I'm realizing now how damaging the "quantity over quality" approach has gotten for the #buildinpublic scene.

Millions of words, zero real addition.

Time for a @GrabbrAppIO dev thread!

Below:
- What looks like a ProductHunt fail, some metrics and why I think it went wrong
- Features I'm excited to release and some concerns about those features
- Why I'm doing sprints as a solo dev

#buildinpublic

Interestingly, there were a ton of fairly obvious bot accounts that upvoted @GrabbrAppIO on @ProductHunt early on, and then it tapered off.

I got pretty hyped when I woke up to a ton of upvotes, then bummed with how quickly it leveled off. 😅
#buildinpublic… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

Okay, long post coming up: Sprint plan and launch post-mortem for @GrabbrAppIO , #buildinpublic style !

Sprint end date: July 11

(btw, API documentation is live, sorry that didn't go out sooner...)

grabbrapp.io/apidocs

Post-mortem:
- The launch went well. Nothing broke.… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

So now @GrabbrAppIO has an ugly UI for SSL cert grabbing!

Demo video coming soon.
#buildinpublic #infosec

This week's agenda:

- Get requests properly showing in the dashboard
- Get a demo video recorded
- Start working on file fetching
- Logging, refactoring and other boring stuff

#buildinpublic

GrabbrApp update time:

Features:
- Servers now delete themselves after an hour
- Servers auto-scale: if there are over a certain number of requests in a given 10 minute window, the API spins up more servers. If there are less, it will terminate those servers

#buildinpublic

One quick tweak and now it's running 2x as fast.

@GrabbrAppIO is now running 100 SSL cert fetches in 85 seconds, for an average time per request of less than 1 second. #buildinpublic twitter.com/valhalla_dev/s…

Just ran a speed test for @GrabbrAppIO ...

SSL cert pull across 100 domains took 188 seconds, roughly 1.8s average per request.

I'll take that.
#buildinpublic #infosec

IMHO @levelsio is who to look at for actual #buildinpublic content.

It's not all meta "this is how you build in content, buy my book" shilling, it's him actually... building things, and posting about it in public.

There's a reason he has the following he does.

Can't help but feel like #buildinpublic is way more "in public" than "build" nowadays...

That's why I started #SaaSStandup, you get to see me actually building stuff on a (mostly) daily basis.

#SaaSStandup Day 9: Hyper-incrementality

I blogged about this over at @golifelog, but I think the idea is worth detailing here. Right now, I'm focusing on hyper-incrementality in building my SaaS.

It sort of follows the #buildinpublic idea.

golifelog.com/posts/hyper-in…

I've actually thought about this a lot, how the #BuildInPublic movement is basically building a massive group of creators of shitty content that talks about the idea of creating apps, businesses, etc. in public without ever doing it.

I got stuck in that mill for a while.

I'm realizing now how damaging the "quantity over quality" approach has gotten for the #buildinpublic scene.

Millions of words, zero real addition.

I have a fairly significant, looming and imposing achievement I have yet to reach:

I've never actually launched anything!

Here is how I'm going to overcome that barrier:

How's My Pass

#ship30for30 #buildinpublic

medium.com/@theCTIGuy/the…

What is a piece of advice you haven't seen all over #BuildInPublic Twitter?

It seems like most "advice" posts are more or less repeating the same stuff. 😅

Let's #BuildInPublic a local tech consultancy, shall we?

This is a brainstorm thread pulled from my @golifelog post on Monday which you can find here:
golifelog.com/posts/setting-…

Huge thanks to @SimonHoiberg and @jasonleowsg for the motivation!

Let's get into it. 👇️

It's absolutely unreal how much value @SimonHoiberg adds to the #BuildInPublic and SaaS communities.

A ten minute video that can save you a lot of frustration:

Reaching $1,000 MRR in one month.
👇👇👇
youtube.com/watch?v=nsm7sg…

And now the journey has a YouTube channel!

Here is where I'm going to be documenting my journey to financial independence. All of the investments, all of the businesses, all of the products, I'll be logging them all here #BuildInPublic style!

youtu.be/bdnkzGs6NRA

"I'm Writing a Book!" via @Medium

Learn more:
twitter.com/valhalla_dev/s…

#Python #BuildInPublic #WebScraping

medium.com/@theCTIGuy/im-…