Indie dev can be brutal on your mental health. I leave my job next week, my last day of employment. Through hard work and some luck, my app has done $30k in a few months. But I'd be lying if I said I wasn't anxious still. Contrary to what you see on 𝕏, making money online is actually really fkn hard. don't be fooled by these kids making 50k/m. Making a basic living in this game is a one in a million shot. About ~$10k of my app revenue was profit, ~$2k/m profit ongoing. It's not much but it is life changing: a baseline mvp of financial freedom in south east asia. From the start, I've been more focused on growing my 𝕏 account, and that comes with its own stresses: seeing good friends lose everything, trying not to get addicted to the numbers, the stats, the constant onward march. With all of that comes anxiety and pressure, that we place on ourselves. I think it's some law of nature that the people who succeed in this game are the same ones who never feel like they've "made it". It takes real self mastery to walk this path. It's an unknown path, without no guarantees. And that's the key thing: pressure. To make money, to get more engagement, to keep winning. But the reality is most of the time is grey, it's not big wins and its not big losses. But it all takes energy, and it can be exhausting!! Especially if you have other life commitments: a job, a family etc. So, keep going, but give yourself some needed rest. Touch grass. Build something sustainable.

We are in a bubble

Who still codes manually? 💻 Do you do it to learn? Practice? Just enjoy it? Or any other reason? Let me know would love to talk about it!

I hate my job…get me out of here!!! 🫠

Vibe coding is overrated. Programming is underrated.

builders/devs, curious what stack everyone is using these days! Supabase? Cloudflare? Neon + Clerk? something else entirely? especially if you’re building a real backend/API instead of relying heavily on BaaS features what are you using for database, auth, storage + hosting?.. and why?

Vibe coding is for experienced software devs. Do not vibe code until you really know how to do the basic stuff.

Stay in bed or ship?

"Ship fast" is dead. I agree with Olly on everything here, but I think the game is still on: the rules have just changed. I run a launch platform that receives 300+ product submissions every day, and I can tell you two things: 1️⃣ Everyone is building the same things, creativity is DEAD for many. It means that it's possible to stand out. 2️⃣ The entry barrier is basically non-existant now, but the average quality of the products is absolutely devastatingly low Most of what I see was built in a few hours and abandoned the next day! It makes a lot of noise, and that noise makes founders feel hopeless, like they're one in 100,000,000 people selling the same thing to the same people... But! If you cut off the noise, things haven't changed much. There are still MANY underserved niches everywhere, mostly for non technical people But you have to stand out! You can't be: ❌ shipping a "meh" product with an "okayish" landing page ❌ generating 50 UGC videos and spamming cold emails ❌ switching ideas every 3 days because AI makes it feel cheap and then hope customers will magically come 😬 What works: thinking. Sometimes without AI. Taking your time, picking one thing, and making it genuinely useful. You have to THINK, by yourself and sometimes without AI. Taking your time, slowing things down, picking ONE thing, focusing, and making it genuinely good and useful. I'll give you a super concrete example 👉🏻 It comes from a woman I've met 2 weeks ago while recording a podcast. She worked for many years in amusement parks and museums. After a while, she realized that they ALL have one thing in common: their shops are super badly managed. People working there don't know how to run a shop, how to manage an inventory, run discounts, turnover is high, etc. It's a super specific niche with a lot of issues. They're mostly non technical. So she started building a SaaS for it, selling high ticket subscriptions and solving a real and strong problem. She goes herself into those parks and museums, show them the product, trains the staff to use it, increase their profits a lot. She's already banking and will probably own the whole market really fast. She didn't produce UGC content, sent annoying cold emails or anything. She just knew a market super well, took her time, and built one useful thing. "Ship fast" is dead. The new rule is "Think slow".

Describe your current goal like you're writing code. Mine: while (followers < 3000) grow();

Anyone else only getting 5.6 on the ChatGPT app? …it wasn’t like this before

I've seen a few other founders doing this in the last few months, now that @jackfriks has published this on X, I'm sure we will see X full of these 😅 time to find the next lever to pull haha

corporate jobs optimize for stability entrepreneurship optimizes for upside investing optimizes for compounding i think the life i want probably requires some combination of all three...for now working on getting rid of corporate 😅

there’s something exciting about being at the beginning.. not an expert not a successful founder not making millions from a saas just learning..building..and trying things hopefully one day i can scroll back through these posts and see where it started

Your only job should be to find the best way to be unemployed and still make money. There is no other purpose in life.

hype up your friends who are chasing their dreams > comment on their post > support their business > tell them you’re proud support them just like you support celebrities who don’t even know you exist

SWE's using supabase with an API-only architecture, what are you doing for RLS? Right now our frontend only talks to FastAPI. FastAPI handles auth + user isolation, then connects to Postgres with a privileged role that bypasses RLS. Considering switching to a restricted backend role + passing verified user context into each transaction so RLS becomes a second layer of protection. Are you doing this? Or just handling authorization entirely at the API layer?

sometime's I reaaaallyy hate vibecoding. Love that it speeds out the process but, as a developer, hate not understanding all that it does just because it churns out code so quickly its nearly impossible to keep up

Yeah...I only use OpenAI models for API use because of the value they provide. Gets the work done just as well as a claude model but at a much cheaper price.