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[Alessio Persico @alepbuilds]

Day 27 building my startup in public:

Focused on performance tweaks and cost optimization. Every millisecond and dollar saved counts.

Started working through feature requests from new users, their feedback is gold.

We're almost at 100 MMR unofficially, over 200 with pre-release beta conversions.

Road to 5k MMR is officially on. Who's with me?

[Alessio Persico @alepbuilds]

Yesterday a dev asked "what should i build"

everyone replied with opinions. i replied with 74 real complaints about vscode, pulled from @tryechosift .

by afternoon he was a paying customer.
by tonight his extension was live on the marketplace.

signal → subscription → shipped product. one day.

building is free now. knowing what's worth building is the whole game.

[Marc Lou @marclou]

10 years as an entrepreneur and 1 takeaway:

Don't you dare give up.

[EchoSift @tryechosift]

Your next saas idea is already a recurring complaint on github.

It's been thread-bumped, upvoted, and worked around for months. one issue at a time you can't see the pattern.

EchoSift clusters those complaints across multiple sources into ranked pain signals.

[Marc Lou @marclou]

TrustMRR sponsorship revenue is now stable at $18K MRR, and churn is 50% lower than during the first few months.

There are fewer new customers, but they stay much longer, like @romanbuildsaas, who has been sponsoring his startup Gojiberry AI since launch ($10K spent 🫶)

TrustMRR is entering its second phase, which I’d call the “cruising” phase 😄

Most of the traffic is now organic (110K unique visitors last 30 days).

I’m seeing Reddit posts from people outside the indie hacking bubble, new buyers joining every day, and I have no idea where they even found the marketplace.

I like this cruising phase much more. The startup runs mostly by itself now, so I can switch back and forth between other projects.

Thanks to @Sabrina_Ramonov, who just sponsored her new AI startup Blotato today ❤️