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Hi all, I have an idea for a product and a target audience in mind, but I would like to make sure I do everything I can correctly. In the past I started a clothing brand and while I found minimal success, it was just that, minimal. I had very little clue what I was doing and felt like I skipped many steps, lost money where I didn’t need to, and never fully honed in my product, brand, or focus enough to become established in the way I was seeking. The business landscape has changed significantly with AI in the past few years and I was wondering what tools I should be using and things I should be looking out for to set myself up for the most success? While it seems like this is rarely the case, are things like brand coaches, strategist, SEO specialist, or any of the like worth it, or are these skills more important for a founder to have? Where can I go to fully understand everything I need to and should? One of my biggest concerns personally is that while I have a great product In mind and somewhat of an audience, I don’t think it’s clear/niche enough to really capture in ads. Where can I go or what kind of people/tools can I use to help me improve this and overall make sure that I’m on the right track and not missing anything vital for the successful of this business? I know this post may be very telling in regards to how little I know at the moment but I would love to learn and really fully understand what I need to do to. Thank you all in advance for your help!
Reddit6mo agoToolVC & Startups
i do mobile dev freelance. android mostly. it's not easy took me almost a year to get to a point where i had semi regular clients and even now there are months where i'm refreshing my inbox more than i'm writing code. about 3 months ago i'm on a call with a guy i'd been doing small gigs for. he runs a meditation app, around 40k downloads. i'd just finished patching a bug where guided audio sessions were cutting out mid track on android 12 devices something to do with background process limits and how his media player service wasn't requesting the right foreground notification. small fix, maybe 4 hours of actual work, $320 invoice. we're wrapping up and he mentions offhand that a friend of his who runs a habit tracker app keeps complaining about bugs slipping into production. says his friend doesn't have a QA person, just a solo dev who writes the features and tries to test what he can before pushing. i said i'll talk to him. got on a call. the guy's a solo founder with one contractor dev. the app's not huge maybe 15k users, but it's growing and he's getting bad reviews because stuff keeps breaking after updates. things like the streak counter resetting when you change timezones, or the reminder notification showing the wrong habit name because the list order shifts after you delete one. his dev was doing all testing manually. open the app, tap through the main flows, eyeball it, ship. no automation at all. and every release was this stressful thing where they'd push an update and just wait to see if users complain. now here's the thing. i know testing. every dev knows testing. i've written espresso tests, i've dealt with appium on a contract job once and hated it. So the problem is it's tedious and for small teams it always gets deprioritized because there's always a feature to build or a bug to fix first. so i looked at his setup. the app was kotlin, single activity, jetpack compose for most of the ui. pretty standard. the flows that kept breaking were onboa
Reddit6mo agoToolBusiness
Trying to eliminate one of the most persistent manual tasks in our onboarding process getting consistent professional headshots from every new hire for the company website and internal directory. Right now it involves multiple Slack reminders, inconsistent results, and someone manually editing photos to look vaguely cohesive. The ideal automation would be a simple form where new hires upload selfies, an AI tool processes them into consistently styled professional headshots, and the output drops straight into a shared folder or CMS automatically. Been seeing mentions of **Looktara** for the AI headshot generation piece apparently handles visual consistency across multiple people well enough for professional company websites. Has anyone built something like this with no-code tools? Curious what the full stack looks like form, AI processing, output delivery and whether the headshot quality holds up well enough to eliminate the manual review step entirely.
Reddit6mo agoToolProductivity
I’ve been thinking about why some days feel productive and others feel completely drained, even if the workload is similar. What I’ve noticed is that most lost time isn’t about planning or discipline. It’s about reaction. Email notification - immediate check. Message - immediate reply. Small frustration - 10 minutes of mental spiral. Random thought - instant distraction. We react before we decide. Lately I’ve been experimenting with something simple: delaying my reaction by just a second or two. Not suppressing anything. Just noticing the impulse before acting on it. That tiny pause changes everything. Instead of automatically opening the notification, I choose whether it even deserves my attention. Instead of reacting emotionally to something annoying (like a random comment that used to derail me), I choose whether it deserves energy. It sounds small, but over a full day those micro pauses save hours of mental leakage. Productivity, for me, stopped being about doing more. It became about reacting less automatically. Maybe most productivity problems aren’t about discipline at all. Maybe they’re about how fast we execute impulses. Has anyone else noticed this?
