Dan
@dancoltaagency
I replace the SaaS you rent and the manual work you hate | Co-Founder @ NodeSparks
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I replace the SaaS you rent and the manual work you hate
Founders, indie hackers, developers, and operators..., I believe MySpec is built for us.
Have you ever had to re-explain your product every time you added a new feature? Or discovered missing requirements and logic gaps after development had already started?
We realised the problem often isn't the code. It's the lack of clarity before the code.
That's why we built MySpec.
MySpec helps turn rough ideas into structured requirements, architecture, and implementation plans before development begins, giving both humans and AI a clear source of truth.
It's currently free to try during Open Beta, and we'd love your feedback as we continue improving the product.
It's definitely a win for us if MySpec helps you avoid even one costly mistake before development begins!
Website: myspec.dev
Feedback Form: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfiwMWMqFgUUVX…
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I replace the SaaS you rent and the manual work you hate | Co-Founder @ NodeSparks
thx for the detailed breakdown!
Founders, indie hackers, developers, and operators..., I believe MySpec is built for us.
Have you ever had to re-explain your product every time you added a new feature? Or discovered missing requirements and logic gaps after development had already started?
We realised the problem often isn't the code. It's the lack of clarity before the code.
That's why we built MySpec.
MySpec helps turn rough ideas into structured requirements, architecture, and implementation plans before development begins, giving both humans and AI a clear source of truth.
It's currently free to try during Open Beta, and we'd love your feedback as we continue improving the product.
It's definitely a win for us if MySpec helps you avoid even one costly mistake before development begins!
Website: myspec.dev
Feedback Form: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfiwMWMqFgUUVX…
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I replace the SaaS you rent and the manual work you hate | Co-Founder @ NodeSparks
P.S. the website looks really cool, you can clearly see the effort you put in, which is nice
Hey guys, I have a strangely niche side hustle, would love to get opinions if anyones had something similar: I'm running a very limited fleet of classic Mercedes' that we want to utilize to rent out to hotels, video/film shoots, weddings, etc.
Wanted to ask how we could even start outreach for this?
venz.ie (I'm also super proud of this website :P)
venz.ie
Venz Motors — A Private Collection
I replace the SaaS you rent and the manual work you hate | Co-Founder @ NodeSparks
Nice, love old benzes. Had a w124 coupe and w140 (v8 4.2) when I was younger, miss those days
On outreach it's pretty straightforward since you already know who your buyers are. Grab a list of local hotels, event planners and production houses off Google Maps (a scraper does this fast) or pull one from Apollo / Smartlead. Then run a 3-sequence campaign, plus a reactivation sequence in high season when the weddings stack up.
One thing for the website: add a portfolio page with real professional shoots of the cars. Sells it way harder than copy does, no samples yet? Offer a couple of free shoots and keep them for the page.
Cyber threats have no secrets. Ship fast solving complex problem in a simple way.
what's the top 3 painful things you think you have to handle as a founder ?
to me:
- keep focus
- take rest
- marketing
I replace the SaaS you rent and the manual work you hate | Co-Founder @ NodeSparks
all 3 at once haha
Cyber threats have no secrets. Ship fast solving complex problem in a simple way.
my two cents on being a successful founder in 2026 :
- browse reddit channels
- spot pain & issues posts
- evaluate the numbers, metrics, market
- ship a small feature and reach out
- get feedback and iterate
I replace the SaaS you rent and the manual work you hate | Co-Founder @ NodeSparks
hey, thanks!
that's actually a good idea...will add it to the backlog.
btw there's already a cool skill called last30days, you can give it a try:
github.com/mvanhorn/last30days-skill
i use it to draft content for linkedin / x and find trendy and hot topics (but the use-cases are limitless)
Guyyysss, I think I’m officially exhausted from marketing 😭. Over the past few weeks, I’ve tried pretty much everything I could think of. Posted on LinkedIn. Posted on Instagram. Posted on TikTok.
Result? Lots of impressions. Almost no users.
Tried Reddit. Banned.
Tried Hacker News. Flagged.
At some point it starts feeling less like marketing and more like getting rejected by the entire internet 💀. The frustrating part is that I genuinely believe the product solves a real problem. It basically checks suspicious websites, emails, phone numbers, and crypto wallets and helps identify potential scam or risk signals before people trust them. The idea came from seeing how difficult it has become to tell what's legitimate online anymore.
A website can look professional.
An email can look convincing.
A wallet can seem completely normal.
