"All babies are cute." The single best piece of wisdom when you're thinking about building your next product. Your idea is small and perfect when it's living in your head. Two months later it will be enormous, ugly, and a pain to deal with.

Day 8 of building @RapidScreenAI in public: - 4 customer interviews that revealed a lot about my conversion pipeline. Going to tighten things up to make the flow seamless from 1st page view to checkout. - Continuing to connect with founders building cool stuff!

How long do you usually build your MVP before releasing it to the public? Asking for a friend...

Ok this time I'm truly going to build a micro SaaS! . . . 10,000 lines of backend code later...

The biggest founder hack I've discovered... Getting good sleep. It's tempting to work 14/hr days 7 days a week, but your productivity will decline. Rest, exercise, lock in when it's time for work.

A lot of people post "I've got 200 users for my app" but how many of those are actually using the app in a realistic way? How do you currently define an "active user"? What actions does the user need to take on your app to be considered active and do you have good visibility

Day 7 of building @RapidScreenAI in public: - Built internal reporting for visibility into DAU/MAU, churn, etc. - Accidentally turned this into a separate product 😅 Check https://t.co/WuyRt6pjcF if you want to view your metrics too. Will open it up soon

> Be me > spends months building awesome product > tries to market it for 3 days > no traction.jpeg > starts building completely unrelated product

What database platform are you building on? I've been using Supabase for a while now and it's great. I'm curious what other platforms builders are using.

**Finally** filmed the first episode of my Dev log/Business log. It took me weeks to actually get the nerve to record it. I walk through the problem it solves, marketing channels, X engagement, and current SEO stats. Staying consistent by posting 1 each week! Vid below 👇

Day 6 of building @RapidScreenAI in public: - SEO research. Got some ideas here, will share results in a few weeks! - actually exercised. Been slacking for a long time and feeling the effects of it. Take care of yourself! Your business will only be as healthy as you are.

As a solo-founder, test other founders’ products and give more feedback than you receive. It pulls you out of your tunnel vision and gives you grander perspective of which directions you can go. And the karma 👍

Podcast episode about SEO in 2025:

Day 5 of building @RapidScreenAI in public: - nailed down the 3 marketing channels I’m targeting for the next 4 weeks. (Cold email, YouTube/tiktok, paid ads) - learned about recent shifts in SEO algorithm (link to resource below) #buildinpublic #indiehackers

I've just set up a campaign for RapidScreen on @tinyadz_. The onboarding was seamless and my favorite part was that impressions started accumulating IMMEDIATELY. Contrast this to Reddit or Google ads which take days to approve. I'll post the results after a few days

Day 4 of building @RapidScreenAI in public: - Connected with founders dedicated to shipping cool stuff. - Competitor analysis. - Fixed a mobile-view bug from user feedback. - Shared resources to the SaaS community on Reddit about founder mindset. #buildinpublic #indiehackers

Day 3 of building @RapidScreenAI in public: - Added a follow-up to my cold email sequence (seeing better click %!) - Added a contact widget to landing page for better feedback loop - Submitted to multiple AI tool directories to boost SEO #BuildInPublic #indiehackers

Day 2 of building @RapidScreenAI in public: - Connected with multiple founders. Building my network of cool people actually shipping! - Refined the onboarding flow and made the whole process crispy. - Tweak cold email campaign to boost reply rates. #buildinpublic #indiehackers

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