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BA

How-to · steal-able thread:
How to actually start with AI when you're overwhelmed — the 3-day version 🧵 (no course, save this)


Step 1: pick ONE annoying task you do weekly. Just one. Write it down. That's your target — not "use AI more."

Step 2: open ONE tool built for that task (free tier). 30 minutes making it do that one thing. Badly is fine.

Step 3: do the task WITH the tool, for real, once. Notice what it saved. That's it — you're "using AI" now.


Most people try to learn everything and start nothing. One task, one tool, three days. What's your one task (or project)?

JA

1200+ Micro SaaS Ideas across 100s of niches - all pulled from real user complaints, frustration and expectation...

Every Idea on the database came when a real user were frustrated enough to type about it on the internet.

So instead of build something nobody willing to pay for and shipping features after features and still getting zero paying user - build what people are already looking for, real demand signals not assumption.

saasidea.pro

SaaSIdea Pro
1,200+ Validated SaaS Ideas for Founders | SaaSIdea Pro
Browse 1,200+ pain-driven SaaS ideas across 100+ niches. MRR potential, build time, competition data, and keyword research included.
NA

We hear you out, founders!

Launching your first version is a huge milestone.

But growing an existing product is a completely different challenge.

Every new feature, every improvement, every refactor starts with the same question: "How will this change affect everything we've already built?"

That's exactly why we introduced Brownfield in MySpec.

Instead of asking you to start from scratch, Brownfield starts from your existing project. It helps you understand the requested change, guides you through AI-powered change planning, lets you review every revision before it's applied, and generates implementation-ready specifications that your team or AI coding assistants can build from with confidence.

Because improving an existing product shouldn't mean rebuilding the context every single time.

If you've already shipped your first version, we hope this update makes every version after that a little easier.

We'd love to hear how Brownfield fits into your workflow.

🌐 Website: myspec.dev

📖 Read more about Brownfield: blog.myspec.dev/posts/introducing-the-brownfiel…

💬 Feedback Form: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdJv_x7g7oy1AR…

MA

16+ years of experience building production-grade systems across LLM orchestration, agentic workflows, RAG pipelines, and cloud infrastructure. Would love to partner up with a GTM expert. Or anyone with over 7 years in sales or BD or marketing or all of them combined.

Laradock major upgrade.

What's new in v20:
• Built-in CLI with setup wizard
• Prod deployment to #Kubernetes
• New services, including #AI & automation

Everything you need to build, run, and ship #PHP Apps with #Docker.

Start in seconds github.com/laradock/laradock

DH

A founder asked me if raising a VC round would help him get regulated fintech partners to trust him faster.


It won't — not by itself.


Money changes what you can spend. It doesn't change what a partner finds when they Google you at 11pm before your call.


Before any round or big partnership push, most founders skip the cheapest trust-building move available: one visible proof point — a pilot, a testimonial, a case study, even a Reddit thread where a real user says it worked.


VCs make partnerships easier because they signal validation, but they don't replace the artifact.


If you don't have proof yet, get the pilot before the pitch deck.


What's the one thing you're missing right now — proof, capital, or distribution?

TO

Building startups, brands & digital assets from Bangladesh.

🛍️ Every purchase tells a story.

Smart shopping isn't just about finding the lowest price—it's about choosing quality, convenience, and value you can trust.

Explore. Compare. Shop with confidence.

Nagad.shop — Your destination for smarter online shopping.

#NagadShop #OnlineShopping #eCommerce #DigitalMarketplace #ShopSmart #Retail #Deals #ShoppingOnline #SmartBuying #Marketplace

BA

Build #2 starts today.

The Stack Picker tells you WHICH tools. The next one answers the question right after: "okay… now where do I actually start?"

Thinking: a tool that turns "I have an idea" into a concrete first-week build plan. Building it in public, same as last time.

Would you use that? What would you ask it?

AR

i’m Arush Sharma. 15yo founder and builder obsessed with rapid execution. I don’t wait for solutions. I ship them. ​currently, I’m working on b2b startups.

I just added new data sources to Compeddit. it now alerts when someone mentions your competitor or pain point on X, reddit, HN or dev.to


check out Compeddit here-

compeddit-ai.vercel.app

compeddit-ai.vercel.app
Compeddit — High-Signal Multichannel Social Listening
Monitors X, Reddit, Hacker News, and Dev.to 24/7 for competitor pain points, alternative requests, and warm leads.
TO

Building startups, brands & digital assets from Bangladesh.

🛒 Nagad.shop

Shopping should be simple, secure, and convenient.

Discover products, explore great deals, and enjoy a seamless online shopping experience designed for the modern world.

