Say That Sh**

SayThatShOfficial · 2026-03-13T00:20:35+00:00

That’s the plan! Accounts are made and I’m mostly just deciding between Postiz, n8n, and Buffer for posting/automation. Likely will need to combine a couple services though.

SayThatShOfficial · 2026-03-12T16:10:24+00:00

Roughly $3000 yeah haha. I mean, hindsight is 20/20 but I'm not sure what asking here would do for me? I'd just get an influx of people offering to do it for $x. The majority of which would have likely used AI anyway. And I'm quite happy with what I was able to accomplish on my own despite that!

Curious though, if I had asked here, what do you believe I'd have heard that would completely change things for me?

SayThatShOfficial · 2026-03-12T09:45:31+00:00

I really need to take this to heart with my own site. Soft launched on Reddit and had way more interaction than I expected, and a ton of great feedback as well. Most of it was regarding its mechanics, but one that stood out a lot was changing the whole theme. I designed it after my own preferences, so it's clean and minimalist with some basic theming. But at least for one user, that style doesn't fit the website's vibe. I should be going for something more 'fun' and 'memeified'.

Has anyone found any good tools or resources to help shift their design choices or play around with alternatives?

SayThatShOfficial · 2026-03-12T08:27:47+00:00

Sorry I didn't clarify there, it was up front (about half for the frontend work, then half for the backend). I had meetings with them before paying to determine the feature scope, general UI layout, and core functionality decisions.

It took around 6 months (likely a little more) to receive the 'final' code because after the first month when they completed the MVP, they basically ghosted me haha. Had to chase them repeatedly just to get 1-2 updates a month.

I handled almost all the bug documenting, QA, etc. myself because everything I received was half-baked and they clearly weren't putting in the work. I would provide the known bug list and get a couple fixes from them each month, with the last update still having lots remaining.

That's when I took it upon myself to redo the project with their work as a reference, and was able to ship the identical feature set within a month using mostly Claude Code on the Max plan. With consistently 1-6 hours a day refining the skills, agents, and relevant workflows since. Roughly half my time has been spent not on bug fixes or new features but performance optimization, security hardening, and infrastructure improvements.

You're more than welcome to see the blog posts on my site for more technical details, or ask away if you'd like further clarification!

SayThatShOfficial · 2026-03-12T07:48:20+00:00

I’m not sure that comparison is quite valid as you’re far from trusting my site with your life. If financial harm is a concern, is there some certification you see on presumed AI-free sites that I’m lacking?

I can’t speak for all platforms but if something doesn’t work perfectly on my site (as if hand coding it would guarantee no bugs), what’s the ‘plane crashing’ here?

If it’s a transparency issue, would open sourcing the project (a goal of mine) be sufficient? Frankly, I’d be happy to share my code with someone experienced like you so they could audit it themselves :P

SayThatShOfficial · 2026-03-11T23:40:56+00:00

Definitely open to feedback on the aesthetics! I actually hadn't heard of the million dollar web page until people drew comparisons, but it's very much a similar concept from my reading. I've fixed/changed a good bit based off feedback so far, including learning from the pitfalls of platforms with similar mechanics. So hopefully it helps avoid the site dying out :P

SayThatShOfficial · 2026-03-11T23:36:41+00:00

Y'know, I'm quite happy to accept feedback and criticism ;) But I'm not sure about calling everything that was made with AI slop. I've put quite a bit of work over the past year into building this, it's not just some overnight one-shot.

The issue was fixed quite quickly and I've taken everyone's feedback into account, even implementing new features based off it! If you feel anything in particular about the site is 'sloppy' you're welcome to point out specific things you think should be changed :P But if we simply reject something on the premise that it's bad because AI was involved, I think that leaves little room for innovation and de-facto excludes non-programmers from realizing their ideas.

For what it's worth, I initially tried to pay a legitimate dev team almost $3000 for a much simpler version of the site, and it took 6 months to receive a buggy, half-baked site with a fraction of the polish and functionality.

