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Saturday July, 2024
Most solopreneurs make good stuff, but Landing page is where you make it or fail

Lately I've been checking out "Build in Public" communities, and, even to it's pretty saturated now and term Indie Hacking is misused in so many ways, most of the apps people build are actually pretty good and impressive.

But, by default most of the coders suck at design. That's why …

Years spent building, still 0 sales...

Hi all,

I've spent many years working on different side projects but I made 0 sales so far...
From reading the posts here I'm sure many of you are in the same boat.

My background is in software engineering. While I'm perfectly comfortable coding all day and building a piece …

Turned two of my apps to "paid", and people seem to be happy paying for them. For Android it's still free.

Turned two of my apps to "paid", and people seem to be happy paying for them.

For Android it's still free.

How I Got 107 Beta Testers for My Software in 8 Hours by Investing $2

Here's how:

  1. LinkedIn Jobs: Created a company page and posted a volunteer beta tester job. Promoted the job for $2/day to triple the applicants.
  2. Capture Interest: Used LinkedIn's option to direct applicants to our SW Feedback Form, making it easy for them to sign up.

  3. Communication: Sent …

I'm buliding Makerpage to showcase your side projects

Hey :)

I'm David (from Spain) and I wanted to share a project that I started building for me... But then I've decided to open it to everyone.

It's Makerpage, a simple web app to add your side projects and create a shareable maker profile.

Any feedback is welcomed …

AWS and Vercel ate my profit

It's them combined with my stupidity. Long story short I launched my app https://www.blitztoksai.com/ two weeks ago, it did pretty good. I ranked 4th product of the day, not too bad for my first launch. I made some money the following days, but I noticed my bill in AWS was …

Usage-based pricing is the way to go (for AI tools)

Hey, I'm Jerad, the creator of thelede.ai 👋

I'm building an AI article generator that does in-depth research prior to writing articles.

I had been struggling for months trying to figure out a pricing model.

  • I experimented with offering three different tiers: two had token limits, the third was unlimited …
I've Created a Free Tool for Extracting YouTube Transcripts!

I recently created a tool that makes it super easy to fetch YouTube transcripts, and I thought some of you might find it useful: youtube-transcript.io. It’s completely free and very straightforward to use.

Why I Built It:

I know there are more tools that do this, but I created …

Developing an App in 3 Days?

Long story short, did it work? No.

TL;DR: I developed an app like the board game MasterMind with some additional features. Developed a first app that had some bugs, so I decided to start from scratch again. The first app took around 30 hours. The second app took 33 hours …

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