Incredible, we did it!
@supastarter
crossed $100k revenue ๐ฅ๐คฏ
I am so stoked and thankful for all the support from the
#buildinpublic
community. This would not have been possible without you โค๏ธ
Today I am starting a new daily tweet series on helpful tools for developers and designers:
๐จ๐ผโ๐ป Daily dev tips
#1
โก๏ธ
Easily create and export
@tailwindcss
color shade palettes for your brand.
โจ
@tailwindcss
quick tip โจ
You can create a beautiful border gradient effect by stacking to divs and giving first one a background gradient and the second one a filled background ๐ ๐ผ
Let me know, what tips you would like to see next ๐
Woke up to two Stripe notifications and
@supastarter
just crossed โฌ2000 in total revenue ๐ฅ๐
This feeling makes all the work absolutely worth it ๐
supastarter ๐ build in public log
#44
It's just incredible. What started as a silly side project 9 months ago, now made me $3k+ the third month in a row ๐ฅ
And you can probably call this ๐ ramen-profitable now, all thanks to
#buildinpublic
๐คฏ
Let's see where we can take it๐
โจ TailwindCSS Quick Tip โจ
โก๏ธ Snap scroll to elements
๐ก Use snap-y or snap-x to automatically let the scrolling (vertically or horizontally) snap to an element.
Five months ago I started
@supastarter
as a small side project, not knowing if it would be worth anything to anyone ๐ค
1st month: โฌ 190 ๐
2nd month: โฌ 145 ๐ค
3rd month: โฌ 426 ๐
4th month: โฌ 362 ๐
5th moth: โฌ 2050 ๐ฅ
Learning: Keep going and be patient ๐
This is incredible ๐คฏ
I am actually coding on an iPad with an external monitor using
@github
codespaces ๐ฅ
Something like this would have been unimaginable a few years ago
Indie hackers, what is ramen-profitability for you? ๐ ๐ถ
For me living in Germany it is about โฌ4.5k - โฌ5k which is actually not that easy to reach ๐
Let me know what yours is and why ๐
Can't believe what's going here ๐คฏ
Another morning, another Stripe notification and around 60 new followers since yesterday ๐
Seems like the commitment and marketing finally pays off a bit ๐
What are your plans for today, friends? โ๏ธ
For me, it's refactoring supastarter ๐จ๐ผโ๐ป
On Sunday I turned 27 and since my last birthday I made $35k+ with indie hacking, compared to $2k the year before ๐ฅ
Until my next birthday I want to reach $60k (starting from zero today), let's see if we can get there ๐
#buildinpublic
Indie hackers with a full time job after working the whole weekend on their fun side project and now having to go back to regular work โฆ
#indiehackerlife
#buildinpublic
โจ Tailwind CSS quick tip
โก๏ธ Scroll margin
๐คฏ This blew my mind, when I found out it possible.
๐ก Use scroll margin to scroll to an element with offset. This is super useful when you have a fixed header on your page and want to scroll to a section.
supastarter ๐
#buildinpublic
log
๐ Another milestone
After switching to
@lmsqueezy
in February supastarter has finally crossed the โฌ10k mark there, making it โฌ15k+ in total now (prev Stripe) ๐คฏ
It's incredibly motivating and I am really thankful for all your support ๐ฅ
Crosses 1500 followers today ๐คฏ
I have been actively growing my twitter audience for 6 months now. Here is how many new followers I got each month:
Aug: 15 ๐
Sep: 45 ๐
Oct: 44 ๐คซ
Nov: 179 ๐ฅณ
Dec: 458 ๐คฉ
Jan: 661 (so far) ๐ฅ
โก๏ธ Engagement & consistency are the keys to success
After countless variations of my logo redesign here is the result for now ๐ฅ
I need to sleep some nights to make a final decision, but I love it so far!
Thank you all for you feedback ๐
Alright, let's revive daily
@tailwindcss
tips with a new design for the new year โจ
โก๏ธ size-* utility
Since v3.4 you can now use size-* to set width and height at the same time.
In the last 24 hours
@supastarter
made over $3k ๐คฏ
The
@nuxt_js
version is smashing it ๐
So glad to be working with the brilliant
@madebyfabian
on this!
What a morning friends โ๏ธ๐
I just found out supastarter is listed as the top boilerplate on , which is super awesome ๐คฏ
Besides that I woke up to two new Stripe notifications, crossing โฌ 4000 revenue in total!
Motivation is on ๐ฅ
Enjoy your coffee!
