@yongfook Did you build an audience first or unhide your dock first?
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Jeff Shillitto
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Jeff Shillitto
@jeffshillitto
Software engineer. Part time indie-hacker. Taking a break for a while.
Brisbane, Australia Katılım Ağustos 2009
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My dock being visible is the main reason I'm at $90k MRR right now.
Ash Connolly 👋@AshConnolly_
@yongfook Nice! 😃 Although I never got how people didn't have the dock auto hide on laptop. Taking up precious lines of code! But I think it's fair to say you've done alright without it... 😅 Or maybe auto hide it... and watch the MRR increase?! 🚀 x.com/AshConnolly_/s…
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@elonmusk Private hospitals there are also first class. My Dad has just been through chemo and radiation treatment and doctors are world class. Vineyards, beaches, mountains. It's one of the most beautiful places I've been. Enjoy your propoganda, echo chamber folks.
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@elonmusk Visiting the Western Cape later this year visiting my Dad who retired there 25 years ago. Along with his white buddies they Iive a great life that most would envy, play golf, walk their dogs on the beach, 4x4 across the Southern countries, Botswana, Zimbabwe etc...
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@dannypostma Doesn't your company need to make, usually five figure income before you have to pay VAT? Until then you can be exempt or sign up voluntarily. You could probably make a few $000 on the side and no one would ever know. Make a few $000 before anything else.
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If you have 0 users, please for the love of god stop obsessing about VAT, compliance, GDPR and taxes.
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Discovering the industrial complex of dog ownership. I'm sure I need that Pet Masterpiece and Deluxe Printed Certificate.
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@johnrushx @levelsio You just need to practice and get used to it. Keep buying, sell or ride out a few crashes/pullbacks and then you get desensitised to them and it's a lot easier to wait 10-20 years. Easier to do with funds than individual stocks.
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@levelsio my main issue with stock investing is that I have paper hands & I panic sell at a loss when markets go down
selling an apartment is super difficult, so even when the housing market had a bad year, I didn't sell cuz i was lazy. If it was just one-click, I'd sell it & regret later
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This proves my point completely
If you would have invested the same amount in the S&P500 in February of 2021
You would have now appreciated by 60% vs just 15% on your home
That home appreciated just 4% per year!
The only argument left for such a mediocre investment is medium-income people can borrow way more than they ever could regularly when buying a house
Sean Michael Floyd@SeanMFloyd
@levelsio Feb 2021, hard to say exactly what I’d get now but prob about 15-20% appreciation. This was when mortgage rates were very low too.
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@levelsio People will congratulate you for buying a car too. And they're genuine money pits.
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Everyone sending me DMs to congratulate me on buying a house after posting this
Which is nice but nobody ever congratulated me when I bought multiples of that in Vanguard S&P 500 UCITS ETF (USD) for years
As a new home owner I will continue saying real estate is a shitcoin and it completely underperforms most other asset categories after you deduct the insane taxes, fees and maintenance you pay for
S&P500 TR has consistently outperformed real estate over 10 years, 20 years, 50 years, 100 years
I'm not going to change my mind on this just because I own a house now
I bought a house because I was so heavily invested in ETFs that ChatGPT told me to diversify
And because it was impossible to rent a high quality newly built home that was up to our standards
But it's nice to have something physical I can defend with a gun and a piece of paper once the apocalypse happens, I agree on that
But it's not a good investment comparatively and will probably never be, so I can't really see it as one, it's a nice shitcoin though
@levelsio@levelsio
✨ YES! I did actually buy an entire house in cash with @RevolutApp Lot of step by step payments of like EUR 200,000 cause was scared if it wouldn't arrive But it all arrived fine and 100% via IBAN instant transfers! Super safe! IBAN transfers are irreversible and super fast, usually seconds I did have to use my lawyer as an escrow and wire it to her because the seller's Portuguese lawyer INSISTED on using a bank check, which was SUPER unsafe, and losing that check meant anyone could cash it (it wasn't earmarked to the seller's name at all) Their lawyer insisted on using a bank check because she didn't trust IBAN bank transfers "they're unsafe", lmfao 100% bullshit Anyway I couldn't get out of that or the whole house purchase wouldn't happen, my lawyer was amazing and saved me in the process by acting as an intermediary for the money We had to walk that check from the lawyer's bank to the notary on the street, and I brought pepper spray in case we got robbed (can't carry a gun here innit), was convinced someone would snatch that check and cash it! But it went fine So YES kinda I did buy an entire house with Revolut!
