Oliver

I will skip highschool to stay in SF and build my startup at 17. Or should I just give up and fly back to my home country in 24 hours? You decide.

@mojombo happy birthday Tom!!! thank you so much for supporting HackClub and making GitHub 🙏

I turned 47 years old yesterday, so it's time for my traditional reverse birthday present! This year, I'm sending 47 teenagers to Shenzhen, China (the electronics capital of the world) to build hardware at Hack Club's Fallout, our flagship electronics hackathon! Fallout is a free, in-person hackathon in Shenzhen by Hack Club open to teenagers ages 13–18. Participants spend one week designing, manufacturing, and assembling their own electronics at the source, visiting the legendary Huaqiangbei markets, touring PCB fabs, and shipping a finished hardware project by the end of the trip. I'm covering travel and build costs for the first 47 teenagers! To sign up, all you need to do is go to fallout.hackclub.com and start building. For example, heres a custom made expressive midi controller based on the stm32 ecosystem. Built by a 17 year old from NYC: github.com/udu3324/stm32p… Now go build something cool!

@ayushxpundir alr

@olivercingl You definitely should. With custom font and background options, it will be perfect.

should I make this into a product?

@buildwithsid lol

it's kinda crazy how many of my old friends have found me again through my posts even with no contact from years internet is actually wild

@31Carlton7 @vercel @aisdk W

just wrapped up my first week at @vercel and @aisdk initial thoughts: - pace is insane. onboarding was only two days then they get us working in prod codebase immediately after - you don’t wait for permission, people pull you in, unblock you, and expect movement - working/building in public is part of the culture learned so much in a short span, and took on great skills and techniques that i’ve already implemented in my projects (like @stora_sh) looking forward to a great summer with this team!!

@buildwithsid W

this project is gonna cost me soo fucking much, but im still doing it for the love either it bankrupts me, or makes generational wealth, we'll have to see that but i'm sure you guys will love it

@buildwithsid ship fast first, then make it perfect. by shipping fast you can quickly see what's working and what isn't (what users want and don't), then you know what to focus on and you can keep making that perfect

my biggest problem is that i try to find perfection in everything i make meanwhile the people i look up to are just shipping stuff fast, vibe coding half of it and they're the ones actually winning.

@buildwithsid shipp fast first, then make it perfect. by shipping fast you can quickly see what's working and what isn't (what users want and don't), then you know what to focus on and you can keep making that perfect

@buildwithsid daaayum nice

just bought $2k worth of credits building something cool fuck it, we ball

@jackfriks W

just passed a major milestone for total revenue across all my internet businesses ($420,069) AMA

@thorstenball 😭🙏🙏🙏

What's /~?

@NotTuxedoSam sick

new monitor day 😍

@TecEdSocial LFGGG

I was at McDonald's with my mom and sister when it happened. My first internet money(9 freaking dollars$$$) Well, not exactly. I'd just left them to go home and work. It was around 9pm. I open my laptop and there's an email. Someone paid for my product. $9.10. My first ever paying customer. After 3 years of failing. I genuinely thought it was a test notification at first. I test everything constantly so I get those all the time. But this one was different. It wasn't me. It didn't have [Sandbox] written in the title. It wasn't my email. It was real. I couldn't believe it. I started trying to indie hack in April 2023, right after I finished university. I'd just read about @levelsio a solo founder making $1M+ a year building software products. Something in my brain just switched. I looked at the job market waiting for me here in Portugal. 1,000€/month. And I thought: I don't want this. I want freedom. Geographic, financial, all of it. I want my mom to stop working as hard as she has her whole life. So I started building. And I failed. A lot. Built SaaS that went nowhere. Pivoted. Killed projects that didn't make sense. Eventually went into freelancing (SEO/CRO for local businesses and SaaS) just to make money and that's actually where I found the pain point that became vitelnk vitelnk is a way to share videos with prospects so you can book more meetings and close more deals. I cold email businesses, send them a personalized video audit, and actually see when they watch it and for how long so I can follow up at the right moment. Private links, disable downloads, email-gating, pretty much everything you need. Stuff other platforms just didn't have. A few months in, almost 2,000 visitors. 57 users(some were my test accounts) . 83% bounce rate. And $0. Then I rebuilt my entire landing page! Stopped talking about how great my app is and started talking about their actual problems. Focused on their pain (which I found with my own research and leadverse a tool by @jakubmuzzik that allows me to get information on potential buyers pain points they face with other tools and features they need) and the benefits of using video to secure more meetings. Days later, the email came in. I don't even fully know how she or he idk… found me. I built an analytics tool and STILL hadn't wired up the revenue tracking properly. No idea where she/he came from. Doesn't matter. They saw the value even without fully trying the product and bought a sub. Most indie hackers never get here. I've watched founders come and go on this app for years because they couldn't get a single one. And now I did. It's $9. It's nothing. But it's everything. I want more. I need more. And I'm not stopping. Would you?

@athcanft nice

this took me 5 years of failing and 1 month of tiktok ads

@charlesng116 likewise

@olivercingl 🙌🙌 excited to follow your journey

I just quit my job today. Ready to go indie hacking full-time! 🙌🥰

@Im__Tawhid what do you mean

@olivercingl I thought that was just the start??

what is happening to my feed

@dpvidl @UWaterloo @mercor_ai @axiommathai damn I should try that sometime

@olivercingl @UWaterloo @mercor_ai @axiommathai have aura

hey everyone! i’m david - 1st year cs + math @uwaterloo, 18 - currently engineering intern @mercor_ai - incoming research @axiommathai - 3x olympiad (usamo, usaco, bpho) - 2x national champion in math contests - flown out to sf, nyc, and boston during first year (once on a private jet) - research under princeton phys. dept. head at 16 - just downloaded beli but idk how to use it my life goal is to surround myself with amazing friends and experience everything life has to offer. will be at startup school in july and palo alto in the fall. love meeting new people, hmu if you want to connect!

@buildwithsid true

@olivercingl do it man, you can always try :)

@ManavGarkel yes

@olivercingl subtitle tooling is one of those problems where existing tools charge $30/month for what's basically an API wrapper. the distribution moat matters more than the tech here.

@Im__Tawhid check my profile if you wanna know ;)

@AdarshSingh_in alr

@olivercingl hell yeah