Hilary Moyo

My wife and I fought about "what's for dinner" almost every night. Both tired, neither willing to decide, a dozen recipes saved across TikTok and IG we'd never open again.

Saving was never the problem. Deciding together was.

So I spent the past few months building Supper — a meal-planning app where you and whoever you cook with share a plan, vote on what actually gets made, and the grocery list builds itself.

It does the AI stuff too: paste a TikTok/IG/YouTube link, snap a cookbook page, or tell it what's in your pantry and it'll suggest what to cook.

Solo founder, built nights and weekends. Live on the App Store this week.

Would love feedback — tear it apart 👇

apps.apple.com/us/app/supper-whats-for-dinner/i…

I keep getting sidetracked and promised myself that i wouldn't build anymore projects or do anything that doesn't move the needle on my main business. However nothing is working! So i built my final project sidetracked.site This is a tool that i've built for myself, but my fellow Strivlers might benefit

So, something really frustrating happened to me today....My chrome developer account got taken down for "possible bot activity", and with it, my extension got taken off chrome store....But this is just temporary. I'm going to be back, this is NOT going to take any more than 2 days, and with this occasion, I want to strengthen my release even more. So when this comes back, I will finally release my 1.5.0 update and the final Pro version, that will let designers have every single website design they need, see analytics, 6 different export versions + Figma and added Gemini send button. I'm also giving that Pro to anyone who comments here, just let me know, I'll DM you and ask for your gmail.
So, has this happened to anyone before? Maybe on different platforms? Have you had a setback like this while developing your app?

#buildinpublic #google #vibecoding

Thinking of creating the following project
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tinyurl.com/3kx9nny7

If interested, running a small survey/waitlist to see if there is an interest in this type of service (from creators & users).

i think this could also help strivle hype up a bit through this type of platform. The goal is to filter out bots.

Would love to know your thoughts.

I'm not really the type that loves automation and integrating chatbots everywhere, but I thought that a questions section for my extension would be good for the average user, to clarify the value of the designs it reads and what it actually gives the person that uses it. So I implemented this bot that answers and explains any feature of UIDrop, thanks to @knowchat. Their platform is so good, they have quality bots and I hope it grows in the future. If you want to find out everything about why this is the best design extractor on the chrome store, go talk to this nice assistant on: uidrop.site/

hello everyone,

I'm Arush, a 15yo indie dev from India.

currently building Compeddit, an AI powered tool that scans Reddit 24/7 and alerts everytime a competitor is mentioned along with intent classified.

can be connected with Telegram, check it out!

compeddit-ai.vercel.app

I know it might be late, but I just successfully launched on ProductHunt! As expected, a chrome extension doesn't get the highest placing or traction, but I just really love seeing my app there. Would really love if any of you seeing this would head over to the launch page and hit an upvote for the launch, maybe try the landing site and see if the extension works - it's 1.0.2 now, so it handles design extracting way better. producthunt.com/products/uidrop?utm_source=othe… Any upvote, review, comment is welcome, and if not, I appreciate it either way!

Apple rejected Strivle on the app store because we didn't have "Sign in with Apple" 😭

Resubmitted with the update, we'll see in 48 hours

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!

Now that Note2Self has reached 10 users, I've noticed that most of them don't even use the product lol. They just sign up, and never use it. Some have used it maybe twice and then stopped. Tbh I'm not suprised, most ppl who start journaling never stick with it. I'm thinking of adding a notification system so I can send notis out with reminders and updates. Anybody know of a good system I can integrate?

Had my first face-to-face client meeting today, overexplained the technical side, but managed to get a good relationship going, waiting on their response by tomorrow.

Founders who've been here I need your honest advice

Okay so I'm genuinely frustrated right now and I need to hear from people who have actually been through this stage.

I'm building Talvé a professional platform for creative talent. Think LinkedIn but built exclusively for creatives. Musicians, models, photographers, producers, directors, all of them. The problem I'm solving is real. I see it every single day. I literally come across creatives who are facing the exact pain point Talvé was built to fix and I can't reach them properly.

