Josef Büttgen @josefbuettgen Twitter profile

Pinned Tweet

Josef Büttgen

1 year

In December 2022 @Melanie_Klenner and I started building to scale her own dance agency business. Since then ✅ - 14 courses and > 20.000€ in course revenue volume. Goal 🎯 - Support 120+ more teachers scale their business.

1

0

22

Last Seen Profiles

@TangkwasW

@TheFactFindr

@rolldog2006

@itiha1800

@LoganThornburgh

@Miranadrag

@PhStockExchange

@iza_arenas

@zeenohh

@Annhighflyer

@Idems440

@kuuromwi

@thatfilokiddo

@magiliwmo

@mochaclip

@shirasu_umai3

@woahrowan

@Tamyou_

@KSA_farsi

@pawpadded

@TaniyahD95451

@CoupleIntimaci

@SkolSouth

@kopebrasil

@DoctorEddyMD

@RuthBudiana

@40gRc

@25LegendsAm

@_CheeseFrog_

@5StarPreps

@24LV4

@sukamamakstw

@GabbieHanna

@029LSM

@sssummerssseass

@qiqi_cals

Josef Büttgen

@josefbuettgen

9 months

19% VAT, Reverse-Charge, lowered VAT rates, excluding or including VAT, add/dismiss VATIN, ……..

28

6

246

Josef Büttgen

@josefbuettgen

1 year

🎉🚀 Exciting news! 🎉🚀 🔥 After freelancing for almost 2 years, I'm finally taking the leap! 🤸‍♂️ ✨ Saying goodbye to "client calls" and fully hello to building my OWN product! 💪 🎈 Let's connect and make magic happen, one line of code at a time! 🎢

35

9

164

Josef Büttgen

@josefbuettgen

1 year

🎉💸 Achievement unlocked: First SaaS money made! 🚀📈 It's an amazing feeling to see this revenue graph reflecting the fruits of our labor. 😍💪💰 P.S.: It will get us only 3,5 servings of 🍜, but hey: only a couple hundred more required for this month. 😄 #buildinpublic

23

2

112

Josef Büttgen

@josefbuettgen

1 year

3

11

99

Josef Büttgen

@josefbuettgen

8 months

@sobedominik Poor kitty, why are you making it work. 🥹

1

0

82

Josef Büttgen

@josefbuettgen

3 months

Desperately waiting for that reply from @ycombinator . On this photo you see me with everything I carry around and live with at the moment. Moved to another country to extend runway after already moving country to extend runway. This is our last shot.

Josef Büttgen

@josefbuettgen

3 months

[Setter AI News] Update on YC Application 🗞️

2

0

11

2

46

Josef Büttgen

@josefbuettgen

2 years

Can't wait after 3 years!

5

0

47

Josef Büttgen

@josefbuettgen

9 months

Working from a different city today. Was a great first day here in KL! 🇲🇾

9

0

45

Josef Büttgen

@josefbuettgen

3 months

Random coffee machine in Bangkok has better coffee than many cafes in Germany.

22

2

43

Josef Büttgen

@josefbuettgen

3 months

@sobedominik This tweet is quite long, Dom. Mind, if I watch a subway surfer compilation while reading this?

2

0

37

Josef Büttgen

@josefbuettgen

5 years

See you in San Jose. Can’t wait! 🤯 #WWDCScholars

6

0

32

Josef Büttgen

@josefbuettgen

9 months

I want a SaaS boilerplate for building SaaS boilerplates.

11

0

29

Josef Büttgen

@josefbuettgen

3 months

My coworker sometimes tired. What should I do?

13

0

25

Josef Büttgen

@josefbuettgen

9 months

Soon 300x processed payments via ! 👀

2

1

18

Josef Büttgen

@josefbuettgen

2 years

Exploring SF before #WWDC22 . Thanks for the cool photos, @gregheo ! 📸

2

0

16

Josef Büttgen

@josefbuettgen

9 months

🚀 Shipped New Micro-App 🎯 Just wrapped up a weekend project: LandingSwift 👉 Test different landings in a matter of seconds! Tweak landing copy, creatives, and more without the hassle of constant page creation. 📝⚡🌐 DM me your email for an exclusive access link. 😉

1

0

16

Josef Büttgen

@josefbuettgen

4 months

Let’s have a seat.

