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Building stuff and chasing good weather ☀️

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@Hyferion

Silas

11 months

Today is a special day for me 🎉 I don't have a job anymore. And no, I won't get another job anytime soon. Yesterday was my last day working my day job. For years I built side projects, some were good, some were something for the trash. I built them after work, on weekends

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1 year

@alloenzyme At least you get 38g of pure PROTEIN

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1 year

@TerribleMaps The longer you look, the worse it gets

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11 months

Today is my last day at my day job 🥳🚀 After that it’s time to ship full time 🙌🏼

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4 years

I currently don't see a better real-life use case (excluding currency) for the blockchain than #THETA . This is a technical revolution!

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1 year

Let's goooooo! Today I've got my first customer! 🎉 It's crazy how much motivation this gives me to build more. Now I want to provide that customer with the best chatbot he has ever seen! 🐋

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1 year

@ilyamiskov But how will people know I'm a dev?

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1 year

I sold my side project @tales__time Sometimes the old has to make room for the new. I will take my learnings and apply them in my next venture. Thanks to @acquiredotcom and @agazdecki for making this process so easy! To the moon! #buidling

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2 years

@roshanpateI At least you are a bit wiser.

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9 years

@topmodel #GNTM #GNTMFinale #GNTMselfie Go girls! http://t.co/ruFOx1ta48

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10 months

Didn't feel like building today, so I played some Starcraft 2. Any gamers around here?

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1 year

Why is everybody putting "by AI" or "with AI" in their product names and descriptions? People don't buy AI, they buy solutions that solve their problems. Who cares if it's AI...

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1 year

@t31k__ Honestly I would still prefer this than thos open office spaces where you can hear and see everyone. I think this is a great office to focus.

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1 year

@AnthonyCastrio Laughs in Switzerland 🇨🇭

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2 years

@ProductHunt Spotify and Netflix, no need for the others

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1 year

Alright 🇨🇭builders, indiehacker, or whatever you want to call yourself. I'm organizing a meetup in Zurich, it will be at a pub (tbd) around Zurich HB. We can get some drinks (and food ofc), and just talk about what comes to mind. Let's find a date!

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11 months

Zurich Meetup is in the books! 🎉 Thanks everybody for coming. It was amazing to get to know all of you and your projects! 🚀 Next location will be a little bit more calm I promise 🤫 @thokessler @kevsartori @dotsilver @avasdream_ @illyism @adrian_bruegger @RetoKaul @Ciberon

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2 years

@flaviocopes How about 0 monitors?

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10 months

Could get used to this coworking space bringing me food to my table I can order on their website. There is officially no barrier between me and food anymore 😂

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10 months

Is anybody here on Linkedin? Drop your profile in the comments and let's connect 🚀

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1 year

I want to grow my developer network in Switzerland🇨🇭! Who should I give a follow?Plus points if it's an indie hacker 👀 I'll start: @philkellr @dotsilver @oneclassycoder @avasdream_

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10 months

My 2023 Wrapped ⏮️ It has been a crazy and challenging year for me, from being employed to being jobless, investing 100s of hours into products that make no money, to more successful projects and cool freelancing projects. I learned so much, not only technically building

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2 years

@AltcoinDailyio Theta will be a game changer

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11 months

So I haven't reached ramen profitable in Zurich yet, but I rather be rice with meat and egg profitable anyway. Seems totally doable with that $2 street food here 🚀

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2 years

I want to connect with more people in the #buildinpublic space, what are the best accounts to follow? 🚀

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11 months

So tomorrow is the day! 🎉 Quick reminder! We have 14 signups so it's going to get busy! See you all tomorrow. I'll be there from 17:45 We meet here:

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Kennedy's Irish Pub · Freischützgasse 14, 8004 Zürich, Switzerland

★★★★☆ · Irish pub

@Hyferion

Silas

1 year

Alright 🇨🇭builders, indiehacker, or whatever you want to call yourself. I'm organizing a meetup in Zurich, it will be at a pub (tbd) around Zurich HB. We can get some drinks (and food ofc), and just talk about what comes to mind. Let's find a date!

