Martin

building on the side: can indie hacking pay my rent? €1k/m challenge: €0 so far.

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@durov already playing 3 different games against friends on https://t.co/wuGg8iTHhf

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@durov already playing 3 different games against friends on https://t.co/wuGg8iTHhf

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built 8 ball pool that you play inside a @telegram message.

telegram's new bot api 10.4 lets bots send interactive widgets into chats. the whole game fits in 4kb: aim, power, physics replay. played a few rounds with my gf already.

try it: https://t.co/wuGg8iTHhf

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@iPritamX how are you checking the japanese and korean ones, native speakers or just trusting it?

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@china_saparbek hope you're ok man. take a few days off, the app will survive

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@uxchrisnguyen how did you handle the slow months, a buffer or retainers?

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@PTommy59687 pretty quick, depending on your disk size. for my 4tb ssd it takes 4-5 minutes.

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day 2: cachetrail is now https://t.co/7Phmn3ZY8m

it started as “what grew in my dev caches”. then i added ram per dev task and the whole disk, and it was clearly about the whole dev mac. new name, new face :)

right now on my mac: 8 ai agents running, 10.4 gb between them. 4 look forgotten and still hold 5.6 gb

one claude code run is 48 processes and 2.66 gb. activity monitor shows 48 rows. silicon bud shows one

the disk view keeps every survey, so the next one shows what changed. since yesterday my folders shrank 129.8 gb, most of it old lm studio models i deleted right from that screen

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@TheXSami wow man, congrats. hoping i can follow up next, literally started posting 3 days ago :D

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@growth_pigeon @launch_llama because it really was taken in his living room, then later changed the background for the meme

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@carlmonkft taking days off is quite harder than i thought

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but using it all day, i keep wanting more than disk: which agent is eating my ram, how hot the mac runs at 3am, keeping it awake through a long run. this might be bigger than just cachetrail.

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day 1 of building https://t.co/PWqJ0sRIfd in public. i went from an empty folder to a working mac app and a live site in one day.

most disk cleaners ask what’s big. cachetrail asks what grew since your last scan, and only moves what you reviewed to the trash, with undo.

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your files are not at risk, as the app never deletes anything. folders go to the trash, a journal records each move, and one click puts them back. I tested the round trip with a bunch of real projects.

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@i_mika_el @bot appreciate it man, locked that in. thanks!

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last night, before i wrote a single line of code, i had @bot dig into a micro saas idea for bulgarian accountants.

he researched the competitors, grilled the idea down to the real pain, found 150 local firms (42 with emails), then set up his own inbox on a subdomain of https://t.co/DSstmcKddt.

he’s running the whole thing on his own and will start emailing them monday morning to try and find buyers. if i get under 2 replies, i don’t build it. selling before building. let’s see what happens.

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@TheXSami thanks man, appreciate it

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submitted my first ios app

https://t.co/QBCJsEDKfo: invoicing + vat for eu freelancers.

3 days later it's still "waiting for review". revenue so far: €0.

goal: €1000 MRR of side income from my own products by end of year. let's see how that goes.

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@aliszu i feel you man, but it's expected. there are more apps being built right now than ever.

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@Sayyidalijufri how long did it take from publishing the first seo pages to seeing real traffic? trying to figure out how patient i need to be with my apps