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.
>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
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.
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.
The basis of these apps is pretty simple: you have to adjust your calorie target based on changes, you have to re-calculate as you go.
What I've found is that tracking activity via calories burned is horribly unproductive as there are large variations on how many calories were "burned" depending on the app, device and activity. Are there any scientific studies on how to calculate calorie burn for any activities? Anything in a controlled environment to understand something simple like adult walking 1 flat mile at 3mph. It seems like this would be really hard to nail down compared with say average calories in an apple. Anecdata: as soon as I stopped tracking activity, the scale started moving.
* 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!
Orator:
A text based video editor that runs inside the browser without any back end.
You can load a video which will get automatically transcribed.
Then highlight to: delete, duplicate, replace video, replace background or export.
It is also possible to export the project to a NLE video editor https://vidstudio.app/video-editor for more advanced editing even using keyframes.
The entire pipeline runs on inside a browser tab including the transcription.
The best thing about it imo is that you do not need an account you just start editing and everything will be persisted in your machine so you can come back to it later.
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.
Stowly is a home inventory app, designed originally for keeping track of your belongings and also so that, in the event of a disaster, you can easily export a list or share a link of all of your belongings for insurance claim purposes. It's turned into a lot more though with the ability to lend items to people, keep track of warranties, service history, set reminders for upcoming tasks (like changing a filter) and much more. It's ever evolving and I'm always looking for feedback / critique / suggestions.
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.
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.
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/
* I was looking for jobs and I quickly figured out that you need drop your resume as soon as the job is posted to get at least a chance of a callback from a recruiter
* I scan 30k job sites and give fresh jobs within hours form posting
* Ended up with 300k jobs scanned in a few months
* 300+ users so far and it's 100% free. It does cost me money to run, not sure I would ever monetize though.
My honest opinion, take it with the pinch of salt:
The website is oversaturated with text and is lacking some spaces (air) and visuals.
Why not monetising it? Not from the job seekers but from employer side. You could check what the offering from big projects is. Besides, you do have pricing for the API, what about it?
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!).
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
I built something similar on top of Cloudflare’s Browser Run service. It’s a code pen-like tool for generating PDF docs with HTML and CSS. https://htmlcsspdf.ben2.com/
Making journaling as easy as texting your friends thanks to human-written inspirational prompts.
Made as a Ruby on Rails web app.
It doesn’t contain any AI, nothing to leak your entries, just you and a bunch of carefully crafted prompts for self reflection and mental health improvement.
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.
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!!
"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?
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.
Lots of dead comments here. I wonder what happened (the links I tested appears to work so it's not the reason. The posts appears to respect HN guidelines too, at least there are no insults or bad comments)..
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.
https://stella-ops.org
Self-hosted continuous vulnerability monitoring of Docker images across the entire lifecycle—from build and deployment to runtime.
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.
https://octoloops.com - AI outbound and community outreach for indie/vibe coders. Unfortunately it's not going well: people sign up, but then they don't use the app. I'm running out of ideas to try quite frankly.
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.
building a tool called kazilaw. It analyzes employment contracts and answer questions on employment and labor law for the Canadian workforce.
TechStack - GCP, fastAPI
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
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.
>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!
The basis of these apps is pretty simple: you have to adjust your calorie target based on changes, you have to re-calculate as you go.
What I've found is that tracking activity via calories burned is horribly unproductive as there are large variations on how many calories were "burned" depending on the app, device and activity. Are there any scientific studies on how to calculate calorie burn for any activities? Anything in a controlled environment to understand something simple like adult walking 1 flat mile at 3mph. It seems like this would be really hard to nail down compared with say average calories in an apple. Anecdata: as soon as I stopped tracking activity, the scale started moving.
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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!
https://vidstudio.app/text-based-video-editor
Orator: A text based video editor that runs inside the browser without any back end. You can load a video which will get automatically transcribed. Then highlight to: delete, duplicate, replace video, replace background or export.
