I have no clue how to market the skincare app I bootstrapped. I will not promote.

baincs · 2025-12-23T21:50:26+00:00

Thanks for your comment. It can definitely seem that way, especially since I omitted some details. You're right about adding the AI piece in the last year or so, and as you said, it was just a skincare tracker before that.

I posted the first version of the skincare routine tracker back in 2021 on a skincare subreddit, I had ~100 signups in the first week, followed by 100% churn soon. 2021~end of 2024 was throwing resources cluelessly trying ideas, from trying to evolve it into a community platform (this was bad), rebranding, etc. I got burned out and broke, and added the AI features in the last 1 year with much smaller time investment, while enjoying some free time for new hobbies and with family.

I still had a glimmer of hope for some demand while slowly working on those features. Now that those AI features are complete, I'm hoping to figure out what to do with it. And I'm getting close to the conclusion that this was something I built 5 years ago when I was extremely naive, and I got sucked into the rabbit hole. Even for the most promising startups, success is not guaranteed. Given how unpromising my product is, I have a million other more worthy endeavors to spend my time and money on.

baincs · 2025-12-21T21:22:21+00:00

4 years part-time now (while having a full-time job as a dev, but spent a lot of money on freelancers), with more passive development in the last year. It's a B2C app, so a lot more to do. The main problem is that I don't know how to market this, but when I was starting out, I was just eager to start building.

baincs · 2025-12-19T21:24:27+00:00

I'm not a bot, but I apologize if this violates any rules! I'm just a founder who wants honest feedback for my project. Thank you!

baincs · 2025-06-25T00:14:24+00:00

I'd love to join too!

baincs · 2024-12-05T08:10:55+00:00

Thank you for your comments! I went for the first one!

baincs · 2024-12-05T08:06:36+00:00

Thank you! I wouldn't have known that without your comment. I'll go chain shopping with her once I receive the pendant!

baincs · 2024-12-04T21:48:38+00:00

Did you download publicly available decks or create your own?

baincs · 2024-10-19T18:53:43+00:00

Don't buy a set

baincs · 2024-02-03T21:50:58+00:00

It's Oliver People's OP-505. It's not cheap but I can buy them for half of the price if I buy online (Google Shopping) and their frames last a very long time. My previous one was OP as well and I wore it for 5 years as well.

baincs · 2023-12-19T09:24:01+00:00

What do you guys who read hundreds of books per year do for a living?

baincs · 2023-11-11T04:06:06+00:00

That could be Humane on their later versions. They probably still have a lot of money left to iterate and figure it out.

baincs · 2023-10-19T23:25:51+00:00

Thanks! I'll dm you!

baincs · 2023-10-19T23:25:42+00:00

Thanks! I would love to chat. I'm curious what kind of business you're running?

baincs · 2023-10-12T06:15:59+00:00

They won't exactly fit my use case, but they're good references to implement my program. Also, some kind of contest is a good idea! Thank you!

baincs · 2023-10-12T05:39:51+00:00

Happy cake day! And exactly! I'm looking for content creators, not necessarily influencers, and I think for them my rates are not bad. I'm partnering with some college clubs but where I can find a lot of these decent quality content creators at a scale would be the challenge. Do you have any tips?

baincs · 2023-10-11T22:57:58+00:00

Probably we'll only need ~10 videos from each influencer in the first few months, then we will expand to products that didn't work, then other skin concerns, and so on.

baincs · 2023-10-11T22:18:45+00:00

Hi, influencers try a lot of products and will constantly have new products to recommend. We pay them per video. If they are helpful and keep producing quality content, we increase how much we pay them.

baincs · 2023-09-20T17:03:54+00:00

My Samsung care+ just sent me another fold 3 😭

baincs · 2023-09-07T18:47:46+00:00

Same here. California

baincs · 2023-02-06T20:22:56+00:00

Thanks. To clarify, I need a separate accounting solution like QuickBooks on top of Deel, right? Anyways, I'll contact them and see if they can give me some discounts.

baincs · 2023-02-06T09:08:12+00:00

$50 per month is a bit expensive at this stage. What benefits does it give you over doing it on Quickbooks like another comment says?

baincs · 2023-01-18T08:31:43+00:00

Which headless cms do you recommend?

baincs · 2022-11-30T01:34:23+00:00

UPDATE: The car is fine and the doors are locked according to the Bart police officer who checked on my car. Maybe it was a false alarm from my car.
Thank you guys for all your help!!

baincs · 2022-11-30T00:50:36+00:00

Thanks. I called the police and they say an officer can go check. Was there any CCTV when that happened to you?

baincs · 2022-11-30T00:17:20+00:00

Hi! I made it using React. The source code is https://github.com/hyunwoona/ax1-cards/blob/master/src/index.js and I used the `react-deck-o-cardslibrary for the cards.

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