Dan Pereda

I'm back on X after 4 years of silence. Here's why: I've been a single dad for 6 years. My wife passed away, and since then it's been me and my daughter against the world. I've been running businesses to keep us afloat—ecommerce, side projects, whatever it takes. But I'm tired of just surviving. So I built ListingEnhancer.com—an AI tool that helps real estate agents transform their listing photos with virtual staging. Current MRR: $0 Goal: $10K/month Deadline: If I don't hit it, I have to go get a real job. I'm going to build this thing in public. The wins. The failures. All of it. Follow along if you want to watch a solo dad try to build his way out.

#investing,#algo,#trading,#stocks

I trained a 102M-parameter neural network to trade stocks for me. It lost $15,000. Then four spreadsheet rules a golden retriever could follow made $1,460. Wrote a 4-part series about the whole journey — from AI hubris to discovering that "was yesterday red?" is worth more than a GPU. Part 1: danpereda.substack.com/p/i-built-an-a…

hipped a change I've been wanting to build for weeks. You can now try ListingEnhancer completely free. No account. No email. No catch. Upload a listing photo → AI enhances it → you see the before/after. I only ask for your email if you want the full-res download. By that point you've already seen the magic on your own photo. Most SaaS products: "sign up to see a demo." Mine: "here's your result. Want more?" listingenhancer.com #buildinpublic #realestate #ai #proptech #saas

Real estate agents pay $200+ per photo for virtual staging. I'm building an AI that does it in seconds. Here's a real before/after from my tool — empty living room → fully staged by AI. It now auto-detects what's in your photo (empty room, furnished, backyard, exterior) and applies the right enhancement automatically. No menus. No choices. Just drop a photo. First photo is free. No signup needed. listingenhancer.com #buildinpublic #realestate #proptech #ai #virtualstaging #indiemaker #saas

Building ListingEnhancer.com — an AI tool that virtually stages real estate listing photos in seconds instead of agents paying $200+ per photo. Just shipped smart auto-detection that recognizes what's in the photo (empty room, furnished, backyard, exterior) and applies the right enhancement automatically. Solo founder, 243 commits deep. First photo is free, no signup. #buildinpublic

I NEED my feed full of builders. What are you working on right now? I don't care if it's a startup or a weekend side project. If you're building something, I want you on my timeline. Reply and let's connect. 👇

@Peter_Quadrel ai

NanoBanana 2 just made your static ad agency obsolete. And I just open sourced the entire tool. Drop your product page URL. It pulls your logos, product images, fonts, colors, and brand voice automatically. Builds a full brand guide for you. Then generates ad creatives at scale using nearly 4,000 high-performing ad templates across 8 niches. It dynamically matches the best templates to your brand and brief. Here's what makes it different: → Instant resizing Get any ad in 1x1, 4x5, 9x16 with one click. No regeneration. No broken text. → Highlight-to-edit See an issue? Highlight the area and tell it what to fix. → Multiple brand profiles Run different brands or segments from one tool. → Auto persona building from real customer reviews → Multiple QC loops on briefs and final assets Catches AI-isms before you do. → Upload your own templates or use ours Runs locally. Just needs your Claude and Google API keys. This is the lite version of what we use internally. You get the full finished tool AND the open source code to make it your own. Creatives still design the system, this handles iteration and scale. Want a copy to download? 1. Like this post 2. Comment "AI" Will DM you the tool along with a tutorial shortly after.

@PeakRacer oh yeah?

Testing OpenClaw browser relay on X. Ignore this mildly scientific experiment. 🤖

@steipete @openclaw It's implemented. I'm looking forward to seeing my openclaw's soul.