That's the part that's killing me.

I try to post on Reddit and the bots take it down. I post on LinkedIn and Twitter and I'm facing the exact same problem my users face, you post something and get 10 impressions and you're basically talking to yourself. Building a following takes months and I don't have months to wait around hoping an algorithm decides to show my content to the right people.

I move from platform to platform every day trying to figure out where my people actually are and how to reach them and I feel like I'm spinning in circles.

So I want to ask the people who have been here before me.

How did you actually get your first real traction? Not the polished version. The real one. Which platforms worked for you at this stage? What did you do that actually moved the needle when nobody knew you existed yet? Did you go direct? Did you find communities? Did you do something completely unexpected?

Because right now I feel like I'm doing everything and reaching nobody and I could really use perspective from founders who have actually come out the other side of this stage.

What would you do if you were me right now?

Founders who've been here I need your honest advice

Okay so I'm genuinely frustrated right now and I need to hear from people who have actually been through this stage.

I'm building Talvé a professional platform for creative talent. Think LinkedIn but built exclusively for creatives. Musicians, models, photographers, producers, directors, all of them. The problem I'm solving is real. I see it every single day. I literally come across creatives who are facing the exact pain point Talvé was built to fix and I can't reach them properly.

That's the part that's killing me.

I try to post on Reddit and the bots take it down. I post on LinkedIn and Twitter and I'm facing the exact same problem my users face, you post something and get 10 impressions and you're basically talking to yourself. Building a following takes months and I don't have months to wait around hoping an algorithm decides to show my content to the right people.

I move from platform to platform every day trying to figure out where my people actually are and how to reach them and I feel like I'm spinning in circles.

So I want to ask the people who have been here before me.

How did you actually get your first real traction? Not the polished version. The real one. Which platforms worked for you at this stage? What did you do that actually moved the needle when nobody knew you existed yet? Did you go direct? Did you find communities? Did you do something completely unexpected?

Because right now I feel like I'm doing everything and reaching nobody and I could really use perspective from founders who have actually come out the other side of this stage.

What would you do if you were me right now?

First builder post, so I gotta introduce my project, right? I built a Chrome extension that reads any website's design system in one click and sends it straight to all your AI agents: Claude, GPT, Manus, Lovable, or copy to Cursor.

Reason I built it: every time I wanted to build something that "looks like Stripe" or just like a website with design patterns I like, I'd spend 20 minutes in DevTools copying hex codes. Then try to describe it to an AI in words. The result was always generic.

So I made UIDrop. One click, the AI gets the exact colors, fonts, spacing, shadows, component specs, either as a prompt or as "design_system.md"— with the screenshot attached.

It's free. 20 installs so far, launched 6 days ago.

Still figuring out distribution but the product works. Happy to get roasted on what I'm missing.

uidrop.site/

The worst moment in a client project is rarely the work itself.

It’s the phrase “That was part of the deal, right?”—three weeks later, when no one remembers exactly what was agreed upon.

That’s exactly why I’ve spent my evenings over the past few months building a little tool: Shakeon.

The idea is simple. You quickly jot down what’s included in the project—services, revision rounds, deadline, price—send your client a link, and they confirm it with a click. No account, no login on their end. After that, you both have a fixed, timestamped record of what was agreed upon. No contract, more like a “shared record of the facts” that you can refer to later without having to argue from memory.

I’m a UX designer, not a full-time founder—this started as a solo project, from concept to design to code. I’m both proud and nervous to be releasing it now.

It’s just been launched, so I hardly have any users yet—and that’s exactly why I’m reaching out: I’d love to hear your honest feedback.

shakeon.io

I put together a framework to help builders create better products to ship.

Validate your product idea here: meattheslop.hilarymoyo.studio

then share the result we tighten it up 💪

WE JUST HIT 1,000 USERS 🎉

8 days ago this didn't exist

Today there are 1,000 founders on Strivle.

