... couldn't breathe, and that is exactly why I made this app. My memory was destroyed by an accident at birth, and I spent years apologizing to many people and trying to explain why I couldn't remember things. There are some things

... mindblowing anymore. I started thinking about this question after my friend said: I use AI to recreate tools I would normally have had to pay a license fee or subscription for. So the thing is, it is easy to replicate things

... organise" some activities and was able to learn something or make myself productive. It includes: Exercising right after waking up (the first round of exercising, because I train 3 times) Reading a book afterwards (a chapter/or learning new things from a text book/ work book) Having the things

... games, adding new mechanics, polishing feel, and shipping fun features. What I hate? App store top charts. After shipping my first mobile game, I got buried in search results. I spent way too many nights manually checking rankings, stalking competitors, rewriting metadata, and still felt lost. The existing ASO tools were either $100 200+/month enterprise dashboards or generic AI that didn't understand my actual data. So I built what I actually wanted. Third Eye Metrics with an agent ... ... named Natto, your one-eyed AI ASO agent made for solo indie game devs. ### How it works: - Paste your App Store and/or Play Store links - Add your 3 main competitors

... money. To work really hard until 30 so I can relax later in life. Time and location freedom. Of course, these don t exclude each other; we can want all of them at once. But when things don t go well, do you remind yourself of the main reason you started? Is it a strong enough motive and push to keep going? What is it for you? In my case, it was this: I really didn t like the idea ... ... that one day in life , I would have to follow a fixed schedule, work with people who might not even like me, and do things

... hurt development and constructive feedback). + I noticed the most common mistake that many people who started building a personal brand first, connected their product to their personal accounts (emails, social media, etc.) and started having a problem selling these things, because they cannot "give someone keys" to their personal profiles. Which opens the question: Which approach brings more advantages in your opinion? Comment from Nika(@busmark_w_nika): @sk_uxpin  I am not making illusions :D Comment from Robert ... ... trust before they buy into software. If someone has watched you think through the problem, share your process, and demonstrate genuine understanding of the market, launch becomes much easier. But I agree there is a risk if the whole thing

... from scratch and launched it a couple months ago, it genuinely means a lot to see real people actually finding it. Fanora.link is a link-in-bio tool I've been building solo. React frontend, PHP backend, the whole thing hosted on a shared server. No team, no budget, just me figuring things

... doing mental math or worse, just split everything equally to avoid the awkwardness, even when it s not accurate. That exact problem is what led to the creation of the Friends Expense Split Calculator on Expensessplit. Instead of overcomplicating things with apps, logins, or spreadsheets, this tool focuses on doing one thing

... content, emails) $25,000 Opportunity cost (features we didn't build) ~$150,000 Total $415,000 That's what we spent to learn we were wrong. What we thought we knew We assumed enterprise customers wanted the same things as our small business users, just more of it. More security. More control. More features. We never talked to them. We read blog posts. We looked at competitor

... Engine) were used by less than 15% of users. The features they barely mentioned (Workflow Engine, RAIVE, RCGE) had adoption rates above 68%. What we learned People are terrible at predicting what they'll actually use. They ask for things that sound good. They use things

... business models evolving in the future? For inspiration, I ve attached the infographic I mentioned. Comment from Nika(@busmark_w_nika): @amah_ajavon  "The part that keeps me up at night is the same thing you mentioned if everyone can build, who's buying?" well, this will not be easy to solve, because if fewer people are employed (no income or just basal income for living, I do not think they will spend much for software solutions). Comment from ... ... multi-perspective even when execution gets heavily automated. Comment from Gaurav Singh(@gaurav_singh91): Building ad-vertly.ai as a solo founder and this thread hits close to home. The build side? AI has genuinely leveled the playing field. I shipped things

... wrote something like this back in 2023. Life was slower then. Fewer people knew me, fewer people used what I built. Now, more people are coming, using my work, trusting it. And sometimes I think should I clean things up, remove old things

... understand pricing implications. It called external APIs in loops where a batch request would have been fine. No error. Just expensive. Day 4: The silent failure. We asked Claude to optimize our database queries. It wrote better SQL. Things ran faster. Then user emails started coming in. "Where did my old data go?" Claude had dropped a table. Not a critical one. But a table with 3 months of user activity logs. Not backed up. Not in our retention policy ... ... when we realised that we needed to rethink the whole AI visibility engine !! Day 7: The verdict. We ended the experiment. Total tally: Features shipped: 12 Features that worked without issues: 4 New bugs introduced: 27 Hours spent fixing things

