Here's what you'll find in this issue:

• This founder automated sales workflows with AI agents and now he’s at $3k MRR in 4 weeks.
• 5 vibe coding tools. Some of the latest apps for coding with AI.
• Yesterday's build board winners, including three new product launches from indie hackers.
• 30-second growth tip: Audit who’s actually reading your content before you blame the product.

Justworks handles HR, payroll, and benefits complexity, so you can focus on building your small business.

Santanu Dasgupta spent 20 years at places like Gartner Consulting and Tata watching sales and marketing teams grind through manual work that AI could handle. Four weeks ago he shipped Meerkats․ai, a tool that lets teams run lead enrichment, campaigns, and follow-up from a chat interface. He’s already at $3k+ MRR, with support from a University of Chicago Polsky Center grant plus credits from Azure, OpenAI, and Anthropic.

The pitch is simple: instead of stitching together tools or hiring a VA, customers can hand Meerkats a growth task and let it pick the right AI model for each step. Use a cheaper model when that’s enough, a stronger one when it matters, and pay based on how much work gets done.

Santanu shares how Meerkats enriches 50k leads in under 30 minutes, where Zapier and n8n are vulnerable, and what he'd do differently if he were starting over. Enjoy!

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1. Hatch: Ditch ChatGPT. Use the most productive AI assistant ever made. Thoughtfully crafted by the founders of Indie Hackers.

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3. v0: Type a prompt — v0 drafts production-ready React, Vue, or Svelte components.

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Audit who's actually reading your content before you blame the product.

Colin Gray, founder of Alitu (a web app that automates podcast editing, polishes audio, and handles the technical mixing), expected his big podcasting audience to come flooding in when he launched. Six months later, he was crawling at $3K/month and confused.

The problem wasn't Alitu. It was that he'd spent years writing gear and software reviews, which attracted technical podcasters who actually enjoy editing. Wrong tribe. He shifted his content to appeal to beginner and time-strapped podcasters, and conversions jumped. Alitu now does $45K+/month.

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Every day, indie hackers post updates about the products they're building. Here's what the community voted to the top yesterday!

	1. LiFast: Autopilot your LinkedIn B2B Marketing Dropped my LinkedIn tool price to test demand, here's what happened in 48 hours	▲ 28
	2. Pterocos: HTML CSS JS Code Editor with AI chat Pterocos: HTML CSS JS Online Editor with AI chat builder/editor and can be used to learn!	▲ 13
	3. Recurflux: Payment recovery and churn prevention for SaaS The product that pays for itself	▲ 10

Enjoy building in public? Post an update to your product page on Indie Hackers, and it will automatically be added to the daily leaderboard.

AI models have evolved. ChatGPT has not.

We're still using the same old AI assistant products we were using in 2022, even though the models underneath them keep getting better.

It's time for the next generation of AI assistants.

Introducing Hatch, the most productive AI assistant ever made.

From the creators of Indie Hackers, Hatch was thoughtfully crafted to help you get real work done. From floating windows to tagging documents, we've reimagined every aspect of your daily AI assistant to help you operate at a higher level.

Try Hatch free. Use code INDIE30FREE for 100% off for 1 month.

Courtland and I have been running Hatch and Indie Hackers more like a daily lab lately: pick the metric, ship the rep, read the data, tighten the next rep.

—Channing

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Special thanks to Yushavel Calderon for the graphic design, and to James Fleischmann for contributing a post.

—Channing