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9 months

Digital Nomad life dream? 🇹🇭 I've been working remotely from Thailand for almost 2 months. Working and living on a tropical island sounds pretty nice, right? However, everything has its downsides, so it's high time to draw a conclusion. - You need more discipline. Every day is

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10 months

We don't need another device, just put it into an app..

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Introducing r1. Watch the keynote. Order now: #CES2024

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1 year

Do you guys ever test your stripe integration in prod? 😅

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1 year

My new MVP took me about 50 hours to finish. Usually, I'm faster, but I used Next.js for the first time. So had to learn everything first. I hope it will save me time, in the long run, building other stuff. How long do you usually take to build your first MVP?

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3 years

@RickSolchez 🐶

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2 years

We are live on @ProductHunt 🎉 If you want, come and support us! #producthunt #indiehackers

TalesTime - Product Information, Latest Updates, and Reviews 2024 | Product Hunt

TalesTime is a library of children's tales and stories, inspired by AI, and curated by humans. We add a new story every day, which is available for free! Your preschool kids will love to read and...

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11 months

Wonderful to see the amazing support this community provides ❤️ Thank you all! Now it's time to do the work 🧑🏼‍💻 Here is what's on the menu this week: 1. Get back into more deep work states. As an employed software engineer, there was always a teams message there, an urgent

@Hyferion

Silas

11 months

Today is a special day for me 🎉 I don't have a job anymore. And no, I won't get another job anytime soon. Yesterday was my last day working my day job. For years I built side projects, some were good, some were something for the trash. I built them after work, on weekends

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10 months

While it's been nice working and exploring Bangkok, it's too overstimulating and my productivity has suffered. I guess it takes time to settle in and I don't have the current urge to go see something new. I definitely see why it's so popular, so much great food, so much going

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@Hyferion

Silas

1 year

Currently, it takes me about 15 minutes for every customer. So it's not really scalable. Until now the results are not very good. I will continue for a week and check again

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Silas

1 year

So I'm trying a new marketing move. 1. I look for potential customers on Linkedin 2 I then create a Chatbot trained on their public website 3. I adapt everything to their corporate style 4. I send them the chatbot to try it out Benefits: - Easier for the customer --> Less

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1 year

I'm currently working on an AI Chatbot. Yeah yeah, I know, why does the world need another AI Chatbot integration? AI is hyped and AI has a very big market. I just want to get a very tiny slice of that. Because of that, our chatbot will focus on the local market (yes everything

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1 year

is live 🚀 An AI chatbot application built for the German-speaking market 🇩🇪 Now the focus will lie on (even more) marketing and optimizing the website. Maybe even adding a feature or two 🤫 This was def the most time-intensive project I've built so

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1 year

Is #Flutter any good? Currently looking at hybrid mobile development frameworks. I only dabbled in native app development. But I want to build fast. Any tips? What's your preferred framework? #Reactnative , #Ionic ?

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1 year

Who is building something on the side and would love to do it full-time? What is holding you back?

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1 year

Wow, I have almost 250 followers. I know it's not a lot. But if you put 250 people into a room, that is going to be damn crowded! Thanks for being here 🥳

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1 year

28 of November it is! Write it into your calendar, your hand, or wherever you remember it! 📆 We will meet here I will be there starting at 17:45, but you can also drop in later ofc. We will be a bunch, currently 13 people. I reserved us a table but If

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Kennedy's Irish Pub · Freischützgasse 14, 8004 Zürich, Switzerland

★★★★☆ · Irish pub

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Silas

1 year

Alright 🇨🇭builders, indiehacker, or whatever you want to call yourself. I'm organizing a meetup in Zurich, it will be at a pub (tbd) around Zurich HB. We can get some drinks (and food ofc), and just talk about what comes to mind. Let's find a date!

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2 years

My visitor stats look like a rollercoaster 😂 Let's see when it goes down again... #buildinpublic

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11 months

Cooking up something new 🔥

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2 years

🎉Made it into the newspaper with @tales__time today, for all German speakers:

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Ein Berner Start-up verkauft Kindergeschichten, die von einer künstlichen Intelligenz geschrieben und bebildert werden. Ein Experte sieht Potenzial.

