Alex Streeb
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Fullstack Engineer | 5 years Consulting & 2 Big Tech | - Automate with AI | - Empowering Indie Makers
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AI is great, but...
Without a system, you're stuck on the prompt hamster wheel.
Turn prompts into reusable systems.
How?
The basic way: Save them in a text file to copy/paste later,
The smart way: Join the wait-list for smarter solutions.
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The real truth:
100% of coding will eventually be given to AI - we already see it happening (thanks cursor)
Instead engineers become business problem solvers first and scale with AI writing our code.
Do you agree?
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90% of startups fail.
With such steep odds.
Why take the plunge?
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The hard truth:
AI will eventually outsmart humanity.
And produce better code than all of us.
It’s only a matter of time.
If you disagree why?
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Keep going!
You could be 1 post, app, feature away from succeeding.
Just had my first taste today.
Building in public is the best - apps and X both
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Looking for tools to capture user feedback/ feature requests.
Any advice? 👇
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Startups are hard.
Solo founders? Even harder.
AI can be your secret weapon or your competitor's edge.
How do you use AI in your startup?
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“Shipped in 24hrs”
MVPs that are shipped in a day.
Is the idea to validate and then clean up tech debt later?
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Databases are critical.
It saves that state of your app and holds your biggest asset for a Saas… Data
What DB are you using in 2024?
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Avoid Saas Admin Hell 🔥
A checklist of must have systems in any Sass:
- sign up flow
- password reset self service
- password change flow
- email login if no password
- alter account settings (name, email, etc)
- feature tutorial
- service health checks
- basic backend tests
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98.75% chance of failure...
No audience in 2024? You're playing on hard mode.
Sure, build your app, but don't forget:
build your audience too, so someone's there when it's time to launch.
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Everyone says “validate your idea”
What’s the 2024 strategy to do this?
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99% Startups fail without this:
Zero followers. Brand new domain.
Startups need traffic...
How are you getting your first traffic?
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"I'm new here"
New people join build in public everyday.
Any great resources for newbies to go 0 to 0.1?
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Builder Saas Essentials (you'll thank me later)
- Auth: Secure user authentication and authorization
- Basic testing: Simple as Postman API tests
- Cloud infra: Modern managed serves that scale
What other essentials exist?
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the 1% who succeed...
dont stress building javascrip vs PHP
dont stress building perfect UIs
dont stress building with mistakes
they just start.. why havn't you started?
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Life is Hard.
Building is Hard.
Resisting the lure of the next shiny project? Even Harder.
How do you fight the temptation?
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Startup life is hard.
Developing your product - hard.
Staying focused on your core mission - Hardest.
should you avoid or embrace new trends?
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Bots on X suck:
Bots ruin your feed
Bots clog your DMs
Bots are hard to detect
Bots inflate your follower count
As software engs how are you solving this crisis?
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What is 1 tool giving you the most leverage for your business?
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"I don't use AI"
AI is now a game-changer for startups and solopreneurs.
Will future entrepreneurs boast about building startups without AI?
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99% are just watching - even among builders
Once you understand the split between creators (builders) and consumers, the social media vail fades away.
Your greatest asset is showing what you’ve built in public!
Have you seen behind the curtain?
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"I dont like AI coding"
Yes because you havn't used it enough. Regularly seeing +20% increase in productivity from people.
Do you truly dislike it or are you just afraid?
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Cursor is used 0% for my projects.
Typically I go to Claude.
Should I switch?
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How I build:
- Build my audience
- Build my app
Both are keystones of your empire.
Which gets your focus first?
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Teach.
Teach your skills
Teach your audience
Teach while building
The information gaps you uncover are the keys to solutions people crave.
Have you experienced this?
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Profitable Build in Public Road Map:
- Choose a subject to learn
- Share your journey on X to grow audience
- Identify and solve problems with subject
- Educate followers on problem/solution
- Monetize your solution (course, SaaS, etc)
Anything missing?
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100% of your tasks are problems:
Life is a series of problems to solve.
With experience, you tackle more valuable problems, which increases your ability to sell at a higher price.
What problem does your startup solve?
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“AI doesn’t help me”
Yeah because your expecting magic.
Take the time to learn prompting… you won’t regret it.
What’s your prompt advice?
