Alex Nguyen
@alexcooldev
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Built an AI study note tool → 320k users, $22K/month 🤙 https://t.co/rNhDgb5r2h Built an AI medical assistant → 2k users, $1k/month ✌️ https://t.co/svEUoAjqzV
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Joined November 2022
my earnings from the last 18 months: dec 23: $3,200 (salary) jan 24: $3,200 (salary) feb 24: $3,200 (salary) mar 24: $3,200 (salary) apr 24: $0 (quit 9-5 job, full-time as indie hacker) may 24: $0 jun 24: $0 jul 24: $0 aug 24: $2,300 (salary) (fail and back to job) sep 24:
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It's actually happening 🤯 Tomorrow we're doing the FIRST hacker residency livestream!! 📅 Tuesday, November 4th 11AM (UTC) 📍 Here on X (live from Da Nang 🇻🇳) 10 founders. 500k+ followers. $1M+ MRR. What's the worst that could happen, right?
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Should we make this a scam hunting community?
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Official Community of @TomCrownCrypto & https://YouTube.com/tomcrown
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Welcome @alexcooldev to the @HackerResidency Another rising indie hacker rockstar, he’s killing it with his X & TikTok games 🔥
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I’m drowning in support emails lately. Not sure if there’s any AI product that can prioritize and categorize them like, “urgent → reply now” vs “later when free.” If you know one, drop it below. If not… I might just build it myself.
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Just met up with a fellow indie hacker in Da Nang, we ship fast, we ship with beer 🍻
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Yes, I don’t think users care about “what’s the original.” They only care about one thing, does it solve their problem well and at a fair cost? Don’t overthink it. Users are always in FOMO mode, constantly looking for something new just to flex, “Nah, I know this tool that’s
@alexcooldev Legend says there was never one pie, only endless ovens. I think?
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I will be speaking with $ARE's CEO, Joel Marcus, this morning and discussing the life science REIT sector this week on the Wide Moat Show (YouTube). I'll also provide updates on all three REITs - including $KRC and $DOC - and provide followers with my recommendations. Follow me
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When you focus on building instead of posting daily, your numbers might dip and that’s okay. They’ll bounce back once you launch. Keep building. The momentum always returns. 🚀
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Not encouraged, but right now you can go on TrustMRR to see which startups are growing well and that’s where copycats are born 😁
Bye Bye fake MRR screenshots 👋 I built https://t.co/tTyP0BVJh7, the database of verified startup revenues. 1. Upload a read-only Stripe API key 2. Get a free page showing your verified revenue 3. And a nice dofollow backlink as a bonus There's no way to game the system. It's
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Wait me, i’m coming @HackerResidency November’s got no days off. 😎🏖️
For the month of November, I’ll be in Da Nang locking in with the coolest builders coming from all over the world at @HackerResidency. I have 3 goals for the residency: 1. Launch new consumer app After years of only building b2b (enterprise) products, I have this crave to build
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From my personal perspective, I think accepting sponsored posts is totally fine but make sure you’ve actually tried the product and that it’s genuinely good. Most importantly, for any product or service, there should be a free trial or free credits so users can test it out
Got a sponsorship offer for my next video: $2500 downpayment on acceptance $2500 once video released Declined it. I haven't done sponsorship before and this was a wrong fit for my channel (and my own personal values) But I admit... I *did* considered it
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The award-winning documentary that Sen. Adam Schiff demanded to have removed from Amazon Prime shows how metabolic and other natural cancer treatments work. "We're not giving cancer an opportunity to detour . . . to escape down one of its usual [biochemical] pathways."
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The reason I love React Native, all my apps are built with it.
We’re open-sourcing React Native Godot this Sunday. After a year of testing, polishing, and making it scalable across all the different Android devices. Over the next few days, we’ll share all the different features we’ve built and best practices on how to use them. We built
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AI memory still feels broken. Every time you start a new chat, it forgets everything. Building long-context agents shouldn’t be this hard or this expensive. That’s why I’m watching mem0 closely, they’re building the universal memory layer for AI agents. If it works, it could
Memory is what makes us human. It's also what makes AI truly intelligent. @mem0ai has raised $24M to build the universal memory layer for AI. Thousands of teams in production. 14M downloads. 41K GitHub stars. Intelligence needs memory & we're building it for everyone. More👇
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I still update my older apps — it’s not like I’ve abandoned them. But my philosophy has always been simple: I’d rather build 10 apps making $20K/month each than 1 app making $200K/month. Building multiple apps keeps me excited, creative, and always learning. Plus, it fits the
@alexcooldev Why are you not improving your main app's retention or monetization features, since you already have a user base? You don't see enough value there?
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Day 2 log 🚀 I just switched from the “7-day MVP challenge” to “build as fast as humanly possible” — too many things to cover LOL 😆 ✅ Finished onboarding v1.0 ✅ Built backend + feature APIs For everyone asking “What’s your tech stack?”, here it is 👇 Tech stack: - Vibe
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Hello everyone, to start the extra week, we have the Kickstarter trailer. This movie takes place in a futuristic time zone 100 years in the future, when an evil agent of the Egyptian government attempts to take over the world by using mummies to regain power, following Moses'
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I just tried a new organic marketing style and it actually worked — my second app is growing faster. I’ll share it soon once it’s stable and proven effective — still need more testing time. 👀
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To be honest, no one understands TikTok better than Gen Z and Gen Alpha. That’s why I hire students in my country to handle all my TikTok channels — my job is simply to manage them (though it’s actually harder than I thought 🤣). It’s way cheaper and more effective than doing
Most consumer startups need to crack TikTok distribution. A few lessons from founders 💡: - If you don’t natively “get” TikTok, hire someone who does (probably in their early 20s) - Your video won’t go viral if it’s a sales pitch. Some of the best videos don’t even name the
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Don’t market your B2C mobile app on X — this is my honest experience. Most of the time, you go viral there because people are curious about your success, not because they actually need your product. That’s why when you get 1-star reviews, it’s usually just someone who doesn’t
the ratings for my app are all because i shipped with 2 annoying bugs that i should have caught > 2 main buttons were only clickable in the text area, not the button area > The main view for showing the partner code to invite your partner was hard to find i fixed now and
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4AM. No caffeine. Just open the dashboard that dopamine hit is enough to wake me up. 😌
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I don't want this to be about left or right, but based on the numbers I'm seeing, I'm starting to think I'm an idiot for budgeting and buying my own groceries.
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Yes, I built 2 B2C apps, reached 340K users and over $22K/month in revenue. It came with tons of problems to solve — that’s when I started building my own SaaS tools to help myself first. When you build something that solves your own pain, it’s never boring. You think: “Well,
@alexcooldev Indeed, then you get more ideas for your SaaS as you face more problems while building your b2c
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I like how social media like X, Tiktok algorithms nowadays make it fair for small accounts to grow alongside big ones.
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