johnrushx

I built a free tool where you enter your saas url and it finds all security exploits and emails you if any new exploits happen

It took me 14 hours to make this thread, finished at 5am. Pls, be nice.

yeah that's my key concern.

or it might also be the opposite and junior devs may be using AI and learn faster.

In my own biz, I stopped hiring junior devs because it's faster for me to use AI for coding than to explain what I need and then validate the implementation with code-review...

I didn't mean all-dev, but "junior" devs.

I was planning to build 100 mini tools for SEO. The goal was to hire a dev team. I approached an oursroucing agency and they told one tool will cost 1k-4k. So the budget is between $100k-$400k.

I decided to try to do it with AI developers. Tried bolt.new, v0 and then replit. Replit did the work the best. It took me less than half an hour to make the tool I wanted. Now I wanna spend the next 10 days making all these tools myself.

Anyone doing the same?

I made a 100% free directory for open source and self-hosted tools. Enjoy saving your hard earned money by not paying for all those expensive SaaS alternatives

with countvisits you can customize the public dashboard - date range - sections - type of stats - colors - background - fonts - styles: cornder radius, cards....

So basically you can make really good looking public dashboard that is matching your brand

I guess it relates to blog articles with lists. where my list is a product itself and pretty relevant for everyone here. Am I wrong?

thx I do that all the time now. I set up a landing page with a waitlist. If i see many people signing up, I add stripe payment link with 50% off presale. Maybe try this

I said the "project economy". I didn't say: "I spent". In the end, I calculated the profit as if I didn't use my own tools, because that's what the reader of the case study wants to see.

The point of the whole post is to take one real case study. If you follow my steps, you have to pay for tools, so for the reader it's not important at all if I personally paid or not.

You don't get the point of the post at all. It's a case study on how I brought an idea to implementation and grew it to 7k revenue. What's the point of bringing up all those details? I didn't "fabricate" this case. This is a real case.

If I used other tools that aren't mine(i used godaddy and hosting..) would there be even the slightest difference for the key point of the article? If I start the article but saying: "I used my own tools...." would it make any difference to the main point of the article? for the case study?

it's the Holding Org that unites all 20+ tools under one umbrella, both tehcnically (all these tools are built using marsx.dev) and legally (all these tools are owned my marsx (the company i own)

this is "Show HN". So showing my product is the goal of this label. Regarding the rest of my products used in the process of growing Index Rusher, what's wrong with it? Should I use Webflow instead of the unicorn platform for my website? Should I hide in the step-by-step story the fact that I used Unicorn? I'm not really getting why some readers focus on this. If the key point of the story is to describe every step.

very simple. as you see in this post, 3 products used to grow the main products are also my products. So basically I build products to solve my own pains and problems. Every day I get new problems, I solve them manually first, then I turn this solution into a product, use it for myself, iterate, once Im happy I let other founders try it and that's how the new product is being born

thank you, busy founders who have websites with over 20 pages

the reason I didn't add the "disclosure" is that it's "Show HN". My guess was that adding this lable means "I'm showing my tool".

Anyway, I added the comment. not sure if there is any effect on the overall point of the post and its value.

disclosure: 3 tools used to grow the main tools are also my tools(I'm the author). - unicorn platform - listingbott - seobot ai.

(can't edit the post, so I'm writing it in the comment)

I can show you real example. In Nov I launched https://allgpts.co/ and https://osssoftware.org/ Both went viral in internet with millions of visitors.

Since I have ai agents, it was pretty relevant to place links to my agents on allgpts and it drove very good traffic. So allgpts served as a a marketing channel for my ai agents.

Same happened with osssoftware. Directories are one of the best and cheapest ways to win traffic.

I use intuition. I have a discord channel with all the events: sign-ups, payments.. So whenever I do an action on social media or anywhere else, I see those notifications and often my intuition gives me a pretty good answer if it works or not.

Overall, social media is the single best way to promote saas tools.

thank you