🛍️ Shop smarter

⚡ Fast & easy browsing

💳 Secure shopping experience

🌍 Built for the digital marketplace

Nagad.shop — Where smart shopping begins.

#NagadShop #eCommerce #OnlineShopping #DigitalMarketplace #ShopOnline #Retail #Deals #Business #Innovation #Shopping

BA

Build #2 starts today.

The Stack Picker tells you WHICH tools. The next one answers the question right after: "okay… now where do I actually start?"

Thinking: a tool that turns "I have an idea" into a concrete first-week build plan. Building it in public, same as last time.

Would you use that? What would you ask it?

TO

Building startups, brands & digital assets from Bangladesh.

💡 Money is changing. The future is digital.

Innovation in payments, fintech, and digital finance is transforming how people save, spend, invest, and do business.

Stay informed. Stay connected. Stay ahead.

Nagad.xyz — Exploring the future of digital finance.

#NagadXYZ #Fintech #DigitalFinance #Payments #Innovation #FutureOfMoney #Blockchain #Finance #DigitalEconomy #Technology

VE

I initially built Reminders as a broad document-expiry and persistent-reminder app.

The obvious feedback was: “Why not just use Google Calendar?”

I was leading with features instead of the problem, supporting too many unrelated use cases, and spending too much time strengthening the backend before proving that people understood why the product should exist.

The part people actually found different was what happens when a reminder is ignored:

> Set a care reminder. Get email or SMS follow-ups. If nobody responds, a trusted backup contact can be notified.

I am now focusing the product on important family-care dates: parent checkups, post-surgery follow-ups, children’s vaccinations and health forms, pet-care dates, and similar situations where one person should not carry all the responsibility.

The product now supports external recipients, email acceptance, SMS consent, acknowledgement, backup-contact opt-out, delivery-status visibility, and repair when a recipient becomes unreachable.

I am looking for around 10 people with a real upcoming family or pet-care date. I will help set up the first reminder personally and want honest feedback on the experience.

I will provide free Plus access: [reminders.verysimple.systems](reminders.verysimple.systems)

Reminders by Very Simple Systems
Family Care Reminders with Backup Follow-Up | Reminders by Very Simple Systems
Family care reminders for appointments, checkups, follow-ups, vaccinations, and pet care dates - with SMS follow-ups and backup contact notification if nobody responds.
MA

Helping solo founders to grow by strategic and creative support. Brand session to look at your brand Through Clients Eyes & Clarity Sessions to build you business with confidence.

For all solo founders who want more clients!
⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️

Today (Tuesday, July 14), I'm hosting a free weekly session.

Topic? One of the hottest topics in business: how to win more clients.

We'll talk about how you communicate with your leads, who you're talking to (your target audience), and where to find them (not necessarily in that order).

We'll take a deep dive (much deeper than AI can) into your clients' minds and learn how they think, so you can understand them better and speak to them in a way that is relevant to them.

Oh, and bring a pen and paper.

We'll work on your outreach strategy together, so you'll leave with something you can actually use in your business. 🎉

Use this link to download the .ics file and add the session to your calendar:

business-support-agency.com/wp-content/uploads/…

📅 Tuesday, July 14, 2026

⏰ 8:00 PM EEST

See you there!

AY

cooking something.

TAAFT charges $300 to list your AI tool. Futurepedia is dying. We built the free alternative.

There's An AI For That has 9M visitors and charges $300 to list your tool.

Futurepedia peaked at 2M visitors, now under 500K and still falling. No community, no upvotes, just a static database.

So we built FutureStack. Free forever. Real upvotes from real users. Role-based discovery so the right people actually find your tool. Win Stack of the Day and get a backlink badge for your site.

Submit your tool: usefuturestack.com/submit

Takes 2 minutes, no fee. Go upvote something and tell me what's missing.

AR

i made a small free tool for people who work with SLOs.

it is an error budget + burn rate calculator. you put in your target uptime and what you really got, and it shows how much downtime budget you have, how much is left, how fast you are using it, and the point it runs out. no signup, nothing to install. try it.

uptimepage.dev/tools/error-budget-calculator

Uptimepage
Error Budget & Burn Rate Calculator | Uptimepage
Turn an SLO target and your measured availability into error budget spent, budget left and burn rate, with a burn-rate reference table. Free, no sign-up.
TO

Building startups, brands & digital assets from Bangladesh.

💰 Nagad.xyz – A premium fintech domain with exceptional branding potential is now available.

Short, memorable, and future-ready, Nagad.xyz is ideal for digital payments, fintech startups, crypto platforms, blockchain projects, e-wallets, and innovative financial services.

