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Sold 3 startups • Building @hackerresidency 👨‍💻, 📑, 🎓, 🔮, 📂

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1Jan 19, '25Next.js (+ Vercel) is the “Wordpress” for web developer – it’s the easiest way to launch an SEO and performance focused website. However, to build a highly interactive or data inte59.2×442k2.6k1171.7k
2Oct 22, '23Next.js was one the most loved JS frameworks last year and somehow in just the last week, it sorta is the most hated. Did it just reach the typical lifetime of a JS framework? 😅38.6×288k4611064
3Sep 15, '24Unpopular opinion: @v0/@shadcn UI or any TailwindCSS-based component library is great only for prototyping purposes. Once you have a validated product, switching to a full-featured36.3×271k1.5k59857
4Jan 18, '24Don't have a good SaaS idea? 1. Go to @acquiredotcom 2. Create a buyer account 3. Go to Listing, filter SaaS+TTM profit >$100K 4. Look for project you can build in 2 weeks 5. Op30.9×231k2.1k1245.3k
5Jan 16, '24Which CMS is your go-to when building your startup?28×209k818691.2k
6Jun 29, '25I'm converted! I'm using Cursor less and less now. It's probably better to use the original VS Code than a fork if I'm not using Cursor-specific features that much anymore. I may a26.2×195k94923516
7Mar 10, '25While everyone is "vibe coding" AI-generated video games… I & @HienHuuPham decided to do the opposite: Make very small but very carefully-crafted products. Introducing FileFaker 🥷22.7×169k97429556
8Mar 6, '25Can someone "vibe code" a @vercel alternative and charge $30/month + usage for unlimited seat? I'll switch immediately. 😅21.7×162k88317295
9Jul 2, '24How much are you paying for your Postgres instance in production? I'm trying out @vercel Postgres. While it was convenient to manage, I ran out of compute hours included in my @ver21.7×162k3641149
10May 21, '23"If your web app has a title, you launch too late."20×149k1k3043
11Jul 16, '24Developers are gonna do everything to avoid paying $20/month despite making $10K/month, speaking from experience 💀.19.4×144k4891751
12Aug 9, '24I'm thinking of buying the MacBook Air M3 with 16 GB RAM. It seems like a decent choice for indie hackers. Any indie hackers using it and having any problems?17.8×133k226181
13Jul 4, '25Cursor constantly changing their pricing without any proper announcement and documentation recently is a pretty bad and frustrating move for users.16×119k1.2k3168
14Dec 12, '23Man, this open-source AI chat is almost too good to be true. And it's MIT licensed 🤯.15.9×119k74878921
15May 14, '23Indie hacker mental health tips I learned recently: Ship a product that is so small that it doesn’t hurt if no one uses it.15.3×114k2171588
17Sep 19, '24The value of @vercel is amazing. But as soon as you add your first team member, the value becomes hard to justify. I'm happy to pay extra for additional traffic, storage, etc., but14.5×108k8051554
18Nov 13, '25People keep asking me whats my day to day looks like at the @HackerResidency14.5×108k5746113
19Jul 6, '24Apparently, App Store doesn’t accept any apps related to dating anymore. Don’t even bother to validate any dating-related apps now. I was building a fun project to learn viral mark14.1×105k193285
20Oct 25, '25✅ finally hit $100k mrr 28 years old 3-person team took 1.5 years see mrr screenshot below don't ask me what's the app13.9×104k91821289
21Mar 15, '23Introducing 🥳 Another Better UI for ChatGPT… if you don't enjoy the design of TypingMind or other alternatives I reached out to @tdinh_me before building this & think it'll be13.6×101k255999
22Jun 17, '24The amount of non-tech niches who desperately need an easy-to-use wrapper of an open-source library in order to solve their problem is countless.12.4×93k61136416
23Sep 23, '25We just got our first annual Pro customer for PDF Vector 🥳11.9×89k79212171
24Dec 2, '23If AI is not writing more than half of your code now, you're doing it wrong11.7×87k2411319
25Apr 13, '23I have to confess, I've had lots of doubts in the last 2 weeks, probably the most ever since I quit my job. The doubt is about what I'm focusing on in this extremely fast-moving AI11.6×87k2451375
