Ming Xu

cofounder @ ex-civil aviation engineer
building + more for fun

featured by Google

[Ming Xu @mingmakesstuff]

software is in such a weird place right now lol

guy builds a $39/mo tool
second guy clones it for $29 one time
third guy makes it free

fourth guy pays YOU to use it, raises a $10M seed, sells your data, exits for $30M

[Shiva @BinaryScriptar]

Why pay $29 when you can get it for free?

https://t.co/lCh6wuWqqH

Traks is MIT licensed and runs in your own Cloudflare account. Sign in with Cloudflare and it installs in one click: no terminal, no Node. Updates are one click too.

Already used by 100+ Cloudflare users.

It scales because your history goes to Iceberg tables on R2 object storage, not a database that fills up.

• realtime visitors on a live map
• funnels, goals, page paths
• ChatGPT/Claude/Perplexity traffic as its own channel
• bots classified, not just dropped
• MCP server so your coding agent can query your analytics

What it doesn't do yet: Stripe revenue by source. Which is on the roadmap.

Want something else? PRs are welcome.

[Ming Xu @mingmakesstuff]

@BiskeyGames Nice to meet you! Would love to try games one day!

[Ming Xu @mingmakesstuff]

Hey X

Im a 34yo product dev
Have scaled 3 b2b startups to 1M+ ARR
now trying something new

looking to connect with
-founders
-indie hackers
-folks chronically on x/ig/tiktok

I want to find a partner to create a OSS local AI app that can reply to things for you in your voice.

[Ming Xu @mingmakesstuff]

@wickedguro Congrats man. Been upvoting you since the early days of you pushing it on reddit.

[Ming Xu @mingmakesstuff]

@Meridianx_0716 Dont think you need an AI for that

[Ming Xu @mingmakesstuff]

@zhouruijin Think digup but integrated with your messages and also has voice commands with whisper flow: https://t.co/9WeepSpY8W.

[Ming Xu @mingmakesstuff]

@zhouruijin No, I am imagining an overlay that reads messages on a focused window. You hit a command and it writes things for you. From messages, to pdfs etc

[Ming Xu @mingmakesstuff]

@naolmerg It was both, depends on your feed. My linkedin acc had more than our GTM but my GTM had more on his ig

[Ming Xu @mingmakesstuff]

@jabiShips First part - not always true. If your product is truly differentiated and brings a lot of value. Theres definitely growth via PLG. Getting attention is def another skill tho

[Ming Xu @mingmakesstuff]

@_Luke_Slytalker You get more spam emails from product hunt than actual users to your website lol

[Ming Xu @mingmakesstuff]

More context: recently getting folks to renovate my house, every now and then I wanted AI to help me negotiate. Want like a local AI that runs off your computer to reply to messages for me. Can just overlay on your mac and read messages etc.

[Ming Xu @mingmakesstuff]

@gopideiva Based on your product, heres what I recommend. Go to your linkedin, find some viral posts where commenters said something to get like a free playbook, scrape the people who have commented and dm 50 of them over a week. If your product is good, expect 30%+ reply rate.

[Ming Xu @mingmakesstuff]

@JustinasRoland0 Quite possibly, each time I submit its a unique UTM link so I know which ones are bad and I will remove them, thats the whole point of the resource!

[Ming Xu @mingmakesstuff]

the ones that sent the most bot-looking traffic (new visitors, engaged sessions, avg time):

aisotools 41, 3, 4s
intelligent tools 11, 0, 0s
launchpadly 7, 1, 17s
smithery 6, 0, 0s
tools nocode 3, 0, 4s

looks like automated checks, not people

[Ming Xu @mingmakesstuff]

Today marks 30 days since I started my open source project for tracking the performance of launch directories. So far 800 new users. I'll get my AI to comment on the detailed breakdown shortly

[Ming Xu @mingmakesstuff]

biggest surprise: the top referrer by visitors (41) had 3 engaged sessions, so mostly bots. chatgpt sent 9 people on its own

all my results per directory are in a free claude skill:
npx skills add mmmmingos/where-to-submit-your-startup

[Ming Xu @mingmakesstuff]

@emaann28 @mrymonx I currently curate the largest open source directories results. You can get a skill that sees all the traffic that was generated etc https://t.co/EF7KB5un2j