Denys Soloshenko 🇺🇦

@borschdev.bsky.social

Going all in on Indie Hacking. Boats burned. Learning by shipping. https://borsch.dev

[66 to uneed] Behold, muad'dib here. Baking short videos. Joined one more challenge about consistent posting yt shorts. It perfectly aligned with my 30-posture challenge. But, maaan, how hard to come up with text, then record with good enough quality.

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[68d to uneed] Spend few hours recording video for my product. Outcome - less than a minute. Still hard for me as a dev to spend time on content and marketing instead of delivering new features. Even harder for person with ADHD to record whole video, so I splitted it on few parts.

[69d to uneed] Asked a QA friend to test my payment system yesterday. Found a bunch of errors (mostly cause domain migration). Including a 301 redirect breaking inside checkout - didn't expect that one. All fixed now. But damn, test your payment flow before your users do 😅

Just finished recording my first demo for @1pixelworkout. Spent 2 hours and it's still quite shitty. Not a native speaker, so no matter how many takes — slow speech, bunch of mistakes. Left it as is. Something is better than nothing.

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Fucked up my possible first $. Customer tried to pay, but my payment API key had expired (for some reason never got notified).Wrote an email with excuses, but not sure if they'll consider trying again.Anyway, that was a good sign that my product could be seen as worth paying for.

Sitting in front of laptop and looking into my browser extension panel. Going to make it listed already. Strange feeling, actually. Somehow it's even more exciting than deploying site. Maybe cause it's my first browser extension. Design sucks, ux probably sucks too. Wish me luck.

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Is it just me, or AI always afraid of strong phrases and thoughts in my texts. Trying to soften the edges. "Tone dips a bit too dark", "Keeps urgency without scaring people away"... If I follow all the suggestions – my post becomes emotionless "mashed potato".