Student Founders: Content Creation Struggle
Student developers face immense difficulty balancing app development, marketing, and academic commitments. Existing automation and AI tools prove inadequate, requiring significant manual effort and prompting for content creation, hindering progress and leading to frustration. The core issue is a lack of accessible, truly helpful support for early-stage creators.
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“The chatbot-vs-propose-and-confirm split tracks with what we've seen running agent-driven outreach - a model that free-chats gets ignored, one that proposes one specific action and asks yes/no actually gets used. Does your confirmation step ever get skipped or auto-approved once people trust it, or is…”
Twin, please don't use bold text for the whole post and caps as well
“I’m building a learning product that assembles a short experience for one person at a time. The obvious approach is to generate everything from scratch. Explanation, examples, interaction, feedback. Every result feels unique. It also means every result creates a new fact-checking and QA surface. That bothers me most when the reusable part is already good. A clear explanation of compound interest doesn’t become more personal because the wording changed. A tested graph or quiz mechanic doesn’t nee”
“Glad you agree on the split! For the tests, I actually wrote the core ones by hand to keep it honest, exactly as you said. I used AI to generate some basic boilerplate and repetitive assertions, but the critical business logic tests were purely manual. You can't trust AI 100% to test its own homework”
“wild that 14 days is the realistic number for this now, that used to be a 6 month rewrite project "the human part was strictly architecture" is the right split imo - did you let the ai write the tests too, or did you do those by hand to keep it honest?”
“Last month I posted here that indie AI products die from distribution, not bad code. Around 30 of you commented your product. I interviewed ~20 of them, free, full cut, no strings. Three things I saw since. Timo found his idea in the comments of someone else's Reddit thread. He left a riff as a comment, it outperformed most of the posts there, and that response is what he built Meet My Human on. - u/Human_Top_6415 Ankur shipped his first iOS app before it was ready. Apple rejected it for mis”
“Reply, English: Thanks! The video is really just a short peek at the basics, the goal for now was simply to have something to show at all. And you're right, a shorter and punchier one is coming. Learning and earning money is just the skeleton. What's built on top of it: Experience level. You collect experience with every job you finish, and that's what unlocks the bigger jobs, not money. It doesn't matter how full your pockets are if you don't have the knowledge. A serious jo”
“xd i see what u did there but as the ai evolves more faster than ever, the ai governance models will be needed to use to governance ai instead of apes 😬”
“Yeah these hackthons produce some ideas, however I doubt most of these implementations can be brought to production. Everyone thinks they are an ai expert now.”
“I'm not tech savy and don't know how to create websites very well. Could AI be a decent aid in this? If so any recommendations? submitted by /u/iiGoodVibesii [link] [comments]”
“It didn’t work for me. I gave it a simple task to create a quick link sections with texts that link to subheaders in the same page. It just generated the sections but links didn’t get added so basically useless.”
“Honestly this sounds like a neat concept but I'm stuck on one thing, does the AI actually remember stuff from earlier in the convo or does it reset every time? That's where most of these language bots lose me, feels like talking to a goldfish”
“I use Claude for both full and small projects. It's already integrated into my workflow so it's most convenient for me, and I find it to be beyond capable for most tasks.”
“Super super useful. Can basically use Notion as a backend information store and use chat as the ui. Ask it to look up anything, change anything, update multiple things at once and make complex connections just based on simple instructions.”
“I use GPT chat for. Make my creations in notion. Sometimes it fails But when you insist you end up getting more or less what you want. Of course, I'm talking about simple things because I don't understand much either. Can anyone tell me if notion AI or GPT is better for notion?”
“Power User here. It is really, really good. Espeically when combined with custom MCP.”
“I am working on AI Photo Editor, a browser-based editor intended to support more than one narrow image task. I am looking for a small group of testers who edit product photos, creator or social images, or personal photos and can use images they have permission to process. The broad workflow is live enough to test, but I am specifically trying to find navigation, state, and review failures before treating it as settled. Please try one real editing task from start to finish: Upload a supported ima”
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“What did you move to afterwards, and did that actually solve the problem?”
