student, indie hacker, eu/acc ⚡ talktweak.com ($1k/mo) 🤖 custom.talktweak.com ($4k/mo) 📄 refile.co (???) 📵 sinnflut.co ($0/mo)
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Finally shipping an API as my 8th startup at 18 🚀
Here are some of the thoughts I put into it:
Problem
Making PDFs absolutely sucks for devs. You either need to selfhost browsers, or use existing APIs which either look shit, are expensive or both.
Solution
Refile is a dead simple, fairly priced & extensible Markdown to PDF API.
You can sign up and get an API key in 10 seconds with free plan via Google log in.
It's easily self-hostable for enterprise customers & there's a simple API playground with a copy code button. You can literally implement it in 5 minutes with amazing DX.
Docs have guides and premade code for tons of platforms.
Stack (100% scale-to-zero)
- @nextjs + @vercel (site, api, cronjobs, blob storage)
- @neondatabase + @authjs + Google OAuth
- @polar_sh for payments
- Custom-made PDF generation stack
I'm using the least dependencies possible (no external auth, Vercel for everything) and keeping the stack as simple as I can. Everything is scale-to-zero so the project will always make a profit or break even.
TBD
- Marketing (lol)
- SDKs
- Further integrations (no-code, improving DX)
Happy for any feedback!
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$300 is not a lot for a serious vuln to be honest.
The exposure from your Twitter probably makes up for it though
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Holy f*ck, IT WORKS 🤯
TypingMind.com plugin generator, generates INFINITE ChatGPT PLUGINS with GPT-4.
This is automating the automation.
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Left one looks better but it misses the point - your key selling point is a remote controlled timer, not empty words like "efficiency"
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It's crazy how easy backend is with Cloudflare.
💾 Server: Cloudflare workers
💽 Database: Cloudflare D1
🖼️ File storage: Cloudflare R2
💬 Queues: Cloudflare Queues
👤 AI: Workers AI
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I thought I‘d sell zero copies of SearchPlus, and that no one would care.
Never in a million years would I have imagined that I‘d wake up to this after my first launch.
To everyone who bought it and everyone who supported me from the beginning:
Thank you 🙏
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Cursor makes errors 50% of the time.
Reduce that to 40% with good prompting & step by step.
50% of bugs caught by linter with TypeScript.
Cursor Composer + o1 fixes at least 75% of all the remaining bugs.
Result: You have to intervene ~5% of the time
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This was someone exploting their modular system. This hole has been patched and it's been free for 2y:
apps.microsoft.com/detail/9n…
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I never thought this would work.
I'm 17. Made my first software project, ever, on the side. Started with 0 visitors, 0 fans, 0 followers and 0 money.
2 months later, I hit $2k revenue.
Thank you, Indie Hacking ❤️
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I’ll continue for you!
- built by slaves
- mass surveilance, eye scanning
- homosexuality is illegal (also all movies showing same-sex kisses)
- most human rights evasions / sqm on the world
- you need to be state-approved to publish anything (including social media)
- peacefully saying your opinion can lead to (up to) 25y of jail
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Context:
The German government has announced a major hike in the VAT for restaurants, from 7% to 19%. VAT was lowered to 7% during Covid, but they promised to keep it that low to support businesses.
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Dear @BearNotesApp,
please stay the way you are.
I've never seen a note taking app this polished, fast & beautiful.
It's not just stated that Bear 2 took years to construct, you can tell.
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FINALLY got next-level ChatGPT search to work. 🤯
▶️ More detailed than Bing
▶️ More intelligent than Bing (Newest GPT-4)
▶️ Works on @TypingMindApp (No subscriptions!)
Coming very soon to talktweak.com, FOLLOW to get it FREE (WILL cost money afterwards 💵).
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What‘s this obsession with looking like an iPhone? Just buy an iPhone if you desperately want your phone to look like it?
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do you regenerate the full summary on every review?
if so won't get that pricey as context increases with many reviews, especially if you don't use RAG or similar
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Slow as hell and pricey but the quality of the output makes up for it.
Just catches things other models don‘t.
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💥 66 min after release - Llama 3.1 works FLAWLESSLY @TypingMindApp
That's why I'm bullish on building for & with this platform.
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California has EU-levels of bureaucracy - makes me think: What's the real reason all the startups are in Cali when they have terrible tax and a lot of the bad stuff plagueing Europe?
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- No more than 3 clicks to get an API key with AI studio, no cloud account needed (just give people a free quota or sth. and do a prepaid system afterward with the option to switch to google cloud)
- Provide OpenAI & Anthropic compatible APIs that also work with their SDK so people can switch by changing one line of code
- Market and make abundantly clear AI studio is the easiest way to access Gemini & avoid confusion (why don't highlight it in search? after all you own it - when somebody googles Gemini API just show them a button to get an API key and a link to simple, fast docs)
- Consistent design for AI studio
- Build specialized models to dominate all major categories (long context, RAG, function calling, speed/cost, long output, structures outputs)
Gemini models are underrated. More people need to know your models are f*ckign sick.