Reddit6mo agoToolProductivity
to those of you struggling with marketing for your B2B SaaS, heres what’s been working for my clients in 2026 so far. Step one. make a simple landing page for a webinar. Just a thumbnail image, webinar title, and a working optin form. Ask for multiple data points like company name, job title, etc. Use some recaptcha solution to prevent spam submissions. After successful optin, just show a screen like “webinar ended, we’ll send a replay when available!” Step two. Make 15-50 variations of this with various webinar topics and titles. You never know what resonates most with people in your industry until you test, and you’ll waste countless hours & resources filming and producing webinars nobody will ever watch. So test titles first then thumbnails second. Even the wording of the webinar headline can result in either $16.00 or $2.50 per qualified optin. The worst and dumbest thing you can do is burn ad spend forcing people to watch something they have no interest in. Step three. Run paid ads to test which webinar topics/titles perform best. We run ads across Meta, LinkedIn, Google/YouTube, and Reddit. (Even TikTok for some industries). Algorithms can find your target audience even if it’s super niche. We’ve even done webinars targeted at “Owners of independent pharmacies” or “CTOs at tech companies with 300+ headcount” or “owner operators of remodeling companies on the east coast”. If your webinar title is relevant, and your ad copy is targeted, you reach the right people. Simple enough. Those people click, and then algorithms show to more people like that. Step four. Take your best performing webinar title & thumbnail and actually script and film the webinar. This is by far the biggest bottleneck for most people. They keep restarting and never actually film the thing. If it’s easier we’ve had a lot of success with ultra realistic AI voiceovers and the watch times can actually be higher. Aim to write a transcript that fills about 20-30 minutes. Then do a
Reddit6mo agoToolBusiness
The manual to automated handoff in outbound contact discovery is messier than most playbooks admit. Clay is great for enrichment workflows but it's only as good as the data sources feeding it, and the moment you're targeting anything outside SaaS or enterprise tech the waterfall starts returning empty columns. The other thing is that "automating" contact discovery usually still means building a workflow that requires a human to QA the output before sequences run, because the cost of bad data showing up in an active campaign is worse than the time you saved on sourcing, so what does the stack actually look like for teams doing this at volume without a full time data ops person?
Reddit6mo agoToolBusiness
I always used to be exhausted and think being exhausted meant I needed better time management like a new planner, better task system and less distractions. But the real issue wasn’t my schedule it was how tense my body felt all the time like ven when I wasn’t overloaded, my chest felt tight, my breathing was shallow, and I was constantly slightly “on.” I didn’t realize how much that background stress was draining me. I started focusing on drug-free anxiety relief instead of productivity hacks. Just working on calming my nervous system before diving into work. And weirdly, when my body felt calmer, focus felt easier. I didn’t have to force it as much. xNow I treat calm as part of my workflow, not something I earn after I finish everything.
Reddit6mo agoToolProductivity
ProblemHunt6mo agoToolAI
to those of you struggling with marketing for your B2B offer, heres what’s been working for my clients in 2026 so far. Step one. make a simple landing page for a webinar. Just a thumbnail image, webinar title, and a working optin form. Ask for multiple data points like company name, job title, etc. Use some recaptcha solution to prevent spam submissions. After successful optin, just show a screen like “webinar ended, we’ll send a replay when available!” Step two. Make 15-50 variations of this with various webinar topics and titles. You never know what resonates most with people in your industry until you test, and you’ll waste countless hours & resources filming and producing webinars nobody will ever watch. So test titles first then thumbnails second. Even the wording of the webinar headline can result in either $16.00 or $2.50 per qualified optin. The worst and dumbest thing you can do is burn ad spend forcing people to watch something they have no interest in. Step three. Run paid ads to test which webinar topics/titles perform best. We run ads across Meta, LinkedIn, Google/YouTube, and Reddit. (Even TikTok for some industries). Algorithms can find your target audience even if it’s super niche. We’ve even done webinars targeted at “Owners of independent pharmacies” or “CTOs at tech companies with 300+ headcount” or “owner operators of remodeling companies on the east coast”. If your webinar title is relevant, and your ad copy is targeted, you reach the right people. Simple enough. Those people click, and then algorithms show to more people like that. Step four. Take your best performing webinar title & thumbnail and actually script and film the webinar. This is by far the biggest bottleneck for most people. They keep restarting and never actually film the thing. If it’s easier we’ve had a lot of success with ultra realistic AI voiceovers and the watch times can actually be higher. Aim to write a transcript that fills about 20-30 minutes. Then do a
Reddit6mo agoToolBusiness
new project needs daily pulls from this ancient windows app. no api, no exports really. support says use their scheduled reports but those lag 24h and miss data. i scripted mouse clicks with python but one update and boom broken. network inspect shows encrypted blobs i cant parse. this definitely doesnt feel like any kind of browser automation infrastructure, just pure survival mode trying to duct tape automation onto something never meant for it. am i missing something obvious? like does everyone just pay for rpa tools? or is there a free way to hook into the process memory or whatever. kinda feels hopeless, maybe just manual copy paste forever. what have you done for stuff like this.
