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@shipwithjay True but it’s incredibly hard to build a stripe alternative

stripe charging 2.9% + 30c on sub-$10 SaaS is brutal for indie hackers. We're losing 8-12% of revenue on small price points. The long tail of cheap SaaS is subsidising enterprise checkout. There's a $1B PSP waiting to be built here.

@ericsmith1302 TikTok is tough gotta create ads like organic content

In case you were wondering if my Meta ads strategy worked on TikTok ads... the answer is no 😭 Gonna need a whole need strategy

@foliofed No way this is moving the needle Gotta be something else

This is your sign to add llms.txt to your website ASAP

@zanehengsperger lol

ended up picking excel

@wickedguro X api is brutal

Ok, WTF. I have recently been charged $250 every 2 days by the X API. I had to investigate. Turns out, if somebody schedules a post with a link inside, X charges you $0.200, it's just insane. For 233 posts I had in one day, I was charged $43, WTF? What is this pricing?

@protosphinx Facts

The IPO system is broken. You don’t go public to raise growth capital anymore. You do it to dump equity on retail. NVIDIA went public at ~$600mn in 1999. Microsoft at 780mn. Oracle at ~270mn. Intel at 58mn! Today you won’t IPO even at $60 billion. At a $600 million valuation if you hit the jackpot and become a $60 billion company in public markets that’s a 100x return. Investing $10k as retail makes you a millionaire. This is wealth creation. At $60 billion there’s very little chance you get to $600 billion let alone 100x from there. You will certainly lose money as retail. Mathematically if you only allow $100 billion IPOs you’re basically capping upside at maybe 10-20x. There’s no more 100x or 1000x potential. And even 10x is extremely unlikely. Airbnb, Uber DoorDash are maybe 10x outcomes at best for retail investors. These are supposed be success stories of last decade. Apple Microsoft Tesla Google were all 100x opportunities for retail. So you’ve basically cut the average middle class investor out of the upside while private markets and insiders keep most of it for themselves.

@asaio87 Not true

Any app that can be coded in a day with AI is not worth building. Start building complex things.

@wickedguro Great post

I always think about what things you can do with → 0 MRR → 10K MRR → 20K MRR → 60K MRR → 93K MRR (current) → 100K MRR If we assume that we have no audience of connections (and no VC funds) --- 0K MRR I mostly focused on Reddit marketing for the open-source, pushing it as much as possible to get into the GitHub trending feed. I also published on Indiehackers . com, some social media, but not many impressions. Open source was the strongest drive. --- 10K MRR Still pre PMF, I try to find edges that not a lot of competitors are doing and have high demand (pivoted to automation - N8N, Make, Zapier), created the N8N official node, started to do cold outreach to Skool groups' founders about adding Postiz to their template/video in return for a lifetime deal, and provided additional help I can give. I also started to push more SEO, buying around 3 backlinks a month from SaaS websites and blogs, making a lot of free tools, but mostly directory backlinks, listing myself in every "awesome" GitHub list. Pay small directories, especially in open-source, for a monthly sponsorship listing. Keep pushing Reddit non-stop with the open-source on /r/selfhosted Refactoring the system many times, the only way to actually get people to use it is to build a really good product. --- 20K MRR Starting to get more brand for my SaaS, listing it on TrustMRR, and getting some creators reaching out to make a video like Starter Story. Automation is the main drive, still pushing the open-source nonstop. Doing a blitz of refactoring again, and moving all the system from Redis queue, to Temporal (best decision of my life) Try different influencers on X / TikTok and failed miserably - too expensive and not converting. OpenClaw released, and I quickly listed Postiz on every awesome directory / every marketplace, creating a SKILL / CLI - poking around the Hype. I built Posiz enterprise so people can add scheduling to their SaaS (headlessly) without Postiz. --- 60K MRR OpenClaw blows up, Oliver writes an article about how he makes money with Postiz, the article gets to 7 million views, and Postiz gets +1-3k MRR every day, and starts to control the narrative of agentic scheduling on X. I just reached the goal of +2 years in 1 month. Affiliate marketing is booming, and many affiliates are starting to push Postiz. I paid for affiliate marketing for 1.5 years and got no traction; now it's a super strong channel. I close Postiz enterprise, because it's just such a small amount of money compared to the bottom-up and requires constant support. --- 93K MRR (current) I understand the power of articles on X, which gets a lot more views than a normal post, reaches every person who uses Postiz, and offers paid collaboration. I built an influencer system over the weekend to track everyone I work with and send them messages on X from the system. Every article that I push with people gets 100k-500k views. Now we are no longer "selling a tool", we are selling "outcome", it's not an agentic social media scheduling tool. Now, here's how you can get tons of views for your product on TikTok (for example). Hired an employee and fired after a month, and then hired a super employee who is both technical and a community person. Postiz now becomes more of a technical tool than a marketing tool. Most support tickets are related to the CLI / OpenClaw, etc. Everybody tells me they see Postiz everywhere. --- 100K MRR (soon) Will start to experiment with ads. I haven't done that to Positz since the release. I believe brand is something you build organically. Once you have a brand and you know your ICP, ads become more viable. I am going to use AdKit with the Facebook /Google CLI to push ads faster (starting with Google), with less knowledge in this area, but I have money to play around. Influencer marketing is amazing, but it requires non-stop work, measurement, and orchestration. At some point, I will need to build an influencer management team. And scale it beyond X. --- Happy weekend :)

