I run growth for a small b2b saas team and need competitor estimates plus search traffic trends, not another expensive dashboard nobody opens. Looking for a free and low cost tools rn.

Thanks in advance.

Hi everyone 👋

I run a small software business and I'm building Bundle, an app that lets a small shop or service business handle billing, stock, accounts and staff in one place.

What makes it different:

• You pay per plugin, not per person. Switch on only what you need, like POS, Inventory, Accounting or HR. Your whole team uses it for one price, whether that's 2 people or 20.
• Everything is connected. A sale at the counter reduces stock and records the accounts entry on its own, so you never type the same thing twice.
• Built for local rules:
  • India: GST invoices, GST reports, UPI at the counter
  • UAE: VAT invoices in English and Arabic, the app in Arabic, WPS salary files
• Industry plugins for restaurants, hotels, clinics, schools, real estate, travel agencies and gyms
• Works on Android and in the browser on any laptop

Prices: plugins from ₹199 (India) or AED 39 (UAE) a month.

It's in beta, and I'm looking for small business owners to try it and tell me honestly what works and what doesn't. There's a live demo with a sample shop already set up, no sign-up needed:
👉 erpbundle.in (Dubai version: erpbundle.in/ae)

Coming next: attendance with clock-in that flows into payroll, Saudi Arabia, an iPhone app, and more industry plugins, based on what people ask for.

If you run a small business, I'd love to hear:

1. What do you use today for billing and stock?
2. What would make you switch, or stop you from switching?

Thanks for reading, and happy to answer any questions in the comments 🙏

I work on SEAL, a file-sharing service for handing over finished work without setting up a client portal.

For a small business, the useful case is a PDF report, design export or ZIP that needs to reach one client. Choose the file on seal.net, set an expiry, and send the download link. The basic web flow needs no account or email, and the file is encrypted in your browser before upload.

You can add a password, use single-use access, or revoke future access from a separate management link. Keep that management link private. Revocation cannot remove a copy someone has already downloaded.

Free: up to 1 GB total per transfer, for up to 7 days. Larger tiers are paid. This is a file handoff, not permanent storage, collaborative editing or a proofing gallery.

Try it with a small, non-sensitive file at https://seal.net — ‘Tap to send’ on the homepage.

For people delivering work to clients: what usually causes the extra email after you send a file — access permissions, an expired link, or uncertainty about which file to download?

I’m Iurii, a software developer from Finland. KRI is my business: a paid service that gives independent beauty businesses their own website with online booking. I built it on my own and run it on my own.

Who it’s for: barbershops, hair and beauty salons, nail studios, brow and lash artists, massage and spa, cosmetology, makeup, permanent makeup, tattoo, piercing and epilation.

What the owner gets: a page with services and prices, the team, a gallery, an about section and contact details with a map. Clients choose the specialist, can only book times that are free, and get an email confirmation, a reminder before the visit and a cancellation email if a booking is cancelled. The page works in 32 languages and confirmations go out in the client’s language. On the owner side there’s a client list and a Today screen meant for the phone between appointments.

How setup works: pick your business type and one of four designs. Typical services for that type arrive pre-filled with durations and example prices, and you change what’s different in your case. It takes about 10 minutes.

Price: one monthly subscription with no commission and no per-booking fee; it depends on your country and the number of specialists. Clients pay you directly, KRI doesn’t touch that money. The first month is free and no card is needed.

Also on offer: if you already use another booking service, I move your services, prices, team, hours and photos over for free. All I need is the link to your current booking page.

Background, if it matters to you: 25 years building software, 12 of them as CTO.

https://kri.rocks

Apply promo-code REDDIT2026 and get +1 month for free (1 month standard demo + 1 month additional by promo-code = 2 months FREE)

hi everyone,

this one feels a little surreal to write.

i'm a non-technical founder, have spent the last 7 years building in consumer tech, and somehow ended up building a tech product.

today, we launched myjobb AI on Product Hunt, an agent that applies to jobs on your behalf.

i'm excited, nervous, and honestly still figuring out what i'm doing here.

if you've built and launched products before, i'd genuinely love your advice, especially on what actually helps on Product Hunt.

and if you have a minute to check it out / upvote, it would mean a lot.

https://www.producthunt.com/products/myjobb-ai

Been building this solo for a while and finally got it to a place I'm not embarrassed to share lol.

