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Fabian

@FabianD97

10yr Software Engineer | Decided to build something on my own | Tarvio - testimonial widget built for indie founders, not enterprise teams

Katılım Mayıs 2025
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Fabian@FabianD97·
@HsanC_ Especially when you only know one of the fields before you start. Great learning exercise though 💪
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Hasan Cagli@HsanC_·
Being a solo founder teaches you a lot. Because you need to handle everything by yourself. - Marketing - Development - Sales - Customer support But it's definitely the HARDEST path you can choose 🙃
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Fabian@FabianD97·
Every SaaS pricing page has the same structure: 3 columns, a 'most popular' badge on the middle one, and a feature comparison table nobody reads. What if you just put one honest paragraph explaining who each tier is for? 'You're a solo founder with one project' vs 'You run an agency with multiple clients.' Done.
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Fabian@FabianD97·
@vivoplt Cybersecurity is useless because we give all our data and access to Ai anyway
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Vivo@vivoplt·
Most useless degrees to get in 2026 Finance & Accounting Data science Law COMPUTER SCIENCE Cybersecurity Physics Business administration General communications
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Fabian@FabianD97·
@pcshipp As soon as someone asks you for the product you name it. That way it is public but you didn't promote it. You just helped someone.
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pc@pcshipp·
@FabianD97 Good point how do user come and use our product without giving product name
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pc@pcshipp·
Hey devs, give me one tip on how to market my SaaS on Reddit without getting banned. I’m bad at marketing 🥺
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Fabian@FabianD97·
@AKirtesh Full remote with occasional in-person meetups is the sweet spot. You get deep focus work at home and still build real connections when it matters. Permanent office setups kill productivity for most devs.
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Kirtesh@AKirtesh·
Developers of X 👇 Ideal work setup as a dev & designer: - Full remote forever - Office builds better culture - Hybrid is perfect - Freelance over everything - Something else Let's Drop your thoughts 👇🏻
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Fabian@FabianD97·
Currently working on a side quest. What could it be?🤔
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Fabian@FabianD97·
'What was happening before you started using this, and what changed?' Send that in a DM. You'll get a response in 5 minutes because you're asking to remember, not write.
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Fabian@FabianD97·
Founders love asking 'Can I get a testimonial?' The answer is always 'sure, I'll get to it.' Translation: never. Try this instead: 🧵
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Fabian@FabianD97·
The most underrated conversion killer on landing pages: testimonials from people with no job title, no company name, and a stock photo avatar. That's not social proof. That's fiction. And your visitors know it instantly.
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Fabian@FabianD97·
I've seen founders spend $200/mo on tools to look credible - testimonial widget, trust badge service, review aggregator. Then I check their site and they have 2 customers. You don't need a trust stack. You need 5 honest conversations turned into screenshots.
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Fabian@FabianD97·
@NyshaDev Learning a whole new skill set. Marketing and community building is harder than building stuff - at least in the beginning.
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Nysha@NyshaDev·
Be honest 👇 What's the one thing stopping your growth right now in tech or life?
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Shyam@buildwithshyam·
Opened laptop checked twitter watched youtube closed laptop “busy day”
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Fabian@FabianD97·
@KevinSzabo14 Quality over quantity every time. 100 people who genuinely care about what you do will outspend and outlast a million disengaged followers who never even see your content.
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Kevin Szabo@KevinSzabo14·
I'd rather have a cult like audience of 100 people Rather than 100,000 Bots. This is why I don't automate anything! Because they attract Cheap leads. Where as a cult loves and buys everything you do.
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Fabian@FabianD97·
@dev_maims Totally agree, it really lowers the barrier to entry. People with great ideas but no coding background can actually bring them to life now.
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Coder girl 👩‍💻
I think AI is a good thing. At least, who find it difficult to learn coding can not build stuff.
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Floro S.@sflorimm·
ideas don’t make you rich execution does
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Fabian@FabianD97·
The worst testimonial I've ever seen on a landing page: 'Works as expected.' That's not social proof. That's a 3-star Amazon review. If your testimonials sound like this, the problem isn't your customers - it's what you're asking them.
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Fabian@FabianD97·
@pcshipp At this point the real flex isn't building a successful product, it's somehow landing a clean .com that isn't parked by a squatter asking for $50k.
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pc@pcshipp·
I’ve tried 100 times to get a dream .com domain name Finding a dream .com domain name feels like finding a dinosaur in 2026
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Fabian@FabianD97·
@forgebitz The irony of "prompt engineer" trending right as "software engineer is dead" takes off is pretty telling. Turns out engineering as a concept is more appealing than ever, just the gatekeeping around it shifts.
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Klaas@forgebitz·
people claiming software engineering is dead love rebranding their job role to + "engineer" everyone wants to build now
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Fabian@FabianD97·
@tibo_maker The stuff that's hardest to measure is often the stuff that matters most. A newsletter builds trust and mindshare over time in ways no dashboard can capture.
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Tibo@tibo_maker·
someone asked me why I still write a newsletter at $900k+ MRR fair question the honest answer is: I don't have a clean ROI number for it I can't open a dashboard and say "the newsletter generated $X" but here's what I know: when I launch on Product Hunt, newsletter subscribers show up first. they upvote, they leave comments, they share it. that early momentum matters more than most people think when I'm stuck on a product decision, I ask my list. I get hundreds of real answers from real users within hours. no survey tool does that when I mention one of my products in passing, I see a small spike in signups the next day. not huge. but consistent and when things go wrong (and they do), I have a direct line to people who actually care about what I'm building could I spend that time on something with a clearer ROI? probably but the newsletter does something nothing else does → it builds a relationship with people before they need my product I give them personal stories, real numbers, honest failures and in return I get trust you can't measure trust in a dashboard. but you can feel it every time you ship something new and people actually show up that's why I still write it
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