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Build in Public – Day 7 🌵 78 posts later, I’m still not famous. What I did this week: •Shipped a new feature •Posted/commented more than 70 times most of them probably buried by the algorithm •Tried different topics, hooks, and communities Numbers & feedback: •Top tweet: dev tools poll, ~150 views •Worst performer: “everyday chaos” pain-point thread—17 views, not even my mom liked it •Cactus downloads: 0. Conversion rate: ∅ Most embarrassing moment: App Store rejected my app (“no payment flow detected”). Spent hours blaming Apple/Xcode, then finally found the bug was from Cursor’s code. Biggest lesson this week: •Output ≠ outcome. A killer hook beats a perfect roadmap •Concrete scenarios > abstract pain points •You only get traction when your hook is strong Next week’s plan: •One mini-poll or hook post every day •Share a step-by-step demo showing how Cactus organizes my messy notes •Public accountability: if I don’t ship one thing before noon, first person to @ me gets a coffee Thanks to everyone who liked, commented, roasted, or just lurked. Week 2: viral or more chaos? Either way, I’ll keep posting the wreckage.

Day 1 of my launch I got 101 views and six follows/upvotes. What does that actually mean? Imagine I’m a big golden retriever explain it to me like I’m brand new to this platform! It’s my first time trying PeerPush, so I’m really curious!

Honestly, Reddit is like a mix of therapy café and a gladiator arena: You bring your real struggles, and people shower you with empathy and advice. But the second you even hint you’re building an app for that pain point Boom, suddenly you’re a “sales bot” or a “shill,” and the whole crowd turns cold. It’s wild. You try to be honest: •“Hey, I genuinely built this because my friends and I have this exact problem.” •Suddenly, you’re treated like a scammer running some secret campaign. Reddit wants real talk, but hates solutions that sound like plugs. If you haven’t already gone viral, sharing your pain + your product feels like giving a victim testimony and immediately pitching an ad awkward for everyone. This isn’t just a Reddit thing, it’s a platform thing: •Tell your story, vent, cry for help? Fine! •Suggest a tool (even if it’s genuinely helpful or free)? •Instantly flagged, downvoted, or soft-banned by mods/bots/users. Sometimes it feels like the only way to share a product is to pretend you’re a random user who “stumbled across something cool.” Meanwhile, actually being honest makes you look more suspicious. Any indie founders out there feel this? How do you build in public and not get mistaken for a spammer? What’s the best move blend in, play dumb, or just keep fishing for those rare, genuine beta users? Twitter feels totally different: Here, I can be 100% upfront I’m a startup founder, this is what I’m building, this is my Build-in-Public log. People share advice, feedback, or even become your first users. Tech changes life that’s always true. Without tools like Cursor, GPT, or Claude, so many things would take months (or years) to build Now a tiny team can launch an app in weeks.

When you post your 100th post, and then your 1,000th post, what goes through your mind?

Indie Hackers, when you are not productive, come to this Brainrot site to get a surprise！

Being friends with your users beats being a “legendary” founder any day.

When it comes to product marketing, visuals matter the most. Trying to explain all the complex features with just text is tough especially since every day there are tons of people building all sorts of things.

Wait, did I just get a post with 1,000 views? Miracles do happen!

Hey everyone, Let me quickly introduce myself 🤓I’m a junior in college, and last month I teamed up with a friend to launch a productivity/life app called Cactus AI. The whole idea is to help people (like us!) stop forgetting stuff, organize things better, and actually get smart reminders because, honestly, this is a problem we’ve faced ourselves! We decided to ship the MVP first, collect feedback from real users, and then keep upgrading. My friend handles the coding, and I take care of the marketing and promotion pretty classic division of labor, right? Lately, I’ve been dealing with the challenge of low views and struggling to find our target users. Honestly, I think the hardest part is just getting people to notice the app users are complicated: even if you’re solving their pain point, they might still be too lazy to download (I get it, I do the same with other apps). So right now I’m focused on tackling this, trying to see things from the user’s perspective, and I’m sure a lot of folks here have run into the same stuff. Would love to discuss, swap ideas, or just make friends! Thanks for having me 😊

