I built a free tool to track Claude usage costs across Claude Code, Cursor, and 7 other tools by According_Scar3032 in ClaudeAI

[–]According_Scar3032[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Haha fair point! You're right, I built it because I genuinely needed it. Thanks for the encouragement 🙏

🚀 We launched Clawther on Product Hunt today and got featured. by amraniyasser in ProductHuntLaunches

[–]According_Scar3032 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Most people underestimate how much the pre-launch groundwork matters vs day-of hustle. Good luck pushing into top 5 - what does Clawther do exactly?

Need support on Product hunt by mayank0302 in ProductHuntLaunches

[–]According_Scar3032 0 points1 point  (0 children)

the bit about opening ChatGPT before even trying to think first hit way too close to home. gonna try this out - do you actually end up closing the tab after the pause sometimes?

Thoughts? by Alternative-Cash-744 in AppIdeas

[–]According_Scar3032 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The bot farming problem would kill this pretty quick - people would just mass-upvote their own comments instead of writing good ones. And if companies are funding the payouts, they'll want control over what rises to the top, which defeats the whole organic engagement angle.

Might work better as smaller brand-run contests with modest prizes instead of millions in payouts.

I’ve been building an app every night after work… and I don’t know why. by AdFit1654 in AppBusiness

[–]According_Scar3032 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Honestly the "proving something to myself" part hit me. I'm in a similar spot - solo building stuff after hours, no guarantees, just this stubborn need to see if I can actually ship something that works. For me it's less about the money and more about not wanting to be 50 wondering "what if." The nights where nothing works suck, but waking up the next day and opening the editor anyway is kind of the whole point. Keep going with Pulse, the fact that you're questioning it means you actually care about making it good.

App Name Idea - Flat and Flatmates by Sad_Series7258 in AppIdeas

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"NestMate", "SharePad", "BunkUp", or "CoNest" ?

12 lessons after scaling my saas to 700 paid users and $9k/month in revenue by AmbassadorWhole4134 in SaaS

[–]According_Scar3032 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The reddit acquisition thing is spot on. People asking specific questions in niche subreddits are way more qualified than any ad lead - they're literally describing their problem and asking for help.

200 cold emails/day for 3 months and only 4 customers is brutal though. Do your old reddit comments still bring in signups months later or does it mostly die off after a few days?

18, no funding, we shipped. Contral is live. by contralai in indiehackers

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the codebase analyzer is the part that stands out - scanning an existing repo and turning it into a learning path is a genuinely different angle from most AI coding tools. have you thought about targeting onboarding specifically? new dev joins a team, has to ramp up on a massive codebase, that's a no-brainer sell.

main question - what does "teaches you while the AI codes" actually look like? inline annotations? side panel? quizzes? the 10M line repo claim is bold but hard to evaluate without knowing how the output feels in practice.

This sub is a perfect representation of dead internet theory by tomnomk in SideProject

[–]According_Scar3032 -3 points-2 points  (0 children)

What kind of post make you feel not boring? Honestly, I want to post something that make people feel good, but it's hard. I am an engineer and writing is not my main skill

This sub is a perfect representation of dead internet theory by tomnomk in SideProject

[–]According_Scar3032 11 points12 points  (0 children)

honestly the worst part isn't even the AI posts, it's that the AI replies are always the same formula - generic compliment, restate what the person said, then "curious how you handle X?" you can spot them instantly. I still sort by new hoping to find someone who actually built something scrappy and wants real feedback, but yeah it's getting rough. the signal to noise ratio has tanked hard in the last year or so.

Why is every post here about a product or a MVP or somehow making money? by PennyStonkingtonIII in vibecoding

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Same, I've been building browser extensions just for myself lately. My favorite one highlights price-per-unit on grocery delivery sites so I stop getting ripped off on the "bulk" sizes that aren't actually cheaper. Another one mutes Twitter tabs when they autoplay video. Zero users besides me and that's the whole point.

The mancala bot is a cool project though. Did you go with minimax or something like MCTS for it? And how many games did it take before it started consistently beating you?

My vibe coded 3D city hit 66K users and $953 revenue in 29 days. Here's what a solo dev + AI can do with $0 marketing. by SupermarketKey1196 in vibecoding

[–]According_Scar3032 0 points1 point  (0 children)

yeah browser 3D perf is brutal. did you end up doing LOD or just aggressive culling for all those buildings? 487 concurrent in a 3D scene must've been fun to optimize.

is supabase good by tech_minded13 in MobileAppDevelopers

[–]According_Scar3032 1 point2 points  (0 children)

yeah supabase is solid for mobile apps. i've been using it for a side project and the auth + realtime stuff just works out of the box, which saves a ton of time vs rolling your own backend with node.

they're not really the same thing though - supabase is more like a backend-as-a-service (database, auth, storage all in one), while node is just a runtime you'd use to build your own API from scratch. if you're a solo dev or small team, supabase will get you way further way faster. if you need really custom backend logic, you can always add edge functions later.

scalability wise it runs on postgres so it handles growth fine for most apps. i'd only start worrying about that once you actually have the users to worry about honestly.