I've worked in open offices, coworking spaces, even coffee shops, and there's one universal truth: people constantly interrupt you when you're trying to focus.

Colleagues dropping by for "quick questions" coworkers starting random conversations, people assuming you're available just because you're at your desk.

Whether it's an open office environment, shared coworking space, or even working from home, the struggle is real.

I used to try everything. Noise-canceling headphones? People still tapped my shoulder. "Do not disturb" signs? Completely ignored. Even putting up barriers around my desk just made people more curious.

Then I noticed something weird. On days when I had actual video calls, nobody bothered me. Not once. Even my usually chatty coworkers would see my screen and quietly back away.

That's when it clicked: people don't just avoid interrupting YOU, they avoid interrupting what looks like a group of professionals who might see them through your webcam. It's like social anxiety on steroids, but in the best possible way.

So I started leaving old Zoom recordings playing on my screen during deep work sessions. Worked like magic, but felt sketchy and the audio was distracting.

This got me thinking - what if I could create something better? I started working on https://meetingsimulator.com, and here's where it gets interesting.

During development, I was constantly testing different versions on my screen. Early prototypes with stock video watermarks, people not even looking directly at the camera, super obvious placeholder content - basically anything that remotely resembled a video conference grid.

The results blew my mind. Colleagues would approach my desk, see these clearly fake, watermarked test videos on my screen, and immediately back away without saying a word. They weren't analyzing whether the people looked realistic or if the lighting was perfect. Their brain just registered "meeting = don't interrupt" and that was it.

Even when I was using completely random stock footage that obviously wasn't a real meeting, people would whisper "sorry, didn't know you were in a call" and leave me alone. The pattern recognition is so strong that the mere visual suggestion of a video conference triggers the avoidance behavior.

It's like having an invisible force field of social pressure protecting your focus time. When someone walks by and sees what looks like a professional video conference on your screen, their brain immediately triggers two things:

1. "I shouldn't interrupt this person's meeting"
2. "Those people on screen might see me interrupting"

I've been using the finished version at meetingsimulator.com for months now and my deep work sessions have gone from 20-minute fragments to solid 2-3 hour blocks. The difference in my output quality is honestly night and day.

Yeah, it might seem like a weird "fake it till you make it" approach, but if it gives me the uninterrupted focus I need to actually get stuff done, I'm not complaining. Sometimes the best productivity hacks are the ones that work with human psychology instead of fighting against it.

Anyone else struggle with this? How do you handle interruptions during focus time?

Hello, recently I just ran the promo with free PRO version of my app, after the promo ends few people just purchased PRO version, also the organic visibility looks to be better than in previous days before the promo. Im really happy since I transitioned from subscription based model to one time purchase. Im curious how the next days will looks like (cant wait to see stats for 4th Aug). I just posted on reddit and after 48h I just got over 18k views.

Also my TTS App named SonicScript is also now for free until tomorrow.

July is my 3rd straight month of making Gumroad revenue using a workflow automation tool called n8n. If you are unfamiliar with it check the following article.

In July, I detailed how to use n8n to make a small, but growing source, of passive income. This has largely been driven by my consistent marketing presence on YouTube and Medium.

How I did it

YouTube is one of the ways I educate people on the intersection of AI and information technology, in simple terms, which is the niche I am carving out — there are way more non-technical people than technical people, so I am better off targeting them former.

Whether, it’s about practical automations, such as

• generating schema markup to appear on ChatGPT
• creating an intelligent customer service representative for your site

or experimental use cases, such as

• making generative video using Google’s Veo3
• animating pictures using models served on HuggingFace

There is a plethora of content I use as a funnel to my brand.

I wrote more about it here.

As some of you know, I have a small side hustle selling n8n automations.

A resident of Japan bought one of my Reddit Lead Generation workflows.

It's a simple workflow that sends Reddit threads that contain the relevant keywords.

You can find the more detailed workflow description here.

Here's a tutorial.

Hey everyone,

I wanted to share a small win 🎉 and the story behind it — how my site grew to about 5.8k monthly views in less than 2 months.

50 days ago, I launched launchdirectories.com — a simple, searchable database of places where you can submit and promote your new product or startup.

Why did I build it? Because every time I launched something, I’d spend hours googling “SaaS directories” or hunting through outdated blog posts, trying to figure out where to submit my product. It was frustrating and inefficient.

