Joan Song

building Skiri—AI skin tracker. help you know why you have acne and allergies. You're NOT Alone. get on the waitlist launching very soon.

[Joan Song @joansongx]

Hi! I’m Joan — solo building Skiri, an AI-powered skincare progress app.

Sharing:
• 100-day build-in-public journey
• React Native + Firebase lessons
• Marketing experiments
• Everything I learn as a beginner → builder
Day 1 started already.
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I wrote a skill about how to search more effectively, called cn_web_search, which is by far the most popular product of my own, I use it for financial information collecting, for daily reports, now it hits 3k

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@zach_yadegari congrats!

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I get hundreds of messages every day across Telegram, WhatsApp, Discord, Email...

Can't keep up. Can't read everything.

So I set up OpenCLAW to auto-summarize all my messages into a daily digest.

Now I wake up and can actually catch up in 5 minutes instead of drowning.

Anyone else dealing with message overload? What's your setup?

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It’s wild to look back.

My first iOS app took 9 months of grinding with Cursor.

Fast forward to today, and I just shipped a new one in a few hours with Claude cowork.

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I love the idea of OpenClaw as “the gateway drug” for Claude Code.

Most people won’t start with a raw API or a blank terminal

They start with:

something that connects chats, scripts, and their actual computer

a UI that makes agents feel less scary

Lower the friction, raise the ambition.

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Feels like SaaS is going full “Walmart” mode.

One app wants to be your docs, tasks, CRM, AI assistant and toaster.

I don’t mind using big platforms.

But I think the next wave of interesting products will be tiny tools that:

– hook into those platforms
– do one thing insanely well.

[Joan Song @joansongx]

Engineers spent decades turning everything into friendly GUIs.

Now with AI, we’re all back in the black terminal.

I run scripts that track 60+ AI builders on X, save tweets, and let an AI pick my daily content ideas.

The “black box” didn’t go away — it just got superpowers.

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I spend 4 hours changing my openclaw primary model and it still doesn’t work

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@_loganlee Telegram

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what's your best openclaw workflow?

I set an auto search task to find the trending product topic on reddit, and generate users feedback collection everyday

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@dillionverma share more pls, how to achieve that

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started from tools, trying to build something funny now

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@EvanYadegari Cute idea

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I’ve recently spotted several sites hitting $1M arr and I found that:

building web apps are still extremely valuable in 2026

> lots of free tools to drive traffic
> massive numbers of AI-generated blog pages
> creating hundreds or thousands of secondary/deep pages

please

make great use of AI for content creation

seize the opportunity to disrupt traditional big sites

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Day 47 - quick https://t.co/djVn4zSIYP update:

just linked gsc a few days ago

17 impressions, 2 clicks, CTR 11.8%!

big thanks to the first two people who clicked in!

still waiting for google to crawl more

puretone is a simple web tool to remove noise from audio, come play with it! https://t.co/djVn4zSIYP

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Day 46 of vibe coding

I wanted to start a podcast, but even with a good mic, recordings were full of fan/AC/street noise.

so I launched https://t.co/djVn4zSIYP

A simple web tool to remove noise from audio.

Anyone else fighting noisy audio?

(Feedback welcome, even if it’s brutal lol)

[Joan Song @joansongx]

Tons of Agent tools, but has the Viral App model really been disrupted? No.

Distribution is still the king.

While AI is slashing technical barriers, the marketing side remains a game of deep experience and intuition.

Product is the floor; Distribution is the ceiling.

[Joan Song @joansongx]

Curious

how long does it usually take you to ship a new project?