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Student chasing solopreneur dreams. ๐Ÿชฉ Ads in minutes: (acquired) ๐Ÿฅš Auto-retweets:

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Lilian ใƒƒ
1 year
๐Ÿชฉ Introducing โ‡ข Typeframes "Create eye-catching apple-like videos for your product, in minutes" Details in the next tweets โ‡ฃ
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Got my first ever paying customer!
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Sidebird just hit $500 MRR Built in 7 months, from zero, in my bedroom, with average developper skills, pushing code straight to production ๐Ÿ˜„
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Now you can quickly turn any Notion page into a thread on Sidebird โœŒ๏ธ
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Just reached $100 MRR ๐Ÿคฉ๐Ÿ™€
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โœจ New project โœจ ๐Ÿ“น It helps you generate outstanding text-based promo videos for your products, in minutes Not launched yet, but coming soon. Details ๐Ÿ‘‡
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Generating tiktoks from text ๐Ÿชฉ
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2 years
Research shows that altitude makes coding ~0x more productive ๐Ÿง‘โ€๐Ÿ’ป
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Clean setup means clean code, they said ๐Ÿค“
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Designing a tweet editor for notion ui lovers โค๏ธ
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I could literally get used to this ๐Ÿฅน
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Roast the new pricing page of my startup โœŒ๏ธ
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Passed $700 MRR today. What a difference 6 months can make!
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POV: it's 4 am and coding doesn't feel like work ๐ŸŒŠ
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Just crossed $300 MRR ๐Ÿฅณ
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Slightly upgraded the analytics ๐ŸŒฑ
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Sidebird just hit $800 MRR ๐Ÿคฉ
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$200 MRR! ๐Ÿฅณ
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Super proud of this ux design ๐Ÿซ 
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First ever payout from my startup!
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Made $1,672 of pre-sales in 22h with a single tweet ๐Ÿคฏ
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Just hit 5,000 followers. It took ~7 months. The recipe is simple: 1. Write one tweet every day. 2. Comment under inspiring tweets for ~1h daily. That's it.
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$400 MRR! ๐Ÿฅณ
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Customers don't buy clean code, but what solves their problem
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$3,000 /mo with a solo business is more life-changing than a $10m exit
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Generating ads from text ๐Ÿ“€
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Sidebird is live LIVE on Product Hunt! ๐Ÿ˜ป๐Ÿš€ ๐Ÿ“ˆ 700+ creators are now using it to grow their fanbase on twitter ๐Ÿ’ซ Let's see if we can double that! โค๏ธ Your support means the world
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Sidebird crossed 100 customers ๐Ÿ†
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Spiced up my startup's demo ๐ŸŒถ
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Still working on the analytics โœŒ๏ธ
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Just hit 7,000 followers today! Here's on learning: ๐ŸŒฑ With less than 2,000 followers, reply more than you tweet. ๐ŸŒณ With more than 2,000 followers, tweet more than you reply. Consistency will do the rest.
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When you change a frame's duration - now magically re-synchronize everything to the beat
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i turned 22 today! itโ€™s been almost one year i started indie hacking. lots of ups and downs but iโ€™m grateful for everything. my dream is to reach $3,000 /mo in 1.5 years so i can go full-time, it's still a long road but let's see if i can make it. love y'all ๐Ÿซถ
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A video editor, but intuitive
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Just hit 10,000 followers. It took ~12 months. The recipe is simple: 1. Write a tweet every other day (at least) 2. Comment under inspiring tweets ~3x per week. That's it.
