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Tony Bui

@tonydbui

Bootstrapped micro startup founder/ Full-time parent. Sharing my journey 📋https://t.co/F6qv9PDtln 🍲https://t.co/IZsUlJ4wo9 📝https://t.co/1WaNLHMuB8

Katılım Ağustos 2024
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Jon Yongfook
Jon Yongfook@yongfook·
The idea of "one shotting" an app using AI is a fugazi. If you had to describe my app and all the edge cases I have solved over the years, it would be a prompt the size of a small book, and my app isn't even that complicated. The people promoting creating a business overnight with AI are just selling a get rich quick pipedream. Those grifters are present in every cycle. AI has completely transformed how I work, but you can't push a button and make money. Doesn't work like that.
Ronan Berder@hunvreus

Talking to smarter folks than me, I'm convinced many of the AI folks in my timeline are full of shit. Nobody is "running 20 agents over night" and building stuff for actual users. Maybe some are building internal tools or disposable software. Maybe. But building software people like using? That doesn't get hacked on day one or blow up after the 3rd user? Nope. I don't even understand what that's supposed to look like. Do you work out a 57 pages document that perfectly describes what you want to build and then summon 14 agents and have them run wild for 6 hours? And what comes out on the other end isn't a broken pile of shit? Nope. Not buying it. PS: it may also be that I have an IQ of 82 and can't figure it out.

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Tony Bui@tonydbui·
@ugo_builds I just follow you like a supporter as we are currently on the same phases on the journey. Keep it up bro 👍
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Ugo@ugo_builds·
I made $0 in February 2026. 📢 Adventory — $0 ⚡ InstantGradient — $0 🪶 PixelPost — $0 😎 Xmoji — $0 This one hurts like a mf I have 2 months left of runway, and I'll give EVERYTHING I have to make it until then
Marc Lou@marclou

I made $81,683 in February 2026. ⭐️ TrustMRR — $33.3k 📈 DataFast — $19.7K 🧑‍💻 CodeFast — $14.9K ⚡️ ShipFast — $8.8K 🐥 Twitter — $3.2K 🍜 Indie Page — $530 💨 Zenvoice — $394 🛡️ ByeDispute — $333 🎞️ YouTube — $211 🚀 LaunchViral — $129 🌱 HabitsGarden — $129 📚 WorkbookPDF — $57 My vibe-coded startup marketplace is now my #1 source of income with the 3% acquisition fee. My SaaS DataFast overtook my boilerplate ShipFast and my course CodeFast. And PoopUp did not make revenue this month 😭

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Pat Walls
Pat Walls@thepatwalls·
8 years ago, I started a side project inside of a tiny Starbucks. Today, Starter Story is being acquired by @HubSpot. Here’s how it happened.
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Tony Bui
Tony Bui@tonydbui·
I built a simple tool to save me some time copying and pasting back and forth LLM just to refine my terrible writing skills. This is what I created for the challenge. I'll just share it anyway as part of the journey😁.
Tony Bui@tonydbui

I FAILED THE CHALLENGE. My holiday is over. I posted on X every day I managed to work on the project, and in total I only got around 15 days with 1–2 hours of focused work each day. The project is about 70% ready to ship. So yes, I failed the challenge. But I’m not giving up on the project. I’ll keep building and ship it within this month. 💪

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Tony Bui
Tony Bui@tonydbui·
Just uploaded to the app store for the first time. Things that I have always hesitated and procrastinated to try. Looking forward to the new journey and lessons along the way.
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Arvid Kahl
Arvid Kahl@arvidkahl·
This is great. A list of all the products Hacker News thought would never work. Sure, the default to response to ANY project on HN is that it could be copied on a weekend. But this list is _strong_ 🤣
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Md Iftekharul Alam Emon@ifemonstudio·
@tonydbui @tdinh_me Think about the dark mode. Mostly the browser updates and trigger the dark mode when user open. But suppose an user wants a website to have pastel color, or anything specific for a website, how do you grab this data information?
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Tony Dinh
Tony Dinh@tdinh_me·
The new type of software is going to be “dynamic”: - A strong foundation of data access layer and integrations - A smart LLM layer to operate on the data - On-demand dynamic UI for the end users, most other interactions become conversational. For example, an email app will work like this: I connect with my email account, then I just talk (or chat) to the app. If I want to check emails the old way, I would just say “show me an email review interface, group incoming emails by sender and date”, then the AI will show me an on demand UI so I can scroll and click around. If I use any particular UI a lot, I will just bookmark that UI somewhere and later I just reopen it directly. All of these UI will become hyper-personalized that fit with the habit and workflows of each user individually. There is no need to design a UI for your software anymore. The same email app may look completely different for each person.
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Tony Bui@tonydbui·
@ifemonstudio @tdinh_me From Tony’s idea, it would be the users to decide what they want, that’s dynamic 😁
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Md Iftekharul Alam Emon
Md Iftekharul Alam Emon@ifemonstudio·
@tdinh_me I have been thinking about dynamic UI. But every time i face the same question. How to determine whats fit for the specific user. Any thoughts?
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Tony Bui
Tony Bui@tonydbui·
Sometimes you should optimize your costs if you are running Saas. I've achieved a significant reduction in my Vercel bill, saving nearly 90% of the usage costs with my new approach 😆
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Nate Lorenzen
Nate Lorenzen@anatelorenzen·
Finding product market fit as a solo founder.
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Tony Dinh
Tony Dinh@tdinh_me·
How to start becoming a solo entrepreneur: Build small side projects, finish and polish them (aim for less than 2 weeks), making them well-scoped, functional small products. Then move on to creating more small products, gradually increasing complexity and adding payment options so people can pay if they want to. Still, each should be finished with a proper website, checkout flow, etc. These products don't have to be extremely useful or solve a painful problem, they're just for training your "building muscle". Naturally, you'll start creating more useful products later on. Now learn at least some marketing channels that suit your skills and interests: SEO, cold email, paid ads, influencers, etc. Then practice one week building, one week marketing, and repeat. If everything goes well, you'll unlock a profitable business in about 1-2 years.
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Tony Bui@tonydbui·
@tibo_maker Hey Tibo, is your replyguys app still going? Just check and found the site was broken
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Tibo
Tibo@tibo_maker·
in the last 7 days, we shipped: 1. AIRedditHumanizer .com 2. SuperX .so/tools/postlab 3. SeoAIReview .com 4. ReplyGuys .app 5. FindStartupIdeas .com 6. ValidateSaasIdea .com 7. LetterRanks .com for each of those, I worked with a different person, an applicant who applied to my "Maker" position working with 7 different makers was incredibly intense but imo it's x10 more efficient than "interviewing" people where you actually don't learn anything real btw, tell me, which tool is your favorite? drop your answer 👇
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Tony Bui@tonydbui·
@hereische No matter, I look at things differently. There is no easy path to success. I spend a lot of time on the phone, so I would like to build my own mobile app, as simple as that 😁.
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ILYA CHE@hereische·
@tonydbui You sure? Look at how many ppl are struggling on Reddit and X with those mobile apps.
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Tony Bui@tonydbui·
I will start learning how to build a mobile app, something I've always wanted to do but have been avoiding.
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Tony Bui@tonydbui·
@andi_losing Nice animations Andi. What is your tech stack for mobile dev ?
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Tony Bui@tonydbui·
Vibe coding sometimes makes you feel like you are talking to yourself, lol.
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