I only (try to) build products that tick all boxes
✅ Demand exists
✅ Solves one specific problem in one specific niche only
✅ High buying intent niche (acute pain, health, money making, etc.)
✅ Solo-Operatable
✅ High retention
Reduced my Claude Code and Cursor token usage by ~60% with one CLI tool.
It's called rtk and it rewrites shell commands so the agent gets compact output instead of verbose bash.
Link in reply.
What tools are saving you tokens?
It doesn't fix my memory. I still forget things. But now they're recorded somewhere I can search.
External memory > no memory.
If writing-based journaling doesn't stick for you - maybe stop writing.
One week in: richer journal entries than five previous attempts combined.
The kicker - the realization that my journaling problem was a format problem? I spoke that into the bot. Without it I'd have had the thought and forgotten it by lunch.
From A to B - thanks to the power of user research :D
I published my little SaaS assessory yesterday and did some validation with potential users.
Turns out the value is not in what I thought it was... Iterated instantly
#indiedev#userresearch#cto