First sale on my side project 🎉 cursed.boo - pick a name, a reason, and a punishment and send link to your "friend". → Launched: [1 days ago] → Marketing: [almost none] → Revenue: $3 (2.57 net) Tiny number. Huge feeling.

As promised: 524 followers! 🎉 Still not round. Still grateful for every single one of you 🙏 Next milestone: 611. Still don’t ask why.

Midday status report: coffee #2: caramel cappuccino 3 PRs at my 5-9 100 replies too many new friends to count All checks passing. Day looks good ✅

Hey @X algorithm 👋 Thanks for the great people you sent me two weeks ago. Can I get a refill? Looking for: - founders - side-project builders - marketing geniuses - good humans Reply with who you are and what you’re building. Let’s connect 👇

I love working on paidpost because I have zero expectations from it. It's free. It runs on Cloudflare for free. I spend about an hour a day on it. Total cost: $8 a year for the domain. Still, I have big plans. Once it passes 1,000 users, I'll start monetizing, but through extra features: priority ranking in the creator catalog and/or protected deals via escrow. Today I was thinking about adding Threads… How else can you monetize a free service?

Living on Eastern European time on X: My morning: the US is asleep
 My evening: "gm" posts finally arrive Does the algorithm care about timezones, or should I just become a night owl? 😄

Challenge: 100 replies a day for 7 days. Day 1:
148 replies
21 new followers That's 1 new follower for every 7 replies.
Cold replies theory: confirmed. 6 days to go.

Hey @elonmusk, I noticed you have a few followers. Ever thought about selling sponsored posts? paidpost.net: rate card, booking calendar, 0% commission. Built for accounts like yours. And mine. My audience is already quite big too 😄

My theory: cold replies, to people who don’t follow you yet, grow an account faster than posts. Proof: my lock screen after I stepped away to make coffee 😄 Keep replying.

Beginners use AI to write code. Architects use AI to figure out what to build. Before a single line, I research the APIs, check what’s possible, and plan the flow. AI makes that part fast. Code was never my bottleneck. Not knowing was.

Happy Monday! My weekly stats: 7,401 impressions (-11%) +14 followers 101 replies 12 posts Can you spot the 3,5 days I disappeared into my projects? 😄 Lesson learned: on X, if you’re quiet, you’re invisible.

Went quiet for a few days. Game dev ate me alive. Shipped a few updates to Last Lane. 200+ players. 10 likes. Every single one feels personal 🫶 Back now. Catching up on everything you posted while I was gone.

Day 1 of Last Lane on CrazyGames: 9.8K impressions 0.9% CTR 58 players 70 plays 1 review: “This game is amazing!” Bottom 20% on every metric 😅

First feedback from real user!

Imagine X without “be honest” posts. No chasing numbers. No checking stats every hour. Just interesting posts and real conversations. Would we grow slower, or faster?

Every developer has that one dream project. Mine was always a game. Today it’s real: Overmerge, a merge puzzle, is now waiting for review 🧩 Wish me luck 🤞

Growing on X: my strategy. The fastest way to get followers is replies. I split them into two types: 🧊 Cold replies (the most valuable): on posts from people who don’t follow me, in the main feed and communities. This is where most new followers come from. 🔥 Warm replies: to stay in touch with my own followers. My stats so far: 30 cold replies bring 1 to 5 new followers. I’m still testing this strategy. Follow to watch the results live.