Spread the Signal — Carry DXN1 Somewhere New
DXN1-STUDIOS doesn’t buy ads and doesn’t run growth hacks. The studio is one pair of hands, so the signal travels the only way it honestly can: through people. This page is the toolkit for that — ready-made words, free-to-use banners, and an honest map of where to post them. Take anything here. Post it anywhere. No permission needed, ever.
The blurbs — copy, paste, done
Four lengths, one rule: they’re all true. If you’re not us, swap the first line to “Found this studio…” — everything else works as-is. Each one links back to this site so the story lands on our ground, not in a screenshot.
1 · The one-liner — status bars, signatures, bio links:
Sonderr — the privacy-first AI workspace from DXN1 Studios. Free docs, honest roadmap, zero fluff → https://dxn1-docs.vercel.app2 · The short post — X, Bluesky, Mastodon, Threads, LinkedIn:
One-person studio DXN1-STUDIOS just shipped the biggest docs expansion in its history — 28 free guides for Sonderr, a privacy-first, local-first AI workspace — and says something enormous is coming this year. Everything is free, no account needed: https://dxn1-docs.vercel.app3 · The long post — Reddit, forums, communities:
DXN1-STUDIOS is a one-person studio that started on a phone in December 2025 and just kept shipping. Its product is Sonderr — a privacy-first, local-first AI workspace — and the docs library just went through its biggest expansion ever: 28 free guides, written honestly, no signup walls.
The studio also posted a teaser: it may move Sonderr to a rhythm of four giant updates a year, one per quarter — or possibly end the current line and come back 5x harder. Nothing is confirmed, which is oddly refreshing — they just say it straight instead of hyping.
Site: https://dxn1-docs.vercel.app
Announcements: https://dxn1-docs.vercel.app/announcements.html
Contact: dxn1.0day@gmail.com4 · The recruit post — for wherever builders hang out:
DXN1-STUDIOS is one builder carrying an entire studio, and it's opening up. They're looking for a co-owner: someone who can say no, take leadership, work a lot, handle their stuff, do marketing and set up revenue streams. Unpaid until the first money comes in — then it's split between everyone who helped build it. In writing, on the site.
Full post: https://dxn1-docs.vercel.app/announcement-expansion.html
Contact: dxn1.0day@gmail.com (subject: Co-Ownership)?ref=spread-PLACE to any link you post (?ref=spread-reddit, ?ref=spread-forum, ?ref=spread-hn…). It changes nothing for readers but lets the studio see which places actually carry the signal — and double down there.Banners — free to use
Every banner below is ours to give. Hot-link them, download them, embed them wherever posts allow images. For the full press plates — lockups, brand marks, the identity sheet — the Gallery media kit has everything, no login.
- bn-enormous.png — “Something enormous is coming” teaser banner (the one at the top of this page).
- bn-expansion.png — “Build with us” expansion & co-owner banner.
- bn-sonderr-17.png — Sonderr v1.7 in-development banner.
Where to post — the honest map
First, the anti-spam truth, because this page doesn’t insult your intelligence: almost no platform worth posting on allows anonymous posting anymore. That’s the cost of killing spam, and it worked. The “submit your site to 500 directories” services still floating around are SEO spam farms — they hurt reputation more than they help reach, and DXN1 doesn’t touch them. What actually works is twenty real minutes in twenty real places. Here’s the map, sorted honestly.
No login needed — right now
- Newsletter & podcast tip forms. AI and dev newsletters run on tips and none of them require an account to send one. Ben’s Bites, TLDR and The Rundown all accept submissions through plain forms; smaller shows answer more often. One paragraph from the blurbs above, plus the link, is a complete pitch.
- Comment sections on relevant posts — articles about AI workspaces, local-first software, indie studios. A real sentence that adds something, then the link. Never the link alone; that’s spam and it deserves to die.
- Groups you’re already in. Discord servers, subreddits, Slack circles, group chats — wherever people already trust you is the fastest honest reach on the internet. Post the story, not the ad.
- Search engines & the archive. Already handled: this site is submitted through IndexNow (Bing, Yandex, Seznam, Naver, Yep) and snapshotted in the Wayback Machine. If you run a site or blog, one link from you still beats everything in this section.
One-minute account — highest value
- Launch boards: Hacker News (Show HN, sober title, no marketing speak), Product Hunt, Indie Hackers, Peerlist, Uneed, DevHunt, TinyLaunch, Launching.page, Indie App Catalog, BetaList.
- Directories: alternativeTo (list Sonderr as an alternative to the big AI workspaces — the honest, local-first angle is the pitch), SaaSHub, There’s An AI For That, Futurepedia.
- Reddit (read each sub’s self-promo rules first; the story posts work, drive-by link drops get removed): r/SideProject, r/IMadeThis, r/InternetIsBeautiful, r/coolgithubprojects, r/opensource, r/LocalLLaMA, r/privacy (local-first, data-stays-with-you angle).
- Dev communities: DEV.to, Hashnode, Medium — a build-log style post (“what a one-person studio ships in a year”) outperforms any ad.
- Social: X, Bluesky, Mastodon, Threads, LinkedIn — the short blurb, a banner attached, two or three times a week beats once a day for a week.
The co-owner hunt — the one that matters
Every post above is worth something. This section is worth more, because the goal isn’t reach — it’s one committed person. The expansion announcement spells out the deal; here’s where to carry it:
- r/INAT — “I need a team” exists for exactly this; use the recruit blurb.
- r/gameDevClassifieds and r/gamedev — builders who already think in small teams.
- r/startups — use their “I will not promote” culture properly: the ask first, the link second.
- Indie Hackers community posts — the co-founder section is read by people who join early things.
- Wellfound and F6S — startup profiles, free tier, worth the setup once.
- GitHub: the public repos (dxn111/sonderr, dxn111/DXN1-bench) — a pinned “we’re looking for a co-owner” issue and a line in the README turn every repo visitor into a lead. That one’s on the owner’s login, five minutes, do it.
The rules of carrying it
Three rules, and they’re short. One: keep it honest. No invented user counts, no fake urgency, no engagement bait — the studio’s real story (one person, built from nothing, ships anyway) is already stronger than anything inflated. Two: respect the room. Every community above has its own rules about self-promotion; reading them takes one minute and saves the studio’s name. Post the story where stories are welcome, not where they’re banned. Three: no clues. The house rule applies to everyone carrying the signal — don’t speculate publicly about unreleased things, don’t guess dates, don’t invent features. The teaser says what it says; link it, don’t extend it.
The ask
This page exists because the expansion announcement made one thing plain: the studio is not stuck, it is full — and the honest move is to say so in public. The co-owner seat is open. Staff roles are open. Sponsorships are open. The money rule is in writing: unpaid until the first payment arrives, then split between everyone who helped build DXN1-STUDIOS and everyone who helps make it bigger. That post is the receipt.
If that’s you — or someone you know — the inbox is dxn1.0day@gmail.com, subject “Co-Ownership”. If you’d rather just carry the signal, the blurbs are above and the banners are free. Both doors help. One of them changes everything.