Ten years ago, before starting my saas, I asked @patio11 how long it'd take for me to find PMF. I naively thought he'd say ~6 months, he said 18. I scoffed, who would stick around without revenue for that long? Surely I could beat that.
It took us over 3 years to figure it out.
Someone went through 6 months of @ProductHunt launches and 97% of them failed!
This shit is hard, don't beat yourself up 🥹
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The proper reaction to this shouldn't be derision as much as realizing how low the bar is for creating an emotional connection with people. All it takes is gpt listening and being supportive. You can do this too, anon
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People hate on vibe coding but I wish gov't websites were vibe coded, they'd at least be halfway usable
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Logging into sites is so tedious these days. Link in email signin (Hyatt), insecure SMS 2fa, 1Password's 2fa sync suddenly broken + requiring ID verif to reset, etc.
The worst part is companies w/ mandatory 2fa to simply cover up for their own shitty security practices (Heroku)
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You can see in this chart when I started really using Cursor (~November 2024). I know commits aren't a great metric, but my commit frequency is 150% greater than any previous year.
In other words, I usually avg 1.8-2k commits/year, I've already done 2k commits so far in 2025
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In determining whether a vertical is too competitive for a bootstrapped SaaS or not, I look at the incumbent companies. If the CEOs are all ex-Sales people, I know I can outperform on product and tech
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So weird how nyc has such a poor train system. Downtime & delays, no AC in stations, trains 10+ mins apart in Manhattan. In Japan, staff would've resigned if this happened for 24 hrs. The Chinese would've executed someone.
The "greatest city in the world" deserves wayy better
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CPU usage % and wattage consumption before and after killing the Cursor process. My CPU is running 20 degrees cooler now, too.
tl;dr: Running Cursor = my palms are sweaty, thermals weak, loads are heavy
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Reading these like they're patch notes
The new tax bill that just passed into law is the single most significant piece of legislation we have had in 8+ years
Here is everything you should know as a high-income professional or business owner:
Bookmark this thread as I'll be updating it over the weekend
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Waited 1.5 hours on hold with the IRS to help rectify a mistake on their end. 30 seconds into the call, the agent was seemingly frustrated and confused at how my last name could only contain 2 letters and then hung up on me.
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Thank goodness for competition. If gpt were the only LLM available, openai could charge everyone $10k/mo, and all of us would still easily pay for it
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My worst trait is I'm petty. It's also why the companies I build MUST have stellar customer support, because of assholes like me. Ex:
@CapitalOneBiz denied a $1k credit limit upgrade when we were tiny, so I moved to @mercury and put millions in corp spend and banking there
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Recently, @theblueground inadvertently shut off my power for a day, but refused to reimburse $200 in spoiled groceries. So my $30-40k/yr spend with them is now going back to @Airbnb
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After 9 years of running a company, my work/life balance got worse the more I realized that working harder than everyone else is the only superpower you have control over. Though I obviously wouldn't recommend it for everyone (easier when single)
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In hindsight, it's no surprise #buildinpublic #indiehackers flocked to bsky so quickly. Not politics-driven, this was the precise audience that's getting burned by X's API price increases.
Also less fake MRR posts because engagement bait and clout aren't directly monetizable 🦋
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The indie hacker community on bluesky is actually popping off and I recommend people try it out. The "starter kits" (lists you can one-click mass-follow everyone within) are a great way to onboard into a community. I'll be tweeting SaaS stuff on bsky from now on.
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I found a data payload leak on a dating site some college kids made. Emails and phone numbers of every user directly retrievable, along with their photos, available even without auth. Obviously a privacy disaster for women--I emailed them my findings multiple times and they ignored me 🙃
now a days people will learn every other javascript framework but not basic web security.
this is api-response from one of biggest e-commerce store who is selling merch of few big bollywood celebs, cricketers and youtubers. and i can query every user response by just changing query params. and every fuckin api on this website is vulnerable to insecure direct object reference.
it mean i can place order on behalf of anyone whose user id i know
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The "we're both doing our jobs" is a false equivalency when one person is a founder and the other is not.
It's like why some anti-tech journalism is nothing more than a sucker punch: this is their 9-5, they get rewarded for an engagement bait hit piece on a founder, then one day they move on and do something else, never having much accountability for their actions as an employee.
Meanwhile for founders, shit gets really personal, they're not only accountable to their own families as well but also to their employees' livelihoods. A ton of founders aren't even employable if their startups fail. This other guy is probably great at his sales job and will be fine doing stuff elsewhere, onto the next tactic that gets him a bonus.
Tldr, I hate to invoke "the arena" but if you're an employee, do your job well and be proud of it, but leave founders and their work/lives out of it as if you understand the deep weight of full-bodied accountability
I was waiting for this to be tweeted
We’re all just trying to do our jobs.
If it makes you feel better, I also subscribed to your newsletter too, Nathan.
Twitter and the internet would be a better place if we all stopped acting like there is a moral superior high ground. You want our customers to be yours, and we want your customers to be ours.
There’s nothing wrong with either case. If we didn’t want yours or if you didn’t want ours, there would be something inherently wrong in one of our business models.
Verizon poaches ATT customers non-stop.
Ryan Reynolds built Mint Mobile to such a power house of a mobile service and was so successfully poaching TMobile’s customers that TMobile eventually bought them.
Clemson football makes offensive videos at Carolina football every season (or Georgia, or Alabama, or Michigan— fill in the blank).
You’re a dad— so am I.
We both have the wherewithal to know that at the end of the day, there are way more important things in life than this petty feud.
I’m going to keep doing my job to the best of my ability.
You’re going to keep building your company to the best of your ability.
And when we sign off for the night, we both have kids and wives and lives that extend so far beyond this tiny little bubble that we’ve invested our careers in.
There is absolutely nothing I care about in my life that comes even remotely close to the amount I care about what happens away from the screen.
I expect the same goes for you too.
Anyway, back to work. 🤝
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Some tsa workers could be replaced with imaging that detects prohibited items. It would be far cheaper, faster, and safer for everyone. But we don't because the tsa is a federal jobs program.
Plenty of other industries with similarly misaligned incentives
We’re actually able to automate a lot of hard jobs like port work and truck driving, but often don’t in the name of saving those jobs (frequently at the behest of unions)
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