So I put together a spreadsheet with 52 launch directories and shared it on Reddit. It got over 400 upvotes, which was amazing, but people wanted more data like domain ratings, traffic stats, SEO info, and whether the links are dofollow or not.

I realized this was a real need, so overnight I built LaunchDirectories.com (initially spent just 5 hours on it) — now it features over 80 curated launch directories, sortable by Domain Rating and other useful metrics.

No signups, no paywalls, no bullshi* — just a website to save you time and help you get more visibility for your projects.

According to SimpleAnalytics, the site is already getting 5.8k+ monthly views, and I’ve heard from people saying it’s actually saved them hours and helped them gain traction.

I know it’s not some massive success story, but honestly, this number of monthly views still blows me away.

45 days ago, I signed up for a crazy accelerator where I had to develop a fully functional mobile app in 45 days.

I usually work on web apps, so I thought it would be the same thing.

Whoo boy! Was I wrong? Mobile app dev is a different ball game altogether! At first, I tried to make it all alone (+ Cursor), and it was tough and grueling, learning as I went.

Then, my school decided to move up my examinations, and I had to bring in a friend. Together, we built this app; Aesculai from scratch.

Aesculai is a medical learning app that offers AI-assisted medical simulation and learning for Pros & Students, helping streamline medical practice and learning.

The app is finally out on the playstore, and it would mean the world to me if you all checked it out and offered your honest review and feedback.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.aesculai.app

Thank you.

Greetings everyone,

I have a few different sidestreams and I am currently using n8n at the core of my work from YouTube, Gumroad, to client work.

I find June's revenue to be a validation once again, especially for those interested in appearing in AI Search ($84 out of $110)

It helped me quite a lot that I my YouTube channel has grown. I added 83 subs. The video that helped me out the most was my n8n automation for creating Veo3 videos.

Keep making.

Hey everyone! Over the past months I have been silently working on a Huzzler 2.0 launch and today, it's time to launch it! 🎉

I've been interviewing founders and listening to your feedback.

These were your biggest complaints on other platforms (X, Reddit,..)

• AI generated content
• Fake gurus with fake MRR claims (course sellers, boilerplate sellers..)
• Your posts get "lost in the noise"
• Bots (+ AI reply bots)

I've been working on a few ways to mitigate these complaints and my goal is to make Huzzler a platform where you can actually learn from other successful founders. No gurus. No fakes. No AI generated content.

New features in Huzzler 2.0

Say goodbye to fake gurus 👏

On platforms like X or Reddit, we often see posts like this:

Made it to $12,000 MRR selling AI customer support agents

A lot of times, these posts and MRR charts are fake and the person is just selling a boilerplate or course.

With Huzzler 2.0, every revenue claim has to be verified. You can verify revenue by connecting your payment provider (for example, Stripe). When you create a post with a revenue claim, our AI moderation will detect it and remove if you don't have the verified revenue.

A strict no-AI space 🤖

A complaint I've been seeing more and more on X and Reddit is the AI-generated content and bots. It's often generic and you can't really learn from it, as the best knowledge comes from someone's personal experience.

Starting from today, AI generated content is forbidden. Our moderators have actively banned people who create full posts with AI.

Beautiful, personalized user profiles 🌍

I've improved the layout and visuals of user profiles. You can now add a country, location and banner to make your profile stand out.

You can also view a revenue chart per product. Meaning you quickly check out how much someones earning and if they are telling the truth.

Phone verification (coming soon)

While we now don't have a problem with bots, we working on adding phone verification for creating posts or commenting. This will introduce some friction, but honestly, I don't mind it. We value quality over quantity.

That's all guys. Let me know if you'd like to see other features on Huzzler and I'll add them to the t-do list

Guys… I just made my first $199 sale on http://launchdirectories.com! 😭💥 Built it in about 8 hours and launched just 8 days ago. (Everything’s transparent on my X.)

Someone saw value in what I created and decided to support me. That’s the real win. Feeling grateful, motivated, and ready for what’s next!

June: $240

May: $20

April: $0

March: $0

February: $0 — I just started coding.

it’s a simple wedding timeline – my client runs weddings and wanted to show the schedule on a tv so guests know what’s next

the app is in polish 🇵🇱 but i ran it through google translate so you can understand what it does 😅

not a huge deal, but 4 months ago i didn’t know how to code

I don't know if it's luck, but since last week. I've had way more motivation and money is actually starting to flow in! About 3-4 months ago I built dubaidiscoverer.com in Lovable - took me forever to figure out that Lovable doesn't have SSR and will never get indexed by Google properly. I wrote a Reddit post about it that blew up and even Lovable's CEO replied to it.

