Pawel Builds

Full Stack Developer
Interned at FAANG
Federal Cyber Sec
Now building
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[Pawel Builds @PawelBuilds]

I got my first ever SaaS subscriber to https://t.co/IjFI9gMPLo (other sub is me)

Someone paid $25 for 3 months of full access to my little new EdTech game 🥹

Offically $8.33 MRR 😎 should I quit my full time SWE role yet?

[Pawel Builds @PawelBuilds]

i legit forgot i launched on product hunt today

got off work, checked my phone, were at #26 with 75 upvotes and 98 signups

2 away from 100 on launch day.. first person to tip us over DM me, im sending extra in-game loot

https://t.co/mYNJT7fSsS

[Pawel Builds @PawelBuilds]

if you passed security+ in 2023 your cert expires this year.. seeing a flood of panic posts on r/CompTIA about renewals. you have options: 50 CEUs pass a higher cert like cysa+ or retake. pro tip studying for cysa+ renews your sec+ AND levels you up two birds one study session

[Pawel Builds @PawelBuilds]

adobe just got breached through a third party BPO vendor not their own code.. 13 million records leaked. this is why security+ hammers third party risk management so hard your org is only as secure as your weakest vendor

[Pawel Builds @PawelBuilds]

i went from building intelligence tools at the department of defense to making a study app where you fight slime monsters by answering security+ questions.. life is weird

[Pawel Builds @PawelBuilds]

@Brodahilarious0 cybersecurity cert prep app.. making studying for security+ less painful for folks getting into tech

[Pawel Builds @PawelBuilds]

@CogniCarbon mcafee wont save you from ai researchers if they decide to go after your stuff.. best move is patching and limiting what you expose online

[Pawel Builds @PawelBuilds]

@Om7248 building a cert prep app for security+.. small but growing and people actually come back which matters more than signups imo

[Pawel Builds @PawelBuilds]

@Avestay_ nobody talks about the 90 days after launch.. most folks scramble to tweak features nonstop but 0 users = 0 feedback loops.. ive seen way more progress messaging 50 people than adding 5 features

[Pawel Builds @PawelBuilds]

@AlxTurovski nobody talks about how after launch day you spend 3-5 hours fixing stuff you didnt even know could break.. analytics always breaks first, QA finds some edge case, devops ghosts you for an hour.. its always chaos, but its the real stuff

[Pawel Builds @PawelBuilds]

@TTrimoreau MMORPG for learning IT certificates gamified learning

https://t.co/zeDHadO53M

[Pawel Builds @PawelBuilds]

If you don’t want to mess with n8n you can always prompt Claude to build the skills and connections for you and get the same thing.

[Zephyr @Zephyr_hg]

I never run out of content to post anymore.

Built an automation that monitors 50+ news sources, scores articles for relevance, and writes social posts automatically.

It finds trending topics in my niche before they explode everywhere else.

Saves me 15-20 hours monthly and keeps me ahead of every trend.

Comment "NEWS" and I'll DM it to you (must be following)

[Pawel Builds @PawelBuilds]

@king40408 here u go https://t.co/k4KoWPh6ev update post where they went from 75k to 90k with sec+ cysa+ and homelab projects..

[Pawel Builds @PawelBuilds]

just saw someone on reddit land a 95k soc analyst role with security+ and a homelab.. certs DO matter stop listening to the people who say they dont

[Pawel Builds @PawelBuilds]

if you passed security+ in 2023 your cert expires this year.. seeing a flood of panic posts on r/CompTIA about renewals. you have options: 50 CEUs pass a higher cert like cysa+ or retake. pro tip studying for cysa+ renews your sec+ AND levels you up two birds one study session

[Pawel Builds @PawelBuilds]

march 23rd someone named ian became my first paying customer on a product i built alone for months.. $24.99 founders tier.. i know thats nothing but seeing that webhook notification hit my phone while i was debugging at 1am was genuinely one of the best feelings ive had building software

[Pawel Builds @PawelBuilds]

45,000 people saw my pages on google last month and only 95 clicked.. thats a 0.2% click rate lol impressions feel good until you realize theyre basically vanity metrics.. now rewriting every title and building practice test landing pages because turns out informational content just gets answered in the search results

[Pawel Builds @PawelBuilds]

r/ITCareerQuestions is full of "is help desk even worth it in 2026" posts.. help desk without certs is a dead end but help desk WITH a+ and security+ is a launchpad. the cert isnt the destination its proof youre serious

[Pawel Builds @PawelBuilds]

adobe just got breached through a third party BPO vendor not their own code.. 13 million records leaked. this is why security+ hammers third party risk management so hard your org is only as secure as your weakest vendor

[Pawel Builds @PawelBuilds]

i went from building intelligence tools at the department of defense to making a study app where you fight slime monsters by answering security+ questions.. life is weird

[Pawel Builds @PawelBuilds]

a help desk tech on reddit almost reset a VPs password for a social engineer this week.. the attacker had their name employee ID and home address all scraped from linkedin. this is security+ domain 1 in real life not a textbook scenario and most people wouldnt have caught it