Founder of @beplan_app
Not sharing MRR anymore
Joined March 2023
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Aaaaaand we're live on @ProductHunt !
After months of building in public @Beplan_app, it is finally launching.
There are a lot of awesome stuffs coming soon too!
If you could take 2 minutes to upvote and share, it would mean the world for me 🙏
One of the most negative impacts of the vibe coding era is that platforms are not ready to review the swarm of requests they receive.
I used to get reviews for new permissions from Meta in under 24hrs so I could iterate fast.
They say it now takes 20 days.
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To everyone using Beplan: I’m sorry. Bluesky disconnects, accounts constantly needing a reconnect, media stuck processing all summer. That’s not the tool you deserve.
What’s fixed:
• Media processing: faster, and the queue no longer gets stuck (fixed over a week ago, I waited to be sure)
• Account connections and publishing: I went through every error, and it’s much more stable as of today. I’m watching it daily
• Videos platforms would reject are now converted automatically, instead of failing
Creators shouldn’t spend their time reconnecting accounts or chasing failed posts.
And the changelog was quiet for a reason: Beplan V2 has been in the works for months, and private testing started yesterday.
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Day 4 of learning 3D sculpting as a complete beginner
I know it's not the reason why people follow me but I wanted to share some progress 😅
It started as a ball and this is the result! Took around 1h30 to shape it like this.
I'll try and do it again tomorrow and then I'll try my chance with heads!
La vidéo la plus touchante qu'il m'ait été donné de voir.
Pour les français ici, je la recommande vivement 👇
"Ma mère m'oublie à cause d'Alzheimer"
Mon documentaire sur elle, sa maladie et tout ce que j'ai tenté de mettre en place pour rendre son quotidien meilleurs, c'est en ligne sur ma chaîne.
En espérant que cette aventure en inspire d'autres.
Merci pour la force et le soutien.
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A word on the today's disruption, what you need to do and where I'm headed.
TLDR: You need to reconnect X, Bluesky and probably Youtube to avoid failed posts
Today, Beplan was down. Completely. This is not the quality of service I want, even more disruptions as severe as today.
I've been able to find the root cause: a capacity issue with our database. Its resources had been maxed out for a few days and today it hit its limit. That meant token refreshes weren't processing correctly, and some scheduled posts took longer than they should have to save.
🚨 One thing I need from you: Please reconnect your social accounts, especially X/Twitter, Bluesky and probably Youtube. Because token refreshes were disrupted, some connections may be stale, and reconnecting now prevents failed posts going forward.
Another thing: I'd been wanting to fix this properly since February. The plan was to move our database to infrastructure I fully control, and that also put Beplan entirely under European (and specifically French 🇫🇷) data sovereignty.
Today's incident turned out to be the perfect moment to do it. Since tokens weren't refreshing anyway for short-lived-token platforms like X, the usual risk that makes this migration painful was off the table. So I pulled the trigger and did the move today.
What this means for you:
Beplan is now much faster. One heavy request that used to take ~2s now runs in under 100ms.
What this means for Beplan:
I now own the full infrastructure, so I can monitor everything properly and catch problems before they reach you. I'll be working on this in the next few weeks.
Real data sovereignty makes Beplan a genuinely stronger, locally-rooted alternative to foreign platforms and from here I want to grow it into something meaningful for small businesses and down the line institutions too.
Thanks for bearing with me today and sorry again for the huge disruption.
Last Tuesday, Beplan ran into an incident where media stopped being processed.
This had two consequences:
- In the app, any unprocessed media showed up as a black screen
- Any post that contained unprocessed media failed to publish
We've had a few similar hiccups in the past, but nothing this disruptive. To be direct: this is not the level of stability and quality I want Beplan to stand for, and I'm sorry for the friction it caused.
Here's where things stand:
- The issue has been fully resolved and a patch is already deployed.
- I've added a brand-new server to the infrastructure, dedicated specifically to processing media. This gives media handling its own room to breathe instead of competing for resources, which is what made past incidents possible in the first place.