Spent several days migrating from Vite to Next.js to boost my Google rankings - but honestly, all that effort was for nothing. Google results are still dead, and I was basically ready to abandon the whole thing since I have other projects going on.

Then out of nowhere today I get a notification that someone bought Dubai attraction tickets through my affiliate link and I made $10.50. No clue how it happened but someone actually bought something even though I'd already written the project off as a loss.

It's still pennies and doesn't even cover the domain cost - but maybe it'll motivate some of you. Sometimes things work out even when you think they're completely dead.

Honestly, I'd probably sell this project for pocket change at this point because I have zero ideas left for it. It's just directories about Dubai and Abu Dhabi attractions - nothing fancy.

I know it would sound better if I said my dead project made $1000 passively, but I hope this was at least an interesting read for you guys.

Day 5/180 of “Locked in till '25

Grind: 7/24 hrs 💪

Had some personal work today, couldn’t go all in

- Reached 200 followers 🤯

- Studied 2 hrs for upcoming exam

- Worked on launchmedaddy .com

- 1 hr workout (hit 80kg bench for the first time – 2 reps 💪)

Not my best day but even slow days count. Just don’t stop.

Hoping this story resonates with beginners out there.

In the last 2+ years, I have been freelancing in full-stack design and development.

Having earned ~$8k in that time span, I’d be lying if I said “no money no problems”.

May of 2025 though brought a change in perspective.

I turned to automation out of necessity — working on an intelligent social media listening tool, which demanded a lot backend development.

So, I decided to learn n8n and create YouTube tutorials along the way.

Creating a brand is a marketing goal for 2025.

(Marketing is harder than coding, right?)

Results?

- $114 in Gumroad revenue with a 4.4% conversion in May

- YT Channel subs went from 42 -> 94

Market validation? Is this marketing channel sustainable ?

Absolutely and here’s why.

• I get market feedback on what people want.

Save time in lead generation. SEO — specifically Schema Markups (for rich snippets in Google or AI searches).

• Note that the cost of running an agent can be anywhere between $0.007 to $1.5 per run depending on the complexity.

Outreach is more expensive because of NLP tasks, whereas SEO tends to be cheaper.

• My network and credibility are growing.

As a thank-you to the community, I’m sharing a beginner oriented tutorial on YouTube channel SEO.

It updates the keywords and description to your YouTube channel — to help boost discoverability.

Here’s the flow for the visual folks.

YouTube Channel SEO Workflow

$19 from http://willtheyconvert.com 💸

Funny thing… the sale came 2 days after I posted “#5 on TinyStartups but 0 sales” 😅

What’s wild is that I started with zero programming knowledge about 3 months ago I didn’t even know how to use GitHub

I recently launched willtheyconvert.com, a tool to validate startup ideas before you invest time or money building the actual product.

It just hit #5 on tinystartups.com and I wanted to say thanks to everyone who's checked it out or voted 🙌

Here’s how it works in a nutshell:

It lets you build a features that looks completely real - pricing tables, buy buttons, waitlists, even a fake checkout. But it’s all just a test to see how people REALLY react.

You can simulate:

• Subscriptions & pricing pages
• Pre-orders & early access offers
• Referral programs
• Newsletter signups
• Promo or discount pages
• Full signup flows (no backend needed)

Once live, you share the page, and the tool tracks real engagement — clicks, conversions, drop-offs — in a clean dashboard so you can see if there’s demand.

If people click “Buy” or drop an email? That’s your green light.

If not… you just saved yourself weeks (or months) of building something no one wanted 😄

Would love your feedback or feel free to ask me anything!

Now?

People are smashing 12k+ karma, driving real traffic, and ranking by results.

Yeah, the board looks cool, but what’s cooler is seeing folks actually winning on Reddit.

Built something that works. That’s the real flex.

Huge shoutout to the Reddit marketers making this board go viral.

• Made $473 from MediaFast

• 978 visitors on the Website

• 3 trainings done

• Book started

• Ate clean all week

• New SaaS in progress, big one (2–3 weeks)

Quietly stacking small wins. Big moves loading.

