Ideas Lab

68FL score

Need help in picking between 2 tools (see the last para)

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!

Reddit7mo agoToolNo-Code

New Entrepreneurs, post your biggest roadblock. 5+ year founders, reply with advice.

As a new entrepreneur myself, I've often heard that the biggest solution to everything is just to "work harder". But then I realized that if success were a linear relationship to your effort, then so many more people would be successful. But that's just not the case. I always wished there was a straightforward platform where I could ask all the "stupid" questions and quickly get advice. Hope this post helps a lot of people. Newbies, ask your questions. Seniors, reply with your best wisdom.

Reddit7mo agoToolBusiness

77FL score

why is connecting no-code tools still so painful? Booking → CRM → email still breaks for me

Been using no-code tools to build out full workflows and the frontend side is always smooth — but the backend connections are where everything slows down. Calendly not syncing to Airtable. Stripe not triggering follow-up emails. Form submissions not landing in HubSpot. Spent a lot of time figuring out how to stitch these tools together properly. Eventually got it working and happy to share how if anyone else is hitting the same wall. What no-code tools are you struggling to connect right now?

Reddit7mo agoToolNo-Code

68FL score

Switching AI providers means losing all conversation history and custom context

Users who want to try or migrate to Claude lose all their accumulated preferences, project context, and conversation history from ChatGPT or other providers. They have to rebuild this context from scratch, making the switch friction-filled. This delays adoption of potentially better tools and forces users to maintain multiple AI providers just to preserve their existing work context.

Product Hunt7mo agoToolAI

77FL score

I spent 3000+ hours building startups that went nowhere. I thought I was bad at marketing. I was just picking terrible ideas.

I used to think my problem was marketing. Every time I'd build something and it flopped, I'd tell myself the same story. "I just need to get better at distribution." So I'd go deeper. More SEO. More cold emails. More content. More strategies from people on Twitter who definitely had it all figured out. Nothing worked. I kept blaming the marketing. Then after about 3000 hours of this across multiple failed startups, I realized. My marketing wasn't the problem. My ideas were just trash. The biggest one was called VimFuse. A learning platform for YouTubers. I spent months on it. The product was solid. I was proud of it. And nobody wanted it. Not because they didn't know about it. Because the problem I was solving wasn't painful enough for anyone to actually pay for. That failure broke something in my brain in a good way. I stopped asking "how do I market this better" and started asking "should I even be building this in the first place." Here's what I learned: **If your idea sounds amazing and nobody is doing it, that's a warning sign.** There's a concept called a tarpit idea. It sounds brilliant. Nobody seems to be doing it. Doesn't seem too hard. You think you've stumbled on something everyone else missed. You haven't. Hundreds of people had that same idea. They all tried. They all drowned quietly. The reason nobody is doing it isn't because nobody thought of it. It's because it doesn't work. The ideas that actually make money? Boring. Hard. Already have competition. Gusto does payroll. Stripe processes payments. Dropbox wasn't even original. They just did cloud storage with less friction than everyone else. Boring as hell. Worth billions. **Start with pain. Not a technology.** Most people come up with ideas like this: "AI is cool, what if I built an AI tool that does X?" There's no problem there! You're starting with a trend and trying to reverse-engineer a use case. That's building a solution and then going out looking for people who need it. Flip it.

