Dragan Mitic

@brokebull @SimonHoiberg Easy to say :)

@miticdjd @SimonHoiberg Move to a First World Country

MoR services have you gaslit into thinking you need them to be compliant the same way Vercel has you gaslit into thinking you need them for your infra to stay up. Run your own infra. Operate your business outside EU. You can have a simple life if you want to.

@marclou @Superwall Does anybody still use paypal 😄

TrustMRR now supports @Superwall! That's the #8 payment provider. Which one should I do next?

@upen946 Oh Dear is open source?

"Open source can't make money." Wrong. - Coolify (Heroku alternative) → $15K/mo - Postiz (social scheduling) → $5K MRR, 22K GitHub stars - Papermark (Docsend alternative) → $45K MRR - Oh Dear (monitoring) → $1M ARR - Gladys Assistant (smart home) → €860 MRR with 2.7K stars Open source is the distribution. Paid hosting is the business model.

@SimonHoiberg Hey Simon nice post. I am wondering do you talk about deddicated machines or cloud/vps servers like on digitalocean, hetzner and etc

Big companies are in a quiet war. Not over your money, but over owning you. They want your stack, your audience, your data, your payments. Everywhere you look, the pitch is the same: run everything on their platform, centralize your workflows there, let them be the foundation of your business. At the same time, we joke about the founders who DIY their setup. The ones who self-host, manage their own infra, and stitch together their own systems. Right now, the story is: why bother with all of that when you can just plug into a platform, pay a fee, and move on? But that story will flip. The founders who are actually dangerous in the long run are the ones who: → Build sovereign money systems, not just wrappers → Own their data, not just API tokens → Run their own infra, not just a rented sandbox → Treat platforms as distribution, not as home Today, most businesses rent a small space everywhere: billing on one platform, audience on another, infrastructure on a third. It feels fast and easy, but it also means they never really own the machine that prints their money. Highly resourceful tech founders will win. Not because they move the fastest in the short term, but because they can: → Swap vendors without breaking → Survive policy changes and pricing hikes → Compound instead of restarting every 2–3 years Use platforms. They are powerful and convenient. But make sure the core of your business is something you actually control.

@marclou @DataFast_ What tech stack has used to create mobile apps?

From app idea to App Store in 24 hours. I wanted to try Claude Clode, so I asked it to analyze my web analytics SaaS @DataFast_ and build a read-only app for iOS & Android. 4 hours later, MVP was ready. I spent 2 hours filling out all the app store paperwork. Android was approved the same day. Apple took a bit longer. The app 100% vibe coded. I didn't write a single line of code. Building startups now feels like a video game. I just dream while AI turns it into something real.

@manojdotdev Light always :)

As a developer what do you prefer, Dark Mode or Light Mode?

@bushrahhhh @manojdotdev I prefer light, maybe something related to my eyes 😳

@manojdotdev who even prefers light mode 😭???

What 🤯

@rasmalai I have 64GB which probably is too much… or maybe not 😅 With all the AI tools and occasionally running local LLMs, it somehow never feels like enough.

@arvidkahl I feel that sometimes too. But the real excitement is seeing people use what I’ve built and get value from it. AI just speeds that up.

Some days, I really miss coding by hand. But it just doesn’t make sense anymore.

@levelsio hey @grok how are they doing this?

The era of fake e-girl influencers has started

@traversymedia I have received a few times similar. And often is something very trivial, but they are requesting like 200, 300 or 500 USD :)

This is an actual email that I just got 10 minutes ago. This is the opposite of what being a developer is about. We share, we contribute, we help each other. We don't spam repos begging for payouts without even describing the problem 😒

Soon we’ll be hiring humans again because AI agents got too expensive 😅

What model did you guys found it is the best for building UI/UX components?

@Karim_RC Fantasitic idea 😂

Random app idea: Alarm app but you have to pay to Snooze.

With AI moving so fast, does it make more sense for software engineers to specialize or to become great generalists?

Hey Miloš, thank you for feedback. Yeah I would use stripe, but since it is not available in Serbia I am looking at popular MoR alternatives like paddle, polar LS and similar. Paddle looks like the most serious for the SaaS. Btw @mileusna did you use PayPal maybe for the payment gateway from Serbia? Since we are not in the VAT system (EU) we do not need to collect VAT, which is not a case for EU countries and make sense to use MoR.

@miticdjd @adriamatz @emanueledpt Works ok for me for a side project, although I don’t have large user base to notice any issues. Accepts businesses from our county which is not always the case (Stripe).

Europeans are shifting from Stripe to Polar I already have all the code ready for Stripe that can be reused. Is it worth switching to Polar just for tax handling?

@HeyAliux @adsafayet White always 😂

@adsafayet black always

@madiou @emanueledpt No polar is open source platform. Lemon squeezy has been bought by stripe.

@emanueledpt Isn't Polar also owned and operated by Stripe?