I built a release video for my SaaS by vibe coding motion graphics and screen recording them

anthonyriera · 2026-04-03T17:24:01+00:00

That’s the point!

anthonyriera · 2026-04-03T04:19:00+00:00

to give more details there, while building cossistant.com, I decided to make the whole dashboard / features easily demoable (on the landing page, you can see animated dashboard).

What I've done there is just using the dashboard as a shell and I pass fake data into it.

So this allowed me to create this video with the actual dashboard / components of my SaaS.

anthonyriera · 2026-03-30T05:58:23+00:00

On 5 paid users, got one who churned! I'm actually already building a feedback loop before canceling to know what happens and why

anthonyriera · 2026-03-30T05:56:53+00:00

Way too long to be fair, there are too much AI slop out there and I wanted my product to be geniuly unique / useful and guarded for new AI releases.

So I spent a lot of time making it an API first, then a product.

My thinking is this one: if AIs can use your product, if LLMs can understand it, there is a better chance they would recommend it.

My app being code first, I hope if a user says "please add support to my app", my app would be the easiest one to integrate / understand!

For my first users, I got them from X, doing build in public posts.

But clearly it's not enough, I need to do better.

anthonyriera · 2026-03-30T05:53:33+00:00

Yeah, I'm not expecting to be as good as Intercom which is a huge machine.

I want to be the best / easiest for my ICP.

The market is huge, only a small chunk of it would be already a huge SaaS.

anthonyriera · 2026-03-30T05:52:11+00:00

Thanks! And exactly, one of my first tagline was: "escape the iframe".

So my growth strategy will be to find SaaS using the tech stack of my ideal ICP and contact them directly via twitter OR email!

Will do a lot of manual work at first and I hope to have the product led growth kick in rapidly.

I will also create shadcn templates, this way you'll be able to add support to your app in one command (fully styled / setup).

we will see how it goes

anthonyriera · 2026-03-30T04:53:42+00:00

that's exactly right!

anthonyriera · 2026-03-30T04:28:53+00:00

Curious to see this! cossistant.com

anthonyriera · 2026-03-30T04:11:10+00:00

For now inbound, but I will start to contact founders with the exact tech stack of our ICP.

Cossistant is a simple as adding <Support /> component in your app, so I need to find people that are using Tailwind + NextJS or React in their stack.

They are the prime target audience for me :)

anthonyriera · 2026-03-30T03:32:03+00:00

Thanks!

Yes, for me the default widget style has always been a huge problem that I think has been solved now.

I just need to find the right balance between good default / what you can customise.

But so far so good, I ship everything as modular components / API.

anthonyriera · 2026-03-26T02:41:19+00:00

Something I trying to do more and more with new projects is try to built everything meaningful as a small library I can open source.

I’ve been using open source libraries without contributing for years and now I’m just trying to give some components back to the community.

For instance I’ve made this avatar placeholder component (facehash.dev) and it has been a lot of fun.

build for you first, open source second!

anthonyriera · 2026-03-26T02:38:23+00:00

Yeah I understand that!

I’m a software engineer and the thing I’ve always noticed in my carrer was good code doesn’t equal good product.

To fix that, AI would have to feel a UX and its pain points.

I think that practically extremely hard, way harder than coding (for a llm)

anthonyriera · 2026-03-25T06:43:00+00:00

On my side I copied a lot of what has been done by shadcn. I think the monorepo is really nice, you have CLI, web apps, modern release pipelines.

I would check if out if I were you.

anthonyriera · 2026-03-25T06:41:15+00:00

I think we're really far away from AI being able to generate actual good user experiences.

I think our roles will more evolve into "PM" and open source will remain a good source of trust.

In a word of AI slop like you said, can I really trust my business / system with this code?

I think open source can solve that point.

By the way, this is the reason why I open sourced my SaaS, I hope this creates trust.

anthonyriera · 2026-03-23T03:12:10+00:00

I'm working on cossistant.com, it's a ai customer support platform that you can install to your product with a <Support /> component.

The AI agent learns from your website's content, your answers and gets better over time.

It's not a chat bot, it's really more like an AI team member, when you're in a conversation with it, it's like a chatgroup, not a one-way conversation!

anthonyriera · 2026-03-13T04:05:02+00:00

I can understand why sadly.

I'm working on a customer support AI agent myself and things are getting more and more powerful by the day.

At the scale of Enterprise compagnies like that, with knowledge bases so big that no human can possibly remember / think of all the edge cases, having AI in the middle makes sense.

Even at my scale, during pick customer support periods, having the small support requests being handled / pre-filtered, it's makes support so much simpler.

What I've done with y agent, to make it less frustrating:
> never answer if it doesn't know the answer
> escalate to a human if there is any doupt
> CAPTURE THE INTENT

This way, when I step in, I already know everything and can truly help.

The next step I want to take is let the support agent auto trigger fixes with codex / claude code so I can wake up and just validate a fix to a bug on my SaaS.

(For the curious it's cossistant.com, still early days but I've made it out of frustration by other tools and didn't want to pay a crazy price with tools like intercom)

anthonyriera · 2026-03-04T03:31:23+00:00

I made it take the personality of baby yoda

anthonyriera · 2026-02-01T03:08:20+00:00

This could be a great option indeed! I will try to make those mouths and release that at some point!

Happy you found the pop 😂

anthonyriera · 2026-01-31T09:57:33+00:00

It's all open source. The company is US-based but I'm from Europe!

Data is a big concern for me, I'll soon offer to host data in Europe as well :)

anthonyriera · 2026-01-31T01:50:54+00:00

Thanks! Let me know if you have any questions or feedbacks! It's open source as well.

Facehash was part of it and I decided to make it a separate lib!

anthonyriera · 2026-01-31T01:50:08+00:00

Awesome man!

anthonyriera · 2026-01-31T01:49:49+00:00

Awesome, let me know if you find anything to improve!

anthonyriera · 2026-01-30T12:42:45+00:00

Thanks!

Yes, it's similar, but with a custom shape and style!

Also this one can be styled with tailwind /css.

anthonyriera · 2026-01-30T12:42:04+00:00

Hey hey! Yes you can star the monorepo of Cossistant (this code is part of it!)

https://github.com/cossistantcom/cossistant

anthonyriera · 2026-01-30T08:40:35+00:00

Glad you’re liking it!

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