“Did you export the code from those builders, or did you start the project again with Claude?”
“I got the Notion Business plan for the dashboards & I think if you are just going to use the AI as a personal assistant (asking to retrieve things, log things into databases, etc), Notion AI works just fine. If you need to do anything deeper than this, probably not.”
“I’m curious about what people are actually doing with AI builders beyond the usual landing pages and quick prototypes. If you’ve used something like Lovable, Bolt, v0 or Replit Agent for a real project, what did you build with it? And what happened to the project afterwards? Did it stay as a side project, get launched, get abandoned, or turn into something bigger? I’m mostly interested in things you actually spent some time building rather than something you generated in an afternoon. subm”
“Yes, very likely either a "me" or just the state I allow myself to be in while doing this work. I'm often trying to squeeze some development in between two real-life responsibilities, instead of dedicating my attention to it like real development.”
“Ah, thank you! Yes, I saw these when assessing aider.io. When you wrote "missing files" I was thinking of augmenting the GGUF, as in adding the vision projector. Now I gotcha. For my own solutions I have been hesitant to give the robot agency to modify anything on the server. I will build it a chroot jail and integrate agent skills into that restriction.”
“Has anyone come up with a good prompt to test their app developped with AI? I would like claude to have a first go at finding bugs and if possible act as several users taking part in a UAT. submitted by /u/Severe-Judgment-4214 [link] [comments]”
Framework is original, just use ai to help with grammar etc.
“AI slop is terrible^ but also the good tool. Just need to correct them. Using 100% texts or anything else from AI is not the best idea ps. for ui beauti i use AI^ but not like most of founders. I give them components and block from other sites) Its realy good one”
Hey /u/Certain_Degree1766 , If your post is a screenshot of a ChatGPT conversation, please reply to this message with the conversation link or prompt. If your post is a DALL-E 3 image…
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“:rocket: The future of automation isn’t just bots doing the work it’s AI helping us build them. If your team is still spending hours manually building and debugging UI selectors, it’s time to rethink your strategy. We a…”
“Looking for advice and review of my First Project.. Appreciate your honest Opinion..🤜🏻🤛🏻👍🏻❣️ submitted by /u/No-Break-8299 [link] [comments]”
“Honestly, I’d go back if it could survive week 3, not just win minute 20. Most AI builders are insanely good at the honeymoon phase: “holy shit, it built my app.” Then you ask it to change one thing two weeks later and suddenly it’s renovating the kitchen, deleting a wall, and forgetting why the bathroom exists. What I’d want: persistent project memory, clear diffs, reliable rollback, and much better respect for existing architecture. I don’t need more magic. I need fewer surprise renovations.”
“How is it different from the deep research in AI apps like Gemini and Perplexity? Could you clarify why someone needs to pay for this? Gemini can do this for free, right? No offence, I am just asking”
I thought an alt text app would be one of the simplest things I’d ever build. I was managing Shopify stores for clients, and image SEO was usually the part nobody touched.…
“Sure. I used an AI assistant (Claude) to help draft and structure the post – I described what I want to build in German and had it help me phrase it clearly in English and organize my questions. The project idea, requirements and questions are my own; nothing has been built yet, so no AI-generated code involved at this point. I’ll be writing/gluing things together myself based on the feedback here.”
