Hey y'all, I'm back! What has changed in bsky?

1 month in a trip with the family. Japan and Singapore are wild What did I miss 😆?

Our trip to Japan is coming, and my home page is ready ✌️🥹 Building an app that literally helps me with my travels is beyond amazing! #buildinpublic

Need a post-deploy execution? a local emulator setup? it's all in the firebase.json file. that's why I still love and enjoy #Firebase so why use #supabase if it just works for me? #buildinpublic

Here’s your reminder to take it easy today and hit the beach 🏖️ #restinpublic

locator.ltd started as a way to save places you love—share a link, and it maps everything for you. No more copy-pasting into Google Maps. But I realized first-time users need more—opening the app to a blank screen isn’t ideal. So we’re adding an Explore page! 🌍🔍 what do you think? #buildinpublic

Sometimes I love sharing technical tips. Heres another one: You know you can search Google by site, right? site:mysite.com <query> Well, you can also do it programmatically using googlesearch-python 👇 Great for finding content on sites that limit search or charge for queries. 👀 #buildinpublic

Build what your users need, not just what's cool. Here’s how: 🔍 Track behavior – Focus on the features users love most. 🗣️ Listen to feedback – Let users shape your roadmap. 🚧 Identify friction points – Build solutions where users get stuck. concrete examples below 👇 #buildinpublic

Holy crap. thanks everyone! #buildinpublic

Seeing a surge in new followers—thanks, everyone! I’ll take this opportunity to reintroduce myself 👋 I’m a machine learning researcher, and In my spare time, I enjoy building projects like locator, a tool designed for travelers who want a modern approach to recommendations saving Nice meeting y’all!

Just killed an idea before writing a single line of code. Why? Validation with polls. 🚀 Lessons learned: 1️⃣ Interest ≠ Willingness to pay 2️⃣ Validate before you build 3️⃣ Talk to users early A simple poll saved me months of wasted effort. Build what people need, not just what sounds cool. #buildinpublic

Hey all! A bit unusual but I’m testing the waters with a new idea, looking for validation: 💡 We’re exploring ways to improve ChatGPT’s conversation continuity—making it easier to recall past discussions and keep context intact. We’d love your input! If you have a few minutes #AI #ChatGPT

Today marks our first churn for Locator - an unsubscribed user. 🫠. Some thoughts 🔹 Focus too much on new users and not enough on retention will bite you. 🔹 Zero visibility on why they left—was it a bug? A missing feature? No clue. 🔹 Funny how one bad thing makes me question everything. onwards!

Not usually a “new features before PMF” kind of guy, but sometimes, small improvements add real value. So here I am, tweaking Locator's visuals: 📍 Map markers now show place categories. 🟢 Green = Open, 🔴 Red = Closed. One less click for two key travel details. 🚀 #buildinpublic

Here’s a reminder I keep telling myself as a solo developer-founder: That new feature can wait if: 🔹 No user has requested it 🔹 You haven’t reached product-market fit yet 🔹 You have pending marketing/sales tasks you should probably finish first Build what matters. Sell what exists 🚀 #buildinpublic

How to effectively crawl websites? 🕵️‍♂️ Most people start with curl or requests, but websites are getting smarter at blocking scrapers. Here’s how to level up your crawling game. 👇 #buildinpublic

Dev Tip of the Day – Use PostHog If you do not know how your users behave, you've got a problem PH can solve: MVP: 1️⃣ A PostHog wrapper for your app stack 2️⃣ An identifier to match user IDs with PostHog sessions 3️⃣ Autocapture to track actions automatically code to get you started👇 #buildinpublic

What I wish I knew before launching on Product Hunt: lessons learned after a failed launch👇 #buildinpublic

Literally 7000 Thank you all, and thank #buildinpublic 🫡

Spent the day planning social media—no coding, no debugging, just figuring out how to get more eyes on our app. Goal: frictionless posting Plan: ✅ Rotate content types ✅ Premade thumbnails ✅ Simple posting checklist ✅ Follow like-minded creators Never done this before, let's go! 🚀 #buildinpublic

Hey PST friends – big news! Locator is now live on Product Hunt. 🚀 Turn blogs, TikToks, and more into a map of places to visit. We just launched 12 hours ago, so come check it out and let us know what you think! 👉 #Locator #ProductHunt

TL;DR - We'd love your support on @ProductHunt! Locator is a passion project of ours with a simple goal: Turn any blog, tiktok, or reel into mapped travel spots. no more lost recommendations! If you like what we do, or think "Hey, this may be useful" we'd appreciate your response 👇 #buildinpublic

If you’re following me for some time, you know I’ve been building Locator.ltd —an app that turns travel recommendations into maps. Found a cool spot on TikTok or a blog? Share it, and AI pins it for you automatically! We’re launching in 12 hours on Product Hunt and would love your support! 🚀

If you #buildinpublic, you probably deserve some break. Here’s your sign to just take it easy and take a stroll in your town! That’s what I did today, at least 🙏

When I started #buildinpublic, I was all about: ✅ Sharing code ✅ Fixing bugs ✅ Shipping features Now, I see the bigger picture: 🚀 Reaching new customers 🎤 Perfecting my pitch 🤖 Scaling with marketing automation In the AI era, code is cheaper than ever. What makes you STAND OUT?

