Oddly Akshay

Building oddly serious things on the internet.
Building in public.

Free Analytics for X (approved by chrome web store)

[Oddly Akshay @OddlyBuilding]

funny timing.
X analytics has been having issues.
I literally just got my free X analytics extension approved on the Chrome Web Store 😂
maybe I shipped at the right time for once.
https://t.co/H7ZFK4kKCB

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A Monday question for the builders:

What is something you would be proud to ship broken, if you had the courage to launch it before it felt ready?

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@ReneChavez_wooo Growth for the competitor is a win too 🤣

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The indie hacker lifecycle:

Build a product.
Launch on Product Hunt.
Get 12 upvotes.
Build a Product Hunt competitor. 👀

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@Corporate_CJP True.
Until there is security breach 😭🤣
No PHP developer was hurt (including me)

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@sujoycd That’s great!

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@byaarav That’s a good offer for 10K/m SaaS. Unless you know you can grow exponentially, i would take it.

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@startupoppa Those constraints force a kind of clarity most founders never get. Hard to chase vanity metrics when you're worried about the bathroom situation.

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Your calendar is more honest than you are.

You say meetings are unproductive. Your calendar says you have six of them tomorrow. Your calendar wins.

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@VeraMelnikungz Except the person in a hurry often doesn't know what they want until they see options. Designing for speed sometimes means hiding the thing they'd choose if they had time.

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@juliey4 Simplification feels like the lever here but I'd bet what actually matters is removing the thing people currently do by hand. Make that vanish and they'll pay before design gets minimal.

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Everyone's worried AI will steal their job by making execution faster. That's the wrong fear.

AI commodifies speed. Speed was never the bottleneck. Knowing what to build is. And no amount of velocity fixes a wrong idea.

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@rishabhnasa Exactly!!

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Indie developers stay indie because they can kill features that slow everything down. A team of four has to justify why a feature exists. A solo founder just deletes it.

That ruthlessness scales better than most people think.

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@pranvtwt "As a designer who codes, I'm loving this era 😂

Built something recently that I'd love to show you. Cool if I slide into your DMs for some honest feedback?"

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@wickedguro I am comfortable with that language and Laravel is good framework, I understand we don't code anymore as much, but it gives me opportunity to review, and fix things as I want.

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@ItsPavanGK Let users keep their data private, and we don’t have to deal with the headache of managing it. Sounds like a win-win to me.

[Oddly Akshay @OddlyBuilding]

I spent a week arguing with my designer about a button. AI generated the same button in 3 seconds.

Then I realized: we weren't arguing about the button. We were arguing about whether anyone wanted what the button does.

AI can't have that fight.

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Design taste is the ability to know what to leave out. AI can generate all of it. So what designers actually do now is stand behind the tool and edit the parts that miss.

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First time someone paid for something I built, I kept refreshing to make sure it wasn't a mistake.

After that I stopped asking if it was real and started asking what they actually needed.