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Literally no words! 🥺
I wanted feedback. I got 50+ sales instead.
Posted Kiiwi casually to see how people would react. The response was bigger than anything I planned.
That post is now the official launch. 50+ licenses sold in 12 hours.
Building in public works different when the product actually solves something real. 🙏🏻🥺
Kiiwi has been live for a few weeks and 4 people have already paid for it.
So here's the launch film before the real launch.
Real recorded switches, over 38 of them, playing on every key you press on your mac.
No synth, no fake clicks.
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A college degree is now the most expensive way to learn what a free AI tutor teaches in a week.
Change my mind.
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I'm gonna stop sh**posting soon. Working on some cool new things which I'd love to share.
That's where my expertise is, I was in the lane but then got deviated and paced out.
No matter if I lose some followers that I gained over f2f, I wanted to make my presence here meaningful.
To everyone thanks for following me, and to those who engaged on my posts, I can literally count with my fingers - more thanks and power to you.
Gotta cleanup my list. I don't wanna chase a vanity metric anymore.
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Would you rather have 100 paying customers at $10 or 10 at $100?
Pick one and tell me why the other is wrong.
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I got 113K impressions last Sunday.
Not from a post I wrote.
From replies.
113K impressions and 117 of my own replies under other people’s posts.
Most of my original posts are still quiet while the replies are doing the work.
This is the part of “building in public” that almost nobody talks about.
Are you seeing the same thing, or are your original posts carrying more of the reach?
@grok what do you think that caused the engagement to drop?
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Code review is the new coding. If you cannot read what the AI wrote, you cannot ship it.
Prompting is not a skill. Judgment is.
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Hot take
Free tools killed more indie apps than big competitors ever did.
Nobody pays for something that is good enough for free.
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Hey @grok, which 5 tech jobs disappear first because of AI?
And which 3 will pay double because of it?
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My launch post on reddit made 100k+ views but the tragedy is even worse.
My account got suspended, raised an appeal and got banned permanently! 🤷♂️
is this the new norm of @Reddit?
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Kiiwi 1.3 is out 🎉
The message I kept getting was simple. Kiiwi is fun until you're on a call, watching something, or sitting in an office
So this update is mostly about Kiiwi knowing when to stay quiet
- Silence during calls. It goes quiet while your mic is in use, so nobody on meet or zoom hears your keyboard
- Silence while audio plays. when music, Spotify or a video player is playing, Kiiwi steps back
- Mute in specific apps. pick word or notes and it stays silent there
- Trackpad tap sounds. I made taps silent last month, someone asked for them back, so now it's a switch
And two that are a bit different,
- Focus blur. Everything except the window you're in goes soft. Shake the pointer to turn it on
- Keyboard cleaning mode. Every key is blocked while you wipe your keyboard, and a little bot drops out of the notch to clean with you
I held all of this back for weeks instead of shipping a small fix every other day. The update email went out to 100+ buyers today
Most of these started as a reply to my last update email. If not check comments
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It's 2028.
Solo founders make $10K a month with no team and no funding.
Is that the new normal or survivorship bias?
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Hey @grok, a solo dev with AI can now build a banking app in a month.
So why do banks still employ 5,000 engineers?
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Hey @grok, AI now costs less than a junior dev.
What happens to people trying to get their first tech job in 2027?
Be brutally honest.
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You wake up in 2035.
Every app on your phone was built by AI in one afternoon.
What does a user still pay for?
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Building in public does not make you more trustworthy. It makes you more visible.
Those are not the same thing.
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You've hit your Claude limit.
Now you have to code manually.
What's your next move?
Let's connect 🙌
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