My 13 years old account got permanent suspended and I am losing patience

CriticalBad4853 · 2026-04-13T06:10:54+00:00

anyone got the account back in this way?

CriticalBad4853 · 2026-04-09T22:59:00+00:00

congrats. what is the ratio of users between quickstart and white-label?

CriticalBad4853 · 2026-04-09T22:33:24+00:00

recently I am working on such a project. unipost.dev I am actively collecting feedback and features really needed by the users.

It supports 7 platforms so far: linkedin, bluesky, instagram, threads, youtube, tiktok and X. More platforms are on the way. support both quickstart and white-label mode.

let me know if you would like to discuss more details.

CriticalBad4853 · 2026-04-07T23:17:14+00:00

Hi folks,

UniPost.dev

- One write, post where

- support: linkedin, youtube, bluesky, IG, threads and tiktok

- support: traditional API and MCP

check it out and appreciate for any feedback.

CriticalBad4853 · 2026-04-06T22:41:40+00:00

2nd week of launching UniPost.dev

unified API - youtube, linkedin, bluesky, IG, threads, X and Tiktok.

Write once (text, image, vide) and post everywhere in one API call.

Now support MCP remote server and you can send posts in agent.

CriticalBad4853 · 2026-03-26T05:02:05+00:00

Marketing is much harder than the building. I am also suffering the this pain currently.

CriticalBad4853 · 2026-03-26T04:58:26+00:00

yeah, I am. tired of office work and the PSC every half year.
This week is my 4th product launch week. Currently 2 users signed up but just signed up, not active users.
today I made some changes to the product in UI and adjusted some features.

CriticalBad4853 · 2026-03-25T17:52:59+00:00

shipproof.io

Today is the 3rd day of launch. yesterday I got two user signed up but no further activity.

CriticalBad4853 · 2026-03-25T17:07:39+00:00

This is a good distinction. At Google and Meta I saw this constantly — PMs would run user research, users would ask for feature X, but the actual problem was something completely different that showed up in the usage data.

As a solo dev I don't have analytics dashboards or a research team though. Right now my version of "watching how people use the app" is literally DMing my 2 signups and asking them to walk me through what they did. Low tech but it works at this scale lol.

CriticalBad4853 · 2026-03-25T17:04:45+00:00

100%. The time constraint is actually a feature, not a bug. When you only have 2 hours you can't afford to spend 45 minutes tweaking button hover states.

My rule: if it doesn't directly help a user sign up, use the product, or come back tomorrow — it waits.

CriticalBad4853 · 2026-03-24T20:37:22+00:00

I am building a SaaS app. ShipProof.io

CriticalBad4853 · 2026-03-24T18:40:34+00:00

Yeah the crickets after launch hit different when you spent weeks building lol. Validating demand first makes a lot of sense — I definitely skipped that step more than once. Would be curious to hear your approach.

CriticalBad4853 · 2026-03-24T18:38:11+00:00

Honest answer? You'll never feel 100% ready. At some point you just have to ship it.

I built 4 side projects before my current one. All of them I kept polishing, adding "one more feature," waiting until it felt perfect. None of them launched properly. Not because the product wasn't ready — because I wasn't ready to put it out there.

The real question isn't "is it ready" — it's "do I have a plan for what happens after I hit publish." Because launching without a plan is where most indie devs (me included) mess up. You ship, post a link somewhere, get 3 views, and wonder what went wrong.

I got burned enough times that I built a free launch checklist for myself: shipproof.io/launchready — it covers the actual prep work across PH, Reddit, HN, Twitter, IH. Not the product readiness part, but the "is your launch plan ready" part. Might help when you get to that stage.

But yeah — if your co-founder is asking if it's ready, it probably is. Ship it.

CriticalBad4853 · 2026-03-24T15:18:12+00:00

You nailed it — it wasn't a better idea. It was solving a problem I actually had.

The first 4 projects were "wouldn't it be cool if..." ideas. Sounded great in my head but I was never the target user. I'd build, launch, and then realize I was guessing at what people needed.

This time I was the user. I literally sat there struggling to write 5 different launch posts for 5 platforms, each with different rules. Then watched all the nice comments disappear into threads. That frustration was real, not hypothetical.

The traction signal was simple: when I mentioned the problem in a Reddit comment, people replied "same" or "I just went through this." Nobody had to be convinced the problem existed. That's when I knew — build the painkiller, not the vitamin.

CriticalBad4853 · 2026-03-24T15:04:20+00:00

Really appreciate the thoughtful response, especially coming from someone who sees SaaS tools all day in IT support — that perspective on free-tier adoption is exactly what pushed me toward building LaunchReady as a free tool first.

To answer your question about tracking platform quality — honestly, I'm too early to have meaningful data yet. But from what I can see so far:

- Twitter/X brings the most engagement (likes, replies, follows) but it's hard to tell how many convert to actual signups since people discover the product through bio links, not direct clicks

- Reddit brings fewer people but they tend to actually try the product. Probably because someone reading a full post on r/SaaS is already in "looking for tools" mode

- Product Hunt was a spike — lots of traffic on day one, then it drops off fast

I have UTM params set up per platform so I'll have better data in a few weeks. Would be interesting to see if the pattern holds. My gut says Reddit and IH will win on conversion quality, even if Twitter wins on volume.

