Pim

Pim

@dormic.bsky.social

πŸ‡³πŸ‡± solopreneur http://indiepa.ge/pim - shipping 🚒 a few lines of code every day bottyfier.com

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Dreamed of a solid dev career AI buzz, layoffs, recession. curveballs everywhere It's giving retro vibes but the anxiety is real

> has unlimited time and resources > overthinks every feature > ships once a month maybe > works a 9-5 > ships daily using AI > built better systems in 6 months Constraints breed discipline

Most solo founders quit at month 4 Revenue was coming month 5 The pattern is brutal and predictable Ship fast, show up daily, don't stop when it feels pointless That's literally the difference between $0 and $1k MRR

I've been shipping features at 3am and finally understand why indie hackers can't stop. When you code something that works and see users react it's a dopamine hit. You just want to keep chasing it.

> thought it was just coding > it's customer support at 2am > it's writing docs nobody reads > it's being your own accountant > it's designing logos in canva > it's debugging payment processors > it's pretending to be a whole team solo founder life. it's something else.

> started building scrappey > solved my own data hunting headache > personal web scraper in my pocket > why didn't this exist years ago

The 'diversified income proof' challenge. actually making money on different platforms to prove your skills work everywhere, not just your main thing. If you've done this or want to try it, drop what you're testing or what worked below πŸ‘‡

Scrappey.com started as a simple idea: make scraping so easy even a caffeine-deprived founder could do it in minutes Still tweaking but already can't live without it

Building in public: > share your wins only > everyone suspects you're faking it > no one relates to you > share your actual struggles > people trust you immediately > they want to see you win Vulnerability beats polish every time

Solo builders aren't coding at 3am for the product, they're chasing that dopamine hit of shipping something and watching it actually work.

You can ship 10 polished SaaS tools in 90 days. But if you're not spending 80% of your time making people care, you're just collecting digital dust. Distribution beats code quality every time. The best product nobody knows about loses to the okay product everyone's talking about.

I built a $1M solo business starting with $0: Gumroad? Free. ChatGPT? Free. Canva? Free Notion? Free. Reddit? Free. Twitter? Free Facebook? Free. Producthunt? Free. If I can do it, anyone can do it.

Solopreneurship feels impossible until you get your first paying customer. Then it just feels like doing that again. Find one person with a problem you can solve and solve it. Everything else is just repetition.

ChatGPT is about to hit 800 million weekly users By basically remixing old Reddit threads into instant answers This is what accidental startup magic looks like

> built Ranccoon so site owners can finally stop guessing DR > tracks your Domain Rating daily > alerts you whenever it changes > all for free, because who needs extra fees

> start posting before you're ready > zero followers doesn't matter > the right people find you anyway > they become users, collaborators, evangelists > but only if you stay consistent through the cringe phase

Solopreneurs building SaaS tools What projects are you shipping today? Show your latest app below, join 100+ makers here every week. #buildinpublic #indiehackers

55 billion minutes on AI sites in just one month? ChatGPT still leads but DeepSeek and Grok are exploding Crazy how fast these new players are taking off

Honestly, building Scrappey was just me trying to fix a problem I couldn't get around Now it's helping people scrape smarter and faster That's a huge win for a solo founder like me

> Disney drops $1B into OpenAI > licenses every character for ChatGPT > Mickey does customer service now > is this genius or cries-in-emoji

I was at a founder meetup last week Someone asked the room: "Who's shipped a product this year?" Almost everyone raised their hand Then they asked: "Who's making money from it?" Three people. AI made us all builders But nobody taught us how to sell

I'm not quitting my SaaS hustle. But I'm serious about launching tools that grow on the side. Sharing what I learn about shipping projects, backlinks, and boosting visibility. Follow if you're building something too βš™οΈ

> bots clog your SaaS with fake sign-ups > use Bottyfier as your wall > get 100k free requests/month > test it without sweating the cost

Built Ranccoon so you don't have to check DR manually every day You just watch your domains like a hawk, set goals and never miss a DR change Why waste time when you can track for free?

> builds in silence for 2 years > launches perfect product > nobody cares because nobody knew it existed > meanwhile the 70% guy has 1000 users already

> builds alone > tweets progress daily > revenue finds them > partnerships appear > audience grows > replaced hiring with visibility

I rarely start a business without running a scrape first. Scrape for customers, research, reviews, etc. It changes EVERYTHING. These are my 4 favorite tools for this:

The 10+ year founders are back: > shipped products for a decade > built perfect portfolios nobody saw > now tweeting daily fuck-ups > getting more deals than ever Turns out authenticity compounds.

I built a $1K/month+ SaaS solo business starting with $0: Sublime Text? Free trial. Cursor? Free tier. GitHub? Free. Twitter? Free. Reddit? Free. Product Hunt? Free. Backlinks? Free. If I can do it, anyone can do it.

> launched Bottyfier to kick fake signups to the curb > gives you 100k free API calls per month > so your SaaS doesn't break the bank

Rolled out Ranccoon so you can obsess over your Domain Rating daily Set goals, track multiple sites, and never miss a DR dip again All for free

> generic advice doesn't rank > free tools do > ship demos not threads > building in public but make it scroll-stopping Distribution for solo founders isn't counterintuitive, it's just not sexy enough for the gurus to sell

Saaspa.ge is live My latest build to help SaaS founders flex their products, showcase smarter and grow their thing It's slick and made to hustle

Built scrappey.com from ground zero Lean, mean web scraper ready to help you grab data. no drama, no headaches Let me know if you want to try it

> built automation for my own content workflow > it actually worked > packaged it as a product > customers: "wait you use this too?" > solving your own problems means built-in validation

scrappey.com started as my code playground now it's my data ninja. making scraping simple so you can skip the busywork collect less, build more