Reddit6mo agoToolProductivity
- Hey its me again, how are you guys doing? ## Aggregated FREE services till Feb 28, 2026 - As you know, every week I spend some time and efforts aggregating [free services from across various startup related subreddits](https://github.com/zupcode-com/awesome-free-services-for-your-next-startup-or-saas?tab=readme-ov-file) - We got close to 70 services ranging from - marketing - outreach - growth hacking - ux review - landing page review - automation assist - seo audits - cloud consulting - security audits - getting first N leads / users - strategy consulting - monitoring - conversion optimization - web design - app design - saas testing **You name it and you ll find it** - Why not star the repo and watch it every week? ## Roadmap - Add a tagger - Offer an alternate view where services are sorted by tags chronologically - Add the next 1000 items on the pipeline - Add github topics to increase visibility - Reach out to startup communities on bsky, mastodon, twitter etc and tell them about this (Got any tools for this?) - Automate a lot of work by implementing this in langchain
Reddit6mo agoToolVC & Startups
Many businesses think marketing begins with running ads or posting on social media. It doesn’t. Marketing actually begins with clarity. Clarity about: • Who you serve • What specific problem you solve • Why your solution is different • Why someone should trust you Without clarity, even the best campaigns struggle. You can spend thousands on paid traffic, hire designers, create videos, and still see poor results. Not because marketing does not work. But because the foundation was weak. Successful marketing is built in layers. First comes positioning. Then messaging. Then trust. Only after that should you scale with ads and automation. If your conversions are low, do not immediately increase your budget. Revisit your positioning. Ask whether your audience truly understands the value you provide. When the message is clear, marketing becomes easier. When it is confusing, marketing becomes expensive.
Reddit6mo agoToolMarketing & Sales
I’ve been going deep into n8n + AI for the last few months not just simple flows, but real systems: multi-step reasoning, memory, custom API tools, intelligent agents… the fun stuff. Along the way, I realized something: most people stay stuck at the beginner level not because it’s hard, but because nobody explains the next step clearly. So I documented everything the techniques, patterns, prompts, API flows, and even 3 full real systems into a clean, beginner-friendly Advanced AI Automations Playbook. It’s written for people who already know the basics and want to build smarter, more reliable, more “intelligent” workflows. If you want it, drop a comment and I’ll send it to you. Happy to share no gatekeeping. And if it helps you, your support helps me keep making these resources
Reddit6mo agoToolProductivity
i’m building a small side project right now and i went full vibe mode at the start. it was fun until i realized the same thing keeps happening the AI ships fast, and then i spend 2x time unshipping the “helpful” extras so i switched to a simple process that keeps speed but adds adult supervision what i’m building a small SaaS style tool. FastAPI backend, Next frontend, Supabase for auth and db what changed everything for me i write a tiny spec for every feature before i let any tool touch code my spec template goal in one sentence non goals so it doesn’t add random features files allowed to change api contract. request response errors acceptance checks. exact steps to verify rollback plan. what to revert if it breaks my workflow 1 brain dump into Traycer AI and it turns it into a clean checklist spec 2 implement in small chunks with Claude Code or Codex 3 use Copilot for boring glue edits 4 run tests and force the tool to paste command output. no output. not done example acceptance checks i actually use auth try call endpoint with no token. should fail call with valid token. should pass rate limit hit endpoint 30 times fast. should start returning 429 db confirm Supabase RLS blocks cross user reads why i’m posting i’m curious if other side project people do specs like this or if you just raw vibe it and fix later also if you have any good tricks to stop agents from doing “bonus refactors” nobody asked for i want them if you want i can share the exact spec template file i keep in my repo. it’s short and it’s saved me a stupid amount of time