Reddit7mo agoToolBusiness

68FL score

Monthly Getting Started / Web Dev Career Thread

Due to a growing influx of questions on this topic, it has been decided to commit a monthly thread dedicated to this topic to reduce the number of repeat posts on this topic. These types of posts will no longer be allowed in the main thread. Many of these questions are also addressed in the sub FAQ or may have been asked in [previous monthly career threads](/r/webdev/search?q=flair%3AMonthlyCareerThread&restrict_sr=on&sort=new&t=all). Subs dedicated to these types of questions include [r/cscareerquestions](/r/cscareerquestions) for general and opened ended career questions and [r/learnprogramming](/r/learnprogramming) for early learning questions. A general recommendation of topics to learn to become industry ready include: - [HTML/CSS/JS Bootcamp](https://www.udemy.com/course/javascript-beginners-complete-tutorial) - [Version control](https://www.atlassian.com/git/tutorials/what-is-version-control) - [Automation](https://blog.logrocket.com/tools-and-modern-workflow-for-front-end-developers-505c7227e917/) - [Front End Frameworks (React/Vue/Etc)](https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/complete-guide-for-front-end-developers-javascript-frameworks-2019/) - [APIs and CRUD](https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/crud-operations-using-vanilla-javascript-cd6ee2feff67/) - [Testing (Unit and Integration)](https://raygun.com/blog/javascript-unit-testing-frameworks/) - [Common Design Patterns](https://www.patterns.dev/) You will also need a portfolio of work with 4-5 personal projects you built, and a resume/CV to apply for work. Plan for 6-12 months of self study and project production for your portfolio before applying for work.

Reddit7mo agoToolDev

76FL score

Please help me with my email inbox management

I get a metric ton of emails a day. Like 300-500 across personal and work. I’ve tried lots of solutions : inbox zero, folders, aggressive unsubscribe, etc. my problem is that a good portion is stuff I just get cc’d on for work that isn’t really important but it’s a “just added to the dl” kind of thing. I’ve seen some of these new “summarize and draft” replies kind of things but what I really need is something that sorts my email for me. Anyone know of a tool like those seen Spark mail and a few others but they either just summarize and/or they want some absurd monthly subscription like 25/month or something. I’m willing to pay for a solution but not monthly and certainly not 25/month which I feel is exorbitant for email management. Am I alone in my problem?

Reddit7mo agoToolProductivity

What product do you think it worth to build now?

I'm a solo dev looking for my next project. Currently interested in AI tools, developer APIs, and automation. What problems are you facing that nobody has built a good solution for yet? Or what existing tool do you wish was better/cheaper? Looking for real pain points, not "build another todo app" 😄

Reddit7mo agoToolDev

70FL score

talked to 12 micro saas founders making $5k to $30k/month. none of them found their idea by brainstorming. here's what they actually did

been obsessed with how profitable micro saas founders find their ideas. not the ones who got lucky with a viral launch. the quiet ones making consistent money that nobody writes about because the product is too boring for a blog post. talked to 12 of them over the last few months. some through reddit, some through communities, a couple through cold outreach. asked them all the same question: how did you actually find this idea? none of them said brainstorming. not one. here's what they actually said. **founder 1 (scheduling tool for trade contractors, $14k/month):** "i was a contractor for 8 years. used to schedule jobs on a whiteboard. tried every scheduling app and they were all built for office meetings. i just needed something that handled multiple crews across multiple job sites with weather delays. built the ugly version in a month. every contractor i showed it to said where do i pay." the pattern: he WAS the customer. he didn't research the problem. he lived it. **founder 2 (invoice escalation for freelancers, $8k/month):** "saw the same complaint on r/freelance like once a week. someone asking how to chase late payments without being awkward. freshbooks sends a reminder email and that's it. i built a tool that does polite nudge day 3, firm follow up day 7, and a 'my accountant is now handling this' template at day 30. charges $15/month." the pattern: he found the idea by being active in a community. not lurking. actually reading what people said repeatedly. **founder 3 (menu syncing for restaurants, $11k/month):** "my friend owns a restaurant. complained every week about updating menus across uber eats, doordash, grubhub. 45 minutes per change. i built a tool where you update once and it pushes everywhere. showed it to 5 restaurant owners. 4 signed up the same day." the pattern: someone close to him had the problem. he didn't go searching for it. he paid attention when someone he knew complained. **founder 4 (review monitoring for small ecommerc

