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@sseraphini Co-authored by Claude tá valendo?

Quantos commits você faz por dia?

Feels like every new project in the past 2 years ships with Postgres or SQLite. Why would anyone still pick SQL Server, MySQL, or Oracle?

There has been no greater blessing in my life and no greater purpose driver than being a father 10 out of 10 would recommend

@1sraelgb @alexherbert0 Actually, as an engineer, I would rather say that building is much less than half the equation

@alexherbert0 I think most people would rather build a SaaS product only to realize that building is just half thr equation. No proper marketing that why the SaaS graveyard is full of nice products.

Would you rather build a SaaS product or a service business to get to $10k MRR faster?

Existe uma armadilha em sempre pagar por conforto. Se a gente seguir o caminho de menor resistência, o conforto te leva pra uma vida onde você paga pra todo mundo fazer tudo, iFood, pessoas pra limpar sua casa, roupas, etc etc, e você acaba no sofá com depressão. É mais fácil, mais confortável, mais agradável, pagar pra todos os problemas serem resolvidos. Mas isso é uma armadilha. Eu trabalho de casa, eu passo a maior parte do tempo em casa. Seria melhor eu ter uma academia dentro do predio que ninguem usa. É mais fácil pedir comida do que cozinhar. É menos trabalhoso não fazer nada difícil. E esse é o caminho certeiro pra ter uma vida horrível. Eu ja fiz muita compra no mercado online, poupa tempo, esforço, é eficiente, e eu consigo usar o tempo pra fazer dinheiro, mas eu preciso fazer coisas que me tiram de casa. Eu já malhei em casa também, funciona, dá resultado, mas a pessoa precisa sair de casa. É mais fácil ficar em hotel, mas as vezes vale a pena acampar. Existe um certo nível de trabalho, cozinhar, fazer coisas de rotina, caminhar, que não é vantajoso substituir. Não precisa fazer todos, eu odeio lavar louça e a maquina de lavar louça é uma dadiva divina. Mas em algum ponto, algum nível de trabalho manual e interação com o mundo e pessoas é extremamente necessário. Eu acho que nos ultimos anos eu aprendi a apreciar uma caminhada pro mercado, uma espera pra pizza ficar pronta, ou transportar umas caixa de um lado pro outro

For 3 years I tested ALL marketing channels for SaaS. What I learned about each one:

5,000 followers. Each with ~500 connections. 0.5% reshare (4 layers of spread). Reach: ~127,000 people. Same 5,000 followers. 0.2% reshare (4 layers of spread). Reach: ~20,000. Same audience. 6.35× difference.

Cold emailing is a waste of time. Unless you are talking to users who subscribed to a list you own. What really worked for me was being featured on relevant newsletters

@rashiumapathi @tpritha03 Unless you are using Social Telescope, which let you manage social networks effectively with few minute per day :D

@tpritha03 Growing Twitter while building SaaS while marketing product. That's three things not one. Pick one or fail all.

Developers, you have 30 days to obsess over one thing: - grow your twitter account - build your SaaS - market your product - get freelance gigs - prep for tech interview

dudes who raised $500k from daddy & friends to sell electrolyte powders online are now vibe-coding the "next multi-billion dollar SaaS" with Claude spoiler: it will fail again

@lucas_montano Luckily my daughter has helped me fulfill this prerequisite

if your mac/laptop isn’t cracked open even a tiny bit, your SaaS is not gonna make it

@PranteP27817 @kimmonismus I agree there's a strong correlation between interest rates and job postings (lower interest rates -> more funding available -> more hiring) But at the point we are, underestimating the impact of AI is dangerous

@gmxara @kimmonismus Not the case. It’s been slowly increasing for years at this point and it’s inversely proportional to interest rates. Once rates drop globally it will go back up to normal regardless of AI

Software engineering jobs hit their highest posting since november 2023.

@josh_herzberg @kimmonismus Nice, I was just discussing this recently and didn't know this paradox had a name.

@kimmonismus Jevons paradox at work?

If coding were an MMORPG, would tokens be pay-to-win?

@thamiltonsmith1 Claude does not share context between different sessions. To solve this you have to keep relevant information on CLAUDE.md. You can also use additional documentation files

I'm spending a lot of time in a Claude code session just re-explaining what I'm building. It's great at coding, but doesn't hold context well across sessions. I'm starting to think that's the actual unsolved problem in indie SaaS right now. What do you think?

One year ago: "I don't write tests"... fair enough. Today, with AI doing 80% of the work for you? Completely unacceptable.

@lucas_montano haahahha I always thought that programming was just doing some CRUD operations

that explains a lot i learned to code without learning how to think up until now

@CalebPanza Amazing, I will stay tuned. Your website DR of 38 speaks for itself! It should get you nice results from organic traffic

@gmxara Churn is ~12% last I checked. Users are all coming from organic search, hence the little experiment of repeating it on a new product vertical. Gonna be sharing all insights along the way

Kicking off the weekend with a BANG! First saas crossed $8k MRR and trying to repeat it with a second! It’s so interesting how curious people get about the marketing side of things, so I’m gonna document the whole process of launching a new product from scratch with the goal of repeating what we did with @postforme_dev