4

0

15

Josef Büttgen

@josefbuettgen

3 months

No brain fog. Perfect way to start the day.

10

0

15

Josef Büttgen

@josefbuettgen

1 year

Hacking in Hanoi, Vietnam today for a change! 🇻🇳

3

0

14

Josef Büttgen

@josefbuettgen

9 months

Thrilled listening to @Erwin_AI and @sobedominik on @Bootstr_fm talking about bootstrapping and indie hacking. Recommend tuning in!

0

2

14

Josef Büttgen

@josefbuettgen

1 year

@fryingneurons If you *thought*, you've launched too late.

5

0

14

Josef Büttgen

@josefbuettgen

1 year

Bye, Bangkok! See you soon, Vienna. ✈️

1

0

14

Josef Büttgen

@josefbuettgen

6 years

Really happy about attending this year's #FirebaseSummit in #Prague . 😁 Anyone else there?

3

0

13

Josef Büttgen

@josefbuettgen

4 months

Ready for booking appointments, guys.

3

1

13

Josef Büttgen

@josefbuettgen

5 years

@elonmusk You should definetely #cometotum

0

12

Josef Büttgen

@josefbuettgen

1 year

‘git blame’

3

0

13

Josef Büttgen

@josefbuettgen

6 years

What an awesome week at #WWDC18 ! Thanks to all the people @Apple making this event possible. I’m really happy about new friends and taking a lot of inspiration back home.

0

2

11

Josef Büttgen

@josefbuettgen

1 year

When your SaaS customers start to use the app by themselves after onboarding them manually.

1

0

12

Josef Büttgen

@josefbuettgen

3 months

This is insane. With or without @ycombinator . Submitting that application has already paid off. We woke up to a bunch of people visiting our site and trying our demo. From simply posting that application video.

Timo Nikolai

@timonikolai

3 months

Setter YC video going low key viral 👀

1

0

4

3

0

12

Josef Büttgen

@josefbuettgen

4 months

Evenings are overrated. Mornings are underrated.

2

0

11

Josef Büttgen

@josefbuettgen

1 year

1 more follow to 400, will we make it today still? 👀

3

0

11

Josef Büttgen

@josefbuettgen

1 year

This week our first user (after my Co-Founder) has started using our app. They have now created their first signup form on the platform and will very soon promote it to all their customers. Exciting times ahead.

4

0

11

Josef Büttgen

@josefbuettgen

2 months

drink 833 calories OR add 833$ MRR

5

0

10

Josef Büttgen

@josefbuettgen

4 months

underrated perk of joining the 5am club meeting people who wake up at 5am coming soon transformative morning routine with ice bath, introspective meditation, running 10 miles, eating a whole cow before sunrise, ...

2

1

10

Josef Büttgen

@josefbuettgen

3 months

[Setter AI News] Update on YC Application 🗞️

Timo Nikolai

@timonikolai

3 months

0

3

2

0

11

Josef Büttgen

@josefbuettgen

1 year

@ilyanovohatskyi Because there is no barrier of entry. No one holding you back from doing it. In that sense, startups are the business equivalent to starting a TikTok channel. :)

1

0

11

Josef Büttgen

@josefbuettgen

9 months

Hacked together something new yesterday afternoon. Just ignore how it looks.

2

0

10

Josef Büttgen

@josefbuettgen

1 year

Next one. Feels like playing a video game! 👾🎮

Josef Büttgen

@josefbuettgen

1 year

Next milestone achieved. 1 Mio. clicks soon! 🏁

1

0

8

2

0

10

Josef Büttgen

@josefbuettgen

6 years

Just created a business card for Apple's passbook. 😁 What a handy way to share your information!

4

1

10

Josef Büttgen

@josefbuettgen

2 years

Switching from mobile to web development yields such a paradigm shift, since the ways of delivering to your users suddenly seem so vast.

