Hey HN. I am a solo dev. I usually build AI image and video tools, and I can ship products pretty fast. But getting traffic to them is always my biggest pain.Lately, my normal SEO tricks stopped working and i know yours too after dec 25. I realized my own behavior changed too, we don't search and click links anymore. We just ask Perplexity or chatgpt or gemini, and we only click the citations....
No, I’m not a freelancer. I don’t have clients.But I couldn’t stop thinking:"Why the hell do we still send Looms, screenshots, or set up staging servers - just to get feedback on a dev build?"So after 6 hours of raw networking hell, I built Mirage - a developer-focused CLI that:Shares your live localhost instantlyClients can click any UI element and leave commentsYou can reply to their feedback...
FoundersWall came from a simple feeling, I was tired of pretending to build for attention. I wanted to build for real, with others, in public without putting on a show.
So I built the kind of space I needed. One that feels raw, loud, imperfect like how real indie building actually is.
If you’re building and feel like nobody sees you. I hope this makes you feel seen.
Would love your feedback. On the idea, the vibe, or even just how it made you feel.
I used to be just a blogger.Now I build internet products, still without code, using AI, design, and taste.I was building in public on X for last 2 months.And honestly, I got tired of how it became performative and started to feel fake.I shipped 2 products. Both failed to get any real traction.I kept sneaking into popular builders’ profiles, hoping to learn how they do it.One thing I kept...