... parents did not finish elementary school, and my life was never really easy. A hard part of my story is that my father had problems with alcohol, and my family went through very difficult moments because of that. These things still hurt me a lot when I remember them. Even with all of this, my mother always carried us with strength. She always pushed us to study. I grew up learning to value my family, my faith, and the little ... ... things

... 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): @paige_lauren1  yeah, that is the downside I pointed ... ... live in an ideal world... soo... Comment from Steven Spacek Jr(@mask_vii): I'm actually trying to figure out the best approach to this right now. I've always preferred to remain anonymous but I do things

... 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

... people tend to share more authentically there 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 in weeks that would have taken a team months. But Nika's point about marketing is exactly right it's still the hardest part. Distribution doesn't compound the same way code does. What I've found: the solo model works ... ... full marketing operation without the headcount. Still, I think the ceiling for solo is real. There's a point where relationships, trust, and accountability at scale require humans in the loop. The answer probably isn't solo vs

... 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 ... ... Deleted Comment from Mona Truong(@monatruong_murror): @sai_tharun_kakirala   It sounds like you and I went through nearly identical journeys. Confusing activity with progress is such a perfect way to describe it. We were doing the same 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

... consistency." That post got 40,000 views. Seven people DM'd me asking to try the product. One of them became our biggest customer. The "consistency" advice was safe. It was easy to follow. It didn't work. The thing that worked was saying something real. Something uncomfortable. Something that proved I actually knew what I was talking about because I'd lived it. What's the worst advice you've followed? Imed Radhouani Founder & CTO Rankfender Comment from ... ... Imed Radhouani(@imed_radhouani): @driftya  Honestly the first one was that classic "excited to announce bla bla.. " post. You know the one. Bullet points. Emojis. All the things

... 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 ... ... critical, largely because of how fragile credential handling can become across environments (and the risk of unexpected deactivation on top of that). What s worked much better for me is treating credentials as infrastructure , not app config. A few 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

... more value help support it. I ve found this balance keeps things fair and also builds trust early on. One 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 Ziga Potocnik(@zigapotoc ... ... every answer traces back to real data. Confident-sounding wrong answers are worse than no answer when someone's making a business decision. Comment from Ryan Hendrickson(@ryan_hendrickson): @nakajima_ryoma  That's a sweet concept -- get your things

... 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