Tim (my cofounder and co-CEO) and I started with quite asymmetric experience.
I had previously been a VP of sales, responsible for sales, support, and account management. Tim was an insanely talented, 23-year-old engineer, and was much earlier in his career I m nearly 10 years older.
I m Avinash, a full-stack engineer with 6+ years of experience building scalable backend systems, cloud-native apps, and AI-integrated features. I m currently exploring ideas for my own SaaS product, and I m here to understand what early adopters actually value in a single, well-executed core feature.
I d love to hear from other makers:
What s one feature your early users really latched onto?
What challenges did you face in helping users or fully adopt that one core feature?
If you're a SaaS user yourself, what convinces you to stick around after your first session?
The longer I've been an internet user, the more I feel like I'm missing out on something (FOMO) every second I'm offline. The tech world changes so fast.
My first experience with a computer was around the age of 8 I used Microsoft Paint to sketch houses because we didn t have internet at home. I got online for the first time at 11, and by 12 or 13, I had already joined social media.
I'm excited to share that my new project, True Age, is now live.
Have you ever wondered how old your body really is? This tool provides a quick and free assessment of your biological age based on simple physical exercises and reaction time tests. No lab tests or medical equipment required.
I built a lightweight tool that analyzes a Reddit user s recent activity to surface engagement patterns. It was inspired by a Reddit Wrapped app I came across last month. The project also gave me a great excuse to experiment with Cloudflare Workers again. It s not a definitive tool, and it s certainly not perfect - but a fun experiment nonetheless.
I have been building, learning, searching, investing for the last 6 years, back to back, non-stop. I feel I have officially reached burnout. One week I am super into building and I code new things like crazy. And the next I just want to chill and go surfing lol. Do you go through a similar phase? How do you deal with the constant change of emotions?
Lately, I ve been reflecting on the quiet fear that, as AI tools become better at creating art, writing, and design, creativity itself might lose its meaning.
It feels like a valid concern because:
AI can produce beautiful art and music faster than a human ever could,
Many creative fields are shifting from original creation to "curating" or "editing" AI outputs,
Instant generation often replaces slow, imperfect human exploration,
Younger generations are growing up with AI co-creation as the norm, not the exception.
I wonder: Will true creativity still matter when "good enough" is instantly available?
Personally, I was laid off a year ago and currently bottoming out on savings. Every day is not guaranteed, quite literally, at this point. Yet, I keep my head down and continue building out a product relentlessly that I, quite frankly, have no idea how it will turn out. Many of us took this leap of faith and are under strenuous circumstances, especially in the current market. If you're in similar positions, just know that everything will work out! Fortune favors the bold. We're in this together! I would love to hear your stories.
A few weeks ago, I started to feel like I had hit a plateau on social media, especially with my Substack newsletter. I couldn t seem to get past a certain number of subscribers (stagnation).
In similar situations, I ve noticed that people often either: run a giveaway pay for ads
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