Vlad Larionenko

Product • finance focus
Building & learning on the side · small assets
Freedom is the goal
DM if you’re shipping or looking at deals

[Vlad Larionenko @lngmnn8]

Building small products on the side.
Learning how money and small assets actually work.
DMs open if you’re shipping.

[Vlad Larionenko @lngmnn8]

Side builds die less from bad ideas than from no clock.

I keep one block after work and treat it like a meeting I can't move.

Not heroic. Just harder to skip than "I'll do it later."

What's the rule that keeps yours alive?

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@nvaliotti the $15k new vs $10k expansion only looks obvious until CAC shows up, upgrades from accounts already hitting limits usually print cleaner margin. curious how often you see teams pick A because the MRR headline feels bigger

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@marsc_hb taking a year off the feed to 4x MRR is a cleaner trade than most posting streaks on here. work growing with the number is the part people skip. what's the first lever you're watching on the way to 50k

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@madsmadsdk top 10 with zero strangers paying is a vanity trap I keep seeing too, PH amplifies whatever funnel you already have. 5-10 organic strangers first is a hard filter but the right one. which of the two launches felt closest to a real product

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@TheHashton paid pilot when the buyer already feels the pain, free trial mostly buys you tire kickers. manual onboarding won first sales for most tiny tools I've watched. curious which one actually closed yours

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@iiakshayii security + durability while going agentic is the hard part most people skip. still looking, filter is strict, nothing yet that clears already pays without a mess underneath. how's the agent rollout going on the first greentick features?

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@StevBuilds almost the reverse for me right now, day job still carries most of the week and nights go to own things. 80/20 the other way is the goal once something starts covering itself. what tipped you into majority own products

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@iiakshayii security + durability while going agentic is the hard part most people skip. still looking, filter is strict, nothing yet that clears already pays without a mess underneath. how's the agent rollout going on the first greentick features

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@rafal_darlak treating the 9-5 as runway instead of the enemy is underrated, pressure to quit early kills more side builds than the job does. how are you protecting the 5-9 hours so they don't just vanish

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@anto_cappiello perpetual launch discount just trains people to wait, localization fixes the price where it's actually wrong. curious how many of your apps were stuck in that year long 50% loop before you changed it

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@ATown_Jonesy followers feeling busy while revenue stays at zero is a trap I keep seeing too, first sale usually comes from one awkward outbound not another post. what's the product you're putting in front of people this week

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@madsmadsdk @vercel paying for Pro after 18 months on free is a weirdly good milestone, means something finally outgrew the sandbox. which project actually forced the upgrade

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@ArgileNoland office by day and AI tools by night is the exact split, one small app that solves a personal pain beats another platform idea

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@Ewww1305 revenue without hours is just a screenshot, I'd rather see cash per focused evening than a $500 that ate every weekend

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@rohittales hiding in features while the number stays flat is so easy, making yourself the marketer is the hard switch. was the Meta ads leap or the daily content what moved Coozy most

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@lmfresneda 18 free signups and 0 paying is the cleanest kill signal, free founder swaps feel like progress until you ask who has the problem today. what are you putting time into next

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@nic_amadio job first then runway is the unsexy path that actually lets you ship without panic, I treat the day job as bullets not a cage. curious how big a buffer felt like enough before you tried

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@rcmisk this is the tax nobody puts in the MRR screenshot, one deep block after work beats three broken evenings. cutting handoffs helped more than adding hours

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@madhugogineni97 $500 is a real business the day the hours behind it are low enough that you'd keep it if the day job vanished, revenue alone doesn't answer it