Cyril and I sat together during our last offsite and set a simple goal: reach $100k MRR in 2026 with Fernand, just the two of us. Zero hiring, like the good old days when we got started in his parents basement. It sounds crazy ambitious, but the way we work makes me think it could be realistic.

We finally have an awesome video introducing what is Fernand. Hope you'll like it :)

It's not always easy to differentiate yourself on a marketplace ...

I have these two comments in the db table, and had to increase the size because of Lemon Squeezy. Today, we had to increase these once more because of LS, that provide a 1033 chars long access token. At this rate, we'll soon have to change the type to LONGTEXT ... 🤦‍♂️

Friday is the day we deploy to prod

Y aurait-il quelqu'un avec un abonnement "Les Echos" qui aurait la gentillesse de me partager un article payant ? N'hésitez pas à me contacter en réponse ou par dm, merci :)

@mitsuhiko.at Hi Armin, I saw your blog today (coming from a link on HackerNews about 996) and I was wondering what are you using for writing your blog ? Is it custom made or a public library/service ? Thanks!

The kind of bug I hate the most!! Selecting the first option set the value to "null" (expected behavior) Remove the empty comment, and selecting the first option set the value to "Browser detection". ...wtf ?

The kind of bug I hate the most!! Selecting the first option set the value to "null" (expected behavior) Remove the empty comment, and selecting the first option set the value to "Browser detection". ...wtf ?

Which ergonomic keyboard, preferably wired, would you recommend?

J'adore. Sur le site des impôts, le paiment des divers taxes se fait en un clic. Mais quand il faut faire une demande de remboursement (TVA), d'un coup, le service devient amnésique ...

Today we're launching our biggest AI update yet: → Custom AI training → Optional AI chat agent → Smarter replies, everywhere you work You can train Fernand with up to 10Mb of your own content: Scraped website, docs, saved replies, PDFs, past conversations.

Superhuman-like inbox. Mintlify-like knowledge base. Chatbase-like trained chat AI agent. @getfernand now does it all in one calm, human-first product. Still only $29/user/month.

I spent this whole week implementing an AI chat system for @getfernand.com. The first iteration used the chat completion, but would not provide any answers if the data wasn't present on the vector store (rag).

First try of adding AI in @getfernand.com's widget chat. Asked "What is your pricing". Got the pricing of another service as a response... The road ahead will be fun 😅

And just like that, in half a day, @getfernand.com now support Polar.sh 😎

"Good news! The disputed payment from December 26, 2024 for account [redacted] was successfully resolved in your favor by the customer’s bank or card network."

Checking the stock market this morning

3D Secure is a lie ...

My free Bluesky Boost chrome extension is live and I need your feedback on it: chromewebstore.google.com/detail/blues... Quick start after install: - Head to/reload bsky.app - Click the extension icon (best to pin it) - A sidebar will appear with contextual feed/post/profile data #buildinpublic

I built a tiny new website (again) this morning: isthisfrom.eu It's a simple open-source app to find out if a brand is from EU or not I'll launch it on Reddit tomorrow 😊

Just started to follow around 200 new bootsrapper profiles on Bsky. My timeline is gonna be interesting !

@jeannen.com@jeannen.com Hi Nico! I was watching your latest video and noticed you are French. Where are you from ? :)

Stripe support is getting really bad these days. I can lookup on their knowledge base. If I'm reaching out to them, it's because my issue is not present on basic KB articles.

I'm starting to believe my dreams are generated by GPT 3...

I don't understand the interest for a wireless keyboard. Not having a visible cable doesn't compare to the benefit of not having a battery (that will ultimately need to be plugged to be charged, defeating the original purpose of "wireless")

I see y'all writing messages here and I wonder how you find the time to do that!

B2B support isn't just about closing tickets - it's about delivering precise responses that build trust. You do this by collaborating fully with everyone in your product team, not just keeping customer support in a silo. Learn more ⤵︎ getfernand.com/updates/sha...

Today, we're releasing Shared drafts, a feature transforming how product teams collaborate when replying to customers. It's perfect for founders delegating their inbox to VAs or working with support agencies 🚀

Just wrote the new version of base64, which is now base65. Tomorrow, I plan to write the new version of the hashing algorithm, sha513. Stay tuned

I like a good technical challenge. Right now, I'm trying to scrap a Gitbook documentation website, and this is really tricky. They rely on NextJS with SSR, which requires me to use Playwright, and they use Tailwind, which makes class-based parsing almost impossible. But I'm making some progress!

Just published a new blog post: “AI isn’t going to build your SaaS” justinjackson.ca/ai-build-saas 💻🌱

Terrific @benjedwards.com essay on the joys of the early era of personal computers ... ... and what we could learn from that: I.e. the pleasures of computation that's actually serving us; under our control; not being juked/tweaked daily by a huge megacorp www.vintagecomputing.com/index.php/ar...

Un bon conseil pour démarrer la semaine

Today is a crazy day! We have fully finalized the sale and handover of ImprovMX.com ! I'm so glad, happy and excited!!

I'm selling the "SaasNext" domains in .com, .co and .io. I initially had in mind to create an alternative of ProductHunt but @tsanlis.bsky.social is doing a way better job with Uneed.best. If you go to the website, you'll see the initial idea I had but it's all fake right now ;)

This is a rare blog post that is perfect in every way. It's the most accurate representation of what most SaaS tends to nowadays, sadly. A must read! matduggan.com/stop-trying-...

This is utter crap from @teamrazer.bsky.social . Having to register to unlock a hardware feature should never happen. www.razer.com/71-surround-...

Often, when founders become successful, they'll start saying "this is what lead me here, you should do the same"; That's not how it work. I believe it's more like a "Squid game" adventure. Many people start - all of them believing they'll win the grand prize - but in the end, only a few win.

"Great use of AI is not making machines do what you can do better" - Antirez (antirez.com/news/144) So true!

Who wants some ?

And this is to close our dev session! With a nice beef wellington from @antoineminoux.bsky.social ! Shared draft is almost finished, and we also added pre-written draft from rules and... generated draft from Ai based on on the incoming message! We're pretty proud of what we've accomplished!

Today's the last day of our dev session as we'll be on the road tomorrow. We plan to release a shared draft feature on @getfernand.com. This will pave the way for implementing automated AI suggestions so that you'll only have to accept the best pre-written answer when doing support.

This is bootstrapping at its finest : having to put the webcam on a cutting board and the light on a beer case 😅

We're kickstarting a new dev session for @getfernand.com with @antoineminoux.bsky.social near the Danemark border. We have a ton of work to do! Hopefully, we'll release a few nice things by the end of this week!

In France, we currently are in the period to pay the "CFE" (Cotisation Foncière des Entreprises), a local tax based on your location. What annoys me here, is that this tax is based on your _revenues_ from two years ago. Why? I thought this was the "IS" tax (Impôt sur les sociétés)

Sorry guys!!!

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