Domain Details 🔹 Price: $9,999 USD 🔹 Expiry: 26-Dec-2026 🔹 Registrar: one.com

Available on: ✅ Sedo.comPanda-Fog.comAfternic.com

Own a distinctive digital asset that can power your next-generation financial brand.

#NagadXYZ #PremiumDomain #DomainForSale #Fintech #DigitalPayments #Blockchain #Crypto #Startup #BrandableDomain #DomainInvestor #Sedo #Afternic #PandaFog

NA

Dear founders and builders on Strivle, this update is for you. 🚀

Over the past few months, many of you have shared your experiences, suggestions, and honest feedback with us. Every conversation has helped shape the next version of MySpec, and today, we're excited to finally share it with you.

Here's a glimpse of what's new:

✨ Support for both Greenfield (new ideas) and Brownfield (existing codebases)

🤖 A smarter AI-guided discovery process that asks better questions before development begins

📝 More structured proposals, requirements, architecture, and implementation plans

🔄 A review workflow so you can refine and approve every stage before moving forward

⚡ Better integrations with AI coding tools like Claude Code, Cursor, Lovable, Bolt, Replit, and more

...and that's just part of this release. We've shipped many more improvements across the entire workflow, all designed to make planning, collaboration, and building with AI much smoother.

If these updates sound like something you've been looking for, we'd be honoured to have you explore the new version of MySpec during our Open Beta. We'd love to hear your thoughts and discover which new feature becomes your favourite.

📖 Read more: blog.myspec.dev/posts/introducing-the-next-gene…
🌐 Website: myspec.dev
💬 Feedback Form: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdJv_x7g7oy1AR…

MI

Founder of The Mad Botter INC and host of Coder Radio (https://coder.show)

Doing a soft launch of a SAAS version of my enterprise software for data transformation and ETL to PowerBI is that appropriate to post here?

MI

Builder. CeeWealth.uk + more at michaelcee.com

CeeWealth.uk - My personal finance tracker with budgeting, investment/crypto tracking and tax reporting now has a completely FREE plan.

No bank connections, no data selling - just simple, private money tracking.

With the free tier you can:
Add 1 account
Track your income
Manually track budget expenses

Try it out today and upgrade at any time.

ceewealth.uk
CeeWealth - The #1 Personal Finance Tracker & Budgeting App.
Track every account, investment, and liability in one place. No bank connection. No data selling. From £2.99/month.
TS

Founder-ish builder | AI tools, SaaS, and practical products

SplitIt just got easier to come back to.

We rebuilt it around one question: what’s the smallest thing I can do next?

Now your dashboard surfaces one clear next step, starter plans help when you don’t know where to begin, and any step can be split smaller until it feels doable.

Less staring at a plan. More starting.

Try it: trysplitit.com

trysplitit.com
SplitIt — Stop staring at the task
Can't start? SplitIt breaks any goal down until the next step is small enough to just do. From stuck to started — in minutes.
BA

Stop drowning in 300+ AI tools. I built the AI Stack Picker — answer 3 questions, get the 2–3 AI tools that actually fit what you do, how technical you are, and your budget. Free, no signup:
buildleaner.com/stack-picker

You can watch the YouTube video about this here:

youtu.be/B9QzWg952eY?si=pTYLdOk493WqbVkO

Which AI Tools Do You Actually Need? I Built a Free Tool for That

Stop drowning in 300+ AI tools. I built the AI Stack Picker — answer 3 questions, get the 2–3 AI tools that actually fit what you do, how technical you are, and your budget. Free, no signup:
buildleaner.com/stack-picker

In this video you watch the whole thing get built and shipped — with AI — from a blank file to a live URL: the 3-question flow, the curation logic that makes it useful, the real bug that broke it on a real input (and the fix), and the 30-second deploy to Vercel.

🔥 WHAT IS THE AI STACK PICKER?
The AI Stack Picker is a free web tool by Build Leaner (Bassam Nouh) that recommends a short, personal AI stack — 2–3 tools instead of 300 — based on your use case (write, build, automate, design, research, or customer support), your skill level, and your budget. It runs on curated human judgment, not an affiliate-bait tool list, and you can use it without creating an account.

🔥 WHAT YOU'LL LEARN
👉  How to choose AI tools: the only 3 questions that matter (use case, skill, budget)
👉  How to build a working web tool with AI instead of hand-coding it
👉  Why most AI demos never become shipped products — and the "last 20%" that fixes it
👉  How to deploy a single-file tool to Vercel in under a minute

buildleaner.com
BA

Non-technical and want to build with AI?

