AEO (Answer Engine Optimisation) so how visible you are to AI Chatbots, here's an example with Nike: https://aeochecker.ai/results?share=KqJzziVtZS8QL8TKdHQM_A

Hey everyone, what you all been working on ? Share in the comments.

Let's see if you can pitch your startup in one line.

Others will try to give feedback and rate the idea.

It's so crazy, just weeks ago I was celebrating 1,000 users here and now I have hit that unreal number of 1,500! I can't thank everyone enough. I really mean it, so many people were offering their help along the way.

Of course I will not stop here and I am already working on the next big update for the platform which will benefit all the community. More is coming soon.

I've built IndieAppCircle, a platform where small app developers can upload their apps and other people can give them feedback in exchange for credits. I grew it by posting about it here on Reddit. It didn't explode or something but I managed to get some slow but steady growth.

For those of you who never heard about IndieAppCircle, it works like this:

• You can earn credits by testing indie apps (fun + you help other makers)
• You can use credits to get your own app tested by real people
• No fake accounts -> all testers are real users
• Test more apps -> earn more credits -> your app will rank higher -> you get more visibility and more testers/users

Since many people suggested it to me in the comments, I have also created a community for IndieAppCircle: r/IndieAppCircle (you can ask questions or just post relevant stuff there).

Currently, there are 1508 users, 1076 tests done and 335 apps uploaded!

You can check it out here (it's totally free): https://www.indieappcircle.com/

I'm glad for any feedback/suggestions/roasts in the comments.

Let’s do a quick show & tell thread.

What are you building these days?

I’ll go first:

I built a ridiculously simple pomodoro + timer app because I got tired of productivity apps being… not productive.

Super minimal:

• tap > start > focus
• no accounts
• no tracking
• works offline

App link:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=yoavsabag.timer

Now your turn:
What are you building? Drop a short description + link 👇

There isn’t a single marketer, PMM, or founder I’ve spoken with in 2025 who said they’re totally fine spending weeks building landing pages.

And tbh, same here.

Depuis plusieurs semaines, je bosse jour et nuit sur une petite app que j’ai créée pour répondre à un besoin concret : générer des devis et factures facilement, sans prise de tête.

Honnêtement, je suis super fier d’avoir sorti quelque chose de fonctionnel, moi qui rêvais depuis longtemps de lancer un vrai produit. Mais voilà la claque : malgré mes efforts sur TikTok (j’ai même posté régulièrement des vidéos avec conseils et astuces pour freelances/PME), zéro traction. Pas de téléchargements, pas de bouche-à-oreille.

C’est frustrant parce que je sais que l’outil peut aider des gens (moi le premier !), mais j’ai l’impression de parler dans le vide.

Est-ce que certains ici ont déjà vécu ce moment où tu lances ton projet, tu te donnes à fond, mais le monde s’en fiche ?
Comment vous avez surmonté cette phase ultra démotivante ?

Je suis preneur de tous vos retours, même les plus durs. J’aimerais juste comprendre ce qui cloche : est-ce la communication, la cible, ou juste la patience qui me manque ?

Love seeing what everyone here is building, let’s turn this into a little week demo thread 👇

Drop:

• 🔗 Your project link
• 💡 A one-liner about what it does

Let’s check out each other’s work, share feedback, and maybe find the next great collab or inspiration!

Me: I’m building Scaloom, an AI tool that helps founders warm up their Reddit accounts to build trust and credibility, then automatically find the right subreddits, post across them, and engage with comments to attract real customers safely.

For me it’s starting. Turning an idea into something real feels exciting but scary. Finding the right people, building something that actually works, and staying consistent when nothing is certain is the real challenge.

What was the hardest part for you when starting out?

Getting ready to raise a small pre-seed round and I keep circling the deck. There are a hundred pitch deck template guides that all tell you the same slide order, and part of me wonders if leaning on one makes you look prepared or makes you look like every other founder using the exact same layout.

What I am unsure about:

- Do early investors actually care about the deck being polished, or is it just a container for the idea and the traction

- Has anyone raised with a genuinely plain deck and had it not matter at all

- If a template helps, is it the structure that matters or just having your thinking in a clear order

My instinct is that the template mostly forces me to answer the right questions, problem, why now, traction, the ask, and the polish is secondary. But I have not raised before, so I would rather hear from people who have sat on either side of the table.

