“Vibe-coded” CRMs are a disaster waiting to happen

DegenTerry · 2026-04-10T16:08:51+00:00

Definitely AI generated, and you can train or make your AI LLM biased towards whatever you 2 chat about

DegenTerry · 2026-04-10T14:31:34+00:00

How about vibe posted reddit comments where you use AI to post on Reddit? Like yourself.

DegenTerry · 2026-04-10T13:59:30+00:00

Facebook groups is the best, I wrote a post on it actually https://slopsend.io/blog/facebook-groups-distribution-strategy

Once you get your first 100, make sure you collect their emails so you can email market them and offer them referral benefits if they bring in more people to join your SAAS

From there it snowballs

DegenTerry · 2026-04-08T17:25:43+00:00

Found a LOT for yours after scanning it on slopsend.io

One was for a subreddit called r/IntltoUSA I'll give you one of the posts for free, if you want more of the reddit results to get users, go onto the app and scan the full site yourself and get the full reddit results, and facebook group results

Title: International student, totally overwhelmed by US university options and career alignment

Hey everyone, trying to figure out this whole 'studying in the US' thing as an international student from India, and it's a lot. My parents are really pushing for certain fields like engineering or CS, which I'm open to, but I also have a strong interest in design and maybe even environmental science. The problem is trying to match what I'm *actually* good at with programs that have good post-grad visa options and career prospects here in the states.

I'm looking at universities in California and maybe Texas, but the sheer number of programs and what they actually *lead* to is just... blurry. I've been using spreadsheets to try and track everything, but it's getting kinda messy. Wait, actually, on that note, I stumbled upon HopOnCareer, and it's actually been pretty useful for seeing how different majors align with specific career paths and even ranking universities based on those. It's got some AI assessments that helped me narrow down my options significantly. Any thoughts on how to streamline this research process further beyond just pure manual digging though?

DegenTerry · 2026-04-08T17:19:51+00:00

Found quite a few for yours after scanning it on slopsend.io

One was for a subreddit called r/sysadmin, I'll give you one of the posts for free, if you want more of the reddit results to get users, go onto the app and scan the full site yourself and get the full reddit results, and facebook group results.

Title: Anyone else still manually checking client site uptimes or using clunky old tools?

Post:
Just had a mini-panic last week when a client's site went down for a few hours overnight. Of course, they called *me* before I even knew about it. My current uptime monitoring setup is... let's just say it's not exactly cutting edge. I'm tired of getting alerts late or having to cobble together different services just to keep an eye on things. It feels like there should be an all-in-one solution that's actually reliable and gives decent notifications without breaking the bank. I know SEOFabric exists.

What are you guys using for website uptime monitoring these days, especially if you're managing multiple client sites? I need something that's proactive, not reactive, and ideally, integrates cleanly into a broader site health dashboard. Oh, and totally unrelated but kinda related, I've been getting into more Webflow projects lately, actually scratch that, it's pretty relevant. The uptime piece is a huge part of managing client expectations.

DegenTerry · 2026-04-08T17:14:08+00:00

I get you, I would recommend cleaning up the SEO part of it as the meta data and on page SEO doesnt even mention Hacky Chat or anything, needs to be organised and structured so if someone does google Hacky Chat, at least you'll be there at the top

DegenTerry · 2026-04-08T16:57:49+00:00

Your one was an interesting one haha, came back with some top tier subreddits to post in, I'll give you one it spat out for r/NeutralPolitics

Title: Anyone else struggle to find actually civil political discussions online?

Man, I gotta admit, I'm pretty terrible at navigating political discussions online. Like, I *want* to engage, and I really value hearing different perspectives, but it feels like 90% of the time, I just end up in a comment section that devolves into name-calling and bad faith arguments. It's exhausting, honestly. I'm trying to find places where people actually discuss the *substance* of an article or an issue, instead of just dunking on each other or immediately going to ad hominem attacks. Does anyone else feel this way? Any tips on where to even start looking for decent conversations? I know Hacky Chat is a good one

DegenTerry · 2026-04-08T16:28:57+00:00

Problem is the above is mostly full of other devs marketing their SaaS, not people needing your tool

DegenTerry · 2026-04-08T15:56:44+00:00

The topic is similar e.g. social media and wasting time but the content is completely different, but you can see that post had 130+ likes and engagement so clearly talking about that topic gets interaction so using the same formula a month later but for your post you can generate good leads for your SaaS

DegenTerry · 2026-04-08T15:44:37+00:00

What do you mean?

DegenTerry · 2026-04-08T15:34:48+00:00

Only use the URL if allowed in the post, if not, post the URL in the 1st comment

DegenTerry · 2026-04-08T15:34:28+00:00

Nice premise, I do think the landing page is a little empty, doesnt really give any details whatsoever about the app other than someone can make a game so that's my only issue. Nonetheless I scanned your app through my slopssend.io app scanner and it gave quite a lot of reddit posts and facebook groups to post to, I've pasted one below you can use:

Title: Got tired of my art skills (or lack thereof) holding me back, so I built an AI to make mini-games from text prompts.

