Jackson Ling
@jackson_llk
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Self-taught developer building techy things that (hopefully) makes money. 🏗️
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So I have my first ever churn.
I plan to send them an email with a short survey questionnaire. What should I be asking?
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@geepytee
Set parameters to an over enthusiastic spanish commentator and we have got a winner
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@pwang_szn
“Yet another white digital nomad trying to make it in Thailand” had me dying 💀💀💀 What a keeper. And her insecurity on AI is very telling.
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Anyone else building while having a fulltime job or business?
I am finding it challenging to allocate out a meaningful amount of time daily to build. 1-2 hours just doesn't cut it, I need more to get in the zone and the momentum going.
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@herrmanndigital
Adjust colour temp on the iphone and bury it in rocks and you’ll get the same result
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B2B Saas is where it’s at. Just spoke to a friend who thinks paying 2k/month for a business management Saas to be total value for money, and they would gladly pay twice the amount. Plus they don’t care if the UI looks 20 years dated. Why ever build in B2C?
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Anyone else finding themselves being polite while chatting with chatGPT? 😆
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FOMO is a bitch. Here I am building a landing page while everyone else on my timeline is pulling in 5 figures and going viral.
Please sprinkle some of that fairy dust my way! 🥲
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Just spent the whole day troubleshooting a piece of code. Is this normal? 🥲
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When I get stuck coding these days, I just ask chatGPT. And it works. This feels like cheating. Should I be ashamed?
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Should I jump on the
@creatureNFT
train? I was definitely visited by one of these in a dream as a child
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Nothing is stopping OpenAI from charging $10/1k tokens. Platform risk is real.
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Saas founders, how do you deal with signups that looks like a competitor sniffing around?
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After 4 months, 300 signups and only 1 paying user, I think it’s time to get real and chalk tenderpanel up as a failure.
Marketing I have tried includes paid ads, posting on relevant FB groups, free tools and some SEO (I appreciate this needs more time).
Possible reasons for
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If slapping a website/UI over an AI API is such an unsophisticated cash grab, then why are people still willing to pay for it?
Economic value is what an individual is willing to pay for a product. Technical skill is only one component of business acumen.
Instead of being
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What’s with all these news headlines making the Starship launch seems like a disaster? It’s a TEST flight.
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1K followers!
I am truly humbled and look forward to knowing everyone better.
Please let me know where you are from and what you are currently working on😀
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@ezyjules
@CocaCola
@MrCraigWard
I imagine you meditating under a Icelandic waterfall when you dreamt this up.
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Forget boilerplates and directories. Form builder is the next big thing. Everyone build a form builder ASAP.
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This man ONLY have 3800 twitter followers.
I just sold for $65,000 🤩🚀
Launched it 3 months ago, with 0 budget and less than 600 followers. I learned to code only 9 months ago.
Big thanks
@agazdecki
&
@acquiredotcom
to have made it possible!
If you're curious, here is the whole story:
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I am finally launching ! The site is live and customers can sign up for our services.
So far I have mostly shared about it on X, but majority of the target market is not on this platform.
So now the real work begins. Marketing and incremental improvements
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Selling automated cold outreach templates seems like good business.
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If you are a business guru, don’t you need to have successful businesses to back it up?
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Is it just me or is googling skill the most important skill to have as a developer?
#buildinpublic
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I need more entrepreneurs in my feed.
Who should I follow?
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My little web app now has 3 paying users. Judging from the analytics, it is being used as intended and they are finding leads for their company.
I'm so stoked!
Gonna lean in harder on the marketing front now.
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Replies like “Love this” “Keep it up” “Well done” “Awesome” need to be algorithmically downvoted. Elon please.
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This may not be relevant to many of you.
It has been really tough to juggle being a father, a brother, a business partner, a friend and squeezing in the time and mental focus to build a startup on the side.
Where do you find strength when everyone draws it from you?
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Is there some kind of uprising against Typescript or something? It’s so nerdy it’s glorious.
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Do people say “noted” in your country?
For some reason it annoys the heck out of me. There must be a better or more proper way to acknowledge someone.
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The more I get into this, the less I understand how you all can launch something from scratch in 48hrs or a weekend.
Am I missing something? (besides technical proficiency😂)
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I don’t know how you guys and gals do it. I find coding in airports to be really distracting.
Will give airplanes a try once I’m on a long enough flight.
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Any plant enthusiasts here? I’m going to spend the weekend away from the computer and fixing this patch up.
Happy weekend everyone!
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What is the minimum requirement before being able to call yourself an indie hacker?
If it's MRR then I am not one yet.
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What is / was your day job before indie hacking?
