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Day 12 of building "Git Recap", the app that summarises your dev progress based on your git activity, ready to be shared on X/LinkedIn or wherever you want. Tight on time today but at least I got GitHub auth provider configured. Getting closer to something shippable 🤞

Day 11 of building "Git Recap", a desktop app that creates a recap of your coding progress using Git, ready to be posted. Tiny progress still counts: a bunch of release housekeeping today, thought I was done with this yesterday, but nope! At least now pipelines run all the way through

Well earned and an inspiring story as well! I see you have a copycat spamming in the comments, no innovation and even copying your roadmap. I never thought pirating indie devs was cool, and the result of this behaviour is kind of the same. Just makes me want to pay for your app even more tbh. Here's to you making $100k 🍻

@ProductHunt just gave Product of the Day 🥇 to my silly vibecoded app I made for fun. Moreover, today marks exactly 10 days since SlapMac went live, which made me $20,700 in gross revenue. I'm still gasping at the screen 🫠 Many may think it's another absurd and lucky overnight success, but while it might seem that way, it wasn't. Let me explain. My story: Back in 2018 I was just a backend corp. guy who stumbled on @levelsio and his book MAKE, and something genuinely broke open in my brain. I wanted that life so badly that I went full obsessive: every @starter_story video, every @marclou marketing technique dissected and noted. Tweets from @tdinh_me were my inspo too. I started doing my small experiments (like @FpvBuddy): my playground to learn frontend, BaaS and the world of indie such as requesting payments, marketing & SEO. Then I started meeting people in the space: builders in Southeast Asia, then in Amsterdam. The kind of delusional, hungry optimists who bet everything on themselves. Those conversations changed how I think about making money online. Recently I even got my whole X profile roasted by @robj3d3, which was equal parts painful and clarifying haha, thanks dude. @transitive_bs also said something that stuck with me around that time: "what is blocking you from doing this full time. How can we make that happen?" I was about to give out with content making and tweeting when I met @did0f and his way of teaching tech through video format truly inspired me to keep going. And so, a few months later I made a video for fun, reviewing a repo that makes your laptop moan when you slap it, and things moved pretty damn quickly from there. 24 hours of hacking with the Hackadam crew later, there was a real app, written from scratch at the speed of light thanks to AI. Is SlapMac a business? No. But it's the kick that starts one. I'm done accumulating knowledge and ready to build for real this time. Overnight success is very often a lie. Mine took 6 years of learnings and a single slap 👋💨

I think the algo adjusts very quickly to the type of content you interact with. If I just reply to one milestone post, I can be sure to be served plenty more like it immediately after. So probably try to only engage with content you truly like and it should all work out fine for you, I hope 🤞

How do people actually do this: 1. Open X for 30 mins. 2. Write 20-30 replies. 3. Close X. I can spend 30 minutes on here and I’m lucky if I find 5 posts I actually want to respond to. Is it the algorithm, or am I just too picky?

Day 10 of building "Git Recap", an app that summarises your coding progress using Git, ready to be shared with the builder community Not much code change today but a lot of GitHub actions and releases configuration 😵‍💫 Now the app can be distributed once version 1 is ready and automatic updates should hopefully work as well

@TestimonyTheDev Appreciate it! How far have you come with your LMS project?

@itsBabyDev Huhhhh Crazy crazy Very interesting Just followed you though I'll also start building this LMS project publicly, anticipate... Also I'm on the look out for your everyday progress review 🫡

Day 8 of building "GitRecap", an app that turns your git commits into "build in public"-posts. Has this "Day X of building Y" format been proven to work? I wonder.. and I hope 🙏 Today I've: - Added support for reference content so you can guide how summaries are written. - Cleaned the hero section up a bit to make it more clear what problem the app is actually solving.

Day 9 of building "Git Recap", an app that summarises your git commits into "build in public"-posts. Brand new domain all setup. Tedious refactor for sure 💦 Tmrw, will configure GitHub Releases to enable app downloads from the site (important piece of the puzzle for sure lol)

@ideabrowser Built a tool that helps you stay in shape while coding. We're doing one of the most unhealthy jobs out there, doesn't hurt to also move a little in-between commits. gitmoving.com

I want to spend $1,000 on new apps and tools today. Show me what you are selling. SaaS, Mobile Apps, Mac Apps, Agents, etc. Drop your link. If I like it, I'm buying.  If I don't buy, I'll give feedback on why I didn't convert. Who wants some customers?

@TechWithMatteo @TestimonyTheDev You're more than welcome to try it out! Thinking of giving the first 10 users the app for free, just to gather some feedback. Hopefully launching in a week or so 🤞

@itsBabyDev @TestimonyTheDev I feel this so much, at the end of the day you just want to ship stuff not write about it but then you realise the writing is part of the game too

Absolutely! While building in public, I usually struggle at the end of the day to come up with a post to share what I've been up to that day. Night's approaching, I'm crazy tired and I have to both remember what I've been working on today and also compose a post to share with the community. This wasn't always the easiest, so I'm building a desktop app that checks your git commits for the day and summarises them into a post worth sharing. Pretty simple product really but already helping me out as I'm building it. Sounds interesting?

@itsBabyDev Can I also get a quick recap of what you're building?

@aliByteCode Crickets.. crickets everywhere 🦗

Solo founders, how's marketing going?

@trikcode What are those "users" you're talking about? 👀

Vibe coding creates a dangerous illusion: You think you built it. You think you understand it. You push to production. Your users find the bugs you never could. Because you can't debug what you didn't write.

Before building apps, what were you spending all your time on?

Day 7 of building "GitRecap" Pretty uninspired today, but at least I got something done. What's your best cure for builders block? At least I've added a new landing section for showcasing different recap styles based on user defined system prompt

Day 6 of building "GitRecap" Impressions for these posts have halved consistently since I started posting my daily progress. My thoughts atm: Does building in public even work? Am I doing it wrong? Having doubts for sure but will push through until this project is shipped at least 😤 Way too early to give up, not even close. Today I've: -Added lifetime product to stripe -Setup Stripe webhook

@aliByteCode "Most founders still suck at distribution" There, I fixed it for you. I'm one of them ⚰️

Most founders still sleep on distribution.

@CesareDadamo Haha real. Instaquit the app once it happened. Like it happened on auto-pilot. Crazy how our brains have been curated. Sub-zero attention span 😭

Thanks instagram to make me bounce once i see an Ad forced - finally the real brain saver :) for free

@DuccioArmenise Awesome, hope you'll enjoy it 👏

Moving into my new house, I’ll be back

@heygeorgekal Crazy growth, well earned 👏

3 months ago I started wtih X. Since then: → 0 to 2,250 followers → 3 projects shipped → $45 MRR :D → Connections that feel like friendships Building in public changed everything. If you're lurking and thinking about starting: just post.