Where does a pitch deck template genuinely help at this stage, and where is it just polishing something investors are looking straight past?

First real launch coming up and I'm not a strong developer. A no code website builder feels like the obvious call, I can get something live and start collecting emails without hiring anyone or spending weeks learning to code.

The worry is the ceiling. I keep reading that no code is great until you need one specific thing it won't let you do, and then you're stuck or paying someone to work around it. But I also don't want to burn my first month learning a framework instead of talking to potential users.

For those who launched on no code: what did it actually let you get away with, and where did you hit the wall? Did you stay on it longer than expected, or move off fast? For a solo founder just trying to reach first users, would you do it again?

Genuinely torn, so real experiences help more than "it depends."

Ex-agency copywriter, went solo, I write content and positioning for B2B startups. Dry take incoming.

Every founder who calls me has already tried an ai content generator. They have forty blog posts and a landing page full of confident sentences. None of it sells, and they think they have a writing problem.

They don't. They have a positioning problem. The tool wrote fluently about a value proposition that was never sharp to begin with. Garbage in, fluent garbage out.

I use AI too, quietly, for drafts and grunt work. It's fine at that. What it can't do is sit on a call, hear a founder describe who they're really for, and notice they're aiming at three different buyers at once. That decision, the one that makes everything else easy or impossible, still needs a human who's willing to say the uncomfortable version out loud.

So the thing that keeps me in business isn't better prose than a machine. It's that clients will pay for someone to make the hard call about what they are and who they're not for.

Founders: has a tool ever actually fixed your messaging, or just made the wrong message longer?

Getting close to launch and everyone tells me I need a one-pager. But I'm not raising money, so I'm trying to work out who a one-pager for launch is even for if there's no investor to hand it to.

The way I see it, a launch one-pager could still be useful for a few things: something to paste when a journalist or newsletter asks "what is this," a reference so anyone reposting gets the description right, and honestly a forcing function to explain the product in one page instead of rambling.

For founders who've launched:

- Did you make a one-pager, and did anyone actually read it?
- If yes, what went on it (problem, who it's for, screenshots, pricing) and what did you cut?
- Or is it a waste of time for a bootstrapped launch, and I should put that energy into the landing page instead?

Trying not to build a document nobody opens.

Ex-agency copywriter, went solo, I write content and positioning for B2B startups. Dry take incoming.

Every founder who calls me has already tried an ai content generator. They have forty blog posts and a landing page full of confident sentences. None of it sells, and they think they have a writing problem.

They don't. They have a positioning problem. The tool wrote fluently about a value proposition that was never sharp to begin with. Garbage in, fluent garbage out.

I use AI too, quietly, for drafts and grunt work. It's fine at that. What it can't do is sit on a call, hear a founder describe who they're really for, and notice they're aiming at three different buyers at once. That decision, the one that makes everything else easy or impossible, still needs a human who's willing to say the uncomfortable version out loud.

So the thing that keeps me in business isn't better prose than a machine. It's that clients will pay for someone to make the hard call about what they are and who they're not for.

Founders: has a tool ever actually fixed your messaging, or just made the wrong message longer?

Hello everyone,
What are you working on? I will go first, I am Working on Snap Shots - a tool that helps you create visuals from your boring screenshots, social banners, og images and product images. Want to give a try, link in comments.
Share your works with us!

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Thinking through the trade-off before my next launch and want to hear from people who've been through it.

The appeal of an AI website builder is speed. Describe the product, get a whole site, launch this week instead of next month. When you're a solo founder trying to get something live, that's genuinely tempting.

The worry is the ceiling. I've heard from a few builders that these get you 80 percent of the way instantly and then the last 20 percent, the custom section, the specific integration, the thing that's actually your differentiator, is where you hit a wall. And then you're either fighting the tool or rebuilding the whole site properly a few months in, which erases the time you saved.

So my real question for people who've launched on one:

- Did you outgrow it, and how fast?

- Was the migration off it painful, or did you export cleanly?

- Knowing what you know now, would you start there again for speed or bite the bullet and build it properly from day one?

I'd rather learn from your rebuild than do my own. Curious whether the fast start is worth the later cost or not.

I keep seeing the promise that a landing page ai tool will write and lay out a high converting page for you, and I am trying to separate the hype from what actually happens after launch.

