Shakeel Ahmad

Founder & Software Engineer 🚀 | Building products, AI automations & scalable systems | Turning ideas into real products | Tech • Startups • AI

[Shakeel Ahmad @helloshakeeldev]

Unpopular opinion: The hardest part of building a software product isn't writing the code or setting up the AI workflow.

It's naming the project and finding an available domain name. 😂

What’s the weirdest domain you’ve ever bought on impulse?

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The biggest trap for software engineers in 2026:

Spending 2 weeks optimizing code for a problem that 5 users haven't even validated yet.

Build fast, talk to users, iterate. Everything else is secondary.

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@Gaus450 They’re out there offline actually running their businesses while we post about building for them. 😂

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@DonatasJab Going from zero to your first paying customer is the hardest part. Congrats on breaking through! 👏

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@heyandras Baking realtime directly into the base container and trimming 60MB of idle memory is a great optimization. Can’t wait for 4.4 to drop!

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@benbuaron_ @marclou Building in public is truly the ultimate cheat code. Your momentum is incredible to watch, keep crushing it!

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@upbeat_dev Congratulations on the success! It's really inspiring to see hard work pay off like this. Wishing you the best of luck with your next app!

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@savvasicevs Hi let's connect

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If you could have an AI agent handle one repetitive task for you every day, what would you give it?

Something you actually do regularly.

Not a futuristic idea — a real annoying task you'd happily never do again. 👇

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What is one boring problem you've encountered recently that you think software could solve?

Sometimes the best product ideas are hiding inside annoying little problems.

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@buildwtim Let's connect then

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@openingai_com @angelacollinshq Connected

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@py_poojaa AI generates code, but software engineering is about solving human and business problems. The skill set is just shifting from syntax to orchestration.

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@itsalicesoul Including DR scores makes this 10x more useful. Launches aren't just for traffic—getting 10+ high-authority backlinks on day one is massive for long-term SEO. Saved! 🔖

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@itsalicesoul Clock / Alarm. It has a 100% success rate of getting us out of bed, even if we hate the sound itself. 😂

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@TTrimoreau $0 → $1K is the hardest mentally. Proving people will actually pay for what you built requires overcoming absolute inertia. Once you have 10 paying users, you have a blueprint.

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@TTrimoreau The real number usually includes 1–2 failed pivots, paying yourself $0 for a year, and calculating "profitability" before accounting for your own market-rate salary. Most people count MRR > Expenses, not real profit.

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@jacobrodri_ If 1,000 apps generate $0 each, he's basically paying Apple $99/year to host a digital graveyard. What’s the end game here? 😂

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@iamikramaa Hey Let's connect