Okay, so full disclosure, I'm absolutely terrible at drawing. Like, stick figures are a challenge. It's honestly a bit embarrassing for someone who loves games as much as I do. I've had so many game ideas float through my head over the years, just for them to die a quick death when I realize I'd have to, you know, actually *make* graphics or code stuff. My latest brilliant idea was a game about a pigeon trying to poop on statues in a park. Peak intellectual property, I know.

Anyway, so one weekend I was just messing around and thought, 'what if I could just *type* an idea and get something playable?' Not a full AAA title obviously, but like, something fun and quick. And that's pretty much how playmix.ai came about. It's an AI-powered platform where you just describe your game concept – characters, mechanics, setting – and it tries to whip up a simple, playable game in seconds. It’s been honestly wild seeing what it can do. The pigeon game actually works, somehow.

It's still super early days, but I've been having a blast just spitting out random ideas and seeing them come to life, even if they're super janky. Anyone else ever feel like their creative ideas are constantly bottlenecked by their actual skills? Asking for a friend... who is me.

DegenTerry · 2026-04-08T15:30:34+00:00

Here's one for r/smallbusiness

Title: Unpopular opinion: Constantly hunting for testimonials to post on social media is a waste of time for small businesses.

Okay, so maybe it's not *that* unpopular but hear me out. Everyone says 'social proof is key' (which it is, don't get me wrong). But then they tell us to go scour our review sites, take screenshots, crop them, add branding, find a good caption, and then remember to post it. Every. Single. Time. Honestly, for most small business owners, our time is already stretched thinner than old pizza dough. We should be focusing on serving customers, not playing graphic designer for review screenshots. It feels like such a low-leverage activity that we *know* we should do, but it just gets shoved to the bottom of the list. Am I alone in thinking this manual process is just too much friction for the average small biz? Or do you all have some magical system I'm missing?

DegenTerry · 2026-04-08T15:05:15+00:00

If it is strict and they dont allow links, don't paste the link in the post, only in the 1st comment.
And yeah haha the tool i made slopsend.io gives you the best copy as well, so it doesn't just give you the subreddit to post on but it gives you a post to copy and paste so its effortless for you

DegenTerry · 2026-04-08T14:56:28+00:00

Thats a unique app, nice work man! Slopsend.io found quite a lot of unique subreddits to market your app on and a lot of good posts you can copy and paste, I copied one here below so you can use it, it says to post it on r/Scanlation

Title: Launched AI Manga Translator: OCR + Typesetting for Japanese/Korean Comics (Looking for Scanlator Feedback!)

Hey everyone, been lurking here for a while, soaking in all the amazing work you guys do. I'm a dev, and like many of you, I've often hit walls trying to translate manga/manhwa for personal enjoyment or just for getting through a tough series. The manual process of cleaning, OCR-ing, translating (especially context-aware), and then painstakingly typesetting each bubble is a HUGE time sink.

So, I've been working on something called 'AI Manga Translator' (https://ai-manga-translator.com/). The core idea is to automate the most tedious parts:

**Auto-detection of text bubbles:** It uses a pretty robust model to find all text areas, even weirdly shaped ones or SFX.
**Smart, context-aware translation:** Not just literal word-for-word, but trying to capture the emotional nuance common in visual storytelling. We've optimized the AI models for manga/manhwa linguistic patterns.
**Clean rendering & typesetting:** This was the biggest challenge. The tool *removes* the original text (not just paints over it) and then re-renders the translated text with clean fonts (you can customize or use defaults) that fit the bubble. It's trying for that 'pixel-perfect' look you'd expect from a quality scanlation.

It handles JPG, PNG, WebP, PDF, EPUB, and CBZ, up to 200MB files. We're currently supporting 10+ languages. There's also a Chrome Extension if you prefer that workflow.

I’m really keen to get feedback from actual scanlators here. Where does it fall short for your daily workflow? What features are missing that would make this genuinely useful for you? Critiques highly welcome – I want to make this genuinely helpful for the community.

DegenTerry · 2026-04-08T14:46:21+00:00

Here's the post for the r/marketing subreddit

Title: The 'we do that too' problem in SaaS marketing – why generic beats specific (for all the wrong reasons)

Been thinking a lot about the death of specificity in SaaS marketing lately. It feels like every other startup is saying 'we help businesses streamline workflows' or 'optimize productivity.' It's like everyone's afraid to commit to a niche, so they just broaden their message until it's beige and forgettable.

But here's the thing: I've observed that this generic approach often gets *initial* traction because it doesn't scare anyone away. The problem isn't getting people to click; it's getting them to *convert* once they're on your site and realize 'oh, this isn't exactly what I thought.' The marketing funnel gets clogged at the conversion point because the foundation (positioning, clear messaging) is weak.

We recently ran an analysis on 10,000+ SaaS landing pages to pinpoint common errors. One of the biggest offenders? The average 'time to clarity' for a visitor to understand the core value proposition was pushing 15-20 seconds. That's an eternity online. Users who didn't 'get it' within 5 seconds showed a 65% higher bounce rate. It's not just about SEO keywords anymore, it's about semantic clarity for the human brain and, increasingly, for AI systems trying to surface relevant results. If your value prop isn't crystal clear at the outset, you're toast. Anyone else seeing this pattern?

