Pawel Builds

I got my first ever SaaS subscriber to SecuSpark.com (other sub is me) Someone paid $25 for 3 months of full access to my little new EdTech game 🥹 Offically $8.33 MRR 😎 should I quit my full time SWE role yet?

i legit forgot i launched on product hunt today got off work, checked my phone, were at #26 with 75 upvotes and 98 signups 2 away from 100 on launch day.. first person to tip us over DM me, im sending extra in-game loot producthunt.com/products/secus…

if you passed security+ in 2023 your cert expires this year.. seeing a flood of panic posts on r/CompTIA about renewals. you have options: 50 CEUs pass a higher cert like cysa+ or retake. pro tip studying for cysa+ renews your sec+ AND levels you up two birds one study session

adobe just got breached through a third party BPO vendor not their own code.. 13 million records leaked. this is why security+ hammers third party risk management so hard your org is only as secure as your weakest vendor

i went from building intelligence tools at the department of defense to making a study app where you fight slime monsters by answering security+ questions.. life is weird

@Brodahilarious0 cybersecurity cert prep app.. making studying for security+ less painful for folks getting into tech

I'm looking to #connect with people who are interested in: - Build in Public - Full Stack - Startup - Tech - AI - Web3 Let's 🤝 and grow with valuable engagements.

@CogniCarbon mcafee wont save you from ai researchers if they decide to go after your stuff.. best move is patching and limiting what you expose online

Does anyone have any tips for how I can secure myself against superhuman level security researchers becoming available in the next 12 months? Will McAfee antivirus help?

@Om7248 building a cert prep app for security+.. small but growing and people actually come back which matters more than signups imo

Good morning 🌞 Fresh coffee. Fresh commits. What are you building today?

@Avestay_ nobody talks about the 90 days after launch.. most folks scramble to tweak features nonstop but 0 users = 0 feedback loops.. ive seen way more progress messaging 50 people than adding 5 features

“We launched a token, and it didn’t do well” That the reality for about 80% of devs. The problem is not what they think. If your project isn’t growing, it’s probably not your product It’s something founders ignore until it’s too late. Will walk you through it step by step🧵

@AlxTurovski nobody talks about how after launch day you spend 3-5 hours fixing stuff you didnt even know could break.. analytics always breaks first, QA finds some edge case, devops ghosts you for an hour.. its always chaos, but its the real stuff

Didn't feel like posting at all today. We launched our product (my day job) at a big corp today. And it was close to chaos. QAs, analytics, DevOps, something was off everywhere. It wasn't catastrophic, but we definitely didn't crush it. Then I opened X, saw the usual "consistency is key" and "code is not the hard part" posts, and weirdly, it made me smile. So here I am, posting a survival story in case it does find its reader.

@TTrimoreau MMORPG for learning IT certificates gamified learning secuspark.com

Hey founders ! Looking to connect with people building in: 🍽️ SaaS 🚀 Tech 📲 Automation 🧠 AI tools 📱 Product Development 🔥 Web APP 💻 Devs Drop what you're working on👇

If you don’t want to mess with n8n you can always prompt Claude to build the skills and connections for you and get the same thing.

@king40408 here u go reddit.com/r/ITCareerQues… update post where they went from 75k to 90k with sec+ cysa+ and homelab projects..

@PawelBuilds Can you post the reddit thread??

just saw someone on reddit land a 95k soc analyst role with security+ and a homelab.. certs DO matter stop listening to the people who say they dont

if you passed security+ in 2023 your cert expires this year.. seeing a flood of panic posts on r/CompTIA about renewals. you have options: 50 CEUs pass a higher cert like cysa+ or retake. pro tip studying for cysa+ renews your sec+ AND levels you up two birds one study session

march 23rd someone named ian became my first paying customer on a product i built alone for months.. $24.99 founders tier.. i know thats nothing but seeing that webhook notification hit my phone while i was debugging at 1am was genuinely one of the best feelings ive had building software

45,000 people saw my pages on google last month and only 95 clicked.. thats a 0.2% click rate lol impressions feel good until you realize theyre basically vanity metrics.. now rewriting every title and building practice test landing pages because turns out informational content just gets answered in the search results

r/ITCareerQuestions is full of "is help desk even worth it in 2026" posts.. help desk without certs is a dead end but help desk WITH a+ and security+ is a launchpad. the cert isnt the destination its proof youre serious

adobe just got breached through a third party BPO vendor not their own code.. 13 million records leaked. this is why security+ hammers third party risk management so hard your org is only as secure as your weakest vendor

i went from building intelligence tools at the department of defense to making a study app where you fight slime monsters by answering security+ questions.. life is weird

a help desk tech on reddit almost reset a VPs password for a social engineer this week.. the attacker had their name employee ID and home address all scraped from linkedin. this is security+ domain 1 in real life not a textbook scenario and most people wouldnt have caught it