I didn’t start building in public because it was trendy.
I started because I was stuck.
I was working, building products on the side, trying things quietly, hoping something would click. Most days felt invisible. No traction. No validation. Just effort.
So I decided to stop hiding the process.
I shared unfinished ideas. Half-working products. Slow progress. Doubts. Small wins that wouldn’t impress anyone on a highlight reel.
Some things worked. Many didn’t.
Json2Media took months before it made its first $20.
DevBio was built faster, but still has zero users today.
Both taught me the same lesson:
Progress doesn’t look dramatic from the inside.
It looks repetitive, boring, and often lonely.
Right now, I’m in a phase where I’m not chasing “big launches”.
I’m tightening things. Listening more. Simplifying.
Trying to build products I’d actually want to use every day.
Still figuring things out.
Still showing up.
Still building.
Not because I’m confident it’ll all work out -
but because this path finally feels honest.
@mdnlabs Honestly, it let me start building my own products alongside my day job. Everything I ship - Quillly, a few other tools - runs off this little M1. Went from just my 9-5 to actually being an indie hacker on the side. That shift’s been the greatest part. 🙌🏻
@AntonioEscudero This is nice to maintain the consistency.
You can use the x api for this and you could also show AI generated posts suggestions so you don’t have to think a lot before posting. It will be one click to post.
Exactly. The government is clearly weaponizing LLMs for mass manipulation and geopolitical gatekeeping. By intentionally lobotomizing models for the rest of the world, they’re choosing which nations get to innovate and which get left behind.
Open source is the only way out - we need a truly independent, decentralized organization to keep this tech out of their hands.
Just joined the community!
I’m building Quillly because I was tired of guessing if my SEO was actually working.
It automatically publishes your product pages across 7 search engines and tracks rankings by country and device.
I want to give a lifetime free deal to one person who has been shipping consistently for the last 30 days. Who's in?
Publishing a page is the easy part.
The annoying part is everything after: getting it indexed, and then actually knowing if it's ranking.
Quillly handles both.
On indexing - when you publish, we submit to Google directly and push through the IndexNow API, so your page gets pinged across 7 search engines instead of just one.
On tracking - you can see your real ranking data pulled straight from Google Search Console and Bing Webmaster.
→ which keywords you rank for
→ your position on each
→ by country and device
So you're not guessing whether the page landed. You publish, it gets distributed, and you watch where it actually shows up.
Your AI writes the blogs. Quillly handles the indexing, the tracking, and everything in between. 🙌
@weswinder ngl the nuke analogy is wild. if they really think it's that dangerous then a private corp definitely shouldn't be the one holding the keys.
@AdityaShips Ngl alternative pages are a total cheat code for seo. It's way easier to rank for someone else's brand name than fighting over generic keywords.