Dmytro Krasun

@dmytrokrasun.com

Building https://ScreenshotOne.com to help businesses with screenshot automation—400+ happy paying customers, $16K+ MRR. I write long form at https://newsletter.dmytrokrasun.com/. I support and promote other makers.

Even if a trillionaire wanted to sell their wealth and share the money with the world, they wouldn’t be able to do it. Imagine trying to sell the stock of a trillion-dollar company.

I am sorry, if I less respond less recently to DMs, replies and emails. The more emails I reply to and the faster I do it, the faster people reply back. And in general, the more work I do, the more work comes to me. I don't understand how to get out of this cycle.

ScreenshotOne is now officially a member of opensourcepledge.com. The pledge will help me be more systematic and intentional about supporting open-source maintainers and projects I value and want to see thrive. If you run a software company that relies on open source, consider joining too.

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If all your work is to copy a support ticket or a task from your product manager to Codex and then deploy the result to production, someone will notice and remove you to iterate faster. It is a short-term intelligence arbitrage. It can’t last forever. Find ways to add value.

“Why pay $29/month for a SaaS if I can vibecode it and host on Hetzner?” Hetzner raises prices a bit. “Maintaining infrastructure is a distraction from running my business, and I value my time. Buying SaaS is underrated.”

Talked to a co-founder of Toolhouse.ai. He described ScreenshotOne in a way that stuck with me. I would put it this way: ScreenshotOne gives eyes to AI agents to see the Internet. I am wondering whether I should change my landing page headline. Especially if it is how my customers describe it!

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Do you believe a better understanding of reality and models of how it works gives you an advantage? Or can you act without much understanding and many unknowns, but courage will take you far? If the latter matters more, then will have AI less impact than we expect.

I often understood happiness as a metaphorical button I needed to find. Clicking the button would produce joy. And then I could just keep clicking it daily and would be happy. Travelling could be such a button, or building products. Everyone has their own button to extract joy. Some found many.

“Don’t sell to developers.” What? 😆 Developers are now even paying to code! And it is not just developers. Marketers, product managers, designers… everyone is generating code with agents now. There will be more developers than ever. Everyone will be a developer.

Let me guess why The Odyssey is successful. People are losing their sense of direction. Have forgotten what decent role models look like. Social media rewards attention, not character. People crave authenticity now and strong characters with integrity. Someone whose word means something.

Software is solved. There is nothing left to debate. It is time to move on to creating playable games, joyful products, making money and having fun. Demonstration videos have proven what these models can do. Huge thanks to everyone creating them. But there is a new bar to reach:

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Now, at $30,000+ MRR, but in November 2022, almost a year into my journey, I wrote about my struggles while making $141 in MRR and questioning my life choices:

You need to improve your imagination if you think that the current world is the best we can do as human species. We are only at the beginning of software. And there will be infinitely times more software than it is now.

Jeff Bezos: "Your margin is my opportunity". You can’t keep enjoying 80%+ gross margins in software without inviting more entrepreneurs into your industry. Even without coding agents, competition in software would keep growing anyway:

An example of a support issue you can solve with better UI/UX: Customers were reaching out because they couldn’t join an organization. It puzzled me. You can just open the organization page and accept the invitation.

I am lucky to have Corey Haines (www.corey.co/) using ScreenshotOne for one of his projects. When he tried to upgrade, my dashboard UI/UX was so confusing that he couldn't figure it out. He then sent me a video with suggestions on how to improve the upgrade flow:

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You will learn more about business from the history of Rome, a civilization that survived, adapted, and expanded for more than 2,000 years, than from an attention parrot on social media selling you a course on how to arbitrage tokens into SaaS instead of doing it themselves.

Imagine an open-world Roman game where you play as a citizen. How far are we from vibe coding a playable game like that? I asked both Fable 5 and GPT-5.6 Sol to build it. At least a prototype, at least one district. And both managed to accomplish that! Thoughts:

I spent a lot of time with Fable 5 and GPT-5.6 Sol, from discussing how to solve conflicts in the Middle East to analyzing a lot of business metrics, building features, and redesigning the UI.

I resubscribed to Claude to chat with Fable 5. It pushes me back. It feels creative. It understands me. It shows me options I hadn’t even considered. It sees all the nuances. I am shocked. I feel dumb.