26Nov 22, '23OpenAI TTS is dope! Turn any website into a podcast/audiobook 🌐→🗣️ . This morning I wanted to check out @paulg latest articles but didn't want to spend hours looking at screen. W11.5×86k30134262
27May 2, '25Why is building a successful software business so damn hard? Success rate is probably something like 0.001%.11.4×85k43511107
28Mar 20, '25A good ol VPS that runs both your web server and a PostgreSQL database will likely be all you ever need and it will never shutdown.11×82k72835191
29Nov 2, '22I just sold my 1st startup: @queue_so 🥳 This sale marks the completion of my 6 startups and $12K income in 12 months (within 7 months, I launched 6 products & made almost trip10.9×01.8k62464
30May 10, '25Pieter is now making $10K MRR from X. Why does everything look so easy for him? 😂10.6×79k547955
31Dec 28, '23My ideal next startup idea Previously, I'd pick any problems that I have & want right now to build, but those turned out to be not good business (for me). I'm a self-funded solopre10.5×79k32612469
32Jan 27, '24Which product analytics is your go-to when building your startup?9.8×73k19710255
33Sep 8, '24AWS Elastic Beanstalk is a complete, free, powerful PaaS that runs on AWS services. It exists way before Vercel, Render, Railway, Fly, etc., but it's a lot less popular because it 9.1×68k32011182
34Mar 2, '23Soft-launching my new product: 🥳. It's *literally* 10x cheaper Image Optimization for Next.js. It's free & takes 5s to try. You don't even need to sign up. Just go to the site9.0×67k39139159
35Jul 31, '24Someone may cancel me for this: I used to be big on separation of concerns, splitting code into many folders and layers. Now, apart from framework-specific folders, I have everythi8.9×67k212975
36Feb 28, '23It’s almost a year since I started eating only one meal a day. I now feel like superhuman waking up, having no need to eat, & can function just like everyone until 8pm. I did 28.7×65k186744
37Jul 18, '21Notion to Tweets, 2 clicks away!8.7×01.6k130262
38Jan 22, '24Hey SEO expert friends, what are some alternatives to Ahrefs for someone who just gets started in SEO? Ahrefs look a bit expensive to get started, I'm not sure their Lite /Standard8.5×63k1908535
39May 30, '23In Da Lat 🇻🇳 for a month to escape the heat in SEA. The cafe culture here is absolutely outstanding! (see video) Besides, it’s beautiful, cheap, lovely city with lots of things t8.2×61k3141060
40Mar 3, '25While we’re figuring out how to fix CORS issue, Pieter is creating another 5-figure MRR software biz with a retro game built mostly by AI. It’s super inspiring but also sometimes m8.1×61k500645
41Oct 25, '24with 305.7k mrr, we good for sure bro8.0×60k202021
42Aug 3, '24New opportunities for indie hackers with Telegram apps: 1. Go to @perplexity_ai or @google 2. Search '50 most popular WeChat mini apps' 3. Pick one that is small and profitable 4. 7.0×52k33413731
43Dec 27, '23Not an exciting update for the end of the year, but here it is: After talking to 20+ users of both and , neither are good business (for a self-funded startup). Mainly, both are B2C6.6×50k22515125
44May 14, '25Does your product really need analytics before $10K MRR?6.5×49k226033
45Oct 7, '25PDF Vector hit a new record: 6 new customers in a day. 🥳💪6.3×47k3251125
46Jan 11, '25Typical developer building AI chats claiming it to be the best because it’s “blazingly fast” 🥹 Even if it’s the fastest client, there are other factors to make it the fastest AI c6.0×45k190437
47Jan 8, '23I used my 1st year indie products’ revenue to buy my parents first first iPad. It wasn’t much but it felt special 😊. My biggest fear quitting my job was that I won’t be able to su5.9×44k45965
48May 4, '22I just spent 2 hours building this animation + making it works perfectly in all screen sizes 🥲 Although it feels like such a waste of time, I’m really satisfied with it now. Whata5.6×01.1k26173
49Sep 15, '25Claude Code is great again today! Please keep it like this @AnthropicAI. 😄5.6×42k448831
