figuring out how to live as a solo founder Current goal: 20% MRR 🟩⬜⬜⬜⬜ $1k

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How I spent a β€œregular” day #BuildInPublic in Times Square for the #Shipaton finale
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Come to Times Square today to check out my app and many more! 😀 #BuildInPublic #Shipaton
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🀝 congratulations @taiomi , very well deserved! I am happy I got 2nd place πŸ₯ˆ in #BuildInPublic tho! This is a dream come true! Great event @RevenueCat wondering if i should try again in #Shipaton 2027 πŸ‘€
πŸ—οΈ #BuildInPublic winner: Boop by @taiomi Taiwo took building in public out into the world with his 100 Boops challenge, handing pet owners printed portraits and letting their feedback shape the app. One judge: "The amount of effort he puts into building in public is unmatched."
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Scroll Survival got 2nd place in #BuildInPublic at @RevenueCat #Shipaton πŸŽ‰ πŸŽ‰ > $20K USD > Flew to New York > Demoing the app in Times Square tomorrow! This is how I feel about it today πŸ˜„
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Shipaton 2026 winners, 6/20: #BuildInPublic The award for sharing your build while the feedback can still change it. I build in public too, mostly my bugs :-) Boop: point your phone at a cat or a dog on your walk, it finds the breed and saves it as a sticker in your book. Taiwo took it out on the street with his 100 Boops challenge, handing printed portraits to the owners. The judges called his effort unmatched. Scroll Survival: your focus sessions grow a village. Eric shared daily updates and a public roadmap, and the community feedback became dark mode, widgets and a story consequence when you end a session early. FeedbackThread: reviews, bug reports and feature requests in one queue, with public boards. Aivars built it on livestreams. Pricing nerd note: Boop has the lowest India price, compared to the US, of every winner I checked. Pro Yearly is $19.99 in the US, β‚Ή199 (about $2) in India and β‚Ί150 in Turkey, and every product follows the same rule per country. Proper work. That's what PricePush does for every country at once: you set one price, it suggests a fair one per country and pushes them to the App Store and Google Play. Free for one app, pricepush[.]app Congrats @taiomi @brol1dev @Aivars_Meijers #Shipaton #BuildInPublic #IndieDev #iOSDev
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Are you in NY for app week? Let’s connect! I’m a solo founder figuring it out πŸ™‚ Looking forward to meeting a lot of people 🀝
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Apple reviews had been so quick I sent my latest update for review last Wednesday and still no response The heck is going on? 😑
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Quit my job December 2025. Solo founder now. Living on savings. βœ… Shipped a mobile app with actual users > From $100 to $1,000 MRR by end of year πŸ’ͺ > $10K MRR by mid next year 😱 Showing up here every day until I get there Can I make it?
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I've been scared of slowing down and taking a bit of time to rest Why? Now that i have an app with real users i don't want my MRR to drop Do you also get that feeling? Wondering how you deal with it. I grinded for more than 60 days straight I decided to take the rest of this week off. Might not be completely off, still may do some stuff but i wont work 10+ hrs daily
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is the first time i get this many views in a site It's a metric I'm not really paying attention to but was nice to see this message to start the week πŸ˜€
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agree, cooked iPhone Duo support this weekend
say no to slop
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#Shipaton is done But tbh I think my new app can grow. So I'll keep pushing it I'm already planning on what my next goal will be for it #BuildInPublic
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"Yo!! I made it, I'm on the big screen" πŸ˜ƒ Thanks for this #Shipaton @RevenueCat . It's been a fun ride! 🎒
Wow. What a couple of months! This year's Shipaton was the biggest yet. We hit just under 4,000 apps submitted, 5x on last year. Take some time to celebrate what you accomplished. From all of us here, thank you. #shipaton
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Day 62/61 of #Shipaton The day after the storm > Chill morning > Workout > Back to posting on TikTok > Wife's treat to celebrate the end 🍣
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For my #Shipaton project I just saw in my github that the first commit I did was on April 25th It started as a fun side project that I was just messing with Wow! A lot can change in a few months 😡
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I gave Claude Sonnet 5.5 and GPT-6 Astra the same prompt challenge "Ask the villagers to build a statue of how you think you look"
I gave Claude Sonnet 5.5 and GPT-6 Astra the same challenge "Build what you think you look like"
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I don't think so At 10K MRR you have more to work with Someone starting their journey from $0 will not know what to do Same at 10K, you now need to figure out how to scale And comparing the 2, it is harder to go from 0 -> 10K
Scaling an app from $0 to $10K MRR is easier than scaling from $10K to $20K Prove me wrong
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I did it!! πŸ˜€πŸ˜€πŸŽ‰ 61 days ago > I had $0 MRR > $0 revenue > no users Today > $200 MRR > $369 revenue > 1,300 installs > 23 app updates and counting Emotions are all over the place 😫☺️πŸ€ͺ Day 61/61 of #Shipaton βœ… #BuildInPublic
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Day 60/61 of #Shipaton Almost everything is ready for my submission 😰 Showed my video to a few people before sending it and got useful feedback Tomorrow is for the last details, then I submit πŸ™ #BuildInPublic
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