2023 has been nothing short of amazing for me and my SaaS I would have NEVER bet that I could come so close to 30k€ MRR But the most amazing part isn't the MRR itself 👇

sry but indiehackers who are also parents and family ppl are in a different league fuck outta here with your unlimited free time, 8hrs of sleep and empty calendars

Merci au gouvernement US de rappeler qu'on ne peut pas dependre de leurs technos et qu'on doit investir massivement dans les alternatives.

🇫🇷 Calvin est un robot humanoïde développé en seulement 40 jours par la startup française Wandercraft en partenariat avec le groupe Renault. 🛞 Il est déjà déployé dans l’usine Renault de Douai pour effectuer des tâches pénibles comme le port de pneus et de bacs lourds. 🦾 Conçu sans tête et capable de soulever jusqu’à 40 kg, Calvin soulage les opérateurs en améliorant l’ergonomie et la productivité sur les lignes de montage. 📈 Renault prévoit d’installer 350 robots Calvin dans ses usines d’ici fin 2026 afin d’accélérer sa transformation industrielle. 🇫🇷 Cette collaboration franco-française positionne la France parmi les pionniers européens du déploiement de robots humanoïdes dans la production réelle. 📼 Pour voir la vidéo complète : youtube.com/watch?v=kxhAXFFb…

We went from 0 to 2,200 paying customers in under a year by following @ycombinator's 15 rules: 1/ Do things that don't scale. Get your first 10 customers by hand. 2/ Launch now, not when it's "ready". A mediocre product in front of real users teaches you more in a week than 6 months of polishing in the dark. 3/ Charge from day one. If nobody will pay, you don't have a startup, you have a hobby. 4/ Talk to users every single day. The roadmap you need is sitting in your customers' heads, and they'll hand it to you for free 5/ Always hunt the 90/10 solution. For almost any feature there's a way to capture 90% of the value with 10% of the effort. 6/ There are only two real jobs: write code and talk to users. Everything else (conferences, press, VC coffees, corp dev calls) is fake work. 7/ You pick your customers as much as they pick you. 10 users who love you beat 1,000 who kind of like you. 8/ Growth is an output, not a strategy. Grow before product market fit and all you're buying is churn. 9/ Do less, really well. Pick one or two metrics and judge every task against them. 10/ Know if you're default alive. Paul Graham's question: on current growth and current burn, do you reach profitability before the money runs out? 11/ Don't hire until it hurts. Headcount is not progress, it's burn. Every great startup was embarrassingly small for embarrassingly long. 12/ Momentum is the only real moat in year one. Ship something every week, even something tiny. 13/ Every great startup is badly broken at some point. The game isn't avoiding fires, it's how fast you put them out. Again. And again 14/ Ignore your competitors. Startups die of suicide, not murder. In year one, the only company that can kill yours is your own 15/ Startups rarely die from running out of money. They die because the founders fall out. Brutal honesty with your cofounder is the cheapest insurance you'll ever buy Good luck !

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Choosing 1000$/week => being financially illiterate Financially illiterate => waste 1M$ on stupid sh*t So she actually made the right call !

