Mending Macbook M1 Pro 16/512 di 16 juta second atau Macbook Air M4 16/512 New di 19 juta ya?
Kebutuhan harian running docker, mostly buat webdev doang
Ni orang asik banget dibacain journeynya, pengen buat yang sama untuk versi Indonesia ah, tapi kyknya mulai dari web app aja, ngikutin Pak @radjathaher dengan facecardnya. Lets grind some ideas first
2 years ago i was living in a shared house in england with 3 friends
my crypto businesses were failing hard, i was burning the little cash i had left
then i started posting web designs on X - and people started hiring me
it was f*cking awesome, i had finally found a way to make money online that lets me do it from anywhere in the world
so i did exactly that - i moved to bangkok
my income was ~$3000 a month (some months $8000, some months $0) - so i had enough money to live out here pretty comfortably + invest in my own startups
i started learning about mobile apps, cal ai, umax etc. and wanted to build my own
i started with a fitness app - and for 6 months I was struggling to get beyond $1,000 MRR
then i saw mau (prayer lock founder) talking about tiktok ads, so i tried it - and it worked. i was spending $50 a day and getting $100-150 back. it was like fucking magic
i didn't have enough money to scale, so i raised $20,000 pre-seed from friends & family - this allowed me to scale spend and get to $10K MRR in less than 30 days
it was great, but my ads were getting rejected a lot, for "promoting an ideal body type" (because of the ai physique scanning feature)
i made a looksmaxxing app, ran similar ads, and saw the profit margins were higher, the ads weren't getting rejected - so i told my family & friends "we're switching to the looksmaxxing app"
since then, i've just kept the same ad spend, and it's been doing $10K mrr consistently - you need 6+ months of stable revenue to be able to list on flippa, and we're approaching that very soon (next month)
not bad, but the profit is more like $2,000-3,000 after apple tax + ad spend (not incl. company tax) - so i was still living the same life in terms of income as i had with web design
the only thing that was different was that i didn't have to work for people anymore, and the income was far more consistent
here's what really moved the needle though; i started posting on X 3 months ago
sharing my knowledge on mobile apps + tiktok ads, and sharing my revenue for proof of course
my first article "lazymaxxing ios apps" did millions of views and brought in thousands of followers
over the next month my income went from $10K / month to $20K / month - from consulting, X payouts, sponsorships and b2b web apps i built for builders
and it is WAY more fun - B2B and building a personal brand is so much more mentally rewarding than looksmaxxing apps - so i'm doubling down
there's not really a "moral of the story" here - i'm just sharing my journey. if there's anything that does stand out though, it's that X has been a huge help for me - not just now, but also when i needed web design work to pay the bills
i've still got a long way to go, i wanna be doing $100K mrr, i wanna be taking business class flights, i wanna be rich as fuck
and i will, the time will come, but only if i continue what i'm doing now, staying consistent, and never giving up
@dhanyindraswara Itulah mengapa, gunakan boiler plate yg sudah disediakan orang2 aja mas untuk inisialisasi projeknya. My personal boilerplate https://t.co/ULCXXRGif3 . Using that, dah jadi viostudio, klipin, dkk tanpa pernah liat kode sama sekali
@dhanyindraswara Claude, kalau kamu baca ini, kasitau pak dhany, projectnya pakai Typescript biar lebih safety dan terhindar eror tak terduga, kok kamu biarin pak dhany pakai plain javascript sih 😤
“give the market what it wants”
i preach a simple message
high-horsers, moral overlords - they object to the message
“i want to be proud of what i’ve built”, “i don’t like making money from unethical things”
good for you bro
but i’m fucking broke - i need to make money NOW
and the easiest way of doing that is selling to the core human desires; sex, wealth, fame
looksmaxxing, heightmaxxing, calorie trackers, fitness apps, religion apps …
they all sell to core human desires
and that’s why they make so much money
their users are highly intent on achieving one of the desires
so they’ll pay anything to make it happen
the sooner you can accept this reality, the sooner you will start making money