🔧 Building stagetimer.io & rundownstudio.app • Bootstrapping to $1M ARR • Hetzner fangirl • 🇩🇪 Stuttgart
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1 Dec 2025
I'm going to get rich and this is how I’m going to do it.
Part 2.
Now don’t take me wrong, I’m not rich yet.
But I'm closer.
4 years ago I was laid off, and this is what happened...
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23 Mar 2022
I'm going to get rich and this is how I’m going to do it.
Now don’t take me wrong, I’m not rich yet.
I did my CS degree and worked as a software developer just like my parents expected.
Every day I worked for my 80k/y startup job.
Then last month I was laid off.
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I was shadow-banned by the tax office and had to make a pHOnE CaLL 😖
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Doing a day of marketing feels so useless!
It's clear why indie hackers don't do it. You do it, and have no idea if you just wasted your time or not. There's nothing to show for. Only in hindsight, after 3 months, you know what worked.
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Jun 8
On Thursday I accidentally disrupted national exams in 4 French universities 😆
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Jun 5
I was tired of reading long Claude reports so I tried this "oval office briefing" prompt. No regrets, worked like a charm :)
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May 28
Rumor has it that when you actually manage to finish your todo list, the universe implodes.
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May 24
Let me give a nuanced take:
Automation is a self-correcting loop given a big enough context. When humans stop earning, they also stop spending money on the very products made by it. This lessens the value of automation until it intersects with wages.
May 23
How on earth do people still assume blue-collar work is safe from automation?
A robot can work 200 hours nonstop.
A human works around 40 hours a week, needs weekends, sleep, breaks, sick days, and vacations.
That changes the economics completely.
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Apr 27
I added a German Law tool to my home-brew OpenClaw alternative. Now it can look up any regulation and help me win against German paperwork ⚔️
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Apr 25
I'm so happy my product got successful before AI.
Scaling an already working business with AI is fun!
Building a new product right now and competing with 200 identical slop-products launched each day is brutal!
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Apr 23
I've never met someone successful in business who avoided learning about:
- Taxes
- Bookkeeping
- Regulations
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Apr 15
We've all been there. Debugging an issue on prod and being dragged ever deeper into the rabbit hole.
Difference is, we all are not a Billion-$$$ company!
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My OpenClaw agent is called Carl and used to automate half my business:
- Handled invoices and receipts
- Checked my server logs every night
- Found bugs and submitted fixes as PR
- Reminded me of deadlines
- Prepared email answers as drafts
Then Anthropic took Carl away...
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Apr 15
(Anthropic blocked OpenClaw from the Max plan).
So I replicated everything OpenClaw did with a cron job and Claude Code native tools.
Carl is back. Same help, lower cost, using fewer tokens. 🎉
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Apr 10
This guy made a copycat of Stagetimer, literally copied everything down to the pixel, even launched in the same subreddit.
Everyone immediately called him out. By the evening the post and user account were deleted.
What a wimp!
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Apr 7
Claude Subscription no longer working with OpenClaw is a big blow. I had so many cool things automated with it.
How are you guys handling this? I'm switching to cron tasks that run claude code directly in a docker container. It was easier than I thought actually.
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Apr 7
Claude Code skills measurably decreased since Feb 8.
Reason:
@AnthropicAI rolled out a policy that reduces/hides the "extended thinking" tokens Claude Opus uses.
Effect:
Claude reads less files and writes more code based on assumptions.
This has not been fixed.
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Posible solutions:
- 1M context window is one culprit, limit CLAUDE_CODE_AUTO_COMPACT_WINDOW=200000
- Use /effort max (mixed results)
- Explicitly provide related files in context
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