Simon

6-figure ecom owner → indie hacker in progress 🛠️
Building small apps in public and finally shipping ONE at a time.
Dev · SEO/GEO · the occasional experiment.

[Simon @Kaizen_SEO]

149 followers. account from 2012. never posted.

meanwhile i run a 6 figure ecom business that mostly runs itself, and this week my first two apps went live on the app store.

i'm done building in silence. short version of where i'm at:

[Simon @Kaizen_SEO]

@aureliuscajigas Agree, the App Store itself is a great research tool. What do you look at first when something catches your eye, the ranking, the review count, or what the 1 star reviews complain about?

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@vovalukashov Great writeup, the agent did the safe thing and still broke prod. What was the fix in the end, a separate direct connection for the agent or a dedicated read-only role?

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@nicobuildss Putting the product in slide 1 makes sense, views without the app on screen are basically entertainment plus most people don't swipe through all carousel slides

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@foundmod Funny, but it makes sense that the framing changes how much it cares about duplicate code. Have you tried it on a bigger task yet, or just small ones like Anthropic's tests?

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@rashem48 Testing it on a multi-monitor setup before anyone else touches it is the right call.

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@FilipPanoski @WhoWorksThere Your first $19 customer still paying a year later says a lot. Did @WhoWorksThere's early feedback shape what Bazzly became?

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@vovalukashov Fair, that visitor was never your customer anyway. Might work better to frame the page around who needs it more than once, not around price.

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@danielkbuilds Exactly, and it compounds. once you can market one thing well, every next build gets easier to launch too.

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If ChatGPT already leans toward the cheaper option for that query, might be worth titling the comparison page with "cheapest" or "affordable" explicitly instead of staying neutral - an SEO writer (James Dooley) found that exact modifier has low competition and the page still ranks for "best" too.

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@bruteforcearete At the very start, before I have any real traffic or CR numbers, I'd rather study what's already working for similar products than keep tweaking my own page blind - and put that time into the product instead. Once real data comes in, the page is worth optimizing.

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@aureliuscajigas Removing the account wall so people can reach the paywall without signing up makes sense if that was where they dropped. When you took auth out, what do you use now if someone wants to restore a purchase or come back later?

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@vovalukashov Good thread for meeting other builders. I'm building a christian couples app for iOS/Android. what are you shipping today?

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@danielkbuilds 6.5M impressions in 3 months is real search demand for a side site. Which pages bring most of the 56K clicks, the ones answering one specific question or the broad ones?

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Solid honesty on Meta carrying it and the influencer post flopping. I'm just getting started with UGC creators myself, learned fast that one creator alone isn't a real test, better to hand them formats and script ideas that already work and go from there. Testing SideShift for that right now, will share what I learn. Once something works you can extend it and push it on Meta ads too. Which ad formats are actually working for you?

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@Nikhonit Agree, MRR screenshots mostly reach other builders. Where did your first paying users actually show up, if it wasn't people reading the BIP posts?

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@thomasdatrain96 That's a strong signal. the trust already happened before they even saw your site. Does that change how much you invest in the booking page itself, or does it barely matter now?

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@SanjanaLaddha @heynookapp Nice, 150 in the first month is real signal. Which channel brought most of them in?

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@rcmisk Agree, the room matters more than the pitch. Where would you look for buyers when the app is for couples or churchgoers rather than founders?