what do you think of our new hero section in locator.ltd? #buildinpublic we've added a video and a product hunt banner

🚀 When I built Locator, I had a simple goal in mind - turn any blog, TikTok, or reel into mapped travel spots. ☕ Found a "Best coffee in NYC" blog? 🏝️ Saved a Bali beach Reel? Drop the link, get the map. Launching on Product Hunt Feb 17 @ 12:01 PST—would love your support! 🙌

6 months ago: 🔹I had an idea for an app. 🔹It wasn’t perfect, but I decided to go for it anyway. Today: 🔹6 paying clients. 🔹learned to build an app end2end. All this to say: Ideas don’t matter. Just start 🔥 #buildinpublic

The recent Builders thread was truly amazing, and I'd like to acknowledge one project that stood out to me: blueskyinbox.com by @makeusabrew.bsky.social In short, it's a tracker that monitors relevant keywords on Bluesky and gets a real-time post-stream Let's support amazing creators on BlueSky!👇

Some soloprenuers avoid showing their faces online, But I'm going all it with a tiktok account, showing my most recent app - Locator. It helps with saving places you love from blogs, tiktok, instagram and more! check it out:

Got a call today from a recruiter about a high-end machine-learning role. But the only thing on my mind during the conversation was, "How will I have time for my projects with this level of responsibility?" Feels like my priorities are shifting. #buildinpublic has truly changed my life.

🚀 Show me what you're building! Drop your product in the replies, and I'll create a unique post featuring the most interesting one. #BuildInPublic

People told us that b2c marketing is all about social media - So here I am embarrassing my self on TikTok for the 💸🤡 Follow us as we make locator a thriving app! [link in comments 👇]

If you read one post today—MAKE IT THIS ONE! I’m kicking off a thread of real #BuildInPublic MVPs here on Bsky because our community deserves a boost. 💡 Who’s someone we should all be following? I’ll start: 🔥 @andrei.blue – a short-form goldmine. Check him out! Can we make this thread explode? 🚀💙

Android users, you were here first—so you get the perks! 🎉 🔹 Found a great spot online? One-click 🖱️→ saved to your personal map. 🗺️ 🔹Sign in your way—Google or even as a guest if you just want to test the waters. 🌊 🔹 Limited-time pricing for Android users (yes, that’s YOU!) Try Locator now! ⬇️

Takeaways from launching on the App Store: 🔹Users love signing in anonymously—low commitment = more exploration. 🔹Marketing isn’t a one-time thing. We got 20 signups, then growth stalled 🔹If you don’t highlight a feature, it doesn’t exist. Users keep requesting feature X but it’s already there!

We're rolling out Locator for iPhone 🍏 Locator makes trip planning easy: 📌 Instead of saving cool place manually (blog post on NYC cafés, TikTok of a Tokyo day trip) - just share them with Locator & see them on a map 🗺️ Perfect for trip planning or saving social media recs! tinyurl.com/3shx5z9f

Locator is coming to iOS in a few hours ! Sign up to get updates in real time when it lands Locator.ltd/coming-soon

Our login screen is getting kinda crowded, having 4 options to sign in. any ideas to improve it? #buildinpublic

Comparing engagement on BlueSky vs X: Same post, same time—here’s what happened: Bsky: 🔵 8 comments 🔵 1 report 🔵 37 likes X: ⚫ 0 comments ⚫ 0 reports ⚫ 1 like (probably a bot) Not a perfect 1:1 test since my Bsky account is much bigger… but isn’t that part of the problem?

I used to think: Oh sh*t - somebody already implemented my idea, better think of something else🥺 But the truth is: It is much more reasonable to start with an idea that has some validation

Great session with @simplygoodbusiness.bsky.social, sharing some tips and feedback for our app locator.ltd

Danger zone in our app - apple requires it, so we made it work. Hopefully, this is the last step for approval 🙏 #buildinpublic

Our SEO efforts start to look like something - writing original content to bring in our ICP 😜

🚀 We're using free tools + programmatic SEO to boost traffic! Here’s our approach: 1️⃣ Find low-KD, high-volume keywords 🎯 2️⃣ Build a free tool around them 🛠️ 3️⃣ Use dynamic routing for scale 📈 4️⃣ Enhance with AI for a sleek UX 🤖 Details below⬇️ #SEO #buildinpublic

Here's a quick dev tip: I often need to quickly test a use case in the CLI with Python—like checking if certain operators work on a pandas DataFrame. 🐍 In VS Code, just press Win+I to inject code inline in the CLI! 🚀 Now I can generate dummy DataFrames in no time. #buildinpublic

Users asked us why cant they test out the app without logging in. So we're adding sign-in as guest! No commitment, no email. If you like it - sign in later #buildinpublic

I've been reading alot on how one should follow his 100 lists - the people who already have a following that are considered your ICP. Who do you think we should all follow as a community of #buildinginpublic ?

If you visited locator.ltd but didn't download the app... why? I'm looking for objections so I can improve it. This is not the place to be nice - be honest and let's see what I can learn from you guys (no ego!)

Netflix having full hour of fireplace footage is pretty awesome tbh 😂 How are you spending your evening?