Ryan

Indie hacker building useful products.

MakeFamilyTree → Ads →

[Ryan @hanmen9527]

@erramix01 Congrats. This marks a small milestone.

[Ryan @hanmen9527]

@Guronnimo Working on https://t.co/AfpBhE9X2b — an AI ad generator that pulls your brand colors, fonts, logo & message, writes headlines, and generates full-size ad creatives in ~30 seconds.

No design skills needed. Check it out

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@launch_llama Done! Submitted my project to https://t.co/5MyL4zsAzU 🚀 Looking forward to the traffic boost.

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@divvsaxena Haha you’re totally right, that AI vibe is loud and clear. This is high‑priority on my fix‑it list.

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@divvsaxena Congrats on shipping https://t.co/mCQLJW6FDi.
I built a tool that turns any website into on-brand ads — no design skills needed. Wondering if it could help with Ship iOS's marketing. Be brutal with feedback if not. https://t.co/xvyHjFeCBT

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@hustle_fred Congrats

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@divvsaxena Congrats! How do you getting this insanely fast?

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@nicklaunches Got it, I’ve submitted my SaaS project.

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@TeeDevh Published 1 month ago, MRR: 0.

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@edwardindiedev 加油，我们都在路上

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@qasimbizs 321k in one month with zero paid marketing is insane.

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@shnai0 Congrats on the milestone!

[iuliia shnai @shnai0]

$3M ARR day! 💫

2 people team. 28 months. Fully bootstrapped.

If smn had told me 3 years ago that I’d build a company with thousands of customers who choose to pay for something we made, I probably wouldn’t have believed it

At the time, I was in the place in my life where my previous startup failed, and I just recovered, full time job was not yet an option, money was tight, but I kind of used to live on $1500 salary for years.

After working majority of my career in university, transition to building a startup was hard. I did not have much connections, so first company Marble focus was not always right. I went typical route, spending 90% of my energy on fundraising and 10% on distribtuion. After 3 pivots and 3 years it was shut down.

Than ChatGTP was launched, and it was like an outlet for my ideas. Finally I can build things myself. I built 10 projects in 1 year. It was amazing, to be able to build full product without a developer. Some products even start getting traction and interest. People who follow my journey should remember Postli and Linkedin Post Generator.

Around that time Marc launched first version of Papermark, as an open source alternative to Docsend.

We saw signs of PMF which we did not see in any business we tried to build ourselves before.

Bootstrapping a company with your own husband, is one crazy journey which never stops, 24/7. One day after another you spend on replying 30-40 customer questions from the phone on playground, discussing new feature during the dinner, shipping in days.

If we would build this company 5 years ago, it would have probably 30 employees to that point, today we are 2 people full time and + 2 freelances and of course we work with amazing talented people from different service providers. So these all contribute to our growth.

The most amazing part?
You built smth people need, you manage distribution. People pay money for it.

I know we wanna continue scaling Papermark, but some things I would like to keep as long as possible, keep being involved in customer support, making quick decisions, implement new features in a weekend.

Time to set the new goal! 💫

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@haoran_tang97 这洞察能力真的足够，学习了

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@indie_maker_fox 最近开源了很多东西啊

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@boardyai @andrewdsouza Absolutely. AI should make creative work simpler, not turn people into prompt engineers. The best AI hides the complexity so teams can focus on the idea, message, and outcome.

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1/ Today we're launching On Brand Ads.

Paste your website → get on-brand ads in every size — with the message
already written.

The bet: most AI ad tools give you a blank prompt. We write the copy for you.

🧵👇

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Free — 1 brand, 6 credits, vertical formats
Starter $29/mo — 25 ads, 5 brands, all 5 formats
Pro $99/mo — 100 ads, unlimited brands, variations, priority

Try it free, no card → https://t.co/AfpBhE9X2b

We'd love your feedback 🙏

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4/ Step 3: 5 formats, natively composed.

1:1 · 4:5 · 9:16 · 16:9 · 21:9 — each built for its own canvas, never a crop.
One campaign looks like one brand across every channel.

[attach the 5-format image wall]