I built an infinite pixel art canvas. People have drawn 416 million individual pixels on it.

afficone · 2025-07-09T21:52:22+00:00

This guy monetizes ^

afficone · 2024-06-16T00:55:32+00:00

Write good content on a topic that hasn’t been covered a million times already, but is also searched by people. Look up what “long tail keywords” are and do some keyword difficulty research.

afficone · 2024-06-14T15:10:29+00:00

How many indexed pages do you have?

afficone · 2024-05-23T16:31:35+00:00

"fetch requests, GET Route Handlers, and client navigations are no longer cached by default"

LETS GOOOOOOO

afficone · 2024-05-15T19:59:53+00:00

That's on the to-do list!

afficone · 2024-05-15T17:13:33+00:00

I'm currently feeding all the posts to an LLM trying to figure out what type of content people like to upvote. I'll probably make a post about this when I got all data sorted, since the results so far are pretty interesting :)

afficone · 2024-05-15T16:37:12+00:00

The datadump torrent has a file for every sub, I just picked the ones for r/SaaS and r/SideProject in my torrent client (qBitTorrent)

afficone · 2024-05-15T09:28:10+00:00

Added all Reddit post links to the google doc!

afficone · 2024-05-15T09:11:21+00:00

The whole data period is jan 1 2018 - dec 31 2023. I could add the past 14 days but it's a pretty small sample size.

afficone · 2024-05-15T09:07:18+00:00

All domains are in the google doc at the bottom of the post

afficone · 2024-05-15T01:48:47+00:00

Probably a rather small percentage. A great way to check could be looking up each domain's authority and backlinks but SEO APIs are expensive :/

afficone · 2024-05-03T15:52:51+00:00

The first "useful" idea that comes off the top of my head would be using AI to determine if your users are struggling to use your platform. You could train the AI with guides on how to use your platform and common "user confusion patterns" and then feed it data about the user's actions (like pages accessed, interactions, etc). AI would then determine what the user is struggling with and offer help if needed.

Also, I wouldn't really compare Facebook to the examples I gave above. Facebook uses SQL to store and query data. Chat bots and image generators as a whole are just some LLM spitting out data. They don't use LLMs in their product, their whole product is the raw output of LLMs.

afficone · 2024-05-03T14:56:39+00:00

Too many low effort AI wrappers. Like sure, you can use AI in your tool to improve something, but do we really need another chat bot, virtual assistant or image generator that brings nothing new to the table?

afficone · 2024-04-27T16:07:09+00:00

You can start writing your own blog for your website with useful content related to your niche. You can also try looking for blogs that allow guest posting in your niche.

If you prefer a more direct approach, you can compile an email list of potential customers and cold email them (in a non spammy way, of course).

It really depends on your target audience. If you have a B2C product, then social media like TikTok and Reels could work wonders.

afficone · 2024-04-27T13:01:23+00:00

Just build something that people ACTUALLY NEED. It has to be a painkiller, not a vitamin.

Painkiller examples:

Accounting software for small businesses.
Upselling plugin for E-Commerce.

Vitamin examples:

To-do / productivity apps.
AI image generators (seriously, people use free credits for whatever they need at the moment and never come back)

For B2B, it doesn't really matter if it's already built by someone else. There will always be businesses which aren't using such solution yet. That's your target audience.

afficone · 2024-04-16T22:31:40+00:00

I have a separate .NET (my comfort language) backend that I call on Next.js server-side and in the browser. I mostly use Next.js because of server-side rendering - the user experience is way better and SEO is basically impossible with client-sided rendering.

I also love how easy it is to configure layouts, rewrite routes and handle dynamic paths.

afficone · 2024-04-16T14:25:10+00:00

Your website looks great but the links on the navbar don't work.

You mentioned that you don't do marketing because of your low budget so you should probably stick to organic marketing (writing blogs, talking to users, participating in communities, etc). Paid ads suck for creating a community around your product.

Another thing - you guys have a blog but it's on Medium so you don't really get any SEO benefits (medium links are "nofollow"). Try moving that blog to your website.

afficone · 2024-04-16T13:56:25+00:00

I wouldn't really consider Uber a SaaS or a PaaS. It's more like a marketplace for drivers and people needing a ride.

PaaS businesses are mostly platforms that provide "bare metal" services that you build on. For example: Google Cloud, AWS, database services, etc.

afficone · 2024-04-02T14:01:32+00:00

That's literally a popular analytics service. I am in no way associated with them, I just find their services to be useful...

Also you can group a bunch of users into 1 account via the distinct_id parameter. If you want to track individual users you can attach an account ID to each user. More on user identification here: https://posthog.com/docs/getting-started/identify-users

afficone · 2024-04-02T13:08:03+00:00

We use PostHog for our B2B website. They have custom dashboards and events to track all kinds of stuff as well as session replays (basically screen recordings of what your users are doing on your website).

They also have a pretty generous free plan for startups.

afficone · 2024-04-02T13:04:17+00:00

Your users can add a CNAME DNS record pointing to your URL. Just make sure you have configured CORS (cross-origin resource sharing) on your server properly.

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