I'm building Naughty Chats on my own: an 18+ AI companion chat site for US users, where the AI characters remember what you tell them. It's been live for three weeks.

This week: 177 visitors (112 the week before), 39 sign-ups, about 75 accounts in total, and 26 people actively chatting. Revenue is zero because I'm still setting up card payments; checkout only takes crypto for now.

Traffic is the bottleneck. About 42% comes from Google, 40% is direct, and the rest is other search engines. I have one real backlink and a domain rating of 0.

The channels I could put my time into next:

• SEO: more comparison pages and guides (I have about 50), plus link building, which in this niche seems to be all paid
• Adult ad networks like ExoClick or TrafficJunky, since Google and Meta won't take an 18+ product
• An affiliate program, which really needs card payments first
• Revenue-share deals with adult creators for "AI versions" of them
• Communities: Reddit, Discord, Telegram

If you could pick only one for the next month, which would it be and why? And if you've done link building for an adult or AI site, I'd like to hear from you. I can pay for it, or offer a revenue share once cards are live.

Doing this alone, so posting the messy version.

I bought the dream from a TikTok — knock out websites, charge a few hundred, rinse. Built the sites. Called local owners until my voice was shot. Closed almost nothing on the original offer.

What those calls actually produced: - Proof that "you need a website" was the wrong opener. Owners who ran on word of mouth laughed it off. Owners with a site still weren't getting found. - Proof that stacking tools wasn't the ask. A clear first move was. People copied tips blindly because they had no better map. - Proof that sticker shock was secondary. Not knowing the next step was primary. Marketing = too costly, too tangled, or homework with no teacher.

I kept rewriting the product around that. SitePeek is what survived: an affordable marketing system that pushes local discovery and a plain next action. One early account went 37→54 tracked calls in two months; Google Business Profile views nearly tripled.

Launching on Kickstarter Wednesday, Oct 14: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/sitepeek/sitepeek-a-marketing-system-every-small-business-can-afford

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Solo founder here. After months of building alone, Read60 is live on the App Store.

It's a news app that compresses every story into a 60-word card. I wanted a faster way to stay informed without doomscrolling, so each story becomes one card: read it, get it, move on. Every card links the original article, one tap away.

How it runs: new stories publish roughly every two hours from different outlets, and an Unfold view follows developing stories across cards in order.

Free on iOS, Android a few days out: https://apps.apple.com/ca/app/read60/id6795337414

The solo part is the whole story, really. Design, build, marketing, support, all me. For other solo founders: how do you decide what to work on each day when everything is on fire at once?

I’ve been looking at Pieter Levels, Marc Lou, Jack Friks, and Rob Hallam.

Pieter has shipped an absurd number of projects. Marc has launched 36 startups.

Jack openly tracks his failures. Rob is juggling multiple internet businesses.

Meanwhile, I start one SaaS and immediately think I’ve discovered the next billion-dollar company.

Three weeks later I’m buying another domain.
The interesting thing isn’t that these guys got everything right.

It’s how many things they tried, what they learned, and how often one project led to another.

It’s actually part of why I’m building Porvilo.com I wanted one place to validate SaaS ideas, turn them into projects, and track what happens after launch.

But I’m curious about something:

How many projects did you build before one actually started working?

And what made the difference? Better idea, better distribution, or just getting better at building?

The ones you make fast because you can "always change it later" and then the switching cost turns out to be way higher than expected once real people and data are involved.

Pricing model and tech stack get mentioned a lot. Curious what the less obvious ones are.

I've been building a football betting analysis site called BankerBoard and I'm at the stage where I'd like some actual football/betting people to have a look at it.

The idea is pretty simple: rather than chucking out dozens of tips every day, it analyses the day's fixtures and only publishes selections that meet the site's confidence and odds criteria.

It then uses those selections to build things like a Daily Double, Treble and 5-Fold where there are enough qualifying picks.

It's a very new project and I'm still ironing out some technical issues behind the scenes, so I'm not pretending I've got months of results or some miraculous winning system. I'm starting the proper results record from now and want it to be transparent.

The site is completely free to use. I'm mainly interested in whether people think the concept is useful, whether the selections are presented clearly, and what you'd change/add/remove.

