C.Roberts

Solo founder building an app that turns your travel photos into a photo journal. Four apps in, zero revenue, one baby due. Posting the honest version.

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I'm 34.

solo founder from Australia buy living in the Netherlands.

looking to connect with more builders & ai enthusiasts!

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@mikepat711 Nope. Tell me why i should become one and how do I do it.

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@trikcode That's a wise thing to say. I agree.

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@annasoreskin @wilczyn connected 😎

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@melvindvivas Haha i need ideas too

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@SuiBuilds 2 max. Otherwise it's harder to sleep 🛌

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@dannypostma Yeah I feel liked you’ve gone all in with that price! Hope it pays off

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@SkyscannerJapan Japan. Haha just kidding

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To reset now or wait...
I'm on 20X plan, and I've used Claude Opus 5.5 on medium effort the whole week, and this is where I'm at. Do I use the reset now with the weekend coming, or do I just wait till Monday? Help me choose.

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I'm on 20X plan, and I've used Claude Opus 5.5 on medium effort the whole week, and this is where I'm at. Do I use the reset now with the weekend coming, or do I just wait till Monday? Help me choose.

[C.Roberts @SerotinyBuilds]

I'm on 20X plan, and I've used Claude Opus 5.5 on medium effort the whole week, and this is where I'm at. Do I use the reset now with the weekend coming, or do I just wait till Monday? Help me choose.

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@alexhawat I agree

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I will win.

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i will win.

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@skpnky I don't actually get this too much, but sounds cool.

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@pirwot For me the risk went the other way. I spent months building foundations for products nobody had asked for. What does a foundation look like to you before there's a single paying customer?

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Learned this one on a small scale. My first app was free with paid ads as the only channel, and the unit economcs never worked and was never properly thought about before launching. I parked it at about 130 users. What would you track instead in year one?

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I agree, but it is quite a tricky balance. For one of my products, I've got 15 users, but these people typically sign up, use it once, and then they don't use it again. Of course, I have to speak to them, but maybe there was a bug and it scared them off. It's a hard balance in my opinion, and I haven't cracked it yet.

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@b4dgerr Tell me which of my replies turned into a real conversaton. I can see likes, but I've no idea which threads actually got me a follow or a DM. What made you start building it?

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@omarsar0 Question from a non-dev: when does a custom harness start to beat Claude Code with a spec and a plan written first? That setup has carried me through four apps and I haven't hit the wall yet.

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@Rutta_ai Both, in my case. I built a tenant rights tool in 48 hours, put zero marketing behind it, and it's dead. Finding people was the hard part every time. Does a weekend build ever go right when there's no audience yet?