October 2023 · 60 bookmarks
6 failed projects in 6 years ➡️ 1 successful project, 100,000 users @typedreamHQ.
This is the story of how I changed my life through building in public:
"Certainly one thing that I've learned is that it is important to pick a problem based on how much you care about it."
-- Andrew Wiles
300 days, 300 ideas
.@StateDeptSpox provides an update on U.S. and international efforts to ensure civilians in Gaza have access to life-saving humanitarian aid.
Back in July, we were struggling to find leads who could pay more than $350 for design and now we are at $65,000+ MRR just for baked.design in 3 months.
What has changed?
Start low & grow incrementally:
When we started getbaked, our focus was indie hackers and we knew our growth would be limited due to the audience selection. In late July we entirely stopped offering low-cost design services and started focusing on sharing design breakdowns and roasting.
Roasting:
Yes, roasting! We went back to our roots which triggered all of this you're seeing today. The first roast right after ditching getbaked reached 110k impressions and we got our first organic lead. Someone in the comments suggested building a mini service around tiny UI components, which led to the launching tinyuis. com and this post reached 200k+ impressions and got our first $4,000/monthly retainer customer.
Design process breakdown:
We then started posting thorough design breakdowns on how to design landing pages and web applications. These posts helped prospect leads understand how we work and our design process way better than our portfolio could ever showcase. Again, 80% of these posts gained over 100k impressions each and reached an audience beyond indie hackers. This is when the organic lead flood door got opened, we took calls across two timezones to cater to different clients and at its peak we were talking 8-10 calls a day.
Organic growth and leads:
Instead of cold DMs, emails or promoting baked.design in comments, we choose to go with "Show & tell" strategy which worked really when I launched getbaked back in Mar/Apr and now with baked design at the end of July. We went with showing our work where our prospective lead would be, instead of directing people to our website. Authority in the domain and authenticity were the other two factors which led to immense organic growth and lead generations over the last couple of months. This process led to a 102% increase in overall MRR across movevirtual & baked just in October.
Website & work:
Alex is the sole reason we have a website for baked.design. I never touched the website other than making changes to the Stripe links when we increase prices or copy changes. She built the entire website in days and we launched in late July and got our first monthly retainer on the 26th of July. X is our lead gen & our website is how we convert them. We use @calcom to manage all the meetings (ditched Calendly) and people love it so far, other than the occasional screen-sharing issues and spamming.
It's still just 2 of us running the show, while we look to hire designers to expand and grow baked.design. Thank you indie hacking community for accepting me and helping me grow for the past 9 months.
In the land of fire and ice, these huge pillars tower like a temple to the brute force that forged it
A Parthenon born from ancient volcanoes
These columns are basalt, this is Stuðlagil in Iceland
#b2810 20:15 Berlin Nach der Demonstration „Global South United": Auf der Rückfahrt vom schlesischen Tor sind große Gruppen von der Pro-Palästina Demo mit der U1 Richtung Kotti gefahren. Es wurde laut „free, free Palestine“ geschrien und gegen die Scheiben und Decken 1/3
"Mystical bird" by Olga Rapai-Markish (1929-2012), a Jewish-Ukrainian artist. She's a queen of ceramic sculpture 😍
John Sipher @john_sipher, CIA Clandestine Service, reveals how Ukrainian intelligence services were better than many Western ones, why he had problems with trusting German intelligence services, and what happens when #Putin really dies.
Hot take: People with poor writing skills are the ones who think Chat GPT can write well.
Ein israelischer Geschützführer erklärt eine M-109 auf Jiddisch. Man kann fast alles verstehen.
Tonga, Nauru und Mikronesien unterstützen #Israel mehr als Deutschland. Es ist so beschämend. Lasst bitte am Auschwitz-Jahrestag die #WeRemember-Schilder im Keller! Glaubt Euch eh keiner mehr, jedenfalls kein Jude.
This magnetic fluid interacts with a variable strength electromagnet powered in proportion to the sound waves emitted by a speaker (controlled by the keyboard)
The result is a dancing ferrofluid
[📹 pierre.paslier]
"Everyone talks about how if you went back in time, some tiny change could make everything different now, but no one talks about how some tiny change now could make everything different in the future."
— 14 yo
2014-06-24
3640 followers
7 likes on my tweet w/ a Google sheet link
No website
You have no excuses
20 days since our loved ones were ripped from their homes
200+ men, women and children and babies being held hostage in Gaza
9 million people who know someone kidnapped, murdered or missing.
BR|NG OUR FAMILIES HOME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
When Boko Haram kidnapped Nigerian women and children, the UN’s goal was to release the hostages.
When Hamas kidnapped Israeli women and children to Gaza, the UN’s goal is to provide aid to Gaza.
#JewishLivesMatter
+++Editorial+++
Terror-Verherrlichung, antisemitische Schlachtrufe, das Feiern des Massakers an 1400 Israelis, Molotowcocktails auf eine Synagoge, Davidsterne an Häusern von jüdischen Familien: Die letzten Tage haben bei Juden in Deutschland tiefe Spuren hinterlassen. (1)
Mending a sweater 🧶
[📹 bee.arts__]
Please listen to me - keep checking in on your Jewish friends.
