@Alex_elnaugh 👋 I'm Mike!

I'm currently working on building Gavin AI - a virtual assistant for tech teams. Right now, he can connect to your GitHub repositories and automatically summarise code changes for you.

I #buildinpublic and share my wins and losses :)

I find that LinkedIn tends to get more engagement than Twitter, so trying my hand at some marketing on that channel.

Let's see! 👀

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😂😂 This account made me laugh.

Happy Friday risk takers!

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Time to turn this template into a landing page for tokenboat.xyz!

But hey! It's live (ish) #buildinpublic

Let's see how it goes.

Updates coming soon to Bravatar!

Like my first tweet if you've ever had to upload a client's logo to your app 🙈.

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Let's go @Christofffer!

Congrats on taking the plunge to #buildinpublic - you've got this 💪

My goal for Bravatar.io is for it to be able to reliably fetch the full logo of any brand.

I've made progress through various scraping methods, but it's not perfect.

#buildinpublic 👉 the bravatar.io page now shows the latest logos found!

✅ Quickest idea to launch I've ever had
✅ Have a number of ideas for the roadmap to make this more valuable
✅ Fun project to work on

❌ Hard to monetize

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#buildinpublic - AUGUST BREAKDOWN 📊

The first month of my indie hacking journey is over!

⚙️ - Started posting on Twitter everyday
🚀 - Gained 32 new followers

⚙️ - Published 3 Medium articles
🚀 - Gained 51 followers

⚙️ - Published my NFT book
🚀 - 1 sale ($90)

🎉🎉🎉

Last week I sold the first copy of my book! 🍾

It's the first $90 I've made as an Indie Hacker and I'm so excited to have reached this first milestone.

What was it like to make you first 💵 online?

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My @medium stats are slowly picking up - I’m thinking of migrating my technical posts there and joining the partner program (to get paid) to create a new revenue stream to grow.

Do I know anyone who’s had some success there?

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Relatable 🤷‍♂️

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Stats from my first attempt at publishing on @Medium

- 3 articles (topic: #solidity and #nft)
- Added to @BttrProgramming publication
- 763 tracked views
- 239 untracked views
- +20 fans
- 45% read rate

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@panphora People join on the fly - though I imagine that some #buildinpublic planning would get more people involved!

Bowsley - the automatic payment collection and website suspension tool for Laravel Forge is launched 🚀.

🎉🎉 To celebrate I'm offering 10 beta invitations - DM me to get on the list, or sign up directly from bowsley.com.

#buildinpublic #laravel #laravelforge

Biggest fears for building in public:

• Feeling vulnerable
• Imposter syndrome
• Failing in public

Any other anxieties I'm missing? #buildinpublic

I decided to launch @bowsleyapp first, and finish it later.

Now that the production environment is ready, the app is only a few updates away from being user-ready 😃🚀.

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I used my flight back to Malta to build out the site dashboard for @bowsleyapp. 🤗 👨‍🎨

Things are coming together 🤗🤗🤗. I may have to set myself a launch date to keep the momentum & motivation going as I reach the last 10% of bits and bobs required to launch.

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Eureka! 💡

The excitement of building things never gets old. 🤓

Just managed to get the client payment page integrated with @stripe for @bowsleyapp! 🚀

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I wrote a blog post about my progress on @bowsleyapp.

Topics covered:

1. Coming up with the idea
2. Getting traction
3. Planning
4. Choosing a tech stack
5. Prototyping the MVP (WIP!)

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