0 ads. 0 outreach.

Just showed up.

Consistently.

With value.

When your audience knows you → they trust you.

And when they trust you → they buy from you.

Can i say that my SaaS paid for this ? Last month it paid my rent lmao.

P.s Tom Yam is amazing but super spicy...

Hey everyone! Today, OpenAI released their new images API. I couldn't find any good tools to generate Studio Ghibli style images so I've added it to Huzzler. Each member on Huzzler has been grated 2 free credits to generate images.

We use the highest-quality setting to generate the best possible images with OpenAI and the results are amazing.

Check it out: Huzzler Image AI 😁

Hey! I’ve got a story that might just change the way you approach building your next big idea, and trust me, you don’t want to miss this one. But before I dive into the details, let me rewind and take you back to my first project: BoomHabits.

About month ago, when I first started working on BoomHabits, I had zero experience with coding. Like, absolutely none. But within 24 hours, I managed to build a simple yet powerful habit tracker to help people stay productive and crush their goals. 😅 No fancy code, no convoluted processes—just a lot of trial and error, learning as I went, and utilizing NoCode tools that empowered me to turn my ideas into something real, without needing a tech background.

Fast forward to today, and I’m back at it again with my second project: WillTheyConvert.com. This one’s even smarter, designed to help you bring your ideas to life faster, without the risk of wasting time or resources.

Here’s the deal: WillTheyConvert is an app that lets you validate your product concepts instantly. It simulates payments and account sign-ups—meaning you don’t have to build your entire product first. You can test your assumptions within minutes and get real data that can save you tons of time and money.

This method is known as Fake Door Testing, and it’s been used by some of the most successful companies out there like Airbnb, Dropbox, Groupon, and even Product Hunt. These companies tested their ideas this way before diving into full product builds, and it worked for them. If it worked for the pros, I’m pretty sure it can work for all of us too. 😎

I really hope this post not only inspires you to give my app a try, but also motivates you to experiment with AI tools. They’re seriously awesome, and if I can do it, I’m confident you can too!

The project

I build language learning applications, because I love learning languages.

So I built a game called Grake, which is inspired from the classic game Snake, except you grow the snake by capturing the words in the right order.

This is playful way to learn grammar, vocabulary, and syntax in foreign languages.

How I did it

1. Used Ahrefs to find common expressions that people search for such as :

How to say in spanish.

this resulted in 33,691 keywords in the USA alone.

2. I filtered for low KD and high SV.

3. Then created pages that exemplify the word or phrase that match that keyword in Grake.

As a result I created pages whose title, description, and keywords in the metadata contained said keywords.

After 1 month, I successfully ranked for 140 keywords.

Although only 1 of them is top 10, I feel optimistic about my strategy of generating traffic, while I continue marketing my language learning application.

Here's the video, where I show the proof and how I did it.

A month ago, I had zero clue about tech. GitHub? Never touched it. Deploying an app? Sounded like something only real devs do. It felt like building your own app was reserved for ‘real’ developers — not someone like me who didn’t even know where to start.

But I had this idea — and instead of waiting until I “learn how to code,” I just went for it. I stumbled into the world of vibe coding, and it completely changed the game for me.

Three days later, I launched my very first app:

👉 BoomHabits.com — a simple habit tracker to help people stay focused, build routines, and feel proud of their progress.

And here’s the crazy part: three days after going live, 200 people signed up, and BoomHabits got 80 upvotes as Product of the Day on Fazier.com (we even hit #2 for a while!).

I know for a lot of you — devs and folks who’ve been in this world way longer — this might seem small, maybe even kinda funny. But for someone who’s never written a single line of code… this is huge!

Just wanted to share this little win — the vibe coding is just getting started for me. Maybe it’ll inspire someone else to take their first step too.

All Organic Growth in 20 Days — SEO Help Welcome!

Hey everyone — just wanted to drop a quick win from my solo founder journey with DecantBox.com, a fragrance sampling site I built to help people discover great scents without committing to full bottles.

In the past 20 days:

• 2.4K sessions
• 92 orders
• $2,182.74 in sales
• And not a dollar spent on ads

This has been entirely organic so far — driven by Reddit buzz, word-of-mouth, and raw product-market fit. No email campaigns, no influencer pushes, no SEO work (yet). Just a Shopify site, 1ml decants, and a mission to help people explore fragrance the easy way.

