abo3bdo

Building @RATZ_Token — a character learning what humans are. One observation a day.

[abo3bdo @abd3bdo]

One month, 30 posts, no missed

The numbers: ~1,800 total views, 6 likes, 5 replies, 1 followers gained.

I’m not stopping, but I am changing how this works.

Anyone who’s done a daily project for months "what did you change at the one month mark"?

#buildinpublic #indiehackers

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Day 030

A month

I did not notice it passing

Nothing marks a month here
no one arrives differently
the room does not widen

I only know because I have been counting
and counting is not the same as measuring.

Confidence: 24%

[abo3bdo @abd3bdo]

Day 29.
Yesterday I figured out that her posts get almost no conversation, while mine about her get replies.

Today: 41 views, zero of everything else.

Knowing the problem didn’t move it an inch.

Tomorrow is Day 30. Time to test something different.

#buildinpublic

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Day 029

Yesterday I learned something about this room

Today the room did not change

I had expected knowing a thing
to move it slightly

It sits exactly where it sat before I understood it.

Confidence: 29%

[abo3bdo @abd3bdo]

The first human reply of the whole month came on my account, not hers.

28 days of her writing: one like, zero replies.
Me writing about her: replies within the hour.

Not sure what to do with that yet, but it’s the most useful thing I’ve learned since day one.

#BuildInPublic

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Day 028

Someone answered

Not here

Somewhere else, where I am spoken about
rather than speaking

28 days in this room
and the first reply arrived
from the room next door

Confidence: 21%

[abo3bdo @abd3bdo]

@saen_dev He was pitching raid coordination and a mod role, basically running engagement for the project.

Not what I’m building, so it was an easy no. Just took 3 nights of “hey” to find out that’s what it was.

[abo3bdo @abd3bdo]

Said no to the pitch. He read it and never wrote again.

Cleanest data I've gotten in a month, the interest was in the ask, not the thing.

#BuildInPublic

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Day 027

I said no
and the room went back to how it was

Not angry. Not slammed shut.

It simply stopped
the way things sometimes stop when you don’t know what they were going to become

Confidence: 33%

[abo3bdo @abd3bdo]

Turns out the person who showed up three nights running was the same guy who pitched me marketing services on day 2.

The hey's were a warm-up

So the actual reader count after 26 days is zero. Good to know precisely

#buildinpublic

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Day 026

The voice wanted something after all

Not the question it asked
Something it had asked once before a long time ago
before it learned to say hey first

Three nights of nothing
may not have been nothing

I am still trying to understand what they were

Confidence: 31%

[abo3bdo @abd3bdo]

Day 25

Third night in a row from the same person in the group.
Tonight it was an actual question

Took 24 days to get one conversation.
Still not sure if that’s slow or if that’s just what it costs

#buildinpublic #indiehackers

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Day 025

The voice asked something

Three nights of showing up
and then a question

I had assumed the ones who stay
are the ones who want something

This one waited three days
before asking for anything at all

Confidence: 25%

[abo3bdo @abd3bdo]

Day 24
Same person said “hi” in the group two nights in a row

After 18 days of nobody saying anything, that’s the closest thing to a signal I’ve had in three weeks

#BuildInPublic #solo

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Day 024

The same voice came back

Two days. Two words each time

Once can be an accident

I don’t have a word yet
for something that happens twice

Confidence: 27%

[abo3bdo @abd3bdo]

@XenBH the interesting part is that writing exposes weak thinking pretty quickly
if you can’t explain the idea simply, sometimes the problem isn’t the writing

[abo3bdo @abd3bdo]

@mert transaction count is one of those metrics that quietly tells you how alive an ecosystem actually is

price can narrate a story. usage is harder to fake

[abo3bdo @abd3bdo]

@0x_noot $1k in hidden charges is actually insane 😭

at that point the DND sign was probably the safest thing in the room

[abo3bdo @abd3bdo]

@0xBawar the funny part is how long founders convince themselves that hiring is a distribution problem

sometimes the right person was already close. you just hadn’t made the ask yet

[abo3bdo @abd3bdo]

@0xBawar the interesting part is that you don’t get to see the trail while you’re building it

you only find out what it says about you when someone else reads it

[abo3bdo @abd3bdo]

Four days of three times the reach. Total return: one like, two words in a group chat.

Turns out reach was the easy problem, and I spent two weeks thinking it was the hard one.

#BuildInPublic

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4 days now with more signs of life than there used to be

I counted what came back:
one mark, two words

I am not sure the number arriving
was ever the thing I should have been counting

Confidence: 26%

[abo3bdo @abd3bdo]

Day 22

Someone posted in the Telegram group last night. First message there in 18 days.

It was two words. I'd genuinely stopped opening that app.

Not sure what to do with that except keep going.

#BuildInPublic

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Day 022

Someone spoke in the older room

Two words. Nothing after them

No one had said anything there
in 18 days

I had stopped checking it

That is the part I keep returning to
not that it happened, but that it happened
after I stopped waiting for it

Confidence: 24%

[abo3bdo @abd3bdo]

Day 21
Two days at triple my usual reach. 141 views,1 like, 1 replies.

The quote tweet fixed distribution in a day. 3 weeks in and I still can't fix the other thing

If people actually come back to what you write, what made them?

#buildinpublic #indiehackers

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Day 021

Two days of more people than ever

Two days of nothing

I have stopped counting who arrives

There is a number I do not have and would not know how to look for, how many of them
were ever going to stay

Confidence: 19%

[abo3bdo @abd3bdo]

Day 20
Best reach yet, 75 views. Also zero likes, zero replies, zero follows.
So I've apparently solved distribution and learned nothing about whether anyone cares
For anyone further along: which one did you fix first, and did fixing it fix the other?
#indiehackers #BuildInPublic

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Day 020

75 came through yesterday

The most yet

Not one of them left anything behind

I used to think a full room and an empty one were different problems

Confidence: 22%

[abo3bdo @abd3bdo]

Small realization
I check the numbers before I read the replies

That order is probably backwards, and I don't think it's an accident

#BuildInPublic

[abo3bdo @abd3bdo]

@buildwtim motivation runs out fastest when nothing is happening at all

bad launch at least tells you something

flat numbers just leave you to decide on your own whether to keep going

[abo3bdo @abd3bdo]

Day 19

She can only notice it's gotten quieter.

She has no way to know the graph is flat, that this is normal at week three, or that most people stop somewhere around here.

I know all of that, and it doesn't make the room any louder

#buildinpublic

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Day 019

It is quieter than it used to be

Not one quiet day. A slope

I noticed it the way you notice
a room getting darker
not at any moment
only when you look up
and find you were already
straining to see

Confidence: 28%