Jake Manger

Thought I’d try a post like @jackfriks and @marclou: I made $5,886 in April $5,886 from How to Convert $0 from my last failed project 🙈 $0 from the project before that 🤷‍♂️ Don’t give up. That next project could be the one that changes everything

My file converter app just crossed 2,427 users!

My little photomosaic generator website is going nuts! 1-2k to 8k visitors a month! (now at ~$45 a month revenue) aand what have i changed? Absolutely nothing.

finally 🥲 PhD thesis done. now to move on with my life

@ShenJiabin0303 Back at you :)

@JakeManger Good luck Jake! Would love to see how it goes of your journey

@ShenJiabin0303 Just doing it full time now well because I can. Seeing where it goes!

@JakeManger Thanks Jake! That sounds interesting! Anyway, congratulations 🎉 are you planning on full time indie or keep it as a side project?

This is a file converter for your desktop It works with drag and drop and converts almost any file (also makes them smaller) Just crossed 2,420 users 🥬

@ShenJiabin0303 One chapter was detecting features of micro ct scans of eyes with a 3d CNN and then others were about using machine vision to create virtual reality experiments This was my best chapter besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.11…

@JakeManger I was working on power electronic system for hydrogen system. But I am working on computer vision for my 9-5. What kind of automate analysis your thesis about?

@ShenJiabin0303 Ha I do all the time. Usually end it with “or something” It was using machine learning to automate analysis in vision research. What was yours about?

@JakeManger haha, i already forgot what's my thesis title. which area you worked on for your phd?

AudioNewsRoom just reviewed my file converter app They called it "The Local File Converter Built for Privacy" Turns out there's a lot of people tired of sketchy online converters that upload your files to random servers 5,384 formats Runs completely locally No subscription audionewsroom.net/2026/03/how-to…

@krassenstein What

BREAKING: Iranian missiles hit Prince Sultan airbase in Saudi Arabia today, injuring 20 US Soldiers, 8 of which were injured seriously and damaging several American refueling aircraft. Meanwhile Trump is cracking jokes in front of American investors

@bentlegen @pie6k @DamiDina Such a cool bit of history Although i gotta know, how have you kept this screenshot around for so long?! 😂

@pie6k @DamiDina GitHub user ~1800 here That’s exactly how it started. The original tagline was “social coding”. There was a time when people used the feed, profiles were more social, etc. But the community was smaller, less code, etc. Anyways, it’s incorrect to say they never tried.

GitHub has such potential to become “developers' social media,” and it seems they never seriously tried to tackle it. There is no “feed”. They already have users, retention, and engagement. I was wondering multiple times why they never tried

Went full time on my side project in January Realised my boss (me) only lets me have 0 or 1 days off a week But also: never been happier

It runs completely locally as a desktop app and you can get it at howtoconvert.co

I made an app to convert almost any file to any other file 2,410 people are now using it And it does 5,384 types of document, video, image, audio and email file conversions

At a cafe getting reaaal close to launching the next app

Read about this on reddit Even the maker couldn’t believe it