Nick Berns
@fryingneurons
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🖋️ - AI tattoos 📊 (SEO & Ads) 👩🦰 (acquired)
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I just sold to
@dannypostmaa
in a 5-figure private deal 🥳🥳🥳
I built this product 6 months ago and it’s been an intense journey!
If you're curious, here's the story:
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📢Inspired by
@levelsio
and
@dannypostma
incredible shipping speed, I challenged myself to build and launch an MVP in 24 hours.
And here's what I built: 🐣 - An easy way to try out new hairstyles and get inspiration with AI.
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📢 VALIDATED!
has generated 23 sales since launch🎉🎉🎉
So it's safe to say the use case is now validated🚀
WOW...Big thank you to everyone for the overwhelming support🙌
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Always happy to help 😊
I've been running Ads at scale for the last 6 years, but I rarely see much discussion around it on indie Twitter.
Should I start sharing some learnings here? 🤭
Sat down with
@fryingneurons
today.
Complete roasted my Google Ads account. Then, taught me exactly how to optimize it.
Invaluable.
Confident this meeting will save me hundreds of thousands of dollars.
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Brogrammers be like: You need to switch to
to React and convert your API to GraphQL and back it up with Redis
Reality check: I'm trying to run a business, not a Tech conference ✌️
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scrape niche subreddits
put into vector database
filter by pain points
infinite startup ideas list
somebody has to do this
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The traffic from ProductHunt is wild! 🤯
My servers are absolutely on fire 🔥🔥🔥
Hairstyle is processing all orders and so far my servers still haven't crashed 😍
Really really incredible! 🙏
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✨ Introducing (v3)
- Interactive sequencer interface
- Remix beat & train AI
- 9 drum kits
- Export to MIDI & use in your DAW
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Reminder: Your 0 paid user app does not need a "password reset" function.
(I've been there!)
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Pretty mind-blowing how many SaaS' you need to run a SaaS 😁
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If you don't wanna keep repeating your extension .com is the way, I've stopped buying anything else
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That awkward moment when you realize Mac doesn't have a classic USB port 😅
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Just learned that you can use to instantly turn your local app into a live app with a URL 🖥️📡 🚀🤯
Incredibly useful for testing 🔥
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The year is 2030, the internet is now 99% AI Bots reading AI Content.
Humans have long since disconnected and went back to playing outside.
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After a lot of testing and improving, the next MASSIVE update of is live 🔥
Fixed eyes, teeth, blemishes, skin and overall much better quality ✨
Really proud of this release 😊
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Just passed🙋50 customers with👧HairstyleAI 🎉
Still feels completely unreal 🤯
I appreciate everyone's support & I'm working really hard on making this a great product 🙏
#buildinpublic
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Passed🙋37 customers with👧HairstyleAI🎉
The last 2 days have been an absolute rollercoaster!
I appreciate all the supportive comments, emails, DM's & feedback I've received🙏
#buildinpublic
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mfs be like, I refactored my app to reduce load time by 200ms 👌
My brother, you have zero customers
Trust me, speed is not the issue
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OK results from my first influencer campaign are in:
Cost: $80
Deliverables: IG reel + story
Results:
👶 51 Signups
💰 $90 (6 sales x $15)
Account: 22K followers.
51 / 22k = 0.23% Conv. Rate
6 / 22k = 0.03% Conv. Rate
Those stats don't looks good, definitely expected more 👇
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30 day stats for HairstyleAI 👩🦰
📈 8.5k visitors
🐣 733 signups
📊 12.1% conv. rate
👨🦰 93 customers
💰 $1,710.38 revenue
December has been good to me. Thank you to everyone for the incredible support 😊🙏
#buildinpublic
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See a lot of confusion around having a blog on subdomain e.g.
Don't do that, go for structure so your domain authority is pooled into your main domain instead of being fragmented across subdomains
= Better for SEO
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I feel heavy & unproductive if I start the day with a full breakfast 🥐🥧🥗
I prefer to have a small snack or skip it entirely.
Anyone else like this? 🤔
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OK bit of a jumpscare with 559 signups in 1 day on ☠️
I thought I was under attack, however after reviewing everything it seems the traffic and signups are clean 😅
Still, I've updated the security settings & super glad I have Cloudflare in place 🙏
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You can tell a 1st time founder because he's building a startup in "stealth mode".
A 2nd time founder shouts his startup from the rooftops, because he understands how incredibly difficult marketing is 😁
- Naval
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🎹 Last weekend I did a Audio AI hackathon and worked on a fun little side project.
Here's what I built: 🤖🥁 - An easy way to generate drum beats with AI ✨
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What new skill, framework or technology do you want to learn this year? 😎
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30 day stats for HairstyleAI👩🦰
📈 10k visitors
🐣 986 starts
📊6.9% conv. rate
👨🦰 69 customers
💰 $700.32 revenue
Thank you to everyone who tried out my app so far😊🙏
#buildinpublic
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I could not have imagined any better buyer than
@dannypostmaa
🤗
It’s kind of a poetic, as Danny inspired me to build it in the first place.
I am super excited to see where he takes the product 🚀
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Damn, did not expect that much interest 😮
Will think about what kind of tips could be valuable to share 📊
Always happy to help 😊
I've been running Ads at scale for the last 6 years, but I rarely see much discussion around it on indie Twitter.
Should I start sharing some learnings here? 🤭
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✅ Finished the Three-Body Problem series
Probably the most mind-bending sci-fi I've ever read, spanning hundreds of generations & characters 🤯
Very very unusual storytelling, the start is a bit slow, but so worth it
Do yourself a favour and check out this masterpiece 🤩
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got off a call with dev
asks me about my unit tests and health checks
brother I don't know what any of these words mean
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#ChatGPT
did not dissapoint 😎🌴
For this year's break, I'm doing things a bit differently: I asked ChatGPT to plan my trip & activities.