I will go first. I am in the construction and supplying business, involved in civil construction, property development, and the supply of mechanical and electrical equipment to various public and private entities.
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The AI space is not immune to platform risk too.
Proceed with caution.
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2 weeks after I gave up on my startup , I got my 2nd paying user who signed up for the annual plan.
This shit is hard, but the journey continues.
After 4 months, 300 signups and only 1 paying user, I think it’s time to get real and chalk tenderpanel up as a failure.
Marketing I have tried includes paid ads, posting on relevant FB groups, free tools and some SEO (I appreciate this needs more time).
Possible reasons for
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Is it just me or is there a lot of new EU regulations recently?
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Please don't reach out using an automated DM or template. You only get to make a first impression once.
Just send me a good old-fashioned typo-laden, punctuation-deficient, human hand-written DM and I will be happy to reply!
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So my little startup finally has a name, (no kidney was sold in obtaining that domain).
Finally gotten around to making a landing page for it. Still a lot of UI/UX improvement work in front of me.
Sidenote: Could anyone recommend me a good screen
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In my time being on Twitter, it seems that by far and away the biggest collective pain point for indie hackers is...
Marketing!
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Indie hacking is hard.
The smallest mistake can throw you off-course and make you second guess yourself. Pricing changes can shut you down overnight. And even if you do make it, you could be targeted either online or in real life.
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Using only food, where are you from?
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OpenAI's whole market validation strategy is checking on indiehackers on X.
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Having 1000 followers seems so far away. How do you guys do it so easily?
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@threehourcoffee
Literally me 15 minutes ago. It can waste you more time by leading you in circles.
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@AlexMano12
By realizing that it really don't matter to your customers. Go for the one that allows you to build the fastest.
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Feeling super self-conscious about sharing this as it is really early. This is something that I am currently working on.
I logged my first hello world in June 2022. While I still have much to learn, I feel it is important to just push ahead and figure things out along the way.
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@nico_jeannen
@OpenDevLog
If true, this is a massive red flag. They best stay on top of this before it gets out of hand.
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Is there any reason why you wouldn't want to offer free trials for your potential customers?
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How many hours do you spend in front of a computer per day?
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When you are building out from the backend, do you already have the frontend design and layout in mind to build towards?
Or do you just complete the back end functionalities first, and then build a front end over it?
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I’m just gonna not believe anything I read on twitter today.
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I think there should be a balance between tweeting about one’s product and non-product related tweets to avoid coming across as too salesman-like.
I understand it’s all part of building in public, but we want to engage with you as a person too.
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I am starting to lean towards the conclusion that it is only worth sharing ideas, execution, and metrics of your startup if your target customers are twitter users. There is little to almost no incentive if it is otherwise.
Some time ago, I shared a tweet with my new idea - an automatic, text-based video generator 👇.
I must say I struggled with what happened next.
The Tweet got 150k+ views, and 10s of people posted "shut up and take my money" memes
A few days later, people started creating it.
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Today I reached a tiny milestone of 400 followers!🥳Appreciate every one of you who grinds and continues to inspire me!
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What are we paying X premium for again?
I don’t see any reach boost. If anything, it actually went down drastically and never returned back to the height of pre-Elon twitter days.
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I see many new Saas launching tools on my feed but not many actual Saas launched.
What are you guys doing with the tools?
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Sometimes I take off my glasses and pretend this is my MRR chart
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I can't help but admire what Satya Nadella pulled off today.
He managed to turn a potentially disastrous situation into a net win for almost everyone involved. A great negotiation and deal-making skill when you can make all parties feel like they came out on top.
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Startup idea is much easier to come by when you hang out with business people. Doesn't matter if they are from big corporation or mom & pop outfit. If they are making money, they will need tools, automation and marketing solution in one form or another.
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I'm going to bed every night now with the expectation that OpenAI will disrupt something else the next day.
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Been reading a lot lately on the pitfalls of
#buildinpublic
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The risk of being copied is very real, but does it outweigh the benefits of building in public eyes?
What should or shouldn’t be shared?
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How not to conduct an interview. Especially on the interviewee's home turf. Ouch
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I’m starting to suspect that my target users for tenderpanel is being put off by it only having credit card payment option.
Many click the checkout button and abandon cart.
What’s everyone’s experience with this? Do you offer other payment option besides credit card? It’s B2B
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Is the X follower count even accurate? How could I have gained 30 plus followers in the last 24hrs without any notifications.
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Paid ads work. Don't let anyone tell you otherwise.
A well targeted campaign can bring you customers.
The only barrier is your wallet and the usefulness of your product.
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