Tom Digital Lab

Building small free tools for validating affiliate/content ideas before spending weeks on them.

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I’m building something people might love but never use.

2,000 upvotes on Reddit, 0 signups. I stopped launching and started commenting. 11 customers later.

I shipped 129 pull requests to my SEO SaaS in the last 7 days — solo, with Claude Code doing most of the typing

Built an AI-visibility tool that also gets you cited, not just tracks it

SEO 3x'd my traffic. Signups dropped to zero. Here's what actually drives first customers in vertical SaaS.

I got banned marketing my own products on Reddit, so I built a tool. 19 months later: 400 paying founders, $56K, zero ads

700 downloads and stuck — five months later...

I told a founder to get listed on the review sites. Her report showed AI was citing her competitors' homepages.

I could not tell if Google's AI Overview was citing my sites, so I built a way to check

What one week of SEO actually looks like (real numbers)

Before launch, verify one real user outcome — not every screen

Most Affiliate Marketing Advice Sounds Easy Until You Actually Try Making Your First Dollar

I'm Building an Instagram Audience Before Building the App

Finding Low-Competition Keywords for a US-Focused Niche Website

My client's site started getting cited in AI after 2 weeks (just from Reddit)

I launched my first iPhone app and I’m stuck at 13 downloads. Roast my positioning.

Launched two products – Bioixa AI & TheCalcTools – AMA or roast my landing pages

I'm Building an Instagram Audience Before Building the App

How do you choose which idea to build first?

I analysed 7,484 Reddit discussions. The broad categories were almost useless.