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

This founder found a viral Reddit thread, built the tool it called for, and got to $3.3k 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: Migrate your side project's users when you pivot to a business model.

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A viral Reddit thread led to $3.3k MRR 🎯

Jakub Mužík had built countless apps after work. Most made exactly $0. Then he saw a viral Reddit thread where hundreds of builders wanted help finding customers, so he spent a month building Leadverse, a tool that finds social posts from people already asking for what you sell.

Ten months later, Leadverse has 130+ paying customers, $20k in gross revenue, and $3.3k MRR.

Jakub is still building around his 9-to-5, freelance work, and a new baby. Here's his growth loop: he uses Leadverse to find people looking for lead-gen help, then posts twice a week on Reddit using the story-and-insights format that inspired the product. (Check out the full interview for more on this format!)

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America's privacy-first mobile carrier 📱

Cape is America's privacy-first mobile carrier—unlimited talk, text, and 4G/5G data, built from the ground up with privacy and security at it's core.

Most carriers track everything: where you go, who you call, what you do. Cape collects the minimum amount of information required to run your service, deletes call and text metadata after 24 hours, rotates your network ID to prevent tracking, defends against SIM-based attacks, and more.

Privacy shouldn't cost more. Switch today and get $29 off for life.

Vibe coding tools to try 🧑🏻‍💻

Hatch: Ditch ChatGPT. Use the most productive AI assistant ever made. Thoughtfully crafted by the founders of Indie Hackers.
Apidog MCP Server: Expose your API specifications, live requests, and mock data directly to AI coding assistants.
Bolt.new: Build and scale full-stack applications instantly by simply chatting with an intelligent AI agent.
Claude Code: A terminal-based coding agent capable of parallel subagent execution and autonomous codebase management.
Qodo: AI-powered code integrity platform for automated testing, cross-repo reviews, and governance.

See all 30 tools in the directory →

Bite-sized growth tip 🍪

Migrate your side project's users when you pivot to a business model.

Sarah Hum and Andrew Rasmussen built Product Pains, a community where people critiqued apps. It had 5,000 users and zero revenue. Then businesses started asking to put its feedback widgets on their own sites, and said they’d pay for the privilege.

So Sarah and Andrew rebranded as Canny and brought the whole Product Pains community with them. That built-in audience made for a huge Product Hunt launch: 350+ companies gave it a try, and dozens became paying customers right away. Canny now makes $280,000 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. launch Nest: Good Products Deserve More Than One Launch Day What should you discover next?	▲ 33

	2. PDFyre: Superfast parallel OCR with unlimited pages, free and local I built a parallel OCR engine that makes scanned PDFs searchable—entirely in your browser.	▲ 23

	3. LiveShareIt: Collaborate instantly. Whiteboard, edit, share files, notes From FileNotepad to LiveShareIt.	▲ 16

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

AI assistants are evolving. Hatch is the next generation. 🧠

AI models have evolved. ChatGPT has not.

We're still using the same old AI assistant products we were using in 2022, even though the models underneath them keep getting better.

It's time for the next generation of AI assistants.

Introducing Hatch, the most productive AI assistant ever made.

From the creators of Indie Hackers, Hatch was thoughtfully crafted to help you get real work done. From floating windows to tagging documents¡, we've reimagined every aspect of your daily AI assistant to help you operate at a higher level.

Try Hatch free. Use code INDIE30FREE for 100% off for 1 month.

Channing's Tweet Pick 🐦

Things will probably never calm down. And the thing is, if you're like me, you actually prefer things to be this way!

—Channing

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🗞️ What's New: $3.3k MRR from a viral thread, turn a free community into a business, when will it get easier?