Ram

Hey everyone,

I used to think that building the app was the main boss fight. I spent the last two weeks glued to my screen, fixing database logic, formatting layouts, and making sure my classifieds directory for crypto asset listings worked perfectly. I felt like a king when the MVP finally went live on Vercel.

Then the reality check hit me. Zero users. Completely flat analytics.

I quickly realized that coding with AI tools is the easy part. The real nightmare starts when you have zero dollars for marketing. You try to share your work on Reddit or other communities, and you get instantly deleted by automated filters just for using words like "crypto". You try to post on social media, and your reach is completely invisible because you have a fresh account.

Hey PH community!

I ve been lurking here for a long time, dreaming of launching my own thing. But without coding skills, tech connections, or a budget, I always felt stuck.

A couple of weeks ago, I finally decided to stop making excuses and built an MVP entirely using free AI coding tools.

It s called Solum (solum-pi.vercel.app). It s a clean peer-to-peer directory that connects buyers and sellers who want to trade cars and real estate directly using crypto (USDT, USDC, BTC, ETH), completely skipping the traditional bank cash-out step.
Why? Because traditional banks keep freezing accounts and flagging users whenever they try to cash out large crypto gains to buy something real in the US. Solum acts as a simple classifieds board no wallet connection required (0 phishing/scam risks), no smart contracts, no fees. Just a pure directory where you contact the seller directly. For safety, we heavily promote using an independent escrow to close the deal.

Built a listings site so crypto holders can buy real estate/cars directly, skipping the usual cash-out step.

Not a marketplace, not an escrow service just a directory. You post what you're selling, price it in USDT/USDC/BTC/ETH, buyers contact you directly and arrange the deal themselves (we recommend an independent escrow for anything big). The whole point is cutting out the step where you'd normally cash out crypto to fiat before buying something real go straight from holding crypto to owning the thing.

Some context, since I think it matters more than the product itself: I've wanted to build something of my own for a long time. Every time, reality got in the way no experience, no money, no connections in tech. Hands and feet tied, basically. So I never started.

What changed is the tools. I built this entirely with free AI coding tools, because that's genuinely all I had access to not something I'm proud of, if I had money or coder friends I'd have gone that route instead. But I didn't, so this was the only path open to me.