0

10

Josef Büttgen

@josefbuettgen

1 year

Trying to code today, but running into major blockers… 🐱➡️💻

2

0

10

Josef Büttgen

@josefbuettgen

9 months

This guy sold his company for over 15 million dollars and his Co-founder left just before the sale because he didn't believe they could make it. 💸 And the crazy part? It was a simple GPT wrapper. This is how he did it 👇

Tech At Bloomberg

@TechAtBloomberg

7 years

WATCH: @EmilyChangTV chats w/ Jian-Yang about his "Not Hotdog" app. Download it today (really): #SiliconValleyHBO

70

1K

2K

3

0

10

Josef Büttgen

@josefbuettgen

1 year

Congrats to all Swift student challenge winners! Attending WWDC was a transformative experience for me, so enjoy. 🥳 Everyone else who did not win this time: heads up, there is always a next year. 🙏🏼

0

10

Josef Büttgen

@josefbuettgen

3 months

Just listened through 52x recorded AI phone calls. Most people don't even realize they are talking to AI at this point. This is insane.

1

0

10

Josef Büttgen

@josefbuettgen

3 months

Happy start to upcoming week, my dudes.

2

0

9

Josef Büttgen

@josefbuettgen

2 months

🚢 [NEW SHIP] Calendly Booking API 🆕 Background: Calendly has an API, but does not offer any endpoint for event scheduling. Since there are a lot of requests for this, we're launching our Calendly booking API to the public. Sign up today.

Calendly Booking API - Schedule Event via API

Schedule events automatically through our Calendly scheduling API.

www.trysetter.com

1

0

9

Josef Büttgen

@josefbuettgen

1 year

Rate my freelance work scribbling set up. 📝

2

0

9

Josef Büttgen

@josefbuettgen

9 months

me before: microservice architecture terraform infra e2e, integration, UI, unit tests custom auth service unforgiving code reviews with 3+ reviewers me now: only programming in HTML

1

0

9

Josef Büttgen

@josefbuettgen

1 year

Maker logs 🛠️ - CourseStart [ #007 ] Improved the dragging behaviour of the form builder. Felt way buggier before, will have better sleep at night now. 😉

2

1

9

Josef Büttgen

@josefbuettgen

2 years

Playing around with Apples hand recognition features from Vision presented at WWDC 2020: Where can I find the apps implementing this??

0

9

Josef Büttgen

@josefbuettgen

1 year

💡Sales tip of the day: If you're struggling with rejection start learning a fighting sport (Boxing, MMA, BJJ, ...). You won't make more sales, but you're getting used to being kicked in the face over and over again! 🥋

0

8

Josef Büttgen

@josefbuettgen

1 year

Indie Hacking Battle Plan ⚔️ Quit job -> Eat up savings-> Freelance -> Eat up savings again -> Freelance again -> … -> Not eating up savings anymore (?)

2

0

9

Josef Büttgen

@josefbuettgen

1 year

Today‘s run views. 🏃🥹

1

0

8

Josef Büttgen

@josefbuettgen

1 year

Shower thought: If I use Tailwind, am I still a bootstrapper?

3

1

8

Josef Büttgen

@josefbuettgen

2 months

🔊 [sound on] Her (2013) vs. OpenAI GPT-4o (2024) 1:1 comparison do you think OpenAI stole the voice of Scarlett Johansson?

3

0

8

Josef Büttgen

@josefbuettgen

10 months

[Please share your feedback] Trying new loading spinner designs for . What y'all think?

2

0

8

Josef Büttgen

@josefbuettgen

1 year

Twitter these days: AI, AI, AI, AI, AI, AI, AI, AI, AI, AI, AI, AI, AI, AI, AI, AI, AI, AI, AI, AI, AI, AI, AI, AI, AI, AI, AI, AI, AI, AI, AI, AI, AI, AI, AI, AI, AI, AI, AI, AI, AI, AI, AI, AI, AI, AI, AI, AI, AI, AI, AI, AI, AI, AI, AI, AI, AI, AI, AI, AI, AI, AI, AI, AI, AI.

3

0

8

Josef Büttgen

@josefbuettgen

1 year

Marketing mode -> ON 🚀

2

0

8

Josef Büttgen

@josefbuettgen

1 year

Next milestone achieved. 1 Mio. clicks soon! 🏁

1

0

8

Josef Büttgen

@josefbuettgen

1 year

LGTM

0

8

Josef Büttgen

@josefbuettgen

4 months

Why haven't I thought of this yet? Can ask GPT to improve my UI/UX from screenshots. No-brainer.

