Ask HN: Show your micro-SaaS

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25 points | by genekrapivin 3 days ago

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  • littlecranky67 55 minutes ago
    https://lockmeout.online

    Digital time lock service to boost focus and distraction free productivity sessions.

    * Generates as very long random password or pincode

    * You set this random combination as a password for your phone, social media account, wifi router or whatever

    * Close the lock and the code will be hidden until a timer is expired or countdown started

    * Given the length of the password you will have forgotten it within seconds and are effectively locked out

    The basic idea is to provide a digital commitment device - a choice you make now that restricts your future options, so it becomes impossible to act against your long-term goals during the selected timeframe.

    Stack: NextJS, MaterialUI in the frontend, C#, ASP.NET Core, EFcore, SQLite in the backend.

  • asim 2 hours ago
    Quite literally Micro - https://micro.mu - a personal assistant.

    My goal is to consolidate a lot of daily tool use in one place, what started as individual little apps for news, mail, chat, video, etc turned into an assistant and home screen dashboard which includes its own mail server, rss aggregator, and more. The business at the model, micro transactions using topup credits, which then takes a per request credit for what you use. Eventually maybe I'd do a subscription but also a business version that allows customisation.

    Feedback more than welcome!

  • fdvrse 21 hours ago
    Ok to post about NSFW games? My game’s making over 200 usd a month. Grown slowly over the last 9-10 months. Haven’t put too much effort into promoting it yet. Just recently got my engine to a place where I can tell the stories I wanna tell.

    Built a mostly hand built engine over three.js that lets my 3d game work from VR to iphones.

  • abejora 1 day ago
    https://www.abejora.com/ - Timesheet registration software

    We try to differentiate in a few ways:

    * we try to be as fast and user friendly as possible, because nobody likes filling in timesheets: logical screens that align with the task you need to perform, keyboard support, flexible input...

    * democratic pricing. a lot of competitors hide the good stuff behind the expensive subscriptions, and per-seat pricing quickly becomes expensive

    * It has grown from our own needs

    We use Elixir and Phoenix for our application, which is quite an amazing experience. It's a very different approach from the established "React/JS storefront" with "Traditional backend language REST API" that you see in lots of places. It's also a functional language. It's definitely something new, and something that we would recommend you experience.

    We also switched from a simple debian server for hosting with standard CI/CD pipelines to a more exotic setup. We are now running a full kubernetes cluster on Talos Linux, with GitOps CI/CD using Flux. This was also something new for us, and a bit of a challenge to get it working, but now it is amazing to see it in action.

    We are always looking for people who can give us feedback on our product. So send us your opinion/experience/recommendations/disappointments, and we will credit your account with 6 free months as a thank you!

  • faangguyindia 3 days ago
    Macrocodex - Guaranteed weight loss or weight gain within 2-3 weeks, beating GLPs for weight loss! https://macrocodex.app/ 17,000+ users already.

    Back in time, many people used to say, "I am genetically predisposed to fat or underweight" All of them were proven wrong by macrocodex's method.

    No matter if your metabolism is slow or fast, most people will see guaranteed results!

    tech stack: flutter and rust

    • OpenMac 2 days ago
      I see the claims, but I don’t see any evidence supporting them. Could you share what you’re basing the guarantee on? Do you have any publicly available data showing that your app delivers guaranteed results and outperforms GLP-1s? I searched and couldn’t find anything supporting those claims.
      • faangguyindia 2 days ago
        >Could you share what you’re basing the guarantee on? Do you have any publicly available data showing that your app delivers guaranteed results and outperforms GLP-1s

        I know you work for MacroFactor, but when will you guys publish the datasets you used to benchmark your algorithm? https://macrofactor.com/algorithm-accuracy/

        Greg Nuckols Macrofactor's benchmark metrics therefore depend on internal data that isn't disclosed or independently verifiable.

        So the published accuracy claims don't tell us much. It's like a student saying, “I scored 99% on a test,” but not showing anyone the test questions or their answers. You have no way to independently verify whether the score actually reflects how well they perform.

        The number might be completely accurate, but without seeing the benchmark dataset, there's no way for anyone outside the company to reproduce or properly evaluate the claim.

        But for Macrocodex, we do not charge people any money, and people can read the reviews and even the algorithm details!

        Our effectiveness claims are based on our own data from 17,000+ users and independent user reports in our group, consisting of 2,000+ members already!

        >I see the claims, but I don’t see any evidence supporting them

        Well, I know you work for Macrofactor, but we are not interested in producing useless posts with colorful charts.

        >Do you have any publicly available data showing that your app delivers guaranteed results and outperforms GLP-1s?

        Yes, our group has thousands of members and where people can join the group through the Macrocodex app, they'll see Macrocodex users outperforming GLP users.

        Greg Nuckols can't even do math well. Look at their subreddit, people are always having issues with their app.

        https://www.reddit.com/r/MacroFactor/comments/1wa04vd/help_i...

        https://www.reddit.com/r/MacroFactor/comments/1w5aqtf/expend...

        https://www.reddit.com/r/MacroFactor/comments/1w4w4jw/lean_b...

        As macrocodex is beating macrofactor by a long shot, many people are realizing that Greg Nuckols's science is more about marketing than results and evidence!

