Mattbuilds

Two of my Reddit accounts got banned in 6 days. I was promoting my product with drafted replies. Posted at volume. Reddit noticed. So I built the opposite of a bot: → reads Reddit, HN and Bluesky overnight → keeps the 3 people actually asking for what you built → drafts a reply from your product's real facts And never posts. You do.

Loudship is getting a BIG upgrade. 🚀 I've been working on turning it into a radar for actual buyers, not just conversations. 🔥 Find people looking for alternatives to your competitors 🎯 Only get leads with real buying intent ✅ See exactly what buyers need and if your product fits 📊 Get weekly insights on why people are leaving competitors Everything is built. Just waiting until Saturday to ship it. Can't wait to see this in action! 👀 loudship.app

Am I the only one who gets ridiculously hyped by this? "Your domain is on its way." That's it. No product yet. No users. No revenue. Just a domain and 1,000 ideas running through my head. And somehow, it feels like Christmas morning. Fellow builders, please tell me I'm not alone 😂

I'm launching something new soon. And this time, it's going to be 100% FREE. A small project built for developers, indie hackers, and anyone building something of their own. Nothing revolutionary. Nothing overcomplicated. Just a simple idea that solves a real problem I keep running into myself. Will it help thousands of people? No idea. Will it help me? Absolutely. 😂 And if it makes life easier for other builders too, that's already a win. Starting small, keeping it simple, and improving it over time based on real feedback. Stay tuned. Something useful is coming. 🚀

10 years ago, I was fixing heavy machinery. Yesterday, I got paid $3,000 for building a website. No CS degree. No bootcamp. Just a decision that completely changed my life. Here's my story 👇 I spent 10 years working as a heavy equipment mechanic. It was a good job, a stable career, and honestly, I never really questioned it. Until my daughter was on the way. I started asking myself something I'd never seriously considered before: "Is this really what I want to do for the rest of my life?" The answer was NO. I've always been fascinated by the movie "Catch Me If You Can." Not the fraud part 😂, but the idea that you could reinvent yourself, learn something completely different, and make it your reality. I've also always been a geek at heart. Computers, technology, figuring out how things work... So I started researching what I could learn entirely on my own and actually turn into a career. That's when I discovered frontend development. FreeCodeCamp, YouTube, Coursera. Hundreds of hours learning after work, building small projects, breaking things, fixing them, and starting over. No university. No expensive bootcamp. Just curiosity, determination, and a LOT of late nights. And eventually... I GOT HIRED. 🚀 Today, I work full-time as a frontend developer, and I genuinely love what I do. But here's where things get even crazier. AI has completely changed what's possible for someone like me. Things that would've required an entire team a few years ago can now be built by one person with the right skills and tools. Outside my 9-5, I've managed to build: 📸 Rawnd - A browser-based RAW photo editor. 🎯 Loudship - A tool finding potential customers on Reddit, Bluesky & Hacker News. 💻 Several websites for clients, including the one behind yesterday's $3,000 payment. All while working full-time and raising my daughter. And no, I'm not rich. My SaaS products aren't generating thousands in MRR. I'm still learning marketing, distribution, and a million other things. But think about it. A few years ago, I was repairing hydraulic systems on heavy machinery. Today, I can sit at my desk, turn an idea into a real product, launch it to the world, and potentially make money from it. That still blows my mind. We're living in an incredible time. AI is opening doors that would've seemed impossible just a few years ago. And honestly? I feel like I'm just getting started. Your past doesn't have to define your future. Sometimes, changing your entire life starts with one simple question: "What if I tried something different?" Anyone else here completely reinvented their career?

My SaaS failed its users this morning. And it's 100% on me. 🫠 Today, Loudship's daily radars didn't go out. The reason? My third-party API hit its credit limit. After digging into it, I found 2 things: 1. A ghost radar 👻 A test project I forgot to delete from my database had been running a radar EVERY SINGLE DAY for the past 3 weeks. Burning API credits. Finding leads for absolutely nobody. 💸 2. More free trials than expected Quite a few people tried Loudship's free digest this month. Turns out, all that activity pushed me over my API credit limit. So one problem was a stupid mistake. The other? People actually using my product. Not the worst problem to have. 😅 Lesson learned: ✅ Clean up forgotten test data ✅ Monitor API usage ✅ Add alerts before hitting limits ✅ Make the system more resilient Building in public also means sharing when things break. Fix it. Learn. Keep shipping. 🚀 Solo founders, what's the dumbest bug that's cost you money?

Your app is down. Customers are waiting. You can only keep ONE AI to fix it: 🟠 Claude 🟢 ChatGPT 🔵 Gemini ⚫ Grok Which one gets access to your codebase? And which one are you absolutely NOT trusting with production?

My biggest competitor isn’t another SaaS. It’s WoW Forever launching November 4. 🕹️ Any indie hackers / solo founders planning to play? How are you going to stay productive? “Just one quest, then I’ll fix that bug.” I already know that bug is staying in production 😅 Are you setting strict gaming hours or is November’s roadmap a leveling guide?

This is actually insane. I'm building Loudship, a tool that finds potential customers on Reddit, Hacker News & Bluesky and drafts personalized replies. Then I see Bazzly talking about $15K in potential new MRR. We're solving almost the exact same problem. The big difference? They automate the posting. I keep the human in control. Same market. Different approach. Very different traction. As a solo founder, watching someone else succeed in the same space is a weird mix of motivation and frustration. But it proves one thing: The demand is real. Now I need to figure out distribution.

🚨 SEO PEOPLE, I NEED HELP. 31 pages. Only 1 indexed. Over a month like this. What the hell happened to my site? I built Rawnd, a browser-based RAW photo editor. At launch, Google was indexing everything just fine. Then my search visibility fell off a cliff. “Be patient. Build more backlinks.” I kept waiting. I should’ve investigated sooner. Here’s what I’m seeing: - Requesting indexing seems to do absolutely nothing. - Some pages go from “Discovered” to “URL is unknown to Google” overnight. - Google crawls pages but still won’t index them. - No manual action showing in Search Console. After digging deeper, I’m wondering whether my SEO pages triggered an automated spam filter. But I have no confirmation, and I don’t want to make things worse based on another guess. Honestly, it’s fucking frustrating. I’m happy to fix whatever’s wrong. I just need to understand WHAT is wrong before tearing everything apart. Has anyone been through this and actually recovered? What would you check first? If you know someone who knows their SEO, please tag them 🙏

I just reopened some code I hadn't touched in over a year. And wow, things have changed. Today, I'm taking a break from building Loudship and Rawnd to revisit a few websites I built for friends. A year ago, I didn't have: - AI this powerful - The knowledge I've gained from people sharing on X - My growing collection of Claude skills - All the lessons learned from shipping two products It's crazy how much you can improve in just one year without even realizing it. So today, I'm putting all of that to work. Time to give my friends' websites the upgrades they deserve. Sometimes the best way to see how far you've come is to revisit something you built a year ago.