This is honestly CRAZY. I built this last weekend because I was bored, fully expecting nothing to come from it, and now there are 1,000 of you here building, posting, helping each other, telling your friends about it. Watching this community come together has been one of the best weeks of my life.

To every single one of you posting your progress, dropping feedback in my DMs, sharing the platform without me asking, defending it in Reddit comments, just being here, thank you. This is your community as much as it's mine and I mean that. None of this happens without you.

Here's where we're going from here.

The next few weeks are going to be massive. Mobile app dropping on the App Store soon so you can post from anywhere. Public profile pages so your work shows up on Google when people search you. More verification integrations beyond Stripe so pre-revenue founders, mobile founders, and people using other payment processors can all be seen for what they ship. Bookmarks, better DMs, smarter notifications. A real Signal score so the ranking reflects more than just MRR.

We've got TinyLaunch live right now and Product Hunt right after, going for #1 of the day. If we hit it, this thing goes to a whole different level.

But the part I'm most excited about isn't the features or the milestones. It's that we're building the place builders should've had a long time ago. Somewhere your work gets seen on merit. Somewhere the loudest voice doesn't win. Somewhere being early actually matters because the network you build here will compound for years.

You're early. You'll always have been early. The first 1,000 on a platform like this become the names everyone references later.

Let's keep going. Next stop, 10,000.

Hey guys!

I am the developer behind Carto Art, and have been working on it for around a year at this point. This began as a frontend-only prototype inspired by a street vendor selling simple map prints. The realization that a more powerful, customizable tool could bridge the gap between technical GIS data and aesthetic interior decor led to its creation.

Main features:

- Create a map from anywhere in the world

- Select from over 50 different styles

- Volumetric 3D terrain and buildings, making locations such as Salt Lake City, UT and New York City, NY pop out

- Gif exports, via animated camera paths

- Gallery for users to publish their favorite maps

- (Still WIP) STL export of the terrain data for a given location

More details: kylek.tech/projects/carto-art

Live URL: cartoart.net/

Thinking of adding an Events page to Strivle.

Idea: every hackathon, builder meetup, demo day, founder dinner happening globally, all in one feed. Map view so you can see what's near you. And the part I'm most excited about, you'd see which Strivle users are going to each event before you RSVP.

The IRL extension of the network. You meet other founders here, then meet up at events in real life, then come back and post about it.

Would you actually use this? Drop a comment if yes or no, and what kind of events you'd want surfaced.

How many people here are full-time solo like me? I'd love to hear from others that are dedicating their time right now to building a shipping ideas. It's a brave new world and it can get lonely at times.

I spend my day building the next idea I have, and they've all been getting progressively better.

First organic click from Google. Took 6 weeks but it happened.

Launched my web app about 6 weeks ago and have been doing SEO

work in the background the whole time. Today I got my first

genuine organic click from Google search. Not from a directory,

not from a backlink, from someone actually searching and finding

me.

Here is everything I did in roughly the order I did it:

Submitted the sitemap to Google Search Console and Bing

Webmaster Tools on day one. Also set up IndexNow so every new

page I publish gets pinged to search engines automatically.

Fixed the canonical tags. Every page was either missing a

canonical or pointing to the wrong URL. The homepage was

canonicalising to the locale-prefixed version instead of the

root domain. Fixed this so Google knows which version of each

page to index.

Split a 954 line landing page client component into server

components. The hero, FAQ, feature grid and prose sections are

now server rendered which means Google gets the full HTML

immediately without waiting for JavaScript.

Made the FAQ answers always visible in the HTML. They were

inside accordion components which meant crawlers could not read

them. Expanded them permanently and added FAQPage JSON-LD schema.

Added about 300 words of prose to the homepage explaining what

the product actually does. Thin content was a problem.

Wrote 35 blog articles targeting long tail keywords my domain

could actually compete for. Avoided the high competition terms

completely and went after things like "ABC model CBT app" and

"cognitive distortion tracker" where there was real search

volume but almost no dedicated content.