Luke

Just bought a domain for another totally unvalidated idea that me, my fiancée, and our neighbour came up with last night 😆 Zero research. Zero plan. Just three idiots with zero credentials and maximum delusion. What could possibly go wrong? 🫡

@elonmusk There's so many issues with the current government I think there's probably better places to start

As should all countries. Bravo.

@eugZolotarenko All this time it was that easy! 😆

Building from your phone with views like that is the ultimate productivity hack ✌️

@tibo_maker At the end of the day, you're improving the lives of everyone who reads it. You're offering your insight and experience in exchange for their trust and support. That's not something that can easily be bought, and if it makes you happy, that's all that matters.

someone asked me why I still write a newsletter at $900k+ MRR fair question the honest answer is: I don't have a clean ROI number for it I can't open a dashboard and say "the newsletter generated $X" but here's what I know: when I launch on Product Hunt, newsletter subscribers show up first. they upvote, they leave comments, they share it. that early momentum matters more than most people think when I'm stuck on a product decision, I ask my list. I get hundreds of real answers from real users within hours. no survey tool does that when I mention one of my products in passing, I see a small spike in signups the next day. not huge. but consistent and when things go wrong (and they do), I have a direct line to people who actually care about what I'm building could I spend that time on something with a clearer ROI? probably but the newsletter does something nothing else does → it builds a relationship with people before they need my product I give them personal stories, real numbers, honest failures and in return I get trust you can't measure trust in a dashboard. but you can feel it every time you ship something new and people actually show up that's why I still write it

@robj3d3 Pandemonium and Lie are great songs - both in my library! They're a few years old now I think. There's a huge difference between them, but a lot of the time it's quite a fine line between crossing over between them

@ldo_dev One of my fav lines from one of my fav artists NF “There’s a big difference between confidence and arrogance”

There are only 2 reasons founders stay stuck. (1) Too proud to learn from someone who already built what they're building. (2) Too distracted to actually ship. Stay humble and stay consistent. The results will come.

@eliana_jordan Same with cable managing my desk - I love when I change my desk up and get to redo that. Maybe I'm just a little weird lol. Laptop looks nice though - did you go for the 16 inch one?

@ldo_dev hahaha really? i wish someone transfer all for me

I love having a new mac I hate setting up a new laptop

@daicandev Honestly, an outside perspective is almost always a good thing to have. Even if it's a mean response - there's usually a reason behind it

@ldo_dev There is always the possibility of a wild comment appearing with great feedback.

Hard truth: You'll never feel ready to ship the thing you've been sitting on. Momentum is a result of building, not a condition for it. Start when it feels messy. You might just find the idea was always good enough.

@mrbenedictowusu @buildwithshyam I don't think that's a bad thing though. Gives you a reason to keep developing and improving your own

@ldo_dev @buildwithshyam Very true Luke. My point is, if you build a vitamin product, even no matter how beautiful your product is, people will have options

Your SaaS has 0 users, What do you fix first? A) UI B) Features C) Landing page D) Talk to users

@mrbenedictowusu @buildwithshyam Even if there are other platforms doing a similar thing, at least by building your own you have a chance to spin it in your own way :) that’s so much fun

@ldo_dev @buildwithshyam When your project is a vitamin project, users dont really get attracted to cuz there are tons of similar projects available

Honestly I have already stated to break it down. I think it probably works really nicely when you have two platforms using the same dependencies - like an app and the docs for that app. In my case with nextjs and expo, there are too many conflicting dependencies that come up - it’s driving me insane 😅

@ldo_dev Nice... until mobile and web need different data shape, then you start writing workarounds that slowly undo everything you loved about sharing it in the first place ;)... going from web-only to a full monorepo with shared API and database overnight is big feat tho 💪

My brain is fried but I'm grinning like a fool 😆 Yesterday I had only built web apps and now I've got a monorepo running two front ends with Next.js for web and Expo for mobile. Both apps share the same Prisma ORM setup and they share the same Hono API endpoints. One database, one API, multiple front ends. The best bit about this is that the technology is starting to make sense I can't wait to share what breaks next 🫡

@mrbenedictowusu @buildwithshyam Nothing wrong with default shadcn man 👀

@ldo_dev @buildwithshyam My landing page is wack but i have 900 users

@rxhit05 Create a back door for yourself! I like your thinking

@ldo_dev Only way is to become a mod yourself

As a founder, where are you marketing??

@Allan_Ryan_ So much harder than it looks :D

@ldo_dev Consistency

A question for the builders in my feed: What single habit, if you locked it in for the rest of this year, would actually move the needle on your product the most?

@TomTurcotteTech Continuous learning is one of my favourite things. It's nice to feel like an idiot :)

@ldo_dev Now this is winning, learning tech along the way let's goo

@AbdMuizAdeyemo It's been good fun learning so far. I'm building out the API, types and validation layer first, that way I know it's behaving itself on the front end :)

@ldo_dev I think I need to try to build more mobile apps with expo to learn

@yusukelp Building a pizza today does that count? :D

Good morning builders☀️ Building or touching grass today??

@typecraft_dev My absolute peak in 3 months is 1m 👀 No idea how people do it cos I live on this platform 😭

How do you get 5M impressions in 3 months? Is this a skill issue?