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

• This founder's clients asked to use an internal bug tool. Now Gleap is a profitable 7-figure-ARR SaaS.
• 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: Keep paying for a dead feature until customers finally show up.

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Gleap started as a tool Lukas Böhler's agency never planned to sell. It helped clients report bugs with the screenshot, device data, and technical context that the agency's devs needed to fix them.

When clients began asking to use it themselves, Böhler had his signal. The tool eventually became a profitable, seven-figure SaaS.

Gleap has since grown from a bug-reporting tool into an AI-powered customer support and feedback platform. Its AI suite handles tier-one support, investigates issues using technical context, turns bug reports into ready-to-merge pull requests, and groups feedback into product decisions. The widget now reaches roughly 250M end users every month!

The full interview gets into how Lukas validated the idea with agency clients, then built an organic engine around the product. It's a great case study in turning an internal tool into a business. Enjoy.

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Keep paying for a dead feature until customers finally show up.

Michele and Mathias Hansen built Geocodio, a tool that turns addresses into coordinates. Customers kept asking for HIPAA-compliant data for healthcare use cases, so the Hansens spent months rearchitecting the whole app to support it. Then they launched it, and nobody signed up.

Worse, keeping the compliance infrastructure alive cost money every month. The founders nearly killed the feature. Then customers started trickling in. In the end, HIPAA compliance became one of Geocodio's main growth drivers, and the company now makes $80,000 a month.

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—Channing