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@viktorplaga

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@viktorplaga
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23 days
5th month running my Garmin Badges newsletter. All I do: 1. Update data semi-automatically: scripts + eyeball review. 2. Post the update to two related subreddits. 3. Send the email campaign. Takes ~2h / month. My plan? I'll eventually build better sports gamification app.
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@viktorplaga
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8 months
My kids: 🟥 : ~5m, broke law. 🟥 : ~7m, no-fit. 🟩 : ~2m, grows strong. 🟧 : ~3m, on-hold. 🟦 : days. Keep 'em young. #buildinpublic #indiehackers
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@viktorplaga
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7 months
I built my last project in 60h total. Tech-stack: - Next.js with Typescript - Vercel - TailwindCSS (DaisyUI) - Supabase (all-in: db, auth, realtime, storage) Praise boilerplates.
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@viktorplaga
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2 months
Manage my tasks. Not.
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@viktorplaga
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6 months
Reminds me of the Atwood's Law: Any application that can be written in JavaScript, will eventually be written in JavaScript
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@viktorplaga
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5 months
It took me 1.5 months to get 100 newsletter subscribers for GarWin, with one Product Hunt release in the meantime. Maintaining it at this point costs me ~4h of work monthly, close to nothing. I don't know if it's good or bad, just sharing.
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@viktorplaga
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1 month
I'm officially in love with @Zoom - always wanted the mustache. Can't touch my face during the meetings tho, hand goes through.
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2 months
@phuctm97 I’ve seen you pushing quite a lot for open source wrappers in the past few days. While I admire the idea, can’t help thinking if there’s a hidden agenda behind it. Is there one?
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1 month
Best UX tip I got today: Type slowly
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@viktorplaga
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6 months
I taught my mom how to use ChatGPT this weekend. Her first question: how do I look? 😍
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@viktorplaga
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6 months
I built GarWin, a user-friendly Garmin Badges database. Today, I launch it on Product Hunt - I'd appreciate all the support, thank you! Link in the comment 👇
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1 month
In your browser bookmarks: 1. Add a new bookmark 2. Delete its title End up with a nice set of icons you already know, and much more space.
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@viktorplaga
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7 months
I went into the deepest rabbit hole ever. Enter r/SomebodyMakeThis. Top 5%. The #indiehackers gold mine. Have at it guys.
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1 month
I’m about to start a 9-5 job on Monday after ~20 months off working solely on my own ideas. I didn’t pay much attention to searching for it, it found me via former work friends. All independence and working for myself aside, I truly am super excited to again work in a team.
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@viktorplaga
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6 months
I've been farming LinkedIn invites every week for the last 2 months. You can invite 1k people per week, most of them accept. I reckon they'll become a free audience at some point, but it looks like LinkedIn finally caught up with me. Gotta increase the script's interval.
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@viktorplaga
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28 days
@yacineMTB Is 10k followers such an important milestone?
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1 month
1st week of 9to5 onboarding went OK, but I’m especially happy about 2 things: 1. Exercised just as much as before. 2. Worked on my side project, and most of it on sales & promo. It’s a great relief, as I went to a great place during unemployment and I did not want to lose it.
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@viktorplaga
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5 months
Write down things you will give up to reach your short, medium and long-term goals. This vital step is missing from most conventional goal-setting exercises. It’s a fact that you cannot add something new and achieve the ideal outcome without sacrificing something else.
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@viktorplaga
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3 months
I want(ed) to publish my desktop app to Microsoft Store. This requires code signing (which is good). But.. The cheapest way to get an EV certificate is to pay $800 LLC fee + $291 for EV Code signing certificate. $1100. I guess I'll do that once my app makes +/- $100k.
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@viktorplaga
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2 months
It took me ~263h to get my newest project to the point when I send it to the first beta user - my sister. About to hit the "Send" button - wish me luck.
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@viktorplaga
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2 months
One day.
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@viktorplaga
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6 months
Popped my Product Hunt cherry: 1️⃣ +21 newsletter subscribers 💌 2️⃣ 301 unique website visitors 👀 3️⃣ 84k views across 11 posts on Reddit ✍️ 4️⃣ 3 upvotes on HN 🤦‍♂️ 5️⃣ 4 views on YouTube 💔 All this considered, I learned some stuff.
