Brian Gi
@xbriangi
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Learnt to code using ChatGPT. Built an app acquired for $150k Ex-lawyer, building my parents' retirement.
Using AI to grow to $1mil/yr👉
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A lot of you asked, so I'm sharing it for free.
ChatGPT made me $100,000s in 3 months
6 months ago, I didn't know how to code
Since then I used ChatGPT to build 2 websites, a chrome extension, and a web app
I want to show u step-by-step
Let's win together.
Read below:
🧵👇
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Holy damn
Google is pricing out OpenAI
60 API queries per minute FOR FREE
That will be sufficient for 90% of developers.
Especially important for those developing in 3rd world countries where $1 of cost matters.
Free training data also
I don't see how OpenAI isn't screwed
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It still blows my mind that I made $100,000's in three months using plain HTML, raw CSS, and a few lines of PHP 😂
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Holy shit.
In one week I've coded 90% of the features of a GPT-wrapper company that raised $11M.
(using GPT)
I wish I could build this in public but it is a bit too niche.
I will try to update as much as I can - I haven't felt this excited since I sold my prev. company.
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See you soon Malaysia! 🇲🇾
The joy of indie hacking = work anywhere at anytime 😗
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It is insane how many helpful and inspiring peers I have connected with since joining Twitter.
Posting content was one of the best decisions I’ve ever made
In real life, it is so rare to come across so many talented folks.
Feeling blessed and glad to be doing what I am doing.
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Today, I launch DraftDeep, an AI Legal Drafting Copilot for busy legal professionals.
Yes, it was coded using 100% GPT.
I can't believe how far I've come this past year.
1 year ago, I knew zero code.
Today, I can build full-stack applications for enterprise business problems.
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I focus on one thing - solve a problem + that makes profit + at scale.
I think worrying about a "tech stack", "GTM, or "innovation" are all secondary to that one goal.
If that just requires HTML+CSS with some PHP, then I'll just use that.
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A huge win!
My first sale
A stealth project with network effects
Been running quietly for 4 months.
No competition, 30 minutes of work per week.
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I've started a new 9-5.
It was a tough decision.
Otherwise, I have to pay $80k to the SG gov't (college loan).
Not so rich (yet?) to pay it off.
The role is as a legal recruiter.
Luckily, it gives me time after work to build.
Not easy.
I'll try my best to make it work.
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Today is my last day as a lawyer! Finally!
Quitting law is the riskiest decision I ever made.
But every time I've taken a risk for a higher goal - I've been rewarded 10x
Today, I was gifted with 800 new followers
This marks the beginning of truly
#buildinpublic
🍾
LFG
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This company made $4 million in their first year selling shower heads.
You heard right. Shower heads.
They also took on zero risk.
Here is the blueprint for how Jolie launched a successful filtered shower head business.
It all started with a hypothesis:
"Why is no one
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Interesting - HTTP requests can be made to specific geo regions
I wonder if this makes a big difference to latency
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I am leaving my career as a lawyer!
Call me crazy - but it's so I can have more time to
#build
... 😄😂
I think I've finally found my passion -- wish me luck!
The goal is to launch my first app in 2 weeks!
I'll give a free copy to whoever guesses what it will be (est $9.99)!
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Wow! I gained 300 followers overnight.
It took three months to get to 100 followers.
Then it 4x'ed in less than 12 hours.
Good things take time.
I want to follow some people back.
Comment below (i) what you are working on, (ii) what is your end goal, and (iii) your biggest L
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Last year, I was -$100,000 in debt. Then, I built and sold HeadshotAI to make over $200,000 in 3 months.
This is the full story with every detail.
Some background about myself -- I have never been financially well off.
In fact, I was broke.
In 2015, I graduated from high
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Also timelines it took to build:
Personal website: 1 week
HeadshotAI: 2.5 weeks
Job board: 3.5 weeks
Chrome extension: 1 day
Telegram bot: 1 day
Remember, before each project I knew nothing about the code except what I learned previously.
