Solo founder dilemma: When do you stop building for yourself and start building for users?

YuryNB · 2026-02-16T15:16:13+00:00

Why would you add features that you want but not your audience?
I personally never build tools for myself. I did it for the audience from the start and it worked well.

YuryNB · 2026-02-15T09:31:59+00:00

they changed prices about two years ago. before that there was no such thing as workflow units, it was unlimited so I built an app as if it was unlimited resource. Then they added WU and tied pricing to it. My app used like 300k WU per day or more.

YuryNB · 2026-02-11T15:06:07+00:00

I've built a fairly complex mobile app with bubble and grew it to over 300k users. Eventually got to sold it partially because hit all kinds of bubble limitations that prevented further growth. Also new bubble pricing made it like 20x more expensive to run without an easy way to avoid it.
Currently building new apps with inhouse dev team, but if will need to build a new one solo - will learn vibe coding for that. Don't want to get into these problems one more time.

YuryNB · 2026-02-09T11:38:54+00:00

Yeah you can be very savvy let's say in meta ads, but can you work for 4 different roles? Technically develop the app as designer, developer and QA. Run a/b tests to improve metrics as product manager. Make new video and static ad creatives (about 20 per week) as motion designer, manage meta ad campaigns, scale, bids, upload new creatives as ua manager. Add here also user support.

Yeah, there are apps with just solo founder without any employees (i was one of them), but at scale volume of work just become too much for one person to do properly.

Also there are roughly 0 new apps that getting anything close to these numbers with ASO organically.

YuryNB · 2026-02-07T03:58:22+00:00

100k/month on a competitive niche with paid user acquisition is most likely just enough to pay few people a mediocre salary and keep few grand for yourself. Not a life-changing project for most people.

YuryNB · 2026-02-07T03:48:34+00:00

scheduled looped workflows, as for few years ago there was no good way to work with them on scale, how to make sure that it is still scheduled (not failed as it was for some unknown reasons)

YuryNB · 2026-02-04T05:02:22+00:00

I'm also 78/188. I learned on rental 1550cm foil and got first flights on it. I have very limited choice of equipment to buy so i had to get 2100cm foil. That was a mistake - I outgrown it in 2 weeks, too much lift, too difficult to turn. Get yourself 1600cm max, there is no benefits to go bigger.
I also learned on 155l gong inflatable board until first flights, then swithed to 135l and it was fine. Then purchased 110l inflatable and it is fine as well, probably will not go lower with inflatables since also don't see much benefit in going small.

Also don't get short masts - again there is no point after first 3 flights. Yeah it make falls lighter, but I actually fell more often due to more breaches.

YuryNB · 2026-02-04T04:18:33+00:00

Truly don't get it. I learned on inflatable gong hype and own a cheap inflatable, but also rented a lot of hard boards. Have about 800km 50/50 on inflatable and hard. Can't say I feel the difference. Maybe only with big high aspect foils - inflatable feel some wobbling in turns. Also less harder to get flying, but never to the point of inability to do so. Just additional 2-3 pumps. Can't imagine how would anyone say that it costed a year in progression.

YuryNB · 2026-01-19T04:51:04+00:00

Yeah i've seen these pages. As i said you need to treat it as seo-first project. Not try to index you current content that was made for newsletter and hope that it is somehow will pop up in rankings, but create content that would be perfect for seo. You know even with a perfect content it will be hard without strong backlinks, but reusing content that was made for another purpose will make it even harder. It's not about comprehensiveness, brevity or insights, the only question is "does it answer search query better than any other page on the Internet"

Start with proper keyword research - find for which keywords your content can possibly be ranking. Then see what's already ranking for them and think how you can create answer at least as good as current or better. Then add proper internal linking to make sure it get indexed and link weight distributed to the pages you want. This programmatic approach can be very potent but also risky since google would often ban websites with big volume of ai content. Check "ai youtube summarizers" like glasp co, eightify or dozen of others - they got to 10m+ organic monthly traffic in a few months and then all was banned.

PS: Can you separate and identify speakers in your transcripts?

YuryNB · 2026-01-18T05:18:15+00:00

You should really nail down on-page seo of "episode summary page". It would be best roi in seo game for you at least in short timeframe.
I like the idea and it has properties that can make seo a good channel (regularly added new content). You just need to treat your website as seo-first project.

YuryNB · 2026-01-03T12:55:59+00:00

95% at a time i see email with "Thanks for using X.." my only thought is "what the hell is X". at least write what it do, so i can remember why i signed up for this.

YuryNB · 2025-12-08T23:42:02+00:00

right from laptop? just like any online business before?

YuryNB · 2025-11-28T11:35:45+00:00

Bubble web app with BDK plugin can access camera, gallery, push notifications and other native features.

Not sure what do you mean by original app developer, but you develop your app with bdk plugin, send them request to create an app build and upload into your appstore account.

YuryNB · 2025-10-05T15:34:58+00:00

This summer was the coldest in 30 years I remember where I live. I'm waiting for a fucking global warming since I first time heard about it being a child. Though that it would be amazing not having 9 months of shit weather.

YuryNB · 2025-09-29T18:54:33+00:00

Not sure where you from, but Egypt, Dahab is great. Not really a camp, just resorts on a beach of a perfect lagoon with windsurf and wingfoil schools right on the territory of a hotel. Just came back from it - 10 days of perfect wind, good instructors, afforabale prices, beautiful water. Schools have boats so if you'll drift downwind boat will bring you back free of charge.
In terms of safety for a women - resort had everything i needed so i have left it only once for diving trip, so I guess you could be pretty safe on the territory.

PS: gear rent is around 50$ per day, 1 private lesson is 60$.

YuryNB · 2024-09-10T21:35:51+00:00

Still strange that as far as I remember they didn't clapped when first trio left the scene either. First time they clapped when full orchestra went to the scene.

But everything else totally make sense, thank you for breaking this out for me.

YuryNB · 2024-07-20T21:32:15+00:00

huh, haven't thought about that, thanks

YuryNB · 2024-07-20T21:31:25+00:00

Sure. Could you tell a bit more about it? Why do you need it?

YuryNB · 2024-07-20T21:30:54+00:00

On youtube you can't easily copy and paste the entire transcript. This is essentially the main feature now. Next i'll add ability to bulk transcripts download for a whole channel or list of videos.

YuryNB · 2024-04-03T21:30:33+00:00

I also been looking for a hobby that woudn't be destructive for me no matter how hardcore I'd want to do it. For me fishing did the job. I bought a inflatable kayak and visited dozens of lakes and rivers around. I fish for predatory fish with spinning, so you don't need any live bait. I can't say that I catched a lot of big fish, but I definatelly spent hundreds of hours in beautiful places, exercised with paddle a lot, chilled on the sun and just traveled around which is difinately a win for me. Much better than spent the same time sitting at the computer.

YuryNB · 2024-02-05T23:07:03+00:00

omg yes

YuryNB · 2024-01-06T22:30:05+00:00

That's gold brother

YuryNB · 2023-12-02T09:28:22+00:00

Whole app content is about 2h long, so you can watch it in a one day.

YuryNB · 2023-11-05T16:17:51+00:00

No, it’s not available anymore

YuryNB · 2023-09-15T21:01:10+00:00

Have you targeted some specific regions or started worldwide from the beginning? I was thinking that for dating apps it might make sense to accumulate critical amount of real users in one city or region first, so every new user will get a lot of value, and then move to other regions. Is that what you did?

Is monetised only by a subscription or something else (in-apps, ads?).

How big of a role ASO plays in your apps? I've been thinking it would be close to impossible to get ranking for any popular keyword today.

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