Jack Yao

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I built an AI that finds the right product for your customers

What was the hardest part of building your AI assistant backend?

We were burning $400/mo on 5 different AI API bills. So we built a single router to slash costs by 70%.

Is there a tool that automatically picks the cheapest suitable model for each task?

I Thought I Was Building a Website. It Became Something Much Bigger.

Is there a tool that automatically picks the cheapest suitable model for each task?

Is there a tool that automatically picks the cheapest suitable model for each task?

Three weeks selling: 16 real visitors, 0 customers

I got tired of opening 15 AI websites every time I made a YouTube video, so I built one desktop app instead.

I built a startup-idea scanner. It just told me none of my 3,400 ideas are easy wins.

I can barely code, and I'm building a social network anyway

We launched on Product Hunt and deliberately didn't email our list. Here's what happened.

I built a startup-idea scanner. It just told me none of my 3,400 ideas are easy wins.

I finally got tired of uploading the same content everywhere

I shipped v2 with zero paying customers. Here's the honest version.

The Biggest Lesson I Learned Building Prosperity Hub®

5% churn at $3k MRR is $150. At $20k it's $1,000. Nothing about the product changed.

How did you size your free tier?

Genuinely engaging with indie hackers beats vanity metrics every time

32 commits later, the biggest improvement wasn't technical