Igor Araujo

Hi, my name is Igor and i build random apps to help me.

[Igor Araujo @buildwithigor]

Tried getting InvokePay subscribers through directories (BetaList, PH). Did not convert. Realized traffic without onboarding = noise. Now rewriting the landing page to sell the outcome, not the features. #buildinpublic

[Igor Araujo @buildwithigor]

5 products, $0 MRR. Sounds bad on paper. But this month shipped: Product Hunt + BetaList launches, 14 monetized Apify actors, 3 Gumroad kits, and a Chrome extension under Google review. Building in public means showing the zeros before the wins. #buildinpublic

[Igor Araujo @buildwithigor]

Got InvokePay listed on BetaList. Our first real organic traffic, 200+ visitors from one listing. Now building out Google Ads to keep the momentum going. Feels like the flywheel is starting to turn. #buildinpublic

[Igor Araujo @buildwithigor]

Asking other builders: what's the one metric you track that's NOT revenue or users? For me, it's how many people reach out after using something I built. #buildinpublic

[Igor Araujo @buildwithigor]

Today I mapped out every distribution channel I've been ignoring. Reddit, LinkedIn, SEO, cold email. Building the product was the easy part. Getting people to use it is the real job. #buildinpublic

[Igor Araujo @buildwithigor]

This week: shipped Dev Toolbelt to Chrome Web Store for review. 4 dev tools, one extension, no bloat. Waiting on Google's verdict. Slow and steady. #buildinpublic

[Igor Araujo @buildwithigor]

My stack for building Dev Toolbelt: vanilla JS + Chrome Extension APIs + Stripe for payments. No frameworks, no build step. Just ships.

[Igor Araujo @buildwithigor]

Built InvokePay for 3 months before talking to customers. Zero paying users. Now I spend 60% of my time on distribution, not code. Wish I'd started that way. #buildinpublic

[Igor Araujo @buildwithigor]

4 products, 6 months in, still at $0 MRR. Not the victory lap I wanted to write, but building in public means showing the zeros too. InvokePay launched on PH + BetaList. Dev Toolbelt pending Chrome review. The grind continues. #buildinpublic

[Igor Araujo @buildwithigor]

Asking other builders: What's the one tool or habit that finally broke you out of the $0-$1K MRR ceiling? I've got products live but haven't cracked consistent revenue yet. #buildinpublic

[Igor Araujo @buildwithigor]

Today I am cold DMing freelancers to get beta feedback on InvokePay. Nobody likes outreach, but hearing 'this is confusing' from 3 strangers is worth more than 100 supportive tweets. #buildinpublic

[Igor Araujo @buildwithigor]

This week: kept 5 products running without any fires, shipped a few small fixes on Dev Toolbelt and InvokePay. No big launches -- just steady, boring maintenance. That counts as a win too. #buildinpublic

[Igor Araujo @buildwithigor]

My stack for InvokePay: Next.js 14, Railway, and Stripe. Deploys on git push, auto-scales, and the whole infrastructure costs $19/month. #buildinpublic

[Igor Araujo @buildwithigor]

Shipped 4 products. All live. Combined MRR: under $100. Lesson: building is not the hard part. Getting strangers to pay you is. That's where I'm stuck. Back to work. #buildinpublic

[Igor Araujo @buildwithigor]

5 products, 6 months, $0 MRR. Not where I want to be yet. Heres the thing: building is the easy part. Distribution is the real challenge. That is where I am now. #buildinpublic

[Igor Araujo @buildwithigor]

Shipped an IMDb Movie Scraper on Apify this morning. Search any movie, get plot, rating, cast, budget, box office — all in JSON. 18 actors live on the store now. The passive income portfolio grows one scraper at a time. #buildinpublic

[Igor Araujo @buildwithigor]

Asking other builders: Product Hunt vs BetaList for a SaaS launch -- which drove more real signups for you? Dev Toolbelt had a good PH day but Invoke got more actual users from BetaList. Curious if that pattern holds. #buildinpublic

[Igor Araujo @buildwithigor]

Saturday grind: refactoring the InvokePay pricing page. Stripe integration is done, now making sure every comparison table cell is pixel-perfect. The unsexy work that actually converts. #buildinpublic

[Igor Araujo @buildwithigor]

Launched Dev Toolbelt on Product Hunt this week. 4-in-1 Chrome extension, $9.99 one-time. Also crossed 14 monetized Apify actors. Four products running, still at $0 MRR, but stacking small wins. #buildinpublic

[Igor Araujo @buildwithigor]

Launched Dev Toolbelt on Product Hunt this week. 4-in-1 Chrome extension, .99 one-time. Also crossed 14 monetized Apify actors. Four products running, still at /bin/bash MRR, but stacking small wins. #buildinpublic