Jackson Ling

There sure is a lot of animal-based Saas out there!

@jessethanley No not the Tanuki!

> "i hate the photo of you and your kid" > "i hate the cutesy mascots" > "i hate your approval process" WHO IS SENDING ME THIS TRAFFIC IT'S TURNED NEGATIVE NOW 😂😂😂

@SimonHoiberg What a dream!

I found it 🥰 This is my home now 🇨🇭

@jessethanley I got a similar stack to yours. Have you tried Claude code? Everyone else seems to be using it I’m getting FOMO

Got early access to this and have been using it on and off all week. The benchmarks are accurate, it’s very good at coding, and maybe similar to Codex in that you don’t want to talk to it (seriously don’t talk to it haha) and just want it to write code/call tools. Coding stack now is Cursor + [Composer/Codex] or Opencode + Codex.

Your definition of “expensive” as an indie hacker is vastly different from the companies you are trying to sell to. Raise your prices.

@jessethanley Whats a white day?

Taking Friday off to go on an adventure to Hita (tomorrow is White Day in Japan, don’t forget!). Loads of good, farm to table restaurants out here. I recommend (but only with a car).

I’m late as usual because I still think MCP is great when used in my Cursor IDE.

@Ethan_Smartsys I’m too scared to ask what’s a merchant category code at this point. Are you with Stripe? How did you solve this exactly?

@jackson_llk Hit this wall last year. My merchant category code was too generic. Got it updated and decline rate dropped significantly. Worth checking with your processor.

Anyone running a Saas facing unusually high number of bank declined charge on your customers’ credit card? It seems like the bank is wrongly flagging the charge as fraudulent. Charge would go through in the first month, and would fail on subsequent months. I’m at a loss for what to do about this.

Tweets used to be short!

Everyone giving their @openclaw agents pet names while I’m still staring at regex patterns.

@mariosaputra Isnt there instant payout now on Stripe?

Today is the 25th, and in Japan most people got their salary. Meanwhile, I have to wait until March 5 for my apps payout, and there’s no payout at all in February. Indie hacking can be rough sometimes 😂

@brianshinsh For which app?

we crossed $20k/mo in 83 days instead of everything that went right, here are the mistakes we made (so you don't make them!) : 1. During the early days, we tried too many marketing channels due to fomo. - we literally tried SEO, pSEO, meta ads, google keyword ads, tiktok video, and cold email all within 4 weeks lol - even if the channel turns out to not work, we think it's worth committing and testing for at least a month to get a good understanding of it - this is especially true because there are things you start to see the more you try and bear through it. trying is different from reading about it. 2. Don't spend more than a few days on a new feature or experiment - this pertains to both product decisions and marketing decisions - honestly i get easily excited about a new idea, and as a founder you probably do too - but it's always the same pattern again and again: i get super excited about the "next big thing", spend 2 weeks on it, and totally flunk - no matter how promising the idea seems, spend max 5 days on it to release and test. if it takes more than that, it's probably too big for experimenting. 3. Stop copying and listen - with 100% accuracy, all of the features that failed were 1) ideas that just magically came from imagination and 2) ideas that were inspired from other products - ofc inspiration is good, but you HAVE TO verify it with your users. do your users really need that feature? - keep in mind the product is for your user, not for you. if you're trying to build a serious product for a real business and not a play project, this is important - on the surface, every idea seems like a good idea. but adding a new feature = more complexity. be very strict about why that feature needs to be in your product - i think this is especially true for consumer products. simplicity is key. 4. Once you start making revenue, spend more where it's needed - 2 weeks ago, our app just flat out stopped working because our servers maxed out. CPU usage went over 100%. - it was literally 1am, users emailing us nonstop, requesting refunds. i panicked. - this was a stupid mistake. a small buffer would have saved us from a bunch of users having a bad experience these are the 4 mistakes on the top of my head but as I remember more, I'll add it to the thread

@TheBTCTherapist @grok who is this man?

Is this guy a genius or an idiot?

@S1lv3rd3m0n Verify verify verify

@jackson_llk You fell for the lie? x.com/bytebot/status…

@MichaelMing_My Turns out this story is a rabbit hole. There’s an article out contesting the fact if he did bought the domain for $100 in 1993.

@jackson_llk a cert from university lol

@kangminlee Halftime show peaked many years ago

That was the worst halftime show I've ever watched in my life How are people saying it was good are you blind I'm Asian and even I could see how terribly boring it was

@dadiomov @grok where is this?

Best restaurant in SF. IYKYK.

I’m convinced all you are being paid by @openclaw

@tdinh_me Good times! Hows your wrists and back?

Ski with wife until it’s dark 🥰 I tried to learn snowboarding because it’s more similar to surfing but turns out skiing is fun too. The Niseko ski resort is so cool they have everything included in a small village. Snow here is super fluffy like powder, I haven't seen snow anywhere else so can't compare with anything yet 😂