we just crossed 700k unique visitors march 2024: 2,710 bootstrapped, no ads, just founders launching stuff distribution features dropping next thank you guys, seriously

ok so been using opus 5.5 all day the thing just gets it. sees the big picture, catches what i miss goated at coding, design + research. it has taste sorry astra, it's not you. maybe a little

this week i'm building SSS tier stuff only, locked in🔥 the claude-pilled are having a very good week!

models like opus 5.5 make me more hopeful than ever unfair capabilities, accessible to all and people still think indie hacking is dying?

we’re building agents to do our work, right? yet we’re doing their integration work with MCP et al. not sure who’s working for whom

didn’t expect a subreddit to grow that fast.. 1k visitors yesterday! distribution is weird man

i don’t currently need an agent that runs my company i just need one that finishes its job so i can do mine

if your product is an API, it better be a killer one hard to replace. easy to build on with ready-to-ship templates their startup. your growth engine

compiled some advice for first-time founders: - conversion before distribution - keep design clean - testimonials matter more than you think - never under-price - if you hesitate to paywall, do it! - distribution on primary channel - organic first finally, build at least a growth loop in your app

i’ve spent too much time building alone our space is still small. i think it’s about to get a lot bigger lately i’ve been meeting founders online and in person. a few collabs are taking shape. i want more calls, more ideas, more partnerships if you’re a founder i should know, let’s talk.

first-time founders worship organic until burn out second-time founders overcorrect with paid third-time founders know picking a side was always the mistake

hot take: charge $0.01 per API call rather than $39/mo one infinite loop and you’ve found product-market fit

Product experiment: slight variation on positioning. More consumer-y thinking: join startups, follow journey, participate, be part of something unique. Access unique partnerships, perks, opportunities. New angle, new OGs. How do they look?

generalist AI was killing micro-saas, that’s no secret jev makes niche experts worth building again: not skills or mcps, but entire agentic products. indies, we are soo back

First thoughts about Jev: It’s a powerful framework that feels a lot like playing with decision trees. You give it a state, questions with enums for the acceptable output results. It generates probabilities.

the rise of jev could bring indie hacking back from the dead

I’ve been working on something new lately. A micro-acceleration concept for founders & solopreneurs. Involves distribution, micro funding, a fair setup, partners. Feedback wanted: what’s precisely stopping you from reaching $5k/mo?

the cost of NOT launching a startup > the cost of building it it’s pretty soon the case.

spend $500/mo on tokens for fun spend $5k/mo on ads to find out if you have a business

if distribution is 10x harder than product community is at least 100x the work some founders do both for fun. deeply concerning.

everyone’s fighting over the same 3~4 channels maybe we’re not being weird enough: - flood giphy with gpt-image-2 ads - create an onlyfans page for your brand - flyers outside your city’s incubators - sponsor a subreddit beef about your brand silly, yes! still less competition than SEO.

founders building native AI products went from prompt engineering to context engineering: memory layers, structured context, loops, goals, isolated compute, sandboxes now everyone is building harnesses, routers, or orchestration layers

there’s an entire debate around DR (domain rating) some call it a vanity metric without traffic others say it still matters for GEO i honestly don’t know. i’m just happy we hit DR64 :)

how to build your 1st growth engine from scratch: 1. pick a traffic source 2. convert that traffic 3. get more of it repeat until VCs start DMing you.

most founders start with X, reddit, SEO or UGC then we do the math: $1/click + 2% conversion = $50 CAC our $39/mo plan starts looking scalable, that's cool weirdly, a $5 click from the right niche can be an even better deal

SEO + GEO are still the closest thing to free users🔥 Don't ignore them.

1,000+ builders in a month🔥 our reddit community isn’t even a month old turns out founders still want places to meet peers next goal: 10,000 before 2027. wanna bet? ;)

founders fear Reddit bans, fair. they fear annoying people in DMs, and also fear launch days. fear actually kills more distribution than lack of time

low-ticket B2B looks more scalable: lower price, easier adoption, more automation until we count the churn, support, and distribution volume required. maybe $10k isn’t really high-ticket. maybe $19/mo is hard mode

hot take: more $49/mo B2B SaaS products should cost $9.99/mo with pay-as-you-go when it makes sense lower prices. way bigger market i secretly want 10x more founders building 10x more startups