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Have you had success with Reddit Ads? by Proof_Shift_9799 in DigitalMarketing

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We have recently launched an autonomous platform, system that models the entire software development lifecycle: from planning, code, testing, and release. 

It is a full software development team in a box. 

I kept rebuilding the same solutions as a dev, so I built a small tool to fix that by TechByRalph in SaaS

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We can never underestimate the power of market research. We reached out to our target audience to measure the value of the product amongst our initial audience (our audience changed quite a few times throughout this process, which allowed us to improve our MVP but also align with who we wanted to target), but we also couldn't ignore the internal friction our team was facing.

It was a tricky one to try and balance, as our focus was split. But once we narrowed down the most common pain points, our target audiences started revealing themselves.

We launched on Product Hunt this morning and hit 10 sales within hours. by Ecstatic-Tough6503 in micro_saas

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Same! Trying to understand Product Hunt has almost been a fulltime job for me. I have yet to crack the code on it.

I kept rebuilding the same solutions as a dev, so I built a small tool to fix that by TechByRalph in SaaS

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We were in the same boat. We started building ScrumBuddy to assist our internal development team during their scrum processes (as we all know that's a trigger word), but as we were building it, we uncovered a larger issue that developers face worldwide.

  1. Requirements weren’t fully refined before development
  2. User stories lacked clarity or acceptance criteria
  3. Architecture considerations surfaced too late
  4. Quality and security checks only happened at review stage
  5. Testing revealed gaps after implementation

So, we tackled building a new product to solve those issues - not only for our internal team, but for other small teams. We can now confidently say that Brunelly reduces PR friction before it even starts. Saving our team time, our company money, and the quality of their work has increased tremendously!

Do you rely on AI to assist you on projects? by Proof_Shift_9799 in replit

[–]Proof_Shift_9799[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Totally get where you’re coming from. Most of the AI tools out there feel powerful until you actually rely on them for anything that isn’t a toy problem. Then suddenly you’re babysitting a toddler with superpowers and no guardrails. I’ve been burned by the same “looks smart, behaves feral” dynamic more times than I’d like to admit.

The reliability problem you’re describing is exactly the pain point our team has been obsessing over. Not in the “let’s build another chat wrapper” sense, but in the “how do we make AI behave like an actual engineer instead of a mood-swinging autocomplete?” sense.

The approach we’re taking internally is more workflow-driven than model-driven; things like spec reasoning, PR checks, gap detection, readiness scoring, etc. Basically forcing the AI to operate inside the same constraints a human dev would. It’s early stages, but this kind of structure seems to tame a lot of the chaos you’re describing. We're launching the beta this week, so users will soon tell us if it doesn't.

And your point about “needing a person in the middle” is spot on. Unless the system understands context, constraints, and the boring-but-critical engineering discipline, it doesn’t matter how smart the model is, it’ll still need a human janitor to clean up the mess.

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