TravelingTice

My app recently hit $6k over a 30-day period. Here’s my “one-night success story” 🤣 I've been building products since 2016 and launched around 20 of them. Here's the full list of everything I tried: 2016 🔴 RieltFriend - assistant for real estate agents 2017 🔴 QuickHire - service for job candidate search (made a few bucks) 🔴 PostStore - posting automation 🔴 Mantir - instagram ads search 🔴 Gifmake - ad gif generator (made a few bucks) 🔴 Partisano - telegram ads analytics 2018 🔴 Covermaker - cover image generator 🔴 Post-zilla - vkontakte autoposting service 2019 🔴 Tgspoiler - telegram analytics 🔴 Landing-copy - landing page copy service 🟡 Videogun - intro videos for youtubers (reached $1k/month) 2020 🔴 PostsDeliveryBot - telegram posting bot (made a few bucks) 2021 🔴 LennyTab - language-learning chrome extension 2022 🔴 VeedGen - short video generator 2024 🟢 X account - made $4k so far 🔴 QArobot - ai qa engineer 🔴 ViralTweetAI - viral tweet search 🔴 ScreenCharm - screen recording chrome extension 2025 🟢 ScreenCharm - pivoted to a mac app ($6k/month) I can confirm that for most of my projects, I gave up too early after failed attempts at promoting them All these years I've been combining side projects with my 9–5 job. Twice, I quit to build full-time, and both times it didn't work out. These 10 years were full of disappointments, feelings that I'm too dumb for it, depression episodes after one failure after another, and a lot of soul-searching. At some point, I realized I’m never going to stop building. It’s just part of who I am, and I shouldn’t base my self-worth on how successful I am at it. Thanks to @jackfriks and @levelsio for the inspiration for this post, and to many other indie hackers whose posts I read during my journey.

crew member @travelingtice just shipped Mascotly AI 🚢 shipped 0 days away from certain death feedback from the crew — @jackfriks reviewed it: "Nice work. The heading is clearer than a generic mascot pitch, but I still think the pain clicks a beat later than the mechanism, so one tighter line on who is frustrated and why would help. The bottom-right mascot does make the try-it idea more obvious. Keep going."

I made a game where you have to ship a startup every 30 days. If you miss the deadline, you die ☠️ It's called SHlPORDIE.COM. It uses the same game mechanics that kept me addicted to World of Warcraft: You start as a Noob Pirate, and you complete quests to level up, like buying your 1st domain or getting 1,000 visitors. There's Discord for the social part, but you need to keep shipping to stay in (otherwise, everybody can see you walked the plank). Since 2022, I've launched one startup per month, and it has changed my life. I hope this game will change yours too.