Sunday mornings as indiehacker.

Whether you rest or work hard, enjoy your day🫶

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Killing ciel.chat after 1 month of operation.
~ 3000 users, 4 paying - total revenue: $27 (😂)

BUT - learned a lot:
- AI : speech-to-text-to-speech, text / image-to-image
- messaging bots.

Shipped JoiAIgirlfriend.com in < 2 days thanks to that.

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Senior solopreneurs: don't go all in, keep a freelance job at the beginning.

Me: F*** freelancing.

Me, 3 month later: $50 MRR. Ok let's create erotic AI chatbot, do daily trading and aim a first goal of ~$30 / day of revenue.

To all grinders 💪🫶
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Increased Telegram conversion* x3

Shorter text, clearer value proposition, “feature gating” style image.

Before: < 30% (😱)
After: ~90%

*people pushing “/start”

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Omg @rails syntax makes me reconsider my app 😂

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🔞 Joi
Google ads running for 1 week
→ ~4€ / day for 2 days, then ~1.5€ / day
→ 60 people went to the welcome page on Telegram
→ 28 people pushed `/start`
→ 2 paying users (20€ OTP)

⏳ TODO
- change the /start page (😱)
- diversify marketing

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Created an (uncensored) AI girlfriend on Telegram - JoiAIgirlfriend.com. ElevenLabs for the voice, and a custom model for the text.
I'm impressed by the result 🫣

Should I post that on ProductHunt? 😅
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Building a MVP is playing with the fine line between `usable` and `sexy enough`

What team are you in?
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Anybody doing Adult Content SAAS in #buildinpublic ? 🍑
Feels like people don't go there or are ashamed of it.
idc → Joi, coming soon 🤫

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AskKarlMarx.com (free) - small project of technical experiments I just made ✌️
Fed ChatGPT with Capital Vol 1,2,3 (vector database)

What’s the best embedding app you’ve seen?
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AI Bot Story - 2nd ban of WhatsApp in 10 days 😂
tl;dr: anybody building an AI Chatbot system w/ WhatsApp: → just go on Telegram. No hustle there and better experience.

Details ⤵️
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What is your best growth-hack?
For me, referral: 0 to 1000 users in 4 days with no marketing (100 phone numbers as leads) for ciel.chat (b2c).
700+ users came through referral. 👀

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Worst ProductHunt launch ever:
- product went live without me knowing (thought it was postponed)
- product not working because of WhatsApp
😂
Let's spread some love: producthunt.com/posts/ciel

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Me vs @whatsappbiz
Still banned, so I keep spamming them on Insta, Twitter, LinkedIn, by email and messages, to tell them my bots are not spammers 😂

Scheduled @ProductHunt launch for Sunday, less than 48h to unlock the situation 👀
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Can ChatGPT be considered spammy?? 🤬
My latest project - ciel.chat - got banned by WhatsApp 16 hours after launch while getting 400+ users. 6.2k messages sent from ChatGPT & Bard.

Tag @whatsappbiz to support me 🙏

For the curious > 🧵
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Spent two days refactoring 1000 lines of code - from 1 file to 10 files. Rooting for the next product- it better be f***ng scalable and modular.
Now got two apps coming from the same one, aiming two different servers. WTF is wrong with me. 😂
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AI is winning over web3 - may be time to `buy the deep` and focus on the web3 project, WDYT?
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#buildinpublic 1 month after launch for @whisperize_me :
- 480 users
- 4x active subscriptions
- 4x 1 month packages bought
Not much, but the only marketing channel used are Twitter, @producthunt & @IndieHackers communities.

Wanted to stop AI for couple of weeks. But damn, so much room for creativity there.
Just started to work on Whisper Bot's sister: Pixel Bot 👀
More coming soon ✌️
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3 weeks after launch:
+ 340 users
+ 4 subscriptions
+ 35€ MRR (@stripe is lying, wtf 😂)

Step by step 👀
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