Reddit7mo agoToolVC & Startups

78FL score

i keep a spreadsheet of every "why doesn't this exist" post i find online. here are the patterns after 6 months

started doing this as a personal exercise and got kind of obsessed. every time i find someone online describing a problem and asking why nobody's built a solution, i log it. the source, upvotes, industry, existing alternatives, and what's missing. 6 months and hundreds of entries later, clear patterns emerged that i didn't expect. **pattern 1: the word "overkill" is the strongest buying signal on the internet** when someone describes a tool as "overkill" they're telling you three things. the problem is real. they're currently paying for a solution. and they'd switch to something simpler in a heartbeat. i started specifically searching for "overkill" across reddit and review sites. the hit rate for finding buildable opportunities is insane compared to searching "i wish there was." **pattern 2: the highest pain industries aren't tech** trades, healthcare admin, property management, and local services show up constantly. these people have budget, they're underserved by software, and developers don't build for them because the niches don't sound exciting. 22 separate posts about pet medication tracking. zero good tools. 14 threads about trade contractor scheduling. everything is built for office workers. 9 threads about personal trainers managing clients through whatsapp because every fitness app serves the gym member not the trainer. **pattern 3: the best opportunities have terrible competitors, not zero competitors** zero competitors usually means zero market. nobody wants it. 3 to 5 competitors with bad reviews is the sweet spot. the market is proven because people are paying. the execution is bad because people are complaining. you just need to be less terrible. 10+ well funded competitors means you're too late for the broad play. but zoom in. there's almost always a niche they're all ignoring. **pattern 4: "i've been doing this manually for X years" is worth more than any market research report** this phrase shows up everywhere once you start looking f

Reddit7mo agoToolDev

80FL score

How do I find clients/companies who need AI Agents and Automation workflows

I have built a platform which has connectors to most of the services used by companies/businesses. Connectors include Slack, Teams, Jira, Confluence, Notion, etc Now I have AI agents which can connect to these databases and give you info, perform tasks for you directly from slack or teams or any chat interface Tasks include fetching info across Jira, Confluence and other sources, creating/updating Confluence Pages based on the context in a thread or the context given by the user, creating/editing Jira tickets, workflows like onboarding, password reset, etc I know a lot of companies need this because their data is spread across platforms which might not be from a single vendor like Notion, Confluence and Jira or some other combination, and my solution gives them info from all the platforms in one place. I want to actually reach companies who need it, I don't know how to do that. I would really appreciate any guidance on this.

Reddit7mo agoToolBusiness

People don't recommend your product because it's good. They recommend it because it makes them look cool, smart, important, caring or sexy - I will not promote

Here's something most founders/marketers/product and growth teams get wrong about distribution: they think "people recommend products because the product is good" They don't. People recommend products because recommending them says something about *who they are*. This sounds subtle. It isn't. It's the difference between building something people use and building something people talk about. And if people don't talk about it, you're fighting uphill on distribution forever. Let me explain. Go on LinkedIn right now. You'll find dozens of "sales experts" posting about the workflows they've built in Clay... "*Look at me, I've stitched together fourteen data sources into a single enrichment flow."... "Look at me, I automated my entire outbound pipeline. Look at how smart I am."* Clay is a great product. I genuinely think that. But the people evangelising it aren't doing it because Clay is great. They're doing it because *showing that they use Clay* signals something about them. It says: I know my domain deeply enough to build something complex. I'm technical. I'm ahead of the curve. I'm not like the other salespeople still manually updating Salesforce. The product becomes a badge. And badges get shown off. You see this everywhere once you start looking. People who love to cook talk endlessly about the quality of their ingredients, the new farm shop that's opened, the obscure supplier they found for their olive oil. Runners will not shut up about their splits, their route, their shoes. The product... the ingredients, the app, the shoes... becomes part of how they express their identity to the world. Nobody talks about the quality of their home electricity. Why? Because it's all the same. There's nothing to signal. You can't build an identity around your electricity provider. (Yes, some differentiate on source or service... but the core product is invisible. Nobody's posting on LinkedIn about their kilowatt-hours.) This is the fundamental problem with commodity

