Jason Wallace
@jdeanwallace
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Software developer splitting my time 50/50 between freelance dev & indie hacking.
Cape Town, South Africa
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I've seen average people achieve extraordinary things through consistency. Luck can definitely be manufactured. I will do the same.
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Car people have found my website 😮
This website is pretty cool, you put a link from WeBuyCars, AutoTrader or something and it tells you how much a car is truly worth
A base M140i was R652,802 new, this dealer is asking an insane 780k for one with 34,000KM, it should be around 546k
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Added a new "Market view" section to the car price website!
Now you can see what similar cars in the market have been priced at 🔍
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Oh no, the automotive data provider has shut me down, without warning 😭
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@maureensrose
Yeah that doesn’t look right!
Sometimes the website matches with the wrong car because every car listing has a different way of describing the car.
Sorry about that, I’m working on it 😬🙏
Check that the car title matches the car valuation info by hovering over the (?)👇
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My car price website is back online!
The future of CarPriceValue is still a bit uncertain, but I've managed to find an alt source of pricing data to keep the community happy.
It might even be better than before 🤞 but I'll let you decide 😁
I'll need to start charging soon 😅
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Here are some stats from this past (insane!) weekend 🙌
📈 Unique website visitors: 14k+
🚗 Unique car lookups: 9k+
❤️ Love and support from car people: Infinite!
A special thanks to
@JosiahThobejane
for opening the floodgates and absolutely destroying my server 🙏😆
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The automotive data provider thought I was dumping/stealing their data and shut me down.
In reality, CarPriceValue just became too popular 😌
The bad news is that my API account won't be enabled anytime soon coz now they want to charge per lookup instead of the prev flat fee 😞
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Hey
@levelsio
, can a car wash be an Open Startup™? 😂
Good Wash is now sharing all it's revenue + expenses data 📡 LIVE
Here's the open dashboard 👉
Pay with
@SnapScanApp
and see the graphs change within the hour 👉
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🚗 Today I'm launching Good Wash.
😌 Get your car washed where you parked
🆘 Have a REALLY good excuse to help Anton earn a sustainable income
💳 No cash? No problem! Pay with
@SnapScanApp
Find us
@TheLaunchLab
parking lot, behind the
@StellenboschUni
engineering building.
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Happy Friday!
My car price website is back online!
The future of CarPriceValue is still a bit uncertain, but I've managed to find an alt source of pricing data to keep the community happy.
It might even be better than before 🤞 but I'll let you decide 😁
I'll need to start charging soon 😅
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One year ago today was my first day of being unemployed.
I quit my job to make internet money and since then I've made $0 from selling a product I've built.
I'm thankful to have survived this past year on freelance dev work and savings.
Both the best & worst year yet 🥂
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It’s been 6 months since I left my full-time job to go indie hacking, and I’m not successful yet. What gives?
Well, it’s harder than I thought 😅
Here’s my December in review:
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Turns out serving food in a co-working space is probably the only way to make money running a co-working space
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First installation of AdSlicer on a live ecommerce store and nothing exploded (yet)!
It wasn't the one-click solution I was aiming for, but I got it done (manually).
Now I can collect visitor events and see if I can actually improve the visibility of Facebook ad conversions.
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I finally did it.
I wrote my first monthly retrospective.
I don't know why I'm always so surprised at how much writing helps me think.
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I discovered a life outside of coding.
It's called not-coding and it's better than I expected.
Here's my April in review:
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I started journaling. Not daily, just randomly when I have some thoughts/feelings to work through.
I feel relieved after I’ve written everything down. It’s like reaching a save point.
Now I can continue with less risk of regression.
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Published my first Python package to PyPi 🎉
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Looking back in time to before people got famous, you'd be surprised to see that they've been doing the same work, saying the same things for a very long time. But people only caught on now. Look
@JustinRoiland
's prev work. Look
@naval
's prev interviews. Consistently authentic.
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@isosteph
@mathdroid
I think there's healthy & unhealthy capitalism.
🌱 Healthy capitalism puts an iPhone in your hands.
🤮 Unhealthy capitalism is living in excess.
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Update on my first ecom brand:
I was a very expensive photographer's assistant yesterday.
My main job was to get our model to laugh, on-demand.
I immediately became the most unfunny person that has ever existed. Which in turn was hilarious.
