Adriaan

Former law and music major turned Software Engineer

[Adriaan @abeiertz]

@BarcaTimes What does this prove exactly? What does it say about Betis and Girona? How many balls and possesions inside the penalty area in 31 matches? Is there any correlation there too? Overall, posting a pic like this with no explanation isn't helpful at all. It is rather misleading.

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@SeyiBankzz @ManagingBarca @CatalunyaRadio This would be a gift to LaLiga because the numbers will go up considerably

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@LinkedInHelp please help with closing an account. I no longer have access to the email nor do I remember the email associated to it. Current instructions are not applicable/useful to my specific situation.

[Adriaan @abeiertz]

No need to feel bad if you had high confidence something would work but didn't. It happens in NASA too. This a story about debugging a race condition from 150 million miles away: https://t.co/uF2bDNMUNy via @thenewstack #debugging #SoftwareEngineering

[Nico @nico_jeannen]

I just sold https://t.co/culXGjg8HN for $65,000 🤩🚀

Launched it 3 months ago, with 0 budget and less than 600 followers. I learned to code only 9 months ago.

Big thanks @agazdecki & @acquiredotcom to have made it possible!

If you're curious, here is the whole story:

December 2022, 20:40. I had a sudden idea. What if I made an app to generate logos using AI?

I was making AI logos already for my other projects, so I knew how to do it. However, I needed to validate 2 hypotheses:

🤔 Can I make logos in an automated way?
🤔 Would people pay for it?

I decided to make an MVP in 48 hours, as deadlines are the way to go when launching anything: https://t.co/XLbPOgAD7Q

48 hours, 1 earthquake and 2 power outages later, I had my crappy MVP ready 🥳

By crappy I mean a static HTML page linked to a Typeform to collect payment. The back end was literally me generating the logos and sending them by email.
No framework, no fancy stuff, just text and pictures.

I made a few posts on Twitter and generated a couple of sales from it: https://t.co/oJWmZapfJ4

Sales = Validation. The next step was to make an automated version, so I made another challenge of making an automated version in 48h and launching it on @ProductHunt 🚀🚀

And oh boy, things went crazy! I launched on December 11 and generated +$1000 of sales, ended up Product of the Day, and got tons of followers on Twitter, so I knew I was into something 🤩

However, it was far from perfect. Lots of logos needed additional editing or ended up weird because the customer inputs/prompts weren't good.

So, I started from scratch again and made a brand new version in January.
The new version offered way more options, and better results overall ✨

Then, I added the app to every startup directory I could put my hand on. And that's how most of my traffic came.

I also kept posting on Twitter, every time someone asked "what are you working on?" I replied with the name of the app, and the same when someone asked for AI-generated logos 🤓

And... That's pretty much it. I tried to run some ads on Twitter & Reddit but it didn't work that much, as it's not targeted enough.

Now, I don't have much interest in logo/design, and I don't have the technical skills to improve the app further, so, I decided to sell it in February.

@acquiredotcom made the process pretty easy, I received a few offers, and ended up choosing the best offer. Then I did the transfer and here we are 🥳

In total, the app made +$23,000 in sales and $15,000 in profit. So, that's around $80,000 in total (profit + sale), which is equivalent to at least 5 years of safety net where I live 😱

If you want a more detailed post, I wrote everything I was doing in real-time back then: https://t.co/iEpUio2pDs

Now, keep in mind that it's not my first shot at entrepreneurship.
In the last 5 years, I launched around 35 projects and most were total failures. Just between October and December 2022, I released 7 different apps.

I never gave up. I kept showing up. It's a number game.

The odds are against you, but at some point, you'll get something that sticks 😉

So... What's next? 🤔

I hate customer service. So I hired an assistant to do it on https://t.co/culXGjg8HN. But in most cases, it's the same questions over and over. So I made an app to help my assistant works 2x faster.

Last weekend, I made a post to show it and some people asked for a public app, so I made it.

If you want to join the beta, you can go to https://t.co/iO5YcpP4I2.

For testers, it's $15/month forever instead of +$30 later.

It's also a crappy MVP, there is not even a Stripe integration, I’ll DM users to give them the payment link 😁

And again, thanks to everyone for the massive support I got with MakeLogo along the way. Couldn't have done it without you 🥰

[Adriaan @abeiertz]

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@SBakerMD The same thing I'd have if I were there: steak & eggs!

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@SahilBloom Rats + gorillas, I wanna see anyone try

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LOL 😆

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Sharp contrast to what everyone else is doing. Bravo 👏 https://t.co/Z4tBfEQML9

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@ESPNFC For some, yeah, but for most, no. I was already a Barcelona fan before Messi.

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@sportbible Ibrahimovic and his post match interviews during his MLS journey. Absolutely hilarious 😂

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@sportbible Ronaldhino. Always fun to watch him play, specially when he was smiling and having fun!

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@sportbible They are all different. Why try to always make it about being the greatest? Ask their teammates if they enjoyed playing with them or ask yourself if you enjoyed watching them; that's what counts.

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@allenholub Never thought of it that way. Interesting. When is e2e wireless expected to be released?

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@EzerRatchaga No, thanks. Hearing the proposal is good enough.

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@Dixie3Flatline Cmon it wasn’t that bad. At least, the reasoning is there. Now, the promotions in the same release… bad taste, business as usual.

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@KevinNaughtonJr Code brushes, dude

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@roshanpateI You mean: still broke. Nothing new to report then. But seriously: it's a state, not a destination.