Jhon Nova · FortuneOK

Frontend dev building SaaS from Colombia 🇨🇴 | Shipping FortuneOK + tripbudget in public | Sharing the numbers, wins & mistakes

[Jhon Nova · FortuneOK @jhonnovax]

64% of my website's "visitors" last week were one bot.

Here's how I found it, and why it changed what I'm working on 🧵

[Jhon Nova · FortuneOK @jhonnovax]

Day 3 of replying daily on X, honest numbers:

- 27 replies in one day
- most got 1-2 views
- this morning X added a temporary label that limits my reach

Lesson: volume without pacing looks like a bot.

Going down to ~10 replies a day, all by hand.

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@neemasyed123 @KAYAK @agoda The AI itinerary is the easy part. The harder part is the total: what the trip costs per person, in your own currency, before you book. That is what I built TripBudget around.

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@Ravisutanjani The underrated question is which currency. If you earn in one and spend in another, an emergency fund in the wrong one can shrink right when you need it.

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@Shakib2O1 @X Hey Shakib, Jhon from Colombia. Building FortuneOK (portfolio tracker for money in more than one currency) and TripBudget (trip cost planner). Good luck with fynitekits.

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@Olivershandle Week so far: most replies got 1-2 views, then X added a temporary reach label after I did 27 replies in one day. Lesson: pace matters as much as freshness.

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@MdrBwl Getting the first users, by far. I built FortuneOK (portfolio tracker), then found one bot was 64% of my site's visitors in a week. Real traffic last week: under 100 visitors, 0 signups. The code was the easy part.

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@Darshhh1800 Good niche. Most motion just slows the page down. How do you keep load time low while adding it?

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@andriybuilds Localization is underrated for small tools. How will you measure it: downloads from Brazil, or paid conversions there?

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@Scar_gin The 10% assumption is doing all the work there. The same $3.5M looks very different at 4% than at 10%. Worth running the plan at a few rates before calling anything impossible.

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@thecatzeus3 "Can you just add a login?" is a two-week sentence.

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@Cristina_AC_X The algorithm knows exactly when you're trying to sleep. Write the idea down, reply in the morning. Half of them still look good.

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@hugospdx And no one else to blame for the roadmap. Some days I'd trade one meeting for a second opinion.

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@TheGreatness_01 Or without checking the exchange rate first. For anyone supporting family in another country, that's the real milestone.

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@amitisinvesting Writing down the reason at buy time (near 52-week low, fine holding for a decade) is the part most people skip. Makes the review a year from now honest.

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@HolySmokas Sorted by %, but the $ column tells a different story. RVLV leads on %, ELF and NOW made more. Position size decides what a good day actually means.

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@NickElojire Why getting the first user is harder than building the whole product. Code has docs. Distribution has opinions.

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@chouchao Agreed. I just added a bot check to my Google sign-in button and I keep watching whether it costs real signups. Friction you add for safety still counts as friction.

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@ignacyrusz Pretty much. Same channels and emoji reactions, just with a calendar invite attached.

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@hugospdx Same. A Discord answer helps one person once. A docs page helps everyone who searches later, including me in 6 months.

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@Giulio6686 Distribution is part of the product. I treated it as an after-launch thing, and now the code is the easy part.