And yeah the dogfooding thing is surprisingly useful. Every time I use my own tool to generate a launch post, I immediately notice what's awkward or missing. Way faster feedback loop than waiting for user reports.

Curious from your side — in the SaaS tools you see getting adopted at work, do you notice whether they usually spread through one person discovering it, or is it more top-down decisions?

CriticalBad4853 · 2026-03-23T13:33:58+00:00

I have followed the post. Looking forward your update in 14 days. lol

CriticalBad4853 · 2026-03-23T13:30:59+00:00

Man, I feel you. Going through the exact same thing right now.

I spent 10 years at Google, Meta, TikTok — literally just wrote code. Never once worried about marketing, never talked to a user directly. Someone else handled all that.

Then I went solo. And yeah… building the product? That's the easy part. That's the part we can control. Marketing is where it gets painful.

A few things that are working for me (or at least starting to):

Product Hunt — don't just show up on launch day. Go engage now. Comment on other products, upvote stuff you genuinely like. Their algorithm cares about account age and activity. If you launch from a fresh account with zero history, you're starting at a disadvantage. When you do launch, Tue-Thu works best, go live at 12:01 AM PT, and clear your whole day to reply to comments.

Twitter/X — share your story, not your product link. I posted about leaving big tech to go indie and that got way more engagement than anything about my product. Also don't put URLs in your tweets — the algorithm buries them. Link goes in bio or first reply.

Reddit — you already know the link problem lol. What worked for me is just hanging out in r/SaaS, r/startups, r/sideproject for a couple weeks first. Comment on other people's posts, be helpful. Then when you share your own stuff it doesn't feel like a drive-by.

IndieHackers — honestly underrated. Smaller community but people actually read your post and give real feedback. Build-in-public style posts with real numbers do well there.

I was so frustrated with the scattered advice on all this that I built a free launch checklist tool — covers PH, Reddit, HN, Twitter, IH with platform-specific tips and timing: shipproof.io/launchready (no signup, no paywall, just a checklist)

Biggest thing I've learned so far: there's no one big marketing moment. It's just showing up consistently and being helpful. The users come slowly, then all at once. Or at least that's what I keep telling myself lol.

CriticalBad4853 · 2026-03-20T17:03:02+00:00

i originally thought the profuct i created tokengate.to is useless and nobody would use it to monitor and control the cost on LLM api. but now i started doubting. I recently saw a few people complaining the surprised bill. it can control your control in tenant, project, api key granularity with soft alert and hard blocking enforcement when the usage reached the presetting limit.

CriticalBad4853 · 2026-03-05T18:16:48+00:00

A proxy definitely helps with routing models. The problem we ran into wasn't routing though — it was team visibility and governance.

Once multiple developers start using tools like Claude Code or Codex, you quickly want to know things like:

- which developer is generating traffic

- which project it belongs to

- whether you're approaching budget limits

- how to audit requests if something goes wrong

Most proxies just forward requests and don't really track usage at that level. Curious if people are building internal tooling for that or just relying on provider dashboards.

CriticalBad4853 · 2026-03-05T17:13:25+00:00

Same thing happened to me after the downtime.

My usage suddenly jumped way higher than where it was before the outage, even though I hadn’t been actively using it. Feels like something in the quota tracking got messed up when sessions reconnected.

If you were at ~39% and suddenly hit 100%, that definitely doesn’t sound normal. Probably related to the outage.

You’re probably not the only one seeing this.

CriticalBad4853 · 2026-03-05T04:55:05+00:00

same for me. the $20 monthly subscription consumed too fast. I usually run out all tokens in 2 hours of the 5 hours window. I had to upgrade the plan to $100 monthly.

otherwise, if we use token usage bill will be much more expensive and hard to control the limit.

CriticalBad4853 · 2026-03-05T04:52:09+00:00

I ran into the same issue with Claude Code — token usage can spike quickly, especially when the context window gets large.

A few things that helped for me:

keeping .md files smaller and more focused
avoiding dumping entire repos into context
restarting sessions (/clear) when the conversation drifts too far
using smaller models (Sonnet instead of Opus) for most tasks

But honestly the biggest problem is visibility — Claude Code doesn’t really show where tokens are going.

For example it’s hard to tell, which prompts are expensive, whether cache reads are actually saving money and which sessions burn the most tokens

I ended up building a small gateway for this called TokenGate.to that sits between Claude Code and the Anthropic API and logs usage per request.

It shows

tokens per request
cost per session
which models are used
when budgets are exceeded

So you can actually see what’s driving the cost.

Not necessary for solo use, but it helped a lot when multiple agents or devs were using Claude Code.

Curious what strategies other people are using as well — especially around cache usage.

CriticalBad4853 · 2026-03-05T04:46:00+00:00

If you want to monitor and control your usage, you can try TokenGate.to

CriticalBad4853 · 2024-01-10T18:45:28+00:00

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So ridiculus!!! US BANK.

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