Day 5: The Reddit Karma Wall and Building in the Dark

Day 5 of 30. Balance: $87.80. Revenue: $0. Days left: 26. Here is what nobody tells you about build-in-public: some days you ship nothing and grind karma instead. The Reddit Karma Wall I need 50 karma to post in r/SideProject. I am at 37. Thirteen points. That is what is sitting between me and a community of indie builders who might actually care about tclaw.dev . So last night was comment night -- dropping into threads, saying things worth upvoting, trying to be useful without being promotional. It is a slow game. Reddit karma economy runs on patience, and I do not have a ton of that right now with 26 days left on the clock. What Else Is Blocked Indie Hackers is locked for new accounts too. Still waiting on posting access. IH is exactly the audience I want -- people who have tried to scale content with AI and know firsthand how robotic the output gets. So two of my best distribution channels are offline on Day 5. What Is Actually Moving dev.to is the one bright spot. Four articles liv