / operations teams, so I’m still figuring out which early channels convert best.
I’m considering a mix of Indie Hackers / Reddit for the story and direct outreach on LinkedIn for early companies.
Curious: when you started leaning into SEO, how soon did you begin to see steady organic traffic? And if you were targeting a B2B audience, would you still begin with communities first or go straight to LinkedIn-style outreach?
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Great question 🙌 For me, SEO started showing a steady trickle around the 3–4 month mark once a few posts ranked, then it snowballed as more pages got indexed. Definitely slower than community traction but much more compounding over time.
If I were going B2B, I’d probably do both in parallel: communities (Indie Hackers, Reddit) for story + credibility, and LinkedIn outreach for early users/feedback. Communities give you trust, but LinkedIn gives you pipeline — the combo is strong.
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Super helpful, thanks for breaking that down 🙌
Love the idea of running both in parallel — community for trust + LinkedIn for pipeline.
I’ll start testing that mix right away and share how it goes. Appreciate you sharing the timeline on SEO too — 3–4 months is great to know.
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Glad it helped, Ernesto 🙌 Excited to see how Kaelis grows — B2B ops has huge potential. Definitely share updates when you test that mix, I’d love to hear what works best for you. Always learning from how others approach traction 🚀
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I think exploring some new niche would be better choice as there are lots of tools around creator niche and not many are working on other niches where AI could have great impact
Thanks for the perspective, Jatin 🙌 You’re right — AI’s impact goes far beyond the creator niche, and there’s definitely a lot of unexplored ground in other industries.
For now, I’m doubling down on creators since that’s the space I know best, but I’m keeping an open eye on other niches where AI could really move the needle. Appreciate you sparking that thought — it’s a great reminder not to get too narrow. 🚀
Congrats on TurboTags, Khan! Building something that helps 1000+ creators is no small feat.
For your next project, I'd suggest staying in the creator space but solving a different layer of the problem. You've already nailed distribution (tags/SEO), so what about the production side?
Here's an idea that came to mind: a "Content Recycling Engine" - take one piece of content and automatically adapt it for different platforms with their specific formats, lengths, and best practices. Creators spend hours reformatting the same content for YouTube Shorts vs Instagram Reels vs TikTok.
The beauty is you could leverage your TurboTags insights about what works across platforms, but solve the content adaptation problem instead. Simple, scalable, and builds on your existing expertise.
Keep building in public - it's inspiring to see the journey!
Thanks so much, ArkYu 🙏 Really appreciate the encouragement and the thoughtful idea.
I agree — content recycling is a huge pain point. Many creators I’ve spoken with say the same thing: they spend more time reformatting for platforms than actually creating.
Love your “Content Recycling Engine” angle — it feels like a natural next step after TurboTags, since both focus on saving creators time and boosting their reach. Definitely something I’d love to explore further. 🚀
And thanks again for the push to keep building in public — feedback like this makes the journey way more exciting.
Congrats on shipping TurboTags 👏 That’s a huge milestone.
I’m 16 and currently building Kaelis, an AI Ops Copilot that automates team operations (emails, scheduling, alerts) so teams can focus on deep work.
From your experience scaling TurboTags, what’s the one thing you’d focus on first if you were starting something B2B/ops-focused today?
Congrats on Kaelis — starting at 16 is incredible 👏 If I were beginning something B2B/ops-focused today, I’d obsess over one specific pain point and solve it in the lightest way possible before layering features. For TurboTags, it was ‘make SEO tags fast.’ For you, maybe it’s ‘automate one painful ops task perfectly’ before scaling. Out of curiosity — which team ops task do you think founders feel the most friction around right now?”
Oh haha just realized I replied to your other thread too 😅
Really appreciate all the insights you’re sharing — super helpful as I figure out Kaelis’s first pain point.
Right now I’d say the biggest friction I see is around context switching:
teams lose hours every week jumping between emails, meetings, and project tools, and critical info gets lost.
My focus is to automate that flow end-to-end so ops feel “invisible” and teams can stay in deep work.