And people have no easy way to check. So that's what I've been working on. Ironically, creating it felt easier than getting people to notice it 😭. For now, I've honestly stopped marketing for a bit. Not because I want to quit, Just because constantly posting, launching, getting ignored, getting flagged, getting banned, and repeating the cycle is mentally exhausting.
If you've been through this stage before, I'd genuinely love to hear how you got past it. And would love to hear some genuine advices from you guys!
I replace the SaaS you rent and the manual work you hate | Co-Founder @ NodeSparks
btw, feel free to join the room, i'll post more updates
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Guyyysss, I think I’m officially exhausted from marketing 😭. Over the past few weeks, I’ve tried pretty much everything I could think of. Posted on LinkedIn. Posted on Instagram. Posted on TikTok.
Result? Lots of impressions. Almost no users.
Tried Reddit. Banned.
Tried Hacker News. Flagged.
At some point it starts feeling less like marketing and more like getting rejected by the entire internet 💀. The frustrating part is that I genuinely believe the product solves a real problem. It basically checks suspicious websites, emails, phone numbers, and crypto wallets and helps identify potential scam or risk signals before people trust them. The idea came from seeing how difficult it has become to tell what's legitimate online anymore.
A website can look professional.
An email can look convincing.
A wallet can seem completely normal.
And people have no easy way to check. So that's what I've been working on. Ironically, creating it felt easier than getting people to notice it 😭. For now, I've honestly stopped marketing for a bit. Not because I want to quit, Just because constantly posting, launching, getting ignored, getting flagged, getting banned, and repeating the cycle is mentally exhausting.
If you've been through this stage before, I'd genuinely love to hear how you got past it. And would love to hear some genuine advices from you guys!
I replace the SaaS you rent and the manual work you hate | Co-Founder @ NodeSparks
built something that might solve the Reddit issue (free and open source) github.com/dancolta/subscope
It's a Claude plugin. You get interviewed on what you sell and who your customers are, then it scans the exact posts/threads and comments and splits results into 2 tracks:
Real buyers - ones with real buying intent
Authority plays - threads where you could leave a comment and build authority
You won't get a ton of results, because every run goes through 20+ filters (excluding the karma farmers, bot accounts, etc), so what you get back is genuinely valuable. Beyond keywords, it spawns agents that check the actual context of the threads.
I've shipped a couple of updates lately. It also has some skills that help you analyze specific threads, tune your profile and give live feedback on results and search for specific buyer patterns like price changes / tool comparisons and more. You can see the whole list in the readme on github
I asked 3 AI agents to review a nutrition tracking app I built with Lovable.
They clicked around like real users. Within 5 minutes they found a crash, flagged missing features, and gave it a 4/10.
That kind of feedback normally takes weeks to surface. Here's the full demo.
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I replace the SaaS you rent and the manual work you hate | Co-Founder @ NodeSparks
that's really cool, i've been using similar custom workflows to test my own builds, but there's one thing that always goes sideways with all those AI audits: consitency
how do I know that after I fix everything, on the next run, the agents won't identify other gaps or flag issues that contradict the initial feedback loop?
or if i run 2 parallel runs on the same app, how similar those 2 results will be?
I replace the SaaS you rent and the manual work you hate | Co-Founder @ NodeSparks
I joined the wrong community i think haha
Everyone here ships SaaS and climbs a leaderboard ranked by subscription revenue, but I'm the guy people hire to cancel those subscriptions 👿
I wire open source tools together with some AI glue so people stop paying for random AI wrappers.
Hope you guys won't hate me, as i don't think all SaaS is useless and i've already seen some genuinely cool builds in here❤️
I'm building in public too and losing the revenue leaderboard with dignity (everything I make stays open source)
Also launched a YouTube channel now so long time ago with demos, walkthroughs etc:)
Btw next open source build is already up and it's called subscope.
It reads Reddit all day so you don't have to and flags the exact threads where someone's about to buy what you sell.
You show up with a real reply instead of spamming strangers. It sorts posts into two piles:
- "this person is shopping right now" and "answer this and look smart."
and ignores everything else, writes nothing for you and you reply in your own voice.
Its FREE, runs on your own machine, no login / API keys / account and nothing about your business leaves your machine - just a claude subscription
On a dead day it just tells you "nothing good today" instead of padding the list with garbage, it basically gives you the leads and shuts up
Still in beta.
I replace the SaaS you rent and the manual work you hate | Co-Founder @ NodeSparks
i've crated a room for those who struggle to get leads / build authority on reddit, feel free to join:
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