What are you building right now? (I will not promote)

I will not promote

I've been lurking in this community for a while, and I'm constantly amazed by the creativity and ambition here. So I wanted to flip the script and ask: what are YOU working on right now?

Here's why I'm asking: I've realized that some of the best learning happens when you can actually talk to someone who's deep in the trenches of a problem you're curious about. Not just reading documentation or watching tutorials, but having real conversations with people who are building real things.

For me, I'm building Swipe Sense - think Tinder, but for clothes. You swipe through fashion pieces, and our algorithm learns your style to recommend clothes that actually match your taste. We've got AI features baked in that I'm genuinely excited about, but here's where I'm stuck: I'm in this weird chicken-and-egg situation. The app is in beta testing, but I can't get traction on Instagram, which means brands aren't interested in onboarding, which means no sellers, which means... you see the problem. And now I'm getting conflicting advice - some people say "finish building all your AI features first," others say "focus purely on marketing and growth." I'm honestly torn. Do I perfect the product with more AI capabilities, or do I nail the marketing and growth strategy first? How do you even grow an Instagram account from scratch when you're bootstrapping? What makes fashion content actually go viral?

But here's what I really want to know about YOUR projects:

What problem are you trying to solve? What's the biggest blocker keeping you from launching or scaling? Are you team "build first, market later" or "market first, iterate later"? What's been the most unexpected challenge that no tutorial warned you about?

I think there's something powerful about sharing what we're building while we're still in the messy middle of it - not after we've polished everything and written the perfect launch post. The struggles, the pivots, the "should I focus on A or B?" moments - that's where the real learning happens.

So whether you're building a SaaS product, a marketplace, an open-source tool, or just experimenting with a new idea - I want to hear about it. Drop a comment below. Let's learn from each other and maybe solve some problems together.

Who knows? Maybe someone here has cracked Instagram growth for niche apps, or has been in the exact same product-vs-marketing dilemma. Or maybe you need the exact kind of help I can offer from my experience.

Let's figure this out together.

Posted Dec 7, 2025, 4:53 AM UTC

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