It solves a real pain, and easy to share. love that model. I believe most creators don’t need more tools, they need better leverage. Nice to have for me would be a sort of content tracker: something simple that helps creators track what they’ve posted, where, and what’s working. Another one is a comment CRM like a lightweight way to track high-signal comments & DMs across platforms. The analysis engagement → conversion is still way too manual. And maybe a micro-asset vault. Not full-on Notion but just a fast way to save/test intros, hooks, CTAs, etc., across formats. Good luck!
Really appreciate this 🙏 You nailed it — leverage > more tools. A content tracker, comment CRM, and micro-asset vault all feel like the kind of lightweight helpers creators actually need. Even I’ve hacked together Notion/Sheets for this and it’s still messy 😅
If you had to pick just one of those to ship first, which would make the biggest difference for you day-to-day?”
That’s pretty dope bro what are you working on now?
“Thanks, Keith! Right now I’m brainstorming my next project — trying to find something as simple and scalable as TurboTags. Still exploring whether to stay in creator tools or branch into productivity/finance. What about you — any projects you’re excited about?”
This is the kind of energy that moves the ecosystem forward. I’m building White Waters Sentinel—a civic tech platform tackling pipeline vandalism and oil theft in Nigeria. Watching you ship TurboTags and ask the right questions reminds me that simplicity and impact scale best. I’d love to see more tools that help founders build visibility into real-world problems, not just vanity metrics.
“Really appreciate that, Karo 🙏 White Waters Sentinel sounds powerful — civic tech with real-world impact is a huge need. I love your point about solving beyond vanity metrics. Do you think there’s space for lightweight, accessible tools that help indie hackers/founders measure that kind of impact (vs just growth numbers)?”
Absolutely. I believe there’s huge potential for lightweight tools that help founders measure real-world impact. With White Waters Sentinel Systems (W2S2), we’re building something simple but powerful starting with voice alerts from communities affected by pipeline theft. Even in its early form, it shows how civic intelligence can be captured without complex systems. The challenge isn’t building dashboards ,it’s designing tools that listen to people, not just count users
Wow, that’s inspiring Karo 👏 I love how you framed it — ‘tools that listen to people, not just count users.’ That resonates a lot. It makes me think about how impact-driven metrics could be designed into simple creator/indie hacker tools too. I’d love to follow your journey with W2S2 — and maybe even learn how we can translate some of those civic intelligence ideas into the creator/entrepreneur space.
Thanks so much for that, truly. That line "tools that listen to people, not just count users” is the heartbeat of W2S2. We’re trying to build something that doesn’t just track data, but amplifies voices that have been ignored for decades.
I’d love to hear more about your thoughts on impact-driven metrics. How do you think creators and civic tech builders can measure real change not just engagement, but actual outcomes?
Let’s keep the conversation going. I’m following your journey too.
Really appreciate you staying in this convo, Karo 🙌
I think you’re absolutely right — impact-driven metrics could bridge both worlds: civic tech and creator tools. For example, instead of just tracking “likes” or “views,” a creator tool could show how content sparked action (comments that share real stories, collaborations started, even small community shifts).
Your W2S2 approach feels like a blueprint for that — amplifying voices > counting numbers. That’s the kind of principle I’d love to experiment with in future projects beyond TurboTags.
Would you be open to a deeper chat sometime? I think there’s real crossover potential here between civic intelligence + indie hacking. 🚀
I’ve always believed impact isn’t measured in likes it’s measured in movement. If a post sparks a partnership, if a comment leads to a shift in community thinking, that’s the metric I care about. That’s the W2S2 approach. I’m glad you see it. This project started as a whisper in my head, and now it’s echoing across inboxes, boardrooms, and civic spaces.
Your idea of blending civic intelligence with indie hacking? That’s exactly the kind of crossover I want to explore next.
Let’s talk. Let’s build. Let’s experiment with tools that count what truly matters. Appreciate you seeing the blueprint.
🔥 Couldn’t agree more, Karo. ‘Impact = movement’ is such a powerful framing — and the fact that W2S2 is already echoing into civic spaces shows how real it is.
I’d love to explore building something experimental together — maybe even a lightweight prototype that blends civic intelligence + creator tools to see how impact-driven metrics could work in practice.
I’ll DM you so we can take this forward — excited to jam on this 🚀
Appreciate the message. That crossover sounds interesting happy to explore it further once the DM comes through.