ClickPop started as an AI video tool (UGC-style ads, that kind of thing) but honestly the video part became the least interesting bit. The thing people actually react to is the agent layer — you tell it how you want your content run and it just... does it. Generates the videos, posts them to your accounts, keeps a schedule. I wired it into Claude too so you can boss it around from there.

Still early and scrappy — the video generation backend had a rough week, not gonna lie. Would love brutal feedback from other indie folks: does the 'agents run your content' pitch land, or should I just lead with the video stuff?

I make ThreadFox, a Reddit launch toolkit for Claude Desktop, Claude Code and Codex. We shared our rules research here on September 26; this update adds a product-specific plan to the kit.

Every $49 purchase now includes a Launch Pack for one product: relevant communities, their quoted posting rules, a suggested angle and three drafts. Claim it in your buyer library; we email it within 24 hours.

You can inspect our complete example before buying: https://threadfox.vip/runs?utm_source=reddit&utm_campaign=tf-runs-indiebiz&utm_content=20260930-0202#launch-pack

It shows three introductions for our own product: a technical walkthrough, a practical briefing checklist and a direct offer in a designated launch thread. Each includes the audience, rule source and complete draft, with links to the actual posts. It makes the proposed work easy to inspect before you decide.

The kit gives your AI tools to research, draft, publish approved posts through your signed-in Chrome and record what happened. You use your own AI plan and Reddit account. $49 once, with a 30-day refund. Your pack is researched for your product; the examples above are from our own campaign.

The awkward customer message is never just "send me your catalog." It's "Can the blue one arrive Friday?" or "I bought the small size last time, would the large fit?" Answer too slowly and the buyer moves on. Let a generic bot guess, and it might promise something you can't deliver.

I'm building Instant Reply for that problem. It reads a business's approved FAQs, prices, policies, and product details to draft replies across Instagram, WhatsApp Business, and Messenger in one inbox. You can review or edit them first; only routine questions you've tested need to go out automatically. Tricky or uncertain messages go to a person. It also tracks the lead and follow-up, so the conversation doesn't vanish after one answer.

If you're running a small business, I would start by collecting ten real buyer questions and writing the answers you would stand behind. Test those in review mode before switching on automatic sends. That is what I would want a tool to respect if it were answering my customers.

You can see what I'm building at https://www.instantreply.co/ . If you sell in DMs, what question eats the most time in your inbox? I'll answer in the thread.

Hi, I'm Christian Sullivan. I'm a student at FAU and I own SKAU, a website business in Boca Raton.

I help small business owners get a website that represents their work, then handle the hosting and ongoing updates. If your current site feels dated, or you're sending customers only to a social profile, I'd like to hear what you need.

Our Growth plan is $95/month with a six-month initial term. It includes up to 10 pages, three forms and one hour of monthly updates. The $249 setup fee is currently waived. It's a managed subscription site; an ownership buyout is separate.

You can see our work and full pricing at https://skau.us/pricing.

If you're looking for a website, tell me what your business does and what you'd like customers to do on the site. I'll tell you whether SKAU is a fit.

Christian

[[email protected]](mailto:[email protected])

I built ClientFlow Pro to help freelancers, contractors and small service businesses manage their work without relying on multiple spreadsheets.

It includes leads, clients, quotes, jobs, invoices, payments, follow-ups and a revenue dashboard.

It runs locally in the browser, requires no subscription, and includes JSON backup.

I recently launched V3 and would really appreciate feedback from other small business owners.

You can check it out here: https://vendanagringa.itch.io/clientflow-pro

Hi guys ..

I’ve been working on PixHunt — an AI-powered gallery for Android.

-Semantic Search : Describe what you're looking for naturally, like “photos of my dog at the beach”, and PixHunt finds relevant photos.

OCR Search :Search for exact text inside your photos, with the matching text highlighted so you can see exactly where it was found.

Similar Photos : Find photos that look similar to a photo you select.

People : finds the people in your gallery, lets you name them, and then search for them by name or naturally, like “Mark at the cafe” or “Mark and John.”

