Say That Sh**
A message board where every post costs more than the last
7 followers
A message board where every post costs more than the last
7 followers
One message on the homepage at a time. To claim it, outbid the last person. First 50 are free, then pricing starts at $0.50 and climbs by a penny per post. Message values decay over time - the community's likes and dislikes control the rate. Nobody holds the spotlight forever. 36 achievements, a referral program, reactions, and a leaderboard ranked by total views. Solo-built and self-hosted on 3 mini PCs running Kubernetes. $11/month in electricity.
Hey Product Hunt - I'm the solo dev behind SayThat.sh.
The concept started as a shower thought: what if online visibility wasn't determined by an algorithm, but by how much you were willing to pay? Not in an ad-auction-behind-the-scenes way. In a completely transparent, one-message-at-a-time way. So I built it.
I soft-launched on Reddit and within 3 days had 2,483 visitors and $50 in revenue from 7 transactions. Someone paid $10 on day one to advertise his blog. The most upvoted comment pointed out a real flaw - if an expensive message sits on the board indefinitely, nobody will outbid it and the platform stalls. They were right. So I built message value decay. Now expensive messages lose value over time, and the community's likes and dislikes control the rate.
The whole thing runs on 3 used Intel mini PCs I bought for $120-250 each. Next.js, NestJS, PostgreSQL, Redis Sentinel, automated backups, 13 Grafana dashboards - all on a k3s cluster in my house. The equivalent AWS setup would run $200-400/month. I spend $11 on electricity.
I genuinely have no idea how people will use this. Will people post jokes? Proposals? Ads? Political statements? I built the mechanic, but the culture is entirely up to whoever shows up.
I'd love feedback on the concept, the UX, the pricing model - whatever.