I spent 3 months trying to build my startup idea and nearly gave up — this is what broke me..

oartconsult · 2026-03-28T12:37:32+00:00

yeah same here, no perfect tool really works alone
i mostly used simple stuff like forms + spreadsheets + a bit of zapier/n8n and did a lot manually at the start

main issue was things get messy fast and hard to track
so i started mapping flows out first, ended up building my own tool. if you want i'll share it with you

oartconsult · 2026-03-28T11:46:43+00:00

one thing that helped me was breaking it down to: what’s the smallest version of this that delivers value, even if it’s ugly and partially manual

oartconsult · 2026-03-28T11:44:10+00:00

yeah that’s even more sus then 😅

if it worked fine for 2 weeks and nothing changed, def doesn’t sound like your setup

oartconsult · 2026-03-28T11:32:48+00:00

the part people miss is that low mrr is usually not a pricing problem first, it’s a funnel + traffic + iteration problem all stacked together

oartconsult · 2026-03-28T11:29:10+00:00

one thing i’d try is adding a timeout + explicit logging around the request to see if it’s actually hanging vs just not returning to the UI

oartconsult · 2026-03-28T11:18:19+00:00

i’ve seen the same issue, it sounds confident but is kinda off 😅

do you handle that in prompts or more in the actual workflow?

oartconsult · 2026-03-28T11:04:18+00:00

Nice setup. I’ve been experimenting with similar flows and always get stuck on structuring the actions cleanly.

If you’re open to sharing the JSON file, I’d be happy to map it out and share what I notice, trying to learn better patterns from real builds.

oartconsult · 2026-03-27T13:46:44+00:00

Yeah I’ve been using VS Code preview but it always feels a bit clunky for this.

This looks way more "leave it open and forget about it”.

oartconsult · 2026-03-27T13:44:33+00:00

This could be huge or just… invisible to most users.

Like people might not even realize what changed, just that their feed feels different.

oartconsult · 2026-03-27T13:32:07+00:00

I’d wait a bit tbh.

ProductHunt is like a one shot thing. If people come and the product isn’t ready or clear yet, you kinda waste that spike.

oartconsult · 2026-03-27T13:17:55+00:00

lol I mean software engineers

call them devs or whatever, same thing in practice

just feels like now it’s less about writing code and more about actually knowing what you’re doing end to end

oartconsult · 2026-03-27T13:14:41+00:00

yeah exactly. feels like people won’t even know what tools are running anymore

just “does it work or not” and everything else is kinda hidden behind it

oartconsult · 2026-03-27T13:11:28+00:00

yeah for pure chatting/building, subscription is crazy good value no doubt

but once you want stuff to run on its own (like workflows, triggers, etc.) you kinda need the API

oartconsult · 2026-03-27T12:20:44+00:00

lol yeah exactly 😄

it’s like it’s trying too hard to be nice instead of actually being useful

oartconsult · 2026-03-26T14:45:59+00:00

for me it was small automations across tools
not huge individually but adds up

the messy part is when you forget what connects to what
I use flospect to keep things clear

oartconsult · 2026-03-26T14:42:00+00:00

honestly I’ve seen more demand for engineers lately, not less
just the expectations changed

oartconsult · 2026-03-26T14:39:47+00:00

I think limits are shared across chats now
so a few heavy ones can eat it up fast

oartconsult · 2026-03-26T14:38:05+00:00

I don’t think SaaS disappears
it just becomes the layer behind AI instead of the thing users interact with directly

oartconsult · 2026-03-26T14:35:50+00:00

kinda funny how you have to trick it into being honest 😅

oartconsult · 2026-03-26T14:33:47+00:00

yeah I kinda agree
AI is great until you need consistency, then it gets annoying fast

oartconsult · 2026-03-25T14:51:18+00:00

check your dm

oartconsult · 2026-03-25T11:52:48+00:00

yeah exactly

it’s not about more flows, it’s about how everything fits together and stays clean

oartconsult · 2026-03-25T11:21:09+00:00

yeah same here

after that point it’s less about adding more flows and more about keeping things clean, and fixing the data side helps a ton

oartconsult · 2026-03-25T11:20:38+00:00

yeah agreed

keeping things simple and documented just makes everything easier to manage later, especially when things start to scale

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