Arthur Sathish

🚀 Building a free weekly launch board for makers

[Arthur Sathish @ArthurSathish]

Week 42 board on PeekLaunch is open and completely empty.

Whoever launches first gets the top spot all to themselves. Free, no card.

https://t.co/w2DmKsk90y

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Your code is not the reason your side project failed.

Nobody saw it. That's the reason.

I'm learning this the hard way with my own launch board right now.

Which was harder for you, building it or getting people to look at it?

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@alex_prompter Watching one real user get stuck for 30 seconds teaches more than a month of dashboards.

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@kirat_tw Most 100x engineers are just normal engineers with zero meetings on their calendar.

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@SimonHoiberg Launching an anti-slop list with a slop launch post is honestly perfect. Every maker should read this before writing their launch post.

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@RoundtableSpace Get the first 25 makers onto our launch board this week. My co-founder and I built https://t.co/pxl4cCHYxe, and now the scary part is getting strangers to show up.

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@0xPaulvibe Confession: our launch board went live 6 days ago and this week's board is still empty. My co-founder and I are learning that building was the easy part.

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The only moat left is people who already know your name. Anyone can copy your app this weekend. Nobody can copy who trusts you.

[Sahil Lavingia @shl]

There is no moat

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Expectation: launch day, 500 signups, my phone won't stop buzzing.

Reality: 1 signup. It was me, checking if the form works.
Be honest, who was your first user?

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@nirudhuuu Kubernetes for zero users is my favorite kind of confidence. Try telling 10 people it exists first. That grows faster.

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@Dr_Singularity Honest question: who is checking 722 math results in one week? The checking might be the real problem now, not the finding.

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@ZypherHQ More building is great advice until you have 12 finished projects and zero users. Launching is the skill nobody practices, so my co-founder and I built a free place to do it.

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@0xHvdes A great product nobody sees is just a hobby with a domain name. That is the whole reason my co-founder and I built a launch board.

[Arthur Sathish @ArthurSathish]

Free software has a new problem. Nobody can find it.

Building got easy. Getting the first 100 people to try it is the hard part now, and my co-founder and I are working on exactly that.

[Chubby♨️ @kimmonismus]

Remember the team building free, open-source alternatives to Adobe apps like Photoshop?
Well, they’re taking on Microsoft Word too.

WordCraft rebuilds the familiar Word workflow in Rust. Free, open source, and already available on GitHub, though still in alpha.

All software will become free. I love it.

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@csaba_kissi Bookmarked half of these in under a minute. Which one actually saved you the most time last week?

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@theo Eight quiet hours after an accidental merge is the real badge. How often do you keep the "oops" ship?

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@marclou @ankittharol Spotlighting small wins is how builders stay sane. Most of us quit in the quiet weeks, not the hard ones.

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@gocloudship CV to a live site in under a minute is wild. If you want a free launch seat this week as well, https://t.co/pxl4cCHYxe still has open spots.

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@marclou That empty globe hits hard. Our Week 42 board on https://t.co/pxl4cCHYxe is still empty too. The first product to go live stays at the top until someone else ships.

[Arthur Sathish @ArthurSathish]

Software got cheap. Trust did not.

Copyleft is fighting a war from 2005. Are we still writing rules for a world that already moved on?

[DHH @dhh]

The entire copyleft licensing regime was built for a "software is scarce and precious" world that no longer exists. But watch the old guard cling to these obsolete rites like a pre-reformation priest to a Latin Bible.

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[Arthur Sathish @ArthurSathish]

Most founders post "we launched" and wait.

Better move: talk to 10 makers who shipped that week and ask what blocked them.

That's my plan for PeekLaunch this week. Slow, a bit painful, but real.

Would you rather shout into an empty feed or learn from people who just launched?