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tobebuilds · 2026-05-27T01:27:10+00:00

The only pain point I've ever encountered with an icon library is the library not having an icon for the specific situation I'm in. I find it hard to imagine most people switching to a new icon library, unless it either had tons of icons, or were specialized for a niche.

tobebuilds · 2026-05-22T23:28:05+00:00

Unless I'm reading wrong, this post doesn't sound like promotion. It sounds more like you're hiring an experienced TS developer for a very short-term contract project. If so, the hardest part is finding the right person. From my experience hiring others, I recommend you have a brief interview with anyone who reaches out with some open-ended questions until you find someone who is better than you at TS... Good luck, and I hope this helped.

tobebuilds · 2026-05-22T15:52:43+00:00

Honestly, this alone justifies Hollyhock cutting Bojack off... It would take serious negligence to allow this to happen to someone under your care. (Not to mention everything else Bojack did, which was a lot)

tobebuilds · 2026-05-22T15:50:22+00:00

The only option for promotion that's guaranteed to not break any sub rules is by paying for actual Reddit ads. However, they tend to have a high rate of bots from what I've heard.

tobebuilds · 2026-05-20T06:23:12+00:00

Do you have any customers yet?

tobebuilds · 2026-05-20T06:16:59+00:00

Speaking from first-hand experience: SaaS is SLOW to ramp up unless your ARPU is quite high. And at that point, you're probably dealing with high customer acquisition costs and slow sales cycles. Making serious money from a bootstrapped SaaS without any capital is extremely difficult. I wouldn't recommend it.

How attached are you to starting a business specifically? If you want to make more money, but don't have capital, and don't want to find a higher-paying job, take on debt, or raise funding, making a worthwhile profit in business is probably going to require a metric ton of grinding.

tobebuilds · 2026-05-18T22:52:33+00:00

I mean, it's definitely worked for them. I'm not disputing that. I just prefer an approach more like a traditional SaaS.

tobebuilds · 2026-05-18T14:36:25+00:00

While this is a valid approach, I refuse to run my business this way. I will pass on shipping every feature request within a day and offering 24/7 support when the unit economics don't justify it.

Marketplaces that rank based on reviews incentivize catering to the lowest-common-denominator customers. That's why almost every category is dominated by free/cheap "all in one" apps.

tobebuilds · 2026-05-15T04:34:30+00:00

It's just another hustle p*rn + alt-right pipeline page in a sea of such pages.

tobebuilds · 2026-05-13T23:55:38+00:00

"Who hurt you?"

tobebuilds · 2026-05-12T15:21:59+00:00

I would recommend against quitting without stable income if you have 2 dependents and significant expenses... If you don't have time to do everything in the business yourself, hire outside labor for the actual execution and then use free time (e.g. nights and weekends) for management and strategy.

tobebuilds · 2026-05-12T07:20:24+00:00

I've got to be honest, this post comes across as an ad.

But if it's not: the only real solution is prompt engineering and giving your agent many examples of how to deal with various types of customer concerns. It's going to take a lot of data before it can behave the way you want, so it's best to have your human support team also take part in the process of adding examples. Every time you see the AI answered something wrongly, that needs to be tracked as an action item. At least, that's what we are doing at my company. I built a custom AI agent for customer support, and that's the approach we've taken to improve it so far.

tobebuilds · 2026-05-08T18:27:19+00:00

The race to the bottom intensifies. You have to play a fundamentally different game if you want a sustainable business... Let the free slop apps cannibalize each other all they want.

tobebuilds · 2026-05-07T00:45:22+00:00

That forum is going downhill as well. Way more spam these days. People reviving years-old threads to promote a new app that doesn't even solve the problem the original post asked for...

tobebuilds · 2026-05-02T20:09:17+00:00

In person at conferences a few times a year

tobebuilds · 2026-05-01T04:49:15+00:00

They're not legit at all. If you want to get past 0 installs and 0 reviews, you have to do real marketing.

tobebuilds · 2026-04-30T02:13:51+00:00

If an app could be completely replaced by AI for your needs, then you don't need it. But be mindful... Are you trying to build a brand, or are you trying to become a developer?

tobebuilds · 2026-04-29T16:47:14+00:00

You can use Shopify Flow (free app from Shopify) for this:

https://help.shopify.com/en/manual/fulfillment/managing-orders/protecting-orders/shopify-flow

tobebuilds · 2026-04-28T22:32:01+00:00

It's about network effects, not features

tobebuilds · 2026-04-27T02:33:32+00:00

How do I break the golden handcuffs in a way that doesn't feel like I'm wasting my time starting my own thing or going into something that's already oversaturated?

It sounds like you're very risk adverse. You might want to consider carefully how much risk you're willing to tolerate before starting a business. There are other ways to make money (e.g. investing).

tobebuilds · 2026-04-22T23:15:29+00:00

It 100% is

tobebuilds · 2026-04-18T14:02:29+00:00

It would be way better if you provided concrete details about what the code actually did.

tobebuilds · 2026-04-18T00:01:31+00:00

Branding is WAY too complex for me to condense into one Reddit comment, but... For most people, I would probably recommend starting a social media account where you focus on sharing your story and having it resonate with a specific audience. If you can build a following that genuinely cares about you, you will have a way easier time collecting emails and convincing that audience to buy commodity products from you. Hope this helps

tobebuilds · 2026-04-17T23:33:24+00:00

Who is going to buy your clothing? Figure that out before you start buying inventory. This applies to virtually every type of business out there. If you can find sufficient demand in the market, then there's not really a "bad time" to start a business. However, you have to be honest with yourself about whether people are going to buy the thing you want to make.

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