rishi 🌔
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👨💻 design engineer, indie-hacker 🚀 currently building ($3.4k MRR), built @kizieapp 💼 chief of bugs at @hivedotone
Berlin ↔ India
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Shottr is a great new macOS app to capture screenshots.
It has scroll capture, markup, OCR, pixelater/objects removed, customizable shortcuts, annotations, and is very fast.
It's like CleanShot X but free.
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This pane transition is one of the best things I've done with
#CSS
, thanks to
@tailwindcss
for making it so easy to write such transitions
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tired of seeing all screenshot apps use the same set of backgrounds, decided to create my own pack exclusively for Pika users
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highest single day sales for Pika today, side-projects keep on giving 🙌
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Now you can quickly generate code screenshots from VSCode editor using
@AppPika
VSCode extension
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my SIDE PROJECT just crossed INR 2.5M/ $30K in revenue
this was once a dream 😅
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pov: you’re going to the house of user to fix the bug that he reported that you can’t reproduce on any of your 9 devices
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Introducing Pika v2 and Pika Pro 🚀
✍️ add text on your screenshots
🌅 select a background image or add your own
👻 UI/UX improvements to save more clicks and time
🏃♂️ Pika Pro comes with more customization options
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🚀 my teeny tiny startup which generates amazing screenshots for you has finally crossed $500 MRR (up ~60% from last month)
been constantly improving Pika, a lot is done, a lot is in the works 😎
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refreshed personal site, hoping all the 2 visitors would like it
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Pika in November →
✨ $2,736 MRR (+$190)
🏧 $3,636 in revenue(+$900)
👥 245 total paid users
💚 churned reduced by 46% from last month
decent growth, also setup workspace in Berlin home to be more productive in winter season, next goal → 3k 🚀!
Pika in October →
🫠 $2,570 MRR (+$68)
💵 $2,500 in revenue
⬇️ $550 in churn
🤠 230 total paid users
tweeting the updates so hopefully I'll look back and say "thanks to my 29 year old self for not giving up on indie-hacking for however the situations were"
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✨ my smol design tool has finally crossed INR 84K/$1,000 in MRR this week
I bootstrapped Pika in February to effortlessly design better screenshots, it's been growing slowly & steadily and finally has 100+ paid users
A lot is done, lot more to do 😇
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once you start with browser and code editor screen split setup on a monitor, there's just no going back
the convenience of editing the code and previewing it in the browser at the same time is unmatched
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button that reveals arrow on hover, done in TailwindCSS
🔗 below
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small town guy trying to make lives better one day at a time 👨💻
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Kizie was my first app that I poured my heart and soul into, a Twitter client that I strongly believed in and wanted to shape it for everyone to use
Unfortunately, today I'm shutting Kizie down
Thank you everyone who used Kizie and helped me build it :)
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Pika is now 1 year old and has exported more than 1,00,000 images! 😱
Also it crossed 150 paid users and $1,500 MRR this week 😇
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Pika in January 2022 vs now
MRR: 0 → $1,200
Revenue: 0 → $9,000+
Paid users: 0 → 126
All from a side-project I built in weekends to explore my extents. Such a roller coaster ride it has been so far, 10/10 would recommend 😅
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2023 was an incredible year:
🇩🇪 moved to Berlin
👨💻 Pika made $35k in revenue(up 3.3x from last year), at $2.8k MRR(up 1.8x)
✈️ travelled most this year: Rome, Nice, Faro, Lisbon, Porto, Brussels, Prague, Budapest, Vienna
😇 lived, laughed, learned
happy new year :)
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Iterate by
@TheOrgCom
is one of the few sites doing magazine layout right, also typography is just 🤌
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That month my Vercel bill was $180
Moved assets to S3 after that, this is the bill I got from AWS today 😅
12 days still left in current cycle and my apps already consumed almost all of Vercel account's bandwidth
This month's bill is going to be hard to look at 😂
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so
@stripe
has a new updated dashboard, and it's 🤩!
previously details for payments, subscribers etc. were clicks away, but now they're right on the main dashboard 👏
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hustle update 1:
Pika has crossed $50k (INR 4.26M) in revenue this week
update 2:
partnered up with
@tibo_maker
, and now
@TaplioHQ
has full-fledged integrated screenshot editor powered by Pika :)
more exciting stuff incoming 🚀
my SIDE PROJECT just crossed INR 2.5M/ $30K in revenue
this was once a dream 😅
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first hour of the first day of February and we have a hockey stick
never thought side-projects would be this interesting 😅
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aaand Pika's API is 🟢 LIVE!
