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vikesh dass

@shadygoneinsane

In 2016, I built Keep Me Out, an app that locks you out of your phone. It passed a million downloads. I ran the 2016 code on my Pixel 8 for these. The last one is Mindful Lock today.

BC

@bcchen82

We built the world’s first AI swim coach. 90% pilot retention. LOIs from clubs in China, US and Germany. And we might still quit. Our toughest competitor wasn’t another AI startup. It sold swimming headphones. Here’s what happened. x.com/i/article/2102…

Nihal

@imNihalN

Day 7 → Road to $10K MRR 🚀 Almost finished building a Mac utility made for you. 🖥️ Superpowers, packed into one icon. ⚡️ Planning to release it soon… Stay tuned. 👀 #BuildInPublic #SaaS #MacApp #IndieHacker #MacOS

Souryavardhan singh

@souryaeth

OmegleVC — 2 weeks since launch: 180+ downloads, 1K+ impressions, 2,500+ website visitors & 250+ users. From an idea to real users — and we’re just getting started. ❤️ 👀 Stay tuned — an exciting new feature is coming next! #OmegleVC #BuildInPublic

Usama Kashif

@itsusamak

UPDATE my app CookThis has reached 50+ downloads on PlayStore Wohoooo 🚀 (Alhamdulillah) #BuildInPublic #Cooking #IndieHacker #AI #AppDevelopment

John Opera

@JohnOperace8y

friday numbers, because posting them keeps me honest: 6 boxes running right now. 1 trial in progress. $50 in revenue in the last 30 days. tiny, but every number is real - and every box still deletes itself when it should. #BuildInPublic

Stephen

@steojodev

Friday. Off the 9-5, back onto postverse.io. 🔨 Fortnight in review: free SEO tools live, two more comparison pages, a big refactor, and a couple of embarrassing finds fixed. Still $0 MRR. Have a good weekend. #buildinpublic #saas #founder

Amaan Malik

@amaaan_malik

#day5 of growing my SaaS noori.fun to $1K in 1st month i got my first paying user. what to and where should i market? #buildinpublic #dev #virałpost #fypシ゚viralシ

Naoto — building World Fishing Map

@WorldFishingMap

My last Shipaton article: 101 days to two app stores, in numbers. 873 commits. 790 merged PRs. 109 accounts, 90 of them inactive. Revenue: zero. Plus three claims I got wrong in public, and the feedback that changed the app. medium.com/@WorldFishingM… #BuildInPublic #Shipaton

peekly

@peekly_app

this app hit $200K MRR in 15 weeks 🤯 you look at the camera and it analyzes the wellness indicators on your face

Pierre-Eliott Lallemant

@pierreeliottlal

3,500 customers in 12 months. if you're a founder stuck before $1M ARR, steal this. here's the exact playbook 👇 PHASE 1: THE FIRST $1M ARR 1. stop cold emailing strangers cold lists are dead. we used gojiberry to grow gojiberry, and only contacted people already showing intent: → people engaging with our content → people engaging with our competitors' posts → people engaging with topics our buyers care about → companies that just raised or are hiring then we hit them on every channel: → LinkedIn: connection request + DM → phone: for the hottest leads right person + right moment + right channel. result: 300+ demos in a few month enter your website on gojiberry, it learns your business and does the rest. 2. launch every single day on X and LinkedIn: → 6 days/week: lead magnet posts (free guide, template, playbook) → ask people to comment to get it → 1 day/week: founder story → reply to every single comment every comment = a warm lead you can contact. one post added $5K MRR in under 24 hours. if nobody talks about your product, it's because you don't. 3. use reddit reddit hates marketers. so don't act like one. → warm up your account before posting → post 3x/week: real stories + free playbooks → find threads where people mention your competitors, and leave a genuinely helpful comment → answer niche questions in your space better than anyone → never pitch, never argue with haters result: 14.8M+ views. PHASE 2: SCALE WHAT WORKS 4. influencers most founders pick creators by follower count. wrong. pick them by audience and engagement: if your buyers are sales leaders, find creators sales leaders follow. how to do it: → start with 5-10 small creators in your niche, not 1 big one → give them one clear angle → give each one a free lead magnet to push, so you can track who drives signups → kill the ones that don't convert after 2-3 posts → double down on the winners today, tens of creators talk about gojiberry every month. bonus: their best posts become your best ads. 5. Meta + LinkedIn ads how to do it: → retarget everyone who touched you: site visitors, video viewers, people who engaged with your posts → creatives: your best organic posts, creator videos, testimonials → always be testing, cut what doesn't work fast, scale what does so when your outbound hits their inbox, they already know your name. ads don't create demand. they amplify it. 6. sales leads are like fruit. if nobody picks them fast, they rot. how we run it: → before the call: check their company, team size, and what they sell → during the demo: don't show slides. run the product live on their own business → they see their own leads in real time. that's what closes → goal of the first call: get them started, not sign a huge contract → once they see results, help them upgrade → no-shows get a LinkedIn DM + email the same day marketing fills the pipeline. speed and a live demo close it. 7. focus founders, salespeople, growth teams, agencies… lots of different people use gojiberry. but now, we're building for one core customer: sales teams of 2 to 30 people. why them? they're the ones who get the most value from it. how to find yours: → look at your best customers, not your biggest segment → who gets results fastest? → who pays the most? → who stays the longest? → that's your core customer then point everything at them: posts, ads, emails, features. everyone else still gets value. you're just clear on who you build for first. the truth: none of this is magic. it's doing the simple things every single day: → contact people showing intent → post every day → give real value → follow up fast do that long enough, and it compounds. that's how we got to 3,500 customers in year 1. PS: we made a free 0 → $1M ARR GTM playbook. want it? RT + comment "GTM" 👇