Reddit7mo agoToolVC & Startups

76FL score

i tried every darn subscription tracking app

last week i got hit with a massive auto-renewal for a software tool i haven't used since 2024. i got so mad that my adhd hyperfocus kicked in and i spent my entire saturday downloading and testing basically every subscription tracker on the app store. honestly, the irony of the app market right now is that most tools designed to save you money are literally just trying to farm you for passive income too. here is the raw breakdown of the top 5 i tested, because your executive dysfunction doesn't need to cost you a grand a year. 1. rocket money \* the good: it's fully automated and the dashboard is undeniably slick. and by slick, i mean every button feels like the designers are being paid like the wall street guys. \* the bad: absolutely everything else. they force you to link your actual bank account via plaid (hard pass on giving a startup my login). worse, if you ask them to cancel something for you, they take a massive percentage cut of your "savings." it literally feels like a corporate shakedown. deleted it in 10 minutes. 2. bobby \* the good: it is gorgeous. aesthetically, it has a nice cute mascot and it doesn't ask for your bank info. \* the bad: it is 100% manual. you have to type in every single subscription, the billing cycle, and the price yourself. look, if i had the executive function and memory to manually list out my 40 active subscriptions, i wouldn't need a tracker in the first place. useless for finding hidden charges. 3. subcut \* the good: it lets you just upload a raw pdf of your bank statement, so no plaid/bank logins required. it found 17 things i was paying for and instead of making you hunt through website settings, it gives you the direct cancellation urls for each service. i nuked like 9 things in five minutes. \* the bad: the app has an "email receipt sync" feature that is buggy as hell and asks for way too many inbox permissions. i completely ignored that part, the dev needs to fix it. but the pdf upload is god-tier. 4. cop

Reddit7mo agoToolProductivity

78FL score

My micro SaaS was getting traffic but zero signups - turned out Google was sending wrong people

Had 1,200 monthly organic visitors and 3 signups. Thought conversion was landing page problem. Ran heatmaps, rewrote copy three times, changed CTA colors, tested pricing. Nothing moved. Three months wasted before I realized Google was sending completely wrong people to my site. The diagnosis was painful. Opened Search Console and actually read the queries driving traffic. Pages ranking for "how to manage customer contacts", "free CRM template", and "what is customer management" - pure informational intent. People researching concepts not looking for software. Of course they weren't signing up. They weren't shopping. My product was CRM software for freelancers but I'd targeted keywords that sounded relevant but attracted completely wrong audience. High traffic, zero buyers. Meanwhile nobody was finding my pages for "CRM for freelancers", "client management tool for solo consultants", "simple CRM for one person business" - the searches where someone was actively looking to buy. The keyword intent rewrite took two weeks. Identified 40+ buyer-intent long-tail phrases with commercial signal: "best CRM for freelancers 2026", "simple client tracking software for consultants", "lightweight CRM solo business." Low volume compared to what I was ranking for but every visitor actually had purchase intent. Rebuilt service pages and landing pages around these commercial terms with specific use cases, pricing context, and comparison angles. Added "CRM for freelancers vs spreadsheets" and "best CRM for one-person business" content targeting comparison-stage searches. The authority foundation needed work before new pages could rank. Used [directory submission service](http://getmorebacklinks.org/) getting listed on 120+ SaaS and business directories. Over 45 days moved DA from 11 to 18. That baseline authority helped new buyer-intent pages rank instead of sitting invisible. Results after 90 days showed organic traffic dropped from 1,200 to 840 monthly visitors as informational t

Reddit7mo agoToolVC & Startups

84FL score

I will not promote,, I want to build this AI tool for managing client website, what do you guys think?

So I do freelance web dev on the side and honestly the workflow drives me crazy. Every new client is the same thing manually rebuilding their site, logging into million different wordpress dashboards, setting up google analytics or hubspot and the plugin or something break two weeks later. I’ve been thinking about building a tool to fix this for myself and maybe other freelancers/agencies too. Basically the idea is: you paste a client’s existing website URL and AI migrates it into the platform automatically. Then you can edit everything though a chat interface instead of messing around in page builders. And analytics like Hubspot would just be built in from the start so you can track all the important anaytics. So instead of managing 10 client across 5 different platforms, everything lives in one place. I haven’t built anything yet, just trying to check my gut before i spend coupe week to work on it. For anyone here who worked or working on the website stuff: what are the worst part of your current workflow? Would something like this actually save you time or is it solving a problem that dosen’t really exist? and how much would you pay for this service. Be honest please, I’d rather her “this shit suck” then some sugar coated answer.

