Nick

Building a business, not just apps. 🚀

Aim: $20K MRR. Sharing the raw stuff - builds, pivots, & the fails.

Follow along if u r in Fin / AI / Personal growth.

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@m_zokov i keep the generic ones global and anything project specific scoped to the repo. global gets messy fast once you have a few projects with different conventions. curious which way youre leaning and why

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@buildwithmaya first one on the store is such a milestone, congrats. that gap between hitting submit and it actually going live is the most nervous refreshing of your life. enjoy this one, you earned it

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@rikuyuuz lol the ipad pivot is so real, the pull just finds a new screen. been building a small thing for exactly that loop if you ever want a look

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@Flo_oskar first real MRR hits different from any vanity metric, congrats. that 10 means a stranger trusted you with their card. im early on freeinfive, a doomscroll blocker, and chasing that exact first dollar. what flipped people from trial to paid for you?

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@woodchipdaddy depends what you were proud of. if it was typing syntax, sure. if it was the taste for what to build and what to throw away, the ai cant touch that part yet

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@AodenTeoMT 110ms and real emotion is the combo everyone has been chasing. open sourcing an 8b model like this is a big move. whats the hardest part, the latency or making the emotion not sound forced

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@h_sellak @omarvvvr @saidwell_app the build vs sell gap is so real, i feel it every day. love that you turned your own weak spot into the product. does it score you on the words or also on tone and how you actually sound

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@omarvvvr building freeinfive, a doomscroll blocker that gives you back the time you lose to mindless scrolling. this week im wrestling with the onboarding so it actually sticks

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@BratDotAI 100 ready to pay, no contest. the other three feel amazing and pay zero rent. ive learned the hard way that vanity numbers dont fund anything

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@daicandev So far... so good :)
not awesome though...

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@JaySampath1 It was more difficult for me because I though I could get the DnB number sooner and set it up as as a business rather than an indie coders.

14 members.

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@molaerga I picked reddit.
by "best" I mean most users per unit time spent. but it is taking a LOT of time.

Generally speaking, it always is a good strat to focus on one - in any domain.

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@daicandev Sure lets do.

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@shubhvanii "When you're financially free" has nothing to do with this.

In fact, I'd argue - when you're financially free - has nothing to do with a lot of joyful moments in life.

just dont get into a shitload of debt. And it will be good.

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@GaddipatiHarsha "you never need to open your inbox unless slashy tells you" is the part i keep thinking about. the cost was never the minutes, it was the open loop in your head all day. how do you tune what counts as "actually matters" without people second-guessing it and checking anyway?

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@GohilHardy classic haunted codebase behavior. somewhere a cached build or a stale import is laughing at you. ive lost whole evenings to "it works again and i dont know why" and just backed away slowly.

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@vpanev2 the "no sign in, just focus" call is so right, the onboarding tax kills half the intent before anyone gets value. im building in the focus/attention space too (freeinfive, a doomscroll blocker) so this resonates. how are people finding flux to come back to it with no account?

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@kxie06 "safe to be trusted, specific to be useful" is the whole game for regulated sectors. the deploy-on-their-infra part is what most general models cant stomach. is the hardest sell the security story or proving the fine-tune actually beats their status quo?

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@soham_nayak04 ngl the "raw screenshot to scroll-stopping" gap is real, mine always look flat next to the polished ones. does it lean on presets or are you doing something smarter to pick the style automatically?