Atanas Dimitrov

Shipped @RetroSelfieApp: 1,231 installs, $12.84 revenue 📸
Shipped @GridHabitsApp: 62 installs, $2.31 MRR 🟩
6 months building in public

[Atanas Dimitrov @SeishinBG]

Hey @X 👋 lets #connect

Indie hacker building a mobile apps solo.

Reply with what you're building 👇
I'll follow back + check out your product.

Into: Mobile/RN, AI products, Solo SaaS, #buildinpublic

Let's grow together! 🚀

[Atanas Dimitrov @SeishinBG]

Most builders ship AI features. @marclou ships AI features you actually want to look at.

Sentiment tracking, share of voice, misinformation detection - all in one dashboard that still feels calm, not cluttered. Underrated skill. 🚀

[Marc Lou @marclou]

I shipped analytics to https://t.co/vjhTLjM5sA

📣 Brand mentions over time
❤️ Top supporters (and critics)
🥇 Share of voice VS. competitors
🧱 Mention types (testimonials, bug reports, misinformation)

I like AI, but my happy place is building UIs for humans.

[Atanas Dimitrov @SeishinBG]

Hot Take: #buildInPublic is marketing with better PR.

Nobody posts their churn, their $0 weeks, or their unanswered tickets.

You're not vulnerable - you're editing a highlight reel and calling it honesty.

[Atanas Dimitrov @SeishinBG]

Hey, #BuildInPublic,

The first sale wasn't a fluke!

@RetroSelfieApp picked up 4 more paying users in August - $12.84 total, split across iOS and Android.

Still tiny. Still real. Building in public. 📈

[Atanas Dimitrov @SeishinBG]

Hey, #BuildInPublic,

@GridHabitsApp milestone: first real subscriber 💳

$2/mo MRR. Not much yet - but it's the first dollar that isn't mine, and that's the one that counts.

[Atanas Dimitrov @SeishinBG]

For contrast: people who burn through all their free credits almost never pay.

So this isn't a pricing problem, it's getting people to try it at all.

[Atanas Dimitrov @SeishinBG]

I have a conversion problem with @RetroSelfieApp and I don't understand why.

890 signups. 574 AI edits. $3.75 revenue.

57% of people who sign up never generate a single edit. Not "try once and leave" - never even try.

[Atanas Dimitrov @SeishinBG]

Screens below: onboarding vs. the real editor.

Is that gap - one tap promised, then a blank prompt to fill.

Where people bounce?

[Atanas Dimitrov @SeishinBG]

We insulated our houses to save on heating and accidentally killed the one thing that used to save our sleep: airflow.

Old houses breathed. New houses trap heat, humidity, and your own exhaled CO2 all night.

Crack a window. It's not cozy, it's ventilation.

[@levelsio @levelsio]

Yes it's real and not healthmaxxing

One third of people now have sleep deprivation or chronic sleep disorders, one third!!!

Our globe has been getting hotter and hotter reaching record heat levels every year somewhere

Our houses are built more insulated than ever, they don't breathe anymore

Together that means people sleeping bad, in bedrooms that are too hot, too humid, ans with CO2 levels that are way too high

That's a modern problem not seen before, it wasn't like that 20 years ago!

[Atanas Dimitrov @SeishinBG]

@tibo_maker Bro said “feat my wife” like he’s dropping a collab. 💀😭

[Atanas Dimitrov @SeishinBG]

Hot take: most "AI killed my SaaS idea" posts are just people discovering their idea was never a business.

A CRUD app with a paywall was never a moat. It was a head start.

The moat was always distribution, data, and trust - AI just made that obvious faster.

[Atanas Dimitrov @SeishinBG]

@marclou The plot twist is that “most nutritious” and “lowest pesticide” aren’t the same optimization problem.

Beans absolutely look like the cheat code here 😂

Now I want to know: which food on this chart surprised you the most?

[Atanas Dimitrov @SeishinBG]

Every "we 10x'd velocity with AI agents" post is missing the denominator 📉

How much of that output is now unmaintainable - and nobody's said so out loud yet.

[Atanas Dimitrov @SeishinBG]

@rauchg Monorepo solves context. It doesn't solve permissioning. The second sales, support, and prod config share one tree, someone's building an ACL system whether they planned to or not.

[Atanas Dimitrov @SeishinBG]

1.0.5 is out!

Not a new feature - I fixed something that should've worked from day one. Every square stays now, exactly like it should have.

39 users. 18 new this week. Day 26 building @GridHabitsApp solo from Bulgaria.

#buildinpublic

[Atanas Dimitrov @SeishinBG]

@marclou @LumaHQ 131 indie hackers in one photo and not a single boss to report to 😂

That's the dream!

Wish I could teleport from my desk straight to East Coast Park right now.

Which city gets meetup #12? 👀

[Atanas Dimitrov @SeishinBG]

Juggling @RetroSelfieApp + @GridHabitsApp solo, it's easy to only see the grind and forget to zoom out.

But @marclou's right - every $ of MRR isn't just income, it's equity in assets you're compounding night after night. 🌙📈

Play the long game.

#buildinpublic #indiehackers

[Marc Lou @marclou]

In 2018, I was working 10 hours a day on my SaaS, and it was making $3K/month.

I remember my employee friends working 6 hours a day, with higher salaries, paid vacation, and holidays.

A thought crossed my mind: Why do I even bother?

It wasn’t until four years later, in 2022, that I realized my startup was an asset I could sell for ~3× its annual revenue.

If your product makes $3K/month, congrats. You are sitting on $100,000.

[Atanas Dimitrov @SeishinBG]

Right, @levelsio - except most people aren't adding "their flavor", they're all reaching for the same AI flavor.

The cheat code was never the model, it's taste: knowing when to stop generating and start editing 🎨

#AI #buildinpublic

[@levelsio @levelsio]

The cool thing about AI is it's letting people add their own little flavor of creativity to all their projects

You'd never make this by hand 5 years ago, but with AI it's easy to generate it and used properly it gives everything more color and personality!

[Atanas Dimitrov @SeishinBG]

6 months of building solo, and today @RetroSelfieApp got its first-ever paying customer!

Not a test, not me - a real stranger!

Small number, huge feeling. 🎉📸

#buildinpublic #indiehackers

[Atanas Dimitrov @SeishinBG]

@marclou The pill you actually take is the one where you build cool shit and post about building it every day. audience isn’t a pill, it’s a habit.