Reddit7mo agoToolVC & Startups

My client just asked me to do the 'SEO' for their site. I'm a dev..

I build and maintain websites for a handful of small business clients. One of them messaged me asking if I can help with their SEO because they're not showing up high on Google. I can handle the technical stuff fine like page speed, structured data, fixing crawl errors, meta tags. But they want more than that, they want to know why their competitor outranks them, what keywords to target, whether their content is any good etc...I don't have a background in marketing or seo. I've been patching things together using 4 different tools and honestly it's taking more time than the actual dev work. Is there a decent way to handle this as a solo dev ? Or do I just tell them it's out of scope? (To be honest I really need the extra money for this seo work) **Update:** appreciate all the advice here 🙏 I’m gonna keep doing the SEO for them and treat it as a paid learning sprint for me too, it could be a solid extra income stream. I’ve been juggling ahrefs + SurferSEO + Screaming Frog + GSC and it’s too much, I’m gonna switch to SeenOS for most of the workflow and only pull out Screaming Frog when I need a deep crawl

Reddit7mo agoToolDev

73FL score

I found a way to turn your competitors' angry customers into your customers. Here's the simple trick

This one is almost too effective to share. Every SaaS has unhappy customers. Those customers go to Reddit and vent publicly. And those complaints are your best sales opportunities. **Here's why this is so powerful:** these people already understand the problem space (no education needed), already have budget allocated (they're paying a competitor), are actively unhappy (ready to switch), and are publicly asking for alternatives. That's the highest-intent prospect you'll ever find. Higher than any ad click. Higher than any cold email response. **The method:** **Step 1:** List your top 5 competitors. **Step 2:** Search Reddit for "\[competitor name\]" alternative OR "\[competitor name\]" issue OR "\[competitor name\]" pricing **Step 3:** You'll find dozens of frustrated users describing exactly what they wish was different. **Step 4:** Write a genuinely helpful comment. Don't trash the competitor that looks petty. Instead, acknowledge their frustration and offer objective alternatives: "I've used \[competitor\] too and had similar issues with X. Depending on what matters most to you, here are 3 alternatives I've tested: \[tool A\] for Y, \[tool B\] for Z, and \[your tool\] if you specifically need W." **The key:** be honest and balanced. Recommend competitors when they're genuinely better for that use case. People trust someone who gives objective advice over someone who only pushes their own product. **My results from last month:** 3 customers in one month (high ticket niche), started this strategy since Jan. 2026 + this will compound over time the more I find posts to comment. The hardest part is finding these conversations across 50+ subreddits consistently. I use AI Reddit tools like Reppit AI to monitor competitor mentions in real-time, which surfaces opportunities I'd never find manually. Try it this week: search your #1 competitor's name + "alternative" on Reddit. I guarantee you'll find warm prospects over time, as these posts already rank on goog

Reddit7mo agoToolBusiness

85FL score

Does anyone have recommendations for the best social media ad maker that works well for quick turnarounds?

I got a newish job at a non-profit and our comms team is just two people, so whenever we need ads for upcoming events its always last-minute. I feel like half my life is spent scrambling to make something presentable. Is there an ad maker you all swear by that helps speed things up? I got the go-ahead to try out stuff for video ads and I'm looking for suggestions. I've seen some a i tools like HeyGen mentioned and I saw Billo in another subreddit but not sure of the price. Hit me with your reccs. Bonus if it's not super pricey and noob friendly!

Reddit7mo agoToolBusiness

66FL score

Developers manually context-switch between multiple coding tasks, losing productivity and introducing errors

Software developers struggle to run multiple coding agents or parallel development tasks efficiently on their local machines. They either run agents sequentially (wasting time waiting) or manage them ad-hoc across different windows/terminals (causing context confusion, interference between tasks, and difficulty tracking progress). This context-switching overhead slows down development velocity and makes it hard to coordinate when multiple agents or processes need attention simultaneously.

Product Hunt7mo agoToolProductivity