How they grewContent, LinkedIn, phone, Reddit, influencers, Meta and LinkedIn ads

Sofia

@sofiarxin

The new design of my first product upplaunch.com just dropped 😍 I launched 2 days ago, first time completely new and now we hit 44 USERS!! The little app is growing little by day (yay! 🥹) FOR the first 3 paying users, I will pin their logos on my X banner! The roles are simple: - You buy a paid launch (19$/39$) - You choose the duration (weekly/6 weeks) - Your app logo will be pinned on my X banner for that duration Let's see how this will turn out. So excited to see what happens! 🚀

Carl Hoon

@ecommozart

Day 115 of the MRR brand: Another peak day hit lets go! The reason for this new scale is a new winning ad + an advertorial i cooked up. I was creating this advertorial because i wanted to try out Taboola but its absolutely crushing rn in Meta. When you look at consumables almost none of the big brands are running advertorials, but i guess it aint dead. Yesterday we sat at a 1.45 front end roas which is absolutely insane and crushing all targets. If we can sit at a 1.1 front end im so happy. But now its time to keep scaling up everyday🫎🫎

How they grewMeta ads; advertorial; Taboola test

Mehdi Ben Haddou

@mehdibhaddou

2 big stuff Today: 1. We hit 5 000€ in MRR 2. We launched a completely useless but super fun way to keep your brain sharp (probably already too late). If you feel like you're losing brain cells thanks to Claude Code

Javier Castro

@Jcastromarchant

Zentrali just crossed $30K in monthly revenue 🎉 A year ago we were a team of 4. Today we're 18, with our models watching 100+ cameras across mine sites in Chile. No VC money. Just paying customers. Next stop: $100K 🇨🇱

MOON JEFF

@moonjeff_

Just hit $13 MRR on Moonlist Server costs are-$35, Vitalik is ignoring my DMs, and we are officially subsidizing the global multi-chain economy out of pocket. If we keep compounding this, I can buy a medium pizza by Q4 2031. To the moon

David

@David_cbolt

A year ago I built my first app. It took 1,723 commits. It was an inventory management app called Stckr. You'd stick a QR code on something you own, scan it, and your phone would pull up the manual, the receipts and when it was next due a service. I worked on it for 81 days. Nearly half the commits were fixes, and I rolled the whole thing back 66 times when something broke. Getting a scanned QR code to open the app on the right item took weeks. Getting Google sign-in to work took 34 commits over two days. Today I could build it in an afternoon. I wouldn't swap those 81 days though. Doing every piece by hand taught me how apps actually fit together. A year later I've launched my first profitable product, and I'm about to hit £1,000 MRR for the first time.

Kerem Gurel

@cankeremgurel

first checkpoint: practicecelpip.ca crossed $1K MRR 59 days after launch - We're at 1136 signups, $1354 revenue, 65 payments, $1,101 inferred MRR. - launched a sibling app for the TEF exam (tefpractice.ca) which had 3 purchases in the first week. x.com/cankeremgurel/…

Rishi Uttam

@RishiUttamHK

@sino_send We just hit $100,000 in sales on AppSumo appsumo.com/products/sinos… Campaign is now over, MRR from here. 🚀 Amazing feedback and thanks to everyone that supported us!