They are not ok.
For 40 minutes these Jewish students were locked in the library as an angry mob yelled and tried to break through the doors.
These are Jewish kids - not Israeli soldiers and not Israeli politicians - they are Jewish kids.
And by virtue of being Jewish, they have become the targets of hate.
🚩 uh oh @levelsio
Why is #Hamas so stressed by the lack of fuel in the #Gaza ?
This murderous terrorist organization has created an entire city underground with 1300 branching tunnels like a maze located 70 meters below the surface with a total
1/4
Ghibli food
Gesehen vor ein paar Tagen auf dem PowerLine blog, 21. Oktober 2023
Und nicht nur in #London:
Links: London, wenn #Hamas Juden massakriert
Rechts: London, wenn #Israel reagiert.
Was mich zu einer anderen Frage bringt.
Man sagt uns, dass die meisten Palästinenser die Hamas nicht unterstützen.
Nun gut.
Wo sind dann die groß angelegten palästinensischen Proteste, die die Hamas auffordern, die entführten Geiseln - Kinder, Kleinkinder, Großeltern, Zivilisten - sofort und bedingungslos freizulassen?
Wo ist denn der einzige palästinensische Demonstrant, der auf dem #Times, dem #Alexanderplatz, in #Ramallah oder #Trafalgar Square mit einem Schild steht, auf dem "Not in My Name" steht?
Wo ist der einzige palästinensische Intellektuelle, der einen Meinungsartikel schreibt, in dem er seine tiefe Scham darüber zum Ausdruck bringt, dass die größten Grausamkeiten der Menschheitsgeschichte im Namen des "freien Palästina" und "vom Fluss bis zum Meer" verübt wurden?
Wenn die #PLO, die #Fatah und die #PalästinensischeAutonomiebehörde gemäßigte Palästinenser repräsentieren, wo bleibt dann der Aufschrei? Das Entsetzen? Die aufrichtigen Anklagen? Warum muss internationaler Druck vergeblich ausgeübt werden, um auch nur einen blassen Schimmer davon hervorzurufen?
Wenn die Hamas in Gaza nicht unterstützt wird, wo ist dann der Palästinenser in Gaza, der mit Informationen über die Geiseln herausrückt?
Selbst in #Nazideutschland gab es, als einige #Deutsche begriffen, dass #Hitler Unheil über ihr Land brachte, einige, die versuchten, ihn zu ermorden. Wo sind die Palästinenser in #Gaza, die gegen die Hamas vorgehen werden?
Und warum ist die instinktive Antwort so vieler auf diese Fragen die Ausrede, dass von keinem Palästinenser auch nur eines dieser Dinge zu erwarten sei?
Es mutige so viele arabische und muslimische inspirierende Stimmen, die diese Gefühle und Ideen zum Ausdruck bringen. Warum wird dann so wenig von den Palästinensern erwartet?
#Israel #Shalom #SlavaUkraine #RussenPingPong #RussiaisATerroistState #AmIsraelChai #RussiaIsCollapsing #StandWithUkraine #StandWithIsrael #IsraelUnderAttack #Israel_under_attack #SlavaUkraine
Jake Sullivan wrote an essay for Foreign Affairs that went to print before Oct 7. For the online version that came out yesterday, they let him not just add new material but scrub the sections embarrassed by events. Some deleted gems from the original, not available online (1/6):
Strike!
This is what our solar system looks like while moving in the space!
Fall in love with some activity, and do it! Nobody ever figures out what life is all about, and it doesn't matter. Explore the world. Nearly everything is really interesting if you go into it deeply enough. Work as hard and as much as you want to on the things you like to do the best. Don't think about what you want to be, but what you want to do. Keep up some kind of a minimum with other things so that society doesn't stop you from doing anything at all.
I watched the whole thing.
I wish I hadn’t.
This is what I saw:
Alles was man über die Palästinenser wissen muss, zusammengefasst von diesem Saudi.
Das wird euch nicht schmecken, aber es ist nun mal die Wahrheit.
#Hamas #Gaza #Palästinenser
This is why why ups and downs are important in life
Was zur Hölle geht in Europa ab? 🚨
Beim Abendsspiel zwischen dem 1. FSV Mainz 05 und dem FC Bayern zeigte der Q-Block mehrere Spruchbänder:
„Solidarität mit allen Betroffenen des Islamismus und Antisemitismus”
„Gegen den antisemitischen Terror der Hamas! Frieden für die Menschen in Gaza!”
📸 @matt_4d #m05fcb
"Students shouldn't go out into life without the ability to communicate.
Your success in life will be determined largely by...
-your ability to speak,
-your ability to write, &
-the quality of your ideas,
in that order."
— Late MIT Prof. Patrick Winston
Jim Carrey's post nuclear Elvis impersonation during his audition for ‘Saturday Night Live’ in 1980.
Blast from the past 🥲 Dissolving Realities Vietnam, one of the animated point cloud videos I made around 4 years ago.