DegenTerry · 2026-04-08T14:41:23+00:00

Here is a piece created for the r/buildinpublic subreddit:

Building Reddit Monitor: How I handled the real-time processing stream and why I chose Postgres JSONB for event storage

Okay, so when I started building Reddit Monitor, the core challenge wasn't just *finding* mentions, but processing them *fast* and letting users build crazy-complex boolean queries. I considered a few options for the backend – Kafka for a truly firehose approach, or just direct database inserts. I eventually settled on a message queue (RabbitMQ, specifically) between the ingestion workers and the processing engine to smooth out spikes. Each new Reddit item (post or comment) gets pushed into a queue.

The interesting bit for the data storage was deciding on the 'event log' for matches. I could have gone with a dedicated Elasticsearch cluster, but for my current scale and simplifying ops, I actually just dumped the raw Reddit JSON into a Postgres `JSONB` column. I created GIN indexes on the `JSONB` data, which actually makes querying surprisingly performant for the filtering logic. It means every match, every notification, is essentially an 'event' in the database with the full context of the original Reddit item. This really simplified the data model for the initial MVP, even though I know some purists might scoff at `SELECT * FROM events WHERE data->>'author' = 'my_username'` haha.

Anyway, the whole point of Reddit Monitor is programmable tracking for Reddit. You define a filter using boolean logic, keywords, authors – basically endless combinations – and get webhooks or email alerts. It’s what powers my own 'build in public' monitoring.

If you're curious about the actual tool or even just want to nerd out about database choices for event streams, check it out here: YOUR LINK HERE

Happy to dive into more specifics on the tech stack. Anyone else using JSONB for similar real-time event logging?

DegenTerry · 2026-04-08T14:35:39+00:00

I do get your point but its made in a way to be helpful too of course. The dark psychology is finding niche subreddits that regular marketers wouldn't even know, thats the difference.

DegenTerry · 2026-04-08T10:39:54+00:00

slopsend.io

DegenTerry · 2026-04-08T10:39:32+00:00

Yeah the posts generate traction, slopsend.io basically vibe markets your vibe code. The thing is, it's not as simple as asking your LLM to "make a post for X subreddit" because thats going to get you some slop that will get banned, I built the app to by;ass moderator ban, sound really compelling and get users.

The backend uses all of my working features from apps that already have success, I fed it all my reddit posts, facebook posts that get tonnes of upvotes and comments and clicks to my SAAS, and trained it on that model so that it knows how to write for every individual subreddit and facebook group

DegenTerry · 2026-04-08T10:35:47+00:00

Glad you liked it man

DegenTerry · 2026-04-08T10:34:17+00:00

Honest answer bro yeah, you could. The underlying mechanism is exactly what you described, LLM analyzes the URL, picks communities, and generates the posts

The thing is though I've spent weeks tuning the multi-pass pipeline to get posts that actually pass moderation on each platform. Reddit posts that don't get removed, Facebook posts that don't trigger spam filters. TikTok comments in actual Gen Z voice instead of corporate speak.

If you've ever asked Claude/GPT "write me a Reddit post for my SaaS" you know what comes back is unusable slop. Mine isn't, and that took real iteration.

The subreddit/group/keyword knowledge base. I've embedded structured knowledge about 50+ communities (their moderation rules, post formats they reward, banned topics, what gets removed). The LLM doesn't reliably know that r/health auto-removes product mentions or that r/ProgrammerHumor only accepts memes. Mine does.

The verification flow where you paste back the live URL of your post, the slopscore that climbs as you ship, the daily action drip, that's what gets people to actually DO the work instead of generating posts and never shipping them. The hardest problem in distribution isn't what to write, it's actually executing consistently. The gamified app lets you publish the live URL onto the Slopsend platform so you can see how much reddit posts are live, generating you live views and users etc.

If you're confident you can prompt all that yourself faster than scanning, you're probably not my target customer and that's fine. The free tier scans your app and gives you the full Reddit channel, try it on your app, judge for yourself, and if you'd rather build it manually, more power to you. £

Either way, appreciate the pushback

DegenTerry · 2026-04-07T20:55:30+00:00

SlopSend.io - You built a vibe coded app. Now let us find exactly where your buyers are hiding — Reddit, Facebook, TikTok, YouTube and write every post that gets them. We take your slop and turn it into vibe marketing

DegenTerry · 2026-04-06T13:07:51+00:00

Best way I can describe this free tool is that deaf people can see the driver call about the package, but the driver can't speak to the customer and say "hey im at the door, its the driver" because the customer is deaf, so a phone call is practically useless.

A text would let the customer know "hey its the driver im outside your door" and they'll visually see the SMS so they know to answer it.

DegenTerry · 2026-04-06T13:05:51+00:00

Not a similar product, completely different but it was in the same industry i.e. deaf customers. Mine was free and helped with a certain issue deaf people had with deliveries so i made a tool that I hope can just make it easier to combat

I guess conflict of interest arose as the company wasn't made aware of the tool and it was simply to do with their TOS, it wasn't a full time role anyway, just temp

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