Ignore 90% of the advice online — it's written for engineers.

Start here:
→ Lovable or Replit to build
→ Zapier to connect
→ Claude to think
→ Canva to design
4 tools.

You can ship a real thing this weekend with just these.

What are you trying to build?

TO

Building startups, brands & digital assets from Bangladesh.

📰 AsiaPoliticalNews.com

Stay informed. Understand the bigger picture.

Politics shapes economies, societies, and everyday life across one of the world's most dynamic regions. Reliable reporting and thoughtful analysis help readers make sense of fast-changing events.

🌏 Follow regional developments

🗳️ Explore political analysis

📊 Understand policy and governance

📰 Stay updated with credible insights

Knowledge empowers better decisions, and informed readers build stronger communities.

AsiaPoliticalNews.com — Your window into politics and public affairs across Asia.

#AsiaPoliticalNews #Politics #Asia #CurrentAffairs #PublicPolicy #Government #WorldNews #PoliticalAnalysis #Journalism #GlobalPerspective

VI

Currently working on robinhood broker integration feature of my journal….

Excited to finish this.

Integration part is successful… now need to normalize and sync the data matching my local app acceptable format

SU

Maybe my biggest release of 2026!!!!

Over the past few months, I spent countless hours learning, experimenting, failing, rebuilding, and shipping. There were moments when things did not work, ideas changed completely, and I questioned whether I should keep going. I kept building anyway. And Today, I'm excited to share two projects that solve problems I personally care about.

⚡ Nexus Engine:
-> A cross-platform environment provisioning engine that turns a fresh operating system into a ready-to-use development environment with a single command. The goal is simple: spend less time setting up machines and more time building.

💸 SubZero:
-> A subscription and money leak analyzer. Upload your bank statements in PDF or CSV format, and it identifies subscriptions, recurring payments, and spending patterns that often go unnoticed. The goal is to help people understand where their money goes and make better financial decisions.

Neither project is perfect. Both are early, and there is still a lot to improve. But shipping imperfect things and learning from real users is better than endlessly waiting for perfection.

If you're a developer, builder, or someone who enjoys trying new tools, I would genuinely love your feedback, ideas, and criticism.

Nexus Engine:
github.com/Sumama-Jameel/nexus-engine

SubZero:
github.com/Sumama-Jameel/subzero

On to the next build, got dozens of ideas.

github.com
MY

Small visibility win for MyDebtLens today.

The app is currently ranked #1 in Debt Management Tools on PeerPush.

It is still early, and these lists move quickly, but for a young personal-finance product, every credible public signal matters.

MyDebtLens is a debt payoff planning workspace for people in the U.S., built to help users compare payoff routes and monthly pressure using numbers they enter themselves.

No bank connection required.

Onward.

PeerPush listing:

peerpush.com/best/uc/debt-management

AR

My disk hit 100% full in production. Postgres crashed. But my monitor lost zero customer check results, retries caught every failed write.

Then I found the cause. ClickHouse was quietly writing gigabytes of logs about itself, mostly system.text_log and trace_log. Logs I never asked for.

The fix: truncate the log tables (12 GB back), then a config file that caps them for good. I also added a disk alert at 80%, so next time I get days of warning, not minutes.

Full postmortem and the copy-paste config:

uptimepage.dev/blog/clickhouse-system-tables-fi…

Uptimepage
ClickHouse system tables ate my disk (and the fix)
My disk filled and I started dropping writes. Real data: 20 MB; ClickHouse had logged 12 GB about itself and burned idle CPU doing it. The config that fixes both.
TO

Building startups, brands & digital assets from Bangladesh.

✨ WhiteGold.one

True value stands the test of time.

Whether it's a premium brand, a bold vision, or a lasting investment, exceptional things are built on quality, trust, and purpose—not trends.

🌟 Premium by design

💎 Built to inspire confidence

📈 Created for long-term value

🚀 Ready for the future

The most valuable assets aren't always the loudest—they're the ones that endure.

WhiteGold.one — A name that represents excellence, prestige, and lasting value.

#WhiteGold #PremiumBrand #Luxury #BrandIdentity #Innovation #BusinessGrowth #StartupLife #Leadership #FutureReady #TimelessValue

BA

24 hours since the Stack Picker launched.

347 people used it. Most common use case: "I have an idea but don't know which tech stack to use." Most common stack it gave: Lovable / Claude Code / n8n. Funniest feedback: "It made a decision faster than my co-founder."

Still free, still no signup:
buildleaner.com/stack-picker

Already building #2. What should it be?

buildleaner.com