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Building @beplan_app | First-time founder, dad 👶 | Sharing honest lessons in public | #BuildInPublic

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Max@MaxInPublic·
Aaaaaand we're live on @ProductHunt ! After months of building in public @Beplan_app, it is finally launching. There are a lot of awesome stuffs coming soon too! If you could take 2 minutes to upvote and share, it would mean the world for me 🙏
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Max@MaxInPublic·
@benjamincode Je déteste ça, j'ai juste ajouté l'anglais comme langue secondaire pour qu'il arrête de traduire
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Benjamin Code@benjamincode·
Vous aussi votre feed X est entièrement traduit dans votre langue ? Je trouve ça ignoblissime ! L’idée est bonne mais laissez nous au moins choisir si oui ou non on veut activer ça…
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@T_Zahil Take time for you Thomas, and if you need anything I'm here to help!!
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Thomas Sanlis 🥐@T_Zahil·
I tried a few things and did a lot of reflection on this the past few days. Here's my conclusion, and my plan for the next 3 weeks 👇🏻 In the current state of things, I can't take 2 or even 1 day off without being overwhelmed by the number of messages I get accross all channels And with AI-generated content everywhere, it's getting completely out of hands I receive more than 100 messages every day, and 70% of them are slop, or could be avoided So, here's my plan to take my freedom back 1️⃣✅ Adding "office hours" to my support 2️⃣ Automate as many support messages as I can with AI. I'm going to build my own system for this, as the existing ones are way too expensive for what they do, and most of them don't handle spam and low-quality content as I want. 3️⃣ If you send me an AI-generated message with no value, I'll block you and will not answer you anymore. 4️⃣ I'll make Uneed's waiting line paid ($5) again, at least for 3 months. Last time I did this, it drastically reduced the amount of spam I had on the website, but also in my inbox for some reason. 5️⃣ I will learn to say "no". If you ask me to try your product, to give you feedback on your landing page, to give you advice etc, I will probably say no. This is not personal, I just need my mental health back. 6️⃣ I will hire someone to help me with Uneed Residency planning. Remotely first, but also on-site. It will cost me money (it will be REALLY FAR from being profitable), but I need it. My goal: being able to take at least 3 days off without too many consequences.
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For the first time in my life, I feel like I have had too much on my plate the past month 😵‍💫 I've been working like crazy, and even though I managed to keep seeing my friends, stay active etc, I started noticing a few things 👉🏻 It's getting extremely difficult to answer my messages, professional and personal. I gave the priority to customer supports, sales etc, and often neglected the personal messages. Result: my whatsapp is full of unanswered conversations... It's a huge mental burden 👉🏻 I gave up on a lot of "tiny habits" I had just to gain more time. For example, I used to take my coffee on my balcony, without doing anything, for 10m every morning. I haven't done that for 3 weeks now 👉🏻 I started to plan my cycle rides. I know it sounds like nothing, but I always disliked planning things, especially this 😅. I like to go with the flow and go for a ride when I feel like it. I haven't done that for a few weeks, and now it feels like an effort to go biking, because it's planned in advance 👉🏻 I started having trouble disconnecting from my work. My attention span is lower than ever, and even talking with my partner feels difficult sometimes. Which is weird cause I'm usually very talkative 👉🏻 I didn't write a blog post for more than 3 weeks. I used to like writing blog posts, because it felt like a pause, and a way to step back and think deeply about a topic for an hour or two. 👉🏻 I haven't done any work on Writizzy, my other project, for weeks. Because I gave all my focus and time to Uneed. Good for business maybe, but I like working on Writizzy. I don't think I'm having a burnout, but I do think I'll soon burn myself if I don't stop this madness 😅. So this week, I'll take it easy. No calls, no 10 hours working day. I have a few things planned for Uneed though, but I'll also try to work on Writizzy, do some gardening, cooking, special time with my partner, etc. I think I'll also start to stop replying to everything, including some DMs 😕. What do you think? Did you already experiment something like that? What did you do 😅?

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Thomas Sanlis 🥐@T_Zahil·
6.5 million API requests in 30 days. 850+ paying customers. And he's just getting started. We're continuing the resident introductions for the Uneed Residency. Today: @DmytroKrasun ! Dmytro describes himself as a founder who cares more about what works in production than what sounds impressive in a pitch. The kind of quiet builder who ships solid infrastructure while others make noise. His project: ScreenshotOne, the best screenshot API for developers and AI agents. Not the flashiest product on paper, but the numbers speak for themselves 😅. Dmytro was one of the first person I followed here on Twitter, 6 years ago 🤯 His current goal: reach 1,000 customers and lower churn. Scale problems, not validation problems. A luxury many would love to have. What he's coming to the residency for? Meeting people. Plain and simple. Talking to real people in real life is his theme for the year. When you spend your days behind an API, that makes sense. Fun fact: Dmytro once cycled ~300 km off-road through a desert over 5 days, sleeping in a tent and sometimes searching for water. Compared to that, reducing churn should be a breeze 😅. More coming soon, we'll introduce all the residents before the residency kicks off 😊.
