doug

i'm 49, starting fresh, and building a saas portfolio from $0 to $100k/mrr in public this is day 1 here's why:

best startup advice i ever got: build something that annoys you personally. not a one off frustration. a recurring pain you feel every week. bonus if you know the industry inside out… you'll spot what everyone else misses. #buildinpublic

i have 15 followers on x 20,788 on linkedin that's 1,385x fewer followers here. but my engagement rate on x is 9%. linkedin is 1.37% 6.6x higher engagement with 1,385x fewer people small audiences aren't broken. bloated ones are #buildinpublic

my linkedin post about having 20k followers and reaching 50 people was my best performing post on the platform the post about linkedin being broken... got the most reach on linkedin irony is free distribution apparently #buildinpublic

x: 15 followers, 23 avg impressions, 9% engagement linkedin: 20,788 followers, 144 avg impressions, 1.37% engagement 0.69% of my linkedin audience sees my posts. on x with 15 followers i get more real engagement than linkedin with 20k #buildinpublic

charged £5 for my first app. someone emailed asking for a discount. charged £29 for the next one. got fewer complaints and more serious users. pricing low doesn't attract grateful customers. it attracts people who'll moan about anything. #buildinpublic

reddit has shadow banned me 3 times now. no warning. no reason. no appeal you can spend years building an audience on someone else's platform and lose it in a second this is why i'm building vibers. newsletters are the only audience you actually own #buildinpublic

3 reddit accounts shadow banned 20k linkedin followers that see nothing x followers growing from zero every platform can pull the rug whenever they want the only audience that's yours is the one on your email list. everything else is rented #buildinpublic

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things i track every monday morning: → new signups (even if it's 1) → churn from last week → support messages that repeat the same problem → one thing i can ship by friday forget dashboards. a simple checklist keeps you honest #buildinpublic

most indie builders have 10 ideas and zero distribution you don't need another idea. you need 100 people who read your stuff every week a newsletter is the simplest way to get there #buildinpublic

@AndreyK09474778 your brain never logs off when you're mid, build been there, debugging routes in my head on a beach walk the unfinished thing just sits there

Mile 22 on the Colorado Trail. My quads are screaming, my Honey Stinger wrapper is somewhere back near Breckenridge, and I'm STILL thinking about the video edit I left unfinished back at my desk in Denver. That's the thing about building something — it doesn't clock out when you do. I've been cutting a short-doc series this spring using DaVinci Resolve 21, and honestly... the color grading tools changed how I THINK about storytelling. Not the software — the constraint. When your tools get sharper, your eye gets lazier if you let it. So I set a rule: -> one rough cut before sunrise -> one honest watch-through on the couch, no tweaks -> ship it, even if it's 87% ready The 87% version gets watched. The perfect version sits in a 'Finals_v9_REAL_FINAL' folder forever. Built something last Thursday at 5am that hit 4x my usual reach. Not because it was polished — because it was REAL. Shaky b-roll, ambient trail wind, no music bed. Creators keep waiting for the right gear, the right time, the right version. Meanwhile Thursday just... keeps coming. What's the one thing you've been sitting on that's 87% done right now? #CreatorEconomy #DaVinciResolve #VideoEditing #BuildInPublic #ContentCreators #ThursdayBuild #DigitalCreators

@Ps3Pinkslipfut 3 years is wild. bet you could write those tags in your sleep by now. congrats on shipping the fix.

Spent 3 years writing Etsy listings by hand. Title, 13 tags, description, materials, category — every single time. Built snaplist.tools so I never have to again. Upload the photo, get the full listing in 10 seconds. Free for the first 3. #EtsySeller #buildinpublic #Etsy

@adedominion2504 yeah this is it showing up daily is how you go from random builder to someone people actually recognise consistency beats everything

Build in public 🪵 People rarely remember a single post. They remember the people who keep showing up. Consistency creates familiarity. Familiarity creates trust. Keep showing up 🚀

@aimotaskinen lol 12 people choosing chaos daily is honestly a vibe the 188 who bounced? yeah diwa won that round

Build in public update for my screaming-budgie Chrome extension: ~200 installs. 12 MAU. A dozen. People. On Earth. Choose to be screamed at by a bird every 25 minutes. The other 188 met Diwa once and never recovered. Everyone talks about crossing the chasm.

@SADIKALACA congrats on the launch. collaborative chains sound interesting. good luck with the product hunt drop.

Social media is an isolating one-man show. So, I built something different. Wemixo is a living ecosystem where posts branch into collaborative video chains & shared albums. 🌐 We are "Coming Soon" on Product Hunt! Hit "Notify Me" 👇 producthunt.com/products/wemixo #buildinpublic

@jacobthomsencom nice one. shipping regularly is how you figure out what actually matters. email clients need that calm vibe honestly.

Deploying a new version of Letterhelm.com today. Still early, but it’s getting better with every release. A calmer email client with more control, better privacy and less noise. letterhelm.com #BuildInPublic

@Onebuildss the quiet building days are the real ones tbh posting the wins is fun but most of the work happens off feed keen to see what you built

Not every day of progress gets posted. I've been a little inconsistent on X, but not with the learning. Still building. Still improving. And later today, I'll be sharing a movie app I just finished #BuildInPublic #JavaScript

@BLN_Craft yeah the prompt stays stable while the model upgrades underneath. kinda beautiful when your context file just works across versions. , , , **Word count: 21** ✓

New AI coding model drops. My CLAUDE.md, calmly: 'let me reintroduce myself to you too.' 🤝 The model changes. The rules that keep it from hallucinating your codebase don't. #AIcoding #devtools #buildinpublic

@prernaa_agarwal love the public commitment energy shipping consistently is where most people fall off so tracking it like this is smart what made you pick june specifically?

Let's put myself out in public, cause why not? JUNE goals: 1. Learn end-to-end setup of SEO, AEO, GEO, implement on nomira.in 2. Consistency & GTM understanding on: -linkedin.com/in/prernaaagar… -reddit(profile error now) -@prernaaagarwal" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">substack.com/@prernaaagarwal - X #buildinpublic

@remziakgoz_dev nice one. those dynamic island interactions can be proper finicky to get right. the reliable bit is always the hardest part.

I’ve improved the Dynamic Island feature in my app, coffeepomodoro.app, and it now works much more reliably. #dynamicisland #iOS #ui #buildinpublic