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Makers can't market their products and have no reach on social media

Next.jsTypeScriptOpenAI APIPostgreSQL

Problem Breakdown

Most indie founders ship a good product and then freeze. They have no audience, no distribution plan, and no idea what to post. They launch on Product Hunt, get one day of attention, and go back to zero visitors.

The manual work of marketing is brutal for one person. Writing posts for five platforms, finding the right communities, timing everything, and replying to comments can eat an entire day. So most makers simply stop doing it, and their product dies quietly with 12 visitors a week.

The tools that exist are either enterprise-priced social media suites built for big brands, or basic schedulers that don't help with what to say or where to say it.

Solution Architecture

Build an automated distribution engine for indie makers. The user adds their product once: its name, what it does, who it is for, and a link. The tool then generates platform-specific posts (short and punchy for X, story-driven for Reddit, visual-first for Instagram), suggests the best subreddits, Facebook groups, and communities for that niche, and schedules everything across the week.

The system learns from results: posts that bring clicks get their style and timing reinforced, so the maker's distribution gets smarter every week without them doing more work.

Your Build Prompt

Build prompt: paste into Cursor, Claude Code, or OpenCode
You are an experienced full-stack developer. Build a complete, working version of the following tool. Do not ask questions, do not leave placeholders, do not write TODOs. Make real, working code that runs on the first try.

TOOL: Makers can't market their products and have no reach on social media

WHAT IT MUST DO: Build an automated distribution engine for indie makers. The user adds their product once: its name, what it does, who it is for, and a link. The tool then generates platform-specific posts (short and punchy for X, story-driven for Reddit, visual-first for Instagram), suggests the best subreddits, Facebook groups, and communities for that niche, and schedules everything across the week.

CORE FEATURES TO BUILD:
1. A product profile page where the maker describes their product once
2. A post generator that writes platform-specific versions (X, LinkedIn, Reddit, Instagram captions)
3. A scheduler that queues posts across the week at the best times per platform
4. A community finder that suggests subreddits and groups matching the product's niche
5. Click tracking per post so the tool learns which styles and times work
6. A weekly digest email showing what was posted and what performed

TECH STACK: Next.js, TypeScript, OpenAI API, PostgreSQL, Cron jobs

RULES:
- Use strict TypeScript everywhere. Define proper types and interfaces. No any.
- Validate all user input with a schema library (Zod or equivalent).
- Handle errors cleanly: show a clear message to the user, log the detail for the developer.
- Handle loading and empty states in every view.
- Make it fully responsive: mobile, tablet, and desktop.
- Keep the design clean and professional: clear typography, good spacing, real icons (Lucide), smooth hover states.

SETUP:
Start from a fresh Next.js (App Router) TypeScript project and build the features above one by one, verifying each runs before moving to the next.

Finish with a short summary of what was built and how to run it.

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