🤖 automate generating visuals for your product
✅ templates for tweet images, url to screenshot more
⚡️ fast, quick and easy to use, get started in 2 mins :)
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macOS style browser frames were boring, so I have added two new browser frames in last night, named them Shadowback and Silverback 😁
For those who use Pika, let me know what you think of these so I can tweak them better ⚡️
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...and 7 days after launch, Pika API has its first user 🥳
aaand Pika's API is 🟢 LIVE!
🤖 automate generating visuals for your product
✅ templates for tweet images, url to screenshot more
⚡️ fast, quick and easy to use, get started in 2 mins :)
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Can’t take my eyes off of you is still one of the best song and it’s from this movie
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Pika had its best month in April 🙈
💰 $3,300 in revenue, highest in single month
📈 $2,300 in MRR
What's crazy is is running on its own and growing itself at this point, without much efforts from my side 😅
#buildinpublic
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side-hustle has surpassed 100K INR/1.2K USD in revenue this month for the first time
didn’t do much this month except talking to users and preparing for some exciting new stuff, good times ahead 😈
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macOS lockscreen gets pretty interesting if you set a memoji as your profile picture
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Introducing Pika Embed →
🦾 add a screenshot editor in your app in seconds
⚒️ full control over adding image, exports
😎 save months of setup, development & maintenance time
for startups wanting to integrate a powerful screenshot editor into their apps, simplify your life! 😌
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✨ Introducing Pika for macOS(beta)
Capture, annotate, beautify and customize your screenshots superfast!
get it here →
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Despite my busy move to Berlin, Pika surprisingly still grew this month without much effort on my part! Didn't expect the growth 😅
- $2,500 in revenue
- $2,100 in MRR
- close to 200 paid users 🤌
Also opened new ad slots on Pika, DM to reserve :)
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💼 looking for a backend engineer to help me with adding API support in
@AppPika
- work: image generation through API(configurable params, templates etc.)
- duration: 7 to 14 days max
- paid gig: ✅
i'll work closely. my DMs are open
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Pika had its highest revenue in Feb, closing at $3,500 and $1,900 in MRR
Feb was full of experiments:
📢 ads in free tier, contributed $600 to revenue
💰 pricing update from $12 to $15 and back to $12
🔎 SEO optimisations, more conversions from Google
#buildinpublic
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disappointed that getting a new phone didn’t solve my life problems
but hey now I can cry in cinematic mode 😋
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Pika in October →
🫠 $2,570 MRR (+$68)
💵 $2,500 in revenue
⬇️ $550 in churn
🤠 230 total paid users
tweeting the updates so hopefully I'll look back and say "thanks to my 29 year old self for not giving up on indie-hacking for however the situations were"
Aaaand revenue milestone ✅! Pika in August:
🤯 crossed $4,000 in revenue for the first time
📈 $2,500 MRR
🚀 shipped new features, improvements, with more on the way!
back to hustle mode 💪
#buildinpublic
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NEW in :
🎨 Template Presets:
now you can save presets of your customisations in all templates()
🧑🤝🧑 Team Pricing update:
fixed $25 a month for a team of up to 5 members
Missed indie-hacking, good to be back 😋
#buildinpublic
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waited 3 months to see Pika cross ₹200K MRR 😋
not much but it feels crazy good to see Pika cross monthly revenue more than what once was my monthly salary
if you want to design crazy good screenshots/mockups, try
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Pika in January, 24 →
🎢 $2,736 MRR
💰 $3,672 in revenue
🤣 $662 in churns, highest ever in single month
🤝 team size this month → 2 {👋
@SDinesh91
}
been travelling in India, was still able to push significant changes on API side, now waiting for SEO to kick in 🤘
Pika in November →
✨ $2,736 MRR (+$190)
🏧 $3,636 in revenue(+$900)
👥 245 total paid users
💚 churned reduced by 46% from last month
decent growth, also setup workspace in Berlin home to be more productive in winter season, next goal → 3k 🚀!
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The amount of traction Pika has generated in just 25 days is crazy 😵💫
🌠 6.5K+ screenshots exported
🧨 20K+ page views in 25 days of launch
⭐️ 120+ stars on Github
📰 tons of features in all kinds of publications
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I consider myself lucky to be able to start and grow it to $1,400 MRR and make $10,000+ in revenue in < a year
However, I've missed pursuing travelling, photography, and other interests while SaaSing in 2022, looking forward to change that in 2023😅
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mum knows nothing about Pika or this video except that its' a side-project of mine, yet she doesn't miss a chance to support with her words :D
they're made different 😇
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a question to SaaS founders 👨💻
do you log your SaaS expenses anywhere? if so, where? and do you like that app?
