Build in Public

[video] Hi everyone, I just open sourced OpenBrand - extract any brand's logos, colors, and assets from just a URL. It's MIT licensed, open source, completely free. Try it out at Why we built this: while building another product, we needed to pull in customers'

[video] I build a route optimization engine, 100% in Rust and can run 100% offline. Live demo in browser for San Francisco. Easily calculates 100.000 stops on a laptop (never possible before? And on a laptop). MIT Licence

[image] Every software developer happiness started from here right??

[image] I made a new database in Rust from scratch. Drop-in replacement for Sqlite3 with concurrency support like Postgresql Used 3 weeks worth of Max 20x tokens for Opus and Fabel 🤣🤭

[video] Built a CLI-first library for me to bootstrap a lot of different projects and push MVPs out faster with production-grade designs instead of starting with a blank prompt. Also added an explore option to it so it takes a project idea and explores different design direction and I

[video] img2threejs v1.3 is now available. 🎋 One photo → procedural Three.js code. No meshes. No manual modeling. GitHub: v1.3 brings major improvements to geometry reconstruction, material generation, validation, and overall output quality. For this demo, I

[image] My app just made $20k in revenue🥳🥳🥳

[text] Wednesday morning! ☕️ Since the Clerk post and the Stripe one both did well, here’s what happens when you combine them: syncing subscriptions between Clerk auth and Stripe billing 🧵 🔗 An external ID field is the bridge. Clerk user ID ↔ your backend user ID ↔ Stripe customer

[image] My app just made $30k in revenue🥳🥳🥳🥳

[image] After 4 days of launching… Finally… it happened: 🥳 0 → $19 MRR First paying user. Let’s go 🚀

[image] 3 months of building in public: - $11 profit 🥳 - 950 people decided to follow my journey 🥰 - shipped 4 projects 🚀 - everything so far has failed 😅 It's never easy but showing up daily keeps me going 💪 So here's to all of us building in public 🥂

[image] After nearly 2 weeks of no sales... (12 days) Finally... it happened: 🥳 0 -> $16.58 MRR Woooohooo!

[image] 5 month ago I left my job to try my own thing Today my app made $25k in revenue.

[video] wip 👀 new thing cooking. more soon.

[image] built a 450k users company in san francisco with: 1 macbook yerba mate dangerous optimism

[image] 1 year ago, I left my 9–5 job after 14 years in corporate. Since then: ❌ 3 MVPs failed ❌ $0 monthly income ❌ ~$200/month tool costs Still, the learning I gained and the audience I built are priceless. Not there yet. Not going back. Saving this tweet for the future.

[image] GM builders, From tomorrow I will be officially self-employed in Germany. Three products already. No sales so far, but I will continue shipping. Lets connect!

[image] I launched an app 5 month ago... Today, I crossed $1,000 MRR 🎉

[video] Today I tried installing the @shadcn skill into Claude Code and built some components with it. It works exactly as expected, Claude Code picks up the skill and builds everything using shadcnui components. Check it out here →

[image] Monday morning 👋 Free tiers that actually got my side projects off the ground 🧵 🔐 Clerk: auth. Drop-in components, generous free tier (50k MAU). Shipped login in an afternoon instead of a weekend. 🗄️ Neon: serverless Postgres. 512MB free, unlimited projects, and compute

[image] 1 million Naira bro, just 1 million… that’s all you need, once you make your first 1 million as a techy you’re never going broke again.

[text] After a lot of thinking, I’ve decided to quit indie hacking and go back to a 9-5. The unpredictability, the loneliness, the constant pressure of wearing every hat, every day… it’s just not for me anymore. 🥲 I miss having a manager tell me what to do. I miss pointless

[image] Just submitted my first app to the App Store for review. Wish me luck!

[image] X is shutting down Communities on May 6. Ours, #buildinpublic with 250,000+ members, is one of the largest affected. It's not going anywhere. We're building a new home for it. Reserve your spot (and your username) before May 6:

[image] Software engineers are the happiest people on Earth now. They pay $100/month for Claude Code to do the work. Their employer pays them $10,000/month for the results. $9,900 profit for sipping coffee and talking to AI. The funniest part? Not a single dev with a full-time job

[video] I'm 15. Left games. Left DoomScrolling. Building startups. Goal: Build a $10K/mo SaaS & document everything Progress: Pivoting based on feedback, relaunching soon This can be the best or worst move in my life 🤷‍♂️ (Oh, & building while in school isnt easy)

[image] My app just made $40k in revenue🥳🥳🥳

[image] Not everything has to be celebrated publicly, I just hit 5m impressions and got eligible for creator revenue on x and i never said anything about it . That’s maturity.

[image] After 3yrs into software engineering, I built my first startup “ CalcPro” a premium calculator that lets you pay to see the answers 😊

[image] Good morning techies 🙌🌄 Let's do more today😀💪 Do have a productive day 😊🤗

[image] Good morning techies 🙌🌄 Let's do more today😀💪 Do have a productive day 😊🤗

[image] Good morning techies 🙌🌄 Let's do more today😀💪 Do have a productive day 😊🤗

[image] Good morning techies 🙌🌄 Let's do more today😀💪 Do have a productive day 😊🤗

[image] why is everyone pretending like they still code manually

[image] I launched a SAAS 3 month ago... Today, I crossed €10k ARR 🎉

[image] I launched an app 3 months ago... Today, I reached 50 subscribers 🎊

[image] One week of - 3M views on Instagram (organic) - 23K page views on landing page (organic) - over 5000 $ in sales - over 7000 app installs

[image] I made a tool that reason around a question without context window limits, and visualize the knowledge graph

[image] Oh man!!! This just got real. @ycombinator Manifest it. We are on!! Check out

[video] Hot take: You don’t need funding for your startup. You need better distribution. My single Reddit post got me 30+ real users in a day 👀

[image] i hit $6,000 MRR last night +$5,000 MRR in 9 days.. i'm living proof that you're a single feature away from changing your life. keep shipping. 🚀

[image] Good morning techies 🙌🌄 Let's do more today😀💪 Do have a productive day 😊🤗

[image] Good morning techies 🙌🌄 Let's do less today😀💪 Go to church, touch grass, have fun 🤩 Do have an amazing weekend 😊🤗

[text] I see EVERY indie hacker has the same exact problem: Marketing 🙃 I’ve never really seen someone stuck in the building or technical phase. Yet somehow, I still don’t think we’re spending enough time on where the real problem actually is.

[image] Good morning techies 🙌🌄 Let's do more today😀💪 Do have a productive day 😊🤗

[image] Good morning techies 🙌🌄 Let's do more today😀💪 Do have a productive day 😊🤗

[image] Good morning techies 🙌🌄 Let's do more today😀💪 Do have a productive day 😊🤗

[image] Good morning techies 🙌🌄 Let's do more today😀💪 Do have a productive day 😊🤗

[image] two weeks ago william got his first laptop. two weeks later he shipped his own app. he's 43, autistic, a father, and now a founder. be like william.

[image] Good morning techies 🙌🌄 Let's do more this week 🌝🤗 Do have a productive day 😊🤗