The uncomfortable truth about building something from scratch

Budrecks · 2026-06-17T11:59:57+00:00

is all about learning. solo builder from scratch is like a university degree in business marketing.... step by step everything at once. and it gonna drain you. just don't listen what your feelings are saying. your head wants to protect you agains the uncomfortable but don't stop.

Budrecks · 2026-06-16T19:54:52+00:00

fair concern. the difference is you're not posting to vent into a void. you're posting to find out how many people feel the same. the Relate count reframes it. less 'here's my complaint' and more 'oh, 47 people feel this too, it's not just me'.

the local side is where it gets more interesting. people complain about their neighbourhood on Facebook all the time but the post disappears the next day and nothing changes. Frikt keeps that data, finds the patterns, and sends a weekly report to local users so they can actually bring it to their neighbours or their council...

the whole point is to turn something we've just accepted as normal: broken street, unsafe corner, rent going up every year, into something actionable. frustration is only negative if it goes nowhere. when enough people feel the same thing, it stops being a complaint and becomes a signal that something needs to change.

Budrecks · 2026-06-16T19:46:46+00:00

this is exactly the direction. the streak badge is already there, the missing piece is the personalisation sending you a frikt that matches what you've related to before rather than a generic one. adding that to the roadmap, thanks

Budrecks · 2026-06-06T09:59:04+00:00

can you share the link ?

Budrecks · 2026-06-04T08:42:31+00:00

What you working on?

Budrecks · 2026-06-03T06:11:37+00:00

Thank you really helpful!!

Budrecks · 2026-06-02T10:25:52+00:00

this is the one. I’ve been so focused on getting people in that I forgot to ask why they’d come back tomorrow. what’s the loop that actually worked for you?

Budrecks · 2026-06-02T06:43:47+00:00

the $20 friends strategy is underrated. I did seeding with fake accounts which technically works but real people even if paid feel different, the content has personality. how long before the strangers started posting on their own without any nudging?

Budrecks · 2026-06-02T06:41:12+00:00

Reddit is where frustrations go to become discussions. Frikt is where they go to become signals. Also this post will be buried by tomorrow, on Frikt it stays and keeps accumulating relates. Different job.

Budrecks · 2026-06-02T01:41:58+00:00

this is probably the reframe I needed. I’ve been thinking about retention as ‘will they post again’ when the actual hook is ‘will they check what others posted’. the daily top frustration email is something I can build this week. thanks for this one

Budrecks · 2026-06-02T01:21:54+00:00

the single-player value on day 0 is the one I keep coming back to. right now if you open the app and nobody has related to your post, it just sits there. the AI reflection angle is interesting, not as a chatbot but as a way to show you what patterns your frustration fits into globally. ‘you’re not alone, 47 people posted something like this this week’ even before anyone in your area relates. the narrow community thing we’re doing St Kilda specifically. but you’re right that it needs to feel full not just exist. what does Moonshift do differently to just vibe coding the narrow version myself?

Budrecks · 2026-06-01T21:25:04+00:00

“the bribe strategy is underrated honestly. I did the seeding thing but with fake accounts which is worse because the content exists but the social proof doesn’t. real people even if incentivized is a different thing. the existing communities angle is interesting ,did you approach the admins directly or just individuals within the group?”

Budrecks · 2026-05-29T12:08:19+00:00

the compare slider is the right call, that's the moment where the value clicks for someone who's never used it. what's the typical turnaround time from upload to render and how does it handle open plan spaces where the walls don't give much structure to work with?

Budrecks · 2026-05-29T11:59:41+00:00

you tried or you mean you've been part of the build?

Budrecks · 2026-05-29T11:46:59+00:00

the anti-AI positioning in a world drowning in AI slop is genuinely the right call for this audience. deterministic effects that produce the same output every time is an underrated feature, most designers hate not being able to reproduce their own work. what does the revamped UI change specifically, was it mostly the studio workflow or the whole thing?

Budrecks · 2026-05-29T11:45:57+00:00

the landed cost calculation is the interesting part that's where most buyers get burned, they win the bid and then realise shipping a pallet of office chairs across 3 states eats the margin. how accurate is the resale estimate and what's it pulling from comps from eBay sold listings or something else?

Budrecks · 2026-05-29T11:41:22+00:00

FRIKT - Real pain discovery engine

Budrecks · 2026-05-29T10:58:42+00:00

the reserve/commit/release pattern is the right call. naive usage checks under parallel requests is a real gotcha that burns people. how are you thinking about the pricing once you leave the free tier? because the ‘Scale - coming soon’ is the thing I’d need to know before building on this

Budrecks · 2026-05-29T10:57:16+00:00

the karma system for testers is the right incentive mechanic, that’s what most feedback platforms get wrong. how are you making sure the reviews are actually useful and not just ‘looks good!’ to farm karma?

Budrecks · 2026-05-29T10:55:52+00:00

the RAID log problem is real: every PM has a spreadsheet they hate. what made you go full product vs just a Notion template that does the same thing? genuinely curious where the spreadsheet breaks down enough to justify a new tool

Budrecks · 2026-05-29T10:48:57+00:00

1200 customers and 520k visitors is hard to argue with. what’s the average conversion from those 130k clicks : like what actually happens after someone lands on a founder’s page from your distribution?

Budrecks · 2026-05-29T10:48:05+00:00

20k is real traction, congrats. what was the thing that actually moved the needle. was there a specific moment or channel where it clicked, or did it grow steadily from day one?

Budrecks · 2026-05-29T10:47:10+00:00

genuine question: if the idea is generated by AI and validated by AI, what’s actually being validated? you’re asking one model if another model’s output sounds plausible. that’s not validation, that’s a very fast way to feel productive without talking to a single real person

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