And it came up with a great plan 🥳 ...so I'm going on an AI-powered holiday 😝
Will update you on how it went 😁
Shout out to
@naz_avo
for the inspiration 🙌
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😎 Little trick to add SEO keywords to your landing page without sounding unnatural or keyword stuffing:
👉 Add an FAQ
That let's you pretty much cover any keyword you've missed out on in your main page content.
Bonus: Answer questions suggested by Google about your producrt
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now generating daily sales 💰
I achieved this with 1 simple trick:
Fixed the broken payment page 🤦♂️🤦♂️🤦♂️🤦♂️🤦♂️
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A big part of indie hacker culture is the quest for "financial freedom".
But few talk about what comes after achieving it.
What would you do with your "freedom" ?How would you spend your time? 🤔
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🤯 Today I read the most mindblowing terminal output in my entire career in software.
I hacked together an LLM research agent that went out to perform multi-step research on Google, acquired knowledge and scheduled it's own next actions 🧙♂️
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The worst part about "marketing is harder than coding" is that coding is also hard 😅
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✅️ The Three-Body Problem
✅️ The Dark Forest
[ ] Death's End
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For this year's break, I'm doing things a bit differently: I asked ChatGPT to plan my trip & activities.
And it came up with a great plan 🥳 ...so I'm going on an AI-powered holiday 😝
Will update you on how it went 😁
Shout out to
@naz_avo
for the inspiration 🙌
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ppl be putting 25 fields on their contact form and wonder why the conversion rate is 0.001% 😅
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🍋 Low-hanging fruit SEO:
If your project has been live for a few months:
1) Go to Search Console
2) Look at which keywords are indexed
3) Sort by "Position"
4) Go to keywords are in position 11-20
These ones are *almost* ranking on the front page
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I think non-tech founders might have an advantage when building tech products 🤔
Non-tech founder: How do we implement this solution faster? 🐇
Tech founder: How can we cover every single edge case and overengineer this to perfection? 🐢
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If you're starting a SaaS because you want "passive income" - boy do I have news for you 😅
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Reminder: You're friends are not the best people to ask for product validation 😁
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In October I was deeply into AI image-generation and started exploring different use-cases.
When
@dannypostmaa
and
@levelsio
unlocked the powerful combination of Stable Diffusion and Dreambooth it was clear that so many applications are possible and I got inspired to build 🔨
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🐣 Super basic SEO foundation, if you want you project to rank in the future:
1) Meta title & description filled out for every page
2) Keywords added to headlines
3) Keywords mentioned in content 2-3 times
4) Min 300 words copy
⏰ 30 mins, massive impact down the line, do it.
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DM's now full of people looking for help with their AI project.
Should I start offering paid consultations? 😅
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This month my little app HairstyleAI crossed 450 customers 😊
It still feels crazy to me that something can start out as just an idea in your head and then turn into a real business on the internet ✨
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Biggest opportunity for Tattoos AI - there were no gradients on the buttons 🛑
So I added gradient buttons to every damn page
If you don't have gradient buttons it's not AI, I don't make the rules
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If you're using Postman to test API's 👉 try
Simple, lightweight, fast 💥 Never going back 💪
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The result:
10/10 would bake again
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💰 I've spent $9,000 on Upwork freelancers, here are my main takeaways:
1) Make detailed task descriptions, the more info you provide the better
2) Define clear expectations on the deliverables
3) Hire fast, fire fast. Do 7-day trials to test the waters, then hire for long-term
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OMG I won
@LoreAIArt
's art contest! 🥳🥳🥳
My artwork is gonna be on tomorrow's newsletter cover 😊🎉
The contest winner to be featured on the cover of Issue
#12
of
@LoreAIArt
is
@fryingneurons
. The cover will be featured on our homepage for our launch tomorrow!
Congratulations.🥳
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58,000 searches per month for "ai girlfriend" 😅
@stacy_siz
's project is gonna kill 😁
Validation before building with SEO
1) Go to
2) Enter what your customer would search
3) If your main keyword gets >500 searches you're onto something
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*opens vscode*
Who wrote this garbage code???
Oh yeah, I did lol
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Time to explore the real Indonesia 🌴
Gonna spend the next few weeks saling from East Indo (Langgur) to the West up to Bali ⛵️
Any tips
@JamesIvings
@dinkydani21
😁?
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If you *thought* about making a landing page, you've launched too late.
If your landing page is more than just a Buy Now button, you have launched too late.
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Being able to re-use my own code from past projects is an absolute superpower 🚀
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When I'm stuck with a tough coding problem, I take a walk outside - more often than not, I come back with a solution or an idea💡
Anyone else like this? 😅
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Installing this bad boy again 6 years later...let's see if it's still a gem 😁
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You learn that startups are:
20% coding and 80% marketing
But actually, it's:
10% marketing, 10% coding and 80% psychology
Read this on Twitter a while ago and I think it's very true 😅
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Mad respect to anyone doing indie hacking and client work at the same time 💪
The context-switching is a real energy drain 😑
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Trying to implement moustaches for 👨🦰HairstyleAI
...and it's not going well 😅
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The app was well received & made 23 sales on the first day of launch 🥳 - despite being very barebones & mostly manual.
It was literally a landing page with a Typeform and Stripe link. I would fulfil every order manually and send the hairstyles by email 😅
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Every day some techbro tries to convince me to switch to React
It's not happening 😅
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