There goes another milestone ๐๐
Finally crossed the 3000 followers!
Thank you so much to everyone, I'll do my best to keep the content coming ๐
After
@vercel
announced vercel storage yesterday I am incredibly excited for the next announcements of their ship week! ๐ฅ
What you think it could be?
My guess is that it has something to do with auth ๐ We'll know in less than 3 hours.
Took a week off to go on a beautiful ski vacation and this was the view for the last days โ๏ธโ๏ธ
Just realised again, how important some rest is for indie hackers ๐ค
Now recovered to get back to work on supastarter ๐
How was your week?
supastarter ๐ build in public log
#14
I completely underestimated the power of pricing.
Last week I increased the price of supastarter from $149 to โฌ299.
The result is a mind-blowing revenue of โฌ1210 in one week๐คฏ
Higher price โก๏ธ Increased perceived value โก๏ธ more sales
Tailwind CSS quick tip โจ
โก๏ธ text-balance
Ever had the problem, that your headline broke into a new line strangely on a certain viewpoint?
Well no longer, because with text-balance your text will always be perfectly balanced for every width!
This is so crazy ๐คฏ
@supastarter
for
@nuxt_js
made $1000 in the first hour ๐ฅ
If you want to get the launch deal, I guess you need to be fast now ๐
Indie Hackers I need your support. This asshole copied the landing page of supastarter 1:1 and is selling a copy of it ๐ก
โผ๏ธPLEASE DONT BUY THIS! โผ๏ธ
Don't know what to say ๐คฏ Not even 2 months ago I was far below 1k followers and now it's already 2k!
Just a huge thanks to everyone following me on my journey and I promise will keep the content coming ๐ฅ
Wow, supastarter ended up in the top 20 on ProductHunt with over 100 upvotes ๐คฏ
thanks so much to everyone for all the support! ๐๐
Now back to bug fixing and more marketing!
#buildinpublic
Ending October with unbelievable numbers for
@supastarter
๐คฏ
๐ธ $25k total revenue ($6k this month)
๐จโ๐ฉโ๐ง 100+ developers using it to build their SaaS
๐ 2.7k visitors on the landing page this month
Let's get back to work ๐ฅ
Have a good week everyone! ๐
Wow I can't believe it ๐คฏ
Just crossed 4000 followers and therefore reached the first goal for this month ๐ฅณ
Now on to the second goal, releasing
@supastarter
v2 by the end of the month. Still 14 days to go ๐
Quick announcement ๐ฃ
@supastarter
v2 (coming soon) will be using
@shadcn
UI (components built with
@tailwindcss
and
@radix_ui
).
I first started building someone similar based on
@ark_ui_
, but what they offer there is soo good.
I am pretty sure you are going to like it ๐ฅ
My biggest mistake of supastarter:
๐ด Price too low
- started at $49
- increased to $99, $149, $199, $249, $349
- now at $299 again
Why $299? This is the price I got the most sales with over time, but I might increase it in the future.
Quick announcement ๐ฃ
I am taking a week off from Twitter to get some headspace and focus on building ๐งโ๐ป
Iโll be back with
#buildinpublic
and Tailwind CSS tips next week ๐
Keep hacking, friends ๐
A new
#buildinpublic
weekend has begun ๐
Starting mine with a good cortado and some coding for supastarter โ๏ธ๐งโ๐ป
What are you working on?
It's
#buildinpublic
monday again ๐ฅ A new week to build your awesome products.
Drop a link to your SaaS or product below and tell us what you are working on this week ๐
โจTailwindCSS quick tip
โก๏ธ Color opacity
๐ก You can quickly give a color (e.g. text color or bg color) opacity by adding the value with a slash:
text-blue-500/90
bg-pink-100/10
Or use arbitrary values like text-blue-500/[.03]
โจ
@tailwindcss
quick tip โจ
โก๏ธ Divide items
Using the divide-x or divide-y class you can easily add dividers to a list of items (horizontally and vertically).
This is especially useful for navigations or lists ๐ ๐ผ
Indie hackers and bootstrappers, itโs
#buildinpublic
friday ๐ฅ
Drop a link to your SaaS or product and tell us what you have been working on this week ๐
๐งโ๐ป Daily dev tips
#6
โก๏ธ
Itโs like Vercel but for servers, databases and containers. Sync server code from a GitHub repo and have automatic deployments within seconds.
Brilliant developer experience and really good pricing ๐ฅ
#buildinpublic