Still got it baby! 😌
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@nicovanzyl
@CiroDeSiena
@DaveTheCarGuy
Yeah sure I’m down, but my main focus is making the website useful and then hopefully valuable. I can’t get to valuable until I can maintain usefulness.
And yes, those guys are awesome 💯
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I’ve just hired my first dev (via upwork) for a personal project.
It’s just a small job to prove a concept, but it feels great.
All I want to do now is outsource everything! But let’s first see how this pans out 🤠
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@Sdira_
The retail value estimate takes mileage, year, and region into consideration. So the seemingly same car from different websites will probably have a different retail valuation.
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I’m not really sure when I officially started indie hacking 🤔
But seeing as July was my first month of being unemployed, I’ll claim it as my first month of indie hacking too.
Here’s my July in review (with a special guest appearance by
@czue
)
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Introducing AdSlicer v0.2.0, the 2nd (major) public release 🎉
AdSlicer is a tool to help you keep track of your Facebook Ad optimizations & to visualize how each change affected your results 📈
This ver. removes the public demo, uses customer lingo & focuses on expressed pains
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I finally spoke to customers and it was probably the most productive thing I've done for AdSlicer.
Here's my February in review:
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Finally clicked publish on my FB ads for AdSlicer 🙌
This is a lead-gen campaign to gauge interest in ecom sales attribution.
This is actually my first FB campaign that I’ve done start-finish by myself.
I gave myself 1 week, but it ended up taking 2 weeks because…
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@czue
I guess a couple of angry emails then the ultimate realisation that it wasn’t a sustainable “business” anyway 😔
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I'm flying to San Francisco tomorrow.
Agenda:
💾 Computer History Museum
🚀 Attend
@startupschool
in person
🕴️ Attend
@signalconf
👨👨👦 Visit family in LA
If you're around, let me buy you a ☕
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I feel less guilty about not working on a side-project, over the weekend, when I’ve consistently worked on it during the work-week.
Having weekends to relax and let my mind wonder after a productive week is *that* much more rewarding.
Guilty work isn’t fun work.
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Best: Making the decision and getting started.
No matter how long it takes (me), I'm now one year closer to that arbitrary moment that I've chosen (make $ online). One of many other moments to lead & follow.
So let's enjoy it! ✌️
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@jakobgreenfeld
Personally, I blame
@czue
for getting me started on writing these retros.
You can read his one here:
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I'm (soft) launching a fun little project I've been working on. I built it just to see if I could. And I did. So here it is 🙌
Social Hooks: Integrate with social like you integrate with Slack.
Check it 👉
Things will break, so pls send feedback 🤠
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I just sent this bad boy off to my 3 email subscribers 😌
This was my May in review
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So awesome finally meeting a few familiar online faces in-person tonight
@czue
@robhope
@n1c
@MarcPerel
@JohnONolan
And yes, they all live up to the hype 😁✌️
#indiehackers
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I paused my ecomm dreams and fired up my SaaS dreams.
Let's build some software!
Here's my October in review:
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By the time we get fully self-driving cars, everyone will be working from home already.
Life is cruel sometimes 🧐
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Nano July update 🤏
👨💻 I'm still hacking on AdSlicer dot com
🪤 Did organic marketing by hanging out in FB groups
📨 Sent an email blast to 100 subscribers
🌱 Got my first 7 free-user sign-ups
🪲 Fixed a bunch of bugs (thanks to real users)
📈 Checked GA way too much
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Finally submitted my Shopify app for review 🙌
Let's see what happens!
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If you’ve ever had any questions about receiving money as a South African business, it’s probably answered in
@WoganMay
’s definitive guide on ZA payments 👇
Just published an update to my masterpost about payment methods available to South African founders:
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I tried to avoid writing this retro.
A month of failing to get things out the door & feeling embarrassed about it.
Here's my August in review:
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Worst: The painful lessons I had to learn about myself, my own limitations, and how the world works.
Adjusting to reality is a daily challenge that I was simply not exposed to before. The ideas I had about myself and my capabilities were built on shaky ground.
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If my parents were website ads fighting for my attention, my mom would be that subtle "is this an ad?" content marketing ad, while my dad would be that immediate I-just-arrived-on-this-site popup fullscreen 60s unskippable "wtf is this about?" video ad. Bless their hearts ❤️
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I used Facebook ads to build a pre-launch email list of 101 people.
