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

I made an app to convert almost any file locally (so you don't send your files to random servers) And now it support COMIC book files! CBZ, CBR and CBT (these are also free to convert on the website)

Added 1,399 new file conversions this week 3,985 → 5,384 formats More than any other converter

Two versions of LiteLLM got hacked yesterday (1.82.7 and 1.82.8) That means tons of AI agent projects got compromised if they installed during those 3 hours

There's a few articles popping up about this. Quite a huge deal, as MANY agent toolkits (even one I'm making in a personal project) use LiteLLM behind the scenes. If you installed either version: 1. Check for backdoors at ~/.config/sysmon/sysmon.py 2. Rotate every credential on that machine 3. Check for suspicious pods: kubectl get pods -A | grep node-setup- Safe version: anything ≤ 1.82.6

Attackers compromised Trivy (a security scanner) first. When LiteLLM's CI ran Trivy, it leaked their PyPI token. With that token, they published the poisoned versions. Worst part: version 1.82.8 used a .pth file. The malicious code ran every time Python started. Even when you just ran pip.

In hindsight: a bad choice of a hero message If you haven't heard, two versions of LiteLLM got hacked yesterday (1.82.7 and 1.82.8) Live on PyPI for 3 hours. Downloaded 3.4 million times per day. Stole SSH keys, credentials, secrets, API keys and crypto wallet seed phrases. How it happened:

It's funny: 99% of my revenue comes from my main app, How to Convert But what gets me most excited? The one sale a month I get from my little photomosaic making app, PicTiler Literally just made a "weeeooooeee" sound out loud

My file converter app is going to support comic books! And over 4,000 other document, video, image, audio and email file conversions (more than any other file converter app) The next update is coming in less than 24 hours!

This is my file converter app Drag and drop to convert almost any file Does everything locally, unlike converters you find on Google It just crossed 2,400 users!

I just got one of the coolest messages from a customer using my photo mosaic site. They used photos of their thread collection as the colour palette and turned a screenshot of their sisters (currently on X-Factor Denmark) into a stitched artwork. They generated the pattern with Pictiler then hand-stitched the whole thing. They’re bringing it to the live show, so a Pictiler design might end up on Danish national TV in front of ~1M viewers tonight. Did not see that use case coming 😄

How to Convert is now on TrustMRR by @marclou It's been a crazy ride, and I still can't believe I built something people find useful. I've made $58k USD in the past year of running it and it's become pretty much a full-time gig. All from me posting here on my socials, reddit and people finding it on Google. Here's what it does and why people want it:

@jackfriks 420!

my little startup is $175 MRR off of $420,000 ARR

@andybrandt @levelsio If you started with vi, watching you code must feel like watching a wizard at work

@JakeManger @levelsio vim is actually natural, but I am biased, started with vi :D

I hate tmux It's so incredibly user unfriendly The shortcuts make no sense I wish someone would make a better tmux Even just logging into tmux attaching the screen is an illogical hell to type Again I hate tmux, it's so shit

Jake built a file converter tool and made $60k from it all while doing a PhD. Check it out:

@JustAftab @marclou Hmm interesting. It might be due to jpg and it not supporting transparency. Will have a look! Feel free to send me a file if you ever encounter an edge case like that and I’ll work on a fix

@JakeManger @marclou An observation - a month ago I tried converting pdf to jpg, it failed I don't know why. Can you have a look. Have a nice day and keep going 💪 Amazing work.