Trying not to share my recent hobbies/curiosity pursuits with people in public. Not doing it for money either. I don't want to start performing and optimizing for a specific goal. Doing it purely for joy and my mental health. Damn... I can't recommend it enough.

I won’t share accounts, but predictions about Google losing the AI race a year or two ago is all you need to understand about social media “oracles”.

What people think brings me customers versus what really brings me customers:

Better Stack reports it as up, but ScreenshotOne is down since we run our API gateway as Cloudflare Workers. I wonder how Better Stack successfully manages to run API requests.

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you might have the biggest ego in the world but i like that running a business humbles you less ego leads to less stress, better decisions, more joy, more peace, clearer communication

Got to $300,000 ARR and 650 paying customers (companies, makes, and developers) for ScreenshotOne.com! Thank you everybody for your support and trust 🫶 I can't believe it, but $1,000,000 ARR is only 3 times of that and it seems achievable. P.S. 30-50% of that is expenses before taxes.

ai is only a bubble if there is a bottleneck to consume all productivity gains it generates you have two wheat fields to process you buy five tractors to process these fields fast buying more tractors (~more and better models) won't help with anything, you only have two fields

You do not know what keywords/prompts AI ranks you for. But you see to what pages it sends traffic. It is not a huge problem to reverse-engineer that. Especially if you ask that same AI.

the only people you need to prove something to… are your kids build cool stuff (together, too), play football with them, love their mother, travel together, challenge them, be a lighthouse of values, show that you don’t give up when it is tough, and give up when it is dumb continue

I know this is a sponsored post. I see you promoted your product in my replies. I understand you want to sell me your course through the “lifestyle posts” funnel. All good. No worries. I don’t judge. Life is hard. Everyone needs a way to make a living.

I tried to talk at least one customer per week. Or via the support chat or reaching out myself. Framing my discussions with my customers as future blog posts and documenting everything helps me a lot. It is my factory of insights.

A short cycling session before the beginning of the day and... Back to work!

I don't understand. A lot of consumers sign up to ScreenshotOne to make screenshots of the websites.

Gained a dofollow backlink from HubSpot without doing anything. ScalableDeveloper.com/ is my technical blog where I don't sell or market anything. But I write the best piece of content possible on the topics I am curious about. Maybe that's the reason why many link to it?

Opened LinkedIn. And instead of "Looking for a job," I see "Are you hiring?" Don't underestimate how much your life can change in 4 years. Stay in love, stay curious. Keep going, keep trying, keep shipping.

I checked submissions to opengraphexamples.com. I need to rebuild it and automate that. I can't process 200+ responses manually anymore. It has traffic and ranks high for many keywords on Google. People find it organically and submit a lot.

If you raise a lot of money or sacrifice your life to earn a ton only to impress others, reconsider it. It might not work as you expect, and it's a pity to sacrifice so much for that. An excerpt from a chat with my friend:

Since I launched ScreenshotOne in 2022 until today, it has: 321,312 unique visitors. 34,446 signed up (10% of visits). 1,264 subscribed for at least one month (3.5% of sign-ups). 3 lessons:

$25K MRR product, but you need to work on it 2 hours daily at least. $15K profit. Or $1M in cash? All that before taxes.

From overreacted.io/react-for-t..., one of the most beautiful explanations I have ever read about why React Server Components:

I never thought about that, maybe you, too, but one of the best decisions recently: Instead of using the washing machine everyday, I bought 5 T-shirts and shorts for running/cycling/football and wash them only once a week.

My 2 insights from a chat with founder of saaspo.com on: 1. Your competitors are often the tools that show how people do the work. He uses a Chrome extension, not another screenshot API. 2. He has been a customer for the past 3 years. I want that to be 10 years. screenshotone.com/blog/saaspo/.

Is it a first launch on Product Hunt in 2025 that doesn’t mention “AI” in every sentence? www.producthunt.com/products/me...

What if I am a complete loser? I feel I could hack my way to please algorithms and figure out what to do to make much more money. But I focus on pursuing my curiosities, regardless of money and attention. What if my pursuit is a beautiful narrative to trick myself, and I am just lazy and dumb?

Once you reach $10K in monthly profit, ensure your business doesn’t depend on your social media presence. Otherwise, you are not financially independent but a slave to the algorithms.