1-4 are very low effort and make a huge diff fast.
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- 90% of openai leaders leave because of security concerns and/or undisclosed/vague reasons
- openai forprofit restructures
- no new generation of foundation models shipped in 1-2y
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Top 8 Indie apps I use daily
1. Photopea
2. TypingMind by @tdinh_me
3. one sec by @frederikRiedel
4. BoltAI & PDFPals by @daniel_nguyenx
5. Yoink by @eternalstorms
6. WIP by @marckohlbrugge
7. (Not Boring) Apps by @asallen
8. Orion by Lux / @halidecamera
Thank me later.
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Haters won, I'm moving to TypeScript.
You get Autocomplete on everything, it warns you before you ship 90% of errors.
And basically 0 extra time effort because Cursor can write the types for you. I didn't even learn it, just changed the file extensions and it did the rest.
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DALL-E 3 plugin from talktweak.com was acquired for $1,5k, my first exit.
This has been an insane experience, and the first time I realized Indie Hacking can be „a real job“ for me.
Thanks a ton, @tdinh_me!
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🚀 Just found out about MagicUI by Indie Maker @dillionverma
Let's you create incredible React Landing pages like this with 0 effort 🤯
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Spent my first-ever Indie Hacking money on AirPods Pro, been craving for them for ages.
This feels awesome 😊
Will reinvest the rest.
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I think paying the guy who found it a more fair bounty would be a good start.
$2000 is pretty ridiculous for the size of the exploit & potential damage it could have caused, especially considering you've raised $50M this year
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Another awesome UI improvement to TypingMind.
🚀 Since release, Tony has shipped 111 free updates, on average every 1,3 days.
Tremendous respect to him for providing value on another level.
The number of buttons is getting out of control...
So I improved the UX a bit: All buttons are now configurable. 👇
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Added @daniel_nguyenx "The Orb" to my dock so I don't have to pay for ChatGPT anymore just to use Realtime API a few times!
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Building online has been amazing so far ❤️
I learned NextJS & Supabase, found customers, built a product people loved and got to experience building a successful business for the first time in my life.
Thank you.
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Thank you much for 400 followers ❤️
Doing this has been a dream come true.
Not much more to say, don’t wanna blow this tweet up to go viral, just a genuine thank you.
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Thank you so much for the kind words 🥰
If you need a sleek, professional pfp, check out tiny.supply - I use it absolutely everywhere and it's worth 3x of what he charges.
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Thanks to the custom model feature I can already enjoy the new 16k GPT-3.5 model in @tdinh_me's @TypingMindApp ! Incredible for PDFs, really low cost.
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GPT-4 is a literal genius.
I ask for a population comparison, it googles, looks up sites and generates a chart on it's own.
cloud.typingmind.com/share/5…
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After buying ChatGPT+, I can now confidently say they have no moat over alternative UIs. I'll stick with @typingmindapp, no rate limits, cheaper & more convenient.
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Holy f*ck, 5k in a month with Indie Hacking
I would never have started this without this site, thank you so much for inspiring me ❤️
ALT A screenshot showing my Stripe revenue from the past month. The text has been edited to be in English.
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This is the most German thing I've ever seen.
They've recently announced a big "digitalization" effort with "online forms" in Berlin, and by "online form" they mean a PDF you have to download, fill in by hand and then fax lol
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Day 2 of automating something every day until I don't have to work anymore ✨
Custom @daniel_nguyenx BoltAI command to reply to emails!
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Nov 13, #buildinpublic report.
✔️ Refund 20 because DALL-E plugin is now free
✔️ Do customer support
✔️ Update DALL-E plugin with custom resolutions#
✔️ Ship biggest SearchPlus update in a month
✔️ Code new plugin updater
✔️ Concept for next project
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🎁 Freebie
I built a Wikipedia Plugin for @TypingMindApp!
- Detailed Information about any Subject
- Works without any API Key
- Completely free
- Works with GPT-3.5 and GPT-4
Get it here:
pastebin.com/NyJMUqFW
ALT ChatGPT within TypingMind.com. The AI assistant uses the "Wikipedia Article Content" plugin to lookup a Wikipedia article and summarize it.
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Honest question; why would somebody get this over Poe or ChatGPT+?
I love Claude, but I think the price is too high.
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People out there becoming millionaires with Apify Web Scrapers
$63k/mo pure profit with ONE web scraper
(just the code - infra, proxies & accounts billed extra)
btw this one guy has 47 web scrapers with avg. $3k MRR
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📢 Attention @TypingMindApp users!
