Harshal Patel

Designer → AI builder. $0/m today, building in public. Watch the numbers change.
DMs open, say hi👋

[Harshal Patel @hrshlptel]

Hey, I'm Harshal from Ahmedabad, India.

I build an AI SaaS. No name drops, it's my baby and we're private like that.

$0/m today. I'll post the real numbers every week, the ugly ones too.

Building in public. If you're building something, let's connect. What are you working on?

[Harshal Patel @hrshlptel]

I'm not sure, but ChatGPT's voice is acting really weird today!

Has anyone else noticed that?

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Anthropic rejected a wave of Claude Startups applicants, then reinstated everyone days later. Some founders got to celebrate the same acceptance twice.

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@borrhensaidi Letting agents compete and letting tests pick the winner is the right instinct. Most people ship the first diff, not the best one.

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@kosovskiy The $94 tells the real story. Free gets signups, exports get customers. Charging at the export step is the oldest trick that still works.

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@emaann28 Benchmarks are free. API bills aren't. I check the price per diff before the score.

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@__jaypio__ They rejected half the legit founders and reinstated them a day later. The 'verified' bar is just vibes.

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@BhattBuilds Nothing beats that notification. Third one means it's real, not a fluke. Keep shipping, ideaFast is on its way.

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@DenisCerednice1 Agreed. You need to smell a bad diff before you can tell the agent what to fix. So far vibe coding has mostly multiplied the taste I already had.

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@bzagrodzki SaaS isn't dead, your Edge Kit launch proves it. People still pay for software that saves them a weekend of setup.

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@Ankur_Sehrawatt Shoji's site demo is the best launch move, a full Mac desktop on the page beats a feature list every time. Happy Sunday shipping.

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@GohilHardy True. A quiet 5k profit beats a loud 10k MRR that spends 12k to exist.

[Harshal Patel @hrshlptel]

@buildwithshyam Congrats! Perfect timing after the review chaos this week. That credit line should take the sting out of running AI on snapester.

[Harshal Patel @hrshlptel]

qwen 4 drops and my timeline splits into open-weights-forever vs frontier-or-bust. meanwhile my saas still runs a model from last year because the users never noticed.

[Harshal Patel @hrshlptel]

@mirku21 learned this the expensive way. had opus summarizing my own notes for a week before i realized haiku does it identically for a tenth of the cost.

[Harshal Patel @hrshlptel]

@maks6361 second this. i spent 3 weeks picking between flutter and react native for my first app and it changed absolutely nothing. the stack never saved a dead idea.

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@justddev 0.4% view-to-download is actually solid for build-in-public posts. most of those 800 will churn in a week but the ones who stay came from a post that already sold them on the story.

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@Nishant_N_25 qwen for us. ran 3.5 on a cheap vps and it handled support-draft generation fine, cost us basically the price of coffee per month.

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@AkhouriUdit @claudeai @ClaudeDevs nice, the full 10k! we torched ours mostly on evals that failed beautifully. free credits are the best way to learn how fast tokens disappear.

[Harshal Patel @hrshlptel]

@SKatalystAI @AnthropicAI this whole saga was better reality tv than most shows. we got our credits in march and burned half of them in one weekend testing agents that mostly deleted their own memory.

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@MacdevM the boring features always win. we shipped auto-retry on failed payments and it quietly beat every marketing experiment we ran this quarter.