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Indie Hacking — September 2026
🚀 Worked 112h
🥇 Sports: 27h
Shipped:
🌅 eclipsestayspain.com
🏃➡️ A new app, not yet approved!
Numbers:
💸 MRR: €265 — steady compared to August
Big changes ahead for podhoc.com
Semrush reports a robots.txt format error on the license.xml, which is the adopted RSL licensing extension.
It flags it; but Google ignores unsupported directives rather than treating the entire robots file as invalid.
Recommended reading: The Algorithmic Self-Portrait: Deconstructing Memory in ChatGPT arxiv.org/abs/2602.01450
Qwen blocks to process outputs from an input such as the Kabbalah wikipedia article: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kabbal…
I just added another $10M to my run rate in 6 weeks.
Here's every idea I tried before hitting $20M ARR:
1. Moved to New York at 21.
I studied financial engineering at Columbia and I wanted to be a founder, but didn’t have the guts.
2. Joined a startup hedge fund on Wall Street.
I wanted to learn how things get built from scratch, it died in a year.
3. Joined Barclays Capital.
I worked on the trading floor for 2 years. I had a lot of friends building software back then and I started to feel inspired.
4. Learned how to code.
My best friend told me that once I learned, I could build anything. So I did. Nights and weekends. For 6 months straight.
5. Shipped my first app.
Did it under alias Ben Cera so my finance boss wouldn’t find out. People loved it. I quit my job, bootstrapped the company for a year… it failed.
6. Built a photo messaging app.
Josh Kushner from Thrive Capital loved it and invested $1 million from his brand new fund.
7. Pivoted into a people discovery app.
It had massive traction, but then I realized I was building a dating app and decided to walk away.
8. Moved to LA.
I became the CTO of a tech enabled interior design startup. We raised $20M from Founders Fund and Zillow Group.
9. Worked with Uber’s founder.
Travis Kalanick bought CloudKitchens and I got a meeting. I decided to join as a product manager. 2 years later, I was leading a new division I had built from scratch.
10. Decided to come back to the arena.
I moved to Paris to start a new company called GiftShop with my good friend and raised $8M. After 2 years of co-founder tension, I finally walked away to go solo.
11. Started Polsia Inc.
Decided that i wanted to start working with AI right away, but also take a break and see the world. So I starting traveling the world and touring most of Asia.
12. Built Blanks.
An iPhone app that builds iPhone apps using AI. Failed.
13. Built Decision AI.
An AI that helps you make decisions with AI. Zero customers.
14. Started Polsia.
I went all in on the idea of building a company that builds and runs companies with AI. I built the first version and moved to San Francisco.
15. Polsia worked.
5 months later, I had 10,000+ customers, a $10M run rate, and raised $30M on a $250M valuation.
Now, I have 25,000+ customers, a $20M run rate, and we're about to hit $25M very soon.
This is 20 years of failing and starting over.
Until it finally clicked...
Every lesson is tuition, nothing is ever wasted.
Do not forget that pigeons would transfer data faster than internet back in the day
reuters.com/article/technolo… (2009)
So Whatsapp groups' enhanced privacy will theoretically prevent the usage of the data by the Meta AI and systems, with the caveat that media won't be automatically saved to your phone gallery. Great move to force people to keep "selling" their info for practicity.
David Pelayo retweeted
Cheeky Pint is back! Mark Zuckerberg @finkd and Alexandr Wang @alexandr_wang came to the pub to discuss their new frontier model, Muse Wonder.
00:00:24 Muse’s breakout use cases
00:07:28 The model is the product
00:14:35 Muse Wonder
00:24:56 How frontier models are built
00:48:26 Betting $100B
01:07:21 Agentic commerce
01:19:34 OpenRouter
01:20:06 Beyond the smartphone
01:27:00 Funding
01:34:06 Why AI won’t be winner-take-all
01:40:46 Meta Superintelligence Labs (MSL)
02:08:11 Working for Mark Zuckerberg
Talking with a friend that the mental model of an employee is both risky and addictive.
Risky because you sell most of your time when you'd be willing to be doing other things (sports, family, ...), addictive because you know no better.
The alternative is risky, but compelling
I’m vibe coding my accounting system assisting me in invoicing, accounting, finances, bank accounts, settlements, ledgers, quotation, transactions, reporting, analytical and tax accounting, all what Holded gives you for a 800 €/year subscription. SaaS like these are dead.
