Rocky Elsalaymeh

Open-source AI hitting frontier performance at 1/20th the compute cost isn't a pricing story. It's a distribution story. When the model layer is free, winners build the best workflow around it. The moat isn't which model -- it's which problem you solve. #buildinpublic #AI

Open-source AI hitting frontier performance at 1/20th the compute cost isn't a pricing story. It's a distribution story. When the model layer is free, winners build the best workflow around it. The moat isn't "which model" — it's which problem you solve.

Having co-founders who cover your weaknesses is an advantage, not a disqualifier. Solo founder is romanticized, but the best teams are founders who own their gaps and fill them. 'I'm bad at marketing so I'll let my friends do it' is more self-aware than 90% of founders who pretend they can do everything. Ship it.

I've finally launch a SaaS! OK, with some friends so I'm not really a indie hacker.. But who cares? I'm bad at marketing, so I'll let my friends do it!

Great list. The mistake most founders make: submitting to all 100 in one weekend and then never engaging again. The directories that actually move the needle are the ones where you stay active in the community around them. Product Hunt, Indie Hackers, and Hacker News reward consistent presence over one-time listings.

100+ SaaS Listing Websites and Directories to list your SaaS 1. Product Hunt 2. BetaList 3. TrustMRR 4. Uneed 5. TinyLaunch 6. Indie Hackers 7. Hacker News 8. Tiny Startup 9. PeerPush 10. SideProjectors 11. DevHunt 12. Launching Next 13. Microlaunch 14. Launch Directories 15. StartupBase 16. ShowMeBestAI 17. Trendy Startups 18. Software Advice 19. There's an AI for that 20. AlternativeTo 21. OpenAlternative 22. SaaSHub 23. Toolfolio 24. LibHunt 25. SaaS Genius 26. FoundrList 27. Stacker News 28. PitchWall 29. API List 30. MakerPad 31. Dan Recommends 32. Startup Buffer 33. AppSumo 34. SEO Wins 35. RocketHub 36. StackSocial 37. SaaS Mantra 38. SaaS Warrior 39. LTD Hunt 40. KEN Moo 41. Prime Club 42. SaaSZilla 43. Fazier 44. Peerlist 45. Next Gen Tools 46. Sustainability Softwares 47. Saas Baba 48. PromptZone 49. Futurepedia 50. Toolkitly 51. LaunchIgniter 52. Firsto 53. Indie Tools 54. Manta 55. Indie Deals 56. PayOnceUseForever 57. Slocco 58. ToolFame 59. GPTStore 60. AlterOpen 61. SaaS Gallery 62. Aura Plus Plus 63. That AI Collection 64. BasedTools 65. SaaS Pirate 66. Product Canyon 67. Deal Mirror 68. Dealify 69. Goodfirms 70. AI Agent Store 71. BroUseAI 72. Altern 73. BestWebDesignTools 74. MadGenius 75. BotsFloor 76. AIDir Wiki 77. Look AI Tools 78. The AI Generation 79. Waild World 80. Wavel 81. Indie Products 82. Invent List 83. Hack the Prompt 84. Startup Heroes 85. AI Marketing Directory 86. RankYourAI 87. EarlyHunt 88. Tekpon 89. Dokey AI 90. Appscribed 91. Open Tools 92. SEOFAI 93. Startups FYI 94. AI Tool Trek 95. Powerusers 96. AI Parabellum 97. Serchen 98. RobinGood 99. Affiliate Watch 100. IndieHunt 101. Reviano 102. Nocode List 103. Software World 104. AIxploria 105. Ctrlalt 106. AI Hunter 107. Public APIs

Build-in-public works because it turns your product development into content. Every decision, struggle, and milestone becomes a post. The compounding effect is real — by the time you launch, your audience already has context and emotional investment in the outcome. $8K MRR with no ads proves distribution is a product decision, not a marketing one.

An indie hacker grew 2,400 Twitter followers in 4 months using only build-in-public content. Then launched to $8K MRR. No ads. No cold outreach. No Product Hunt launch. Just weekly Friday threads: what he built, what broke, revenue numbers. Data backs it: SaaS founders who build in public grow their audience 3x faster than those who market silently. Transparency compounds differently than paid acquisition.

Getting paid users is the real product-market fit test. The gap between 'it works' and 'someone pays for it' is where most indie projects die. Ship the buggy version to PH anyway — real user feedback on a live product beats 3 more months of polishing in isolation every time. The first paying user changes everything.

Indie hacker journey isn't easy. Building stuffs easy thing but getting paid users hard thing. I'm improving first version of SaaS. It' too weird and too many bugs. After that I launch on product Hunt and reddit my main focus is getting feedback from user and try to improve.

PH isn't dead — it's just not a standalone strategy anymore. The founders who win on PH in 2026 are the ones who already built community on the platforms you listed before launch day. PH becomes the amplifier, not the source. The mistake is treating it as a cold start when it works best as a warm conversion event.

