Theme · Sep 28 – Oct 4, 2026
Small business and freelance operations
CRMs, invoicing, client management, ecommerce, AI receptionists, WhatsApp automation, marketplaces and reselling tools for small businesses.
New projects this week
83
Last 12 weeks
859
Share of all new projects
3.7%
Last 4 weeks vs 8 before
+2%
Share of new projects, per week
Groups in this theme
| Group | This week | 12 wks | Trend |
|---|---|---|---|
| SMB operations and SaaS infrastructure | 14 | 186 | -3% |
| Shopify and ecommerce merchant tools | 14 | 121 | +24% |
| Resale marketplace listing tools | 12 | 122 | -7% |
| AI phone receptionists & voice agents | 10 | 74 | ▲ +25% |
| Freelance client management tools | 9 | 114 | ▲ +35% |
| Freelancer invoice generators | 9 | 99 | -10% |
| WhatsApp business automation tools | 8 | 80 | ▼ -25% |
| Freelance and local gig marketplaces | 6 | 58 | -15% |
| Handmade crafts and physical goods | 1 | 5 | – |
Stack
Share of the 232 projects in this theme that stated their stack, last 12 weeks.
- Stripe 22%
- Next.js 16%
- Vercel 15%
- Supabase 13%
- PostgreSQL 10%
- React 8%
- TypeScript 6%
- Cloudflare 6%
AI tools
Same projects.
Most discussed this week
- 1 Month After Launch — Lets users build wishlists and gift ideas for family and friends, with metadata scraped from product links.“1 Month After Launch: What 4 Traffic Spikes Taught Me About App Marketing as a Solo Dev”
- Looking for Advice as a 19 year… — Lists software products in a directory and adds optimizations to help them get indexed by AI search engines.“Looking for Advice as a 19 year old founder”
- Operava — Tracks the services behind each product, including monthly cost, renewal dates and uptime, in one dashboard.“I built a dashboard to stop forgetting which services my products pay for. What am I missing?”
- Boring but Valuable Fix — Tracks retail special orders with customer-facing status links, email notifications, Shopify inventory matching, and alerts for stale orders.“Boring but Valuable Fix. Need Help Marketing”
- NumBan — Extracts the callback number from a scam voicemail, identifies the carrier or organization controlling it, and files abuse reports until the number goes dark.“I built an app that goes after the callback number in scam voicemails, not the spoofed caller ID”
- I'm giving myself 14 days to… — Automatically sends polite payment reminders for unpaid invoices until the invoice is paid.“I'm giving myself 14 days to build and launch a micro-SaaS”
- everyone is making money with… — Translates Shopify product copy and adapts its tone to match each store's brand voice.“everyone is making money with random micro saas tools, can i actually pull this off?”
- Would you let customers make an… — Generates a page from a pricing page where departing customers can submit offers such as a price, annual commitment, or testimonial, which the founder can accept, counter, or pass on.“Would you let customers make an offer on your SaaS instead of leaving over price?”
- VoiceGremlin — Places phone calls to a voice agent via API and reports pass or fail based on a natural-language test prompt.“I built a testing tool that talks to your AI phone bot so you don't have to”
- Replenn — Combines stock levels, sales velocity, incoming stock and supplier lead times to recommend which products to reorder, when, and how much, with explanations.“I managed inventory for a Shopify store with 3,000+ SKUs. I ended up building the inventory tool I wanted to use myself.”
Latest
- Lopebase — Aggregates analytics, revenue, and banking data from multiple SaaS tools into one dashboard across projects.“Monitor & Manage your SaaS projects in one spot”
- Prowl — Searches many resale marketplaces at once for a single item, saves recurring hunts, and flags new listings.“I built a web app that auto searches your hard to find collection”
- I got tired of uploading every… — Automates releasing digital products to Gumroad, Etsy, Lemon Squeezy, Payhip, and Ko-fi by bumping versions, packaging ZIPs with checksums, generating docs, and uploading in one command.“I got tired of uploading every release to 5 marketplaces by hand, so I automated it”
- I built a desktop app that… — Sends invoices and automatically follows up with clients who pay late.“I built a desktop app that sends invoices and chases late payers automatically. Would you use it?”
- Amazon Expense & Order Exporter — Exports Amazon order numbers, items, and tax amounts from order history into a CSV file.“Built a small Chrome extension to export Amazon orders to CSV for tax season (Looking for feedback)”
- I built a full-stack e-commerce… — Provides a reusable full-stack e-commerce template with storefront, customer accounts, cart, orders, and an admin panel.“I built a full-stack e-commerce platform from scratch — looking for feedback”
- Ai lister — Generates Vinted listing titles, descriptions, hashtags and price suggestions from uploaded photos.“Ai lister”
- CSV Update Review — Compares an original Shopify product CSV with an edited copy and highlights changes to prices, SKUs, options and image references.“Built a free, local Shopify CSV comparison tool — looking for recent CSV users”
- B2B SaaS OS — Provides a Next.js and Supabase starter with database-level multi-tenant isolation, RBAC, Stripe billing, and an automated integration test suite for security checks.“I built B2B SaaS OS – Next.js 16 + Supabase starter with an automated 8-point security test runner”
- I'm giving myself 14 days to… — Automatically sends polite payment reminders for unpaid invoices until the invoice is paid.“I'm giving myself 14 days to build and launch a micro-SaaS”
- DirectChat — Opens a WhatsApp chat with any phone number entered directly, without saving it to contacts.“I got tired of saving delivery guys and OLX sellers to my phonebook, so I built DirectChat — a zero-bloat utility to message numbers directly.”
- I have being creating a saas… — Lets customers log IT issues as tickets with trackable IDs and lets admins view and assign them.“I have being creating a saas product for IT helpdesks”
- ParrotVoice — Lets a computer act as a phone's Bluetooth headset so a voice AI can answer and place calls on the user's existing phone number.“I built a way to let AI answer and make calls on my own phone number. Works with any iPhone call app (WhatsApp, WeChat, FaceTime)”
- I built an AI app that answers… — Replies to WhatsApp customer messages for small businesses using only the owner's business info and FAQ, and hands chats to a human when it cannot answer.“I built an AI app that answers WhatsApp messages for small businesses. I'm discontinuing the project, does anyone want to take it over?”
- Operava — Tracks the services behind each product, including monthly cost, renewal dates and uptime, in one dashboard.“I built a dashboard to stop forgetting which services my products pay for. What am I missing?”