been shipping features on for months now and honestly can't imagine going back to the occasional freelance work that i did back in 2019/2020.
something about owning the whole product - the bugs, the wins, the midnight deploys - just hits different than waiting for approval on every PR 😂
Devs who've shipped and killed a product - what's the harshest lesson that experience taught you? Drop it below.
You'll probably save someone in their early building days from making the same mistake. 👇
People think a build is "successful" if it goes viral on Product Hunt, but personally I think a build is successful if it quietly fixes one person's exact problem at 2am and they never even tweet about it ⚡
Ship broken code and own it. Don't quietly push a hotfix hoping nobody noticed - someone always does.
Admitting "yeah, that bug was mine" builds more trust with your users than any polished post-mortem ever will. That honesty is also what helps you actually fix the root cause next time.
- time to break things, learn why they broke, and write it down
- time to stand in front of a room and share what you wish someone had told you earlier
That's it. Everything else is noise.
A good builder's life is honestly pretty simple:
- code that actually ships and solves real problems ⚡
- a small circle of honest devs who'll debug with you at 2am
- enough MRR to not panic every time AWS sends an invoice (or a migration plan to hetzner 😂)
"Move fast and break things" is itself a broken philosophy that breaks more than just code. It's designed to detach builders from accountability - disorienting them to the point where shipping speed becomes the only metric.
From there, you can justify cutting every corner.
Should I redesign unfake.dev's landing page? Initially, I wanted to keep it simple and minimal, but lately I've been feeling that a more modern design would attract users.
Congratulations!
Smaller wins teach you how to celebrate bigger wins later. Cherish them 🫰🏻
List launch platforms that are free and have little to no wait time that founders should try:
> peerlist (.) io
> itslaunched (.) com
> fazier (.) com
> twelve (.) tools
> aitools (.) sh
> goodfirms (.) co
> tinylaun (.) ch
> navfolders (.) com
> solopush (.) com
> superlaun (.) ch
#buildinpublic
🚀🌍 SpaceX Starship 36 rocket explodes during test. Company says rocket encounters 'serious anomaly'
The more people try out unfake.dev demo on the homepage - they come back to me asking when it's going to be available for public 🥹 The demand is real.
#indiehacker #buildinpublic #unfake #product #saas #sideproject
Hahahaha, Unfake already has a REST API that you can use to validate emails.
A free email list cleaner tool - developed and deployed to production in 30 minutes ⚡️
unfake.dev/clean-email-...
#buildinpublic #unfake
As a SaaS founder, this has become my favourite thing to do 😭😂
#buildinpublic #indiehacker #blockusers #violations #abuse
Just shipped a free tool that compares how different publicly available disposable email blocklists are performing: unfake.dev/compare-bloc...
I'm speaking at GIDS 2025 this April in Bengaluru, India 📍
Do drop by to say a hi 👋
#imagekit #buildinpublic #talks #developer #conference #speaker #unfake #gids
Last weekend, I was working on something which could demo unfake's power and customizability in a much better way. Here is how you can fine tune different variables for your system's needs. Head over to unfake.dev to try it out.
Hahahahah I agree!
Found out about gmailnator - a service that gives you disposable email addresses over @gmail.com domain. Understood how it works, deployed changes to Unfake to be able to block those addresses reliably - all under 2 hours 🥂
unfake.dev #buildinpublic #product #saas #indiehacker
It was great to get back on stage after 4 long years :))
Made me realise I need to brush up my audience engagement skills again :p
#buildinpublic #startup #publicspeaking
Hey, I have added myself to the waitlist. Would love to try it out!
Also, to mention - I'm bootstrapping unfake.dev (helps keep disposable email signups out of your system). I see a mutual partnership opportunity here since chage.co has multiple places where users subscribe via emails :))
The more people try out unfake.dev demo on the homepage - they come back to me asking when it's going to be available for public 🥹 The demand is real.
#indiehacker #buildinpublic #unfake #product #saas #sideproject
When my ex-boss asserted the fact that I'm just a "labourer" and I should "do as asked" and not ask questions.
Want more testimonials for your SaaS? Here’s where to ask:
- Thank you pages after a purchase
- Email follow-ups
- Product dashboards
- Landing pages & blog posts
- Pop-ups or exit CTAs
More testimonials = more trust for your brand! 🚀
Absolutely
The demo is now available on mobile. Try verifying a temp mail on unfake.dev 🙌🏻
#buildinpublic #fakermail #disposable #email #indiehacker #unfake
The pain is real 😭
Um, the irony of this 😂
