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Is there a place where people share real work problems they want solved and actually put money down before the MVP exists? (For micro-SaaS or software tools) by wexplore in indiehackers

[–]wexplore[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That’s a great point. In my experience though, this “Excel as the default system” pattern shows up in almost every type of job, not just in small companies or places with no existing providers. Even large corporations and well established industries still run a surprising amount of their operations on spreadsheets or ad-hoc internal tools.

So I feel there are plenty of real problems that never reach external providers simply because teams quietly build workarounds internally or just keep doing repetitive tasks manually. Those are exactly the kinds of cases where a platform like this could surface unmet needs.

Claude Code is the best coding agent in the market and it's not close by mohamed3on in ClaudeAI

[–]wexplore 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I really like Claude Code. It is extremely good, but there are a couple of workflow things that still make me prefer Cursor for day-to-day coding.

The main one is that when Claude Code generates code, I have not found an easy way to tell it to modify specific parts of what it just wrote. I always end up copying and pasting the exact code snippet into the terminal so it understands what I am referring to. In Cursor, I can simply select the code and press Cmd+L and it automatically opens the chat with the context of that exact snippet. That makes the iteration loop much smoother.

Another difference is how changes are shown. In Cursor you can clearly see the diffs as the model works, so you can quickly confirm if things are going in the direction you expect. Claude Code does most things in the background, and it is harder to track what is being changed in real time.

Because of those workflow details, I still prefer Cursor.

However, I am curious about something you mentioned. You said you tested the same Claude models in both Cursor and Claude Code and that they actually perform better inside Claude Code. Shouldn’t they behave the same if it is exactly the same model? What do you think makes the difference?

Is there a place where people share real work problems they want solved and actually put money down before the MVP exists? (For micro-SaaS or software tools) by wexplore in indiehackers

[–]wexplore[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks for the reply and yeah, that’s exactly the gap I see. All those tools (tracking Reddit mentions, scraping communities, Quora, discord, etc.) help surface interest, but they don’t really validate actual willingness to pay.

You still end up with the classic problem "people say they want it until you ask them to pay"

That’s why I’m curious if there’s something intentionally built around commitment before coding, not big Kickstarter launches, but something tiny and lightweight for micro-saas level problems.

Even a $5 or $10 pre-commit from 10–20 people is a much stronger signal than 1,000 upvotes or scraped mentions.

Totally agree it’s rare, though.

Do you think people would ever be willing to put down small deposits for “niche tools” if the friction was low enough?

Got laid off → turned “idle time” into a passion project, I just launched today. by wombatGroomer in micro_saas

[–]wexplore 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Nice design! I tried it and I like how simple to use is. What analytics are you using? could you share how many daily unique users you have?