I failed to reach $1K MRR goal I set last year 😅

But it's soooooo close 🤏

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Traffic for KTool and BoltAI is kinda the same.

But BoltAI converts 10x better.

There must be something wrong with KTool: pricing, value props, targeting, onboarding… 🤔

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@michael_kove Not necessarily but I think most just promote on Twitter or via #buildinpublic and make it looks like targeted at other indie founders.

This is amazing.

I'm dog-fooding boltai.app with my own software consulting work.

Open PDF → ask questions using BoltAI.

This is going to save me a lot of time!

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Mimicking this chat message text field in SwiftUI turns out to be quite challenging 😅

Going to tweet about how to solve it ↓

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Happiness is when you're drowning in feedback from paying customers 🥹

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I hope this will inspire you to "just ship the damn thing" 😁

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This is probably just pure coincidence, but last month I ran into a performance issue with RSS feature.

So I disabled that feature for trial users + show a big paywall.

MRR increases 25%

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I switched from shipping a .zip file to a .dmg package.

Didn’t know I need to codesign & notarize the dmg too.

MacOS development is fun 🥲

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I'm torn.

I can't use BoltGPT due to trademark issue.

But it's unique, and I can rank #1 for the term.

Top search result for "boltai" is about some Soviet Propaganda Poster or something 🥲

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New landing page coming soon ✨

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SEO is a long game 🥹

This article was published 6 months ago ✍️

Now it becomes a featured snippet 💪

Solid work by @ShaunEls 🙌

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✨ Just shipped BoltAI v1.3

You can build your own AI Assistants & Prompt Library now.

And yes, BoltAI does have (short) memory 🧠

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Native macOS development is quite refreshing.

— Electron "Hello World" app: 200 MB

— Native app with 20+ dependencies: 10 MB

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An interesting metric of KTool:

75% of my customers are on an annual plan 🤯

What does this mean? Am I pricing the monthly plan too low? 🤔

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Never in my life I bought a domain so fast.

Goodbye BoltGPT.app 😔

Hello BoltAI.app 😊

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Open startup update (KTool - April 2023)

💰 $800 revenue (+35%)
💸 $853 MRR (+14%)
🤑 88% margin

👨‍💻 8.2k visitors (-18%)
🧑‍💼 471 new signups (+6%)
#⃣ 5.74% (visitor → signup)

💳 18 new subscribers
😢 3 churned
#⃣ 3.82% (signup → subscriber)

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My philosophy in building software products:

Simple front-end with a powerful back-end.

👉 Simple UI/UX
👉 Highly configurable back-end
👉 Have “sensible” defaults

What’s yours?

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Something magical just happened 🥹

A BoltGPT customer just subscribed to ktool.io 🥹

I guess this works because both are productivity tools 😁

Ship more products serving a same audience I guess 💪

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I did it!

I've nailed the UX for boltgpt.app

After a week intensely studying Swift & macOS development, I'm quite happy with the result.

Just type "/as", search for an assistant then press Tab

Release a new version soon 🤩

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