Dan Vailur

3 years of living on savings barely earning $200-400/month from mobile apps. Last month I hit ramen profitable with my mobile apps. Next goal: $10k/month SaaS. Dad of 1, soon 2. No safety net. Just faith. Let's see if I can make it! 👊

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@dvailur @dhh e-wink display

I setup a new Windows machine recently, and I couldn't believe what an obstacle course its become. macOS has been going downhill too, but Windows 11 is still the king of awful. Even if Linux hadn't improved by leaps and bounds lately, it would look amazing standing still.

@seraleev When you optimize for in-app purchase events, since the campaign don’t have any data yet, do you optimize for installs and then switch to in-app purchase events? Or do you target in-app events from the beginning?

> I use UAC campaigns optimized for in-app purchase events (no installs and no web-to-web). > I create creatives based on screenshots. Just a simple static image. > Google Ads decides on its own where to show your ads. > I use Firebase + Apphud integration (without Appsflyer and analogs) > You can contact Google Ads support and they’ll help you set up your first campaign. Their support is excellent – fast and high quality (if you ask the right questions). Be careful: Google Ads can burn money very fast. This system requires a lot of attention at the very beginning.

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@dvailur @dhh Wink display? 👁️

When you create a product, do you buy the domain before or after building the MVP?

@ThePeterMick It’s engineered to be satisfying

why opening Apple products is so satisfying?

Making Claude create for me 20 different ad campaigns for an app on Apple Ads while Claude Code works.3

@levelsio @FlorinPop17 I would even add the size of the screen to that. I’m far more productive working on my laptop screen than the 27 inch display. It makes me focus only on the opened window

@FlorinPop17 Studies prove this btw, multiple monitors are less productive and just distract

I used to be the "I need 2 monitors to be productive" type of guy, but I realized that it was just... not true. I'm now often so much more productive only on my laptop. It's crazy! And the big benefit is that I can easily move places, go to coffee shops, etc.

@seraleev Wow that’s sounds like a lot of work. Was it worth. Have you personally tested Apple Search Ads on smaller countries with good results?

@dvailur I translated the screenshots into all available languages. Every storefront page was fully filled out.

My next channel was Apple Search Ads. At the time, I was taking a marketing course. I liked the instructor and asked him to help me set up campaigns – he said yes. The auction was empty. I enjoyed that moment. ASA kept the app at the top while I collected data and improved ASO in countries where rankings were weak. There was one small problem: money. I borrowed from friends. Cashed out my credit card. My wife’s credit card too. We were living on our last money. But I knew that in about two months, Apple would pay back 3× what I invested. And it kept repeating every month. Apple Search Ads is a powerful tool. Competition is higher now, sure. But smaller countries still work. Big players usually ignore them – they only care about large markets.

I haven't written any PHP code since I abandoned it for Node.js over 6-7 years ago. Today I asked Claude to generate a script in PHP and, oh boy, I find it cleaner, more readable, and faster to run than the same Node.js script. I may give Laravel a try.

@nexta_tv They missed the chance to call it Draculand

Romania wants to build a massive Dracula Land theme park near Bucharest The project is valued at €1 billion. Investors promise around three million visitors in the first years and thousands of new jobs. It’s still only a plan, but the land next to the airport has already been purchased, the concept is ready, and major partners are onboard — including Deloitte and attraction developers from Europa-Park. If everything stays on schedule, construction will begin next autumn. Dracula Land is planned as a large theme park with six zones: a Transylvanian village, Dracula’s castle, a family area, Victorian-era London, New Orleans with a voodoo atmosphere, and “Moonlight” for night shows. The plans also include an arena for 22.5 thousand spectators, a water park, three hotels, an outlet village, and a race track.

@juanjovn Bought a MacBook Pro in 2014 or 2015 and used it for 4 years until I upgraded to a new one. Like new. No issues at all. They just don’t give you the official box. Apart from that very happy with it.

Does anyone have experience buying on Apple's refurbished? 😬 road-to-studio-display.vercel.app

@warhsn @theHankTaylor Yeah I’ve been checking livewire and dont think its my thing

@dvailur @theHankTaylor You can use sanctum or passport to run LV as an API and the just point your frontend app to that. I personally prefer to have the frontend as JS over livewire

I'm convinced: Laravel is the entrepreneur's framework.

@warhsn @theHankTaylor Thank you Warren! How do you run NextJS with laravel? Do you just make api calls from NextJS to laravel backend? I’ve also heard about inertia, is that the correct way to do it? Doesn’t it feel hard to manage several languages at the same time?

Welcome to the community @dvailur. The nice thing about Laravel is that you never have to leave nextjs you could run it as a monolith or run a pure LV backend with a next js frontend and configure that setup really fast. I personally run all of my apps as a LV backend with a Vue SPA frontend. But most importantly welcome to the Laravel community 🙌 it’s gonna be fun I promise

@warhsn @theHankTaylor And the community seems amazing

I’ve been a JS (node and NextJS) guy for many years already, and lately I felt very curious about Laravel and been trying it a bit. Used to work with vanilla php long ago, and haven’t touched it since then. Laravel seems very clean and definitely way less volatile than the JS world. I’m still in a very beginner stage and don’t understand most of the things I’m writing. Not sure yet if I’ll jump boats because it may slow me down, but it looks promising.

Absolutely. It’s incredibly important to never give up. Even when you don’t see the light in the other side of the tunnel. Many people fail not because their product is bad. But because they give up too soon. I’ve almost gave up a few times, but still here giving it all. Well done Viktor! Very happy for you brother

Never would’ve thought that in just two years I’d launch 17 apps and hit $40K MRR Every setback and challenge isn’t a failure – it’s the foundation for long-term growth. They don’t break you, they forge you

This is absolutely true. And it hurts because I’ve been there. Debating what’s the best stack to use. Should I go with NextJS? Should I use MongoDB or MySQL? Should I self-host or use Vercel? My boilerplate need X feature to be perfect so I can start working. But it’ll never be perfect, the best stack doesn’t exist. The best hosting doesn’t exist. Your project will never be perfect. Make it exist first. You can make it better later.

stop overthinking, start building: the best way to predict the future is to invent it. and the best way to invent is to start building. you can dream all you want. you can think in abstract, map out perfect systems in your head, debate the ideal architecture. but none of that matters until you start making something real. building is like mounding clay. you don't start with the perfect form. you start with a lump. you push, you shape, you feel the resistance. the material talks back. it tells you what works and what doesn't. you learn by doing, not by thinking about doing. with Cursor, the gap between idea and reality is basically zero now. you don't need to know every syntax, every framework, every pattern. you just need to start. Cursor helps you shape the clay. it fills in the gaps. it lets you focus on what you're making, not how to make it. overthinking is just fear dressed up as preparation. you're not getting ready, you're just delaying. the longer you wait, the more you convince yourself it needs to be perfect before you start. but perfect doesn't exist at the beginning. it only emerges through iteration. every great thing you've ever seen started as something rough. the first iPhone was a prototype held together with tape. the first Notion was a clunky tool that barely worked. the first anything was messy. but it existed. and because it existed, it could be improved. so stop planning the perfect app. stop debating the right tech stack. stop waiting for the right moment. just open Cursor and start building. make something bad. make something that barely works. then make it better. then make it better again. the future isn't something you think your way into. it's something you build your way into. one line of code at a time. one iteration at a time. like mounding clay until something beautiful emerges. start today. start now. start messy. just start.

@adamlyttleapps @jackfriks Oh man, now it can’t be unseen 😆

@jackfriks The censored image makes it look suss 😂

working on secret update for my new couples app