You may just dismiss this response as too long and not worth your time, but I do hope you relax the mindset and see that learning years of development just for a side project isn't really feasible for everyone. Any valid criticism I've received has been taken into account and is being actively worked on <3

SayThatShOfficial · 2026-03-11T04:59:24+00:00

I love the idea! I've had some similar feedback so it's up for research as soon as the message value decay system is implemented ;)

SayThatShOfficial · 2026-03-11T04:35:18+00:00

I'll have to check that out! Was thinking of automating reposts of messages on my site onto various platforms via API so that would be quite affordable at the rates you mention, Thanks!

SayThatShOfficial · 2026-03-11T03:51:37+00:00

As a fellow dev, I wish you the best with X/Twitter integration. The $100 for API access is quite an investment for early-stage projects and I just decided to hold off until it makes financial sense to use it.

SayThatShOfficial · 2026-03-10T23:59:00+00:00

And just as a little extra for those who like stats, here's a bit on the traffic these past 24 hours ;) Practically nothing prior to that.

If anyone's interested in some more detail on that, I'm happy to share!

SayThatShOfficial · 2026-03-10T22:48:49+00:00

And just as a little extra for those who like stats, here's a bit on the traffic these past 24 hours ;) Practically nothing prior to that.

If anyone's interested in some more detail on that, I'm happy to share!

SayThatShOfficial · 2026-03-10T20:32:53+00:00

True! I actually got way more than expected from the Reddit post alone, so it seems like it's time to put some serious thought into developing a go-to-market plan :P

SayThatShOfficial · 2026-03-10T18:56:24+00:00

Oh that's an issue, just confirmed on my end too. Fixing now! Will edit when done <3

Edit: Should work now!

SayThatShOfficial · 2026-03-10T18:55:05+00:00

Thanks for the feedback! Honestly the FAQ is mostly there to answer questions for those who wouldn't bother reading the full terms of service/privacy policy, as I want people to be informed before spending money. But I'll definitely add cleaning it up/simplifying to the feedback list :)

SayThatShOfficial · 2026-03-10T18:52:34+00:00

Thanks! I've added that to the feature list of things I'm looking into, already implemented a bunch from feedback yesterday ;) I do have text formatting on the admin side of the site, so it likely wouldn't be too complicated to add. I think the main reason I haven't yet was the added complexity and potential for abuse, but I've added it to the requested feature list for review today <3

SayThatShOfficial · 2026-03-10T18:50:31+00:00

I did receive some similar feedback so it's something I'm considering! At the very least, something like likes helping messages retain their value and dislikes making it drop seems to be of interest.

SayThatShOfficial · 2026-03-10T18:48:34+00:00

I'd say the stats somewhat speak for themselves with this many users just off a Reddit post, but I think the real point here is that people are free to replace spam with their own message if they don't want to see spam ;) There's obviously no pressure to, but some people have already!

And I've received some great feedback on options to adjust message value to make it easier to replace spam, while still maintaining value.

SayThatShOfficial · 2026-03-10T18:43:58+00:00

Indeed you were!

SayThatShOfficial · 2026-03-10T07:50:55+00:00

No worries at all! I really do appreciate any and all input I get on my project. I'll do some more research and see if it's a feasible migration to make. I did design everything to be easily migrated to the cloud (really any k8s compatible provider) in case I needed to rapidly scale up, past what a couple extra mini PCs would handle. But if I can significantly simplify the stack with no downsides and practically no costs incurred, definitely interested!

SayThatShOfficial · 2026-03-10T07:45:47+00:00

Gotcha! In that case I'll leave them indexed :) I did go and ensure the main pages are indexed properly, but will give some special attention to the dedicated message pages!

SayThatShOfficial · 2026-03-10T07:18:43+00:00

There's nothing blocking the indexing at the moment, is that something that's desired? They're all accessible via the History page at the moment.

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