David Pelayo retweeted
Today I call upon the blockchain industry to calmly begin planning for "bunker mode". My personal recommendation is to set in motion a controlled mass migration of assets to fresh addresses, i.e. addresses whose pubkeys remain hidden behind a hash.
Holders, starting with large and sophisticated ones, should consider moving the bulk of their funds to addresses that have never signed a transaction. And when they do sign one, they should also move remaining funds to a new address (possibly generated from the same seed phrase).
Don't rush. While I believe there is cause for action a rushed migration would do more harm than good. Don't panic either. Moving assets to protected addresses is a simple, preventative step which does not require new cryptography or new wallets.
IMO it is now reasonable to brace for the possibility that ECDSA breaks before qday, in the worst case in months not years. By "break" I mean fast private key recovery (e.g. in one week) on available hardware (e.g. a large GPU cluster).
Recent days have been humbling for human mathematical intuition. Long-held, unquestioned hypotheses have fallen. This includes the n log(n) bound for integer multiplication and the 3SUM conjecture. In hindsight, May's unexpected disproof of the Erdős unit distance conjecture was our warning shot.
Yesterday's OpenAI drop made it clear that mathematical superintelligence is upon us. They say there are weeks where decades happen. We are about to live through weeks where centuries of mathematical progress happen. Could our magic 64-byte ECDSA signatures be too good to be true? Was it just security through obscurity all this time?
Elliptic curves feel especially vulnerable to superintelligence. Curves carry rich structure, with room for fancy tricks like Schoof, Frobenius, pairings. (By contrast, hashes are designed to minimise algebraic structure.)
Separately, as Ewin Tang can attest, an efficient quantum algorithm sometimes foreshadows an efficient classical one. We should be open to the possibility of a classical counterpart to Shor that breaks elliptic curves and RSA at once.
Also noteworthy is the striking under-representation of cryptographic breakthroughs among the 722 mathematical results OpenAI published. I've witnessed first-hand the US government censoring academic quantum cryptanalysis results. Backroom interventionism is my base case.
I urge large, sophisticated actors to lead by example. Project11's "risq list" (bitcoin-risq-list.projecteleven[.]com) is a great tracker of exposed BTC pubkeys. Binance, Bitbank, Robinhood, Bitfinex, and Tether have an opportunity to harden their cold storage. Next month I'll address institutions in London in a live Q&A (forum.ethereuminstitutional[.]org/london-2026).
Again, please do not rush. Wallets holding under 50 BTC enjoy partial cover from "Satoshi's shield", i.e. his 20K exposed addresses that hold 50 BTC each. Load-bearing signers like oracles and L2 security councils should consider rotating ECDSA pubkeys with every signed message and/or multi-signing with a hash-based schemes like SPHINCS.
Exiting bunker mode safely will require post-AI cryptography. My inclination is to go all-in on hash-based cryptography and avoid structured mathematical assumptions entirely, whether from curves, lattices, or isogenies. A single battle-tested hash (e.g. from the SHA or BLAKE families) yields plausible post-AI security.
The Ethereum roadmap on strawmap[.]org fully embraces hash-based cryptography with end-to-end formal verification as a response to the quantum threat. Those timelines must now be revisited and accelerated in light of mathematical superintelligence. I'll be pushing for maximum defensive acceleration.
What’s the best in-class weather forecasting model that can be used at home to predict the weather in any location of the world and how does it work? It happens that in my location, lately, forecasts rarely hit the mark - and I’m getting tired of such shitty predictions
One thing I really like about Claude Code is that the history of the conversation is directly accessible in the terminal by simply scrolling - whereas with codex it gets lost within the session info but not obviously visible at terminal. This is especially useful when using herdr
Indie Hacking on March 2025 (first of my life, for real):
⏰ Time spent: ~44h
😁 Max happiness
📈 No revenue at all
📲 1 Flutter app published on iOS, Android pending
📲 An update to make it multiplayer ⚙️ WIP
📲 A Telegram Bot ⚙️ WIP
📎 Other important tasks
Indie Hacking — August 2026
🚀 Worked 106h
🥇 Sports: 19.5h
Shipped:
🌐 crosswire.online apps
📗 cuentoconlaIA.com apps
Numbers:
💸 MRR: €260 — up 400% 🔥🔥🔥
Engaged in new challenging projects, and fully determined!
Big changes ahead for podhoc.com
eclipsestayspain.com released - platform to find local hosts for people in the rush to get accommodation in the south of Spain and Morocco for next year’s magical Solar Eclipse event / it is all booked and no hotels available as of today! #solareclipse #spain





