Cyprus Forte

Cyprus Forte

Finance guy learning to build things

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Finance guy turned self-taught builder. I spent the last 9 months teaching myself software development and building my first app, "Savd: A new Way to Save". A brand new way to approach to impulse spending. Interested in behavioral finance, AI, startups, and building products that solve problems I’ve experienced myself. Currently learning by shipping. 🚀

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10d ago

Hello , Im Cyprus👋🏾

I work in corporate finance by day but for the past year ive been fully immersed into teaching myself software engineering and AI. I had an idea I couldnt stop thinking about, absolutely no engineering background, and no clue how difficult it would be to turn something in my head into a real product. ALOT of late nights, broken builds, redesigns... I've finally shipped my first app. Now I'm trying to learn the part that might be even harder... how to turn something ive cared about meticulously into something random people would care about! I've always been in a strictly analytical/numbers role but marketing is totally new to me. Im looking to meet fellow builders, learn, and discover new products as i make my way through this journey. Though I'd say Hi first

We spent +$250 testing Reddit ads for Causo Fundraising. They paid for themselves.

A couple of weeks ago we started testing Reddit ads for Causo Fundraising, mainly because Reddit has already been one of our strongest organic acquisition channels.

After ~2 weeks:

  • 226 spent

  • 31,483 impressions

  • 165 clicks

  • 0.52% CTR

  • 1.37 CPC

  • ~10 conversions

🎨 Do solo makers need a UI/UX designer?

For solo makers, wearing every hat is almost unavoidable - developer, marketer, support, product and often designer too.

AI makes this even easier now. You can generate UI pretty quickly, but a lot of products end up relying on consistent, polished AI-generated solutions rather than something truly unique or thoughtfully designed for their specific product.

So I m curious:

Do you design the UI/UX yourself when building solo?

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