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2 years

Any recommendations for payment providers for microtransactions? I'm currently using stripe, but on a 2$ payment, I pay around 20% in fees. #buildinpublic #stripe

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@Hyferion

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10 months

So I built this little tool that generates a property listing based on images. I then pair it with location data, to get even more info and create a customized listing. I'm trying to get feedback from property managers on this. I don't think I can

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1 year

So I'm trying a new marketing move. 1. I look for potential customers on Linkedin 2 I then create a Chatbot trained on their public website 3. I adapt everything to their corporate style 4. I send them the chatbot to try it out Benefits: - Easier for the customer --> Less

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1 year

If that assistant API from @OpenAI was released two months ago I could have saved a ton of code 😂 It just got soooo much easier.

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10 months

Recently I realised I'm trying to do too many things at once. I do freelancing in the blockchain space, AI space, and also general software engineering. Apart from that, as an indie hacker, we are used to doing everything ourselves. Marketing, sales, coding, crying. While it's

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1 year

Touching water today What about you?

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11 months

A local Swiss Newspaper took up a story about my old project @tales__time Nice to see the broader public sparking an interest in AI

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1 year

Touched salt today wbu? #salinasgrandes

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1 year

@Dima_heyqq They want to break the circle 😂

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2 years

@TakoTreba I'm Silas, a blockchain freelancer currently building in my spare time. If you are interested in Blockchain, let's follow each other!

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2 years

Never underestimate the value of consistency. Go one step every day and you will be surprised how far you have come in a year! What's something you try to do every day? #justdoit

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1 year

Sometimes I ask myself how I was able to code before chatGPT 😅

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@Hyferion

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10 months

I took Christmas off to go diving 🐳 It was great to kinda just do nothing for a few days and recharge the batteries 🔋 Now it's back to building! 🚀 How did you spend your holidays?

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@Hyferion

Silas

1 year

After some digging, I will go with @Firebase as a backend for my mobile app. I can use authentication, a no-SQL database, storage for files, and serverless functions. All I need. First time using a service like this. Let's see how it goes!

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10 months

I realised I have to tweet more. I'm currently writing up a recap of 2023 and it gets way too long because I have so much to say. Perhaps I should also get back into long-form texts. It kinda helps me process.

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2 years

Also made my first revenue, it is not much but it is something 🎉

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2 years

Almost at 200 followers, thanks to everybody who follows along! #buildinpublic

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1 year

Today on the menu 🍛 - Fixing the last bugs before going live - Finish Stripe integration There is still a lot of stuff in "MVP" mode. E.g. I have to reset stuff every month manually, quick fixes etc. What are you building today?

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1 year

@avasdream_ @philkellr @dotsilver @oneclassycoder I might try to organize something soon in Zurich

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10 months

@PereAyats I see so many startups doing $10k a month that just do exactly that. You will probably not build a billion dollar business out of it, but for indiehackers there is so much opportunity.

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2 years

I just invested 300$ in the @tailwindcss UI kit. Best money ever spent 😂 Should have done it sooner, it saves me so much time! Who else uses it? #buildinpublic

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2 years

Why is it that free customers always need the most support?

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2 years

@Snowden oh boy, battle is far from over

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2 years

My backend right now 😂

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1 year

I will choose the date tomorrow and make a reservation. So if you want to join as well sign up now! Already 11 builders joining!

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Silas

1 year

Alright 🇨🇭builders, indiehacker, or whatever you want to call yourself. I'm organizing a meetup in Zurich, it will be at a pub (tbd) around Zurich HB. We can get some drinks (and food ofc), and just talk about what comes to mind. Let's find a date!

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10 months

Shipping from the Otter laundry room today 🦦 Let's hope my code is as clean as my clothes 🤓

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1 year

Flying is no excuse for not building 👀😆 Armrests could be a little bigger though

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1 year

@MaxxChewning Dude, if you are happy doing it, nothing is a waste of time!

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1 year

Other indie hackers: cold outreach, adding killer features, patching critical bugs... Me: Look at this arrow pointing at my button. This will get me users right?... right?

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Silas

1 year

This is how Web3 should look like!

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Orca ☀️

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The 🆕 Orca is live. Experience everything you love about the platform in a brand new way. Feel the difference for yourself. 👇

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1 year

So I invested in Linkedin Sales Navigator to get that B2B marketing going. Hit me with your best tips!

