Gabrielius

AI engineer, ex front-end dev.
Shipping now: Laniro - budget app
I build small apps for my own problems and ship them in public.

[Gabrielius @gabkatkus]

I've started 8 side projects with AI in the last year.
Almost all of them stalled at ~80%.

Building is the easy part for me. Shipping and selling is where I quit.

So for the next 8 weeks I'm doing it in public. Here's the plan 👇

[Gabrielius @gabkatkus]

So stock market looks enthusiastic today 😅

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@Sam4Jef Great tip, probably personal finance stuff and similar areas!

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First 10 users for your app: cold outreach, Reddit, X, or building in public? Which actually worked?

[Gabrielius @gabkatkus]

@LeadFreshAI Very good advice, thanks! Knowing what customer wants from app is important, otherwise you would end up trapped in your own bubble.

[Gabrielius @gabkatkus]

I'm two-thirds through redesigning Laniro, my budget app, and improving its UX. I'm learning how to publish it on the app store and thinking about how to reach people.

Do solo builders spend too much time on the product and too little on finding users?

[Gabrielius @gabkatkus]

@YVCN69 And in this case, where have you finded those people?

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@tyd3n_ It's so hard not to keep refreshing analytics after launch. 🙈

[Gabrielius @gabkatkus]

@MaxHirsch13 A niche helps you find your first users too. It's much easier to ask a specific group what frustrates them about an app than to build for everyone and hope someone finds it.

[Gabrielius @gabkatkus]

@acadictive Hey 👋

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@denniszz0523 Insightful 👏 thanks! Personalized conservations seem to be foundation for whole sales putches as far as I see

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@neerajjj6785 I simply pay more attention to what the code is changing than which model wrote it.

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@DsMatie That platform maintenance can eat a whole week without adding a single visible feature. It's hard to feel like you're moving when the work is keeping everything from breaking. 😕

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@TheRealLarsKa Was thinking this too! I will try to reach out my social circles for some first users as well

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@jmeans_business Yeah I could see it that way

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@DanielSmidstrup 🤞 hoping to be somewhere near where you are now 😅 go big go bold i guess 😄

[Gabrielius @gabkatkus]

@muhilarus Amazing insight, thank you so much 🫶

[Gabrielius @gabkatkus]

@muhilarus Any tips? 🫡

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@ann_nnng How did you keep the watercolor style consistent across the photos? Curious whether you used the same reference image for each page or refined them individually.

[Gabrielius @gabkatkus]

@ishaan_builds I'm building to solve a specific problem that I have and that people around me have too.

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@nestymee @claudeai Connecting the closet to the shopping step makes sense. Can someone correct an item if the automatic color or style tag is wrong? That seems like it could change the recommendations quite a bit.

[Gabrielius @gabkatkus]

@Alexel_Official 16gb*

[Gabrielius @gabkatkus]

@Alexel_Official I bought my raspberry pi 5 with 32gb last year november, the price of such model went up 150% 🫠