50Aug 31, '24Lemon Squeezy PayPal integration works like… 50% of the times. How is this allowed in production for a payment gateway company? 🥴5.3×40k191124
51Jun 21, '23Just sold another project ☺️. It's a very small deal but is a step of mine to move on from old projects & focus on finding & growing a stable product this year. Plus, it's 5.3×40k298425
52Oct 15, '25PDF Vector has finally passed what is probably the hardest milestone to achieve for a new SaaS: $1,000 MRR 🥳 It took us 4 months since launch, which felt like forever but we final5.3×39k390680
53Feb 8, '25I just browsed all websites of YC companies in 2024 batches. It has become my favorite way to boost my confidence as an indie hacker. 😄 More than half of the companies are in wait5.1×38k3536125
54May 26, '22MEGA thread on how to launch on @ProductHunt. 3 days ago, I launched @getnora on ProductHunt, it accumulated over $2,512 💰, 515 🆙, and 300K+ 👁️. All about how I planned & ex4.9×035851442
55Jan 12, '24The more successful SaaS founders I've talked to, the stronger a pattern I've learned: They didn't start their startup with just a sounding idea and luck. They spent a ton of effor4.9×36k21713215
56Feb 14, '24The best path to $10,000 MRR for a B2B SaaS, as an indie hacker/small company, revealed from conversations with the target audience.4.8×36k1926182
57Nov 18, '232 men who led OpenAI since the day I know about them just got fired/quit, I'm not feeling the same building on OpenAI platform if I'm being honest.4.6×34k17958
58Apr 30, '24Free & *hot* startup ideas: 1. Go to YouTube 2. Type in “YC S24 Application Video” 3. Find an idea that is not winner-take-all and is in a market that you can reach 4. Build an4.4×33k24811511
60Nov 3, '25Introducing Vibingbase: Lovable for desktop apps Vibingbase is my most ambitious project ever and is my focus at the @HackerResidency It helps you build desktop apps at the speed o4.1×30k31017256
61Sep 5, '22I've been using this stack for all of my projects: - @nextjs for Web & API - @tailwindcss for CSS - @radix_ui for UI - @awscloud Cognito for auth, Lambda for jobs, DynamoDB for3.8×045921260
62Dec 22, '22My 2022 year in review: Before writing this, I felt like I had a very slow year & had to work a lot harder. After reading this & comparing to my goals, I think I had a pret3.7×28k204636
63Jun 16, '24Too many ideas. Too little time.3.6×27k2442518
64Oct 18, '25Entrepreneurship is not that hard. It takes only 3-5 years to figure out that you don’t know shit.3.5×26k6043153
65Jun 22, '24If you're a developer building your first indie product, I'd recommend you to create a simple wrapper of a library and try to distribute it to a non-tech audience. You might not su3.5×26k2408218
67Nov 19, '241. Air fryers 2. CO2 monitors 3. Air purifiers 4. SaaS boilerplates 5. Nose strips What else do I need to buy to become a successful indie hacker?3.2×24k203234
68Feb 21, '23My current frontend toolings: Tailwind • Radix • React Icons • Recoil • Slate • dndkit • react-window •3.2×24k21522156
69Aug 9, '22Notion just shipped External Database! 💽 Easily the biggest new feature this year. You'll be able to bring data from other apps into Notion as databases, from there you can create3.1×055051106
70Oct 23, '24Turned 27 today. 🥳🎂 5 years ago, I thought I’d be a millionaire by now. I’m not, at least not yet. But now I know what kind of work, lifestyle, and tradeoff I need to make to get3.1×23k294322
71May 23, '22Nora is live on ProductHunt🥳 I quit my job 2 months ago to build 6 startups in 12 months. Nora is my 2nd startup. It's a Notion template that actually solves project management pr3.0×04055096
72Sep 5, '25locked-in mode in Bali for 2 months2.9×22k259123
73Oct 7, '25Some people say they’re building in public but barely ever see any posts about their progress or product development. All they post are engagement baits. 😅2.6×19k19425
75Mar 11, '25Hand-made software will soon be a thing. 😂2.2×17k249137
76Oct 21, '2530-year-old indie hacker's worst nightmare: Seeing a 10-year-old successfully vibe-code their way to $10K MRR in a month. 😄2.1×15k211422