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The new indie hacker 1%:
- Engages on X daily
- Builds in public
- Uses other tools from the community
- Embraces AI for every process
- Builds systems to let them work less
Anything I missed?
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Fail Fast.
Build, embrace failure, collect data, and retry.
Stagnation equals failure.
How do you fail fast in your Saas?
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The trend is there:
It’s only a matter of time until founders are just telling AI what product to build.
How do you see it?
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90% chance of failure...
No audience in 2024? You're playing on hard mode.
Sure, build your app, but don't forget:
build your audience too, so someone's there when it's time to sell.
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Startup Success:
- How much pain you relieve
- How many people know about it
Anything I missed?
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As an indie hacker building an audience:
Don't ask what you can get from your audience.
Instead, focus on who your audience is and what they need.
Meet them where they are, and they will give you everything.
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96.7% of ideas you will forget.
Write it down!
You cant build what you don't remember.
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Your project hinges on just two factors:
- the value of the problem you solve
- the audience aware of your solution
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Stripe can be tough...
For many, Lemon Squeezy offered a sweet escape from Stripe's issues.
But now that Stripe has acquired Lemon Squeezy, will it lose its zest too?
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100% of builders could use this:
Help those just behind you.
The best aid often comes from someone one step ahead.
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Building my audience is 10x easier with integrated tools.
I need a tool to integrate my landing page with.
What free tool do you use to combine a blog, newsletter, and waitlist?
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Looking for tools to streamline auth process.
Currently using AWS cognito.
What’s the absolute easiest?👇
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@nico_jeannen
From a copy writing perspective seems like with the demo you really gave the customer “instant gratification”.
Similar to someone in a physical store being able to feel and use the product with their own hands.
Can be powerful for marketing!
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98.9% failure rate if you:
- Don’t build an audience
- Don’t build in public
- Don’t share your results
- Don’t launch your product
- Don’t come back every day
- Don’t automate with systems
Anything I missed?
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@AndreeaFarcas98
Resourceful-ness
Things in the tech world hardly go exactly as planned and being able to figure things out for yourself is more efficient and valuable.
IMHO
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Observation:
Indie hacking is more than a trend—it's a reflection of deeper economic forces at play.
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Skip the Grind:
Forget the endless hustle. More people are crafting lifestyle businesses to meet only what they need…
…and not aiming for the moon.
Is this a cop-out or truly the way to go?
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You get terrible results from chatGPT because you don’t have a system to help you.
Get organized, save the prompts that you try to reproduce over and over again in a place for later use. Then watch as you 2.5X your productivity.
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Sold! $10M in the bank.
What’s your next play
build bigger or kick back?
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Controversial:
Paid boiler plates have a place in building.
If it provides real value.
Do you agree?
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"I could never make money online"
Not true.
Everyone's an entrepreneur.
Some just decide to profit from their problem-solving skills.
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You will fail without systems:
You hear it all the time but its right 100% of the time.
Scaling up? Impossible without systems.
Maintaining sanity? Forget it without systems.
Which tasks do you streamline with systems?
I'll start:
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Breakthroughs Driving the Evolution of AI Agents
1/5 Are you leveraging these AI advancements in your startup?
🤔 Let’s explore the key technological breakthroughs transforming AI agents into more sophisticated and capable systems!
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For those interested on stacks, a pretty cheap way to start… monthly $0.5
Especially if you apply for $1k AWS credits…
All built on AWS serverless infrastructure
Frontend:
S3 hosted SPA via cloud front -> route 53
nextjs/reactjs -> daisyUI -> tailwind -> all client
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When your coding for hours and realize you never started music but have your headphone on...
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Build when your sad.
Build when you bored.
Build when your stressed.
Consistency now is your ticket to freedom later.
What are you building?
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As a start up in tech, how much of your code base was written by AI?
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Social media is a goldmine.
with successful people sharing their secrets for free.
If you're struggling to find the next step for your build.
Just look to the people right ahead of you. What are they doing?
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Builders get this wrong….
You solved a valuable problem, but no one is buying
Your landing page converts, but no one is seeing it.
In the age of the internet it is crucial to build an audience.
A 10% conversion rate will NOT save you when only 10 people visit your site.
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"Retirement will be great"
But what if you don't make it? Or the market delays your plans by 10 years? (like this week)
Instead of waiting 40 years, why not aim to create wealth in 5 and enjoy life while you're young?