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1 year

Working on some visual modification options for the chatbot Thanks @kai_developer for the @screenstudio license! Super cool tool🎉

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10 months

So to talk to as many property managers as possible I extracted LinkedIn profiles that match and sent them a message to reach out and ask for feedback and to try my new tool https://aipropertylisting,com Let's see how this goes!

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Silas

10 months

Is anybody else getting 100s of those notifications a day?!! What the hell is going on with that? @elonmusk

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1 year

If I would actually build a product for every domain I buy then I would be...

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2 years

@NanouuSymeon 8 at least. Sleep is the last thing I will sacrifice. First everything else will get reduced or cut out. Never underestimate the importance of sleep!

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2 years

Quick blockchain Knowledge 🔮 Ever heard of the Blockchain Trilemma? Imagine you want to create your own blockchain. You can choose two out of those three properties: - Decentralization. Who controls your blockchain? - Security. How secure is your blockchain? - Scalability.

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2 years

Launching @tales__time on @ProductHunt tomorrow, any tips or tricks?

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Silas

1 year

Reworked the mobile site from right to left because 50% of traffic is coming from mobile. - Sign up button directly visible - hero takes up less space - timer is bigger Even thinking about putting the newsletter signup above the timer... What do you think?

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1 year

Happy Weekend! 🥳 I implemented some quick prompts for So clients can steer their users in the right direction and give some ideas on what to ask! What are you up to on this beautiful Saturday? 👀

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10 months

@philkellr Hey Philipp, yes it happened a lot! 😂 It was a big jump for me to quit my job. Still very scary but I have faith and give it my all to make it work. 🙏🏼 Moving is currently not an option for me, as my girlfriend can't leave Zurich right now. Just escaping the Swiss winter 🥶 and

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10 months

I gave my personal website a rebranding The old one looked kinda shitty. So it was time to build something new. Of course, I used tailwind UI 😁

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2 years

It is what it is

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2 years

After building all my projects in secret, I will start my journey of #buildinginpublic . I have a few cool ideas that I'm already building or will start. Sharing my learnings and milestones along the way. If you are doing the same, let's follow and learn from each other💪

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10 months

So Midjourney v6 just dropped and it's absolutely crazy! 🤯 Here are some of the first images I created. With the speed at which artificial image generation is progressing, we will have photorealism in a year...

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1 year

After a long hard fight with streaming, it finally works!🎉 Happy about the result, and the improved speed and feel of use it brings my users. Let's see what they think!

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1 year

If I could do it all over again I would skip my CS degree. Instead here is what I would do: - build shit. Instead of sitting in class and learning about how to sort a linked list, just learn what you need to know to go one step further. Repeat. - Start freelancing to build a

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@levelsio

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I changed my mind on this Before COVID I’d say uni is important for discipline and socializing but I feel it’s changed rapidly If I was 18 today I’d skip uni altogether, go nomad and travel the world while building startups Meet random people, get out of your comfort zone,

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How do I send 100s of cold emails a day? --> I identify a niche industry I want to target. Let’s say developer agencies in Zurich. --> I collect email addresses through a Google Maps search on Phantombuster for those agencies. --> I extract those leads into a CSV file I wrote

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10 months

A year ago I set myself the goal of being self-employed. To be honest, the goal wasn't very specific. But for me, that was what I needed. I knew what I was aiming at, now it was just up to my brain to find a way to get there, no matter how. Happy to see I kinda succeeded! Still

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2 years

@daniel_nguyenx I just commented to see what's happening here 😆

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2 years

It is what it is 😂

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Brrrrrr GM

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3 years

Just got a new dog #samo @samoyedcoin

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1 year

🍕🎉Happy #BitcoinPizzaDay !🎉🍕 In 2010, 10,000 #Bitcoin got you 2 pizzas or 16 slices. Today, each slice would be worth a jaw-dropping 15 million CHF! 🤯 Yes, that's per slice! A fun reminder of the incredible journey of #Bitcoin . Who knew pizza could be such a good investment?

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2 years

After only coding the last few days, I will get back to marketing today. Going to focus on Reddit. What's your experience with marketing on Reddit? #buildinpublic

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7 years

Today was not a good day

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