When building a public API, always start with asynchronous jobs as the public interface. There is no downside to it. Easy to wrap as synchronous requests or cover with the SDK. You never know how far your API can grow and how complex processing will become. It is a huge pain to refactor later.

Posts on social media are often screaming: “Look at me,” “I am smarter than you,” “I am kind,” “I am rich,” "I need more love"... There is what people post and there is what people actually say (~vibe). People are authentic when both are aligned.

I tried not to add features to my product (a screenshot API). My philosophy was to keep it simple and keep improving it. But I get 3-4 monthly requests for bulk screenshots (to enrich a CSV/spreadsheet file with website screenshots).

Being happy and content with yourself without needing to prove anything to anybody. Solitude is addictive.

October 2025 was one of the best months for my business. My MRR grew, and churn is lower, but I don’t want to talk about money. I am lucky to not have any agenda to sell you something. It might be temporary, but I find the money topic less exciting than other things now.

Unless you are selling a course on how to get rich, I would assume that there is no such market as "indie hackers" and no such customer persona.

A few days are left, but the ScreenshotOne revenue churn is around 3.5% in October. I want to bring it down to 3% for a few consecutive months. Once it works, I feel eligible to share a few lessons. Or I can share them now: talk to your customers and improve the product.

Added customer stories to the testimonials page (screenshotone.com/customers/): 1. To reiterate the marketing message. 2. Sharing more customers stories and everywhere never hurts. What do you think?

Rocky Balboa to his son: "But it ain't about how hard ya hit. It's about how hard you can get it and keep moving forward. How much you can take and keep moving forward. That's how winning is done! ...

It is not a huge number, but I make around $30,000,000 CRR (Century Recurring Revenue). If you still use ARR in your revenue calculations, you are not ambitious enough. Think in centuries.

Current discussions in the TypeScript community remind me of why I chose Go over Scala once in the past. I saw all these same discussions probably 10+ years ago.

Why does the Internet or social media full of AI-generated slop matter at all? I keep reading great books and talking to real people—I curate my experience. You don't drink sewer water, do you? You drink it from clean springs or at least filtered, right? Right?

Don't become cynical at all costs. Ignore haters. Don't respond. Don't give them even a drop of attention. Forget them. Focus on people who create and on those who deeply care about peace. Connect them, build bridges, promote them all. And hope for the best.

How I grew my SaaS to $10,000 MRR: 1. I asked my friend to subscribe to my SaaS, and I subscribed to his. We both had +$10/mo monthly growth. 2. We then kept repeating that under different emails. We both are happy now and both have $10K MRR SaaS, enjoying our lives.

The north star for the tax system in any country should be whether a founder can fill and perform accounting alone without any external help. Even if tens of people are hired. Everything else is unnecessary bureaucracy.

ChatGPT Atlas just works. It opened ScreenshotOne's Playground page with 20+ inputs and used it to render a screenshot. And it worked! I am impressed. Now, let's test it in more complex scenarios!

Switched from "job roles" to "use cases" in testimonials filter at screenshotone.com/customers/. Roles resonate less. But use cases are what my potential customers are looking for and provide more information. I also adapt the headline and other elements for the selected use case.

Google Ads don’t work, and X doesn’t help promote business and brings zero traffic to your websites. Tinder doesn’t help to have dates. LinkedIn doesn’t help to find a job. TikTok doesn’t help to promote B2C products. ... What else?

My competitors might not like it, and it might not be trendy, but I don’t have an exit strategy. I have an "I don't plan to quit" strategy. My goal is to keep running my business for years or until AGI comes.

Decide whether you want to be an entrepreneur or cosplay as one. Cosplaying is posting about your lifestyle, chatting with other founders—networking, telling stories, being active on social media, praising and pleasing your heroes.

Since a few weeks ago, I am back to no sugar, walking, hiking, exercising, sleeping well, and all that. My new all-time high chess rating immediately skyrocketed to ~1850 (+150 points). It is free bonus IQ points. I don't understand it, but I feel "smarter" when I am healthier.

One of the best business books I have read recently. The book is for building a mindset on how to build a resilient business that is focused on making your customers happy, surviving long-term, and living your life the way you want.

The peace you really seek is not in a 9-to-5 job as a salesman, entrepreneurship, a big following, or money. You seek peace of mind, regardless of whatever happens outside. You want equanimity. Once you get that, nothing else matters.

Opened my 2025/26 hiking season with a 15+ kilometer “walk” in the desert 💪