Here's my May in review:
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I met the best makers South Africa has to offer and they were so unbelievably normal, they made *me* feel like a superhero. 3min read.
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The less idle time I have, the more I get done.
For a brief moment I avoided more responsibilities in fear of being trapped by it. But I was trapped by my idle time instead. Idle time is not free time, it’s just wasted time.
I’m starting to be more deliberate with my time now.
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@czue
Just couldn't stay away, could you? Welcome back!
Your hiking friend sounds smart... and handsome 😄
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For those folks who aren’t in the Stellenbosch area, you can still support Anton’s efforts via SnapScan 🙏
Or even just a retweet ✌
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Yay! I've graduated from
@startupschool
.
This just means I stuck w/ it for 10w.
With the lectures being public on YT,
@startupschool
is really just a way to stay accountable. It's the weekly vid chats w/ your group.
No secret sauce. Just consistent progress. Rest is up to you.
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I just made my 2nd purchase using
@zapgo_co
, I cant resist that BTC/ZAR exch. rate saving. This explains the process:
http://t.co/BjvnGrZirM
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I really am going to miss it.
I was a senior member of the team.
I was good at my job.
I received often recognition.
And I’m happy to have experienced all that relatively early on in my career ❤️✌️
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No matter what decision you make, it'll be meaningful because it was your decision to make.
The important thing is to make *a* decision.
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Note to self: Don't create social accounts for your fancy new project.
You can't even manage your own social accounts, how are you going to manage more?
Run everything off your personal account.
Your efforts become cumulative.
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Having more public figures to learn from, exposes you to more opposing ideas.
Some ideas might make you feel uncomfortable, so it creates crossroads that forces you to choose a path or create your own.
Long straight roads lead to passive people.
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Just a friendly reminder that a permanent job is not as permanent as you think. It’s just a fancy word for outsourcing the stress of finding a certain amount of money at the end of each month. It’s permanent until it’s not anymore.
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@MarcPerel
Same for me, but instead of helping with code, I just change the tv channel for him. Same same but different.
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@wisanishilumani
Coffee with Wisani.
Dinner & a movie with Wisani.
Meet the parents with Wisani.
3 month anniversary with Wisani.
Buy a puppy with Wisani.
Be proposed to by Wisani.
Have 2.5 kids with Wisani.
Grow old with Wisani.
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I look forward to writing "I feel good, let's keep going" retro's like this.
I have to keep reminding myself that there's about a 4 year gap between our indie hacking start dates (and let's not even talk about the experience gap).
Thanks for sharing!
I kind of half-assed the retro this month, but it's because I'm too amped about what I'm working on to bother writing about it.
So maybe a good thing?
TL;DR: $7.6K profit, good grades, started a new secret project. 🥷
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Before I met Anton, he was already washing cars. The point of Good Wash is to simply provide *credibility* + *structure* to Anton’s hard work.
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The downside of me writing monthly updates about my journey turning code into cash is that it hardly ever involves turning code into cash.
My August update included.
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@webdevMason
Perhaps a silent email forwarding to your new address, then just respond as normal from your new address with an info signature explaining the change.
OR
Use this opportunity to start a new life.
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I spent some downtime rewriting my website. I went with an HTML 1 look and feel.
It's a frankenstein "static" Django website deployed to flyio.
Renders Django template language enhanced markdown files to HTML.
It was a fun housekeeping task.
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A bittersweet ending to my 4 year dev job.
This is my June in review👇
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Now that I have more control over my time, I just discovered:
✨Morning week-day grocery shopping✨
It's like regular grocery shopping, but
✅ Every item is in-stock
👵 Everyone is over 60
⏱ No lines
😌 It's actually enjoyable
I guess this is what life is all about 🤔😆
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Today I wrote code that streams the output of a script using WebSockets, but I can’t stop thinking about how I managed to fit that last bowl into the dishwasher.
Absolutely genius.
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Link:
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I saved hours of planning by spending days coding up features I didn't need for my first public release of AdSlicer.
With only 7 days until February, here's my January in review:
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Oh shit, I applied to YC Startup School (online edition) 😬
What's that thing about: "You miss 100% of the shots you don't take"? Yeah that.
Best case: I get accepted 🤞
Worst case: Not death 💀
Sounds like a pretty good deal to me 😅
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