Daniel Smidstrup

25. Solo dev. 0 followers. Starting from scratch. Goal: €5-10k MRR in 12 months building micro-SaaS products with AI. No team. No VC. Just shipping and seeing what sticks. First product is live in 14 days or it's dead. Posting everything, the wins, the flops, the numbers.

@hii_mohit Such a good idea.

I just added a reward page for my new app If you buy my app ➝ write a tweet about it ➝ hit 1k views ➝ get 100% refund If your tweet hit 50k views ➝ +$50 in rewards

@RealBenzy128777 How do you do 400+ replies in a day? 😁

Do you know our dashboard will look like this in two weeks if we start supporting ourselves? What's stopping you from connecting now?

@JacobCounsell Finger response: I have built an SEO tool (like everyone else) but have added an MCP and/or CLI layer, trying to make it a tool Claude Code or similar AI tools can use to have a more full SEO lookup to find errors and improvements on sites.

What are you building? This isn’t Claude slop engagement farming, I’m actually curious and typed this with my fingers like a caveman. Drop your links 👇

@TVanWelsenes Yeah, it’s the way to go. I’ve been in both slow-moving startups and fast-moving scale-ups, and neither felt ideal, so now I’m trying a more controlled, solopreneur approach.

@DanielSmidstrup Thanks for the context, like your style of building and shipping fast to learn fast! Very valuable imo

⚡️ Builder Spotlight v2 is starts now! v1 was a hit (60+ submissions), let’s run it again!🚀 Building something? Drop your product below 👇 I’ll pick a few and: → break down what’s working → give actionable feedback → spotlight it to my audience Let’s build together 💪 #builderspotlight

@AleksejAros @Clicks2Sale Fascinating, so what was your conclusion? Is it a valuable product? What happened to it?

@Clicks2Sale @DanielSmidstrup Built this exact thing with MCP + Claude. Key is exposing Lighthouse, PageSpeed, and crawl data as structured endpoints. The iterative feedback loop is where it gets powerful - Claude can actually fix what it finds.

Status in numbers: 4 days building. 10 days left to decide: continue or start over. Website (2 days live): → 41 visitors → 2 signups → 0 paying X (2 days): → 48 followers Today: building stops (hopefully). Launching MCP server to MCP repos, lets people run seolint audits inside Claude Desktop. From here: outreach only. Reddit. X. Talking to real humans. The goal isn’t more features. It's finding out if anyone will pay.

@TVanWelsenes Much appreciated! Trying to just ship until something sticks. I’ve spent about 3–4 days building this now, and I’ll give it another 10 days or so to see if it’s a valid bet or just another stepping stone on the path to something else.

@DanielSmidstrup Thanks buddy! Will look into it!

@Akintola_steve SaaS guy here trying to utilize the recent advances in AI to the fullest to make my work and day-to-day 10x, if not 100x, more productive, while using this superpower to ship SaaS products until I find the perfect one.

So I only need 800 new followers to hit 10k? That being said, I would love to connect with more mutuals who speak, breathe, and eat tech. If this by any chance crosses your timeline, connect with me and state your tech stack and what you do

Thanks! I’ll take you up on that offer and let you know how and when you can test it. Right now, it’s working, so you can create an account and generate an auth key to connect with our MCP. Just create an account and let me know which email you used, and I’ll give you a bit more access than the trial usage I have right now which is only a single scan. Alternatively, you can wait a few days, I’ll set up a system so you can simply enter a code to gain access after signing up, which will avoid the hassle of going back and forth with me to increase your access level. seolint.dev

@DanielSmidstrup Rooting for you. 10 days is tight but the best validation windows are. Drop a link when the MCP server is live, happy to test it out.

@dramaricic Freemium is a difficult thing. I think it is needed for B2C or if you have a product that becomes more valuable with more users. Otherwise, I try to stick to only paid, or paid with a week or monthly free trial.

One of my posts in r/SideProject got 40k views in 24h. Result: -17 new users -0 paid users Maybe my freemium is a mistake?

@marclou Do we know what is the average age of startups sold on TrustMRR is?

Ship, sell, repeat.

Agree, I see MCP as a distribution form, while obviously the general product of good SEO input must still be useful. It has helped my own development, basically just being able to tell Claude to scan my site. It then is smart enough to summarize the results I return and ask if it should fix them or not, so definitely something I will be using even if I can't find a clear enough audience. But I will create some videos, seeing it "just work" feels amazing.

A server / endpoint that lets tools like Claude Code or other MCP-style clients run structured on-site analysis, find errors and optimization opportunities, and help improve a site iteratively? that sounds pretty awesome really. seo analysis exposed as an AI-native workflow component. The novelty can help get attention, but carrying the product unless the underlying workflow gain is obvious will require considerable effort. In other words- mcp can be the hook, but it can’t be the whole reason. that's just my opinion though.

@FlorinPop17 In the end, it should be a cost analysis of the creation versus upkeep. If it takes more time to maintain than to create, it’s better to just pay for a subscription. Only build it yourself if the solution doesn’t exist or if your requirements are extremely custom or specific.

Pay the subscription or vibe code the app yourself?

@chrissyinspace @tinyshots_ Inspiring to see, hope it keeps going well!

this is what 1.25 years of tiny ventures looks like this does include 15,300€ (~$17,600) in freelance revenue without freelance is ~$46,600 profit margin without freelance is ~70% really happy with the trend 🥰 (image generated w/ @tinyshots_) PS: can you tell when I bought the .com for @tinylaunch?

@SuhailHila11969 Seolint.dev

Hey founders 👀 Some of you are building genuinely great products Drop your product below 👇 Top ones get featured on EverFeatured 🚀

@BacLeodiv SaaS

Builders on X What are you building right now? - Ios app - Android app - Saas - Content I want more builders on my timeline. Let’s connect 🤝🏻

I have developed a CEO endpoint for AI that enables services using MCP or similar protocols (such as Claude Code) to perform structured on-site analysis. The system identifies errors and optimization opportunities, supporting iterative improvements for SEO and AEO performance. I appreciate your feedback :) The challenge then becomes if this way of distribution is new enough for it to be a valuable angle.

yeah totally fair - it’s a lot easier to say “go do targeted outreach” than to actually stop building, switch mental gears, and do it well and then come back to implement feedback observation back into the product. Switching job context like that is really really frustrating. what’s the product exactly, and who is it intended for?

@andrewzacker Impressive that is a nice speed to first sales, then something must be going right.

NO WAY! $19 MRR just 10 minutes after the launch 🎉 Next goal: $100 MRR

@audiencon Claude code

What tool saved you the most time recently?

20+ SEO tools launched on TinyLaunch today. I'm not one of them yet, free tier has a 30 day waitlist. Funny to think about what May 4th might look like. Feels so far away. Might have launched multiple other products by then. But TinyLaunch seems like a great product, and I will get there one day. Also submitted to 3 MCP directories today. → mcp → smithery → glama The MCP ecosystem is early, but not sure it's enough. Competition is lower but not zero. The more I get into this niche the more it feels like differentiation is thin, not sure it's an angle worth going deep on. But let's see. Keeping this project active at least until April 14. Two week sprints exist so you can kill things fast and move on. If this isn't the one, that's fine. But the one takeaway already is that the builder community here on X is amazing and that's where I want to be for the near future.