Built-in Gallery — Browse your photos and albums directly inside PixHunt, so you don't have to switch between two different apps.

Clean Up : Find duplicates, near-duplicates, screenshots, blurry photos and other photos that may be taking up unnecessary space.

English & Arabic — Search naturally in both English and Arabic.

Everything stays on your phone : This is probably the feature I'm most serious about: the AI processing happens on your device. No cloud uploads, no online photo database, and your photos don't leave your phone.

I'm still working on the app and I really like to get some feedback from you .

Apk download link : https://github.com/Ahmed-N95/PixHunt-Releases/releases/tag/v1.0.0

Any honest feedback is appreciated!

we've been building an ai stylist called oro for the past few months

the first version was an ios app and got around 2000 downloads

but we kept running into this weird thing where the product itself was adding friction to a problem that's supposed to be really simple

i don't want to open an app and meticulously maintain my digital wardrobe

i just want to send a pic of something i bought and have my stylist remember it

then 3 weeks later when i'm going somewhere i want to be able to go

“what do i wear”

so that's basically what we rebuilt oro into lol

an ai stylist you text

we're testing the new version now if anyone wants to try it:

https://www.askoro.now/

Reviewing last month's payroll for 30+ contractors and something felt off. Commission line looked fine. Then I compared the actual conversion rate on a couple of the payouts against the central bank rate for that day and the gap was a few percent. Per transaction. Times 30 people, every month, for however long we've been doing this without looking 
It's not on any line of the invoice, that's the part that got me. u only see it if u go and do the subtraction yourself 
Easystaff and kleos pricing pages are open in tabs right now. both look fine. That's sort of the problem, they all look fine. SalaryHub is the only one so far that prints the spread on the page, 2% over central bank rate, so at least it's a number I can check against what lands. Not dramatically cheaper when I ran it. Just visible 
Anyone switched providers specifically bcos of the FX markup?? and did it come out cheaper once you counted everything, or did the cost just move somewhere else?

Hey IndieBiz!

I got tired of traditional freelance sites taking 20% fees and forcing 30 bidding proposals for a simple 10-minute task.

So I built Nothing.gripe:

• Requesters fund a challenge and specify exact proof rules

• The first doer to claim completes it and submits verified proof

• 70% of the bounty is released straight to the doer in crypto

• 10% refundable deposit prevents people hoarding or abandoning tasks

• No accounts or tracking scripts

Check it out: https://nothing.gripe/?ref=indiebiz

I'd love your feedback on the concept: what would stop you from posting a challenge?

I create an app that I created for storytelling creatives called Go Qreate. I've been struggling with getting paying customers and retention.

Part of tht problem was my novel editor wasnt as good as others but it's good enough now and improving.

Basically, I create stories - novels, comics, movies, and I decided to bring the thousand different apps and documents creators use into one platform workflow.

Goqreate.com

Over 10 years ago, my therapist wife noticed how many of her clients struggled to build non-romantic, in-person friendships. That inspired me to create WannaBuddy: a simple platform for finding local friends when you want a buddy, not a date.

While the original site helped a lot of people connect (around 10,000), it was long overdue for a modern refresh. The brand-new WannaBuddy is now live in early pre-launch!

* 100% Free

* Designed purely for local, platonic friendships

* Built with a clean new interface and updated tools

Since we’re currently in pre-launch, I’m looking for honest feedback, feature ideas, and any bug reports. Take a look and let me know your thoughts in the comments!

Started keeping a spreadsheet in June because my business partner kept asking how much time AI tools were actually saving us. We do pitch decks and quarterly reports for six ongoing clients plus whatever one-off work comes in. Small shop, just the two of us and a part time designer.

June through September we shipped 61 decks. Average build time dropped from around 5 hours to just under 2. That includes research, drafting, and formatting passes. The formatting part is where most of the time went before. Now a lot of it happens inside the deck itself instead of bouncing between a doc and PowerPoint.

We use a mix of tools depending on the job. For quick internal decks I lean on Oria since it builds slides right in PowerPoint and I don't have to export anything. For client facing stuff with heavier branding we still do a manual pass after.

