We’ve identified an issue causing game crashes on PH lifestyle . The fix is rolling out and should be live in just a few minutes. See you back in the game soon!

okay this escalated fast. PH Lifestyle just crossed 100 people online at the same time. earlier today I was excited about 54 now we’re at 102 online and I’m still pushing fixes while people are literally inside the game 😂 this started as “Port Harcourt deserves its own little internet world too.” now I’m stress testing multiplayer with 100+ people in it. not bad at all next job: make sure I don’t break the whole city

STAY FOCUSED

Lagos cannot have all the fun I saw @eureka_seamless build a danfo game, then @Shalom_HeyEliy made Lagos Life Sims. I live in Port Harcourt. We couldn’t just be watching. So I built PH Lifestyle 🌴 A multiplayer browser game where you hustle, roast bole, catch buses, gist with other players and spray your in-game money at the owambe. Come for the bole. Stay for the gist. Free to play in your browser. You can jump in as a guest. phlifestyle.fun PH people, come and tell me what’s missing 😂

₦9m in the bank. A house in GRA. and i still never chop 😂 Been building a little Port Harcourt you can live in. PH Lifestyle is almost ready.

I think I’ll do a Port Harcourt Version 👀

Me at 21

I spent 27 days learning how to build SketchMason. now i’m realizing i might spend longer learning how to get people to care about it. coding gives you immediate feedback something breaks - fix it UI looks bad - improve it model output sucks - change something. distribution is completely different. you can build something good, post about it, and hear absolutely nothing. so i’m starting to treat distribution the same way i treat engineering: test things. measure what works. stop getting emotionally attached to bad ideas. repeat. right now that means replying to more people, making videos, sharing what i’m learning and actually talking to users instead of sitting behind my laptop polishing features. i used to think building the product was the job now i think building attention around the product is part of the product. let’s see what happens after 30 days of treating it that way

2 days ago i said i was done waiting for people to notice me and decided to start making videos. Day 1: 540 views Day 2: 1,329 views obviously these aren’t crazy numbers, but that’s not really the point. i almost didn’t start because i kept thinking about the perfect camera, better lighting, better scripts, whether anyone would even care. turns out the second video already reached more people than the first. and i’m starting this TikTok from basically zero. this is exactly why “just start” finally makes sense to me. you don’t need the blueprint before you begin. - you post - you see what people respond to - you improve - you post again Ps: the instagram was an old account 28 more days. now i’m curious what happens if i actually stay consistent

hot take: Jev’s biggest risk isn’t OpenAI copying it. it’s Jev becoming a category instead of a moat. Jev launched less than a week ago and adoption is already insane. but look at what happened almost immediately: CUA trained a tiny specialist model for form filling and reported 99.7% on their eval. Jev got 83.6% open-source Jev like implementations are already appearing too and that makes me think the actual future isn’t: one Jev to rule every decision. it’s probably: general decision model for zero shot tasks ↓ collect enough domain data ↓ train a tiny specialist ↓ cheaper, faster, better at that specific job which creates a weird question for TypeSafe: if every successful Jev use case eventually produces the training data for its own replacement… what exactly is the moat? maybe the answer isn’t the model. maybe it’s the API, calibration, tooling, distribution and becoming the default interface for machine decisions. Jev might not disappear. but “Jev-like” could become much bigger than Jev itself. curious what everyone thinks.

funny thing is, you were one of the first people i followed when i made this account after my old one got suspended at 650+ followers. i tag people because i genuinely respect their work and sometimes i want them to see what i’m building too. i’ll admit it, i’ve overdone it with people like Marc before. that part of the criticism is fair. nobody wants to be tagged in every post. but there’s another side to this that i think gets ignored. people always say “just ship good stuff and you’ll get noticed.” i don’t really believe that anymore. there are thousands of people building genuinely good products and posting useful things every day that almost nobody sees i’ve experienced it myself. i posted for months before one post finally took off. bigger creators noticed me for a moment, then a week later you’re basically invisible again even when you double down on the same quality. so the question i’m genuinely trying to figure out is: how does a small creator get into those circles without already having the audience, money or connections? sometimes you ship sometimes you reply. sometimes you tag someone whose work inspired yours and hope they notice. my original post was literally inspired by people i’ve watched for months. Theo, Marc Lou, Greg Isenberg and others. i’d love to build an audience and businesses at that level someday. so “don’t randomly tag me” is a fair message. but “it makes us root for your failure”? damn. i can’t imagine getting to a position where smaller builders look up to me and my reaction to them trying to get noticed is hoping they fail. maybe i’ll understand the annoyance better when i get there but i hope i never lose the part of me that remembers what it felt like to be the small account trying to get somebody to notice. anyways back to building.