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Thomas Sanlis 🥐@T_Zahil·
8 products in 3 years. The first 7? Flopped, sold, or killed by API pricing changes. But the 8th is the one 😏. We're continuing the resident introductions for the Uneed Residency. Today: Luca Restagno! Luca is an engineering manager by day, indie maker by night. The classic 9-5 / 5-9. And he doesn't slack on the second half. His current project: BlackTwist, a social media toolkit for Threads. Yes, Threads. After 3 years building his audience on X/Twitter, he decided to go all in on another platform. Even he admits it's a bit mad 😅. But it's working: recently, a single viral post on Threads brought in 120 signups at once. The kind of signal that confirms there's a real market. The challenge, like many here? Marketing. The product is solid, now it needs more eyes on it. What he's coming to the residency for: meet passionate people, exchange experiences with no filter, and come back more energised than ever. Fun fact: Luca started snowboarding at 40. According to him, it still felt less risky than launching another SaaS 😂 More coming soon, we'll introduce all the residents before the residency kicks off 😊.
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Max@MaxInPublic·
@cinamarina Damn i went a few weeks ago, i wanna go back 😭 Tbh when i go ski i don't feel bad about it. But also when i came down to the apartment i went back to building 🤣
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Marina Cina@cinamarina·
Touched grass today! Somehow I feel guilty about it. Am I alone?
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Thomas Sanlis 🥐@T_Zahil·
10K€ MRR in a year and a half. Solo. In real estate. We're continuing the resident introductions for the Uneed Residency. Today: @Pauline_Cx ! Her main project, IACrea, is a marketing solution for real estate agents. And the track record speaks for itself: going from zero to that milestone as an indie is no small feat. Today, IACrea is mostly known in France and Belgium. The next step? Going international. And that's exactly why the residency comes at the right time: a full week surrounded by builders from all over Europe is a pretty good playground to rethink your growth strategy 😎. What she's coming for: connect with other indie hackers, learn as much as possible, and have fun building. And if you're wondering why Pauline has a solid instinct about platform dependency risks... She once launched a project built on the X API. Two days after launch, X announces the API is now paid-only: $42,000/month. There you go 😅. Lesson learned. More coming soon, we'll introduce all the residents before the residency kicks off 😊.
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Max@MaxInPublic·
@T_Zahil Thanks for all the hard work!!
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Thomas Sanlis 🥐@T_Zahil·
I bet you didn't expect this one 😅 We're continuing the resident introductions for the Uneed Residency, with today: Hugo Lassiège, co-founder of Malt and co-founder of Writizzy! Hugo's journey is a bit unusual in the indie hacking world. In 2012, he co-founded Malt, one of the world's leading freelance platforms, now with 700 employees. The kind of trajectory most people would consider a destination! But a year ago, he went the other way. He left Malt, back to solo, back to code, back to indie hacking. And since then, he's been sharing all that experience: wins, struggles, lessons... On his blog and YouTube channel. His current project, I know it well since we're working on it together: Writizzy, a European blogging platform, accessible, no AI, and a direct competitor to Ghost, Medium etc 👀. In 6 months: 360 blogs created, 65,000 visits on user blogs last month, and €200 MRR. His biggest challenge? Distribution. Like many dev-founders, building the product is the easy part. The platform is now "complete", so it's time to tackle marketing! What he's coming to the residency for? Good vibes, plain and simple. Hugo loves building, and he loves talking about it with people doing the same thing even more. Fun fact: he spent a year in Tokyo, but the best ramen he's ever had was in Paris 😎. More coming soon 👋🏻
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Max@MaxInPublic·
@mauricekleine That doesn't look like Product Hunt 👀
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Maurice Kleine 🍄@mauricekleine·
After MONTHS of hard work, I'm proud to announce: PH comments in Mockly 🫦
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Thomas Sanlis 🥐@T_Zahil·
This is THE person I want to sponsor the Uneed Residency Maybe the only French entrepreneur who understands that solopreneurs/indie hackers are the future. Imagine what he could do if 3 times a year, we were gathering 10-15 of the best indie hackers in the world in France for a 2-weeks residency 🥹
