Shagun Sharma
SDE-2 · 3+ YOE · Solo SaaS founder@i_nicck
Track record · end-to-end shipping
Solo, shipping in public. 3 live SaaS products — Catch The Signal (ML opportunity tracker), Postitbetter (social-post generator), Cloak UI (vendor-lock-in-free React UI) — plus 4 more in validation.
One operator. No team. 365+ days, no zero days.
420+
Days building
3
Live products
4
In validation
5
Blogposts
100+
Users on CTS
How I build
Three different products, one thesis: indie founders and small teams are stuck stitching tools together to solve problems that should already be solved.
Catch The Signal kills the morning ritual of checking 10+ tabs for fresh opportunities. Postitbetter kills the "design a social post" tax for solo creators. Cloak UI kills vendor lock-in for the React app you're building today.
Different problems, same shipping cadence: solo, in public, real numbers. The 4 ideas in the roadmap fit the same pattern — solve one pain solo and small-team builders run into every week, then ship it.
The roadmap
Shipped Cloak UI
LiveComponent library for solo SaaS builders. Production release, in active use.
Shipped Postitbetter
LiveSmarter posting tool for solo creators and indie builders. Live and in active use.
Catch The Signal web — launched in 15+ directories
15+ dirsProduction-ready web SaaS. Dashboard, ML feed, alerts. Listed across 15+ launch directories.
Hit 100+ users on Catch The Signal
100+ usersCrossed the first real user milestone. Signal volume stable under early load.
Catch The Signal — mobile app
80%iOS + Android companion for the dashboard. Beta APK in internal testing, public launch this month.
Product Hunt launch
Top 5 goalCoordinated PH launch with the build-in-public audience. Target: top 5 product of the day.
Q3 2026Android launch on Google Play
Google PlayPublic release of the Catch The Signal mobile companion. Closed test → open test → production.
Jun 2026iOS launch on App Store
App StoreTestFlight → App Store review → production. Same feature set as the Android build, same hourly signal stream.
Jul 2026Launch Directory
IdeaDirectory of every launch platform that matters for indie founders. Submit once, get tracked everywhere.
Q3 2026Micro Paywall
IdeaDrop-in micro-paywall for any website. Pay-per-unlock for articles, downloads, gated content. Stripe-powered.
Q4 2026Revenue Recovery
IdeaAutomated failed-payment recovery for SaaS. Smart retries, dunning emails, churn rescue.
Q4 2026SaaS Affiliate System
IdeaPlug-and-play affiliate program for SaaS. Referral links, payout tracking, partner dashboards — without the Rewardful bill.
2027Learning & applying
3-month ML sprintMy real ML learning sprint — 6 phases over ~3 months. Phases bleed into each other by a week where the topics naturally chain (Python → ML → deep learning), because that's how the work actually moves. Hover or tap a phase to see what's in it.
Applied capstone — built in parallel
Intelligent Recommendation Engine (IRE) — Netflix/YouTube-style, for indie SaaS
Phases 02 onward ship into a real personalized rec engine — same pattern Netflix, YouTube, Spotify run on, sized for indie SaaS. First target: Catch The Signal (like a signal → embeddings → “more like this” rail). Learning and product output, same line of work.
Phase 02 · Python & Data
Python, pandas, NumPy — building the data layer for the IRE. Signal vectorization, feature engineering, embedding prep. ~3 weeks, applied work, not a Jupyter sandbox.
Live SaaS I build
Three different problems, one operator. Each one solo, in public, with real numbers and a public roadmap.
Catch The Signal
Every morning I used to check 10+ sites for the same thing — fresh seed rounds, remote jobs, paid bounties, good first issues. TechCrunch, HackerNews, Crunchbase, Wellfound, RemoteOK, HackerOne, GitHub Trending, AngelList, Indie Hackers, X. Each one its own tab, its own pile of noise, its own UI.
By the time I'd cycled through them, the day was half over. The best opportunities were already gone. The signal was there — it was just buried under everyone else's feed mechanics.
Catch The Signal is the tool I wished existed: one dashboard, every source, ML-filtered for quality, every item under 24 hours old.
Postitbetter
Every time I shipped something I'd open Figma, fight with canvas sizes for X, LinkedIn, Instagram, and Product Hunt, then start over for every post. Canva wanted a subscription. The other generators wanted my email before showing me a single template.
The post itself took 30 seconds. The design ritual took an hour. Multiplied across every launch, thread, and milestone, that's weeks of the year spent on a problem that should already be solved.
Postitbetter is the tool I wished existed: 20+ templates across every major platform, free, no signup, no design skills needed — export-ready in seconds.
Cloak UI
Every React app is married to its UI library. Chakra, Material UI, Radix, shadcn, Mantine — each one with its own API, its own naming, its own escape cost. Switch two years in and you're rewriting every component, every test, every storybook.
I picked Chakra for one project, Radix for another, shadcn for a third. Same dev, same patterns, three different muscle-memory dialects. Every cross-project utility had to be written three times.
Cloak UI is the tool I wished existed: a single abstraction layer over every major React UI library. Build once against Cloak's API, swap the underlying library with one config change. No vendor lock-in, no rewrites.
In validation
Build-in-publicFour product ideas in public market validation. Each one has a landing page that captures a waitlist signal — whichever wins gets built first. You vote with your email.
Working this month
5 active threads- This month
Finalized global-audience pSEO strategy
Pivoted from USA-only targeting to global long-tail. New page templates ship with international locale, currency, and timezone-aware copy. Every new data source improves the product AND the rankings on every locale.
- This month
APK testing wrapped — Google Play test track ready
Internal beta testing complete. Signed APK packaged for Google Play closed testing with the first cohort of test users invited. Public launch in days, not weeks.
- This month
Affiliate program planning for Catch The Signal
Designed the partner-share model, referral URLs, and dashboard wireframes. Targeting recurring commission with a first-month bonus for verified referrers.
- This month
Reddit + Hacker News + Peerlist distribution started
Daily presence in two relevant subreddits, weekly Show HN cadence, and an active Peerlist scoutgroup. Distribution as a daily habit, not a one-time launch.
- This month
Signal coverage expanded to 20+ categories
Doubled trackable categories from 10 to 20+. AI infra, devtools, web3, climate, dev jobs, OSS bounties — each new bucket feeds a future pSEO page.
Daily ship notes on @i_nicck.
420+ days, no skipped days.
Daily ship notes, real numbers, what broke and what I fixed. Founder voice on @i_nicck, product news on @catch_signal.