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What held up when I tested 13 X accounts one by one

We got 50 paid users, then learned that building the tool wasn’t enough

We gained 100 users this month. Most of them will never pay us a cent

I built a product to test whether my own SDK was actually good enough

Building a quieter social app on purpose — what we refuse to optimize for

Support tool bills tend to grow faster than the business does. Here's the pattern in the reviews.

My first paying customer came from 151 impressions. What their first day looked like

I'm considering selling Opinix to fund my next project

I built a transparent-video workflow for sites—what would make the embed trustworthy?

Public number: 67 weekly users. So I built a tool for myself instead

One plan, $19 flat, everything included. bold or naive? (0 customers so far)

A creator refused to endorse my product. Here's what I fixed because of it.

3 sales, 2 countries: The reality of building a "sell-once" logo marketplace solo

I built an AI visibility tracker, then stopped using it myself

I made $1,093 in 27 days from 0 followers. The week after launch was the hard part.

I spent 2 years doing audience research manually. Now I'm trying to turn it into a business

70% of our template library was actively harmful to the market we were selling to

Can a free SEO proposal tool bring the right customers to my SaaS? I built one to find out

Built a free repurposing planner after being annoyed at vague "repurpose your content" advice

Adding a daily game to my job board to stand out from the crowd