Nirav Prajapati

I'm Nirav, a solo Android developer from 🇮🇳. I'm building MemoryLens — a privacy-first AI photo app that helps you find people and memories in seconds. Instead of scrolling through thousands of photos, just search for the people you're looking for. Everything happens on your device. No cloud uploads. No sending your photos to a server. Just fast, private photo organization. I'm building this alongside a full-time job and sharing the journey publicly. Here you'll find: • Product updates • Android development • On-device AI • Lessons from building in public • Wins, mistakes, and everything in between If that sounds interesting, follow along.

@DanielSmidstrup Still chasing that first paying user 😅 but yeah, once strangers start paying, you know there's something worth doubling down on.

The first $1,000 MRR is not just revenue. It’s proof that strangers will pay for the problem you chose! So now you just double down, right?

@TheSpacerr Google wants your habits 👀 Slowly putting AI into every product until using AI doesn't even feel like using AI.

Anthropic wants your Fear OpenAI wants your Attention Google wants your?

@joypbuilds That's crazy!! Congrats on 2k daily users 🙌 Replying to every comment and feedback is clearly paying off 👀

what the helly our dau just doubled i'm building a mini vlog app called stitch and we now have over 2000 daily users! i still don't know what's going on so i'll do some investigation on why this jumped and post updates <3

@molaerga Let's goo!! Nice to see you trying IG too 👀 what's your @ there?

Day 14 of 184 - road to $10k MRR - 4 downloads - update approved - 1 tt & 1 IG posted - posted on reddit (1 person hated my app, 1 person loved the idea) - screenshots 90% done

Day 1 done ✅ - Updated my Play Store listing for better ASO - Prepared a plan for Instagram - 5 people joined the waitlist so far - Replied less today → reach dropped below 500 🫩 29 days left.

@vaaselene 10 users paying $10. More feedback to improve the product, and less chance of going straight back to $0 😅

would you rather have - one user paying $100 - 10 users paying $10 each

@MacdevM Freedom. And being able to travel every few weeks 😅

Question: Guys who handle both 9-5 + vibes-coding? What is your motivation?

@molaerga Just finished my 9-5. Now trying to figure out the marketing part 🫩

still working on my screenshots 🫩 Going to put a lot of effort into it to drive some organic downloads

@joypbuilds I can relate 😅 I'm shy too, and I think we tend to overthink and over-polish everything. Starting to build in public was already a big step for me. Keep going 🙌

hey everyone, i REALLY need to clutch up on sharing my journey online i’m building stitch, a mini vlog app in public but i haven’t really been ‘public’ in sharing my journey reason being is i’m shy and it takes so much time and effort to make one post i over think and over polish, but i’m trying to overcome that i hope you stay for the ride 🥹

@vaaselene For features, I use Claude Code plan mode and iterate on the plan first. Once it looks good, auto mode takes over 😅

when coding with ai, do you: > review every change > codex --yolo > claude code --dangerously-skip-permissions

For the next 30 days, I'm going all in on marketing my Android app. If I can't reach 100 paying users by the end of it, I'll accept that this one failed and move on to my next idea 💡 If I hit the goal, iOS is next 👀 Let's see how my first real bet goes 😅

@joypbuilds I don't like creating content either 😅 but as solo founders, we kinda have to. I think it's a skill that'll be worth learning in the long run.

fucking want to kms i hate making content anyways hi everyone my name is joy and i’m building stitch an app that turns your day into a minivlog follow me on my journey to see how this goes 🤍

@MacdevM I'd pick one app and give it a real shot. 30% building, 70% marketing, distribution, and improving based on feedback. Already spent 1.5 months on mine 😅

What is your opinion?: - Pushing 10+ apps with 1 week MVP - Patiently building one a app with 3 month grinding?

@molaerga Maybe test a different format or hook 👀 and see what actually moves. What do you think about Insta?

Day 13 of 184 - road to $10k MRR - 0 downloads - waiting for update to be reviews - writing 10 comments on Reddit daily - posted 1 tt I really feel I need to change something… I barely get views on TikTok and no downloads /:(

@vaaselene Not yet. I think we're still in the rapid improvement phase. Better memory, fewer hallucinations, actually reliable agents... there's still a lot left 😅

hot take: ai models will eventually become as boring as smartphones early: new launch huge hype clear differences later: everything is good enough loyalty beats benchmarks people use whatever works do you think we'll hit the "good enough" phase?

@DanielSmidstrup Still in the Notion roadmap phase 😅

Every startup has two roadmaps: the one in Notion and the one customers force you to build. which do you stick to?

@vossbuilds Me getting lost between AI conversations 😅

we are cooked

@TTrimoreau Just building, sharing the journey, and trying to grow an audience 😅

Founders, what are you chasing on X right now ?

@molaerga Already read it. Bookmarked it too 👀

the value is insane, definitely worth a read!!

@MacdevM Enjoy buddy 🙌 sounds like a much-needed reset 😅

Going to vacation after grinding for 10 months without stopping, will touch some grass stuff for 5 days