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Good story! I just feel the urge to help you. As a full-stack developer

@jclaxton-lean.bsky.social

Why? Is my code so bad? 😅

Josh🦋follow🫀

Nope! I am just at lookout of small paid works. And wanted to work with good people.

Navin Peiris

@navinpeiris.com

That was a really nice read, thanks for sharing! Looking forward to v2 coming out!

Satya Phanindra

@phani-ai.bsky.social

now that is a story that you should read going to bed for upcoming folks in building balance

Thank you! I see in your bio that you're building an AI workspace - can you elaborate a bit?

I'm a programmer who turned into a product manager over a career of 20 years. I enjoy working as PM a lot, but I missed something: the joy of building something from scratch. Thinking of something in my head and then crafting it into existence. I started with something (too) close to my 9-5 work:

weegee.chAll rooms in shared flats - WG search with weegee.chWith more than 1700 shared flats, weegee.ch offers Switzerland's biggest shared flat search with unique search capabilities.

I'm working in Swiss real estate marketplace. But we didn't cover shared flats - and the existing websites in Switzerland sucked. So I started with my B2C startup weegee.ch. Building was easy. I this did my whole life. But then I launched it and had no traffic. I never did marketing in my life.

I needed to go out. I found the #buildinpublic scene on Twitter and learned how to navigate social media. I always sucked at it and assumed this will be no different. But lo and behold half a year in I got 1000 followers and more importantly - some new friends, some of which I even met over lunch.

But Twitter was not where my users were. I had two options: paid ads or SEO. My friends at work were mocking me and said I will never get users as I didn't have the budget. Which was true, I didn't want to spend big money on my weekend project. So I started learning SEO.

Marc

@mrcrgl.de