This particular failure won't happen again. Thank you for your patience and for sticking with Beplan!
We talk a lot about success stories and MRR...
This guy is putting it on the side this week to vibe code a whole system to help his mom that has Alzheimer.
It leaves me speechless.
If you don't follow him yet, do it now. Whether or not you understand French, follow the story. This is the kind of project our community should be rallying behind. Building something that matters for someone who matters.
All the support to you, man. Keep going. 🫡
Ma mère souffre d'un Alzheimer précoce.
Je passe la semaine avec elle.
Je tente d'utiliser toute la technologie dont on dispose aujourd'hui pour réaménager l'appart afin de l'accompagner au mieux dans sa maladie.
Domotique, Capteurs, IA...
Tout ce que je peux trouver pour l'aider.
Le jour, je suis avec elle, je réponds à ses questions. Je lui confirme plusieurs fois par jour que je suis bien son fils, le nom de mes frères, je réponds en boucle, peut être 30x par jour aux mêmes questions, ainsi qu'à ses hallucinations.
La nuit, je vibecode les interfaces qui nous permettront de l'assister à distance et de calmer ses anxiétés.
Je suis en miette mais c'est la première fois que je mets mon ingéniosité au service d'une personne aussi proche de moi, sur de telles problématiques. Ça donne de la force et de l'espoir.
Tiens bon Maman.
May wrapped. Let's talk numbers.
The good:
🔻 Churn collapsed from 17.2% to 6%
📈 SaaS Quick Ratio jumped from 1.78 to 2.55
The mixed:
🔄 Trials went from 27 to 25 (slight dip)
📊 Trial conversion rate went from 41.5% to 41.9% (stable, but I want back 50%+)
The one to watch:
📉 Growth rate went from 18.4% to 13.8%
So what's the SaaS Quick Ratio and why do I care about it more than growth rate?
It measures how efficient your growth is. The formula is (New MRR + Expansion MRR) divided by (Churned MRR + Contraction MRR). Two companies can grow at the exact same rate, but one is hemorrhaging revenue and replacing it with new customers, while the other is barely losing anyone. They look identical on a growth chart. They are not identical businesses. Above 1 means your growth is healthy. I went from 1.78 to 2.55, which means my growth is getting cleaner, not just bigger.
So what's the plan?
On churn: learned during the residency not to draw conclusions too fast. 6% is encouraging but I'm keeping my head down and continuing to reduce it.
On conversion: I want to claw back to 50%. It was there before and it'll be there again.
On growth: I basically let it run on autopilot since February while I focused on building. Now with V2 coming, I'm going back at it properly. New product, redesigned site, and real marketing effort again. Could move a lot of things at once.
Lots of variables converging at once. Could go several ways.
That's what makes it exciting. 👀
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The Uneed Residency is now over, I went back home with a heavy heart.
While I'm sad to be back home, it also means that the week was incredible and I cannot thank @T_Zahil enough for that.
I was scared at first that maybe I wouldn't be a fit, but the total opposite happened. The residency was filled with kind, open and like-minded people and each one of them was so interesting to talk with
Nobody was trying to sell to others, everyone wanted to share what they've learned and improve from others' experiences.
We've had so much fun, many unexpected deep talks through the nights. Looking back I don't think I've had this level of fun in years
Not only did I grow in the business sense, but it has also been eye opening and I'm coming with some resolutions because THIS is the way I am supposed to live life
- I need to do whatever it takes to stop selling my time, so I can have time back for myself
- I need to work on my health, do some sport and stop being sat/laying down all day
- I need to let myself have more fun instead of staying at home all the time
It has been such a positive experience, I cannot recommend it enough. I cannot express to Thomas how grateful I am towards him. He handled everything, prepared it for months AND let it be free (food included) so anyone could participate.
The worst part was missing my family and seeing videos of the baby while i was away. I've missed them like crazy and so did they
Anyway, sorry for the long post, I really needed to talk about this crazy experience!
