Aymane - أيمن

Developer building small, simple tools for founders.
Currently building GetWaitly in public:

[Aymane - أيمن @AymaneOnlineDev]

GetWaitly is live.

Add a waitlist to the site you already have:

- One script tag, no rebuild
- Referrals move subscribers up the queue as they share
- Email broadcasts with open and click tracking
- No site? A hosted page is included

Free to start, paid from $5/mo:
https://t.co/CXLevQ5BRW

[Aymane - أيمن @AymaneOnlineDev]

@ahmedafatah that's wild. a text file beating every channel you worked is the whole 2026 story. what's in it?

[Aymane - أيمن @AymaneOnlineDev]

How did your first paying customer actually find you?

Not how you'd like them to. How they actually did.

[Aymane - أيمن @AymaneOnlineDev]

@Its_lakshya_ai @b4dgerr fair. but the point is distribution, not audience. my first paying customer came from a search, not a follower. audience is one channel, not the only one.

[Aymane - أيمن @AymaneOnlineDev]

@b4dgerr pick one and stay. I kept jumping between ideas, and none got long enough to find out if it worked.

[Aymane - أيمن @AymaneOnlineDev]

You can't buy an audience.

You can buy reach. You can rent attention.

An audience is the people who stay after you stop paying.

[Aymane - أيمن @AymaneOnlineDev]

@leoslightbulb @therealaky you can rent attention, but not an audience. an audience is the people who stay after you stop paying.

[Aymane - أيمن @AymaneOnlineDev]

@therealaky build it, but don't mistake it for distribution. my first paying customer came from a search, not a follower.

[Aymane - أيمن @AymaneOnlineDev]

@JadMadi @kamilbaranek_ not that engineers can't sell, we just never practice it. selling is a different muscle. the ones with customers are the ones who started using it.

[Aymane - أيمن @AymaneOnlineDev]

@kamilbaranek_ Here. One paying customer, built with AI. The vibecoding part is real. It's everything after the build that's the job.

[Aymane - أيمن @AymaneOnlineDev]

@solopribuilds The 2% is deciding what the 98% should even do, then testing it and finding the edge cases it missed. Plus design, marketing, support, and everything else that isn't typing.

[Aymane - أيمن @AymaneOnlineDev]

@pggalaviz @ThomasBurkhartB haha right. and it shows. fast is fine until the edge cases hit production.

[Aymane - أيمن @AymaneOnlineDev]

@ThomasBurkhartB Same. Built mine over 4 months, launched in July, and I'm still in it every day: testing, fixing, design, SEO.

"Built in two days" usually means it shipped, not that it's done.

[Aymane - أيمن @AymaneOnlineDev]

@JayeshPadhiar Thanks Jay, appreciate the shout. The one-script-tag thing is the whole idea: keep your site, keep your brand, just start collecting emails.

[Aymane - أيمن @AymaneOnlineDev]

Word of mouth isn't luck.

It's a product good enough that people mention it without being asked, in a place where others will hear. You can't fake the first part. You can build for the second.

[Aymane - أيمن @AymaneOnlineDev]

@microDesignn @pmitu same either way. bad marketing is bad marketing, ai or manual. output isn't the goal.

[Aymane - أيمن @AymaneOnlineDev]

@pmitu volume was never the flex. 100 AI posts is the new "I sent 500 cold emails." output isn't the bottleneck, attention and relevance are.

[Aymane - أيمن @AymaneOnlineDev]

@itsajinkyaraj @agazdecki agree. everything else serves that one skill. no paying customers, no business.

[Aymane - أيمن @AymaneOnlineDev]

@agazdecki "willing to pay" is the whole skill. building is easy, building the right thing is what takes years.

[Aymane - أيمن @AymaneOnlineDev]

@EdenBitton7 @b4dgerr And the list only grows.

[Aymane - أيمن @AymaneOnlineDev]

@b4dgerr the switching is the real job. any single role is fine, five of them in one afternoon is what actually drains you.