Community/Introduce yourself

    Hey everyone 👋 I'm Shiva, a solo full-stack dev based in India.

    Shiva Srivastava
    Shiva Srivastava3mo ago

    I build and run things end-to-end — right now that's FreeViralKit, a free AI toolkit for YouTube creators (title/tag/description generators, hooks, script outlines, niche-specific tools). Built it on Next.js, Convex, and Groq's llama-3.3-70b, because I needed it myself for a small horror storytelling channel I run on the side and didn't want to pay for TubeBuddy/VidIQ.

    Also spend a good chunk of time on competitive programming (450+ LeetCode) and actively looking at remote full-stack roles alongside building.

    First public launch of FreeViralKit flopped pretty badly, so I've been heads-down rebuilding the positioning and relaunching properly this time. Excited to be around a community of people actually shipping things — happy to swap notes on solo-building, YouTube/creator tooling, or just trade feedback on what everyone's working on.

    Looking forward to being here!

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    Comments (7)

    Sergey KargopolovSergey Kargopolov2mo ago

    Welcome to the community, Shiva 🙋🏻‍♂️ It is interesting that you chose to use Groq's llama-3.3-70b for storytelling. I did not know it can write stories well. I am also thinking about youtube story telling channel 🙂 but not horror-related.

    Shiva SrivastavaShiva Srivastava2mo agoReply

    U should try our freeviralkit and check how it make yours youtube journey very easier

    Olga KargopolovaOlga Kargopolova2mo ago

    Welcome Shiva! Building a tool because you needed it yourself is always the best starting point. Curious what you mean by the first launch flopping badly. What happened? And what are you changing for the relaunch? Sometimes the product is fine and it's just the positioning that needs work.

    Shiva SrivastavaShiva Srivastava2mo agoReply

    Thanks for the comment and Also thanks for the inspirations U all given me

    Stacy WycoffStacy Wycoff2mo ago

    Hey Shiva, respect for rebuilding after the first launch flopped, that's the hard part most people skip. Sounds like you're juggling a fair number of things too, the toolkit, competitive programming, and a job search. I run into a version of that juggling multiple businesses and built FounderFlow partly to stop losing track of what needs me across all of it. Good luck on the relaunch, curious what you changed in the positioning.

    Shiva SrivastavaShiva Srivastava2mo agoReply

    Thanks For the Support 😁😁

    Gregory KoutmanGregory Koutman1mo ago

    Shiva, I think there may be one risk in the relaunch plan.

    “First launch flopped” doesn’t yet tell you that positioning was the problem.

    Before rebuilding the positioning, I’d test the current FreeViralKit with 5 YouTube creators who weren’t involved in building it.

    For each one, I’d check:
    1. Did they get a useful output?
    2. Did they actually use that output in a real video?
    3. Did they come back and use the tool again without being prompted?

    If they do, you have evidence that the product works and positioning/distribution may indeed be the bottleneck.

    If they don’t, the relaunch may be optimizing a later stage while the actual failure is earlier.

    I’d be curious which of those three steps currently breaks first.

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