I just sold my first-ever startup, Summify, for $30,000 on @acquiredotcom 🔥🎉 Summify started as my weekend project last October. I only knew how to code and nothing else. But I wanted to be a solopreneur. The journey was long and hard, but the lessons I learned were invaluable. 🏁 The Beginning I didn’t do any validation ( I didn't know even what is validation ) I built Summify because I needed it myself - Scratching my own itch. I just built it and ship it and posted it on Reddit hope for the best. Three days after launching, I sold my first subscription😍 This was a good sign that people wanted my product. But I quickly learned that knowing how to code wasn’t enough at all. 🫠 I had no marketing skills. What are feedback channels? Should I reply to all emails? How do I deal with angry customers? Churn rate? what is it? How do I set up ads? Where can I find customers? And so much more… I soon realized I had a lot to learn. Big thanks to @marclou and @nico_jeannen. I read all your tweets and blog posts, and they changed how I thought about building, shipping, and marketing. I went with trial and error approach, Just read and testing live in production. Every experience taught me something new, especially What I should not do. It took Summify three months to reach $500 MRR. It might have been slow growth, but I didn’t mind. I was happy even making $5 MRR because I was learning so much. After eight months, Summify hit $2,500 MRR and then settled around $1,500 MRR. 🏁 The End 11 months later: Over 15 million minutes summarized for 29,000 users. Summify got acquired! 🎉 Looking back, selling my first indie project was a dream I didn’t know I could achieve in the first year. Now, I’m more eager than ever to keep building and learning new things. keep shipping! #buildinpublic

I built the BEST landing page inkieai.com/

Inkie writes articles, and my own landing page buried that under the tracking. I did say I'm bad at marketing. So this week the articles got their own section: one finished article, with a note on each part that gets it quoted. Each article answers one question your customers ask AI, where AI answers without you today. What goes in it: • The answer first, short enough for AI to quote on its own • 3 to 5 key takeaways right under it • Links to your own pages, so readers and AI find what you sell • Sources for its claims, and a separate review that sends back any claim it can't support • 3 to 6 FAQs, phrased the way people ask AI • A hero image and 2 or 3 more between sections, in your brand's style Nothing goes live until you approve it. Then Inkie publishes it, checks the live page, and asks AI the same question again about 2, 4 and 8 weeks later. Which of these does your blog skip?

i'm sorry but self-managed gitlab was never set and forget a perfect 10 does not wait for your sprint xitter.cf/TheHackersNews/status/…

brother what is happening DEFCON 5

there are always some people that ruin the game for everyone

Build log, Oct 6: I deleted a whole screen from Inkie and replaced it with one question. Can Google, ChatGPT search and Perplexity actually read your site? It's called Site access. The least exciting thing I built this month, and maybe the most useful.

i was underselling what Inkie actually writes chatgpt, gemini and google's AI leave brands out. Inkie writes the article that gets you quoted that section was a row of empty bars. it's the article now 🫠

If I had to get a new app into ChatGPT's answers from zero, this is the order I'd do it in: 1. Open your /robots.txt. OAI-SearchBot, PerplexityBot and Googlebot need to be allowed. If one is blocked, that search can't read your site. 2. Write down 5 questions a buyer asks before paying for something like yours. Use their questions, not your keywords. 3. Ask all 5 in ChatGPT, Gemini and Perplexity. Note who gets named and which sites the answers cite. 4. Pick a question where a competitor is named and you aren't. Write the page that answers it, with your real prices and limits. 5. Make sure that answer is in the HTML your server sends, not added later by JavaScript. 6. Go through the sites the answers cite. Getting onto those is the other half. 7. Ask the same 5 questions again after 2, 4 and 8 weeks. Keep the questions and the AIs the same, or you're comparing noise. Steps 3 and 7 are the boring ones nobody keeps up with. I built Inkie to do them on a schedule, and to help with the rest.

unpopular opinion: pasting a "block all ai bots" list into robots.txt is the fastest way to vanish from chatgpt search if OAI-SearchBot is on that list, you just blocked the bot chatgpt search uses to read you block training all you want. just read the list first

Hey @WhatsApp please use LLMs for design, they come up with better decisions How can disable this ugly/un-necessary sidebar?

bro wtf, chill how you got triggered by a "vibe-coder" that doesn't know what he's doing?

openai says about 40,000 accounts on their coding tool codex got the wrong usage limit they'll add credits back would you stay on a coding tool whose usage meter was wrong

everyone says ai-written articles are slop. mostly fair so inkie's writer doesnt get the last word. a second ai quotes every claim it cant match to a source, and the writer fixes only those lines 3 failed reviews and the draft stops what would make you trust an ai article?

you can "just" build things

I think I've now typed more characters writing prompts than writing code Has anyone else crossed this milestone?

Before worrying whether AI recommends you, check it can read your site. The four checks I'd run first: 1. Homepage loads without an error 2. No noindex on it 3. /robots.txt loads as plain text 4. Googlebot, OAI-SearchBot and PerplexityBot are allowed Which one would you fail?

Somewhere a lefty now drafting a 47 page of "why this is evil"

be honest. does your robots.txt let OAI-SearchBot in?