“Got 7 users from 1 post in alphaandbetausers for my ai chat optimized for long conversations, most of them used it for a while but then somewhy stop”
“I know how tired this sub is of "built with AI in a weekend" posts. Rightly so. I'm posting anyway, because I think the debate is stuck on the wrong question. My thesis: AI made building cheap. Engineering judgment stayed expensive. That's the whole difference now. My day job is Head of Product, I'm not a developer. My app (LeibFit, recovery tracking on iPhone, plus a full native watchOS app on top, fully on-device) is largely written with AI tools. And yet: When I wanted t”
“Used Codex, WorkBuddy, AnyCap and Spira.ai. Not exactly the same category as Lovable/Bolt, but my takeaway has been: the first demo is the easy part now. The real test is what happens when you come back on day 2 and need to change the logic, fix edge cases, or understand what the agent actually did. Codex has been my pick when I care about control and maintainability. WorkBuddy makes more sense to me for multi-step/agentic workflows. AnyCap/Spira I use more on the creative production side. I’ll”
“Ai trackers are fine til you need it to work exactly how your brain does, then it's back to manually checking boxes”
“When you say you're building your own you mean a lighter version of what you need but still using the foundation models from Open AI/Anthropic etc? Or you're considering training your own open source model in-house?”
“Really appreciate you taking the time to poke at this properly. Let me answer straight. On the goal and how we are different from the chatbot tools. Most of those are text based and stop at screening. We run the full interview loop end to end with a live voice agent, so it actually talks, asks follow ups, and pushes back the way a real interviewer does across coding, system design, and behavioral. The part I care most about is that candidates work alongside an AI copilot during the interview, so”
“Beauty and complexity to build is different. Even if too much AI design kills AI, I would like you all to design something and we'll compare with AI”
“I'm not so sure - it's a lot of work to build this in house, not everyone has the time, money, skills, inclination. What I think is more likely is that a pure-play AI (like google) will come along and sit on top of all the specialist platforms (research, KM, discovery) and run them like appliances. The AI platform becomes the interface to the others, it disintermediates them all.”
“This is embarrassing...that this is what "Web dev" as a workflow has been reduced to for some people. "Which AI tool do I grab next, guys? I mean yeah I have no clue what the underlying material is, but hey...gimme a tool so AI can do all the work for me" ...congrats on being why people have such issue with AI. You shouldn't even be building websites in a serious enough capacity that you're having to build a workflow in the first place...let alone actually building cl”
“Code-first. Claude Code does most of the actual typing, and I stopped trying the no-code platforms after hitting the same wall twice. Stack: Next.js and Supabase on Vercel for anything with a UI and real users. Python on a cheap VPS for anything that needs to stay running. That's about it. Boring on purpose. What I'm building: a student learning platform with AI built into the core, and a voice agent that handles intake on a website. Mid-complexity products, real users. What handles the”
“Hey guys, I need some feedback on the landing page copy for an app called Elevist. (quick side note: what do you actually think of the name Elevist?). Basically most productivity apps like Notion or Asana are just passive list repositories. you put your tasks in and they just sit there causing task debt. Elevist is an AI execution system that connects your long-term goals, metrics, tasks, habits, and notes into one single workspace. ...and to be clear, this is not just another LLM wrapper. we ar”
“I'm finishing the core system and acceptance testing. After that, I'd like to invite around five people to test early builds for free. The idea is more than a normal AI chat interface. It uses local models, model routing, long-term local memory, research with evidence and review, specialist agents, coding workflows, permission-controlled PC assistance, and local first storage. There's nothing to buy. Testing is free. If you're interested, just comment or message what you'd us”
“Great points and I was a bit worried I'd come off in that AI consultant voice. I think part of what we're trying to do is not to build a full on product with all the bells and whistles, but build small (single use case), get buy in, and add. It also helps that my managing partner is extremely tech forward and dedicates a healthy budget towards this. But tbh, a small shop may decide to get Claude enterprise for a small fee and start there. I think that's totally doable without having”
“Hey all, I got tired of the typical portfolio format — a grid of screenshots nobody actually reads — so I rebuilt mine as something you interact with instead. What's different: - A chatbot that knows my background/work and answers questions about me - A live AI avatar you can actually talk to - A "Summarize" button on key pages if you don't have time to read I'm intentionally not going into the tech stack/architecture in this post — happy to do a full technical write-up sep”