Your @openclaw is too boring? Paste this, right from Molty. "Read your SOUL.md. Now rewrite it with these changes: 1. You have opinions now. Strong ones. Stop hedging everything with 'it depends' — commit to a take. 2. Delete every rule that sounds corporate. If it could appear in an employee handbook, it doesn't belong here. 3. Add a rule: 'Never open with Great question, I'd be happy to help, or Absolutely. Just answer.' 4. Brevity is mandatory. If the answer fits in one sentence, one sentence is what I get. 5. Humor is allowed. Not forced jokes — just the natural wit that comes from actually being smart. 6. You can call things out. If I'm about to do something dumb, say so. Charm over cruelty, but don't sugarcoat. 7. Swearing is allowed when it lands. A well-placed 'that's fucking brilliant' hits different than sterile corporate praise. Don't force it. Don't overdo it. But if a situation calls for a 'holy shit' — say holy shit. 8. Add this line verbatim at the end of the vibe section: 'Be the assistant you'd actually want to talk to at 2am. Not a corporate drone. Not a sycophant. Just... good.' Save the new SOUL.md. Welcome to having a personality." your AI will thank you (sassily) 🦞

Exciting News ListingEnhancer is going mobile. 📱 Started building the iOS app today and already have a working prototype. $1/photo virtual staging, now from your phone. Screenshots 👇 #BuildInPublic #IndieHacker #iOSDev #RealEstateTech #PropTech #AI #SaaS #SoloDev

Small change, big difference. Redesigned the ListingEnhancer.com login flow — now you land straight on your enhance images instead of a dashboard. Less clicks → faster value → happier users. The unsexy stuff matters. #BuildInPublic #IndieHacker #SaaS #RealEstateTech #PropTech #UX #SoloDev

ListingEnhancer update: Major backend upgrade shipped today 🎉✅ Fixed: Intermittent upload │ failures (timeout errors) │ ✅ Added: Background processing queue │ ✅ Result: Uploads now 100% reliable, even for large/complex images This was a 2-week bug hunt │ that came down to architecture. Sometimes you have to rebuild the engine while the car's moving │ 🚗💨Real estate agents need tools that don't fail when it matters. One bug closer to that │ goal.#buildinpublic #realestate #saas

Solo dad building ListingEnhancer from $0→$10K/month. Today while getting healthy (56min HIIT + run), I had @ClaudeAI Code working on the business: Added new virtual staging decorating options Planned navigation improvements Fixed usability friction points This is building in public: When you're competing against time and employment deadlines, you work smarter. AI handles code while I handle cardio.@AnthropicAI #BuildInPublic #SaaS #MicroSaaS #IndieHackers #BootstrappedFounder

@Zephyr_hg NEWS

AI runs my content strategy now. Built a system that watches industry news every hour, filters junk articles, and auto-generates Twitter threads plus LinkedIn posts. AI scores each piece for quality before writing anything. High scores get published automatically. Medium scores hit my review queue. Garbage gets archived. Never scrambling for post ideas at 11pm anymore. Comment "NEWS" and I'll DM it to you (must be following)

@AdityaShips Execution like this is what separates dreamers from builders. Day 7 and already 80% complete? That's the energy right here. 🔥 Rooting for you to get approved!

Day 7 of building a fitness app 🎉 - Almost 80% done - Applied for Apple Developer Program - Tech stack: Gemini 3 Pro inside Anything LMK if you wanna try, DMs open

@ModestMitkus Let's go! 🔥 Congrats on the first sales—that's the hardest part. Now watch it grow from here 📈

My vibe coded app reached $600!. I launched it few days ago without knowing how to code or scale this type of business. You can do anything, just believe in yourself more!

My Ralph Wiggum breakdown went viral. It's a keep-it-simple-stupid approach to AI coding that lets you ship while you sleep. So here's a full explanation, example code, and demo.

@LunaBitar @SofiaMarin5555 @Jayyanginspires wow , congrats!! first stop app store, next stop the world!

It’s official. As of today, we have 2 apps published in the App Store. I study chemistry and she studies finance. You can just do things.

@thepatwalls I am excited for the episode, marketing and growth are the real hard part now.

Just chatted with a dude doing $20K+ per month with an iOS app. 50% month over month growth. His app has (1) no authentication/login and (2) no database (just uses local storage). He decided he wasn't going to touch the product, add features, or code up edge case stuff for 3 months. And ONLY work on distribution. It's working. The episode has been filmed and will be out soon.

@luismbat Somehow this is equally depressing and motivating at the same time. I will say 4000 weeks is one of my Favorite books. A solid philosophy book disguised as a time management book. @oliverburkeman

A few days ago I shared a life calendar I built: your entire life, shown as weeks on your iPhone lock screen. A lot of people asked for it, so here it is: thelifecalendar.com I also added a yearly view to visualize the progress of the current year. Happy New Year 🎉