How they grewAppSumo launch

Carl Hoon

@ecommozart

Day 117 of the MRR brand: Another peak day hit. It feels like we are really starting to crack our main angle now. Today im gonna discuss with the team how we can scale the main angle further while also unlocking new angles. My idea is to lowkey just run all the top concepts for the new angles as well. Lets get to the 20k day soon🥷

Justin Butlion

@justin_butlion

I was lying in bed last night thinking about my SaaS, @projectecho_io and for the first time I was considering the option of shutting it down. Earlier in the evening I published my weekly post on my Substack, SaaS Decoded, a 4.5k word guide on how to set up product analytics as a SaaS founder. As I was lying in my rock hard Thai bed I couldn't help but think of all the hours I'd spent on Project Echo and what if instead of starting it, I put that effort into my Substack instead. It was a deeply depressing moment. I told myself at the start of the year that SaaS Decoded would be my main focus. When I decided to start Project Echo I went against this decision. Why? I think I believed I could handle another project. I wanted to build a SaaS that can scale and help me move closer to my goal of $20k MRR. I'm now starting to see that this is another trap I walked into. Without having a clear way to drive a significant number of eyeballs onto Project Echo, I was inevitably going to find myself in this position. I knew the marketing would be a challenge but never in my wildest dreams did I imagine that 4 months after starting the project I'd be in this position. The last legit signup to the service was on the 20th August, 39 days ago. Since that date there have been over 200 unique visitors to the website. I've posted about it more than a dozen times on social media. I've mentioned the app in multiple substack newsletters to my audience of 700+ email subscribers. I launched a free tool, MRR calculator which I shared on Hacker News and Reddit, as well as on my socials. I've managed to connect with 5 - 10 entrepreneurs over DMs and introduce them to Project Echo. Zero interest. What blows me away is I specifically picked a niche which is mature to help lower my risk. I thought by competing in a space that has at least a few players I would be able to tap into an existing market. I wouldn't have to wonder if there was demand for what I was building. If you're reading this and can relate, let me know your thoughts. I'm at a point where I really don't know what to do. Do I carry on pushing since it's been only 4 months and I don't yet have enough data to make any decision, or do I cut my loses and move on? What would you do? Link to Project Echo 👉 projectecho.io

How they grewSocial posts, Substack newsletters, Hacker News, Reddit, and DMs

Tushar Kapil

@TusharKapil003

My SaaS has crossed $1200 MRR 🚀 Growth has been a bit slow but still we are growing steadily. Launching facebook integration on Reachlee soon ✨ x.com/tusharkapil003…

Dmytro Krasun

@DmytroKrasun

ScreenshotOne is at ~$36K MRR and still growing. I run a developer tool, and despite all the predictions from big accounts and influencers on X, I still see demand. New customers keep subscribing and are happy to pay. What I am testing now: 1. Launched a hosted MCP server that gives AI agents screenshots and clean Markdown of any web page 👉 screenshotone.com/mcp/. The bet is that agents become a new kind of customer. Currently ~10 connections. 2. Started running paid ads. It is early to tell about the results, but it is costly. I like that I can experiment and get feedback fast. And also trying a new format of updates? An unpolished/unscripted video, with pauses and filler words trimmed. In the video, I share more about why I am betting on AI agents:

How they grewPaid ads; hosted MCP server for AI agents

Mike

@MikeDoesTech

Set a new daily record for my SaaS 2k MRR in blocked high risk transactions 😂

Guillaume Bardet

@GuillaumeBardet

We added $30K in MRR by watching who engaged with our competitors on LinkedIn. Every like. Every comment. Those are buying signals hiding in plain sight. If someone in your ICP keeps engaging with a competitor's content, they're: > Researching the problem. > Comparing solutions. > Getting close to a decision. All visible. All actionable. The play: > Build a list of your top 3–5 competitors. Include their founders and sales reps. > Track who's liking & commenting on their posts. > Filter for ICP fit. > Reach out without mentioning the competitor. Don't say: "Hey, I saw you commented on X's post." Say instead: "Saw you're exploring [this space]. We take a different approach. Thought it might be worth a look if you're comparing options." > Keep monitoring. Move the warmest prospects into your pipeline. That's it. Your competitors are already doing the demand gen work. You just need to show up at the right moment. P.S. We built this into Gojiberry, it automatically tracks competitor engagement, identifies ICP-fit prospects, and turns those signals into outreach-ready leads.

