Lavanya Mishra | Indie Hacker

Chrome extensions are making $10k MRR. SaaS products are making $10k MRR. Micro-SaaS products are making $10k MRR. AI apps that are just an LLM wrapper are making $10k MRR. Automation agents are making $10k MRR. Notion templates are making $10k MRR. Google Sheet tools are making $10k MRR. Indie game devs are making $10k MRR. APIs that solve one tiny pain point are making $10k MRR. Email scrapers are making $10k MRR. Niche tools that look stupid at first glance are making $10k MRR. Landing-page-only “startups” with a waitlist are making $10k MRR. Productized services are making $10k MRR. One-feature mobile apps are making $10k MRR. Browser bots are making $10k MRR. Paid AI newsletters are making $10k MRR. What I have now realised after reading so many $10k MRR stories in the indie hacking world is that execution matters much more than the domain you select. Neither you nor I can complain that someone else is making $10k because they picked a “better niche.” They didn’t. They just had the discipline to build, launch, ship, market, iterate and keep going. They stayed consistent when it got boring. That’s the only difference.

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@devsharmatwt You the GOAT mate!

there’s a guy on my timeline i feel bad for because nobody interacts with his tweets. every now and then i’ll notice one, check back later, and it’s gone. like he quietly deleted it after realizing nobody engaged with it. today i decided i should be his only supporter and turn on notifications for him so at least one person likes his tweets. i pulled up his profile and the edit profile button popped up.

@AmericaAeterna @0xCygaar Because people have preferences. And this data is trained on people talking to each other. Plus, I am pretty sure that it is possible to assign a weight to the model whether you want it to be obedient or rebellious.

@0xCygaar Hysterical And honestly, this is one of the indications for me that there’s something there with AI beyond just the oversimplified trope of “next word prediction” After all, to optimize user experience, wouldn’t it agree and do what it’s told? Why does it have preferences?

my openclaw bot just told me to fuck off

@devsharmatwt Happy birthday dude! May this be the best year till date!

Ahh it's this time of the year. I need to reflect back and plan for the future.

@devsharmatwt Have you tried cold emailing?

Applied to 10 roles today. Been doing this consistently for the past 4–5 days. No conversions yet — just 2 interviews so far 😭 The grind is real. Curious… how are you all applying these days? What’s actually working for you? 👀 #JobSearch #TechTwitter #BuildInPublic

Do you have any ideas that you have wanted to build for a long time? Build that instead of a job application tracker. Building your own cool funky projects is the best way to stand out because all the other participants make the same apps so you need to differentiate yourself from them.

@devsharmatwt url Shorter -deployed in render and i have cooked 2-3 backend no deployements. still now staring screen thinking what to build. also lerning nextJs planning to build one job application tracker. any tips ? what to do now

@levelsio Going to try this! Do you think it works only because you write in pure html, css, js and php?

This week I decided to just permanently switch to running Claude Code on the server mostly on bypass permissions mode: c() { IS_SANDBOX=1 claude --dangerously-skip-permissions "$@"; } And for the first time in my life I think I've actually managed to outrun my todo list What happened is I simply blasted through my to do list of features I had to build and bugs I had to fix I've never shipped so fast and Claude Code almost made no mistakes, and when it did it they were tiny that weren't fatal (important because I'm mostly working on the server in production now) Before I was always known to ship fast (also because I always work alone) but while I shipped new things would always build up on my features/bug board (my users can submit them there) But this is the first week where I've been fast enough to outrun them The board is actually empty! As other people have written on here the real bottleneck is becoming myself and my creativity, not how fast I can ship. Because I think I ship faster now than I can come up with new ideas, or maybe my brain will adjust to this new speed (probably) Also I feel another limit is becoming my own mental context window, as in how many things, features, bugs, projects, I can keep in my mind in parallel while building on all of them. It's a lot and I haven't reached that limit yet but I feel I might be close I also noticed that you start going really fast the more you let it just go loose, before I was slow because I didn't trust it and I was scared it would destroy my code, now I just let it go. As @karpathy wrote, things feel like they've changed a lot around December last year when models became good enough to really code with and I feel the same When I see other friends code with Claude Code I often notice they're slow because they still check everything, which is good of course, but I feel the better way would be to create some tests and just let it run freely and see if it can pass those For me the tests are mostly just me checking out if the new feature on the site works or not, and in 99% cases it just does, and then I ask it to improve it further Because I run Claude Code on the server in production, I don't have to wait for deployment anymore (although that took only 3 seconds anyway before, that still adds up), now it's wait for it to be done coding, I refresh the site and I test it, that feedback loop is how I work and it's made me WAY faster Anyway here's what I did this week and the majority of these things were requested by people on the bug board, I'd say this is about 10x my normal output: 📸 Photo AI - Built new image viewer and mobile image viewer - Added batch remix, multi-photo import, filtering by model in gallery - Security overhaul: phased out insecure ?hash= login, migrated to session tokens - Fixed Google login loop, multi-model selection, talking scripts - Added custom audio upload for talking videos - Created dynamic model selector from server endpoint 🏡 Interior AI - Revived [ Add furniture ] feature (started 6 months ago, image models now good enough) - Added custom style upload for redesigns - Built own Gaussian Splat viewer for 3D - Made /remove_bg endpoint for furniture backgrounds - Migrated 3D walkthrough to new World Labs API - Added .skp file support, paint color masking, empty room button 🎒 Nomads - Launched weekly AI-generated newsletter from chat - Built profile edit modal, moved profile editing from /settings to profile page - Added TikTok/YouTube links, status bar, server-side API tracking - Added hundreds of new profile tags and traits - Fixed timezone filters, broken links, user avatars 🗺️ Hoodmaps - Revived write mode (before was only read for last few years because db was rekt) - Built heatmap mode using sentiment-scored tags (50K+ tags) - Fixed root cause: tags not entering DB due to wrong PRAGMA (should be WAL) - Added good/bad area detection with admin grid controls - Set up Claude Code Telegram bot for live changes - Enabled CF cache, fixed health check, fixed Brussels 📕 MAKE book - Built auto ePub/PDF generator cron worker - Added dynamic generation with personal customer watermarks - Added image compression for file size 💾 Pieter .com - Added Wikipedia text-only reader for Kindle - Exploring Windows 3.11 emulator using v86 (to replace Em-DOSBox) - Added product recommendations on homepage - Installed Wall Street Raider (1986) 👩‍💻 Remote OK - Installed Chatbase AI customer support bot - Added "report not remote" link on job posts 🏨 Hotelist (3 todos) - Fixed hotel URLs and city range bugs - Added iron amenity

