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Timo 🌱
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Timo 🌱
@TimoBuilds_
Dadpreneur. 9–5 teamlead. Athlete. Building body, apps, and health. Lost 30+ kg. Fixed back pain through movement. Now building Apps with discipline, not hype.
Get feedback early → Se unió Mart 2012
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The work is not always the hardest part.
It’s carrying all of it in my head at once.
The app.
The bug.
The next feature.
The marketing.
My team.
My family.
My health.
The house.
The million small things in between.
Sometimes the real exhaustion
is not doing the work.
It’s holding all the tabs open. 🫠
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@TimoBuilds_ My mum was stealing the router cable cause I wouldn’t go outside
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I was playing Need for Speed and eating cereal at that age
we are not the same
Timo 🌱@TimoBuilds_
16 y/o guys making $1,000 MRR. Respect. But I’m more impressed by people who keep building at 30+ with a job, a family, and zero time. That game is harder.
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@TimoBuilds_ Yes. The 16 y/o has time, energy, and zero dependents. Impressive? Sure. Harder? Not even close.
Building at 30+ means stealing hours from sleep, lunch breaks, and the 20 minutes after kids are finally in bed.
Work-life balance? Still looking for the 'life' part😅
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Marketing got him the traffic.
The landing page converted it.
Without strong UI, UX and positioning
this probably wouldn’t turn into MRR that fast.
Ernesto Lopez@ErnestoSOFTWARE
Be this guy > Spend 7 months developing a micro SAAS > Realize you have 0 users and you are building for nobody > Pause development and focus 100% on marketing > Week 1 you make $1,900 MRR Stop over engineering Commit yourself fully to marketing.
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Crucial to convert those generated traffic is his landing page
It's fully UI, UX and conversion optimized. Without this, it wouldn't be turned into that MRR
But still, that's a great example how marketing in combination with a converting landing page could perform within days!
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Be this guy
> Spend 7 months developing
a micro SAAS
> Realize you have 0 users and you are building for nobody
> Pause development and focus
100% on marketing
> Week 1 you make $1,900 MRR
Stop over engineering
Commit yourself fully to marketing.
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Chasing the yacht while ignoring the coffee
is how people stay miserable for years.
Start by enjoying the little things of life.
Carnivore Aurelius ©🥩 ☀️🦙@AlpacaAurelius
happiness is within
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@TimoBuilds_ That tension is real - bugs feel urgent, marketing feels optional. But going quiet loses the feedback that shapes better features. What was the marketing approach you tried before the bug spiral?
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Building a business on the side is hard.
I sit down to build,
hit a bug,
fix one thing,
break another.
Again.
Again.
Again.
Then after days,
I finally solve it.
And suddenly I realize:
that “1 hour a day”
was my whole week.
That’s the part that hits hard.
Because building is only half of it.
I also need to market.
Reply to people.
Write posts.
Share progress.
Build in public.
Do the stuff that actually gets me seen.
So the next week goes into distribution
instead of development.
And just like that,
progress feels slow.
Very slow.
Sometimes that’s frustrating.
But I’m doing this next to a 9 to 5,
leading a team,
showing up for my family,
taking care of the house,
and trying not to neglect my own health.
So maybe slow is just the price
of building a real life
and a real business at the same time.
Still moving forward.
And it's worth it.
Some are playing video games, i keep building the future.
But I don’t forget myself.
Timo 🌱@TimoBuilds_
[Day 194] building in public powered by movement Project: FocusMap .pro ✅ finally fixed AI roadmap generation with ideas by scraped URL ✅ ideas getting generated by scraped website data now ✅ polished UI of roadmap generation Was stuck in a loop yesterday. AI kept giving me the same broken output. 1) Switched models: auto → sonnet → codex 2) Added console-logs. 3) Then changed how I prompt: logs → prompt → logs → prompt That broke the loop. 🎉 Sometimes it’s not the bug. It’s how you talk to the machine. 🚶 5,722 steps walked 🔥 266 calories burned Keep moving.
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[Day 193] building in public powered by movement
Project: FocusMap .pro
❌ AI roadmap generation still failing
❌ still getting sample data back
✅ added favicon preview for entered URLs
One bug fixed.
Two still fighting back.
Calling it a night.
Real life tomorrow.
Sleep > debugging.
Playing the long game.
Walked 6,400 steps.
Burned 250 calories.
Still 167 kcal above my 1,000 kcal
deficit target today.
Keep moving.
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@csaba_kissi Thanks Csaba, and also for following my journey !
btw. it was long ago that I've saw your gym here. Might be the time for a post 😌
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@csaba_kissi Thank you for sharing, motivating and confirming my plan with your journey to keep going.
Feels like I'm on the right way here.
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@TimoBuilds_ Yes, it may become a key factor.
I built one project after another
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@csaba_kissi In my experience is failing the fastest way to success, if you instantly start again
So failing fast might be the best thing what possibly could happen
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@TimoBuilds_ Yes. Consistency is the key here.
You have to learn from mistakes and fail multiple times.
That's how it usually works.
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@CestIvan I did some marketing before, but already feeling back while fighting the bug for too long
I've built a unique feedback and roadmap tool for solo founders, in this case, I've added a free roadmap generation created by data scraping from the entered URL (not live yet)
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@TimoBuilds_ The loop is real. And the cruel part: the same night you fix the last bug, you realize you haven't done any marketing in 3 weeks. What are you building?
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