15 years designing enterprise software. I finally built my own SaaS.
Hi everyone, I'm Matthias, Head of Design at EBCONT.
For the last 15 years I've helped large organizations design and build digital products. This year I decided to experience the other side of product development: building, launching and finding users myself.
Hello + a small confession about why this community looked intimidating from the outside
Hi everyone
A small confession: from the outside, this community looked intimidating. Lots of very polished launches, very polished narratives, very polished founder voices. The kind of polish that makes anyone earlier in the journey wonder if they belong.
Community is bigger than I thought
Hey everyone, my name is Aman, and I'm building a no-code trading platform, Nvestiq. I've had a ton of engaging posts on Reddit, which is how I grew most of my user base. Last week, someone recommended I get involved in PH forums before my launch in a few weeks. I've, of course, heard of PH being in the startup community, and I'm sitting here thinking, who cares about a random project someone is trying to promote? (Trust me on reddit, that is the absolute last thing you want to do lol).
Then, today, a second person asked me if I heard about PH. I said yeah definitely, I know what it is, just never got around to really engaging through it or honestly even checking it out. Again, someone else says to me, "you should get involved in the forums they have, that's actually where I got my first paying users." Then it hit me. I thought to myself, you know what, screw it, I'm just gonna introduce myself. People might care, might not, but there is definitely a sense of community, and that can help a lot. Whether it be getting users, giving/receiving tips, scaling, etc.. So here it is. Thanks for reading this through and I guess I'll be spending a lot more time here.
From Coder to Growth Novice: My cognitive shift as a Solo Builder.
Hi all, I am Yaoshen Luo. Here is my late self-introduction.
I ve been in the industry for 14 years. I used to develop positioning and navigation systems for Baidu Maps, worked on recommendation engines, and eventually managed a team of 30+. Currently, I am deeply involved in the R&D of Voice Agent SaaS services.
If you build it they will come. Won't they?
I'm an engineer. I love solving problems. When working on an AI agent I discovered that LLM are really bad at web automation. They know what steps to perform to complete a task, they just don't know how to do them. I saw this as a fundamental problem that had to be solved before I could create a general purpose agent. So I solved it.
The solution is webSlinger. This is how it works. You show webSlinger how to perform the task in your browser and webSlinger copies you in real time in another tab. You get immediate feedback that webSlinger can perform each action as you do it. Save the resulting "session map", and now webslinger can translate from "what to do" to "how to do it." The LLM then has what it needs to generate an automation script.
Plan -> Record -> Generate -> Automate (repeatedly).
I built in the capabilities I cared about the most, secure login and MFA with locally held credentials and array extraction.
Hi from Bagdadi Apps — building encryption tools solo
Hey everyone
I'm the developer behind Bagdadi Apps, a solo project where I build encryption and privacy-focused software. My main focus has been RotorCrypt X (Windows), RotorCrypt X-Files, and RotorCrypt X-Mobile (Android) a small ecosystem of apps that let people encrypt files and exchange encrypted messages without relying on any cloud service.
I got into this space because I wanted something that works completely offline, doesn't collect any data, and doesn't force users to trust a third-party server with their content. Building it alone has meant wearing a lot of hats: development, UI/UX, translations (now supporting 13 languages), and everything in between.
Asking for feedback
Hi everyone, I’m Gabriele after several failed attempts, I finally shipped my first SaaS.
Hi everyone, I m Gabriele.
For the past few months, I ve been trying to build something of my own online. I explored several ideas, made plenty of mistakes, and watched most of my attempts fail but each one taught me something useful.
Now I ve finally shipped my first real product: HookFrames, a SaaS that analyzes long videos, finds the moments worth publishing, explains why they were selected, and turns them into editable 9:16 clips.
I joined this community to learn from other makers, exchange honest feedback, and keep improving the product.
Solo dev. I built the thing that stops me redoing work someone already killed.
Hi, I'm Alankrit.
The moment that started this: I watched a coding agent confidently begin rewriting something a teammate had closed a PR on months earlier. It had no way to know. Git keeps what got merged and throws away what didn't, so every rejected attempt, and the reason behind it, just disappears.
I spent the last two months building a fix for exactly that. It reads a repo's pull requests and reviews and answers why the code is the way it is. And when there's no real answer, it says "no one wrote this down" instead of making one up.
Launched it today. No manifesto, just a tool I kept wishing existed. Happy to talk to anyone building in this space.
Hey guys! I'm Kishan - building DocStash. The home for what your AI makes.
Heyo guys! I'm Kishan. I've been a generalist software engineer for the last 6 years, and I'm launching my first product now!
Today, documents are being created at an unprecedented rate with AI, and for the first time, non-technical people are generating real HTML, apps, and reports. But there's still no non-technical way to deploy and share them.
That's the itch I've been scratching with DocStash, the home for what your AI makes.
Just ask your existing agent to stash your HTML, Markdown, PDF, Excel, Word, or a static React/Vue app get a stable private URL. Flip it public to share with the world.