Build in Public – Day 25 🌵 🤷 130？posts later, I’m still not viral (but my Runway credits are gone, and yes, I finally switched to my real face as my profile pic). What I actually did: • Burned through 500 Runway credits in a single morning—should’ve just bought coffee for everyone here • Made my first real promo video—took 5 hours, 12 attempts, and way too many AI hallucinations • Tried to “nail the pain point,” ended up with 3 drafts and zero real momentum Numbers & feedback: • Top video: 18 likes on TikTok (my peak so far) • Worst post: “Productivity hacks for ADHD” got flagged as spam—AI says I’m too self-aware • Cactus downloads: zero growth lately (the app’s already live, just… no new action), but at least a fresh grad slid into my DMs to ask how to build an app Most embarrassing moment: Spent an hour editing a “perfect” video, only for Runway’s AI to randomly swap my main scene with a stock footage of a raccoon eating chips. Five attempts later, I just kept it for the meme. What I learned: • Video > text, but only if you actually have a story (not just vibes) • One strong visual hook does more than 10 bullet points • Your metrics don’t move unless your story lands Next week’s mission: • Try short “fail diary” videos instead of lecture threads • Keep tracking real user feedback (not just my own rambling) • If I don’t hit 10 downloads, I’ll tweet my most embarrassing bug story—deal? Shout out to everyone who keeps lurking, roasting, and DMs me “you got this.” Week 4: viral moment, or just more AI hallucinations? Either way, the chaos continues.

When you post about your product, do you care more about the like ratio or the number of views?

How far would you go for your startup dream?

What did you do today? I dropped a post on Reddit that pulled in 23k views.

I’ve never been a fan of cold DMs. No trust, no demo just a random link. Every time I open my X/Reddit inbox, it’s the same thing: cold, lifeless AI ads. Ask yourself: as a user, how do you actually feel reading that? That’s why the conversion rate sucks. Stop spamming. Do something useful.

When it comes to product marketing, visuals matter the most. Trying to explain all the complex features with just text is tough especially since every day there are tons of people building all sorts of things.

Honestly, Reddit is like a mix of therapy café and a gladiator arena: You bring your real struggles, and people shower you with empathy and advice. But the second you even hint you’re building an app for that pain point Boom, suddenly you’re a “sales bot” or a “shill,” and the whole crowd turns cold. It’s wild. You try to be honest: •“Hey, I genuinely built this because my friends and I have this exact problem.” •Suddenly, you’re treated like a scammer running some secret campaign. Reddit wants real talk, but hates solutions that sound like plugs. If you haven’t already gone viral, sharing your pain + your product feels like giving a victim testimony and immediately pitching an ad awkward for everyone. This isn’t just a Reddit thing, it’s a platform thing: •Tell your story, vent, cry for help? Fine! •Suggest a tool (even if it’s genuinely helpful or free)? •Instantly flagged, downvoted, or soft-banned by mods/bots/users. Sometimes it feels like the only way to share a product is to pretend you’re a random user who “stumbled across something cool.” Meanwhile, actually being honest makes you look more suspicious. Any indie founders out there feel this? How do you build in public and not get mistaken for a spammer? What’s the best move blend in, play dumb, or just keep fishing for those rare, genuine beta users? Twitter feels totally different: Here, I can be 100% upfront I’m a startup founder, this is what I’m building, this is my Build-in-Public log. People share advice, feedback, or even become your first users. Tech changes life that’s always true. Without tools like Cursor, GPT, or Claude, so many things would take months (or years) to build Now a tiny team can launch an app in weeks.