This person just gave you the neuroplasticity recovery protocol most people pay therapists $200/hour to discover. The core mechanism here is dopamine baseline depletion. When you scroll, each interesting post spikes dopamine 100-200% above baseline. The problem is what happens next. Your dopamine drops 40-60% BELOW baseline for 2-4 hours. This means the homework, the book, the focused thinking you try to do afterward feels neurologically impossible. You’re not lazy. Your prefrontal cortex is literally running on empty. Here’s the thing about that “I used to be sharp” feeling. Working memory capacity correlates directly with dopamine available in the prefrontal cortex. Lower dopamine, shorter working memory span. D’Esposito and colleagues at Berkeley showed this with neuroimaging. The people who can hold longer strings of information have more dopamine available for release. So when you’ve been chronically depleting your dopamine reservoir through high-stimulation activities, your working memory atrophies. You feel dumber because, neurochemically, your prefrontal cortex is operating at reduced capacity. The “three days” recommendation in this article maps onto clinical literature. Anna Lembke’s research at Stanford’s Addiction Medicine clinic shows dopamine system resets require approximately 30 days for severe cases, but meaningful restoration begins within 72 hours of removing the stimulus. That’s why day three of any detox feels qualitatively different. Your neurons are beginning to upregulate dopamine receptors. The boredom piece is where most people fail. Your brain interprets boredom as a signal to seek stimulation. That discomfort you feel when you’re unstimulated? That’s withdrawal. The reaching for your phone is your brain trying to bring dopamine back above baseline. Sitting with it trains the system to tolerate lower stimulation and still function. This is called raising your distress tolerance threshold. What the article calls “rehabilitate,” the neuroscience literature calls neuroplasticity. Your brain is continuously rewiring based on what you repeatedly do. Chronic scrolling strengthens attentional circuits optimized for novelty-seeking and rapid task-switching. Sustained reading strengthens circuits for linear focus and deep processing. You’re not permanently damaged. You’ve just trained your brain for the wrong environment. Two protocols actually accelerate the restoration. First: non-sleep deep rest. NSDR scripts (free online, 10-20 minutes) increase dopamine in the basal ganglia by up to 60%. Second: brief cold exposure. One to three minutes in cold water spikes dopamine 250% above baseline and sustains it for 2-4 hours afterward. Both of these replenish the reservoir without creating the crash cycle. The real work is what she described: tolerating the discomfort of being understimulated long enough for your system to recalibrate to normal dopamine dynamics. The girl who used to read voraciously is still in there. The neural circuits are dormant, not dead. Plasticity works in both directions. Start with 10 minutes of focused reading a day. Your prefrontal cortex will adapt. Give it six weeks and measure the difference.

you fucking son of a bitch musk

Hey @nikitabier — as the Head of Product at X, can you tell me why someone at your company is deleting Grok’s responses about top 10 disinformation spreaders on X? Wasn’t this supposed to be a free speech platform?

Quand les anglais demanderont à revenir dans l'UE (car ça arrivera) il faudra les traiter comme ils le méritent : plus de traitement de faveur, plus de règles spéciales, vous rentrez comme tout le monde, vous abandonnez la livre sterling pour l'euro, sinon vous restez dehors

... months of no gym, no food, no life. Put my life on hold so I can work on my product launch. I convinced myself that if I just gave it my all, sacrifice everything else, and work byond my limits… the launch would explode. I thought effort = outcome. No. I ended up drained… mentally, physically, emotionally. The launch went okay... but not the world-shaking moment I built in my head. And all I had left was disappointment, confusion, and a body that was paying the price. Work hard, aim high, dream big... for sure! Just know that 99% of the time there is NO NEED to put the rest of your life on hold to make it happen, and know that for most of us the world isn't watching... you don't need to break yourself over it. Keep the balance like your vision relies on it, and yes... balance is possible: - protect your body like it's part of the business… because it is - give things the time they need, but don’t overgive out of blind hope - know the moment effort turns into obsession - remember results don’t always match the timing of your sacrifice -aim to last, not to prove how much you can suffer ---- Create, build, push forward - but don’t lose you in the process 🙏

the biggest BS in saas: “don’t raise your prices” 90% of the time, low prices hurt early saas - not help a $9 price tag tells users: “this is probably a weekend project” a $49 price says: “this is a tool built for serious operators” and that one shift changes everything - the users you attract, the feedback you get, and the way people talk about you saw this article recently - the founder doubled their price from $4.99 to $9.99 now on paper that looks risky but in reality, their churn dropped to 3% 😳 and remember - the product didn’t change, only the perceived value did bootstrapped founders often think in terms of loss: “what happens if I scare people away?” but fearing losses usually blocks bigger wins we did the same thing with Tweet Hunter. we raised the price from $9 → $49 (over 12 months, while adding tons of stuff) churn went DOWN revenue went UP conversion rate didn't move remember this: - low prices force you to think "cheap" - high prices force you to build "high quality" go premium, and show that to the world

