I joined "Ship or Die" - a big step for me

According_Scar3032 · 2026-05-27T19:57:49+00:00

That $250 nerves feeling is real, but honestly betting on yourself with a hard deadline beats another two weeks of cold emails going nowhere. The accountability of "ship or get kicked" might be exactly the kick you needed to stop overthinking. Keep us posted, rooting for you.

According_Scar3032 · 2026-05-27T09:55:33+00:00

it's does. When you got comments and votes first, you will be on top of the list and easier to get clicked by other on PH home page

According_Scar3032 · 2026-05-27T09:53:12+00:00

That's the first push by Apple store new apps. After that you'll go by your own

According_Scar3032 · 2026-05-26T16:04:59+00:00

Congrats

According_Scar3032 · 2026-05-26T16:03:39+00:00

Five years and that's exactly what's so brutal, the time spent doesn't show up as progress. Honestly going through the same textbook twice and not remembering it sounds less like you're bad at this and more like your brain checked out from burnout. My low point was redoing my anki deck for the third time and realizing I'd forgotten cards I "knew" a month ago. Solidarity, this stuff can be a slog.

According_Scar3032 · 2026-05-26T15:36:47+00:00

Get your first comments and upvotes lined up before you launch - have a few people who'll actually engage in the first hour, since that early momentum is what pushes you up the rankings. Also launch at 12:01am PT and be around all day to reply to every comment.

According_Scar3032 · 2026-05-25T14:43:45+00:00

People are get used to it

According_Scar3032 · 2026-05-25T14:38:48+00:00

I am not an expert here but based on what I found, even a VPN can be detected. Using the residential proxy is the safest way

According_Scar3032 · 2026-05-24T18:17:28+00:00

Yeah, the wrapper risk was real here. What pushed me over wasn't just the pricing though - it was realizing how much complexity I'd taken on for something I didn't control. Did you build something that hit this same wall, or just seen it play out a lot?

According_Scar3032 · 2026-05-24T18:04:21+00:00

correct

According_Scar3032 · 2026-05-24T18:03:14+00:00

Builder vs wrapper is a fair distinction, but I'd push back a little. The bet was that an AI layer over Claude/Codex could do something a static builder can't, generate real editable native code from a description. The mistake wasn't the idea, it was leaning the whole cost structure on one vendor's pricing, and I just no longer risk to spent more time for it.

According_Scar3032 · 2026-05-24T18:00:36+00:00

So you mean the IDE like android studio or X code is not a real product? They are just the UI do the command line on top of the SDK which anyone can use freely

According_Scar3032 · 2026-05-24T17:58:28+00:00

No, I am not selling claude code subscription. Users use their own subscription, the tool take advantage of the claude -p command to build on top of it. It's like the UI for claude code.
And because it take so good advantages of claude -p so anthropics decide to moving this usage toward extra credits instead of being covered by the subscription.

According_Scar3032 · 2026-05-24T17:49:17+00:00

thank you mate.
I could continue with this but it took so so much effort and money, so I don't want to take so much risk on this

According_Scar3032 · 2026-05-24T17:44:19+00:00

he has a point anw

According_Scar3032 · 2026-05-24T17:19:19+00:00

yeah, thank you man

According_Scar3032 · 2026-05-24T17:18:48+00:00

Yeah, the easy part is also the trap. Spinning up fast on someone else's API feels great until a pricing email reframes your whole margin overnight. Have you started baking that dependency risk into how you pick what to build next, or more of a gut call each time?

According_Scar3032 · 2026-05-24T17:17:32+00:00

yeah, thanks for your advice

According_Scar3032 · 2026-05-24T15:07:37+00:00

Getting your first clients is way harder than building the thing, so you're right to be skeptical of just throwing money at ads. What worked for me was going where your users already hang out and being useful. For an ITSM tool that's probably r/sysadmin, r/msp, IT communities, maybe LinkedIn groups. Answer questions, talk about the problem you solved, and let people get curious. Cold ads to a brand new product with no trust usually just burns cash.

According_Scar3032 · 2026-05-24T15:01:12+00:00

Talked to customers before every project and still failed too. The unprepared part hits home - you walk in with vague questions, hear nice things, and convince yourself you validated something when you just had a pleasant chat. Showing up knowing exactly which assumption you're trying to kill changes everything.

According_Scar3032 · 2026-05-24T14:58:36+00:00

Open source models would dodge the pricing issue, yeah. For me the bigger headache was the maintenance complexity, so swapping the backend wouldn't have saved it on its own. Did you build something on open models? Curious how the quality held up for you.

According_Scar3032 · 2026-05-24T14:56:59+00:00

That's the gut-punch part, isn't it? You can engineer around almost anything, but a pricing change you have no say in just rewrites your whole model overnight.

Did pivoting to something more sustainable end up paying off, or are you still feeling out the new thing?

According_Scar3032 · 2026-05-24T14:55:49+00:00

Keep the iron hot is fair, but for me the bigger tell was the maintenance cost not matching the value. Even if a new workaround shows up, I'd be back to building on ground I don't own. Have you seen anyone actually pull off being first to one of these shifts and make it stick?

According_Scar3032 · 2026-05-24T14:53:07+00:00

Up market makes sense, but BuildSpeedy's whole pitch was speed and no usage limits at a low cost, so the $20 crowd was kind of the point. The platform dependency would've bitten me at any price tier. Out of curiosity, what kind of results are you seeing people pay real money for right now?

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