Build In Public is the Answer! Keep at it!
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Tool tools tooling
There are tools for everything…
The modern truth:
AI will be your tool
Don’t fight it, embrace it
You get 10x done while you build.
What’s your AI superpower?
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For the veterans out there with more than 100 followers…
What’s a good engagement rate?
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AI has changed the game…
You don’t search anymore.. you ask
What tools have to change before AI crushes them?
(Ex Stack Overflow)
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Building is tough.
AI is a breeze...
You can build faster with AI.
Got any expert AI tips to build faster?
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When clarity is low, motivation tends to dip.
When building in public, the next steps are often unclear.
Has anyone come across tools/guides to help builders move from 0 to 1?
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@johnrushx
SEO is great but what did you focus on for the first 6 months? (where the chart is flat)
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@AndreeaFarcas98
Tailwind CSS here’s why…
I’ve used bootstrap before in many projects and it falls short of tailwind in at least the following 3 categories:
1. While bootstrap provides components, tailwind gives you the building blocks to quickly build any component you need from lower level
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As builders and engineers shaping the future,
Should we disclose when AI is used in our tools?
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Take a Break!
It's Sunday, after all.
Yes, there's a time to grind, but there's also a time to rest.
You're no good when you:
1. Burn out
2. Wreck your health
3. Strain your relationships
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$8M jackpot!
You can't win if you don't play.
Posting daily on X hasn't changed my life overnight, but it does one thing:
I practice giving value, and as my audience grows, so do my opportunities.
More value + more views = better chances of winning.
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"What if AI could do..."
It can.
Examples are everywhere.
It could work for you too if you put those prompts to good use by integrating them into a system.
Automate your business with AI-powered workflows.
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Productivity Hack:
Stop caring about what others do.
99% of the time, it's just a distraction.
They don't have the discipline you have.
They don't share your goals.
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5 ways to optimize your prompt engineering for better LLM results:
1/ Use clear and specific language
2/ Provide context and examples
3/ Break complex tasks into smaller steps
4/ Experiment with different phrasings
5/ Implement a feedback loop for continuous improvement
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Your product is already dead.
If you don't build with these 3 things:
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Your stack.
You excel at it. It's your comfort zone.
That's great.
It boosts your productivity.
But should you ever step beyond it?
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Be different not better:
Standing out is crucial for business survival.
Unique, memorable brands turn passions into profits.
While many find it daunting, you're ready for the challenge.
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1 critical tool:
Testing
- Unit testing
- Integration testing
- End to end testing
You ship more confidently with testing in place. And can ship faster.
But there is a catch…
Overhead to create the tests.
But tools help.
👇🏻 Best tools for testing? (Any AI?)
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"It takes so much energy" - generic founder
I focus on systems.
By being systematic, my brain conserves energy by anticipating the next step.
I can then test and optimize what I don't like over time.
What system 10x's your business?
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Looking for tools to capture metrics for my company.
Any advice? 👇
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Gen AI experts…
How are you evaluating what you are getting as output from an LLM and making sure it’s not hallucinating and that it’s actually in the correct format?
Any advice 👇🏻
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Money isn't the goal (at the start)
First: stack lessons, not cash.
Then: use those lessons to 10X your money.
No shortcuts.
what lessons have you learned since starting?
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When you feel like giving up…
What is 1 tool you use to get back at it?
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Building in public is the new real estate…
it’s not on physical land but rather a plot in the digital space of the internet.
Whats the best digital real estate?
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Seeing a lot of no-code topics.
From an engineering perspective it seems restrictive.
Is this true or can you build complex systems?
What’s your advice 👇
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@nico_jeannen
You mean by just holding it a high yield savings?
Seems like it based on interest rates.
That is the way… build, stack, diversify into real passive income, repeat.
It is actually passive but takes money to make money.
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AI thrives on three core elements:
• Embeddings: Transform complex data into machine-readable formats.
• Vector DBs: Unearth similar content through text queries.
• Prompt Engineering: Optimize inputs for top-tier AI performance.
Master these and conquer the AI landscape!
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For the builders above 10K MRR… your perspective matters for those just starting out.
Does your business provide the freedom you crave?
OR
Did it become just another thing to worry about?
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