Build fast, fail fast, learn more.
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New set-up in Sydney, Australia! 🇦🇺
Time to finish this app.
LFG
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This video on
@oliver__b1
has 500k views in Korea.
Koreans love watching translated Western business and motivational videos.
I know someone who pumped out these videos (on
@AlexHormozi
,
@jordanbpeterson
) and made $1 million in a year.
Crazy stuff.
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🎉Introducing ! 🎉
Made for the digital-age worker, who wants to prevent eye damage and feel healthier.
Experience eye comfort.
Limited pre-order sale: Only for the first 50 orders -> selling for $5 before the price goes up to $10!
#buildinpublic
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Fellow indie hackers,
will I ever have to wear a suit again?
I just walked out of my office for the last time.
Excited to visit Malaysia end of this week, and then back to Sydney to see my parents! 😃
#buildinpublic
#byelaw
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Listen up. Do NOT stop at GPT wrappers.
Fun activity - find general purpose APIs made for developers, and then try to repurpose it for a particular niche.
Spellchecking APIs -> app for lawyers
Map Geography API - > app for delivery drivers
Become an everything wrapper expert
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At 17, I graduated top of my high school
But I couldn't afford to go to college
So I grinded min wage jobs
70 hr/week for 3 yrs
At 20, I started college
but with -$260k in debt + expenses
5 years of sweat later, I've paid it off.
The power is in knowing I can do it again
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@MattEpstein16
You don't propose any alternative to dropshipping.
TikTok Organic is just an advertising method.
What alternative fulfilment do you propose?
That is the whole value prop of dropshipping - to reduce the risk of fulfilment and inventory when starting out building your brand.
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Here is the honest truth.
I am stuck with building .
I am upset - I feel like I broke a promise to myself and to my followers.
I thought I could do it all in one month.
But of course, I was ignorant to the technical difficulties.
Coding a licensing
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Grateful I gained 1k followers in 24h.
So, I decided I'm going to share all of my private business notes hoping it helps you grow your business.
Here's the first:
How
@thesamparr
landed his customers for
@HamptonFounders
- on track to do $10,000,000s this year.
👇
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My July review:
- Quit law to
#buildinpublic
- 1st time in Kuala Lumpur
- Short break in Sydney
- Pre-launching my app tomorrow!
- 80% finished my first MacOS app
Share yours!
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But it's a super B2B salesforce play - like the 100s of B2B CRMs, so the value creation won't be so much in the tech but in the sales.
I think I can pivot this into a B2C version as well - but not so interested given how saturated B2C AI wrappers are.
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This meal costs US$2.96.
All protein + rice.
In Singapore (the 5th most expensive country in the WORLD).
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I also manually generated 50,000 AI images for over 2000 HeadshotAI customers because I didn't know how to code an API call.
I then manually downloaded, compressed and emailed each customer their results.
I still managed to exit for $100k+
There's a lesson in there somewhere.
Indie Hackers: spend 6 months on a their SaaS tool with $590/mo revenue
@levelsio
: $79k MRR (did 400k in one month?!)
Landing page, stripe checkout link, Typeform redirect to upload your photos → Pieter manually put photos into a tool to make AI-generated versions, send them
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How I found my new business idea:
1. Look at SEO volume within certain niches.
2. Find search volume for products that have momentum but are still very early.
3. See if it is something you can compete against.
@xbriangi
IMO nothing is to niche
If not the actual coding, tell us about everything around it. How you came up with the idea and so on :)
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I hope this was useful. I will cover the business and marketing aspects in future tweets.
A lil' more about me:
- I quit my job as a lawyer TODAY to commit to indie hacking
- Now, I am building up my parent's retirement
- I share my progress on Twitter
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Free business Idea: Natural language search for video archives.
Made possible with GPT-4 Vision
Problem: Video producers often have 1000s of hours of footage but may be looking for a specific scene that maybe lasts only 10 seconds.