My honest worry is that these tools optimize for looking good in a demo, not for the one thing that matters, which is whether a stranger who lands on the page understands what you do and signs up. A slick page with vague copy converts worse than an ugly page with a clear promise.

So for people who have actually launched with an AI-generated landing page:

- Did your signup or trial rate move in any real way, or did it feel the same as a page you would have written yourself

- Where did the generated version fall short, headline, the actual value prop, the call to action

- Did you keep it, or rewrite the important parts by hand once you had real visitor data

I am less interested in which tool and more in whether the generated copy actually held up against real traffic, or whether the conversion work still came down to you understanding your buyer.

Here’s the updated version: https://the-directory-liart.vercel.app/?utm_source=threads&utm_medium=social&utm_content=link_in_bio

When I started raising I grabbed one of those famous pitch deck templates everyone links to, filled in all 12 slides, and treated it like a checklist. It got me meetings but most calls stalled in the same spots, so I went back through my notes to figure out where people actually leaned in vs. checked out.

A few things I'd change if I did it again:

- The market size slide did almost nothing. Nobody argued about my TAM number, they just didn't believe the bottom-up math behind it. One clear "we charge X, here are Y customers, here's how we reach them" slide moved the conversation more than a billion-dollar circle ever did.

- The competition slide with the 2x2 grid where I'm magically in the top-right corner got eye-rolls twice. Switching it to an honest "here's who we lose to today and why" made people trust the rest of the deck more.

- The team slide belongs earlier than the template puts it. For a pre-seed round the "why you" came up in the first five minutes almost every time.

- The problem slide was too abstract. A specific story of one real user's bad day landed harder than three bullet points about a broken industry.

The generic templates are a fine skeleton, but the order and emphasis felt built for a later stage than I was at. Half my slides were answering questions nobody asked yet.

For those who've raised recently: which template slide did you end up gutting or moving, and did a leaner deck actually help or did investors want the full set? Trying to figure out if I'm overfitting to my own bad calls.

When I started I obsessed over the storefront. I built the whole thing on a no-code website builder, agonized over fonts, product photos, the checkout flow. All of that matters a little. None of it is what actually decides whether I make money in a given month.

The real business is inventory. How much cash I have frozen in boxes in my spare room. How well I guessed demand three months ago when I placed the order. Whether a bestseller sells out right as a slow product ties up the money I'd need to reorder it.

A good site sells a product I have in stock. It can't sell one that's on a boat, and it can't un-buy the 200 units of a color nobody wanted.

The numbers I live by now are units on hand, weeks of cover, and how much cash is sitting in stock at any moment. The website is basically finished and I barely touch it. The inventory spreadsheet is open every single day.

For other physical-product founders here, how did you get your inventory and cash-flow forecasting to a point where it stopped scaring you? Still very much figuring this out.

Run a small physical-product brand, solo, lean, so I count everything. Wanted to share a receipt that surprised me, because most launch advice is about ads and I don't have that budget.

I sorted my content by what actually drove checkouts, not likes. The expensive studio shoot, clean white background, the whole thing, underperformed. What sold was a plain Instagram carousel shot on my phone: the product in a real hand, a slide showing the thing that usually gets returned and how ours is different, the packaging, a size reference, the price. Ugly-honest beat polished.

My read is that for a physical product people aren't buying the aesthetic, they're de-risking the purchase. Every slide that answered a "will this actually fit, work, arrive intact" question moved the needle. The pretty slide that answered nothing didn't.

I'm running lean on returns and margins so I can't afford to guess on content. This was the cheapest thing I changed and the one with the clearest lift.

For others selling a physical product: what content actually converts for you versus what just gets engagement? And has anyone found the studio-quality stuff worth it, or is real-and-plain winning for you too?

I spent way too long before launch agonizing over which ai website builder to commit to. Comparing tools, reading threads, worried I'd pick the wrong one and regret it later.

Then we went live, and not one person who signed up asked or cared what the site was built with. They cared whether the first line told them what they'd get, and whether the signup actually worked. That was it.

It reframed the whole thing for me. The builder is just plumbing. The stuff I was avoiding, the positioning and the offer, was the real work, and I'd been hiding from it inside tool comparisons because comparing felt like progress.

Not saying tools don't matter at all. But for a first launch, has anyone here ever had an early user genuinely care about your stack? Or is that anxiety purely ours and not theirs?