Maximilian

I help you discover and build tiny AI projects & ideas.

9+ years Laravel.
Quit freelance to pursue my ideas. 🚀
Tennis lover. 🎾

Come along for the ride!

[Maximilian @MaxAIPlayground]

Sure, but the validation phase shouldn't take months or years.

I didn't build a landing page for two reasons:

- no idea where to advertise it
- not expecting customers to find me by using specific keywords

My approach was to talk about my service (e.g. on Kleinanzeigen) but it hasn't really worked out.

Best I could do was find two testers...

[Maximilian @MaxAIPlayground]

Currently I'm stuck and feel paralyzed. 😳

I've built my latest side project for more than a month and have exactly 0 customers.

What did I built?

A tool that automates applying for apartments. It's working quite well, but I don't know how to find customers for it.

I have two options:

1) Cold approach people who are looking for apartments (e.g. on popular websites for classifieds).

2) Give up and build something else.

I have dozens of ideas and one currently sticks out since it's a passion of mine.

What would you do? #buildinpublic

[Maximilian @MaxAIPlayground]

@brianball I don't have a landing page, it's just a crawler with a database in the background and a notification system on top. I was trying to get customers by offering this service without building a landing page... 🧐

[Maximilian @MaxAIPlayground]

@niepreneur Congrats! Upvoted.

[Maximilian @MaxAIPlayground]

@crebuh Upvoted!

[Maximilian @MaxAIPlayground]

Idea of the Day:

Tennis technique analyzer with tips on improving form.

[Maximilian @MaxAIPlayground]

Android File Transfer not working? Simply quit the Preview app. 🤦‍♂️

[Maximilian @MaxAIPlayground]

I wonder if there is demand for an ImmoScout24 API access?

Or even an API that includes other platforms such as Kleinanzeigen and Immowelt.

For a side project I've scraped properties and could supply almost real time access.

Any tips on where I can find German developers? 🤔

[Maximilian @MaxAIPlayground]

Another round of X cleaning up bots?
My follower count reduced by 5% over night. 😮

[Maximilian @MaxAIPlayground]

Idea of the Day:

An AI video editor that automatically removes dead time from a tennis match recording.

[Maximilian @MaxAIPlayground]

I have a really hard time to find customers for my latest side project.

Because of that, I'm starting to freelance a bit more again.

I've had a customer/project for 6+ years. I can always put in some hours into this project to earn money.

This is good.

But at the same time, it keeps me from *really* grinding (and finding those first customers for my side project).

[Maximilian @MaxAIPlayground]

@rchardkovacs I meant to say "X weeks".

[Maximilian @MaxAIPlayground]

@rchardkovacs This is actually much better than working on a prototype for X works (like I have) and then having a hard time getting users...

[Maximilian @MaxAIPlayground]

@icreatelife This reminds me of how Perplexity works.
I'm on the waitlist...

[Maximilian @MaxAIPlayground]

@crebuh @buildinpublic It works for me... Strange.

[Maximilian @MaxAIPlayground]

@jmaekki What's your strategy?

[Maximilian @MaxAIPlayground]

@hyuman_exe I agree, it's very easy on the memory as well.

[Maximilian @MaxAIPlayground]

It's that time again...
Cleaning up 250+ tabs in 3 different browsers. 🙈

[Maximilian @MaxAIPlayground]

I wonder where I can download X Premium invoices?
Trying to deduct it from taxes (Germany). 😬

[Maximilian @MaxAIPlayground]

@JanarJurisson True.

My hack is to just bookmark (using Raindrop and loving it) those stale tabs, then close them.

This way I trick myself into thinking I can always get back to it later.

(Yeah, sure!)