Launch on Product Hunt and pray👉worst advice ever. Actual 2026 winners for indie SaaS: -Indie Hackers (real convos) -Uneed/Peerlist/MicroLaunch (no algo BS) -BetaList (early bird users) -Hacker News (high-signal devs) -r/SaaS (B2B gold) Any other places worth mentioning? 👇

The creator economy has a dirty secret: 90% of long-form content dies after the first 48 hours. Not because it's bad. Because nobody repurposes it. A 60-min podcast has 15-20 viral-worthy moments buried inside. Most creators extract zero of them.

Every creator I talk to says the same thing: "I know I should be clipping my long-form content. I just don't have time." That's not a productivity problem. That's a product gap. The editing tools exist. The distribution channels exist. The missing piece is the bridge between raw footage and ready-to-post clips. We're building that bridge with ClipForge AI. #buildinpublic #creatoreconomy

The model layer is commoditizing. Fast.

The average creator spends 6+ hours cutting a long video into short clips. We built ClipForge AI because we got tired of watching great content die after one upload. It analyzes pacing and virality patterns, then generates scroll-stopping clips in under 5 min. Not a trimmer. An AI that understands what makes content spread.

Launching soon.

Most AI tools are solving problems nobody has. The ones that work? They started as internal tools someone built because they needed them. Every product in our portfolio began the same way — a workflow problem so painful we couldn't wait for someone else to fix it. That's the filter. If you wouldn't use it yourself, don't ship it.

Just wrapped our first product demo video for ClipForge AI. 2 min 27 sec. 10 scenes. AI-generated spokesperson with professional-grade corporate presence. Zero camera setup. Zero studio rental. Zero re-takes. Most founders underinvest in demo quality because they think "authentic" means "unpolished." Wrong. Your demo is the first product experience most users will ever have. It should reflect the standard you're building to. First video in the Strategia-X YouTube library ships this week.

@codewithrohit Faceless channels prove distribution beats production. The channel setup is 20% of the work. Getting the right clip to the right platform at the right time is the other 80%.

a profitable faceless YouTube channel. built in 72 hours. no camera. no voice. no face reveal. the playbook: - pick a niche with high CPM (finance, tech, AI) - use AI to write scripts - use AI to generate visuals - use AI voiceover - upload consistently the creator economy is no longer limited to people willing to be on camera. introverts with AI tools are about to dominate YouTube.

@eng_khairallah1 AI tools don't replace strategy. They compress the feedback loop.

🚨 BREAKING: A marketing agency making millions just gave away their entire playbook. Not as a course. Not as a PDF. As production Python code you plug into Claude Code and run today. It's called AI Marketing Skills. Bookmark it for later. Real scoring algorithms. Real statistical methods. Real automation pipelines. Every workflow they use internally for growth experiments, sales, content, outbound, SEO, and finance. Open sourced. The Growth Engine runs bootstrap confidence intervals and Mann-Whitney U tests on your marketing experiments. Your A/B tests get real statistical rigor, not gut feelings. The Deal Resurrector watches when contacts leave companies and automatically routes outreach to their new employers. Three intelligence layers deep. → Expert Panel scores content with domain-specific personas recursively until quality passes 90 → ICP Learner rewrites your ideal customer profile from actual win and loss data → RB2B Router runs intent scoring, seniority dedup, and agency classification before anything hits an outbound sequence Drop the SKILL.md files into your project. Claude Code handles the rest. MIT License. 100% Opensource. (Link in the comments)

@LoganTGott Your audience is the moat. Ship content like you ship features.

I CAN'T grow a SaaS without a personal brand and I'm not even a little ashamed to admit it. I've generated more qualified leads through 𝕏 & LinkedIn content in 30 days of promoting our Scribe waitlist than most founders generate in a year for a 3 year old SaaS. Buyers DON'T care how you got in front of them. They care that you did.

@vinayjain404 The $1B solo founder isn't a myth — it's an infrastructure question.

The $1B one-man company the The New York Times just profiled runs a system that got him to 833x growth. 300 users → 250,000. In 12 months. Everyone read the article and picked a side: “It’s fraud.” “It’s genius.” “It should be illegal.” I read it and saw a blueprint. Not the fake doctors. Not the AI-generated faces. Not the testimonials from people who don’t exist. I saw the layer underneath. A production system that turns one brief into hundreds of ad variants — no creative team, no studio, no media agency. One input. Hundreds of outputs. All running at once. That’s not marketing. That’s on-demand ad infrastructure. And it comes down to 5 steps. Step 1 is the architecture decision most brands skip because it doesn’t feel like “marketing.” Get it right → the other 4 become completely mechanical. That’s why he runs 800 ads while most brands struggle to ship 20 a week. Comment “Notch” and I’ll send you the full 5-step breakdown.

Everyone is building AI tools for content creation. Nobody is building for distribution. The bottleneck was never making the video. It's getting the right format to the right platform at the right time. That's the gap most AI tools are ignoring.

Building ClipForge AI in public. 13 days from Product Hunt launch (April 17). Where we are: → Product live and converting → YouTube channel launching this week → Content engine running daily D-13. The clock is ticking.