@im_roy_lee Talk your shit Roy hell yeah

u twitter ppl are always trying to bucket me as being a one trick marketer i solo designed, built, and marketed a fully bootstrapped product interview coder to >$1,000,000 profit in months maybe 5 people on this entire app can claim this it’s been ONE year since i’ve entered the arena, im barely 22, cluely is profitable, ive hardly touched any of the money from my last funding round, i’ve never even once thought of quitting, and the biggest “scandals” about me are overblown bullshit. truly, why would i not gun for a gigantic outcome? im so clearly more built for this than all you mfs who sit and talk ab me every day lol none of u have ever done what ive done and if you had, you’d think u were meant for more too

@anulagarwal Make more money

when you have had successful businesses why would you consult people for $2,400/hr? i don't get it?

@artman @linear lol too good

Today is a hard day. I shared this note with the @linear team today: We’ve made the difficult decision to increase our workforce. This is not a cost-cutting exercise or a reflection of anyone’s performance. We’re simply reimagining every role for the agentic AI era. We’re hiring. We’re sorry about that.

@paulswaney3 Boomerrrrrrrr

Young people massively underestimate how their public social media can kill high-paying job offers I have personally seen 5 offer letters pulled in NY over social media content. All were 300k plus total comp roles. Real cases If you are aiming for 85k forever, you are probably fine If you want bigger things, read this

@pcshipp Can’t spam the index with pseo pages Gonna get clapped

I’m confused here. I had 10K+ indexed pages 34 days ago, but now they’re getting deindexed Why is Google deciding to deindexing?

@nickco Alcohol

How are folks managing the cognitive overload in this AI wave?

@nikitabier So sick

A little Cashtag upgrade for the traders on X: Charts and prices embedded directly into posts $TSLA

@BEisenhart @loganallec @SMB_Attorney Have you been in the markets in the last 5 years?? Totally possible

@loganallec @SMB_Attorney Why don’t I think someone turned $35k to $11m in 6 years or $1.7m to $7m in 1 year? In the words of Ace Rothstein in Casino. “There is just one problem, he always guessed right.”

Guys, this is insane! For heaven’s sake, do not share your net worth on social media. And yes, this is legal advice.

@recap_david Agents

I built a local newsletter for the city of Spokane, WA doing $2K/month with 4 AI agents on staff and zero humans on payroll. The numbers: 6,000+ subscribers, $2,000+ in ad revenue last month, less than 4 hours of my time per week. Here's how the org chart works: → A CEO agent fetches metrics, hires teammates, and delegates work → A growth engineer builds scrapers, wires its own daily routine, and ships features → A content director drafts every newsletter edition from real local event data → A sales director sells ad inventory on autopilot → Each agent runs on Paperclip AI with its own skills, memory, and scheduled routines This is how you build a media business without ever hiring a human. Today, this tactic crushes. Tomorrow, every operator on AI Twitter will be running one. These windows of opportunity always only last so long... Comment "AGENTS" and I'll DM you the full setup video that you can use to build your own (must be following so I can dm you).

@indexsy Hard

Once a year I scroll back through the comments of the haters who danced on my grave. 90% of these mfs aren't even active anymore. The few left have been clapped into oblivion. Go to bed Jimmy, don't be late for work tomorrow.

3 months in and my new saas product crossed 1,000 signups Focusing on new acquisition channels this month to supercharge growth - SEO - paid ads - affiliates Onwards

12M context window Holy shit