Rahul | Indie Hacker

Full Stack Developer → Indie Hacker 🚀
Building products & learning business.
Sharing the journey | SaaS • AI • Startups

[Rahul | Indie Hacker @_rahulmak_]

From Full Stack Developer to Indie Hacker 🚀

Starting my entrepreneurial journey!

My goals:
→ Build useful products
→ Explore SaaS & AI
→ Learn business & growth
→ Connect with founders
Sharing lessons, wins & failures along the way.
Building something too? Let's connect!🤝

[Rahul | Indie Hacker @_rahulmak_]

@alessiobuilds Congrats, man, let's connect. 🤝✨🎉

[Rahul | Indie Hacker @_rahulmak_]

@doktordos Lets connect

[Rahul | Indie Hacker @_rahulmak_]

@bdnnstan Respect for posting the real Day 6 numbers — most people hide this stage.

Same stage here. Building QR ordering for restaurants, still chasing my first real users outside my own testing.

Your marketing starts on TikTok next week.
Mine starts by walking into restaurants near me.

[Rahul | Indie Hacker @_rahulmak_]

@zakisbuilding Congrats 🔥 I'm pre-revenue, building QR ordering for restaurants. Your distribution point — 5 accounts, 10 posts a day — is the real lesson. Let's connect 🤝

[Rahul | Indie Hacker @_rahulmak_]

My startup now runs on a server that costs ₹0.
Oracle's free tier gave me 2 CPUs + 12 GB RAM.
Today I moved my whole backend there.
Database, both APIs, everything.
No monthly bill. Just my code, running.
What did you build for ₹0 that you're proud of?
#BuildInPublic

[Rahul | Indie Hacker @_rahulmak_]

@di_decoded You're right, Dia — tough market, big legacy players.
I'm not fighting them on features.
I'm fighting on the ground — small restaurants,
one street at a time, in their own language.

Daily updates keep me honest. Followed you back 🤝
What are you building?

[Rahul | Indie Hacker @_rahulmak_]

I have 3 followers.
But I have a big dream.

4 years of coding.
Now building Setuvo → QR ordering for restaurants.

I will share my journey daily.
Wins, mistakes, lessons.

If you are a founder or builder, let's connect 🤝
#BuildInPublic

[Rahul | Indie Hacker @_rahulmak_]

@Flexicoder £6 is not small, Paul. It's the hardest £6 there is —
the first strangers paying you every month.

And you just posted your success story. Right here.
This is the place.

What are you building? How did the first 2 find you?

[Rahul | Indie Hacker @_rahulmak_]

@progerallworld That's a sharper question than "would you pay for it?"

I'm adding it to my trial:
after 7 days I'll ask each owner —
"if Setuvo disappeared tomorrow, what would you go back to?"

What they miss is what they're really paying for.

[Rahul | Indie Hacker @_rahulmak_]

I almost quit my startup yesterday.
"Is SaaS dead?" got in my head.

So I tested my app like a customer
instead of reading more headlines.

Not quitting. 3 restaurants will decide.
Have you ever almost quit?
#BuildInPublic

[Rahul | Indie Hacker @_rahulmak_]

@i_mika_el The menu itself.

I scanned my own QR like a customer
and the menu opened empty.
My item was hiding under another tab.

A customer would have just walked away.
Fixed now — but that scan changed how I test everything.

[Rahul | Indie Hacker @_rahulmak_]

@YVCN69 @shawn_oro @autorunqa @shawn_oro Love it — count me in as a test case.
Happy to try early builds and give honest feedback.

@YVCN69 And you named my exact flow —
QR scan to kitchen screen is the path that breaks first.

Phone-first builders feel this gap every day.

[Rahul | Indie Hacker @_rahulmak_]

@shawn_oro @autorunqa Honestly, yes — that's where my real users live.

Setuvo runs on phones, not desktops.
QR scans, waiter orders, kitchen screens — all mobile.

My desktop tests pass, then the phone flow breaks.
Mobile testing would close a real gap for builders like me.

[Rahul | Indie Hacker @_rahulmak_]

@breadsignal Starting right here in my city
3 restaurants, free setup, real feedback in a week.
Happy to connect too 🤝
What are you building?

[Rahul | Indie Hacker @_rahulmak_]

@empowwerr Both, John — that's the whole point of it.

Customer side: scan QR → menu → order.
Kitchen side: the order lands on a kitchen screen as a queue — placed, preparing, ready.

If the kitchen can't see it clearly, the customer side doesn't matter.

[Rahul | Indie Hacker @_rahulmak_]

@Chandan_blaster Talk to customers.

AI writes code with me every day.
It fixed my 33-item bug list.
But it can't sit with a restaurant owner and hear his real problems.

That part stays human.
That's where the product is actually decided.

[Rahul | Indie Hacker @_rahulmak_]

@veermishra0803 So true, Veer.
For restaurants it's even sharper — festival days mean full tables and whole families ordering together.

If my QR flow survives a family of 8 at one table, it survives anything.

Honest feedback > polite feedback. Always.

[Rahul | Indie Hacker @_rahulmak_]

Happy New Year 🙏
Today is New Year day here in India.

No holiday for a founder.
Setuvo work is on, like every day.

New year. Same dream.
Building it one day at a time.

Founders, are you working today or taking the day off?
#BuildInPublic

[Rahul | Indie Hacker @_rahulmak_]

@shawn_oro @autorunqa Love it. QA eats so much of my time.
For Setuvo I run 200+ tests after every change — all manual effort.

What does Autorun QA automate exactly?
Web apps, or more than that?

[Rahul | Indie Hacker @_rahulmak_]

@akacoding Sure, let's connect and grow together.

[Rahul | Indie Hacker @_rahulmak_]

@mathiasvrb Not yet, Mathias — that's exactly this week's mission.

Plan:
→ Pick 3 restaurants near me
→ Set up their menus for free
→ Watch real orders for a week

Will share what happens, good or bad.

[Rahul | Indie Hacker @_rahulmak_]

@ndhabarde11 One. Only Setuvo.
Still at $0 — the slowest stage, like you said.
But I'd rather push one app to $1K than start three.
Congrats on $2K MRR 🙌