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One year later. From: ~$1,000 total revenue To: - $40k total revenue - $2.5k MRR - 55k users Thank you to the builders who shared their journeys. You inspired me to start.

Everyone wants to automate. Very few people are willing to do the boring work long enough for it to matter.

@huyphamm85 Best Notice 👏

The benefits of having an app business! You’re getting paid even when you’re sleeping. Happy Sunday everyone!

@athcanft This is the businessman's opinion.

fuck the product hunt launch fuck the waitlist fuck the landing page put a few hundred $$ into tiktok ads on day 1 and you'll know if your app can make money

93 new users this week. No ads. SEO is quietly doing its job @AnhNguyen070298

@hieudinh_ King of SEO

Didn’t expect this, but GetSteps.app outperformed Compresto.app in June 🤯

New sales are down. Renewals are keeping revenue stable. Looks like I’ve reached the point where distribution matters more than features.

@leododev It definitely looks way cooler 😂

@TeeDevh I chose first option because i am a builder 😆

Become a great software engineer and hire a marketer. or Become a great marketer and hire software engineers. Why?

@UmarSaeedX something I don't have

@TeeDevh Non-technical founders can offer unique perspectives.

Can a non-technical founder build products for developers? What do you think? 🤔

@bydhruvil zero

@TeeDevh how many blogs you had to write for this man

If I had to start over today I’d work on SEO from day one. Google compounds while I sleep.

People love the idea of "passive income" Reality is different. Most SaaS founders will touch their code again within months. Not because they’re growing. Because customers change. Competitors keep shipping. Dependencies evolve. Even companies like Google are constantly changing their codebase. Sometimes you’re not coding to grow. You’re coding just to stay where you are.

I used to think posting my product counted as "Build in Public." Then I read how Launch in Public and Build in Public are actually different and it hit me. I shipped fast-quiz.com when it was already done and called that "sharing." That's Launch in Public: ship first, post later, wonder why trust doesn't show up. FastQuiz works. I'm proud of it. But I skipped what compounds the messy middle: doubts, dead ends, small wins, shown over time until strangers become believers. AI didn't kill indie hacking. It killed "build in secret until launch day." The moat is distribution and trust. You can't ad buy either. So I'm starting over with my music app day 0, in public, for real this time. Process > reveal. piano-tab.com #buildinpublic

Me using Codex… while secretly FOMOing over everyone posting about Fable

This guy has renewed my SaaS for 6 months and only used it a handful of times. What should I do?

Every SaaS starts with its first 100… then 300… then 1,000. SEO compounds.

50k users brought me $40k So to make $1M I just need 1.25M users. I’m pretty good at math.

If my pricing says $9, checkout shouldn’t suddenly feel like $10+. So I changed Polar pricing today: I’ll absorb sales tax instead of passing it on to customers. 11 sales × $9 = $99 After taxes and Polar fees: $84.04 Lower margin, cleaner checkout. Worth it.