Let's gooo
Posts by Tom Turcotte
The next chapter is the biggest one yet. The chrome extension is coming. The vision is clearer than ever.
100 days down. The real growth starts now.
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It has not been a straight line. API costs that nearly broke the model. Pivots. Hard weeks. Low income days. Weeks of grinding on problems.
But the community that showed up along the way made every one of those days worth it.
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100 days later X Growth Engine has real paying users, a production deployment, a Grok powered discovery engine and a chrome extension on the way that brings everything directly into your existing X workflow.
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Day 100 of building X Growth Engine in public.
Day 1 I wrote about being stuck. Endless scrolling, forced content, zero flow. A developer who knew how to build things but not how to grow.
So I built the tool I wished existed.
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Ps: it's working :)
Day 1 I was a developer who could not figure out how to grow on X. Stuck scrolling, forcing content, going nowhere.
99 days later I have a product, paying users and a clearer vision than I have ever had.
Tomorrow is Day 100. Would not miss it.
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The income is not where I expected it to be at this point. But what I have built in terms of knowledge, product and community is worth more than I can put a number on right now.
That is the unglamorous truth of building in public. The highlight reel is not the whole story.
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Day 99 of building X Growth Engine in public.
Nobody tells you that 99 days in the content starts to feel repetitive.
The habits, the posts, the grind. Some days it all blurs together. You wonder if anyone is even paying attention.
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Will do
From there it shows you value hiding in posts you have already scrolled past and helps you maintain the kind of consistent momentum that compounds over time.
That is what I am building right now. Piece by piece.
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Day 98 of building X Growth Engine in public.
Let me pull back the curtain a little on the extension.
As you browse it learns from your behaviour over time. That data tells you something most people never see. How the X algorithm is actually classifying what is valuable for you.
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I've never used very much of HN, so haven't tried it
I check them all the time too but just stay in /notifications :)
Probably a combination of /r/SaaS and /r/socialmedia
Yes
On the distribution side, keeping X momentum and exploring reddit.
Feeling good about where this is heading.
Worth every hour.
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Day 97:
Balancing building, improving and distributing all at once is a lot. But honestly it's a great place to be right now.
On the building side, extension development happening everyday.
On the improving side, fixing low hanging fruit in production and building better habits.
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I think so too, excited where this is going
Heavy days lately. Lots of hours going into getting it solid before it ships. The easy move is to push something out and iterate publicly. That's not the move here.
When it lands it needs to work.
The people asking when it's coming deserve that. So does the product.
Worth the wait.
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Day 96 of building X Growth Engine in public.
People are already asking when the chrome extension goes live.
That feeling is hard to describe. Humbling and motivating at the same time.
But I'm taking my time with this one.
#buildinpublic #saas #indiehacker
Day 95:
Yesterday's stat hit home for a lot of people.
The chrome extension is the next step in answering that problem.
It doesn't change how you use X. It just gives you a layer of insight you never had while you do it.
Your workflow and your habits just sharper.
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Batching posts and dedicated scrolling times do help with managing this
And something new is coming that takes this even further. Been heads down building a chrome extension that integrates directly into your existing X workflow.
More soon.
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That's exhausting. And most people don't even realize it's happening.
X Growth Engine cuts through that noise and surfaces the opportunities that actually matter in your niche.
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Day 94 of building X Growth Engine in public.
I'm seeing 500+ posts a day.
That's 500 micro-decisions. Does this deserve my attention? Is this worth engaging with? Does this provide any value to me?
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91 is alot no plans on stopping though. I've only got a few users but ive kept them all through the changes and they are very happy with the results
Day 93 of building X Growth Engine in public.
Most people growing on X are doing it the hard way.
Scrolling. Hunting. Hoping they find something worth replying to.
X Growth Engine does that work for you. Scout the opportunities you are missing in your niche every single day.
X Growth Engine scouts those opportunities for you.
But here's what makes early access special right now. Joining today gets you exclusive access to experimental features and new developments as they ship. You are not just getting a tool. You are getting a front row seat to what this becomes.
X Growth Engine is relaunching in its new stable form.
The core value is simple. You are missing reply opportunities in your niche every single day. Conversations worth having, connections worth making, all slipping by while you scroll the feed.