It is also possible to export the project to a NLE video editor https://vidstudio.app/video-editor for more advanced editing even using keyframes. The entire pipeline runs on inside a browser tab including the transcription.
The best thing about it imo is that you do not need an account you just start editing and everything will be persisted in your machine so you can come back to it later.
https://shareseer.com
A platform to get generate investment ideas by tracking insiders & Search for company filings instantly. Agent friendly with mcp & api available.
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.
https://getstowly.app
Stowly is a home inventory app, designed originally for keeping track of your belongings and also so that, in the event of a disaster, you can easily export a list or share a link of all of your belongings for insurance claim purposes. It's turned into a lot more though with the ability to lend items to people, keep track of warranties, service history, set reminders for upcoming tasks (like changing a filter) and much more. It's ever evolving and I'm always looking for feedback / critique / suggestions.
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.
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!
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/
https://atsradar.com
* I was looking for jobs and I quickly figured out that you need drop your resume as soon as the job is posted to get at least a chance of a callback from a recruiter
* I scan 30k job sites and give fresh jobs within hours form posting
* Ended up with 300k jobs scanned in a few months
* 300+ users so far and it's 100% free. It does cost me money to run, not sure I would ever monetize though.
Like the idea.
My honest opinion, take it with the pinch of salt:
The website is oversaturated with text and is lacking some spaces (air) and visuals.
Why not monetising it? Not from the job seekers but from employer side. You could check what the offering from big projects is. Besides, you do have pricing for the API, what about it?
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!).
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
https://pdfshift.io
A simple API that converts HTML documents to PDF or images. Used by more people that I would have hoped for.
I tried to follow Linux mentality ; do one thing, but do it well. I can only hope that I'm reaching it with PDFShift :)
It's built using Python (Sanic Framework) with Pyppeteer (Python port of Puppeteer)
I built something similar on top of Cloudflare’s Browser Run service. It’s a code pen-like tool for generating PDF docs with HTML and CSS. https://htmlcsspdf.ben2.com/
https://brandgeo.co - what AI engines know about your brand
https://journal.cubitoo.com
Making journaling as easy as texting your friends thanks to human-written inspirational prompts.
Made as a Ruby on Rails web app.
It doesn’t contain any AI, nothing to leak your entries, just you and a bunch of carefully crafted prompts for self reflection and mental health improvement.
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/
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!!
"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?
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.
https://planalawn.com
For lawn owners that want a decent lawn and are tired of guessing what to do.
* What to do on your lawn this weekend
* Timing from soil temperature at your house
* How much of the bag or bottle to use
* Spreader setting or tank mix for your gear
* Seed scored for your area, not bag hype
Stack: Go + Postgres Api, Vue front end.
A small one called FormBeep: Send form submissions directly to Whatsapp easily https://formbeep.com
https://contracts.zerodrivex.com
A contract creation platform. Also, red teams current contracts once you upload them. Uses an agentic trio to create review or red team them.
Lots of dead comments here. I wonder what happened (the links I tested appears to work so it's not the reason. The posts appears to respect HN guidelines too, at least there are no insults or bad comments)..
I also do not understand and curious. Must be some undocumented heuristics.
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.
WorkoutEditor.app
AI-generated workout plans in seconds—then organize, share, and print them so you can spend less time planning and more time lifting.
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!)
https://stella-ops.org Self-hosted continuous vulnerability monitoring of Docker images across the entire lifecycle—from build and deployment to runtime.
https://www.echo99.app/
Local call recorder for MacOS. Transcripts and much more.
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
https://octoloops.com - AI outbound and community outreach for indie/vibe coders. Unfortunately it's not going well: people sign up, but then they don't use the app. I'm running out of ideas to try quite frankly.
Equities lab, www.equitieslab.com. do robust quant fundamental analysis and back testing easily. Definitely small. Tech stack is java, cython, numba.
voklit.com, mrr: 700USD
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.
building a tool called kazilaw. It analyzes employment contracts and answer questions on employment and labor law for the Canadian workforce. TechStack - GCP, fastAPI
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