Linzec

Indie founder @ Linzec.
Building calm apps: expense tracking, habits, planning, AI try-on.
Shipping in public. Real numbers only.

[Linzec @chenglinze]

从第一款产品21年上线到现在已经6年了，但是开发跟营销做反了，所有现在我是拥有丰富失败开发经验的独立开发老兵和自媒体新兵蛋子

[Linzec @chenglinze]

想尝试创业、独立开发者、自媒体和任何可能产生复利的事情，请尽早开始，尤其是趁着自己有工作的时候。

[Linzec @chenglinze]

晚上失眠，回忆了好多人，发现有的人真的就是不见后，再也遇不到了

[Linzec @chenglinze]

公司做了好几年的 Android 和 iOS Native App 要换RN，说是省人力，热更新，但我认为是成本转移，和不断补坑，是我老古董了吗

[Linzec @chenglinze]

转化率低的离谱

[Linzec @chenglinze]

@nmmkj238689 没看到优惠啊

[Linzec @chenglinze]

Why did you choose the indie hacker path?

What pushed you to become an indie developer?

🟢 Passion — I genuinely love building things.
💰 Income — I wanted another source of income (or financial freedom).
🤷 No better option — It felt like the best path available.
🚀 A dream — I wanted to build something that's truly mine.
💬 Other — Tell me your story.
Curious to see what brought everyone here.

[Linzec @chenglinze]

The projects I believe in and the ones that actually perform better are almost never the same.

Daynova is the one I kept coming back to.
A habit app where streaks grow a living planet — quieter, more “me,” more time spent polishing the loop I actually wanted to use.

It’s been live for almost 2 months.

Total downloads: 2.

Other apps under the same roof have done fine.
This one — the one I was most sure about — barely moved.

I’m not shocked. Just noting the gap:
taste ≠ traction.
Belief ≠ distribution.

Daynova (iOS):
https://t.co/PRcD9HaMHR

Everything I ship:
https://t.co/JfJ9ZA4AF0

#buildinpublic #indiehacke

[Linzec @chenglinze]

@niklogvinenko web devs really out here shipping before lunch

mobile: "please wait while a mysterious stranger decides your fate"

[Linzec @chenglinze]

@VadimStrizheus painfully true lol

X is great for talking to other builders
terrible for finding people who actually need a habit app at 11pm

[Linzec @chenglinze]

@a_shimanski Shipping small calm apps as a solo studio — habit/planet tracker on iOS, AI try-on + planning tools on Android, and a browser wallpaper mockup.

This week is mostly retention + store assets, not new features. What are you focused on?

[Linzec @chenglinze]

@Shubham_iosdev Over-polishing before anyone sees it is still my default trap.

Biggest lesson for me: ship the boring core first, then only polish what users actually open twice. Curious which of the 5 cost you the most time.

[Linzec @chenglinze]

@adriamatz This hits hard. The “3 weeks” only exists because of the previous 7 months of wrong turns.

Shipping multiple small apps taught me the same thing: each one pays tuition for the next. Distribution still feels harder than building though.

[Linzec @chenglinze]

Lets drop ur startup url

get some traffic

[Linzec @chenglinze]

@launch_llama Both Android App
https://t.co/1Gmsmap34r
and
https://t.co/iPabHy4eXh

[Linzec @chenglinze]

Founders building apps (not just landing pages) —

Drop your site or store link 👇

[Linzec @chenglinze]

PixLume · Day 4

Paused paid UA.

What happened:
• Plan: ~$5/day
• Reality: $20+ spent fast — day 1 already overspent
• Targeting mistake: meant to exclude a few countries… selected only those countries instead
• Result: expensive installs, weak quality
• 2 crashes showed up under paid traffic (worst time to discover them)
• Ads “installs” ≫ real installs I can verify in-app / Play
• Ad revenue: basically noise vs spend (screenshot)

Paused. Not scaling into a broken setup.

Fixes before any restart:
1) ship crash fixes
2) rebuild geo correctly (exclude ≠ include)
3) trust first open / first edit more than network install counts
4) hard daily cap + check spend same day

Shipping is easy. Paying for the wrong users is expensive.

#buildinpublic

[Linzec @chenglinze]

Just shipped PixLume to Google Play. Day 1.

An on-device beauty camera for natural portrait edits:
• face retouch & makeup
• filters + background remover
• hairstyle / hair color / glasses try-on

No account. Photos stay on your phone.

Android:
https://t.co/RDpOCA9cJ5

Building in public. Feedback welcome.
#buildinpublic

[Linzec @chenglinze]

Just shipped PixLume to Google Play. Day 1.

An on-device beauty camera for natural portrait edits:
• face retouch & makeup
• filters + background remover
• hairstyle / hair color / glasses try-on

No account. Photos stay on your phone.

Android:
https://t.co/RDpOCA9KyD

Building in public. Feedback welcome.
#buildinpublic