Ivan
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Ivan
@ivan__bits
Building SupportWing: AI-first Customer Support Platform | Software Engineer at @dnsimple
Vietnam शामिल हुए Nisan 2016
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@martinrue It’s always great fun talking with Martin except this time there was a twist - we recorded it. It was great fun and I hope to do it again, and get better at it.
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You want long form? Careful what you wish for!
@ivan__bits and I recorded one of our internal Build Mode chats and decided to share.
We talk everything SaaS, AI, building, event systems, the future, belief vs truth, + more. A great convo, as always!
Link to full podcast in 💬
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I agree. And the outcome a VC is looking for is almost always an outsized return for their LPs. Unless the fund is a mission-driven one.
The "fast" part is not quite true. Because they want you to hit targets that would guarantee your next big funding round until you go public or get acquired, the timeline here is 5-10 years. If you fail to hit targets then you are a concern and will be replaced and the company's fate is a dice toss.
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> Taking VC money is not bad, if you are aligned with the outcomes you are both looking for and what it might mean for the business in case of failure to achieve them.
Completely agree. I just think this happens rarely in practice & most of the outcomes they look for are big exits, fast.
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Except they can! If you are built on a platform, there is a risk that the platform will block you or make you obsolete. Or a vendor doesn't like your business and blocks you.
I am a fan of building stuff. How? It doesn't matter!
Taking VC money is not bad, if you are aligned with the outcomes you are both looking for and what it might mean for the business in case of failure to achieve them.
Bootstrapping just means you are always in control of how you react to events and are always heavily resource-constrained.
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So you need to understand.
The comment on bootstrapping was for those that think of a job vs working on your own thing.
You can put blood sweat and tears into a job and be left with nothing because of mismanagement.
When you build your own, nobody can pull the rug from under your feet like this. You'll have the skills to make a living without depending on a cash cow.
I'm not saying drop everything and bootstrap a DB company. It's probably one of the most difficult things to do 😁
But not impossible
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@tibo_maker Prompting the community to build you a tool 😂. Maybe offer to be their first customer and spend time to explain your pain, current workflow, etc. Or hire a dev and build this internally, if this is going to save you a lot of time sounds like a good investment.
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Still ahead of Claude Sonnet in old-fashioned coding from scratch 💻
Show me your hand-coded goods humans 👇
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So, Cursor completely messed up my project, and I had to start over…
This time, I used @windsurf_ai, and the output is 10x better.
inkko@inkko44
Today’s goal: Refactor the entire theme system to create some beautiful custom color schemes.
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guys, i'm under attack
ever since I started to share how I built my SaaS using Cursor
random thing are happening, maxed out usage on api keys, people bypassing the subscription, creating random shit on db
as you know, I'm not technical so this is taking me longer that usual to figure out
for now, I will stop sharing what I do publicly on X
there are just some weird ppl out there
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@ivan__bits I'm at 3. Idea is to summarize with done with git history. Should have mvp up this week.
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If you are under 10,000 followers.
Leave a comment.
I was there not long ago.
Promise it’s worth the grind.
Keep going.
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No, need to buy a domain for every little thing you work on. Incubate them under your brand with a subdomain. If something proves itself, then find it a home in a domain of its own. This work is from a branding perspective and SEO.
People LOVE to procrastinate on random things like Logos, domains, and etc.
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@dmasiiii @AyushKhatr21401 Nice! I will give it a try. Reddit community suggestions would be great for where to post.
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@AyushKhatr21401 Btw I created a platform that uses Reddit for this very purpose postonreddit.com
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Guys, I want to launch my own SaaS, but every time I build something, I feel like nobody will use it. How do you deal with this?😭
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Prompt AI as product manager/designer, and work on a PRD. I'm oversimplifying it but that is my approach whenever I do not have access to a designer.
The problem is not so much the actual design with AI around it's hard to produce something truly visually displeasing. It's actually the UX, a difficult product will break the promise of delivering value to the user and the first chance they get they will churn.
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I feel nowadays the design of your product plays a significant role in conversion. Products with better design outperform others.
What are your go-to methods for improving your product's design?
#buildinpublic
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I use Next.js for most of my projects, both professional and side ones. With version 15+, trying to install it alongside React 19 throws several dependency resolution errors. It seems like some versions are mismatched, and forcing updates hasn't worked reliably for me yet.
For now, I'm sticking with Next.js 14 and React 18.
I am curious if there are other frameworks worth exploring. How's the experience with Remix? Haven't tried it myself yet.
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