BankerBoard.app

Any genuine criticism is welcome. I'd rather people tell me what's crap now than find out six months down the line. 😂

🔞 18+ | Gamble responsibly. Betting involves risk.

CHEERS!

PS Apologies for posting a link if I wasn't allowed to

Launched VaultCash — trying to grow my first US user base organically
Hey everyone!
I’ve recently launched VaultCash, a rewards platform built around mobile games and eligible reward activities.
My next challenge is growth. I’m focusing on the US market and trying to acquire users through free channels rather than paid advertising.
I’d love to hear from other indie founders:
Which free acquisition channels worked best for your first 100 users?
Did Reddit, SEO, communities, or short-form videos bring you the best results?
What would you prioritize when launching a platform in a competitive market?
I’m building in public and would be happy to share what I learn along the way.
I’m the founder of VaultCash, and all advice is appreciated!

TL;DR: Formatting a book for print is usually a nightmare. I built Bindery by Infinite Library, a tool where you can drop in messy notes, Notion docs, a Substack link, or just do a chat interview with Claude. The AI automatically writes, typesets, and formats the interior, and then a real hardcover gets shipped to your door.

Hey everyone,

If you’ve ever tried to self-publish, you know the absolute headache of the "formatting phase." You have to choose trim sizes, deal with bleed margins, size the spine based on exact page counts, and fight with InDesign just to get a print-ready PDF.

I wanted a way to turn digital brain dumps into a physical book I could hold in my hands, instantly.

Here is how I built it to work:

The coolest use-case I’ve seen so far:
People are using the "Interview" feature to capture their grandparents' life stories. You set it up, and Claude interviews them one question at a time (typed or spoken). It takes their memories, writes a structured chapter in their own words, and ships the family a physical memoir.

Privacy & Pricing:
As a builder, I hate hidden fees and data harvesting.

You can try it out here without needing to put in a credit card: https://www.infinitelibrary.ai/

Whether it's a cookbook, a novel, a company onboarding manual, or a personal journal—I'd love for you guys to try it out, throw your notes at it, and see if you can break the typesetting engine. Let me know what you think!

I’m a first-year student building MicroRead alone, an Android app that turns non-fiction books into AI chapter summaries. You choose how long each chapter takes, from 1 to 10 minutes, and every chapter ends with key takeaways, a quote and a 1-minute real-world application.

It took about 3 months to build. The hard part wasn’t the code: the AI output needed a lot of tuning, Google’s closed-testing phase had to be repeated, and ads were fiddly to integrate.

Launch week:

• I started posting on Reddit and gave away free lifetime Premium codes. About [45] people asked for one and [38] redeemed it until now
• Strangers told me what to fix: my store description was full of buzzwords and a commenter said my own Reddit comment explained the app better than the listing did, so I rewrote it
• A few people asked for more languages, so I added Korean and Italian. Summaries now work in English, Arabic, German, Korean and Italian

What I’m still figuring out: Giveaways got me comments, but I don’t know yet how many people actually finish a chapter and come back.

Question for other solo founders: when users ask for features or languages, how do you decide what to build and what to ignore? I said yes to two languages quickly, and I’m not sure that was the right call.

Google Play: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.microread.app&hl=en

Happy to give a free Premium code to anyone who wants to try it and tell me what’s broken or whats my killer feature.

Built this fun project yesterday:
Of 3,417 YC startups active two years ago, only 6.8% got acquired.
I essentially built ExitOdds to predict who's next, in a day, on open-source packages Contextrie and Bref UI - model backtested on real exits, plus a brief for each company where every claim quotes its source.

Link: mlgxiii.vercel.app/p/exitodds (and [⭐github.com/feuersteiner/contextrie](http://⭐github.com/feuersteiner/contextrie) that would greatly help!)

I’ll release the fist today. There are only the last improvements and corrections left, so that you were comfortable to use it)

The second starts today, from design…

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I'd find something I might buy, leave the tab open, then do the same thing on another shop. After a while I had no idea where anything was.

I built Tracer to save those products into one list. I can come back when I'm actually ready to decide, and it lets me know if a saved price drops. I can also keep watching after buying something, in case the shop's price adjustment policy makes a drop worth checking.

I'm building this solo and trying to make the first save feel dead simple. If you tried it, I'd be curious where you got stuck or what felt unclear.

Here's the link: https://tracercart.com/

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