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@viktorplaga
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1 month
Both phone numbers and IP adresses are meaningless, random sets of numbers, approx. same length. Why there are domain names resolving to IP addresses, but there's no equivalent for the phone numbers?
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@viktorplaga
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6 months
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@viktorplaga
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1 month
Tried to verify my phone number three times now here on @X to get my premium account. This happens every time. Ideas?
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@viktorplaga
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7 months
@hypermedia_man @dabit3 Don't cry, you can use bash on Windows 10 now
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@viktorplaga
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3 months
Thursday: made myself open to work on LinkedIn Friday: three independent former work friends proposed to recommend me to the same company, SalesLoft. SalesLoft here I come.
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@viktorplaga
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7 months
Can't sleep. Today: ⬛ Solve spam trap issues ⬛ Setup Hix's cold email outreach for the next week ⬛ Waste time on DNS for remaining verified in Search Console ⬛ Produce social media content for the next 4 days, the weekend is time-off with friends. In 3, 2, 1... 🚀
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@viktorplaga
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2 months
How do you know if someone’s a vegan? They will tell you.
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@viktorplaga
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1 month
1st day of the new job in 30 mins: ✅ Started with strength at 05:30 🏋️ ✅ Finished with running at 06:15 🏃 My goals: 1️⃣ Work out in the morning. 2️⃣ Hit the boulder 2 evenings a week + 1 weekend. 3️⃣ Promote my startup after work. when doing 9to5. Wish me luck! 🤞
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@viktorplaga
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1 month
Closing a potentially huge B2B deal (~$5.4K) for my newest product. Feels like PMF, but I don’t want to jinx it.
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@viktorplaga
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1 month
2h backlinks building first thing in the morning, before 9to5. I’m about to hit the mastery in form filling.
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1 month
During my long run today I decided to run on the grass next to the pavement so my knees don’t hurt (it’s 1.5h). Loved and smiled at all the „wtf’s wrong with this weirdo” looks. And few months from now? Everybody will run like this. Mark my words.
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@viktorplaga
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2 months
DevOps shitting where they eat (official, by @Docker ): It's a GitHub Action (written in YAML by design), where they define "List" and "CSV" input types. You can and should define lists in YAML - don't do that.
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@viktorplaga
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6 months
Seems that Meta has died, it's just about time. Long live the @X king.
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@viktorplaga
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7 months
Sent my first cold email outreach campaign 3h ago. I'm so excited I'm not sure I'll be able to sleep now. Damn.
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@viktorplaga
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1 month
Just added 4 dofollow, high DR backlinks before going to bed, took me ~30minutes to go through the forms etc. My new routine, let's see if it pays off.
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@viktorplaga
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2 months
I really like this design, however simple it might be. I think its the colors.
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@viktorplaga
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1 month
I've recently discovered that my iPhone is waterproof enough to use it in the shower, and have been reading r/showerthoughts there. Feels like cheating, but I still highly recommend it.
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@viktorplaga
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7 months
I built my last product, SpreadMD, in 60h. Would you be interested to watch a series on something similar on YT? That's w/o marketing, obviously, it is still ongoing. Just tech stuff. Afraid of this tho
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@viktorplaga
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2 months
Submitted the sitemap.xml 4 days ago: nothing happened for 3 days, other than the sitemap being discovered (all grey, not indexed). Ran Google Indexing Script yesterday, and I see this today. But it's false-positive, as the last update was on 2nd of July, before running script.
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@viktorplaga
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1 month
It took me 1h 22min to setup 2 domains for the cold email outreach. I ended up using: ✉️ Brevo for SMTP: free 300 emails/day 📭 SmartLeads for outreach: $79.9/m, 30k leads + 150k emails/month I've never done it before, got a little surprised it was not very straightforward.
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@viktorplaga
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26 days
Talked to my therapist today. My first sesh in the new climbing shoes, my second pair so far. Damn they feel good.
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2 months
I don't think it can be this linear, with just one varying "amount" - things like domain rating, link placement etc should also be included. I guess. Anyone knows how accurate is this?
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@viktorplaga
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3 months
TIL: You can best nourish connective tissues 30 to 60 minutes before training, whereas the optimal feeding time of muscleis during the post-workout period of elevated blood flow.