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What "I can code that in 1 hour" means: - 2h to build it - 30 min crying f bugs - 1h debugging with console.logs
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Quite proud of this tiny ux progress ๐Ÿซ 
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Change your life: start a side-project ๐Ÿ’ก
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โœจ Added 4k exports to
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First customer after raising my startup's prices! ๐Ÿคฉ
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Ok, this month was crazy: Typeframes ๐Ÿ“น (โ† New!) ๐Ÿ’ธ $3,292 Sidebird ๐Ÿฅš ๐Ÿ’ธ $766 Stackforms ๐Ÿฅž ๐Ÿ’ธ $0 (โ† Failed) Learnings ๐Ÿ‘‡
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Let's be real: i'm unsure my business will survive the new Twitter API pricing, i'm currently searching for ways to make it work on the $100 /mo plan. Thank y'all for the love โค๏ธ
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Your startup can have: - clean code - type checking / linters - automated tests And still get killed by an API pricing change ๐Ÿค“
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Quite proud of that editing UX โœŒ๏ธ
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OK! Super proud of this one. Beat detection now works with *any* soundtrack on . Sound On...๐Ÿ”Š๐Ÿ†™
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Now you can quickly add text gradients on Typeframes โœŒ๏ธ
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Post-launch update: ๐Ÿฅˆ #2 Product of the Day ๐Ÿ”บ 391 upvotes ๐ŸŒ ~1.8k site visits ๐Ÿ–ฑ๏ธ 71 trial sign-ups
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โœ… Planned 2 marketing weeks and a Product Hunt launch ๐Ÿš€
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Two months ago, I set a revenue ๐Ÿ’ฐ goal for my startup. So far: ๐Ÿ’ต $33 โ†’ $107 MRR ๐Ÿ“ˆ 7 โ†’ 18 paying customers ๐Ÿฆ 1k โ†’ 3.3k followers I'm giving myself one month to reach $200 MRR, otherwise i'll quit and move on. Stay tuned ๐Ÿ‘€
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Let's make this month a huge win ๐Ÿ“ˆ
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I reached 1,000 users with my tiny side-project ๐Ÿ˜ฏ
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Sidebird - February report โœ๏ธ ๐Ÿ’ฐ $905 revenue (+45.4%) ๐Ÿ’ธ $414 MRR (+82.3%) ๐Ÿง‘โ€๐Ÿ’ป 22,K visits (+85%) ๐Ÿ‘‹ 682 signups (+73%) ๐Ÿ’ณ 28 new customers (+16%) ๐Ÿ’” 5 churns
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Post-launch update: ๐Ÿ–ฑ๏ธ~5k site visits โœ๏ธ 400 sign-ups ๐Ÿ’ธ $990 revenue
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I never imagined I would wake up to a $1,000 stripe notification ๐Ÿคฏ Turns out I was right
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Fastest way to find startup ๐Ÿ’ฐ ideas: 1. Tweet "guess what's my new project" 2. Add a curious blurred image to it 3. Save replies to notion
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Some final touches before tomorrow's launch ๐Ÿชฉ
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Someone asked to acquire my startup! ๐Ÿ’ฐ He offered $2k ( 4x ARR ) ๐Ÿ’€ So I raised to $10k... ๐Ÿฅธ He kindly declined and wished me good luck ๐Ÿ€ Back to building ๐Ÿคฃ
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My indie hacker dream: bootstrapping a profitable startup that allows me to spend time with loved ones without worrying too much about money.
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Underrated fact: customer support makes more money than features
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Now you can effortlessly setup an auto-plug on Sidebird โœŒ๏ธ
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Product Hunt launch scheduled on Saturday โฐ
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The countdown has started ๐Ÿ™€
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Your ideas can become startups in 24h: 1. Landing page to highlight the problem 2. Solve it with one feature 3. Stripe buy button 4. Launch
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Super proud of this new animation system โœŒ๏ธ
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You can now install Sidebird as an app ๐Ÿ‘Š
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Now you can find the perfect time to tweet on Sidebird โœŒ๏ธ
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Introducing Sidebird v2 ๐Ÿฟ โœ๏ธ write tweets with notion-like "/" commands ๐ŸŽ speed-up with keyboard shortcuts โœจ minimal + mobile-friendly UI to save more time try it now โฎ‘
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Sprinkling some social proof ๐ŸคŒโœจ
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"Wow I really like your tech stack" Said no paying customer ever.
