Andras Kindler

Bootstrapped founder building and growing products

🔧 (exit in 2021)

[Andras Kindler @andraskindler]

@tibo_maker Backlink

[Andras Kindler @andraskindler]

https://t.co/BEkoR5vqdN

[Andras Kindler @andraskindler]

🎉 You can now schedule posts for X via the Followergrow iPhone app

Native iOS experience, no need to log in into a browser app

Try it below ⬇️

[Andras Kindler @andraskindler]

@WhiskyToad Ahaha I look at it the other way, I will be proud of this 99% for months

[Andras Kindler @andraskindler]

As a dad of a toddler, this is a proper achievement 🥇

[Andras Kindler @andraskindler]

Same here Cursor, same here

[Andras Kindler @andraskindler]

In the past days, I've been really struggling with coding with Sonnet 4.6 and Opus 4.7. It seems like it is not always following instructions perfectly, and the result was not always up to my standards. Switching to Codex for a bit.

Did you also notice this?

[Andras Kindler @andraskindler]

The changes in the algo are a likely cause. Consistency (time spent in the app) is rewarded heavily, and the “life cycle” of a post is much shorter.

I know this is a boomer take, but honestly I prefer the “old”, less “tiktokized” version

[Danny Postma @dannypostma]

Hey Twitter. Been a while.

Thanks to everyone who's reached out to check in, I haven't died, promise

Just wanted to share where I've been the last 5 months.

It started in November. Some personal stuff came up that meant I couldn't share what I was working on anymore and honestly sharing was the whole reason I enjoyed Twitter. The building in public, the conversations, meeting people. Without that, it kind of took the fun out of it for me.

Then January came around, and the world kind of lost its mind. I was doomscrolling 5+ hours a day, cranky and angry, short with the people around me. And what really got me was that even when I wasn't on the app, I was still scrolling, just in my head. My wife mentioned Id been off lately, "what are you even doing?", and that's when it hit me: this is a vicious circle. I needed to stop.

So I quit cold turkey. Decided it was basically an addiction, and it wasn't giving me anything back.

5 months in honestly it's been one of the best things I've done for myself in years.

Not spending 5 hours a day on the app feels amazing. In the mornings especially, Twitter used to dictate what I'd think about all day. Whatever was trending, that's where my head went. I didn't even realize it was happening.

Without it, you remember how much is actually going on in real life. You don't have to be scrolling. You can just be there, with your wife, your dog, your friends. Read a book. Read an actual news site. Sit with your own thoughts.

That last part has been the biggest one. When your mind has space again, you start *thinking*. About your life. About decisions you've been putting off. I've been head-down running the company for years, always managing, always growing, and suddenly I had room to ask: am I doing what I want to be doing? That alone made the whole thing worth it.

Some things that have changed:
- Made some dramatic work changes
- Working on side projects again
- Enjoying coding for fun
- Less stressed, way less reactive
- My relationships with everyone are better
- Been working out, eating healthier, and lost 7kg
- Got married
- Just happier

I've opened the app a few times since. Scrolled for a bit. And honestly, it just doesn't bring me joy anymore.

But I do miss things. I miss sharing what I'm building. I miss the people, the conversations, the small connections that come from posting and replying. That's the part I haven't found anywhere else.

I'll come back one day, in some form. Probably something custom, a way to share what I'm working on and interact with people without seeing the feed.

For now I'm just enjoying being off the grid. If you want to chat, send me an email or a message, Id love that. Thanks for checking in 🙏

[Andras Kindler @andraskindler]

Fellow dadpreneurs: how can I increase my resistance to sicknesses?

In the past year or so, I have been ill with flu-like symptoms about once every 3 months, lasting usually 3-5 days.

Do you also have similar experiences? How do you prepare against this?

[Andras Kindler @andraskindler]

@ChrisClickUp That might be

[Andras Kindler @andraskindler]

I caught a cold, and tool a break for 4 days

Now I feel all of my streaks are broken, in the last 4 days I had:
- no exercising
- no building
- no posting on X

It’s almost a guilt-like feeling. How do you get over this?

[Andras Kindler @andraskindler]

@DanKWrites Yeah, sadly customers don’t offer that 😂

[Andras Kindler @andraskindler]

@TimoBuilds_ Same here

Ever since we started daycare, it’s been much worse, I often feel like I have some sort of a cold

Hang in there!

[Andras Kindler @andraskindler]

@scheemunai Congrats Andrej, well deserved! Loving your story.

[Andras Kindler @andraskindler]

@tibo_maker SEO

[Andras Kindler @andraskindler]

@JarekAvi I want to experiment with it tho.

[Andras Kindler @andraskindler]

This new feature just appeared in my X app

Do you have it as well?

[Andras Kindler @andraskindler]

Is follower count the ultimate vanity metric?

[Andras Kindler @andraskindler]

@capjmk No. How about you?

[Andras Kindler @andraskindler]

Doesn’t matter where you buy it, what matters is what you do with it

(Yes I know, this is engagement farming and not a real question)

[Aish @AishwaryaDevv]

Hey devs, which is the best place to buy a domain?

- GoDaddy
- Hostinger
- Cloudflare
- Namecheap

[Andras Kindler @andraskindler]

I prefer indie dev. Solopreneur sounds too artificial, and indie hacker, well, I would not trust anyone who calls themselves a hacker

[jack friks @jackfriks]

i’m not sure if i like the term solopreneur or indie hacker better but either way this is amazing so i guess it doesn’t matter 😂