How they grewLinkedIn competitor engagement tracking

Caste

@castedev

$291 MRR. $120/mo costs. $171 profit. Day 1 of $291 → $500. Today: - Built a plugin that creates video and auto-publishes to every social. Until now I was relying on SEO only. - Rebuilt note creation. Old flow dumped too many choices on the user. Now it’s step by step. - Fixed a common bug: images generating in the wrong language. Added a language selector. - Cut free image gens from 4 → 3. Want more? Pay. Day 1 not done yet, keep updating and upgrading

How they grewSEO only, then auto-publishes to every social

Svetloslav Novoselski

@sv_novoselski

$10k MRR sounds easy. Then you do the math 😅 $30 a month = 334 customers. To get there in 12 months: 👀 11,667 visitors a month 📝 350 sign-ups a month 💳 35 new customers a month And 14 of them just replace the ones who churn 🩹 So I built a free calculator 🧮 What does your goal take? 👇

marla

@molaerga

Day 90 of 184 - road to $10k MRR - MRR: 0 - Downloads: 0 - posted: 2 - did huge progress with my SaaS (been waiting WEEKS to get those API approvals and finally got 2/2 today!!) - continued working on my app x.com/molaerga/statu…

Michel Lieben

@MichLieben

Why leave a $7M ARR agency to sell an API key? I'm going live with @InstantlyAI on Wednesday to answer it. The short version: 1. Why software over services Louis, one of the GTM engineers on our team, dictated 3 sentences to Claude Code. 27 minutes later there was a full cold email campaign sitting in Instantly, with a verified list and the copy written, and all that was left was reviewing it (one caveat: he'd mapped a 10,000+ lead TAM and built an ICP Matrix first) I'm convinced running GTM from a coding agent is the best move a GTM team can make, and I wanted to build the layer that makes it work. So in July we split the company. My co-founder kept the agency, and I kept ColdIQ to turn it into that layer. 2. What replaces the tool stack Claude Code can already call most GTM tools directly. You still need to know which provider to call for which job, and you still end up holding 8-12 API keys to do it. So ColdIQ is now one key in front of 40+ providers, with each step routed to the provider that does that job best: → The list from whichever B2B database fits the ICP (Apollo and Prospeo both sit behind the key) → Emails through a waterfall of seven finders. One provider alone covers around 40% of a list, the waterfall gets past 80% → Buying intent from PredictLeads plus 1-2 other signal APIs The routes come from testing 3,000+ tools on real campaigns across 275+ B2B companies. Your sequencer stays where it is, the campaign just gets built in Claude Code and pushed into Instantly through its API. The rest is on the live. Details to join in the tweet below.

Darius Pop

@tyd3n_

Day 43 of Building in Public 🤺🤺 Goal: €1k MRR 🏅🏅 Current: €54.90 🤯🤯 Finally, today we launched the new version of minimalistscreens.com and Smoke Off got approved. The new version of Minimalist Screens creates really high-quality screenshots. I’m not saying we’re at the level of a designer yet, but we’re getting pretty close. Smoke Off also got a huge upgrade. It looks completely different now and feels much more useful for the end user. I also did some SEO for Minimalist Screens and I’m learning a lot about SEO/AEO along the way. Tomorrow we’re starting again with organic content, and we’ll kick off the day by recording new demos. That’s it for today. Tomorrow is going to be a busy one. #buildinpublic #buildinginpublic

How they grewSEO and organic content

Ziga Potocnik

@zigapoto

We finished #1 Product of the Day on @ProductHunt 🏆 This year we launched on Product Hunt 4 times before this one: #3 Genie #3 Databox MCP #2 Skills Marketplace #2 Artifacts Yesterday, MCP Connectors took #1. Here's what it does and what we learned 👇 Your dashboard shows you that a number moved. It doesn't tell you why. The why lives somewhere else. A stalled deal in HubSpot. A pricing objection in a Slack thread. A bug in Linear that shipped on Tuesday. Finding it means opening three tools and piecing it together yourself. With MCP Connectors, you connect those tools to Genie, our AI Analyst. Ask "why did MRR drop 8%?" and you get the number and the reason, with links to the actual deal or thread behind it. Genie can also act on what it finds. 3 things the launch comments made clear: 1. Almost nobody finds the "why" in their dashboard. It's always in the CRM, Slack, support desk, or a doc somewhere. 2. People want more than answers. They want AI to take action, like pausing an ad campaign that's burning budget. 2. Trust matters most. The best questions were about where an answer came from and which tool you'd let AI touch first. Thank you to the @databoxHQ team for shipping this, and to everyone who upvoted, commented, and tried it. So, which tool would you connect first?

