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I've decided to challenge myself: I've got 3 product ideas, and over the next 2-3 months, I'm going to build and market them, aiming to make at least $100 within 5 months.
I'll be sharing my whole journey as I build them. I'm not great at marketing, so I'll be building and marketing in public. I'll share what I learn about designing and building with AI, and other stuff too. I'll share everything I pick up.
Make sure to follow along and be the first to try out my products. I'm making some really cool stuff that'll help you optimize your workflow way better.
SataEric retweeted
Let's say you have a working product.
No audience. No marketing budget. No existing customers.
Just you, your product, and 30 days.
How do you get your first 100 users?
I'm asking because I've built products with AI, and distribution is kicking my ass.
Marketers, founders, indie hackers: What's the playbook?
I'm officially a Design Engineer at Wylo now.
First thing I did: the redesign that sat in the backlog for ages. Team of 7. There was always a feature first. Then a bug. Then another feature.
So I built it. Plus dark mode.
Left: what's live. Right: UI 2.0.
video is made using Claude ;)
Dark mode was the hard part. The app had 11,977 colour values written by hand.
I didn't fix them one by one. A script listed every colour with where it was used (text? hover? border?), proposed a design token for each, and I reviewed the mapping before a codemod applied it.
First-pass rule: light mode must not change. Every swap had to land on the exact same hex. Only dark mode was allowed to move.
SataEric retweeted
Introducing Reality-Aware Rendering in @Simulon, a completely new way to create with the real world.
Place neural assets with your phone and act out the scene. When you stop recording, Simulon renders the take, reading everything in it (what you do, what you say and the place around you), and your assets respond to all of it.
The final is regenerated from your recording: a new performance of the scene, not a copy of the footage.
Available now on iPhone. Coming to Android soon.
Let's say you have a working product.
No audience. No marketing budget. No existing customers.
Just you, your product, and 30 days.
How do you get your first 100 users?
I'm asking because I've built products with AI, and distribution is kicking my ass.
Marketers, founders, indie hackers: What's the playbook?
I’ve never understood the appeal of touchscreen laptops.
Touch makes sense on a drawing tablet. Photoshop, canvases, creative work. Absolutely.
But on a laptop? You’re reaching across the keyboard to smudge your screen all day. It’s an ergonomic nightmare.
The new MacBook gets everything right. Just skip the touchscreen.
SataEric retweeted
Paying $99/month was getting a little too expensive...
So I built my own open source alternative that now costs me LESS THAN $1/month to run.
YES, 99x CHEAPER! 🤯
Introducing Open Post, an open source alternative to Post Bridge that lets you post to all your social media accounts from one dashboard.
I'll be open sourcing it on GitHub this coming week once I finish testing each social media integration.
And just to be clear...
This isn't about taking business away from an existing SaaS. I simply wanted to build something cheaper for myself that does the exact same thing.
If you want a ready-to-use solution and don't mind paying $40-$100/month, definitely check out the original SaaS!
But if you prefer self-hosting and saving money, Open Post is coming soon for free. 🚀
deadlines if you’re building something, november edition:
• a16z speedrun - nov 1, $500k + $10m in credits
• yc w2027 - nov 2 at 8pm pt, $500k
• era nyc - nov 2, $150k, 4 months in nyc
• techstars nyc - nov 18, $220k
• thiel fellowship - rolling, $250k over 2 years, 22 and under
• z fellows - rolling, $10k for one week
• antler nyc - rolling, $500k+ (needs us work authorization)
• hustle fund - always open, $150k first check
• 1517 medici - rolling, grants for students and dropouts
the doc has 20+ more with eligibility and links, and we update it every month. follow + reply “deadlines” and we’ll dm it to you
SataEric retweeted
X ALGORITHM UPDATE 🚨
X just stopped cutting new posts first, and that should help small accounts (I check it daily with Claude and share updates worth sharing with you)
tl;dr:
- X can only check 2,800 posts each time you open your feed
- new posts used to be last in line, so they got cut first
- now everything gets cut equally, new posts included
- posts labeled low quality or misinfo now show a warning, and people can't like, reply or share them
- no score changes this time
lesson learned: your new posts now get a fair chance to be seen. Your first 2 hours still matter most.
full details:
- How it worked until this week
Every time someone opens For You, X collects around 3,700 posts it could show them: posts from people they follow, popular posts, posts liked by similar people, and brand new posts.
But X only has time to check 2,800 of them.
So it just took the first 2,800 in line. Brand new posts were at the back of the line. When there were too many, they were the ones left out... and a post that never gets checked can't be shown.
- What changed
Now everything gets cut by the same amount. 25% too many? Every type of post loses 25%, new posts included. Nobody goes first.
- Why small accounts should care
Those brand new posts are under 2 hours old, with under 8 likes and under 500 views. That's where most posts from smaller accounts are.
My read: they now get a fair chance instead of being cut first. How often X actually hits the 2,800 limit isn't in the code, so I can't tell you how big the difference is.
- Low quality and misinfo posts now show a warning
If X labels your post as low quality or misinformation, people who don't follow you see a warning on it, and they can't like, reply, repost, bookmark or share it. The code doesn't say what gets a post that label.
Here's a recap of what you should be doing:
- a new post gets its extra push only in its first 2 hours and first 200 views, so post when your people are online
- likes carry more weight than ever at 0.66 each
- people sticking around pays, the time-spent score is 50% higher than two weeks ago
- a read of 10+ seconds after someone opens your post adds 0.4
- the boost favors the post with the best like rate from its first viewers
- accounts up to 50K can get one fresh original lifted to roughly 16th
- nothing beats a copy link share, it scores 20
- replies, quotes and DM shares each score 5
- talk with your mutuals, replies between you score 20 instead of 5
- originals are the only posts that travel outside your follower base
- the 1st and the 32nd like each open a new route to strangers
- your 2nd post in the same feed is worth 62% of the first, so pick your best one
- videos still need 10+ seconds to qualify for the video lists
- earning a follow adds 4
- a pinned post with a bad link can flag the account for 7 days, worth a quick check
What you should NOT be doing:
- posts that get labeled low quality or misinfo now carry a warning, and nobody outside your followers can like or share them
- video alone won't carry you, an open counts 0.02 and the watch 0
- hide-worthy posts cost more, "not interested" sits at -52.27
- a post at 3am burns its 2 hour window before anyone sees it
- a tap that turns into a bounce is worth only 0.3
- replies and reposts don't get past your followers
- insults get your post hidden from anyone who doesn't follow you
- adult media in 3 of your last 5 posts puts a label on your account
- disguised content in videos gets checked from 64 likes, harder at 512
- self-reply chains under big accounts risk being zeroed
- one account label and non-followers stop seeing you entirely
- low-rated links don't belong in your pinned post
- recycled wording can get tagged as copypasta spam
- strangers tagged plus a low quality link is a pattern X flags
- engagement bait has no size exemption
- several posts in a row end up competing with each other
- hashtag stacks add nothing
- bookmarks are still worth 0
- 48 hours in, For You is finished with a post
Seedance 2.5 at 720p costs $0.47 a second on one provider and $0.27 on another.
Same model, same weights, same output.
Flowgen now runs @kinovi_ai alongside fal, Higgsfield, Google and ChatGPT, and the model picker shows you both numbers before you spend anything. 174 models, your own keys, one canvas.
getflowgen.app
Cinetic v1.1 is here!
Cinetic is my skill for creating good motion designs/launch videos
some changes:
- text elements are shorter now
- calmer pacing by default
- every sound is made in code with earshot
this video was made with cinetic
github.com/Leonxlnx/cinetic

















