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oh good luck, it's a tough space to be. some indie makers have managed to make it work (like healthchecks.io for example) but it requires patience and dedication, esp dealing with …

1. uptime monitoring service [1]. launched in 2019. decided to enter a crowded niche so as not to reinvent the wheel and try to figure out distribution, but gave up. sold in early …

I can't open that link. seems like no DNS records associated with the site? > nslookup cauenapier.townsquare.com Server: 192.0.2.42 Address: 192.0.2.42#53 server can't find cauenap…

Stablecoins are typically pegged to something, like USD or EUR, so their exchange rate vis-a-vis that currency is stable

this is interesting. my hunch is that we're moving towards more surveillance, censorship and deplatforming in the future, and CBDCs are a major tool for that. I like Bitcoin, despi…

I recently launched a churn analysis tool for Stripe: https://dunningbear.com It is very basic now: it tells me which of the customers have cancelled their subscription and why (St…

tangentially related, but as someone who built multiple internet businesses -- mostly unsuccessful, some mildly successful -- I barely have any new ideas to work on. I don't know i…

They're done. They export oil/LNG, import food, invest the proceeds in the US companies/treasuries and brand themselves as logistics hubs + safe havens for the global rich. It's al…

yes. they export oil/LNG and import most of their food. and they invest their proceeds into the US economy/treasuries, which they're going to stop if this continues. by some estima…

the closure of the strait (i.e. a toll booth by Iran) will cause massive inflation, destroy the GCC, and eventually lead to a global recession and the end of a petrodollar, which i…

I've finally finished the long-abandoned project that I've been meaning to build for a while. If you use Stripe Billing for subscriptions, your customers can specify reasons why th…

I've been working on the same business since 2021: https://notionbackups.com The first business I started never gained traction, so I sold it in 2021 (which was a completely differ…

Ditto but for Claude -- blows GPT out of the water. Much better in coding and solving physics problems from the images (in foreign languages). GPT couldn't even read the image. The…

Notion's built-in PDF exporter is quite disappointing to say the least, so I built (well, Claude did) an alternative. It uses a hosted puppeteer service in the background (browserl…

I've been using Hetzner for my business and have been quite happy with it so far. I recently migrated to a slightly larger bare metal server with 64GB RAM, 16 cores, 4 SSDs (6.5TB …

Rails, SQLite, Redis, all hosted on a bare metal server (Hetzner). Deploy with Capistrano (a fancy bash script). Tailwind for styling -- i heavily use their components/templates, w…

I've been running small SaaS businesses since 2019 with varying degrees of success (currently running a profitable one). I never really got into JS front-end frameworks. The sheer …

i built something similar in spirit a while back, but instead of a bar, it uses 144 rectangles, each representing 10 minutes of your day: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30881…

I've been working on my business for 4 years now, sometimes taking extended breaks when I run out of motivation. Lately, I've noticed that my (beefy) server is always clogged with …

2 things worked well for NotionBackups: * SEO - I started way before I launched the product. I wrote an article on how to back up a Notion workspace using their (then newly-launche…

I've been building https://notionbackups.com for almost 4 years now. It's mostly feature complete at this point, but there are still some rough edges. Notion's API is far from comp…

Hello, folks. Back in 2021, Notion, a popular productivity and collaboration platform, announced that they would launch a public API. Once that came onto my radar, I noticed a few …

Rails is pretty good - built my current business on Rails, building a new one on Rails as well. In fact, I switched to Rails from Django because the latter was lacking.