Williams | Indie Developer

Indie developer in China, building useful apps for focus, habits, and everyday life. Shipping in public.

[Williams | Indie Developer @velaropets]

POV: you're 0.9% away from blowing your $200 prop challenge — and you don't even know it.

Building a 24/7 drawdown guard for prop traders. It watches your account and screams BEFORE you cross the line.

Would you use this? 🚨

[Williams | Indie Developer @velaropets]

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PH launch wrapped: 3 upvotes, 5 followers, 0 sales. A zero-audience launch does what zero-audience launches do. But the page is now a permanent backlink, and today Stuffie got listed on 3 more directories. Brick by brick.

[Williams | Indie Developer @velaropets]

Day 1 of building in public, honest numbers:

• Launched on PH with 0 audience
• 3 upvotes, 4 followers
• 11 visitors, 4 from PH
• $0 revenue, $0 spent

Everyone shows the $40k/mo screenshot. Nobody shows Day 1.

This is Day 1. #buildinpublic

[Williams | Indie Developer @velaropets]

We're LIVE now 🔴 First upvote is in. Come say hi in the comments - I'm answering everything about building a budgeting app that refuses to touch your bank account. https://t.co/7H9UUerHGU

[Williams | Indie Developer @velaropets]

We're launching Stuffie on Product Hunt today 🚀

Digital cash stuffing - envelope budgeting on your phone:
• No bank linking, ever
• 3-second expense logging
• $39/yr - a third of YNAB

Code PHLAUNCH = 50% off first year, 48h only

https://t.co/7H9UUerHGU

[Williams | Indie Developer @velaropets]

@Gonzalo36385730 @MyFundedFutures this is brutal — passed the eval and lost the funded to a glitch, not even to trading. orphaned SL sitting there unnoticed is exactly the kind of thing 24/7 account monitoring should catch. sorry man. hope they make it right.

[Williams | Indie Developer @velaropets]

@Candycmx777 the day-after-passing blow is the most expensive one in the game 💀 respect the bounce-back. I'm building a 24/7 alarm that screams before you hit the drawdown line — genuine question: would you have wanted that, or does it kill the vibe?

[Williams | Indie Developer @velaropets]

@Idanpipp solid advice. half the failed evals I've seen weren't bad trading — just rules nobody was tracking mid-session. I'm building a tool that loads each firm's drawdown rules and screams before you cross any line. reading the fine print, but automated 😅

[Williams | Indie Developer @velaropets]

Touch Grass for iPhone: https://t.co/dNMmzJ5shf

[Williams | Indie Developer @velaropets]

At 1:07 a.m., ‘five more minutes’ became 47.

Night scrolling isn't a motivation problem. Give your night a boundary before you're too tired to choose.

#StopScrolling #BetterSleep

[Williams | Indie Developer @velaropets]

The hard part of bedtime scrolling is that it never feels like a decision.

It starts as “one video while I’m tired” and somehow becomes 47 minutes.

I’m building Touch Grass around that exact moment: less willpower, more pre-decided friction.

[Williams | Indie Developer @velaropets]

@olympic_indian That “I haven’t slept but I still can’t stop scrolling” feeling is exactly the use case for Touch Grass: Sleep Guard. Not a productivity lecture, just a bedtime guardrail for the apps that steal the night.

[Williams | Indie Developer @velaropets]

@ASPDREAMS The worst part is trying to make the decision when you’re already tired. Touch Grass: Sleep Guard is built around moving that decision earlier: set sleep hours once, then the apps that keep you up just stop opening.

[Williams | Indie Developer @velaropets]

@sfmaipo This is the exact “I know I should sleep but I can’t stop” moment I’m trying to fix with Touch Grass: Sleep Guard. It doesn’t block your phone all day, just adds a hard stop for chosen apps during sleep hours.

[Williams | Indie Developer @velaropets]

@aisshu_ Guilty 😅 I made Touch Grass: Sleep Guard for this exact moment: when you’re tired, but the feed keeps winning. It blocks your chosen apps only during sleep hours, so bedtime has some friction.

[Williams | Indie Developer @velaropets]

@QueenLovee0 That tired-but-still-scrolling loop is exactly why I built Touch Grass: Sleep Guard. Bedtime hits, the distracting apps stop opening. Just a small bit of friction when willpower is gone.