Showing up consistently in a community is one of those things every distribution thread recommends but few founders track honestly. Sharing real numbers from the last 4 weeks here.
What was done:
12 substantive comments on other people's threads, weekly
A few months back, I was in a car accident, and I am still recovering from residual pain - a herniated disk(neck, lower back), stuck in bed, weeks of physical therapy, and honestly, one of the things keeping me sane was social media scrolling. Except... I couldn't scroll without straining my arm, and keeping entertained felt like a struggle. Entertainment shouldn't come at the cost of pain in any phase of life for anyone, so I built MomentSurfer an AI agent that scrolls Instagram (MVP Version) for you, hands-free. You tell it your interests up front; it scrolls automatically and skips content you wouldn't care about. No tapping, no swiping, just your feed flowing on its own. It is not limited to people recovering; it also helps avoid doomscrolling. Swiping 100 times to find something interesting is no fun. I wanted to share with people who'd understand that technology can be a savior if built for the right cause. Happy to share it and get your honest feedback from people who are recovering right now and facing something similar, who know someone who can benefit from it, or who spend hours scrolling through the feed. Link in comment.
After spending years working with contractors, dealers, and sales teams in the decking industry, I've noticed something interesting:
Many companies are still creating deck and railing takeoffs using spreadsheets, hand sketches, PDFs, and manual calculations.
I've seen projects where the actual estimating process takes longer than the customer conversation itself.
When I started building DeckPlanPro, I assumed there would already be simple, industry-specific tools for this problem. Instead, most solutions I found were either:
About a year ago I launched @AdCider here the idea was to fully automate Apple Search Ads, from creating campaigns to managing bids.
What I learned: that's a lot to ask. It needed people to both want to spin up a new campaign and hand their whole budget over to AI to run. Too much trust, too much commitment.
I've been building Framer sites for about two years, and the same boring task slowed me down on basically every project: image optimization.
Right before launch I'd go through the whole site checking file sizes, compressing the heavy ones, converting to WebP, and adding alt text for SEO and accessibility. Nothing hard just tedious, and way too easy to miss an image or two.
Hey all, I built a little tool for our family and I'm hoping to get some honest feedback on it.
Quick background: my wife and I homeschool our 3 daughters, and I'm an engineer. The teaching part we love. The prep part was wearing us down and I was spending way too much time asking ChatGPT for lessons, pasting them into Word, tweaking them, redoing them. So I built something to make it easier.
I'm a full-stack web developer, and I built a free Chrome extension called Mobile View to solve something that kept slowing me down at work.
When you build responsive sites, you constantly need to check how a page looks on mobile while you're working on the desktop version and the usual options either hide one layout when you switch, or feel clunky. The part that really pushed me to build this was demoing work: when a client or an employer asks "how does it look on a phone?", screen-sharing a narrow browser window never looks great.