Today, I'm launching talktweak.com, a collection of TypingMind Plugins without any subscription fees. 🚀
▶️ Launching with 3 plugins (FREE for now):
- INFINITE Plugin Generator 🔁
- Midjourney Automatic Prompter 🖼️
- GitHub Plugin 🏗️
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🚀 Releasing BrowsePlus, lightning fast URL content+summary plugin for @TypingMindApp TOMORROW.
✅ Summarize news, papers, textbooks
✅ Do autonomous research in ChatGPT
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Just cracked 100 followers 🤩
I never thought we’d be here this fast, and I couldn’t be more thrilled.
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Nov 30, #buildinpublic report.
✔️ Order new Macbook 🎉
✔️ Close one client deal & call with another (awesome people)
✔️ Start working on next client project, going well
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I love posting on X.
But I'm way too bad at consistency, and every scheduling tool is either bad or overpriced.
My next project will be fixing this.
#buildinpublic
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Made some custom holographic stickers as a christmas gift for the biggest talktweak customers ❤️
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Why don't OpenAI, Anthropic etc. just buy Cerebras Chips?
Imaging the speed of Cerebras + the quality of o1
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Sep 10, #buildinpublic report.
✔️ Built a new features section on the talktweak.com website
✔️ Built&Ran my first user survey
✔️ Landed a random viral reply (400K impressions)
✔️ Started working on further website optimizations
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Nov 28, #buildinpublic report.
✔️ Visit bank to open business acc (success 🙏)
✔️ Help talktweak users on Discord
✔️ Help B2B client implement custom functions & schedule call
✔️ Create AI auto-generation template for B2B quotes
✔️ Sketch out new talktweak infrastructure 🚀
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Sep 27, #buildinpublic report.
✔️ Finished reverse-engineering ChatGPT Web API
✔️ New testing & code-sharing for talktweak plugins
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Oct 31, #buildinpublic report.
✔️ Created SEO plugin and promo messaging
✔️ Prompt-engineered GPT to work well with SEO
✔️ Prepared for launch
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Excited to see your workflow!
Currently on a super minimalist setup, let‘s see if you can convince me to switch.
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I might just have made the most comprehensive @TypingMindApp plugin collection out there.
- Browse & Search Web
- Watch YouTube vids
- Create Charts
- Create Images (DALL-E 3)
- Create Image Prompts (Midjourney)
- Plugin Generator
- Crypto Prices
- GitHub
- Wikipedia
- (soon) Professional SEO
Thanks @tdinh_me for the opportunity and the amazing software 💜
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I love @gumroad so much but it just doesn't grow with you 😢
- eternal 12,9% + 30ct fee
- barely customizable
- tax is difficult
- locked into their email system
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HUGE OpenAI update out TODAY
✅ GPT-4-Turbo with 128k context length and vision
✅GPT-4 Fine-tuning
✅ DALL-E 3 API out
✅ Text to Speech
✅ Whisper 3
✅ Custom professional OpenAI models for companies
Will update 🧵
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I plan to make a lot more plugins and characters for ChatGPT, and all my followers will get them for 100% free, so if you're interested, remember to do so.
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Investing in your personal brand pays off. 📈
Just got my new georgeous new pfp from @dariusdan 🤩
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Nov 11, #buildinpublic report.
✔️ Close an important deal
✔️ Get legal business permit (this took months)
✔️ Start building personal site
✔️ Take community feedback to improve SearchPlus
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It's cool but I don't want one more 20$ subscription, just charge a smaller fee and let people use API keys.
Some now pay 20$ monthly each for Claude, ChatGPT+, Cursor, Iris, Poe, GitHub Copilot, Office Copilot & Notion AI, this is getting ridiculous.
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Time for an update!
💵 EXPENSES (monthly)
- Domain + Server - ~5$
- Analytics - 9$
- X Pro - 8$
- Cursor - 20$
💰 REVENUE: 1273,20$
Finally (very) profitable 🥳
💵 My Financials
MONTHLY EXPENSES
- talktweak.com domain - 12$
- OpenAI Bills - ~20$
- SimpleAnalytics - 9$
- GitHub Pro - 8$
MONTHLY REVENUE
- 0$
Wonder how I can make this work 😅
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Charts plugin for @TypingMindApp in the works! Let me know what chart types you'd be interested in!
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It‘s been an honor to work with @tdinh_me to make the DALL-E plugin available for every TypingMind user, at no cost.
Everyone who bought the plugin previously will get a full refund.
DALL-E 3 is now available on typingmind.com (as a plugin) 😄
Here is an "Emoji combiner" bot:
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It‘s a mid-tier MediaTek processor, this could barely run Mistral.
My guess is they do the TTS on-device and stream the answer from GPT-4 or another model in the cloud, 500ms should definitely be possible that way.
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Advice for coding beginners: Don't obsess over Best Practices. Focus on what get's the job done.
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