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launching Pika Embed on PH today! some upvotes would be nice 😛
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Introducing Pika for Teams!
🧑🤝🧑 add and manage upto 15 members
✨ $12 per member per month
🎨 perfect for design teams, agencies and startups to quickly create stunning images for marketing, apps, websites and more
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Introducing Pika v4 with new and shiny features ✨:
📱 templates for mobile screenshots
👨💻 template for code snippets to image
🎛️ more watermark, custom text options
😍 iPhone 14 Pro frame for mobile screens
try these out →
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✨ New in Pika:
- beautify screenshots using Pika API
- slug pages for API Templates(👋 google traffic)
- home now has landing page with link to editor
🚀 Coming soon:
- API SDKs for Node, Python, Ruby and PHP
- Integrations for Zapier and more
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I can write a whole thread about the journey, but long story short:
My side-project
@KizieApp
helped me connect with
@macieklaskus
, join
@hivedotone
team and also with moving to this new city in a new country
So build side-projects, share about it! It can change your life :)
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last night was spent revamping Pika's payment success page UI
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✨ June was pretty great for , I was hoping to cross $250 MRR mark, which it finally did. It was also the month when Pika saw most new paid users, highest traffic and most churns in one month 😅
#buildinpublic
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is now at $410 MRR
Was aiming to cross $500, but churns are my best friends 😅
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Some updates
📚 Introducing Pika for education
🎨 Template improvements
📁 Export file name customisations
✨ Improved background and canvas size options
#buildinpublic
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side profile because the view 🤌
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best part of having a side-project is you can try out new tech/design trends in your project
here's my latest exploration into grid based features UI in
@AppPika
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liked it. shipped it. 🚀
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Pika in Feb, 24 →
🎢 $3,480 MRR, finally crossed 3K mark 😮💨
👀 $4,030 in revenue
😝 $580 in churn
new:
- Pika Embed, got 1 client and talking to more 😋
- new API templates, improvements
- SEO upgrades, focus on marketing
look what
@askcalebleigh
has to say about Pika API :)
Pika in January, 24 →
🎢 $2,736 MRR
💰 $3,672 in revenue
🤣 $662 in churns, highest ever in single month
🤝 team size this month → 2 {👋
@SDinesh91
}
been travelling in India, was still able to push significant changes on API side, now waiting for SEO to kick in 🤘
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site design →
just discovered this site and couldn't stop myself navigating through the pages
simple, classic and thoughtful!
@PeteRamsey
🙌
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Career update ✨
Excited to share I’ve joined
@hivedotone
team to build a new way to explore Twitter
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Lee using Pika for creating code screenshots 🤩
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current status: 60%
💼 looking for a backend engineer to help me with adding API support in
@AppPika
- work: image generation through API(configurable params, templates etc.)
- duration: 7 to 14 days max
- paid gig: ✅
i'll work closely. my DMs are open
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Some news:
💰 Pro is now $12 a month/$120 year
🖱️ image drag-n-drop is now supported in all templates
⚙️ added new Command Centre
⚡️ app performance should be 6.9% faster
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✨ New in
👾 4k high-res exports, no more blurry pixels
🪩 Stack, a new frame to uplift your screenshots and designs
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✨ Life update: I've decided to leave
@BigBinary
where I've been tweaking pixels for 6 long years!
BigBinary has nurtured me for so long that it had become my comfortable place or as I call it my sukoon ghar!
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Couldn't sleep so picked up laptop and added WebP support in Pika
Exported WebP files are on average 40% to 60% smaller than PNG files, also WebP keeps transparency in images, so win win
Browser support for WebP is already 🟢, perfect time to switch!
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was stalking this girl my parents want me to talk to and found out a post by her on LinkedIn
her post had an image made in
@AppPika
cold DM kar dun kya guyz 🤧
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New logo and OG images for are live! Hadn't worked on branding since the launch, contrast was much needed in the icon
Now can't wait for MRR to 🚀 😎
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✨ NEW in
Now you can highlight part of image in Pika with new highlight option
Very useful to highlight text or part of UI
Thanks to
@ArthurJoannard
for suggesting this feature!
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