77Aug 27, '251. Launch an app 2. Be proud of it 3. Realize no one cares 4. Understand why marketing matters 5. Learn & do marketing The only way for a developer to become a successful indie2.0×15k3211631
78Aug 19, '23Rate my setup.1.9×15k18211
79Nov 8, '21Just wrapped up a "side side project" that I built half of my Sunday. Looking to launch today or tomorrow! It's a dev tool, free, open-source, and fun! Drop a 👋, I'll send you the1.9×0251313
80Jun 11, '22Below is my current principles to decide to work on any startup/product idea. It’s the result of accumulative learnings I got in the last year of indie hacking (both on the side &a1.7×02262198
81Sep 16, '22Got requests from 8 buyers after just a day listed on @microacquire 🤯. It seems like the idea of selling & buying micro SaaS is a lot more mainstream than I thought.1.7×03361146
82Nov 4, '21Write tweets & threads in Notion, see preview in real-time! Drag-and-drop, emoji, media picker, and all cool Notion features will just work 🔥😉1.6×02601956
83May 25, '22Nora hit $2.5K+ sales, in just 2 days after launch. Wild!! 🤯🥳🥰1.5×0324625
84Jul 1, '22It’s exactly 3 months since I quit my job. Goal: 6 products, $12K sales, in 12 months. Progress: 2 products launched, 1 exciting product coming out, $6K+ in sales, & all Twitte1.5×0296940
85Mar 23, '22I’m officially going full-time on indie hacking on April 1. Excited and terrified 🤩😱 Sent my resignation to @Fig, talked to the team. Still a big fan of Fig, I just couldn’t get 1.5×0301113
87Aug 6, '24Your MVP should never require users to change their behavior. People will pay $49/month if a product removes a boring part of their work. People won't use a free product if they ne1.4×11k2081452
88Oct 8, '21What do you prefer to start with? - 💻👌🏻 Frontend - Ugly minimal but functional - 💻⭐️ Frontend - Fullly polished - ⚡️⚡️ Backend1.4×02481214
89Mar 18, '22✨ Learned this React TypeScript tip today Use React.VFC for components that shouldn’t have children.1.3×02402646
90Apr 18, '21My first MRR 🤯, 10 days after first $ Can’t describe how “over-happy” I’m with the little money, but for the first time, it’s RECURRING!1.3×0291514
91Dec 9, '22Although I’m ignoring AI & its applications right now (to focus on my products), it’s hard not to feel FOMO when AI avatar products are making $50K/month to $1M+/month despite 1.3×02421530
92Aug 20, '22I designed faster with @tailwindcss than with @figma.1.1×0250108
93Mar 28, '22How to build a SaaS startup solo: 1. Try to look for a solution to automate 1 thing you’re annoyed with 2. Be sad that you can’t find any solution 3. Build MVP for yourself 4. Add 1.1×01921631
94Jan 5, '22I'm happy to share I just joined @fig as Product and Engineering Lead. This fulfilled my childhood's dream of leading a company in Silicon Valley. As to the role, I'll be building 1.1×025236
95Sep 7, '22The more products I built, the less ambitious the first version of my product is. The more products I built, the less features the first version of my product has. The more product1.1×02001128
96Oct 1, '22Just realized today is exactly 6 months since I started indie hacking full-time. 🎯 Goal for 1st year 6 products, $12K revenue 🔋 Progress 5 products (82%), $8.9K rev (74%) ⏳ Time 1.1×0231521
97Jan 13, '22Just downloaded the latest @Grammarly macOS app today, they took onboarding UX to the next level 🤯: They have UI to point user to what to do in System Preferences. When I move the1.1×0218731
98Apr 8, '21First $ into my Stripe acc after 2 years making no money on the Internet! Not sure if it’s a good idea sharing such a small thing, but it feels really great and motivating just loo1.0×0234102
99Oct 23, '22Work station of the day: Amed, Bali. Finishing some final work of a big announcement that I’m gonna share soon 😉. Then, I will chill for the rest of the day for my birthday. I tur1.0×019813
100Dec 7, '21Something Twitter startups don't talk about enough: MVP doesn't mean it can be shit. You'll have to be patient to make one feature functions *really well*. MVP is a great end-user 0.9×0191126

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