What? 😲 The CEO of Huel just made a LinkedIn post about Stagetimer! The $280M revenue/year Huel! I can assure you we didn't pay him to do this 🤞😅

I made $29,059 in February and worked exactly 4 hours. Not 4h/week. 4 hours during the entire month! This is the power of a SaaS product. Once the flywheel is spinning, it just keeps going.

Developers: I use two screens for coding! Meanwhile Rundown Studio users:

Here's a $1M B2B niche: Digital signage solution for Hospital waiting rooms. They use this pitiful zoomed-in SAP screen, half the space is taken up by scaled up UI elements. (Ignore the baby seal)

Just backed up all my old tweets in case Eoln messes this up even more. They're all hosted and accessible under my own domain now. 👉 tweets.lukashermann.dev If you want to do the same, head over to github.com/tweetback/tw... ❤️

Growth before and after solving churn. It was very much worth it to fix churn in exchange for slower but more steady growth. I think this is part of building a good product 👌

Do you know the password game? I'm tempted to build "The Timezone Game" 😂

This is so cool! A BTS of my tool Rundown Studio used in action at a wrestling event:

In my first partnership one co-founder paid themselves a higher salary and claimed more equity, left all the work to me and another guy, then when the investment failed kicked out the other guy, left the country and let the cleanup work fall on my. So now I always sign this...

People think good product design is taking the question most people ask, And then answering it. But it really is taking one question and refining it so much, just like a jeweler cuts a diamond, until the answer is obvious!

Has anyone used Replit before? Is it an actually good experience?

This streak feature is amazing, really keeps me motivated to keep logging my meals! Thanks to everyone who suggested it. Anyone ever used a calorie tracker? What's one thing it did really well? I'm trying to give my lazy self the best possible chance to loose those pounds.

We're doing 3 zoom calls with customers this week to learn what they really need. This is for Rundown Studio. And we learned that our real competitor is… …not Shoflo (the leading rundown tool) …not even Google …but Excel and Paper! So 👏 Paper 👏 we're coming for you!

Started with $0 MRR and 10x it in one month

Thanks for the feedback everyone! I've added some GitHub-style streak tracking now to keep me motivated 💪

I'm building a chatbot to help me loose weight. It works like a friend who knows a lot about nutrition and holds me accountable. It's not done yet, but the daily calorie meter already works and is super helpful. Any suggestions for good ways to form habits?

What keeps you from working like this?

Hot showers are an underrated productivity hack. It easily has the highest rate of creativity-per-liter. I've prototyped entire startups in my head during just a single shower session. Pro tip: Apply shampoo last so you have a few more minutes after the spouse comes checking.

Happy new year 2025-01-01T00:00:000Z 🍾

It took 7 engineers 3 years of bug fixing to get this right. Trust me, I'm an expert 😭

Me and Claude after finishing a hard task 🫶

Today I found out how to make Claude3.5 work through larger coding tasks. It's always been a problem, with long threads the AI answers degrade. Solution: 1. Ask it to reason through the problem first 2. Let it generate a markdown file as docs 3. Provide docs file to each new thread

You don't need to build AI tools to succeed. Even the most innovative AI people still need normal tools. The AI Founders Demo Day just posted these pictures on LinkedIn and I spotted a familiar sight. They are using Stagetimer, a tool i've been working on for 3 years. 🎉🎉🎉

I've been very productive with Claude using this method: 1. Create a Project 2. Describe the project + tech stack 3. Add services and type definitions (project knowledge) 4. Start a new chat for every feature No. 4 is crucial, chats with lots of code deteriorate quickly!

Normal people: 5 ways timezones are weird Software developer: Let me tell you something... www.youtube.com/shorts/VNdo0...

Interesting stats from our Paddle dashboard, customers who pay more are more active!

People told me having employees is hard. I shrugged them off. But man is it hard. 😓 I only have two contractors and all I want is that they do the task just like it is in my mind. But I'm starting to suspect they, in fact, can't read my mind. I think I'm becoming a manager 😥.

Goof-Around-December update: In this project I'm building a Telegram Bot to help me loose weight. Everything going splendid! I'm down to 3 bugs/hour and the over-engineered onboarding process is done! Next week: Calorie counting! #buildinpublic

Goof-Around-December update: It took a whole Hans-Zimmer-powered gym session to wrap my mind around Claude's tool use today. But I finally figured it out. My goal is an onboarding flow w/o pre-typed questions, but letting Claude look at the database and ask questions itself. And it works! 💪

One could say things are going great!

Update on the Goof-Around-December project: Finished the onboarding and deployed it. Obviously, the AI assistant doesn't get a chat history and seems completely lost in the conversation lol But progress is progress!

Goof-Around-December update: NutriBot is alive and hooked up to Claude! 🎉🎉🎉 Next up: The user onboarding experience

Goof-Around-December update: With the help of Claude the initial setup is done and the Bot can answer the first queries. Next is hooking up the AI API. #buildinpublic

First-time founders doing marketing

Here's the plan for Goof-Around-Dezember:

 Build a wrapper for my "Nutritionist AI" so it says "What did you have for breakfast", "Did you weight yourself today?" and "You're doing great, you deserve a snack" to me via WhatsApp or Telegram.

 Basically becoming a friend. 🥹 

#buildinpublic

The baby got my office and I got a corner of the living room. The sun is quite low in winter, not great for my dark-mode vampire eyes... #IndieFathers

Founding a company in Germany, in the media industry and #1 marketing channel is word of mouth 🤯 @lukashermann.dev is doing indie hacking on hard mode! 🕹️ We had a great talk about it on the "Code and Conquer" podcast, check out the new episode down below 👇

Finally a screen big enough for my next MRR chart

It's Goof-Around-Dezember and I'm going to cast my ToDo list aside for a month and build a new AI tool that scratches my own itch. And I'm going to #buildinpublic here on Bluesky 🙌.

This has been my best month ever with Stagetimer 📈 But how did we get here? What factors lead to this revenue? Let's investigate together! Andy you may even learn something for your business.

Founder Mode! (Me running Stagetimer for the Startup Stuttgart pitch event on Wednesday)

Just launched the Stagetimer Raspberry Pi version (aka. Linux app). The idea is to expand how people can use the tool and thus catch more traffic. Also, does anyone have experience with the electron self-updater?

What I think my users do after I launch a new feature vs. what they really do.

Yesterday I didn't do any work. The day before I didn't do any work. I made €3000 in the same time. Thank you SaaS 🙏

I love it how the indie hacker community immediately gets busy building side projects for Bsky! This is such a 2020 vibe and I'm here for it! (Example: BlueskyMeter.com by @andrei.blue )

Does your Chocolate Santa even lift?

@tsanlis.bsky.social is there a Uneed Black Friday deal list?

Wait, can we now call ourselves YC funded? 🤑

Two first Black Friday purchases already came in 🎉🎉🎉

Tweeting to thousand of followers: Chill 😎 Sending a newsletter to 438 subscribers: Nail-biter 😰