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Be @Xavier75: > get a computer at 15, start hacking > drop out of school at 19 > build adult chat services on Minitel > become a millionaire by 24 > invest in France's first ISP (Worldnet) > sell for €30M right before the dot-com crash > disrupt French telecom with €2/mo mobile plan > take your company public > become a billionaire > spend €70M building 42, a free coding school > invest €250M to build Station F > Station F becomes world's biggest startup campus > co-found Kima Ventures > invest in 100+ startups/year, seed 17 unicorns > buy Monaco Telecom for $445M > nuy Orange Switzerland for $2.7B > rebrand to Salt > sell 90% of Salt's towers for $800M to Cellnex > acquire 7+ of biggest French media > launch Kyutai, a nonprofit AI lab (€300M budget) > back Mistral AI as a seed investor > join the boards of KKR and ByteDance > net worth: $14B+ absolute French tech legend 🐐
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This guy is our French Elon Musk (even cooler than Elon, I would say) He just released a new mobile service that covers all of these red countries (doesn't mean they're communists) with unlimited data for €19.90/mo. Now I can just use my French number in Indonesia 🫶

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@dayonefoundry Wow, couldn't have said it better hahaha And it's not just bad products, reality is, it's bad copies
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David@dayonefoundry·
@MaxInPublic we always overcorrect. We used to have good products with lack of marketing. Now we have bad products with bad marketing and people's solution is to find a way to automate spam more bad marketing
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David@dayonefoundry·
Hot Take: STOP focusing on marketing and go make your product better Everyday I see a new AI short form generator priced at $29/ month. I pay someone $2500/ mo for clips Other creators pay $20k+/ mo Your product is not good enough if the 98.8% in savings doesnt make me switch
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🚨 Big news. Brieform has been acquired by @TallyForms for $50k ! It's been a wild ride. Truly honored to join the Tally family and excited for what's next.
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@T_Zahil @SoraiaDev So curious about learning more about MiroMiro! I don't know anything about the chrome extensions market!
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Thomas Sanlis 🥐@T_Zahil·
The Uneed Residency is in less than 2 months. 10 entrepreneurs, 1 week, 1 manor in Nantes, France. We're continuing the resident introductions. Today: @SoraiaDev! Soraia describes herself as a chill person who builds stuff out of passion. But honestly, when you look at her track record, the "chill" is hiding a lot 👀. Her first product, MiroMiro, is a Chrome extension that lets you inspect any UI and extract design assets. She launched it on Product Hunt and landed #2 (against Tibo, by the way 😏). What followed surprised even her: people she'd never reached out to started writing blog posts and making videos about MiroMiro all over the world. Pure organic visibility. Every indie hacker's dream!! The challenge now? Conversion. Getting visibility is one thing, turning it into revenue is another, and Soraia is honest about it: it was her very first product, and monetization is still a real work in progress. Side note: who here actually made money from their first product 😱?? More recently, she's been working on PocketUI, a personal design inspiration library connected to AI coding tools. Another browser extension! What she's coming to the residency for is simple: meet other builders in person, learn from their experiences, and walk away with concrete ideas to apply to her products. More residents coming soon!! we'll introduce all of them before the residency kicks off 😊.
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Max@MaxInPublic·
Je ne suis pas celui avec le plus de succès dans les SaaS mais si tu as besoin d'un oeil extérieur c'est avec plaisir😁 Après le fait de passer en freemium a peut-être aussi tank tes ventes, peut-être qu'il est trop permissif Aussi, c'est pas forcément lié mais pour moi le site est à moitié en anglais et à moitié en français (je viens d'aller voir la page des plans) je te mets le screen Des idées comme ça que j'ai eu en regardant la vidéo (je ne sais pas si c'est applicable): - Si tu es en essai, peut-être glisser des cards de success stories de tes utilisateurs pour créer du "FOMO". En mode "Thanks to meet sponsor, X has been in contact with Y sponsors" ou alors tu peux dire a gagné tant - Les 7 recommendations si c'est pas au total, c'est peut-être beaucoup pour le plan gratuit?
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Benjamin Code@benjamincode·
@MaxInPublic Merci beaucoup Max ! Le jour où je me sors de cette impasse je vais être vraiment heureux je pense ! J’ai encore pas mal de trucs à essayer. Mais j’en ai marre d’essayer en vain donc faudrait que les prochaines choses soient les bonnes !
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Benjamin Code@benjamincode·
Nouvelle vidéo : "La pire période de ma vie d'entrepreneur." youtu.be/uzh_MOiAUII J'ai changé quelques trucs pour améliorer mes ventes et depuis, j'en fais plus une seule et ça me flingue... Je suis rentré dans un cycle de l'enfer où j'itère en boucle sans trouver...
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