Nice to see everyone nuke their free plans

Time to make money 💰

↘️ Quoting Marc Köhlbrugge (@marckohlbrugge)

Story AI gets 50 signups per day, but nobody converts.

Today, I optimized the signup funnel.
Bye bye free plan! 👋

It will generate a few story…

If 40x VC style revenue multiple

We need to make $25M per year to hit $1B valuation

So need to ~8x current revenue!

HOW???!!!

↘️ Quoting Minh-Phuc Tran (@phuctm97)

Which indie hacker will become the first one-person billion dollar company?

We don’t…

First results from setting up my funnel analysis with @SimpleAnalytic

Conversion from landing page to paid sign up:

Photo AI: 1.9%
Interior AI: 0.64%
Nomad List: 0.23%

Nomad List is much higher priced though (~$109/lifetime) than Photo AI and Interior…

You are unhealthy and obsessed for performing a similar amount of exercise to 99% of humans who have ever lived

Great quote by @NapierHolland today about people telling you you're obsessed if you go gym/exercise

.@afonsolfm's energy is so infectious, extremely pumped, happy and ambitious guy

Opposite of low energy victim "why am I not successful?"-person who whines and complains all day

↘️ Quoting Iron 📊 (@IronBrands16)

Can anyone check in on my friend? I think…

People on here waiting months/years for "the right idea"

When the point is the right idea gets to you when you working on the wrong idea and even then it might not even be the right idea yet, it'll evolve 10 more times to become the right idea

Then it'll…

Person not doing anything: How do you get ideas for startups? What should I build???

Person in the arena: Literally no time to build all the ideas I have and need to make

That's why doing ANYTHING is always better, taking ANY action gets you the next idea…

✅ Probably the last European in history to learn to ski

My ass hurts 😩

http://PIETER.NET

✨ The entire public photo gallery on Photo AI I made in the last few days is now @creativecommons CC BY licensed which means you can use any photo for free for any project, also commerical

There's now 51,629 public photos generated and there'll be hundreds…

me running 50 sites on 1 VPS: 🤪

↘️ Quoting Malte Ubl (@cramforce)

We're all on the same page that running a sophisticated piece of business critical software with a database, exposure to the internet and stuff costs more than renting a single computer…

Change "the right idea" here to the "the right person" and you have a pragmatic approach to modern day dating

↘️ Quoting @levelsio (@levelsio)

People on here waiting months/years for "the right idea"

When the point is the right idea gets to you when you…

I wish iOS would keep playing YouTube or Spotify music in background even if you open camera roll to share something

Always pauses and it's so annoying

Journalism has now progressed from the clickbait phase to the "we will just make up stories about you"-phase

Fiction novels contain more truth than news now?

↘️ Quoting ST (@seyitaylor)

No publication hates technology as much as Motherboard. You can’t…

I always wonder if ecom bois are really like this IRL or if it's just some giant act they're doing

WE CRUSHING IT IN EVERY AREA

FISTPUMP

ECOMMMMMMMM $$$$

Can't actually be a real personality right? Or it is?

↘️ Quoting Justin (@JustinnGheorghe)

@oliver__b1…

Something very sexy to me about just needing a MacBook Pro and a matress and coding your way from $0 to millions of $$$

↘️ Quoting Michael P Gibson (@William_Blake)

Is this from a deep-tech startup or a minimum-security prison?

Great teams are hardcore.…

It took Larry David until he was 41 to reach success

He spent his 20s and 30s as a struggling comedian living in rent-subsidized apartments

Kinda similar story to Anthony Bourdain who only got his break around age 45

Reminder that you're never too old…

I think she's right, and this is a problem literally EVERYWHERE on the globe now and the only solution is to build extremely way more houses for everybody to live in

Housing should be super cheap and affordable

100 years ago rent wasn't more than 20% or…

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"Buying a house is a good investment"

But for it to be a good investment, housing needs to be increasingly scarce -> less houses per people -> higher price -> higher return on investment

So you gotta choose:
a) keep houses scarse and a good investment
b)…

Love seeing http://dannypostma.com

He hasn't updated it since he started doing startups like Headlime and HeadshotPro

Nice peek into history seeing when he worked as a for-hire conversion specialist and dev

There's even a popup asking to hire him

Things…