... Everyone tells you to ship fast. Move fast and break things. Get to market before someone else does. I believed this for a long time. When we were building Murror, speed was everything. We pushed features weekly, sometimes daily. We celebrated every deploy like a small victory. But here is what nobody warned me about: shipping fast without learning is just organized chaos. We shipped a mood journaling feature in three days. It looked great in our demo. Users opened ... ... features and what users ask is a pitfall in my view. Comment from Mona Truong(@monatruong_murror): @jonathanfors   That intentionality is everything. Cutting features takes more courage than adding them. It is so easy to justify one more thing

... downloaded Quizlet. Found pre-made decks, spent hours organizing them, never actually reviewed. Here's the uncomfortable truth: most spaced repetition apps are designed by power users for power users. They've lost sight of the actual goal: remembering things. MemoRep is different. It was built on one insight: simplicity beats complexity every time. The Problem: Feature Creep vs

... kept building. That's the dangerous part. You fall in love with your own cleverness and stop listening to the world telling you it's not working. What I learned: Now I don't build anything without three things. One, a one-sentence pitch that makes sense to anyone. Two, five people who say "yes I need that" before I write a line of code. Three, the willingness to kill something that isn't working even if I already built ... ... feature died. But I stopped wasting time on stuff nobody asked for. That was worth the three months. What's the thing

... wrote a forum post not long ago on marketing as one of the rising in importance hires for all startups. This is all the things we've done, with some results and free resources. Keep reading if you're early stage, not a marketing background, or just looking for some inspiration and free help... We get a lot of compliments on @Meet-Ting 's marketing, mostly about the fun and creative stuff, but there's a whole bunch of more ... ... social and search. We re a small team. Only one marketer, me. But really the whole team acts as one unit. They all review my posts, even this one. The following is a semi-structured list of all the things

... managed across environments. The common pattern looks something like: credentials stored in .env files or secrets managers multiple environments (dev, staging, prod) manual propagation or duplication across those environments It works, but over time it seems easy for things to drift: a key gets rotated in one environment but not others a redeploy misses an env var credentials get misconfigured during setup or migration We ve seen this cause failures that have nothing to do with application logic, just ... ... from Eric Della Casa(@eric_nodeops): @matteo_avalle  This is a really interesting setup, especially the JSON mounting approach to avoid frontend rebuilds. The frontend side is exactly where I ve seen the most friction too, especially keeping things

... Martyn here. I ve been building things on the internet since the late 90s. Started out the same way a lot of people probably did back then, tinkering with early websites, figuring out how things

... Rajan Garg(@rajan_garg): This hit close to home - spent the last 10 years helping businesses set up automation and CRM systems, now building my own ( QuantixOne ). The one thing I kept seeing: builders' gate, the wrong stuff. They give away the boring parts for free and hide the thing

... Shipped another update today. Two things people asked for, one thing

... Computer Science student doing research into how solopreneurs and small startups create new apps and what their stack looks like. Particularly, I'm interested in how you handle things like authentication, billing, and permissions/authorization in your apps. Let me know what you're working on below and how you're going about it -- I'd love to connect for some quick calls to learn about your product and talk about your process in building it! Comment from Bruce(@bruce_rankrankrank ... ... tattoos or mockups) Tech-wise I m using: Flutter for the mobile app Firebase (Firestore + functions) OpenAI + Replicate for image generation (testing multiple models right now like DreamShaper, Flux, Ideogram) Biggest challenge so far has been balancing quality vs

... Today, I m doing a slightly more relaxed and bizarre corner. The internet is full of things that are either amusing or scary, but mostly things

... them. Autonomously, persistently, without someone clicking through a UI. OpenClaw is interesting not just as a product but as a signal. It marks the moment when AI agents stopped being a concept people talked about, and started being a thing that actually exists in the world. Running on servers, taking actions, consuming software products the same way humans do. When an agent like OpenClaw goes to accomplish a task, it doesn't open a browser and look for the sexiest ... ... call, a CLI it can run, an MCP it can connect to. It wants structured responses it can parse, error messages that give it enough context to recover, a surface that makes capabilities discoverable without requiring a tutorial. The things

... busmark_w_nika): @sup_nim  But do you code itself? I mean, it is just vibecoding, or do you know coding/programming too? Comment from Nika(@busmark_w_nika): @yukendiran_jayachandiran  NGL, I overmanage things, so I would gladly fact-check 90% of things