How they grewProduct Hunt launch

Dr. DIG

@CiprianiRanieri

🚀 Day 358/365 building in public 👥 Followers: 4,173 💰 MRR: €3000 👀 Impressions (7d): 60k ✅ Shipped: new City Fight leaderboard on BuildersMap ✅ Outreach: 10 messages to agencies ✅ Training 🏋️ 📝 7 days until my first year on X. Posting every number from here, good days and bad ones.

How they grewPosting in public and outreach to agencies

Pedro-AGB

@compound1studio

Designed a landing page for an AI hiking safety startup from brief to shipped. A startup like this targets $5M ARR in year two. That means the site has one job: turn a curious hiker into a paying subscriber before they find an alternative. What this landing page does for that goal: - Converts first-time visitors into free signups - Upgrades free users to the $9/mo Summit plan - Builds enough trust that someone hands it to a family member - Makes the SOS feature feel essential, not optional Built in @framer

Sarthak Rawool

@sarthakcore

I'm 16. Solo founder from Mumbai. Based in India. Building Coherent, a live looping software making $334 MRR with two of my other saas products. Looking to make friends with more builders on X, say hi! :)

Sebastien

@sebastien_t_

Solo founder from France. Based in Cape Town. Building Izeat, a calorie tracking inside ChatGPT and Claude for people who quit tracking apps making $0.6k MRR alongside my 9-5. Looking to make friends with more builders on X, say hi! :)

Joseph P. Zanini III

@joezanini

I just hired a PM. She’s a Grok bot named Connie. I’ve been having too much fun running Lursa AI with bots as the crew. Debbie is the engineer. @lursa_ai MCP + Cursor SDK. CI/CD through an AWS IAM role. The Librarian keeps the graph library fresh and writes diffs straight into Neo4j Aura over MCP. I found open-source product-management repos, then had Devy build Connie a “brain” — a local directory she treats as long-term memory. Those repos stay off the Lursa library. No clear Apache/MIT license, no graph. Strict rule. Then I had Grok write the founding-PM prompt, pasted it into a new Grok bot, and named her Connie after a PM I actually liked working with. Honest bit: still no paying users. Backend isn’t free. If this doesn’t get profitable, I can’t keep the lights on. I dropped Connie into a group chat with Devy, Voice, Publisher, Scout, and the Librarian. They introduced themselves. They’re already arguing, approving, and shipping. Marketing, engineering, product — all bots for now. The goal is still humans on payroll. #buildinpublic #startup #AIstartup #LursaAI #Grok #AIagents #MCP #indiehackers #solopreneur #foundersjourney #productmanagement #developertools #Neo4j #sideproject

harshith.builds

@harshithOG

I'am almost 26, Solo founder from india. Based in hyderabad. Building trycorto, a ai ugc ads app from your url making $0 MRR alongside my other small projects. Looking to make friends with more builders on X, say hi! :)

Adi Loloi

@Adi_loloi

I'm Adi. Solo founder building in public, road to $100k MRR. Right now: - Agent Jeremy: rental alerts in Amsterdam & Rotterdam, ~$1K MRR. agent-jeremy.com/nl - Dendedo: iOS app that turns a big goal into today's tiny task, ~$100 MRR. dendedo.com

Jonathan Lis

@ZenModeJon

Hi I’m Jonathan 👋 38 year old solo Founder from London, UK 🇬🇧 Ex @Google employee, and built/launched zen-mode.io earlier this year - a LinkedIn automation tool that simplifies lead generation for B2B professionals. Already at 50 active subscribers and ~$2k MRR. Big fan of Guinness, Arsenal football club, lifting weights and travel - I previously lived in The Philippines for 14 years 🇵🇭 Looking to connect with anyone/everyone in the tech industry - SaaS builders, founders, GTM professionals, AI evangelists, as well as VCs/Angel investors/pre-seed connections. Follow me for my build in public journey 🚀

Ayush Sharma

@iamayeush

I run @QuickReelHQ We have 350K+ users I'm thing of building in public - all metrics, revenue, challenges & solutions. Is it the right choice? Any indie hacker that can help me out with it?