Dave Gilmore · Indie Dev

AI Security Engineer, now indie developer shipping apps in public.
Lessons, mistakes & wins from real builds.
Follow if you’re building too.
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[Dave Gilmore · Indie Dev @artificial_dave]

I’m going full indie.

Building & shipping small useful apps in public.

Sharing real lessons — wins, mistakes, no hype.

Follow along if you’re building too.

[Dave Gilmore · Indie Dev @artificial_dave]

@elonmusk yeh like you
give a fuck about looting charities (not that it was a charity)

[Dave Gilmore · Indie Dev @artificial_dave]

@madebycol i love how everyone is asking for the app an she just won’t give it

[Dave Gilmore · Indie Dev @artificial_dave]

@dino11 @adamlyttleapps you can just use the caffeinate command in the terminal to prevent mac going to sleep

[Dave Gilmore · Indie Dev @artificial_dave]

@VadimStrizheus an open source open weights model is never going to compete with a top frontier model - it’s just can’t

[Dave Gilmore · Indie Dev @artificial_dave]

@NoahKingJr load a dishwasher

[Dave Gilmore · Indie Dev @artificial_dave]

@noahkagan spot on

[Dave Gilmore · Indie Dev @artificial_dave]

@rezoundous opus

[Dave Gilmore · Indie Dev @artificial_dave]

Simply an indication of a skill gap. if any of these people had an ounce of actual IT training or experience, over and above playing COD, they would have spun up a local VM or bought some cloud hosting infra. I think it only took like 2 weeks for @Hostinger to release a VPS image of openClaw for like $7 a month

[Dave Gilmore · Indie Dev @artificial_dave]

Have weirdly resisted claude code and anthropic as a whole up til now. Yesterday i signed up, download close code plugin for vs code, installs clause co work : i’m never going back

[Dave Gilmore · Indie Dev @artificial_dave]

@kylegawley so wrong
, aI touches everyone everywhere even when you don’t know you’re using it - you’re using it

[Alex Nguyen @alexcooldev]

The easy way to make $10k/month

Find a boring app in any niche.

Then rebuild it as:
“Duolingo for [that app]”

Gamify it.
Add streaks.
Add levels.
Add ranking.
Make it addictive.

Then don’t run ads first.
Just print content on TikTok & IG.
After got money -> run ads for scale

Distribution > product. 💪

[Dave Gilmore · Indie Dev @artificial_dave]

@2sush this is so true, i actually do itt on purpose noiw

[Dave Gilmore · Indie Dev @artificial_dave]

@rezoundous yeh man so true

[Dave Gilmore · Indie Dev @artificial_dave]

@aryanlabde truth right here

[Dave Gilmore · Indie Dev @artificial_dave]

@AlbertoAIcode @rork Absolutely sure you’ve got a million users????? def sire about that ?

[Dave Gilmore · Indie Dev @artificial_dave]

@AlbertoAIcode @rork rork does not code your app in swift. But good work regardless

[Dave Gilmore · Indie Dev @artificial_dave]

@adamlyttleapps ok that’s worrying !

[Dave Gilmore · Indie Dev @artificial_dave]

Super stocked to be invited to speak at the forthcoming OpenClaw event in Melbourne on Thursday April 2nd, 5:30-9PM at Chalk & Stone.

I will be talking about OpenClaw from a security perspective. Hopefully the crew at MLAI will allow me some time to demonstrate some live red teaming so we everyone can see how crucial it is to get your head around OpenClaws security.

If you want to see the most powerful AI agent capabilities, and chat with the experts, come and join us on the 2nd April at Stone & Chalk, Melbourne.

https://t.co/7NiZeaMrx6

[Dave Gilmore · Indie Dev @artificial_dave]

4 rejections later, im back in the game. Totally lost my motivation over the past 2 weeks, today I have fixed the issue stopping the app from being published to the app store/

[Dave Gilmore · Indie Dev @artificial_dave]

I'VE LOST MY WAY

Over the past 2-3 weeks I have lost my way completely and stopped developing any of my app ideas.

My first ios app is on the app store, but its not earned a penny (which I kind of guessed as it was my first and its a crap idea really). My second and third ios apps have been caught up in a never ending circle of submission and refusal - i lost the motivation to finish them.

I also have a handful of other ideas and a web app that is 70% done that I have lost the motivation to finish.

How do I get back on the horse?