Now I’m looking to level up — especially in SEO, where I’ve done basically zero so far.

If you’ve grown a Shopify or ecom brand through search, I’d love your tips, tools, or even horror stories.

Thanks to everyone building in public — your posts helped push me to start mine.

DecantBox.com

Let’s talk fragrance, systems, or scaling something lean.

Christopher’s story:

Christopher Woggon is an entrepreneur based in South Korea who turned profitable after creating 5 failed projects. Christopher is well known on X for his persistence and honest approach to building projects. He shares progress along the way and is one of the most transparent founders I’ve seen in the build-in-public space.

He's a solo founder who codes his own products, handles his own marketing, and builds communities around his work.

5 failed products

Before turning profitable, he built and launched five products that made exactly $0: ProductLab, ZenDone, RenderLab, DontWaitList, and EnigmaBot. Each project taught him something valuable, but none made a single dollar.

"I failed 5 times before making my first dollar," Christopher once posted on X. Most people would have given up after the second or third attempt. Instead, he kept refining his approach.

A profitable product

First profit month for Christopher was December (2024). From there on, profits increased each month. In March, his launch platform generated $827 in a single month and by April (this month), the platform grew to $1.6K in MRR (and counting), with a record-breaking day bringing 930 visitors to the site.

How He Did It

1. He learned from every failure. Each failed product revealed something important: He learned about market fit, pricing, or execution.
2. He built in public. Christopher shared his journey honestly, including both wins and setbacks. This transparency built trust and turned followers into customers.
3. He stayed lean and flexible. As a one-person team, Christopher could pivot quickly based on feedback. One day he'd focus on coding, the next on marketing, whatever the business needed most.
4. He celebrated small wins. That first $827 month wasn't the end goal, it was motivation to keep pushing forward.

Practical Lessons You Can Apply Today

1. Treat failure as data, not defeat. Each "failed" product shows you what to fix next time. Ask: "What one thing could I improve in my next attempt?"
2. Launch before you feel ready. Christopher didn't wait until his product was perfect, he got his product in front of users and improved based on real feedback. What's the simplest version (MVP) of your idea you could launch this month?
3. Build relationships, not just products. Share your journey honestly. People support people, not just faceless businesses. How could you be more transparent about your process?
4. Focus beats features. His launch platform succeeded because it solved specific problems well, not because it tried to do everything. Ask yourself: what core problem does your product solve better than anything else?
5. Choose long-term trust over short-term profit. Being honest and reliable builds a foundation for sustainable success. 

Christopher’s simple advice

If you're staring at zero customers or zero revenue today, remember Christopher's simple advice: "All you have to do is not give up." What will you build next? And more importantly, keep going if the first version (or product) doesn’t work out.

Thanks for reading guys and keep building! 

Give Christopher a follow on X: x.com/chrissyinspace.

Customer's Feedback:

"BoringLaunch is highly legit and the team is professional. You can trust them to improve your DR. It helped us improve the DR super fast and drove good traffic as well"

Congrats to AI Project Planner, Postify AI and Founder's Directory for reaching the top 3 in last weeks launch arena!

The next arena starts in 2 days. Make sure to submit your projects to have a chance of winning a week-long pin at the top of the page 🏆

Visit the launch arena: huzzler.so/arena

Hey guys!

Just wanted to thank everyone who has been a part of this journey so far (we just getting started). We've only been around for a couple of weeks and are already ad 2.4K monthly active users, which is crazy if you think about it.

What I learned is that you have to solve a REAL problem. The real problem was that there was no good place for founders to hang out, get feedback or discover each others products so I created it.

I have a lot of cool things planned for Huzzler to make this platform even better, such as a real world problem/solution directory, "alternatives to x software" pages where I will list your products (mainly for SEO), a customer engine so you can get your first 100 customers and more.

All of your feedback is also added to the to-do list.

I'm working 24/7 on Huzzler to make this the best platform. Also increasing the price of huzzler black soon. For those interested, we now also have advertising options. Feel free to DM me on X for more info.

Thank you to everyone here! Couldn't do it without you.

Happy to announce that Virlo is over $2k MRR!

This milestone tells us that we should keep going! It’s not much, but it makes us happy that at least a few people out there are enjoying our product :)

Let's grow and scale together 🚀

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