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daily life as a founder

i saw one of the craziest building in public stories on tt. a founder posted a video about an app idea for meal planning on a budget. the app didn’t even exist yet. the video got 10m views. great validation, right? not exactly. while he was building it, someone copied the idea, rushed an app into the app store and started taking users. same concept. same branding. the copy got terrible reviews because it was full of bugs. and now the original founder is dealing with people thinking that broken app is his. building in public is great until your validation becomes someone else’s roadmap. with how fast people can ship apps now, i’m not sure i’d share an idea publicly before having at least a landing page or a product live. the game has changed.

My friend went to an indie hacker meetup this week and said this: "i went to indie hacker meetup so what’s really interesting is that almost everyone is super focused on development. they build these whole spaceships that generate code, review it, make all kinds of reports, analytics, and so on. one guy built an entire factory: he has a list of ideas, and agents generate the landing page, the saas, the analytics, and pull everything into one dashboard. straight-up sci-fi. and they focused optimize all of it like crazy. and you can really see how comfortable that is for them. but the most interesting part is that almost none of them have money or traffic. and nobody knows where to get either one. you often hear something like, yeah, i should probably do on marketing, but first i’ll finish my super system and then i’ll start. or in best i would need to make agent that will post to instaram automatically before, the classic programmer would spend a year writing code, tests, preparing for scale in the basement, and not show anything to anyone. now it’s even worse: the amount of useless aislop nobody needs has grown massively."

BOOOOOM! $1,000,000 ARR 🤯🚀🌕 $83,333.33 MRR. Solo founder. Bootstrapped. Fully remote. This is not to boast. This is to prove what's possible with a validated idea & learning how to market. Thank you to everyone who's helped along my journey 🙏 You know who you are...

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The product is the mission.

Massive output uptick due to agentic AI. Complete flat adoption.