Guides on building a waitlist, validating your idea, and getting your first 100 users. From an indie dev, for indie devs and makers.
A flat waitlist is four different problems wearing the same coat. How to work out whether you have a traffic problem, a page problem, an audience problem, or an idea problem, before you fix the wrong one.
RouzbehAugust 11
Generative engine optimization, without the hype. What actually gets a small product into AI answers, what llms.txt is really worth, and how to tell whether any of it is working.
RouzbehAugust 10
LinkedIn can beat every other channel for a B2B waitlist, and it is the worst place to put your link. Why the feed buries external links, what to post instead, and how to write like a person there.
RouzbehAugust 7
Show HN is for things people can actually use, which is why most pre-launch waitlists get flagged. What the rules really say, the three plays that work before you have a product, and what HN traffic is worth.
RouzbehAugust 6
Reddit sends real signups to a pre-launch waitlist, but only if you stop treating it like a distribution channel. The subreddits worth your time, the rules that get you removed, and a post shape that works.
RouzbehAugust 5
Product feedback piles up faster than anyone reads it. How to point Claude, Cursor, or ChatGPT at your feedback board over MCP, find one specific report in seconds, and pull the themes out of hundreds of submissions.
RouzbehAugust 3
How to run one AI loop across the whole life of a product: survey answers before launch, MCP and the API for live reads, drafted campaigns on launch day, onboarding data after.
RouzbehAugust 1
I submitted to eight launch directories in a fortnight. What they actually deliver, how to spot a link farm in two minutes, and why the badge on your footer sometimes points at a 404.
RouzbehJuly 31
Copy-paste templates for the five emails a waitlist actually needs: the instant confirmation, two warmup updates, launch day, and the last-call follow-up that usually brings a third of the sales.
RouzbehJuly 30
Most of the first month goes on auth, payments, and email, not your actual idea. A look at the boilerplates that skip it: ShipFast, MakerKit, supastarter, Spaceport for iOS, and the free options.
RouzbehJuly 29
MCP explained without the jargon: what the Model Context Protocol actually is, how a connection works step by step, what tools and resources mean, and when it beats an API or a CSV export.
RouzbehJuly 28
What MCP is, why it matters for indie founders, and how to connect a waitlist to Claude Desktop, Cursor, or ChatGPT in one line of config so you can ask questions about your signups in plain English.
RouzbehJuly 27