2

0

8

Josef Büttgen

@josefbuettgen

10 months

The great trinity of applying recursion: - CS exams - FAANG technical interviews - Building nav bars with collapsable sub menus

2

0

7

Josef Büttgen

@josefbuettgen

1 year

@levelsio This feels like a Christopher Nolan movie.

0

6

Josef Büttgen

@josefbuettgen

1 year

Acquiring the first 5 customers that 'love' our app is the single most important goal that we identified a couple days ago for . We are currently at 2/5 of such customers. Strategy: Manually handpick these 3 remaining users with methods that don't scale.

Josef Büttgen

@josefbuettgen

1 year

Trying to be obsessed with one single goal at a time and direct all resources with laser-sharp focus to only this.

0

2

1

0

7

Josef Büttgen

@josefbuettgen

1 year

@staticmaker1 👓 Frontend -> SvelteKit ☁️ Backend -> Golang (via Netlify) 📜 Database -> MongoDB (via MongoDB Atlas) 🎨 UI -> Tailwind 🔐 Authentication -> Auth0

0

7

Josef Büttgen

@josefbuettgen

7 months

'12 Startups in 12 Months' is actually a secret marketing stunt by Namecheap and has been driving most of their revenue since. Trust me, it's true.

0

7

Josef Büttgen

@josefbuettgen

10 months

🆕🚀 Launched a job board for German speaking dance teachers! Finding teachers as a school or finding jobs as a teacher is a super common problem! Therefore we decided to build a simple Notion page and send email updates on new entries. Check it out:

1

0

7

Josef Büttgen

@josefbuettgen

1 year

The only thing standing between you and ultimate success is one prompt.

3

0

7

Josef Büttgen

@josefbuettgen

6 years

#hackatum #2018

1

0

7

Josef Büttgen

@josefbuettgen

8 months

This is going way better than expected so far. 5 days into focused marketing and already two 'fake' payments, so virtually we're at 74$ MRR already. 🥹 If validation goes on like this, this product will see the day of light very soon.

Josef Büttgen

@josefbuettgen

8 months

Built a little 'fake' credit card field today inspired by @levelsio and his approach to idea validation (no data stored). Shipping my latest idea right now and wanted to keep the scope as small as possible to not waste any time testing. DM me if you'd like to have the code.

3

0

2

1

0

7

Josef Büttgen

@josefbuettgen

1 year

Daily struggle as an indie hacker.

0

1

8

Josef Büttgen

@josefbuettgen

1 year

Was wondering why my app was not sending any PDFs along with the confirmation email anymore. While debugging I noticed that I had hit the free limits of the PDF API. 😅 Fastest use of credit card for me ever. 💳

1

0

7

Josef Büttgen

@josefbuettgen

4 months

In German we don't say, 'Time is Money'. We say: 'Every minute costs you 100 Euro.'

0

6

Josef Büttgen

@josefbuettgen

1 year

@sobedominik @alexstyl @phuctm97 @sanderfish @decipad Had to try it ourselves. Thanks for the rec, @phuctm97 . ☕️

2

0

6

Josef Büttgen

@josefbuettgen

1 year

3x months in with and ranking at #2 on Google search for 'coursestart'. 📈 Next achievements: Rank for #1 and after that rank for 'course start' and 'start course'. 😄

1

6

Josef Büttgen

@josefbuettgen

1 year

GitHub Copilot created the color palette. Will tweak the colors (too saturated), but I'm still impressed. 😄

3

0

6

Josef Büttgen

@josefbuettgen

1 year

@yongfook How the world would be, if companies understood this:

1

0

6

Josef Büttgen

@josefbuettgen

3 months

Sending another customer to production. LFG! ⚡

0

6

Josef Büttgen

@josefbuettgen

4 months

"The Builder's Dilemma Paradox": If you're not making anything, you can't think of ideas. But if you start building, too many ideas come and you can't use them all.

1

0

6

Josef Büttgen

@josefbuettgen

4 months

Name a single thing that's better than a customer going into production with your software.

