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Here's what you'll find in this issue:

This founder shipped an app builder in two weeks. A year later, he's past $10k MRR.
5 vibe coding tools. Some of the latest apps for coding with AI.
Yesterday's build board winners, including three new product launches from indie hackers.
30-second growth tip: Sell subscriptions to your competitors.

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Launching an app builder in two weeks 📱

Diego Roshardt finished college with no job lined up, no internships, and a string of failed side projects. He took a software engineering role, quit within months, moved to Austin with a few months of runway, and shipped his MVP in just two weeks. A year later, he's past $10k MRR and still solo.

His product is AppAlchemy, a tool that lets you build native mobile apps directly in the browser without Xcode or a Mac. It's basically Lovable for mobile. Growth came from Reddit, where Diego argues most founders fail by making their posts sound like ads.

Check out this case study!

Read the full interview →

Ads stop working the moment you stop paying 💸

Most SaaS teams respond to slowing growth by buying more traffic. The smartest teams build assets instead.

Authority is one of the few marketing investments that compounds:

Better rankings
More referral traffic
Higher brand trust
Greater visibility in AI search
Lower dependence on paid acquisition

That's exactly what dofollow.com helps you build.

Through strategic backlinks, editorial brand mentions, and expert-led campaigns, we help SaaS brands build the credibility that Google and AI systems reward.

Build your authority

Vibe coding tools to try 🧑🏻‍💻

Hatch: The next-generation AI assistant for getting real work done.
Snyk Code: Scan and auto-patch security flaws right in your source code.
Claude Code: Command-line AI that reads, edits, and tests your codebase via natural language.
Qodo: Boost test coverage fast — Qodo writes unit tests and smart code suggestions.
Bolt.diy: Prompt an app — Bolt spins up and deploys the full-stack in one click.

See all 30 tools in the directory →

Bite-sized growth tip 🍪

Sell subscriptions to your competitors.

Andrew Gazdecki built Acquire, a marketplace where founders list their startups for sale. The obvious competitors were business brokers. But instead of fighting them, he just talked to them. Turns out, brokers were spending half their time just hunting for companies that wanted to sell.

Acquire solved that instantly. So he started charging brokers about $300 a month for premium access to browse his listings. They actually became his first revenue stream, and the business now pulls in over $53,000 a month.

Read the full growth report →

The Build Board 🪧

Every day, indie hackers post updates about the products they're building. Here's what the community voted to the top yesterday!

	1. Shadcn Space: Your Space to Design, Build, and Ship Websites & Apps Faster Launching a New Collection of Shadcn Alert Components	▲ 7

	2. AI Product Page Optimization: Optimize product pages on the live listing — copy + images. Launched: AI listing optimizer for Amazon, Shopify, eBay & Etsy (solo founder)	▲ 6

	3. BeePOP: E-commerce, Amazon Seller Tools, Product Photography Free Amazon listing image tools	▲ 4

Enjoy building in public? Post an update to your product page on Indie Hackers, and it will automatically be added to the daily leaderboard.

Channing's Tweet Pick 🐦

These days I go through this lifecycle of opinion every other week...

—Channing

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