Layla Karimi

Been heads-down on a Slack alternative for makers for months. It's finally good enough to show. Would mean a lot if you took a look and told me the truth.

First paying customer found me through a reddit comment I almost didn't post.

Lesson: show up where your users already are, even when it feels like shouting into the void.

You can paste an entire codebase file into Claude and ask "what would a senior engineer flag in a review?"

Did this before a launch. It found an unhandled async error and a security hole in how I was checking auth. Two minutes. I now run everything through this before I push.

Solo founders — how do you decide what NOT to build?

My backlog has 200 ideas. Every one feels important. Saying no is harder than writing the code.