        Do you remember the Hussain and Solomon controversy of Jeff Nippard, one of the top MacroFactor promoters? And the PhD controversy of Mike Israetel?

        MacroFactor charges $72 a year and spends a lot of money paying influencers to promote the app, so it’s not surprising that you see so many submarine posts about it.

        Very soon, everyone will realize this!

  • gregory90 1 day ago
    https://projecthq.pro - SaaS command center.

    I’m bundling everything you might need to run SaaS like - Automatic content creation, - AI support chatbot with auto updating knowledge base, issue escalation, MCP, - Analytics, - SEO Technical Site Audit, Rank Tracker, - and more.

    I’m working on it on and off for 2 years now, but I started to get some traction lately.

    Sitting at $300 MRR for now.

  • philipthetenth 1 day ago
    I am building a life management FOSS app, to take care of basically all needs of the modern 21st century average citizen. https://github.com/ontoplano/ontoplano

    Planning the week, general tasks, establishing goals, recording inventory, habits, workouts, bills, setting up reminders... you get the idea. I designed it to have a smooth UX, to work on my mobile phone, to be easily customizable, pretty-looking, and also to have a MCP server so I can talk to an AI and have it update stuff there for me (which works already!).

  • matcha-video 1 day ago
    https://matcha.video - In-browser "pre-editor" for cutting down a long sequence of repeated takes for talking-head content to just the stuff you want to keep.

    - Aligns cuts to the speaker's pose so they aren't cut-to mid-blink or mid-word

    - Exports cuts to FCP and DaVinci so you can use your existing editing flow

    - Transcript editor with retake grouping and word-level cuts

    - Dysfluency detection ("um", "uh")

    - Free, in-browser. Optional pay for faster / better server ASR

    Currently in beta, free server ASR for new users. Please try it and give your honest feedback

  • radio879 2 days ago
    https://buttonscli.com/aicp2/4/

    People actually bought version 1, and still use it, but its mostly free users. Its hard to get people to pay anything.. but i did make about $1000 from v1. People still use it everyday, even though its not AS useful as it was before since agents have improved but it comes in handy.

    I can't even get anyone to try buttons cli for free lol, I use it though, to see what codex is doing in terminals (and I like clicking buttons and being able to generate commands faster than googling) https://buttonscli.com/3/

  • flippant 2 days ago
    I'm working on a small SaaS to archive web pages. It's still very early stage. So far there's a Chrome/Firefox extension and RSS feed reader. I'm still working on some more interesting integrations.

    At the moment, it's not really a monetize-able product because it's so niche, and competitors are well established. My goal is to have stable, consistent pricing for years (hopefully decades), while also making it easy to switch to self-hosted alternatives.

    Stats: $0 MRR

    https://memoryhole.app/

    • wakaru44 2 days ago
      I never thought anybody would pay for this. I have it locally, no need for sass. And it hits into my zettlekasten. Even the people I know that have a use for this, are unwilling to pay and they rather suffer copy pasting things. It seems more of a feature than a service imo so the integrations would be the interesting bit. Best of luck!!
    • miguelfrreg 1 day ago
      "Not really monetizable yet" is usually a positioning problem, not a product one. Web archiving for everyone is hard to charge for. Web archiving for one group with a compliance or legal reason to keep pages (agencies, journalists, e-commerce teams tracking competitor prices) is very chargeable. Who's using it today?
  • rishikeshs 2 days ago
    A small one called FormBeep: Send form submissions directly to Whatsapp easily https://formbeep.com
  • vlindos 1 day ago
    https://stella-ops.org Self-hosted continuous vulnerability monitoring of Docker images across the entire lifecycle—from build and deployment to runtime.
  • jimle_uk 2 days ago
    https://ragextract.com - you create tables that turn documents to structured outputs.

    Working towards parity with established players in the space and hoping to catch some customers from the Airtable exodus. Tech: Cloudflare with a few Hetzner boxes, React & Claude.

  • greybox555 2 days ago
    https://sleepsignal.app -An app to quickly wind down and get sleepy.

    Using it is pretty simple → Simply close your eyes and imagine the micro-scenario until you hear the next one (such as: moonlight on a white flower).

    Default session duration is only 7 minutes (try this out tonight!)

  • hariprasd 2 days ago
    I made a notepad, which is also a shared memory layers for all of the agents (claude, gpt). So wherever you talk, you're saving important info without efforts. It gets saved & organised on its own.

    Its called Lapse (lapse.in) & its completely free

  • edimaudo 1 day ago
    building a tool called kazilaw. It analyzes employment contracts and answer questions on employment and labor law for the Canadian workforce. TechStack - GCP, fastAPI
  • henrycrutcher 3 days ago
    Equities lab, www.equitieslab.com. do robust quant fundamental analysis and back testing easily. Definitely small. Tech stack is java, cython, numba.
  • ahmgeek 3 days ago
    voklit.com, mrr: 700USD
    • miguelfrreg 2 days ago
      Congrats on the 700. Genuine question: how did you land on the current price, and have you ever tested going up? In my experience the first price a bootstrapper picks is the one they'd pay themselves, which is almost always too low.
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