David Fernández

David Fernández

@dfodev.bsky.social

🚀 Solopreneur aiming for $10K MRR 👨🏽‍💻 7+ years in dev, 0 in marketing 🧠 Learning how to build a successful SaaS X profile: x.com/dfodev Indie page: indiepa.ge/dfodev

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I accidentally deleted staging entire environment Be careful with @supabase branching feature. By default it will destroy the branch instance when the underlying PR is merged / closed If you want to prevent this behaviour, make the branch persistent Don't mess it up like I did

How do you efficiently store and maintain the exact order of items in a database? 🤔 You have an items table and need to preserve the precise position of each entry for display What’s the best way to handle this at the DB level? Drop your insights! 👇

My 9-5 job is not that bad I quite enjoy it Today I've started working for a new client, and he's amazing. Also the project is very interesting and there're a lot of fun technical challenges Anyways, time to keep grinding on the side

I am not building in public this time Why? Because my target audience is not here I think building in public doesn't work unless you're in B2D (business to developer) It mostly attracts other devs, not real customers—great for networking, but not for sales #buildinpublic

Today I've started working on my new project: ✅ It's validated ✅ I will focus on marketing ✅ MVP deadline: 2 months from now ✅ Listening to users feedback and iterating ✅ Already bought domain ✅ Paid 269€ for the logo Wish me luck

You remember when someone tried to attack my SaaS? Well, it cost me $12.13 Remember to always rate limit the APIs you use

David Fernández@dfodev.bsky.social

Someone tried to take my site down with a flood of requests Nice try. Here's how I defended: - Delete their account - Cleaned up the database - Added and configured rate limiting Game over 💻🔥

What's your go-to UI library for Expo apps? Considering several options: NativeWind, Tamagui, Unistyles, React Native Reusables... There's no perfect solution, I see a lot of different opinions on each one of them #buildinpublic #reactnative #ui

Being a dev has one big down side: Focusing too much on building and not giving a shit about marketing You know what? I'm changing that I have an idea and I'm going to build it. But not yet First I must work on market research and planning how I'll sell and distribute it This is the way