2

0

6

Josef Büttgen

@josefbuettgen

1 year

@marvinvonhagen Don‘t stretch it… 😀

0

6

Josef Büttgen

@josefbuettgen

8 months

Become the person you would not bet against.

0

6

Josef Büttgen

@josefbuettgen

4 months

How to enter God mode while coding: Put on 'Two Steps From Hell'. Prompt ChatGPT to write your code. Thank me later.

2

0

6

Josef Büttgen

@josefbuettgen

1 year

One of my favourite macOS bugs: Reproduce: 1. Play music via AirPods (e.g. on Spotify) 2. Start Android emulator 3. 👉 music quality drops / gets distorted Fix: 4. Disconnect & reconnect Bluetooth 5. Resume music 6. 👉 music plays nicely again

6

0

6

Josef Büttgen

@josefbuettgen

1 year

Two years ago I built up an Instagram channel I posted self-made sketches in a very specific niche to, to around 1100 followers in a matter of 4-5 months. Read on 👇

2

0

6

Josef Büttgen

@josefbuettgen

5 months

Onto something. Feeling the pull.

Timo Nikolai

@timonikolai

5 months

6 weeks in @TrySetter people already recommending us 🚀 good job @josefbuettgen

0

1

3

1

0

6

Josef Büttgen

@josefbuettgen

5 years

You can adjust the icon color of the WWDC app. 👀 #WWDC2019 #WWDCScholars

0

6

Josef Büttgen

@josefbuettgen

1 year

Wow, did not expect this last tweet to blow up as much as it did. 🤯 Welcome everyone new joining the indie journey of @Melanie_Klenner and me, happy to have you here! For context: 6 months ago we started building . Read on👇

Josef Büttgen

@josefbuettgen

1 year

🎉🚀 Exciting news! 🎉🚀 🔥 After freelancing for almost 2 years, I'm finally taking the leap! 🤸‍♂️ ✨ Saying goodbye to "client calls" and fully hello to building my OWN product! 💪 🎈 Let's connect and make magic happen, one line of code at a time! 🎢

35

9

164

2

0

6

Josef Büttgen

@josefbuettgen

1 year

Stargazing on Nyepi (the Balinese ‘silent day’).

1

0

6

Josef Büttgen

@josefbuettgen

3 months

Late nights are for the creative side of the brain. 🧠 Writing some banger industry-relevant SEO content fueled by 85% cocoa and lightened skyline views.

0

6

Josef Büttgen

@josefbuettgen

6 months

Can‘t beat good old flowcharts.

1

0

6

Josef Büttgen

@josefbuettgen

9 months

📊🔎 Our little job board for dance teachers has now been around for a couple of days and we are quite happy with the results so far. 🎯 Regular job posts and teacher signups are coming in every day with everything running on auto-pilot (kind of). 👇

2

0

6

Josef Büttgen

@josefbuettgen

2 months

Absolutely stoked today! New major feature for @TrySetter : ➡️ Automated Follow-ups ⬅️ AI follows-up with your leads automatically if the first call goes to voicemail. ⏰ Customize follow-up schedule + working hours by time zone. This will 📈 appointments booked like crazy.

3

0

6

Josef Büttgen

@josefbuettgen

3 months

Good enough

2

0

6

Josef Büttgen

@josefbuettgen

3 months

@ycombinator taking it from here. Fingers crossed.

1

0

5

Josef Büttgen

@josefbuettgen

4 months

Always cheer your customers on and remind them how much they win from using your product.

1

0

5

Josef Büttgen

@josefbuettgen

1 year

@Erwin_AI Me: I am using Chrome devtools to change Tailwind classes and this guy in the coworking is staring over at my screen all the time. The urge to tell him to use Tailwind is UNREAL. Just kidding, go for it. He may be very grateful for you telling him!

1

0

5

Josef Büttgen

@josefbuettgen

4 months

<insert some word here> AI

0

5

Josef Büttgen

@josefbuettgen

3 months

this is weird our phone AI just gave me a call by itself and told me to take the tweet down finds it inappropriate is this normal LLM behaviour @sama @OpenAI ?

Josef Büttgen

@josefbuettgen

3 months

be careful working with AI ROI can be great but it can get out of control our AI now books meetings back to back and does not stop our sales calendar is overflowing with meetings at this point send help

0

2

0

5