Build in Public – Day 7 🌵 78 posts later, I’m still not famous. What I did this week: •Shipped a new feature •Posted/commented more than 70 times most of them probably buried by the algorithm •Tried different topics, hooks, and communities Numbers & feedback: •Top tweet: dev tools poll, ~150 views •Worst performer: “everyday chaos” pain-point thread—17 views, not even my mom liked it •Cactus downloads: 0. Conversion rate: ∅ Most embarrassing moment: App Store rejected my app (“no payment flow detected”). Spent hours blaming Apple/Xcode, then finally found the bug was from Cursor’s code. Biggest lesson this week: •Output ≠ outcome. A killer hook beats a perfect roadmap •Concrete scenarios > abstract pain points •You only get traction when your hook is strong Next week’s plan: •One mini-poll or hook post every day •Share a step-by-step demo showing how Cactus organizes my messy notes •Public accountability: if I don’t ship one thing before noon, first person to @ me gets a coffee Thanks to everyone who liked, commented, roasted, or just lurked. Week 2: viral or more chaos? Either way, I’ll keep posting the wreckage.

When you post about your product, do you care more about the like ratio or the number of views?

SEO or WOM What’s brought you the most real users?

I’ve never been a fan of cold DMs. No trust, no demo just a random link. Every time I open my X/Reddit inbox, it’s the same thing: cold, lifeless AI ads. Ask yourself: as a user, how do you actually feel reading that? That’s why the conversion rate sucks. Stop spamming. Do something useful.

Wait, did I just get a post with 1,000 views? Miracles do happen!

If you can’t remember the prompt from your last masterpiece or the prompt for the previous frame what do you do?

When you post your 100th post, and then your 1,000th post, what goes through your mind?

Hey everyone, Let me quickly introduce myself 🤓I’m a junior in college, and last month I teamed up with a friend to launch a productivity/life app called Cactus AI. The whole idea is to help people (like us!) stop forgetting stuff, organize things better, and actually get smart reminders because, honestly, this is a problem we’ve faced ourselves! We decided to ship the MVP first, collect feedback from real users, and then keep upgrading. My friend handles the coding, and I take care of the marketing and promotion pretty classic division of labor, right? Lately, I’ve been dealing with the challenge of low views and struggling to find our target users. Honestly, I think the hardest part is just getting people to notice the app users are complicated: even if you’re solving their pain point, they might still be too lazy to download (I get it, I do the same with other apps). So right now I’m focused on tackling this, trying to see things from the user’s perspective, and I’m sure a lot of folks here have run into the same stuff. Would love to discuss, swap ideas, or just make friends! Thanks for having me 😊

Talking privacy: opened our app, switched devices boom, no chat history. Love it. Even I forgot what I wrote.🤷

Build in Public – Day 25 🌵 🤷 130？posts later, I’m still not viral (but my Runway credits are gone, and yes, I finally switched to my real face as my profile pic). What I actually did: • Burned through 500 Runway credits in a single morning—should’ve just bought coffee for everyone here • Made my first real promo video—took 5 hours, 12 attempts, and way too many AI hallucinations • Tried to “nail the pain point,” ended up with 3 drafts and zero real momentum Numbers & feedback: • Top video: 18 likes on TikTok (my peak so far) • Worst post: “Productivity hacks for ADHD” got flagged as spam—AI says I’m too self-aware • Cactus downloads: zero growth lately (the app’s already live, just… no new action), but at least a fresh grad slid into my DMs to ask how to build an app Most embarrassing moment: Spent an hour editing a “perfect” video, only for Runway’s AI to randomly swap my main scene with a stock footage of a raccoon eating chips. Five attempts later, I just kept it for the meme. What I learned: • Video > text, but only if you actually have a story (not just vibes) • One strong visual hook does more than 10 bullet points • Your metrics don’t move unless your story lands Next week’s mission: • Try short “fail diary” videos instead of lecture threads • Keep tracking real user feedback (not just my own rambling) • If I don’t hit 10 downloads, I’ll tweet my most embarrassing bug story—deal? Shout out to everyone who keeps lurking, roasting, and DMs me “you got this.” Week 4: viral moment, or just more AI hallucinations? Either way, the chaos continues.

What do you like to keep on your desk when you’re working late at night, or what’s the one thing that, when you see it, instantly reminds you that it’s time to get back to work?

How do you tell if a post is written by AI?

Product growth? Easy: get the drinks flowing and crank up the music. Oh, and don’t forget your cofounder is your kid, but your project? That’s the one you gotta marry for life