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Posted by alwynsiby on Friday July 26, 2024 @07:43PM
from the show-hn dept.

https://nudgepopups.com

Recently, I've been checking out "Build in Public" communities on Twitter, and it's pretty apparent that many developers are trying their hand at 'Indie Hacking.' While there are a few misses, most of the SaaS apps people create are genuinely impressive and valuable. However, a common challenge these startups face is gaining user trust, especially when they're new and relatively unknown, which...

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Re:Show HN: I Made Personalized AI Book Generator for Your Audience's ... on Thursday April 25, 2024 @01:37PM (#40160634)
Thanks for the effort you put into that. In an earlier reply i did state that i am easing myself into SaaS. It was just a cool idea that i thought id give my hand at.

Appreciate the time you put into it though :)

Re:Show HN: I Made Personalized AI Book Generator for Your Audience's ... on Thursday April 25, 2024 @11:02AM (#40158416)
It isn't something i'm going to expand upon in the future. It was supposed to be a nice side project so I could ease myself into the world of SaaS. I'm glad I've made a decent amount of pocket money to buy myself some subscriptions to make something that holds more value.

A lot of the people who have bought the ebooks have generated them for educational reasons. yes their are inaccuracies but it's still informs them in a digestible way

Thank you for the feedback :)

Re:Show HN: I Made Personalized AI Book Generator for Your Audience's ... on Thursday April 25, 2024 @10:58AM (#40158379)
Thank you; I appreciate the generosity
Re:A Product to make your own educational Ebooks with AI on Friday April 19, 2024 @07:27AM (#40085449)
Mistakes I Made Making My First Saas

Being a computer science student, I realised that I had never actually made and deployed full-stack application before. I watched a YouTube video about a guy who had made an ai ebook Saas (ik ai hype train ) so i said to myself, 'if he can do it, why can't I?' This led me on a 1.5-month journey through something that I can safely say changed my life.

At the time of writing this, I have made one sale and i never realised that the small amount of money I made could feel better than any money I had made previously at part-time jobs. Anyway, so here are a few mistakes I have made along the way.

Imposter syndrome. At the beginning, I was completely overwhelmed with the amount of tools at my disposal. I ended up wandering aimlessly for like 2 weeks not knowing where to start and watching loads of youtube videos. Not knowing everything is okay, even necceserry in my opinion so just dive head first and give it your best shot.

Don't use AWS for everything: This could be my lack of experience speaking but I tried using aws for everything even though there a multiple better individual offerings available with generous free tiers instead of racking up a bill on aws. I now use vercel to host instead of ec2.

Not using free UI components: It's evident from my website I bassicly did everything myself. I'm not saying it's bad to do so but understand when other people have made components which you can use and modify instead of painstakingly modifying your own components for mobile etc

This is all I have time for atm but lmk what 'stupid' mistakes you guys made on your journey.

Alwyn :)