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Sounds like you certainly found a market. Do you have any estimates on how big that market is, and thus how much of the market you have captured? And then from there, figuring out …

Do you have product market fit, and just need to do more marketing? If so, I would keep going. Otherwise, I'd probably be a bit burnt out after 3 years of no PMF.

Trying to create a moon jar in pottery class

A session recording and product analytics tool: https://scryspell.com/ I built it because I thought session recording was such a cool feature, and wanted to know how to make one. I…

Working on a session recording app: https://scryspell.com Currently it's meant to help devs fix UI and UX issues by seeing exactly what their users saw, including a log of the brow…

1. For me, at a senior dev level, about half are multiple rounds of leetcode / system design and the other half are some sort of live coding something more practical. 2. I think th…

https://scryspell.com - a simple session recording and analytics tool. I used to use squeaky.ai which was a pretty simple session recording tool, but they got tired of running it a…

It's pretty basic and missing a lot of features, but the session recording core is there. For now, I built the backend just using Java, SpringBoot, PostgreSQL, Jooq. The recording …

The method I've been going with recently is to just clone an existing app. I was inspired by max rozen blogging about building the '200th uptime checker'. https://maxrozen.com/#boo…

Inspired by a gamedev presentation called 'Juice it or lose it', I put a face on a 'button' that gets happier the closer your cursor is. Maybe your website needs one too? Take a lo…

Just dinking around making an RDP electron app.

Wow. Their salary ranges seem low? Backend Engineer, assuming that is mid level: "The base salary range for this full-time position is between $38,900 USD to $87,500 USD"

I've tried a variety of things (LinkedIn Ads, Reddit Ads, Google Ads, SEO, responding to relevant reddit questions). Most of the paying customers come from google ads, but a few ha…

Self-employed running https://bankstatement2csv.com Like the url implies, it's a pdf bank statement to csv converter. What Rob Walling from microconf would call a 'step 1 business'…

“ I’ve recently put a lot of thought into the product and realized that there is a real gap in the market that I can fill and make this into a real business” Was the market gap rea…

I built https://bankstatement2csv.com It's a pdf bank statement to csv converter (which seems like an increasingly popular niche for solo devs), making $550/month as of today. Mark…

Been seeing a lot of lay offs still

I’m using Java in a new-ish project of mine. It’s not glamorous, but there is a library for everything which is nice. I also have the most experience with it (Clojure coming second…

Just recently surpassed $500/mo with a pdf to csv converter, https://bankstatement2csv.com But as someone else mentioned, from a purely financial stand point, I'd be better off inv…

Got my side project to $100 MRR

I've been playing around with Tesseract to extract text from pdf files and have found it a little disappointing, even after doing some pre-processing to the image (300dpi, binariza…

Sometimes, but maybe not in a traditionally productive way most might think here. Living in Denver, it feels like there is an implicit message that you should be getting out into t…

I've been working on a pdf bank statement converter. The work itself isn't inherently interesting. It's the full ownership of a thing I made, combined with actually helping people,…