I think i’ve been using “i need distribution” as an excuse for too long. AI UGC tools are expensive. paying creators every time i want content isn’t sustainable either. then i realized something obvious: Marc Lou and most of the SaaS founders i look up to didn’t wait for someone else to give them an audience. they built one. i’ve been watching a lot of tech creators on TikTok lately and, without trying to sound cocky, some of them aren’t necessarily better technically than me. they’re just way better at distribution. and that difference is making them more money. i’ve grown a TikTok account to 10k before, although it was completely unrelated content. so no, i don’t have some perfect blueprint for tech content. but i know i can learn so i’m done waiting for X alone to somehow figure everything out for me for the next 30 days i’m going to actually put myself out there: TikTok Instagram YouTube X videos, product builds, things i’m learning, mistakes, whatever actually feels useful. maybe one platform works. maybe none of them work immediately but i refuse to believe 30 days of actually publishing teaches me less than another 30 days of thinking about publishing. bought some lighting to make the content good. nothing crazy, but enough to start, waiting for the perfect setup is probably just another excuse anyway. skill without distribution is almost invisible anyway time to learn the other half. follow along.

I’m 21. solo founder from Nigeria 🇳🇬 currently building SketchMason, a tool that turns rough UI sketches into finished interfaces. no team. no funding. just shipping and figuring out distribution as I go. looking to connect with more founders, designers, marketers & indie hackers. what are you building?

your X account has a Google Search Console now that’s kinda wild, you can now see what people searched before finding your posts which posts showed up on Google - impressions - clicks - CTR - average position basically, X content is no longer just post it and hope the algorithm likes it. now you can see which ideas keep getting discovered after the timeline is done with them this changes how i think about posting if a SketchMason post keeps showing up for searches around AI UI, sketch to code, wireframes, etc, that’s not just a good tweet anymore that’s demand data. and i can turn that into landing pages, docs, blog posts, more content, whatever, mine is at 0 clicks right now because i only just connected it but this might quietly become one of the most useful creator analytics tools Google has shipped.

one user asked me to add Google sign in. that one DM ended up exposing 2 other things i shipped badly the verification email was taking too long, and some Resend emails were landing in spam. worse, SketchMason didn’t even tell users to check spam. so i added Google sign in then while testing the auth flow, i opened settings and realized i’d also shipped the old placeholder settings page what was supposed to be one small fix turned into: - Google sign in - better verification messaging - rebuilt account settings - plans and billing - credit top ups - billing history - profile controls all because one person said the code was taking too long, this is probably the biggest thing i’m learning from having real users they don’t always give you a roadmap sometimes they just point at one annoying thing and you find 5 more things you should’ve fixed already shipped the fixes today

3 users in 3 days. one new user a day is that growth? probably too early to call it that, but it is signal. funny part is i’m still one of the heaviest users of my own product. anthropic just warned me about my credit usage because i keep generating UIs and comparing them against stuff on @awwwards i’m trying to solve the boring details AI usually guesses the spacing, widths, grid gaps, nav rhythm. the things nobody mentions in the prompt but everyone notices when they’re wrong - every user teaches me something - every generation costs me something - every day the product gets a little less sloppy. marketing gets people through the door. product quality decides whether they stay marc lou did over $100k in a couple days. i’m at 3 users in 3 days, different stage of the graph still moving right

university gave me the public but it never gave me the skill. that's the line i keep coming back to from a podcast i did this week with @AnticsDecoded we started from $5 bounties in a school hostel. now i'm building sketchmason solo, the dfference wasn't talent. it was showing up for 7 days straight when nothing was working, then doing it again.