Wasim Shaikh

I'm Wasim. I run BrinkView, a Salesforce marketing consultancy in India. I'm also building BillThem: an invoice app for freelancers that costs less than my competitors and helps you get paid faster. Today: live in production, $0 revenue, 0 users. I'll share every number, decision and mistake here. If you send invoices to clients, what annoys you most? Tell me below.

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang told staff he was unfaithful to his wife. The NYT reports US officials believe Alice Huang, a Megaspeed exec close to him, was a Chinese intelligence asset. The spy claim is unproven. Its board is investigating. House chairs want a briefing Nov 18.

Builders and solo founders: what’s the one fear that comes back every time you start building something? Nobody using it? Someone cloning it in a weekend? Running out of money or time? Looking silly in public? Or something else entirely.

I'm waiting... If you are builder, love tech and AI and shipping like a mad person, let's #connect

It's really amazing to see what a person can do, when they are not binded by 9 to 5. You think clearly. You become fearless. You start trusting yourselves. You start making new friends on X. You start growing as a person in so many ways.

I'm very close to 400 followers. I think I will make it till the end of day today.

Skills I think will matter most for solo founders in the next few years: -Getting people to notice what you built -Talking to users and hearing what they actually say -Taste, knowing what to leave out -Checking what AI builds before you ship it Writing code keeps getting cheaper. Most of the list above doesn’t.

I've been on the brink of running out of cash so many times, that it has changed how I judge, decide and move in the business. Can anyone of you relate?

Do you guys still play this? This one is my favorite.

Builders who face doubts and setbacks and still choose to move ahead, you are my inspiration 🤝

You finish a project. Now you have to switch into admin mode. Client details are usually saved somewhere. The rate isn’t, because it changes with every project. So you dig for what was agreed, then work out what you actually delivered. The work is done. The invoice still waits on that digging. One thing I want BillThem to do: you describe the work in a sentence and the invoice gets drafted. Still on the drawing board. Be honest: where does the rate really live when it’s time to invoice? An old email, a WhatsApp chat, a proposal, or your memory?

How long did it take you to get your first 10K impressions? Total over a month, or on a single post? Trying to figure out what normal looks like.

Who else is working on the weekend? Let's connect!!

Hi👋🏼 from the first time builder. If you are a builder, let's connect and share what we are building!

Everyone says talk to your customers. Post that when the feedback told you something you didn’t want to hear, did you change the product, or explain to the customer why they were wrong?

X creators posting payout screenshots I think are running the most efficient business model on the internet. Post about getting paid for posting. Get paid for that post. I’d share mine too, but let me reach there first, its blank for now. Let's connect if you are sailing in the same boat.

I went looking for a cheaper tool to just bill my clients. My view on where invoicing should go: you describe the work in a sentence, and the invoice is ready. AI should do that. I’m planning to build it into BillThem. Not built yet.

Yesterday had a blast. 113 new followers. If you are A HUMAN and with that a: Builder, Marketer, Indie hacker, Solopreneur Let's connect and grow!!!

BillThem this week: started on the UI, and the landing page is nearly done. The waitlist is the last piece. Once it’s up, I’ll share the link here. Building this part in public too.

103 followers on 4th Nov for me. 268 when I am typing this post. Crazy time going on. And I love it. There will be highs and lows in these numbers for us. What is your goal when November ends?