Christos

Cypriot 🇨🇾 Software Engineer building profitable SaaS/mobile apps
Currently based in 🇬🇧 London

[Christos @christosio_]

Most of launching isn't building, it's forms. Repetitive forms.

So I automated them.

Here is Product Hunt autofill, 15 seconds and 1 click later.

[Christos @christosio_]

@webdevcody @upstash Much benefit to this over just running different agents yourself? Seems quite complex and I just wanna prompt

[Christos @christosio_]

Funny how everyone who says

"Cyprus is the best place for entrepreneurs"

sells a relocation service to help you relocate to Cyprus and optimise your taxes

[Christos @christosio_]

I can see an argument for openseo over ahrefs even if openseo has worse data

and it's that you can connect openseo to an agent for a good price but ahrefs costs a lot more just for that

It only gives 200 credits and with an agent those go quick

[Rodrigo Rocco 👨‍💻📈📗 from JobBoardSearch 🔎 @rrmdp]

I forgot something IMPORTANT

if you want to connect @openseo_so and Google Search Console...

1. Create a Google Cloud Console account
2. APIs & Services → Credentials → Create credentials → OAuth client ID
a. Application type: Web application
b. Authorized redirect URI: https://[YOUR_WORKER_OPENSEO_URL]/api/gsc/oauth/callback
- c. Save

Copy: Client ID & Client secret

4. Set the env vars:
a. GOOGLE_CLIENT_ID
b. GOOGLE_CLIENT_SECRET
c. BETTER_AUTH_SECRET (random 32 chars string)

6. Go to OpenSEO -> Project Settings -> Integrations
a. Choose property
b. Save

[Christos @christosio_]

All of these vulnerabilities make me not want to run VPS'es even more

Only thing I might need it for is to run my agents

Or maybe I should use a mac mini for that

[Tak 🦞 @cherry_mx_reds]

If you put a VPS on Tailscale, fix these two things immediately:

Disable key expiry (Machines → ··· → Disable Key Expiry). Otherwise, you risk losing access after 180 days.

Lock down your ACLs. Tag the VPS tag:server and only allow inbound connections from your own devices. Don't allow the server to initiate connections to your other machines.

By default, Tailscale allows everything to talk to everything, and device keys expire.

A compromised VPS shouldn't give an attacker access to your entire tailnet.

[Christos @christosio_]

@CoachDanGo Renters biggest downside

[Christos @christosio_]

@JesusAnutrof @alexwestco So maybe taking such a big risk isn't so well calculated in the end with such low odds

[Christos @christosio_]

@Andrey__HQ @alexanderrX_ Can you give some specific examples that makes you say London is pessimistic place to live in? I live in London but not sure what that means

[Christos @christosio_]

Bootstrapper's version of a Sunday reset:
- closing dead Stripe accounts
- deleting PostHog projects
- archiving old GitHub repositories
- rm -rf local clones of repositories

[Christos @christosio_]

Doing taxes is humbling me

All the 50 dead project Stripe accounts I have I am now deleting to make it easier to get all transactions from Stripe

Same with PostHog and should probably archive repos etc

There's a mental overload every time I open a platform and I see 50 old projects that I killed in there

Keep things simple

[Christos @christosio_]

@levelsio So what's the move now?

[Christos @christosio_]

As long as software companies still hire software engineers, the argument that SaaS is dead is false

Became how can a company employ you when it's not profitable

[Christos @christosio_]

@KingVelesI Why not do them with dumbells at this point

[Christos @christosio_]

@maks6361 How come blog posts are converting to paid

[Christos @christosio_]

@alexanderrX_ I see

But those who can't afford to run it shouldn't run it

How is it different to any other energy expenditure appliance

[Christos @christosio_]

@koslib 😂😂

Nice knowing everyone 🫡

[Christos @christosio_]

@ricardogorski @grok is it possible to transfer a software busi ess built in a different country to Cyprus and benefit from the ip box regime?

[Christos @christosio_]

@oozn I do think he's going a bit over the top lately, probably works out like crazy, works like crazy etc

And yes he didn't measure before buying it, it would be better to first measure and if the problem was there then to buy the purifier

But it's all good

[Christos @christosio_]

I'm a born-and-raised 🇨🇾 Cypriot living in 🇬🇧 London, I think it's time to settle this

If you want to have unlimited job opportunities where you get to work on interesting problems, startups, fintech companies and learn how to be a good software engineer, get your foot in the door, have the option to make good $, do things, explore and meet different people and cultures etc come to London

If you make your own f u money or want to risk it and only work on your own projects and chill, go somewhere like ☀️ 🏖️ Cyprus, blast the AC on 18C but you still pay $ to rent there, so probably Vietnam is still better but haven't tried that

For most London will suit better

[Tom Mann @TomasMann1878]

Don't come to UK if you hate:

- banter (having a laugh)
- British people
- Sunday roast
- football
- fake tan
- lime bikes
- talking about the weather
- winning