🔍 opportunity: woc.money 🔍 users: drop.space 🔍 Growth: grow-or-die.com 🔍 UI: podie.dev 🔍 Me: chenzhang-world.pages.dev CowTransfer (sold $2.5mln)
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I sold CowTransfer for $2.5M.
Then I kept shipping “temporary” workarounds that somehow became the product. I post the unglamorous parts: hiring, shipping, crowded markets, and why Friday deploys still haunt me.
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yeah. by the time my landing page loads the clone already has a waitlist.
Build in public is becoming almost impossible in AI.
There’s very little creativity in the space right now. The moment something works, everyone converges on it.
Jev launches, blows up, and within days you have clones everywhere. Within 2 weeks, major platforms are shipping their own versions of the same basic idea.
And this is only going to get worse because software itself is becoming cheap.
You can spend months designing and building something genuinely complex, show it publicly, and someone with good AI coding agents can reproduce 80% of it frighteningly fast.
Complexity used to be a moat. Increasingly, it isn’t.
The scarce thing now isn’t the ability to write the software. It’s having an idea worth copying in the first place, distribution, proprietary data, customer relationships, and the ability to keep moving after everyone copies you.
Building in public used to be marketing.
In AI, sometimes you’re just publishing free product research for your competitors.
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500 visitors, 6 hours after launching podie.dev. People keep telling me UI/UX doesn't matter anymore — just ship fast, who cares if it's pretty.
Anyway. "Podie" = pretty or die.
I may have named it after my own worst fear. 😅
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podie.dev is live 🎉
200 visitors in the first 4 hours. 37 still hanging around right now (hi, you).
It's a library of interactive UI components you can drop into your project with one click. No copy-paste gymnastics. No "where does this import go." Just click, done.
Come break it: podie.dev
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Just on podie.dev, I think instead provide free interactive components, maybe template is more useful, so I added 2 templates, 1st one is for coding product, 2nd is for design product, like lovart. both of them are fully interactive, downloadable and FREE
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For a while I kept running into the same small frustration: whenever I needed a good UI component, I'd find nice ones scattered across different sites, but never all in one place. So I'd spend time hunting them down, digging through their GitHub repos, and wiring each one into my project by hand.
One night it occurred to me — maybe this didn't have to be so tedious. What if these components lived in one place, and you could drop any of them into your project with a single click?
That idea became podie.dev: a small UI component library where you can browse components you like and install them in one click. It's still early and far from perfect, but I hope it saves you a bit of the time it took me to learn this the hard way.
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