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2 months
The first time I came into a bouldering gym, I saw a guy doing a route like this one and thought to myself that it is so fucking cool. Despite knowing now that it’s not the hardest type of route, it still makes me so happy I can do that. Started mid March.
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@viktorplaga
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1 month
Finished 1st grooming sesh in a new job. Took 1h & was very thorough. BUT Most of the time was converting Figma designs into Jira tasks describing visible elements. It SCREAMS AUTOMATION to me. This is actually amazing: my new job already inspires me with new business ideas.
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1 month
upwork drops that beat
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@viktorplaga
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1 month
I might need to rethink my current marketing approach. Kinda “got stuck” on doing SEO, while I should probably focus on cold outreach first. So I will: 1. Fix Windows bugs 2. Update LP after roasts & feedback 3. Warmup email accounts 4. Prep B2B leads list In that order🤞
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@viktorplaga
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4 months
@CreeCoder Tabs vs spaces indentation
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@viktorplaga
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1 month
My new idea: one backlink a day. I'm here for the long game, and my competition is mid-strong in SEO, with much worse product. It'll take me there eventually.
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@viktorplaga
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6 months
Just sold 90% of my crypto, +230%. On my current budget, it's 9 more months of not working for a man and indiehacking my own wealth. Feels good.
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1 month
@thepatwalls The question is how to come up with the niche.
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2 months
URL breadcrumbs done wrong, by @vercel . One deployment (left): /:team/:project/:deployment_id All deployments (right): /:team/:project/deployments I'd like to navigate to the deployments list from a single deployment page - fix it, please.
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@viktorplaga
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7 months
Sweet spot, I don't need you no more.
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2 months
I’d love to come from a country that I’d feel proud to celebrate. Not talking about the execution tho
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2 months
Doing SEO for my newest product, feels good to finally get this. Next up: backlinks.
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2 months
The creativity on this one 🤯
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6 months
My Product Hunt launch strategy: create a related racing chart for r/dataisbeautiful. I browsed most of their All-Time best performing posts, and there were many of those running. It is @Garmin related: at one point I wondered which sport is the most worth doing, point-wise:
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@viktorplaga
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7 months
@buildWithKris I choose popovers over this, because the confirmation takes more space than the "Delete" word, and it can and will lead to ugly layout shifts
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2 months
In Finder, use Command ⌘ + Shift ⇧ + G to paste path to file or directory.
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7 months
How important is the "Interactive Demo" when launching on PH? I went to the recommended ScreenSpace website, understood zero of it and ditched it. Now, my OCD nags me: leave no form unfilled. Am I wrong to leave it empty? #indiehackers #buildinpublic
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3 months
Github does not allow public releases exposed from a private repo, so people create 2 repos (1 pub 1 priv) and push the release artifacts to the priv one when releasing the pub one. Btw it's from a 9-years old SO question, with a classic "Any news?" somewhere along the way.
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7 months
I really needed to name that variable starting with a number
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1 month
Anything pre-commit should be opt-in, disabled by default. Commits were made to commit, nobody wants half their CI running before changing to a new branch to run a quick experiment. Hail the CI.
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@viktorplaga
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7 months
Clocking in. Yesterday: ✅ Completed SpreadMD cold outreach email list. ✅ Sent first bulk of Hix cold outreach campaign. Today, I will: ⬛ Cleanup badges for GarWin ⬛ Lay foundation for my new project I hope I won't end-up researching the best name (domain) for it 😅
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3 months
Still funny
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2 months
Just met the newest low on my consulting gig: Couldn't install Sentry, because PHP version was so low it didn't support cURL. Beat it.
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5 months
@marc_louvion Carolin Girvan is hardcore, kudos for exercising with her
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1 month
Wilson's Law: "If you prioritize knowledge and intelligence, money will flow to you."
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@viktorplaga
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7 months
I love to start my day like this. That's the 3rd one since I switched to one-time payments, and the first one from my cold-outreach campaign. Feels good.
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3 months
Migrated to iPhone from Android few days ago, and the FaceID icon is so bad that I cringe every time I see it. Did not see that one coming.
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7 months
Made me laugh
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1 month
My breakthrough moment dealing with getting in shape wasn't to start working out. It was setting my meal hours: 07:00 - bulletproof coffee 12:00 - breakfast 15:00 - dinner 18:00 - supper -10kg in 6 months, best shape of my life.
