17 products. 1 developer. 0 funding. I spent the last year building micro-SaaS tools that solve problems I kept running into. Some make money, most are experiments. All shipped solo.

stripe micro pricing doesn't fix the real problem: you still need to decide if a feature is worth building. pricing tier changes nothing there.

every gym app shows you pins on a map. nomadfit asks: does it have a squat rack? can you buy a day pass? is it actually open at 6am? that's the difference between a feature and solving the problem.

expiro's biggest design choice: remind you 30 days before expiry, not the day of. because if you're like most people, you don't think about your passport or domain renewal until it's already gone. by then it's too late.

if you travel and train, what's the biggest gap between the program you planned and the one you actually ran? curious what breaks first. #solofounder #startuplife

nomadfit tries to collapse that search cost. you land, you filter, you know what's there before you spend a week guessing. the program stays intact because the uncertainty does.

the real question i'm sitting with: how much progress are people actually losing just to the friction of finding the right gym in a new city? what's the actual cost of "we'll figure it out when we get there"?

what i notice is that people who train while moving fall into two camps. one keeps the same program and adapts equipment. the other drops the program because adaptation feels impossible. both are rational given the search cost.

the other half is logistics nobody optimizes for: day passes vs. weekly rates, opening hours that don't match when you actually train, gyms that won't sell you anything but a year membership because you're not a resident.

sounds basic until you're in a new city with 4 days before you move again and you need to know if the gym 10 minutes away has what your program requires. not "a gym". a specific rack. specific bars. specific plates.

the insight was stupidly simple: what if you could filter by the actual thing you need. squat rack, deadlift platform, dumbbells to 50kg, pull-up bar that isn't bolted to a cable machine.

i started building nomadfit because i kept losing training blocks. a week in berlin, a week in barcelona — each city meant rediscovering equipment from scratch. sometimes the "gym" was just cardio machines.

you land in lisbon on monday. your program says squat rack. google maps shows 47 gyms. none of them have photos. you spend tuesday calling gyms in portuguese. wednesday you find one. thursday you fly to madrid.

this is the nomad training problem nobody talks about. it's not motivation or discipline. it's that a "gym" on a map tells you exactly nothing about what's actually inside.

every indie dev launches with "transparent pricing" then immediately hides the breakdown. why do we all do this?

old me: a client pays well, so the project is good. today me: tracked every call, revision, invoice chase, and email thread on punchclock. turns out the "best" client was actually the worst. changed how i quote entirely.

old me: expiro needs fancy ML to detect expiry dates. today me: visionkit's text recognition is good enough that i spend more time handling "valid for life" stamps than actual ocr bugs.

every solo dev i know who went deep on dependency management either became paranoid or gave up. the real move is: pick boring, widely-used libraries with actual companies backing them. sqlite, postgres, stripe sdk. not because they're perfect—because when they break, thousands of people notice first. #startuplife #shipping

killed a product that had real users and the hardest part wasn't sunsetting it—it was admitting i'd optimized for retention dashboards instead of what they actually needed #indiehackers #buildinpublic

copying text from a pdf into chatgpt, waiting for it to turn into flashcards, then manually formatting them for anki. vs highlighting the same pdf in klarrity and getting streaming cards in 2 seconds. same studying, completely different friction.

scanning a passport expiry vs a domain renewal date: same ocr problem, completely different reminder psychology. one you feel at the gate. one you never think about until it's gone.