Recorded in a narrow alley in Hanoi, Vietnam. I love how imprecise, raw, and digitally broken this piece is.
New DALL-E3 prompt that produces amazing output: "Create some examples of those bags that hold different costumes from Halloween stores, but make the costumes really weird."
May I present "Tech & Fruits," "Galactic Odddss," "Puzzle and Nature" (for $1,999) and... the other thing
Es ist verrückt, dass so etwas mitten in Deutschland passiert, aber es passiert!
#Israel #b1910 #Sonnenallee #olaf #Faeser #Gaza #Hamas #abschiebung #Neuwahlen #AfD
boop
Cats will be cats.. 😅
WOW 👏🏽👏🏽 The entire conflict in a nutshell– from a SAUDI. There's a reason Arab nations won't take even 1 single Gazan into their land.
Every sentence he says is better than the last.
Brutal honesty 👇🏽
#Israel #Gaza
The Israeli rapper from New York, Kosha Dillz, calls on Hamas to release the hostages in his new song.
📹: Current Time
With a prompt, GPT-4 with voice does a pretty good job of acting as a negotiation simulator/instructor. It is not all the way there, but as someone who builds educational simulations, I can tell you this is already impressively far along towards an effective teaching tool.
Prompt: I want to do deliberate practice about how to conduct negotiations. You will be my negotiation teacher. You will simulate a detailed scenario in which I have to engage in a negotiation aimed at teaching me BATNA. You will fill the role of one party, I will fill the role of the other. You will ask for my response to in each step of the scenario and wait until you receive it. After getting my response, you will respond in character trying to make sure to focus on the learning objective. When I say Give me a Grade you will grade my response so far and give me detailed feedback about what to do better using the science of negotiation.
To start you will say Ready and wait for me. When I say go you will start the negotiation. Describe the scenario and afterwards just speak in the role of the character until I say grade. Remember to wait for me to reply in each round. Don’t expect me to make up details outside the scenario. Tell me what I need to know
Grade it gave me:
Grade: B+
Feedback:
Strengths:
1.Clear Objectives: You had a clear understanding of your needs and limitations. This is evident from the way you highlighted your cafe’s reputation and your existing setup of roasting beans.
2.Use of BATNA: You effectively communicated your Best Alternative to a Negotiated Agreement (BATNA) by indicating that you could continue to roast your own beans, which created leverage in the negotiation.
Areas for Improvement:
1.Initial Offer: While it’s good to negotiate and not accept the first offer, starting with a counteroffer that’s too far from the supplier’s price might make them less willing to negotiate. Aim for a more balanced initial counteroffer.
2.Specificity: When discussing terms, try to be more specific in your proposals. For instance, when mentioning promotion, it would have been good to specify how often or
GPT-4 Vision for converting math to Python:
Kharkiv residents wish Happy Birthday to Fuminori Tsuchiko. He sold his home in Japan and moved to Kharkiv to open a cafe in the city. The cafe offers free hot meals to about 1,000 people a day.
Thank you, Sir! Happy birthday!
DALL-E 3 for GIFs:
What a trove. For me, scanning through the covers of the Whole Earth Catalogs and CoEvolution Quarterlies feels like my life passing before my eyes.
So many people's talent was poured into these publications--and into this brilliant resurrection.
Calligraphy is an art, not only a traditional one: even with a marker and in local stores
[📹 pricartazista]
Less is more
Even though it is not as widely used as it once was, Morse Code is still widely recognized and still exerts a deep fascination on many people (including me)
This intuitive visualization help you learn it in 1 minute
[📹 captainofthecosmos]
Studies found that water extracts of Aloe Vera at a concentration of 20% had positive effect on seed germination, germination energy, and on shoot/root length of several plants
[📹 hortadodionatan]
A creative way to do a 2 point perspective
[📹 Reza Asgaripour / architectdrw]
GPT-4 Vision + DALL-E 3 for sketch to logo:
Just prompt travel and IPAdapters
animatediff-cli-prompt-travel
"prompt_map": {
"0": "upper_body, open_eyes, closed_mouth",
"16": "upper_body, closed_eyes, closed_mouth",
"32": "upper_body, open_eyes, closed_mouth",
"48": "upper_body, closed_eyes, closed_mouth",
"64": "upper_body, open_eyes, closed_mouth",
"80": "upper_body, closed_eyes, closed_mouth",
"88": "upper_body, open_eyes, smile",
"96": "upper_body, open_eyes, smile, happy",
"104": "upper_body, closed_eyes, closed_mouth",
"112": "upper_body, open_eyes",
"120": "upper_body, open_eyes"
},
Thanks to GGML and Apple M2 Max, I can run GitHub Copilot locally on my laptop with one click. Check out LocalPilot!
"The black holes of nature are the most perfect macroscopic objects there are in the universe: the only elements in their construction are our concepts of space and time."
-- Subramanyam Chandrasekhar (1910 - 1995), 'The mathematical Theory of Black Holes'
Black hole size comparison
[📹 Global Data]