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Burnout is a reality. I took the last 5 days off of twitter and will take more. Sorry if i missed your message, i feel guilty but i know it's necessary break, Currently looking for better ways to organise my days to reduce stress and anxiety.
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Sidebird - January report โœ๏ธ ๐Ÿ’ฐ $629 revenue! (+1,434%) ๐Ÿ’ธ $227 MRR (+164%) ๐Ÿ‘€ 12.5K visits (+341%) ๐Ÿ–ฑ๏ธ 393 signups (+368%) ๐Ÿ‘‹ 24 new customers (+380%) ๐Ÿ’” 4 churns Crazy month.
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Happy Sunday from Switzerland ๐Ÿ‡จ๐Ÿ‡ญ
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Being alone is dangerously addictive once you get used to it
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Sidebird just got a new followers chart โœŒ๏ธ
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Been upgrading those analytics today ๐ŸŒฑ
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OK now i can say it: Sidebird will survive the API tragedy. I've spent the last couple days comparing different solutions. It will run on the $100 /mo plan. Details below ๐Ÿ‘‡
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Roast the new teaser of my startup ๐Ÿ™ˆ
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Find a startup idea ๐Ÿ’ฐ in less than 1h: 1. Take your favorite saas 2. Find the fastest growing competitor 3. Pick just 1 of their features that you could improve 4. Build
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Added google fonts support โœ…
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It's official, my tiny twitter tool survived the new API pricing ๐Ÿฅณ
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It's launch time. Stackforms is out in the wild โœจ
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POV: you tweeted stripe notifications
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June indie startups results: Typeframes ๐Ÿชฉ (โ† New!) ๐Ÿ’ธ $3,486 Sidebird ๐Ÿฅš ๐Ÿ’ธ $523 Learnings ๐Ÿ‘‡
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Brand new command for sidebird ๐Ÿƒ
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Some pre-launch final touches! โ˜‚๏ธ
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No sales, brutal churn for 5 days... then those 14 minutes ๐ŸŽข
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This month was a rollercoaster: ๐Ÿ™‡โ€โ™‚๏ธ Almost lost motivation ๐Ÿ’ธ Got a $16,000 acquisition offer ๐ŸŽ‰ Rleased typeframes Full story here โ†“
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I reached 2K followers today, thank you all โค๏ธ
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POV they said you should โ€œelevateโ€ your coding skills
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F*ck MVPs, let's make $10k+ with a stripe link in a tweet ๐Ÿคฉ
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1st time startup founder: "how am i going to code that?" 2nd time founder: "how am i going to attract them?"
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Typeframes now supports external videos โœŒ๏ธ
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Stripe bell rang 2x last night ๐Ÿ””. That means my startup has just crossed the famous 10 paying customers mark!
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January started with 0 new customers for 2 weeks ๐Ÿ’€ In the meantime, I was struggling to code a new feature. ๐Ÿ™‡โ€โ™‚๏ธ Super tough and demotivating... ๐Ÿฅฒ Then I remembered that most people never get a single customer ๐Ÿคทโ€โ™‚๏ธ I already had 17. I felt grateful ๐Ÿคฉ Be grateful โค๏ธ
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Evolution of my indie hacker dream: 1. Make money. 2. Make money and do what i love. 3. Make money and do what i love and have time left for family, friends, sports, relax etc.
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What would you do after a $10m exit?
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Improving the end-of-trial experience ๐Ÿฏ
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Ui upgrade for my startup ๐Ÿคœ๐Ÿค›
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Here's what I do after a feature is ๐Ÿšข shipped: 1. Send an email update 2. Announce it on twitter 3. Write a blog article Rep after rep, that's my approach to marketing!
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If you donโ€™t regularly break your app in production, you ship too slow
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