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I am actually a little intrigued in the inner workings of replyguy.com (the app OP sold for 6 figures) It just sounds like it relies on scraping reddit/twitter/some basic google/brave search api shenanigans... Seriously, all the posts on replyguy.com seems to particularly target reddit and I am pretty sure that they might be scraping since eating reddit's api cost might be hard. The autogenerate reply feature might b…
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That truly doesn't matter though. It's certainly not what I would do, but assuming the numbers he claims are genuine, it's hard evidence that your customers don't care how you wrote the software.
The feature of software being maintainable and reusable by people other than its original author is for the users. It can be easy to forget until it’s too late.
Only thing 1 file can't do is allow concurrent work if bad version control is used. If patches are tight with good patch theory, 1 file is fine again.
Modern programming languages have namespaces, catch type bugs, all of it works quite well with 1 file. Recent OAuth Cloudflare 1 file library (coded a bit with AI) is a breath of fresh air, 2600 lines of data types and behavior in one place.
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This is commonly how people choose to use the “greatest breakthrough in the history of computer science” as it was stated in another thread. Great work humanity.
it’s either spam or porn, or both. heavy sigh
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Well Pieter Levels has a negative customer acquisition cost because he gets most of his business off of X and he gets so many impressions that he gets paid to post there. That's a pretty incredible marketing hack if you ask me. I invest in startups and the ones who do really well hack marketing. They have tech in their stack that is specifically devoted to automating and scaling their marketing.
But if you listen to Levels' interviews, especially before his Twitter stardom, you will see that he always promotes the find your audience and build to them approach.
- Stop diluting your attention.
- Iterate, iterate, iterate.
- Stick around for long enough so people have a chance to know you exist.
I don't mean to criticize how capitalism can turn sour, but the startup system can easily turns into some sort of pyramid scheme or snake oil, where some actors benefit, like online advertisers.
Startuping feels like it comes from a libertarian, Reaganian beliefs of how capitalism works.
Earning $150000 + 1 viral product sold for 6 figures over the last 5 years isn't that bad in terms of experience which can help grow Refgrow faster using organic SEO and marketing. I guess all those ideas that never made $1 were because of the "If you build it, they will come" marketing approach.
It is SO bad actually. That's $30,000 a year, a salary of a junior developer with 10 times less responsibility compared to running multiple products. I am not discouraging building tools, I do that myself but most of these could be done while having a full time job and learning on the side.
One viral product ReplyGuy would have sold for in the $300,000-$500,000 range (my guess) is equivalent to 4 years of salary of a senior developer.
But the level of experience he has now cannot be achieved while having a full-time job and learning on the side.