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I just tried @Hetzner_Online and here's what I got 🥲 Just so you know, I registered with a business email. Not sure what's wrong on my side. Has anyone #buildinpublic had the same experience?

🚨 Today I'm super stoked to share Mumu. A macOS app that I've been wanting for some time. It's an emoji picker that you could count on. 😊 👉 producthunt.com/posts/mumu 1/ Here's the story 👇

I admit it, @dannypostmaa is a crazy-rich indie maker. I reached out to him because I realized I haven't bought his SEO course. Well, I've been a big fan of him for a long time, so I was a little bit nervous. Casually, I asked whether his SEO course could help me market my stuff better in this crowded market. With no sales tricks, he just gave it for FREE ✨ You read it right. $89 (and more) worth of values that he gave without a paywall! 💥 I can't wait to dive in and see how it works out! Thank you so much, Danny! 🙏

Just asked my startup advisor how to navigate the journey to $10,000 MRR. Here's a comprehensive answer from him: #buildinpublic

I'm pivoting Lavish 💫 I almost burned out while working on it. It's a mix of excitement – the tech, @stripe notifications, conversations with customers – but also, churn. Until today, I always thought that churn was destructing. It's not. Not even close. What's more damaging is customers pulling us in different directions. And the implications are obnoxious. → Start by adding more features → The product starts to get bloated → The startup becomes hard to market → The product-market fit drifts further away It took some time to internalize it, and one fine afternoon... I finally got it. Lavish shouldn't be an email marketing platform. Instead, it should be an API. Yes, an email API platform, so anyone can build whatever they want on top of the API. That sounded great, but I didn't act on it for a while. I let that idea sit in my head while running Lavish. But suddenly on the other day, all the painful memories about email API came flooding back. • The lengthy verification process • Random account suspension with no support • Bad developer experience • Unstable deliverability • You name it! I've been there myself, and so have some friends. And at some point, I decided to take the leap. Introducing Poodle – usepoodle.com ✨🐩 It's an email API for busy product engineers. You can make anything with it, literally. Transactional emails? All set! Everything you can imagine to send emails, we've got your back! The end goal is to let you set things up quickly, so that you can get back to shipping. And I know, there are so many email APIs on the planet. Here's what makes Poodle different: – We are totally bootstrapped – We don't aim to capture the whole market – We build upon simplicity, reliability, and speed – We are here to serve product engineers as long as we can – ... and many more Well well well 🎶, we are just getting started! I can't wait to see what you'll be making with Poodle. As always, please don't hesitate to ping me if you have any feedback. P.S. Even though I'm a bootstrapped founder, I wouldn't be here without the strong #buildinpublic community behind me. • The crazy-rich @dannypostmaa and his SEO course • The mindful @DmytroKrasun (trying to fix the ICP here) • The algo cracker @d4m1n (there is 'literally' here) 😅 • The boilerplate guy @poppacalypse • The accountability buddy @lululi_lululi • ... and you. Yes, you! Thank you all for supporting my journey. You are AWESOME! 💥

Today, I’m excited to share what I’ve been working on for the past few months ✨ I call it Lavish / lavish.so Like everyone else, I made Lavish because I was frustrated with the email marketing tools out there. They were complex, hard to use, and charged so much money just because they could. I’m working to flip the script. I believe we deserve a simple and powerful tool to send emails. A minimal, zen environment to write emails and a few clicks to send them out. All without worrying about hitting limits. That’s what I’ve done so far with Lavish. It’s literally day one here – the work has just begun. So please try it and let me know if you have any feedback. I’ll truly appreciate it. Also, I’d be grateful if you could spread the word to those who might need it. Your support means the world to me! If you’ve read this far, thank you so much for your attention. I can’t wait to see you on board :)

I have been working on Lavish around 3 months, but I realized I haven't launched it on product discovery platforms like @ProductHunt Well, I also heard horrible stories from indies that had not been covered. Is @UneedLists the go-to indie platform for launching these days?

There are many prolific makers I don't know yet, but I'll share those that I enjoy interacting so far. – @therealjayber – @phuctm97 – @felix12777 – @username_ZAYDEK – @daniel_nguyenx – @SDinesh91 – @MeetKevon – @valsopi – @jasonleowsg – @dominiksumer Who are your favorite ones?

I'm glad to announce that Feedbackpaw has been acquired by @hugovanderhorst 🎉 Hugo has a good roadmap on what to do next, so I believe he'll cook interesting things with it. Here's a quick flashback to what happened: - Hugo DMed me and asked to acquire Feedbackpaw - I said

I'm excited to share what I've been working on ✨ Meet feedbackpaw.com – the simplest way to organize your feedback, so that you can focus on building great a product with customers and increase retention. Try it for free and let me know your feedback ;) #buildinpublic

There’s no better way to wrap up 2024 than this: Lavish has reached $828 ARR! 🎉 I dedicate this post to all makers who are still finding their first few customers. Is there anything you want to know behind the scenes? I might write a blog post to unpack more. #buildinpublic

Making feature pages reminded me that everyone will optimize for search – ehm.., AI, ehm.. – in its time ⏰ That said, it's a wrap for my marketing week 🎊 I worked mainly on visitors-to-signups conversion, and I'll report back the result next week. #buildinpublic

I'm hanging out at @RamenClubHQ today ✨ I love their leaderboard page – you post what you shipped on the Slack channel, and then you get ranked! #10 is not bad for the first-timer, isn't it? 😊 I'm excited to see how it goes 💫

I just tried @Hetzner_Online and here's what I got 🥲 Just so you know, I registered with a business email. Not sure what's wrong on my side. Has anyone #buildinpublic had the same experience?