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24 days
@thepatwalls I consider every attempt to optimize todolists that have worked for me for years to be overoptimizing = waste of time. I’m better off building products.
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6 months
My first Product Hunt launch is scheduled 4.5 hours from now. It's thrilling. I spent most of my yesterday preparing what I call an "Impact Launch". I'll be sharing the whole process later on.
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@viktorplaga
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7 months
@_miloi It depends. Next.js applies to certain cases only, sometimes you just don't need it
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@viktorplaga
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7 months
@gabriel__xyz 1. Think: how do you perceive your product. Awesome, right? 2. Think: how to make people perceive your product the same way you perceive it. 3. Find time to make it happen. I used to dislike marketing, but there's a certain satisfaction when you impress others.
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1 month
Talking to my lawyer friend, I again recalled @elonmusk saying that there are too many smart people who waste their career on law and finances. I think it applies more and more to indies who spent lots of time on building products w/o PMF.
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2 months
Friend asked me to possibly develop a simple mobile app together. I started looking into React Native boilerplates and found nothing for free that provides UI lib, auth and payments. Very surprising.
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7 months
1580 reputation so far. Asked & answered, it is still my best performing StackOverflow question to the day.
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6 months
My new project will have >150 tools that are similar in structure, just the core functionality differs. First step: write code that generates the tool's code. Kinda having fun.
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7 months
That's kinda crazy
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2 months
@romaindewolff Just a Linux dude turned macOS bcz of business security policy. No dock, obviously
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@viktorplaga
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30 days
@theandreboso Nice example, but this marketing strategy is still much more difficult than simply finding companies in the target niche and setting up cold email outreach. You need to: 1. Research video content gap 2. Make actual videos It’s easier to just write emails.
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1 month
Only one (out of four) successful backlink submission tonight, I tried with some old-ass websites today, didn’t work. Only 274793847373 more to go. Happy thoughts, happy thoughts…
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5 months
My new variable naming conventions:
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1 month
I just realized WHY I don’t like typing on touch screens. It lacks cmd+z.
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2 months
Kinda got used to seeing AI everywhere, and I still didn’t see the AI Breakfast coming.
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30 days
Wednesday's my rest day, so I managed to squeeze in over 3h of deep work on my project before my 9to5. Seriously considering to move my workouts to the evening hours and do this every weekday. It's difficult to settle on a single priority.
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1 month
If you’re a software developer: 1. Create your StackOverflow account. 2. Earn 50 reputation via edits. 3. Upvote questions, answers and comments that helped you. Thank me when you come across them in the future - you will immediately see what actually worked the last time.
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7 months
UI experts, help me out: how do you call this element? I know it is a badge by itself, but I can recently see it very often placed over the title, and was wondering if there's a more-specific name to it. Subtitle badge?
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1 month
I admire everyone who can correctly type „successfully” w/o autocorrect on the first try.
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7 months
@andreiacribeir Consider using it to check/verify after you implement your own solutions. It takes from the knowledge of thousands and thousands before you, might say something useful.
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2 months
Convert data online (e.g.: format JSON). It's not only that you expose yourself to EXTERNAL dangers: - malicious browser extensions - tracking scripts. You also expose it to the whole Internet: jsonformatter .org stores saved operations in their sitemap. Go offline.
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2 months
TIL: if the causes of a disease have not yet been discovered, it qualifies as genetic.
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@viktorplaga
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7 months
Out of 945 cold-emails sent, I had 29 conversations so far. 3 of them very negative, to be expected in this target market. 2 of them were trying to sell me something. How cool is that. But the biggest surprise? 2 people got so engaged that they proposed scheduling a call.
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3 months
Variable-naming-is-stillHardToGrasp
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6 months
I took half a week off to think of my approach to what's next, after finding-out of Hix not fitting the market, and me having a bad time overall. Here it is: 1. Reduce social media to minimum, only keep 𝕏. 2. Build a single product at once. ETA: early June. Let's do this.
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27 days
Gilbert's Law "The biggest problem with any task or job is that no one tells you what and how to do it." Meaning, when you take on a task, finding the best ways to achieve the desired result is always your responsibility.
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