Solution:
1) Grab all recorded footage
2)
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$149 sale!
It's not life-changing money, but the dopamine is just the same
An ultra-niche job board.
10-20 mins of work per week
I call that a win 🏆
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Finally! Two new projects I am pumped to work on,
They meet my checklist:
✅can build in 1-2 weeks
✅rapidly growing (and valuable) niches
✅has scalability
Also S+ tier biz models:
First, a job board
Second, a data aggregator/analyzer
Check back soon
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A bit embarrassing as someone who owned a generative image AI business.
But finally purchasing a MidJourney subscription 🫡
Looking forward to using my favourite AI artist's prompts
@followmarcos
Will see if I need a Standard Plan. Exciting times are ahead.
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I don't like to focus on "follower count".
I've seen many 50k+ accounts with low engagement.
A single indie-hacker who is positive/ambitious + resonates with my journey > 100 low-quality followers.
Last 28 days: 6.9k profile visitors and only 71 converted to followers 🥲
That’s like 1.02% conversion! Do they not like Alexis Ohanian or what?!
Someone help? Lol
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I designed a new landing page on the flight back to Singapore.
New project ✅
Feedback appreciated.
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Coding tutorials are the worst.
Gibberish on top of gibberish.
This is why LLMs are the greatest invention.
I can stop it to explain every technical term.
Coding made accessible to not so smart people.
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Good. Design. Converts. 👏
Watching
@MrNick_Buzz
design gets me fired up.
I was planning on coding my app tonight.
Instead, I'm going to do some work on my site for my upcoming app. Make it look beautiful.
Please rec any good web design resources.
Roasted 🔥
Took 10 mins to reshuffle & highlight the core value prop and showcase the app!
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unpopular opinion:
gpt3.5 is good enough for 99.9% of use cases.
your gpt wrapper most likely shouldn’t be using gpt-4
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A CRM for recruiters that actually uses LLMs to parse CVs instead of keyword parsing is a 100x value add.
Huge time saver and inflection point w/ the introduction of LLMs
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There is a reason Notion only does $120M with 4,000,000 customers.
Meanwhile, Salesforce does $20+ BILLION with only 150,000 customers.
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@VictorPontis
This looks great Victor, I think you’ve been disingenuously smeared in this case.
I hope
@dvassallo
could be more forthcoming with context given his audience size.
All the best!
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Fun fact: I've coded mostly with just GPT 3.5.
I even unsubscribed to ChatGPT Plus for the past month.
I don't think GPT 4 was much better than GPT 3.5 for Javascript or Python.
However, I'm giving GPT 4 one more try - seeing if it's better at coding Swift for MacOS.
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This is the project order I used to learn fast:
1. to learn HTML + CSS (simple)
2. to learn PHP + AI (a bit harder)
3. A job board site to learn React, NextJS, MongoDB (bigger moves)
4. A telegram bot
5. A chrome extension
7/
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Always wanted to build a website but could never get thru the initial obstacles in coding.
ChatGPT held my hand through every step of the way and each feature I wanted.
It even helped me to host it for $0.
Website was inspired from
@UltraLinx
@
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A strong, social life is a 100x reduction in productivity.
I enjoy working hard in Singapore, with little social interaction
then,
Returning to Australia to hang with close friends 1-2 months/year.
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This site was made by a 9 y.o. kid
I teach him A.I./coding once a week.
He used ChatGPT, DALL-E 3 and his imagination
It took him 2 hours.
Now he can read and edit .html and .css
Time to teach him PHP 😈
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I just quit my 9 to 5 (for good).
Going all-in on business.
Many of you know I quit my job as a lawyer, but I've also been working a full-time job since Aug.
This was so I could save a bit more $$ and have time after work to build a project like DraftDeep.
Let's make it work.
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Wow, unexpected!
UPDATE: Bard is much better at answering Swift questions than ChatGPT.