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20 clicks from Google in 28 days. It's not much, but it's a start.
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@Lukebonnici1 @marclou I've been an employee for a decade or more and never done any of those things on the left. It's funny, but not persuasive. There are definitely engineering practises you don't need for a scrappy MVP that you could list here.
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A proper SaaS is more than just a basic CRUD application. It needs business logic and building that is not something you can teach, let alone in 14 days.
On why not CodeFast? There's a tonne of great resources that go a lot more in depth on YouTube for free, which will get you there, if you're willing to put in the work.
Btw, I'd change the image text to 'Learn coding at university' to 'Learn to code for $' or something. The current comparision is not very accurate.
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If you visited CodeFast but didn't purchase... Why?
I'm trying to understand objections to make a better course.
Be brutal please (I've removed ego from the equation for the next 48 minutes)
x.com/marc_louvion/s…
Marc Lou@marclou
I spent 9 months working on this... Introducing CodeFa.st — Build your SaaS in 14 days 🧑💻 ✅ Learn to code from 0 ✅ Even if you're a complete beginner ✅ Everything to create an online business It's 50% off for Black Friday — 48 hours left. Enjoy!
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@developerjack Nice! If it could do decent SDK's too that would be amazing. I don't think anyone has solved pretty docs and easy to use SDK's in the right set of languages all in one package.
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@developerjack Enjoy your time off! I just took a couple of months off after 25 solid years of working. Would recommend. But it's actually really hard to completely switch off and do nothing.
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The next generation of AI tools should have a completely adaptive UI, entirely generated by the AI itself. Any time I want a new feature or different interface, I just tell the AI and it makes the necessary changes
Zero static / hard-coded UI elements. Is anyone building this?
Amjad Masad@amasad
I spent 10 minutes googling for a market cap chart and couldn't find a decent one, so I made one with Replit Agent in two minutes. Still can't believe you can make software faster than you can google for it.
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@ProductHunt I don't know what a gm legend is, or if I am one, but I'm building @SwellDiary this week.
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gm legends. what are you building this week? drop your product in the replies 👇
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I've set myself an initial goal of 10,000 page views per month for Swell Diary. That should allow me to generate enough ad revenue to be self sustaining (minus my time). I'm 1/10th of the way there:
🟩⬜️⬜️⬜️⬜️⬜️⬜️⬜️⬜️⬜️ 10k pv/m
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Swell Diary just appeared in position 3 for the term "daily surf videos", one of my core keywords after a couple of months of marketing. Follow me if you want to know how I'm doing it. I'm going to open-source my entire marketing approach. #buildinpublic
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I'm going to post updates of all the big swells and curated videos on the new Swell Diary X account. Just added this months epic sessions at Pipeline and Mavericks. Follow here: x.com/SwellDiary
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Introducing my latest side project - swelldiary.com. Once again building around my passion for surfing, video and coding. This time it's just for fun though and more of an online marketing/SEO experiment.
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@yongfook Is that a lowercase o or an uppercase O? Mixed case is all the rage these days.
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I'm immensely proud of my design team and all stakeholders involved, after countless hours of ideation and revisions in the war room I feel like we are entering a fresh new era for this brand.
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The beautiful think about software is you can write a few kilobytes of text and it can grow in to a $m dollar business. The first PoC for Shotstack way back in 2016 was just a single 4.5kb index.js file and a few other scripts totaling ~16kb.
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