Reddit6mo agoToolDev
After testing 10+ tools over the last two months (Zapier, Make, n8n, Twin), here is my breakdown for anyone feeling overwhelmed: * Zapier: Still the easiest for simple API-to-API stuff. But the cost per task is insane once you scale. * Make: The most visual control, but the learning curve is steep and it can be slow with heavy data. * Twin.so: This was my surprise find. It’s no-code and with the No-API layer. Instead of mapping fields, it uses a browser like a human. If you're building agents, this is the most secure cloud option I've found. * n8n: The best for devs who want to self-host, but a nightmare for genuine no-code users. If you have the budget, Zapier is fine. If you have the skills, n8n is great. But if you're trying to automate browser-based tasks without code, Twin.so is currently winning for me. What’s everyone else’s must-have tool this year?
Reddit6mo agoToolProductivity
Thought I would ask for a slice of your wisdom! As things are moving so fast, I'm not up to speed with the latest/best methods for automation, and I've got a task I'd like to have a go at creating, but thought I'd ask which toolchains you might approach it with - ironically I don't really trust the tools to give me a good answer! **Background**: I'm an Embedded Software/System engineer - and have had good experience developing a massively complex AI driven tool using GitHub CoPilot with Claude 3.5-4.6, LangChain and and LangSmith with RAG etc. - So I understand the background principles, but this 'Code' option I'm sure is way to complex for the nut I want to crack this time. Also had a bit of a trial with LangFlow - but didn't find it that practical although didn't give it much time. **Pre-requisites**: * Ideally I'd like to start off for free, or utilising what I'm already paying for (GitHub Copilot Pro), or redivert my $10 a month to something more useful/better * Not going to support OpenAI any more given their recent stance, but happy to support Anthropic (have found Claude superior anyway) * Would prefer to self-host/run in codespaces/run locally - this is going to be a 'once a week' automation - so should be basically free * If I have to use a paid hosted tool - at least want to be able to set up my automation/toolchain and test it before having to pay/subscribe to anything * Ideally 'no/low code' but of course coding isn't really a hurdle these days **Goal**: As a start-up business, networking is really important for us, but there are so many possible local events that we could go to, it takes a few hours a week to run through all the various listing pages to find new events, decide if they're relevant, then sign up. I think it should be possible to automate this. **Requirements**: * I want to be able to input/provide a list of 'events' websites to the workflow * That list should be scraped (not sure how to handle pagination...) for 'events' * Use a
Reddit6mo agoToolProductivity
Hey guys, i am in the market for an AI tool that can help me streamline my google and meta ad accounts. I have narrowed down to three options. I am looking for tools that are good for beginners and have a clean UI. I am willing to pay $100/month 1)Ryze AI- In built chatbot that can help with complex terms and derive insights from data collected. Manage both meta and google ads on a single dashboard. Cost $49/month 2)Opytzmer-Offers high-speed templates and the ability to "clone" winning campaigns from Google to facebook.( This was my favourite feature). But i HATED the UI. Costs $209/month 3)RevealBot-Get real-time alerts in your team chat the second an ad is paused or a budget is hit. Very specific features, like if ROI is >X and conversion rate > Y, increase budget by 10%).They often use a "Percentage of Spend" model. As you scale your ads, your bills for them rack up too.Not a big fan of the price, I dont want to spend more just because im earning more. I had asked the same question in marketing subreddit and I am confused between Ryze AI and Revealbot. Please let me know if anyone has used any/suggestions/feedback. I would really appreciate it!