I admit it, @dannypostmaa is a crazy-rich indie maker. I reached out to him because I realized I haven't bought his SEO course. Well, I've been a big fan of him for a long time, so I was a little bit nervous. Casually, I asked whether his SEO course could help me market my stuff better in this crowded market. With no sales tricks, he just gave it for FREE ✨ You read it right. $89 (and more) worth of values that he gave without a paywall! 💥 I can't wait to dive in and see how it works out! Thank you so much, Danny! 🙏

🚨 Today I'm super stoked to share Mumu. A macOS app that I've been wanting for some time. It's an emoji picker that you could count on. 😊 👉 producthunt.com/posts/mumu 1/ Here's the story 👇

Today, I’m excited to share what I’ve been working on for the past few months ✨ I call it Lavish / lavish.so Like everyone else, I made Lavish because I was frustrated with the email marketing tools out there. They were complex, hard to use, and charged so much money just because they could. I’m working to flip the script. I believe we deserve a simple and powerful tool to send emails. A minimal, zen environment to write emails and a few clicks to send them out. All without worrying about hitting limits. That’s what I’ve done so far with Lavish. It’s literally day one here – the work has just begun. So please try it and let me know if you have any feedback. I’ll truly appreciate it. Also, I’d be grateful if you could spread the word to those who might need it. Your support means the world to me! If you’ve read this far, thank you so much for your attention. I can’t wait to see you on board :)

Just asked my startup advisor how to navigate the journey to $10,000 MRR. Here's a comprehensive answer from him: #buildinpublic

I'm pivoting Lavish 💫 I almost burned out while working on it. It's a mix of excitement – the tech, @stripe notifications, conversations with customers – but also, churn. Until today, I always thought that churn was destructing. It's not. Not even close. What's more damaging is customers pulling us in different directions. And the implications are obnoxious. → Start by adding more features → The product starts to get bloated → The startup becomes hard to market → The product-market fit drifts further away It took some time to internalize it, and one fine afternoon... I finally got it. Lavish shouldn't be an email marketing platform. Instead, it should be an API. Yes, an email API platform, so anyone can build whatever they want on top of the API. That sounded great, but I didn't act on it for a while. I let that idea sit in my head while running Lavish. But suddenly on the other day, all the painful memories about email API came flooding back. • The lengthy verification process • Random account suspension with no support • Bad developer experience • Unstable deliverability • You name it! I've been there myself, and so have some friends. And at some point, I decided to take the leap. Introducing Poodle – usepoodle.com ✨🐩 It's an email API for busy product engineers. You can make anything with it, literally. Transactional emails? All set! Everything you can imagine to send emails, we've got your back! The end goal is to let you set things up quickly, so that you can get back to shipping. And I know, there are so many email APIs on the planet. Here's what makes Poodle different: – We are totally bootstrapped – We don't aim to capture the whole market – We build upon simplicity, reliability, and speed – We are here to serve product engineers as long as we can – ... and many more Well well well 🎶, we are just getting started! I can't wait to see what you'll be making with Poodle. As always, please don't hesitate to ping me if you have any feedback. P.S. Even though I'm a bootstrapped founder, I wouldn't be here without the strong #buildinpublic community behind me. • The crazy-rich @dannypostmaa and his SEO course • The mindful @DmytroKrasun (trying to fix the ICP here) • The algo cracker @d4m1n (there is 'literally' here) 😅 • The boilerplate guy @poppacalypse • The accountability buddy @lululi_lululi • ... and you. Yes, you! Thank you all for supporting my journey. You are AWESOME! 💥

I have been working on Lavish around 3 months, but I realized I haven't launched it on product discovery platforms like @ProductHunt Well, I also heard horrible stories from indies that had not been covered. Is @UneedLists the go-to indie platform for launching these days?

There are many prolific makers I don't know yet, but I'll share those that I enjoy interacting so far. – @therealjayber – @phuctm97 – @felix12777 – @username_ZAYDEK – @daniel_nguyenx – @SDinesh91 – @MeetKevon – @valsopi – @jasonleowsg – @dominiksumer Who are your favorite ones?

I'm excited to share what I've been working on ✨ Meet feedbackpaw.com – the simplest way to organize your feedback, so that you can focus on building great a product with customers and increase retention. Try it for free and let me know your feedback ;) #buildinpublic

Is @posthog a go-to analytics tool for indies? If you don't use it, why?

I'm glad to announce that Feedbackpaw has been acquired by @hugovanderhorst 🎉 Hugo has a good roadmap on what to do next, so I believe he'll cook interesting things with it. Here's a quick flashback to what happened: - Hugo DMed me and asked to acquire Feedbackpaw - I said

So.., #buildinpublic is dead now? I saw more people took off their craft and preferred to build in private (stealth mode). Which side are you on? As the velocity to make a new product becomes faster, the marketing part becomes harder. What do you think?