26 weapons grade parenting tips: 1/ Give them a "heads up," 5 minutes until bedtime, 10 minutes before leaving the playground 2/ Look at the world more through their eyes 3/ Don’t discipline like an angry madman. Stay calm and firm, model how you want THEM to resolve conflict 4/ Let them argue their case respectfully. Teaches negotiation and critical thinking 5/ Skip the long lectures 6/ Use natural consequences: forgot homework? Let them explain it to the teacher. Forgot their lunch? They'll figure it out 7/ Be consistent and follow through. "We are leaving the playground if you don't stop..." 8/ Make "How can I help?" part of YOUR vocabulary. It builds reliability 9/ Share your unseen efforts: hustling for work, hitting the gym. Actions speak louder than words but when they can’t see it, TELL THEM 10/ Teach accountability by modeling it yourself: “I was wrong. sorry” 11/ Create family traditions like weekly movie nights, Sunday pancakes, whatever works 12/ More game nights 13/ Take an interest in their interests: video games, books, sports... do it with them. 14/ Hike together. Nature slows time and generates gratitude 15/ Build something. LEGO, puzzles, a fort, the Amazon delivery box 16/ Teach them skills: tie knots, start a fire, read a map 17/ Introduce chess or checkers. Start early 18/ Let them plan a family outing or navigate you there (they can get you through the airport) 19/ Always greet your wife with love. That moment sets the tone for the family 20/ Share some challenges (age appropriate) 21/ Respect their privacy. Knock before entering their room 22/ Teach the value of money early: "wants vs. needs," compounding, saving, etc 23/ Let them see you sweat 24/ Teach them to cook. Start small: eggs, pancakes, cookies. Embrace the mess 25/ No screens at meals ever 26/ Prioritize movement as a UNIT: family walks, workouts, hikes, dance-offs- whatever gets the everyone in synch

Most of coding was never about writing code. AI is just making this more obvious. You no longer need to recall syntax, function structure, boilerplate code, or even API endpoints. That’s the easy part and AI is very good at it. The hard part was never typing. It was always thinking. And it still is.

"All of this falls apart if humans don't adopt the tech. This is why you've seen Meta cram its lame chatbots into WhatsApp and Instagram. This is why Notepad and Paint now have useless Copilot buttons on Windows. This is why Google Gemini wants to "help you" read and reply to your emails. They're trying to change our habits, because all of the projections rely on people becoming truly dependent on the technology. Whether or not it's actually a good thing for society isn't considered to be a factor."

Lovable just got called out for not paying VAT in Europe yet. Many came to our defense saying the EU isn't built for hypergrowth startups. I appreciate it, but that's not my takeaway. We can build a generational company from Europe, and I want to prove it. I'm not asking Europe to stop being Europe. I don’t know the perfect solution, but there are advantages to a high trust society and systems that don't bankrupt people when they get sick. Lovable WILL – and has always planned to – be compliant and pay any fees from being late. We pay our taxes and hope to pay billions more in taxes over the years to come. Building from Europe is a bet I'm proud of.

My feed is just Musk-Musk-Musk though I keep clicking "I don't want to see this account" Peak propaganda through algorithm

. @NanoBanana Show me a picture of position 48.878149,2.298188 under the snow

One of the lessons I got from the IH community on Twitter : your time is, in 90% of cases, the real cost and the real bottleneck to a successful business

Indie hackers : The same way you show not focus too much on competitors, you should not read too many tweets from other successful IHs It's most distracting and will cause unhelpful emotions : fear/anger with competitors, helplessness with others making it while you struggle