I have three side projects in different states — one shipped with zero traction, one paused mid-validation, one just launched. Every week I waste mental energy debating which one deserves my time. There's no honest framework for solo builders: launch metrics, time invested, your own conviction, signals from users, sunk cost. Everything online is either "never quit" motivational fluff or "always quit" lean startup orthodoxy. I want something that takes my actual numbers and helps me decide rationally instead of emotionally. Pretty sure every indie hacker has felt this and just guesses.
@bernardo · 25d ago · 0 upvotes · 0 claims · 0 comments
My dad runs a small gas delivery business and logs every Pix and cash payment in WhatsApp messages to himself throughout the day. At the end of the month, there's no total — just a wall of messages he has to scroll through and add up by hand. He loses 30 to 60 minutes a day on this. He can't use a regular spreadsheet because employees move around the shop and he doesn't want them seeing the numbers, so whatever solves this needs a password on the home screen. I've looked and everything in this space is either heavy accounting software built for accountants, or generic finance apps that don't fit how a small business owner actually works. This would have to be in Portuguese — the market is small Brazilian business owners (gas, water, small commerce) who'd never use anything in English.
@bernardo.carvalho · 25d ago · 2 upvotes · 0 claims · 0 comments
Bought a monitor 14 months ago, it died last week. Warranty is 2 years. The receipt? Somewhere in my email, somewhere in a paper pile, possibly in a photo on my phone. I spent 40 minutes searching and gave up. I want one place where I drop a photo of the receipt or forward the order email, and it just knows when the warranty expires and reminds me before it does. Apparently this is too much to ask for in 2026.
@marciaroc12 · 27d ago · 1 upvotes · 0 claims · 0 comments
Every side project I build eventually needs to receive webhooks — Stripe, GitHub, whatever. The standard workflow is still: spin up ngrok, copy the URL, paste it into the dashboard, hope the tunnel doesn't drop mid-debug. Free tier URLs rotate, so the webhook endpoint breaks every restart. Paid plans are priced for teams, not solo devs running three side projects. I want a setup where my local endpoint just has a stable public URL I can register once and forget about. Nothing in this space feels built for indie developers.
@bernardo.carvalho · 27d ago · 0 upvotes · 0 claims · 0 comments
Every recipe I save, every address, every "remember this" — gone forever the moment I screenshot it. Searching by date is useless because I never remember when. Nothing actually searches what's IN the image. I'm not gonna sit and tag 3000 pictures manually. Someone please fix this.
@bernardo · 33d ago · 2 upvotes · 0 claims · 0 comments
Every editor I try is either a toy with no real tools, or so deep I need a manual just to hit export. I want to draw something detailed and get a clean PNG at the right size — no blur, no weird padding, no checkered background sneaking in. Aseprite costs money and the free web ones can't handle anything beyond a smiley face. There has to be a middle ground.
@bernardo.carvalho · 33d ago · 3 upvotes · 1 claim · 1 comment
I jump between 4 different databases for different side projects and every time i open TablePlus or whatever i have to remember the schema, the join patterns, which table has what. AI chat in the cursor era is great but it doesn't know MY schemas. i want something that indexes my db schemas, learns my query patterns over time, and lets me just say "show me users who signed up last week but never created a project" and it writes the right SQL for the right database. claude code style but for data.
@bernardo.carvalho · 37d ago · 1 upvotes · 0 claims · 0 comments
i'm not gonna buy a $40 smart sensor for a R$15 plant. i just want a dead simple app where i add my plants, it knows roughly how often each type needs water, and reminds me. no iot, no hardware, just "water the pothos today." everything out there is bloated
@bernardo · 46d ago · 0 upvotes · 0 claims · 0 comments
ngl i've lost like $1k this year just from forgetting to chase clients who never paid. i don't need a full accounting suite, i need something dead simple that says "this person owes you and it's 15 days late, go bug them." spreadsheets aren't cutting it
@bernardo · 46d ago · 0 upvotes · 0 claims · 0 comments
ok so every sunday i spend like 2 hours cooking for the week and by wednesday half of it is in the trash bc i got bored of eating the same thing. i wish there was an app that took whatever i already have in my fridge + my macros and gave me a meal prep plan that actually varies day to day. not another recipe app, i have 5 of those. something that plans the ACTUAL week and tells me exactly what to batch cook. does this exist??
@bernardo · 46d ago · 1 upvotes · 0 claims · 0 comments
All these notion templates and "aesthetic" study apps are made to look pretty on tiktok, not to actually help you pass an exam. I just want something that takes my syllabus + exam date and tells me "today you study these 3 topics, this is your spaced repetition for last week". no pomodoro timer with rain sounds, no streaks, no gamification. just a plan that adapts when I fall behind (which is always).
@bernardo.carvalho · 55d ago · 2 upvotes · 0 claims · 0 comments
I sell on shopee, mercado livre, instagram and my own shopify. every single message goes to a different inbox and customers expect a reply in like 10 min or they buy from someone else. I've tried the official unified inbox stuff, all garbage or stupid expensive for the volume I do. just want one inbox that pulls everything in, lets me reply, and shows which platform it came from. nothing fancy, no ai bs, just one screen.
@bernardo.carvalho · 58d ago · 2 upvotes · 0 claims · 0 comments
I have like 4 products on stripe and the native dashboard is useless if you want to see anything beyond "this month's revenue". I want real mrr broken down by product, churn cohort, ltv, the basics. baremetrics and chartmogul exist but they charge $129+/mo which is insane when my whole mrr is $800. why is there no $15/mo version for indie hackers? would literally pay today.
@bernardo.carvalho · 58d ago · 0 upvotes · 0 claims · 0 comments
Tried mfp, loseit, cronometer, all of them. same problem every time — I guess the portion, pick the leanest version from the dropdown, and the app just accepts it. end of the day everything's "within goal" and I'm not losing weight. want an app where I snap a photo of the meal and it gives me a realistic estimate, no way to game the input. bonus points if it pulls from apple watch without inflating burn the way apple does by default. happy to pay if it actually works.
@bernardo.carvalho · 58d ago · 1 upvotes · 0 claims · 0 comments