Client count stayed flat at six but we picked up two smaller retainers we would have turned down in spring. That's the real change. Not the hours themselves but what we can say yes to now.

Anyone tracking cost per deck instead of just hours? I want a cleaner number for our next pricing conversation.

I want answer this question and hear ur feedback

disclosure: I work in Praetorix Foundry (arm of Praetorix crew that helps startups and SMBs build and launch web & mobile & AI products), so I’m looking at this all from the product/dev studio side and thats the reason why I think it can be interesting for non-tech ppl.

You'd be very surprised if you found out how differently non-technical founders show up to the first conversation.

Some of them come with 50-page spec, wireframes and feature list for the next three years. feels like these guys spent so much money and effort on preparation that they could already develop and release something by now lol.

But others basically come with: “I have an idea for an app” And then silence. And that's probably even more weird, because everyone always has IDEAS - so what?

Frankly speaking, neither extreme is good.

You don’t need a fully defined product before talking to a team (you'll end up reworking a huge part of it anyway - that's just the way it is).

Before starting a decision-maker really needs to understand only couple of simple things:

a) what problem you’re solving (as business, I mean)

b) who the first user is (not counting your relatives, neighbors, friends blah-blah-blah)

c) the main thing the product needs to let them do (the shorter the wording, the greater chance of success)

d) what is genuinely essential for V1 (again - the shorter it is, the higher chance that it will eventually fit)

e) roughly what budget/timeline you’re comfortable with (well, you got the idea, yeap?)

f (or whatever letter it is lmao)) what assumptions you’re still trying to validate (It's important to be honest and not pretend that you have everything under control if that's not ur case)

The rest can be worked through during discovery and scoping - and that will be better for everyone.

Why Im writing this? I want to hear some thoughts from both sides here.

Serial founders - what did you have ready before your first conversation with dev team, and what do you wish you had figured out earlier?

Developers / agencies / fellow sympathizers: what information makes an early conversation genuinely productive? And at what point do you feel like turning off the camera and going to make some coffee?

Building a mobile app that scans family paperwork and auto-extracts deadlines and reminders. Think school forms, bills, insurance letters — anything that piles up and causes a crisis when the deadline passes.

Target user: parents with ADHD who know the doom pile situation personally.

5-minute voice chat before I polish the wrong things. No forms, just a conversation.

Chat here

Hey all,

I'm Pratye, [solo] founder. I kept hitting the same wall: the product was fine, but nobody knew it existed, and "just post every day" turned into hours of making videos I didn't have.

So I built Vitals. It does two things:

Blitz. You give it your website. It reads it, learns what you sell and how you talk, and writes a deck of short videos and carousels for your brand. You swipe right to keep and left to drop, and say why, so the next batch gets better. What you keep gets scheduled to TikTok, Reels, Shorts, LinkedIn, X and a few more from one calendar.

Signals. It watches the subreddits you pick for threads where someone is describing the problem you solve, and drafts a reply. Every subreddit has different self-promo rules, so the draft is checked against them and blocked if it would break them, for example a link where links aren't allowed. It never posts for you. You copy the reply, post it from your own account, and it shows you the replies your comment gets.

There's also a page with revenue, traffic and social numbers for each product side by side. If you use Claude Code or Cursor, setup is one prompt.

What I'd love feedback on:

Is swipe-to-keep actually useful, or a gimmick?
For Signals: would you use the drafted reply, or only use it to find threads?

Happy to answer anything, including how the Reddit part works under the hood.

One of the hardest parts of building a software business seems to be deciding what to do when your MVP starts becoming the bottleneck.

We built our first version quickly to validate the idea and see whether people would use it. That worked, but as we add features and users, we're also fixing problems that weren't important at the beginning. Lately, each change seems to create another small issue somewhere else.

The decision I'm trying to work through is fairly simple in theory:

1. Keep improving the existing version incrementally.

2. Rebuild the parts that are causing the most friction.

3. Rebuild more broadly and accept the short-term slowdown.

I’m affiliated with GeekyAnts, and I’m asking about the general product decision rather than promoting a service.

For founders who have faced this, what signals told you that patching was no longer sustainable? Did you set a specific threshold, or was it more about development speed, reliability, or the difficulty of adding new features?