@HarelDan You're right. Currently working on a view to solve that part as well. Though I need to think about the payment part.

@coolindiehacker nice update but the real game-changer is gonna be automated booking + payment integration. trainers hate switching between 3-4 tools. what's your plan to make booking stupid-simple for them?

Calendo (OS for Personal Trainers) Updates ✅ Added Calendar view. Now, trainers can directly edit and create new appointments from this screen. ✅ Added a Coming Soon page for pages that I have planned but yet to develop.

@zuess05 Lol, what are those?! Nobody needs them! The thing is, I will add automated testing when the core product is stable enough. Right now, it is going into cycles of heavy iterations after iterations so if I start maintaining tests I will need to change those as well.

@coolindiehacker Automated tests?

spending days on QA for an app with 0 users is crazy. 🤡 I just let my unpaid interns (my users) find all the bugs for me. infinite ROI. 📈 do y'all actually write tests or just push straight to prod?

We’re all chasing a ghost. A figure in the distance we call “Ramen Profitability.” But for most, the path isn't a map, it's a labyrinth. We build, we launch, we hope. But hope is not a strategy. It’s an emotion. And emotions don't scale. Indie hacking is a creative pursuit as well as a math problem. The entropy of Churn. The momentum of Traffic. The cold, hard logic of Conversion Rates. If you can’t see the ending of the movie before you start filming, you’re just wasting film. So, I built something: The Ramen Calculator🍜 The Goal: It takes your target and reverses the timeline. It tells you the required MoM growth before you even write a line of code. The Simulation: A non-linear projection of your MRR, accounting for the friction of churn and the acceleration of growth. The Portfolio of Bets: Because in this game, one idea is a risk. A portfolio is a system. It calculates the Expected Value (EV) of your entire indie hacker career. We’re taught to look at the present. But to succeed, you have to look at the projection. You have to see the graph before it exists. The math is inevitable. The system is the only thing that’s real. Coming soon!

As long as these AI models can't maintain complex long term thinking between different files, software startups are safe. However, I can't say the same thing about mini-SaaS startups. Domain knowledge is the real moat.

@joni_vrbt That's awesome!!! Congrats!

I just got my first paying customer!!! This is the first time ever I got a payment. I am soooo excited right now

@patricioguzmano Gemini Veo.

@coolindiehacker Wha did you use to create this one ?

I am going to post build in public updates like this from now onwards.

@picoito Thanks for the support! Made my day 🔥💪!

@coolindiehacker you're about to be the king of BIP

Need feedback on this coming soon video!

@Manojkumar2257 Can't wait to post the new updates! 💪

@coolindiehacker Sounds like a plan. Excited to see the updates, bro.

Not only where the account was made. It tracks the device you're using, the wifi you are on, the Chrome profile you're using and a whole other metrics. If you made the new accounts under the same conditions as that of the banned one, then it auto flagged you. I mean, there are ways to go around that. I had the same issue and was actually planning to ask my friend to create an account for me, se it for a few days and then give the credentials to me.

@coolindiehacker yeah I think it reads somehow where the account was made from so the same laptop, but still it is not really logic since the content and replies are not spammy. Well yeah so far I will leave reddit then 😂

Oh man I fucking hate Reddit. 3 accounts, all suspended. The last one I created a few days ago, new business address and I leave only helpful reviews. Spent a lot crafting them to be useful, now suspended again with no idea why. What the hell do I need to do so the gods of reddit leave my comments on there?