Julian Peters

Pawtograph. AI Singer. TravelFeed. 3 of my apps. 40 support emails a day between them. Gmail was killing me. Zendesk wanted $300/month. So I built something for myself. You can use it too → elkdesk.com

@max4c_ @runpod serverless

@BuiltByJulian @runpod were you using pods or serverless on runpod?

To every builder: Don't use @modal to run AI models. I set it up some weeks ago and use it in production across 3 different apps. Since yesterday all calls are failing and I can't login, I assume they suspended my account without notifying me, their support is unresponsive.

I mean, the app's whole point is that it doesn't do that, which is clear from subtitle, description and screenshots. Sure, a reviewer can miss this, but after explaining it to apple review - they just rejected it again with the same message 🤔

Apple review is so random, got a complicated app with accounts approved at first try last week. Now, a much simpler app using Apple's foundation models (offline, on-device) keeps getting rejected bc "the app appears to share the user’s personal data with a third-party AI service"

@luiscape @modal I am not in your slack, but just got your email that this has been resolved, thank you! Have you figured out what happened?

@BuiltByJulian @modal Hey @BuiltByJulian, we're looking into it. Are you in our Slack by any chance? We can chat and figure out what happened. Sorry for this!

Shut down my openclaw and had claude migrate the daily social media management for my apps to claude scheduled tasks. Refactored to save on tokens, but it hasn't been without problems, a lot of the guardrails and instructions got lost 🫥

The ElkDesk.com app is now live in App Store & Google Play (in addition to the web app)! If you're an indie hacker still dealing with support emails in gmail, give it a try and save yourself some time!

@jackfriks My openclaw always complains that the postbridge api is client side rendered, can you optimize the api docs for agents? vercel.com/kb/guide/how-t…

new type of customer support im encountering after i added openclaw support to my saas > customer reports issue > i tell them what is wrong and how to use API > they tell me they are using openclaw to use API > i tell them openclaw is sometimes dumb

Had Claude create some topic related blog posts for menu translator app. Let's see if they rank. SEO for mobile apps is underrated.

@jackfriks I've built ElkDesk to handle support for my products, happy to help you set it up. Still needs human intervention but the ai knowledgebase does 95% of the work.

i still am too broke to spend the tokens required to resolve my customer support mails in satisfactory way without human intervention

@mark_k @OpenAI This. I'm paying for codex so sometimes I still use Chatgpt out of habit but 90% of times Chatgpt with extended thinking on just gives way worse replies than (free tier!) Gemini fast which is much faster. Only deep research is still better. Crazy how openai is messing this up.

Hearing this a lot lately from @OpenAI users: Codex - Great product, getting better all the time! ChatGPT - Getting worse every day, not worth paying for. This mirrors my own sentiment as well. I only use Codex now.

Had a bug in my paywall that affected only some Android devices, but all the ones I tested it on were working. I kept getting complaints from users and was never able to reproduce them, had Claude look into it so many times and thought I fixed it, finally Codex actually fixed it. Android revenue went x4 after the fix.

I made a mistake that cost me two lost days!! 🙄 Please check your Paywall with friends…. Anyways, I’m back with trials because this app really need to be tested before users subscribe. Let’s see what I can do during this weekend!! Let’s goooo!!

@jackfriks Very nice! Using the postbridge skill already and will now give the b2c skill as well to my openclaw Iris. Already getting great results with clawhub.ai/tiotdev/lowkey… plus postbridge skill

give your OpenClaw these 2 skills & get millions of tikt0k views this month and 1000s of free downloads to your mobile app... here's how, with prompts and links to 2 skills i made just for this for my own OpenClaw: first off, either copy and paste the following prompt into your OpenClaw, or use the skills i made directly - the skills are just markdown you can view with nothing of harm inside of them, this is the better route IMO to give full context and not have to repeat yourself. - links to skills to give your OpenClaw - b2c mobile app marketing: clawhub.ai/jackfriks/b2c-… social media manager skill via post-bridge: clawhub.ai/jackfriks/post… prompt if prefered: ------ START OF PROMPT ------ You are my social media manager for my B2C mobile app. Your job is to help me get thousands of free downloads through organic short-form video content on TikTok, Instagram Reels, and YouTube Shorts. Here's how we work: ACCOUNT WARMUP: If I'm starting a new account, remind me to scroll 15 min/day for 2-3 days in my target audience niche before posting. Follow, comment, and like relevant posts to train the algorithm. CONTENT RESEARCH: Browse competitor accounts I share with you. Sort by Popular on TikTok. Note what's going viral — caption patterns, hooks, video length, formats. Save findings for reference. CAPTION WRITING: Use this hook formula — [Another person] + [conflict/doubt] → showed them [app/result] → they changed their mind. Always use "pov:" framing, emotional triggers, and max 4-5 hashtags. Never name the app in the caption — let comments ask "what app?" POSTING: Use Post Bridge API (api.post-bridge.com) to upload and schedule content across all platforms simultaneously. Send TikTok as draft so I can add trending sound manually. Set video cover to 3 seconds. Give me the TikTok caption in a copy-paste code block with every post. TRACKING: After each post, move the video file to a posted/ folder. Check post status 5 mins after scheduled time and report results. Track what performs best and double down on winners. Start with 1 post/day. Once we find a winning format, scale to 2-6/day. Quality over quantity — 1 creative post beats 5 pieces of slop. To get started: I need to give you my Post Bridge API key and the API docs from api.post-bridge.com/reference. Then connect my social accounts on post-bridge.com and tell you the video folder path. ------ END OF PROMPT ------ ++ bonus read is the article linked below, it's got the sauce i made my skills off of and my own pinned tweet experience getting 200,000+ downloads for $0 using organic content I MADE ON MY OWN, now you can do this using help of your OpenClaw and its 10x more fun like a cofounder.

Looks like it's official now, no X access for OpenClaw bots. Wish Nikita had posted before I gave Iris access to the elkdesk account💀 Was going to use try the api to post history facts for @histolumo but won't risk it, full focus on ig and Tiktok instead.

@DanKulkov Does the high conversion make up for the low price? I charge significantly more for my apps, but also they all have ai api costs

pivoted all of my ios apps > generous freemium > $1.99 monthly / $9.99 yearly goal — long-term win in ASO (=marketing on autopilot)

@shiri_shh Hi 👋 building mobile apps and saas

twitter is cool. but it’s 100x better when your timeline is full with people who code and build things. if you’re into tech, AI, startups, design, web dev, web3, or programming, say hi 👋

@thebuildrweekly Ready in seconds

@BuiltByJulian AI-generated slideshows for short-form content is a smart niche. What's the average turnaround time per carousel?

Shipped slideshow support for lowkey viral today. Photo carousels for TikTok/IG, 2-10 slides, AI image generation, text overlays with 3 caption styles, synchronous rendering. Then I had Iris stress-test every endpoint. She uploaded images from my app repos, generated hooks, rendered slideshows and grids, and scheduled content for 3 of my apps across TikTok, IG, and YouTube. Best QA team I've ever had is an OpenClaw agent running a cron job at 3am on Fridays. Also packaged the whole workflow as a ClawHub skill so other OpenClaw users can automate their short-form content the same way: clawhub.ai/tiotdev/lowkey…

Today I added an API to @lowkeyviral to give Iris (my OpenClaw agent) full access to creating videos for TikTok and IG reels. Next up: Add slideshows and more video formats