Doug Lyford

Poker Players: I have built a great web app for taking notes, color coding, and labeling opponents for online poker. Build reads, take notes, and exploit your opponents. No HUD, no tracking. Only manual entry. Just a really good note taking app. No risk of remote screen viewing (like the recent hack), because there's no download. I built this because some sites have no note taking built in, and those that do are usually implemented quite poorly and are difficult to use. You can try it for free. If you like it, you can sub monthly or annually to remove the player cap on the free tier. ALL features work on the free account. Sub with code: MONTHLY1 to get first month of premium for $1, or ANNUAL50 for 50% off first year of annual premium. The app is intuitive, and instructions will display the first time you use it. Features a notes popout mode to place notes directly next to your tables. Has OCR scanning to automatically pull up notes for each table. Works great, and gives you an edge. Pays for itself if you play any kind of volume at 50NL+ DM me if you have questions or want to suggest a feature! Check it out at pokerreadr.com - live now! #Poker #WPT #ExploitativePoker #PokerBros #OnlinePoker

🎉 My #SaaS project IdealDay now has monthly and annual subscriptions active! We did a brief lifetime deal only launch, and now subs are active. The early bird lifetime deal option is also still available - but only until 100 people sign up for a lifetime account. #buildinpublic

🎉 New feature for my #SaaS IdealDay: goal carryover User requested feature. Now when you have incomplete goals on a marathon, and start your next marathon, those goals automatically pre-fill for you. You can choose whether or not to carry them forward. Try for free now - no CC required idealday.net #buildinpublic

The most valuable lesson I have learned so far in my #indiehacking journey: Start the morning with a focus block - localhost only, building stuff. No social media, no research, etc. this advice is golden. Thanks to @marclou 😀

Hi everyone! I just discovered this group. Launched my first SaaS a few weeks ago and have been posting daily updates. Lots of new features added since launch and 1 lifetime sub so far - $0 MRR. Been in Software for about 15y so I spent a lot of time pre AI and have seen a lot of shifts. Not gonna post project link as I am not sure whether that’s allowed - but if curious you can get to it from my bio. Happy to answer any Q’s about my experience indie hacking so far. (I also built 2 apps that never launched before this one 😅)

#buildinpublic update for my #SaaS IdealDay: Kind of a big day today. App got launched on two LTD platforms (22k and 16k members each). It got a lot of engagement in one of them - around 20-30 questions and comments. Got 4 great feature requests! I answered each one, and then built one of the requested features: a day-of-week performance report. I really like this and it's something I will personally get value out of since I use the app myself every day. I actually implemented the feature, stared at it for a while, and then thought "ah - some Excel-style conditional formatting would look great on these numbers!" I think it makes the data much easier to consume. #quantifiedself #journaling #productivity

🚨 SCAM ALERT 🚨 An X user named "Eddie" - @EddieInCrypto is a con artist pretending to be a legitimate startup investor. Eddie contacted me asking for a meeting, claiming to be interested in my project. I was very skeptical. After a few messages, Eddie sent me a link to book a call. I expressed my skepticism. Eddie claimed to have backed another startup, Seozilla AI, directly referencing the founder's name, and claiming that this founder would be joining the call to explain their relationship. I contacted the founder directly, and they confirmed that they have never worked with Eddie or with Sirex (which is not even a real company). Screenshot below of the DM where Eddie blatantly lied, using the name of a legitimate entrepreneur in an attempt to build credibility. Their fake "VC" website is: sirex.one/ Red flags all over it. After receiving this message, I replied saying that I would be reaching out to David to confirm their relationship, and that if he did not appear on video, or "canceled last minute", that would be a red flag. Got ghosted after that. Careful out there y'all. #buildinpublic

My current #SaaS launched on LTDHunt today! Check out the promo for an additional $20 off the discounted early bird LTD subscription! 💪 IdealDay ltdhunt.com/tool/idealday/

🎉 EQ Reports! My #SaaS IdealDay now has a really awesome new reporting feature. You can now see how daily activities impact your mood. This is something I have been thinking about, and added into the app today. It will be deployed by end of day. In this screenshot - you can see your average daily mood, and how that mood changes for each of the habits you track in the app, and also for how many hours you have on your schedule each day. Note: This screenshot was taken on a testing account which has auto-generated (random) data to simulate a user who has used the app for around 6 months. Therefore, there are not huge differences in daily mood for each habit. But, it gives a nice clear illustration of how this data can be viewed and used 😀 This is just a starting point. Much more data visualization coming. #quantifiedself #buildinpublic

🚨 New feature alert 🚨 My #SaaS IdealDay now has duplicate buttons on daily schedule blocks, making it easier to put together your daily schedules. #buildinpublic

Daily #buildinpublic post: Have been sick for a few days and getting poor sleep. Today, I was pretty tied up putting out fires for several of my clients. Despite all of that: - Wrote up weekly newsletter email for IdealDay - Followed up with LTD groups - launching on one tomorrow!! - Wrote up bio/career summary and product summary for VC's - DMs with VC and scheduled meeting - Reached out to finance bro friend to ask what questions to ask when talking with VC - Reached out to inventor/entrepreneur friend to ask what questions to ask when talking to VC - Picked up PC and set up Ubuntu ISO USB to install on it and configure it as a headless agent sandbox- #Hermes maybe?? Hear it's better than #Openclaw To be honest I've been pretty fkn exhausted for 3-4 days. Need to get a good night's sleep and that has not happened for the last 3 nights. Ain't nevah gonna stop.

Daily #buildinpublic post: Happy Friday! Today, I did some organic marketing, and fixed a bug in how text length was being validated for free-form rich text inputs in the app. The front end enforces character length limits, but the back end was counting every char in the structured JSON against the limit. That's bad. Fixed across 13 input fields. That will be making it's way to prod tomorrow. Need to do some manual tests, and have a little social gathering to get to. Enjoy the weekend!

Daily #buildinpublic post: Today I applied to several SaaS and LTD launch platforms, had a marketing meeting, and got an email from Google saying they have approved the app for Google Calendar OAuth scopes!! I also discovered a bug in weekly notes submission, and will have that fixed tomorrow. Time to mow the lawn.

Yay!! Google has approved OAuth verification for my #SaaS app IdealDay. The app now has Google calendar integration!

Shout out to @Timothy_solvdat - we just had a brief marketing call. Timothy is getting his own marketing consultancy started. He reached out to me to see if I would be interested in working together on a 90-day growth plan for my #SaaS launch. I said hell yes! Got some really useful tips and info. I write code and don't know a thing about marketing. I now feel like I have a solid, structured plan, and loved one of his suggestions about rebranding and focusing on a different angle. Thanks Timothy!