I just cleared 3 big issues in 30 minutes.
ChatGPT server outage was a blessing in disguise.
Below, I resolved my app to appear above the MacOS menu bar! Woohoo!
#buildinpublic
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I haven't looked at crypto in months.
Anyone can explain the XRP spike?
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For me:
Building: a MacOS app but focusing on building skills and failing fast
Goal: Be financially independent and build my parents’ retirement
Biggest L: Paying >$150,000 for a law degree
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@ValKatayev
I coded my website with ChatGPT with no coding experience.
$20k in 45 days, and counting.
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The size of this new livestreaming trend is shocking:
• V-Tubers
Anycolor Inc, a V-Tuber company did 25.34 billion yen ($178 million) in revenue this year!
They run the largest V-Tuber agency in the world with over 150 V-Tuber "members".
What the hell is a V-Tuber?👇
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This is all with less than 100 followers until recently.
Excited to see what the future holds
Shoutout to
@smerlinger
@followmarcos
@diabyismael
@kru_tweets
@petr0105
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An interesting statistic on university admissions.
The highest-scoring students are all applying for computer science degrees.
The glorification of law and medicine degrees are dying away.
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😎 I want to be the most successful indie hacker that graduated from the University of ChatGPT
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motion design is a huge blue ocean industry
higher barrier of entry than traditional design
it will also be relatively AI-proof
ima start learning the basics once i finish this saas
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My story:
17 y.o: broke couldn't afford university
20 y.o: saved up to start law school
24 y.o: graduated, started work as a lawyer, learnt to code using AI, built HeadshotAI, sold it, then quit my job as a lawyer.
25 y.o (now): using AI to build new projects, enjoying
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In 2 minutes, coded a Python script that scrapes the name, title and firm name from LinkedIn and fills in an excel sheet.
Only possible thanks to GPT.
No need to pay $50/month for old school tools
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As an entrepreneur, you need to believe two things:
1. You don't know everything.
2. BUT confident you can learn and do what's needed.
If you start thinking you know it all, that's when problems start.
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I'm going to set up a holding company.
I've never done it before.
What accounting software do solopreneurs use?
Is it necessary/helpful?
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The internet has created the most insane opportunity for people from poor countries to generate wealth.
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@oliver__b1
I know someone who made $1mil subtitling Hormozi and Peterson videos into Korean on YouTube
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Learning psychology helps when I feel stuck.
Some facts I keep in mind:
1) Burnout comes when felt input ≠ felt output
2) No long-term happiness is felt from achieving a goal.
3) Instead, long-term happiness = making progress toward a valued goal
Share ur own helpful facts!
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Exactly 😂
When I'm working = I want to socialize
When I'm socializing = I want to work on my project
#buildinpublic
@_briangi
I be so locked in then I jus start craving social interaction then go back locked in
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learning to code is fun, but it reinforces the need to become a better marketer
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Turns out "prompt engineering" was a fad.
It seems that GPT is very flexible with how you prompt it to do things.
Of course, "prompt engineering" is useful at times.
However, the real productivity gains come through interfacing LLM outputs with traditional automations.
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The joy of building my business completely outweighed the money I got from selling it.
The "high" of getting a lot of money is so short. 3-days max.
Goes to show that meaning is found in making progress toward a valued goal, not achieving it.
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Has anyone else never "designed a wireframe" before building?
Feels inefficient esp. for solo founders - just build what's in your mind.
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My first time in Bali! 🇮🇩
If you’re in the land of digital nomads, let me know.
OR recommend your favourite food/cafe/coworking spots
Keen to meet ambitious solopreneurs
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Another reason you want to launch MVPs fast --
Burnout
Nothing worse than burning out before even getting started.
It happens to the best of founders.
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Wow, I just got 460 new followers.
I would love to hear your story, your goals or what projects you are working on.
Always keen to connect with ambitious folks.
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something something land in Malaysia something something eat Nandos
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