Reddit6mo agoToolNo-Code
Hey everyone, long-time lurker here. I work in marketing at a mid-sized e-commerce company (\~30k contacts, selling home goods) and we've finally hit the wall with Mailchimp. The automation is too limited for what we need and the pricing keeps creeping up without us getting much more value. Our main use cases are: * Abandoned cart sequences * Post-purchase flows * Occasional SMS blasts to our best customers * Segmenting by purchase behavior (frequency, AOV and product category) I've been going down a rabbit hole this week and narrowed it down to three platforms. Here's where my head is at so far: **Campaigner** \- honestly this one flew under my radar until recently. Looks like it's been around forever (20+ years?) and the automation workflows and segmentation seem genuinely advanced. The UI looks a bit dated from the screenshots though? Has anyone actually used it for e-commerce or is it more of a B2B email tool? **Klaviyo** \- everyone in e-commerce seems to swear by it. The Shopify integration looks seamless and the segmentation is clearly best-in-class. But pricing scales fast once you're past 25k contacts and I've seen some complaints about it getting expensive quickly. Is it actually worth it at our size or is it more for larger DTC brands? **Omnisend** \- pricing seems more reasonable and the email + SMS combo looks solid. A few people on here mentioned it's easier to set up than Klaviyo. Wondering if there's a meaningful feature gap though or if that reputation is outdated. We're a small team (just me and one other person managing campaigns) so ease of use matters but we're not beginners. We can handle a learning curve if the features justify it. Budget is flexible but ideally staying under $300/month to start. Has anyone switched away from Mailchimp to any of these? What do you use?
Reddit6mo agoToolE-Commerce
I run a small lifestyle brand on shopify and video content is eating me alive. I know TikTok and insta/reels drive traffic, but actually producing enough content to stay consistent is a different story. Right now I'm basically spending a sunday afternoon batch-filming with my phone, editing manually, and still only getting maybe 2-3 videos out per week. It's not sustainable and I can't justify hiring an editor yet. I've tried a few AI tools but they're mostly designed for repurposing long-form content, or making really generic short clips and not really built around showcasing products. Also output in general seems to be very generic. A few things i'm genuinely curious about: * how many videos are you putting out per week, and how long does it take you? * has anyone found a AI tool or workflow that actually works well for product-focused short-form video? * what's your biggest bottleneck: scripting ideas, filming, editing, or just staying consistent? Would love to hear what's working for people at different stages. I feel like everyone says "just post more video" but nobody talks about the actual process behind it.
Reddit6mo agoToolE-Commerce
I spent way too much time testing these so you don't have to. Here's what I tried and my honest review: **Claude Code** – My biggest love. Thank God it exists. It’s a bit harder to get started when you're afraid of terminals , but with recent app it's OK for anyone . (I started from scratch with zero experience, but now my app brings $7k MRR). I’m also experimenting with parallel coding agents, it’s a mess to manage, but the outcome is insane. [Superapp](https://www.superappp.com) – I was skeptical, but it became a revelation for me. The absolute best AI no-code app builder for swift mobile apps in 2025. Way faster than I expected. All the technical stuff like APIs and backend integrations worked without me having to fix a single line of code. Getting ready for App Store submission was a breeze. The previews load instantly and don't break, unlike other tools I tried. Most importantly: **The code belongs to you.** That is so rare these days. I think Superapp is the gold standard for beginners and non-tech founders right now. **The Pro Workflow:** Prototype in Superapp → sync to GitHub → iterate/refine in Claude Code → import back to Superapp to publish to App Store. They work perfectly together. [**Lovable.ai**](http://Lovable.ai) – Pretty hyped. I mostly used it for website prototyping before, but after Claude Code, I use it less and less. They have good UX, but honestly, I can recognize Lovable designs from a mile away. It all feels like "standard Claude UI" and I wanted something more custom. Plus, Lovable still struggles with true native mobile functionality compared to Superapp. [**Replit.com**](http://Replit.com) – I used Replit for a very long time, but when it came time to scale, I realized the "walled garden" is real. Migration is a nightmare. I stopped using Replit because: 1. **It gets dumber. Like much dumber.** It claims to fix bugs but just loops the same errors. 2. **Fake functionality:** It uses mock data for everything, which burns th
Reddit6mo agoToolNo-Code