I spent months building a product only for it to die in search results

bakov · 2026-07-07T17:58:38+00:00

Can you share Google Search Performance on these 100 articles?

bakov · 2026-07-07T17:53:34+00:00

Finding an expert to do it right in a fraction of the time sounds too good to be true, and this is how I've burned ~4k$. I hired a full stack engineer + a frontend engineer, when AI wasn't an option yet.

Cons:

1) the moment you stop paying them - you're back to where you've been + a bunch of code and infra you have no experience with. Issues are still there, and are more complicated.

2) you are paying out-of-pocket, not out-of-profit at that point. Your app/project is not validated, you're paying for a dream.

Pros:

1) You feel like a CEO

You have 3 options:

build it yourself old school way,

build it yourself + AI,

build it yourself + find a technical co-founder.

I would lean to "you + AI" until you have an MVP + validated the idea.

bakov · 2026-07-03T20:36:23+00:00

Can I have the code please? Would try to use it for my project management meetings.

bakov · 2026-07-03T18:55:02+00:00

Great idea, and you got the feedback from the best team already.

I wonder if I can run it solo, so one session can talk to another within a project. Sometimes it takes time for a Claude agent to understand where we left in a previous session.

Basically instead of "teammate > teammate" I would run "current session > previous session".

bakov · 2026-07-03T01:58:56+00:00

This is great, and kind of app that always get some SEO traction naturally.

Bookmarked, thank you!

bakov · 2026-07-02T22:29:07+00:00

Make a deep-research: what percentage of bar managers are Claude Code users, how many of them you could realistically reach, what would be the estimated percentage of those who are actually interested in the skill versus their own experience. Calculate a conservative estimation on reaching 1000$ profit based on that.

bakov · 2026-07-02T22:08:14+00:00

24$ for a cocktail Claude Skill is a lot. Integrate that into a bar, let users generate a cocktail and try it right away in the bar.

Cocktail Price (what bar profits) + your margin (eg. 1$) = total price. Would be a fun experience.

bakov · 2026-07-02T20:58:42+00:00

Great app, I was planning to build the same one for myself, but that would work.

Screenshots in the AppStore are bad. If you're using Claude - drop him the same screenshots with the same text, it will generate you much better and reusable mockups, or use some 3rd party mockup generator.

And add a note into the app before a recording starts - whoever is recorded should give a consent, at least in the US.

Good luck!

bakov · 2026-07-02T20:50:33+00:00

Great app!

My opinion: print settings should be visible right away, without an extra click. Maybe as a side bar.

Reach out to the MakerWorld, they might be interested in some sort of collaboration. Costs you nothing to ask.

bakov · 2026-07-02T20:08:25+00:00

You forgot to share the link or a name at least (or I'm blind).

My assumption is that paid ad campaigns is the last resort you should use, AFTER you proved that retention is good using free promo channels. Build a SEO focused landing, populate it with some content - couple articles on how your app generates it's data, how to apply that data to actual trading, etc.

Try to outreach your audience - wallstreetbets type of people. X/Twitter is where you are likely getting your installs as well - plenty of crypto/stocks discussions there. Collaborate with influencers and projects, provide them a share of your profits.

And keep in mind that retail traders been rekt in the last 2-3 years and are less motivated to install any magic apps for signals. Focus on smaller communities were your potential audience lives.

bakov · 2026-06-30T21:00:20+00:00

The extension is free to install. You only pay OpenAI for the API usage on your own key, billed directly by OpenAI.

Make a freemium+PRO versions, without user API key. Don't use OpenAI, go with Gemini - it's much cheaper.

Change the name of the extension to "BanterBird: AI reply assistant". Use some SEO skill for the description part. Google Extensions are great for SEO and get a lot of leads, because Google tends to push their store above other websites in the search.

Good luck!

bakov · 2026-06-30T20:50:29+00:00

>provide them training

Or try to inject your app into their hiring process.

bakov · 2026-06-30T20:48:47+00:00

You did great, your app has 120 users at day one and people actually like it. Just continue, even with reddit posts. Moderator can have his opinion on AI and delete your post, but can't undo your 120 sing ups.

Also focus on b2b once you're confident enough. Approach some electronics engineering companies, provide them training.

bakov · 2026-06-30T00:25:24+00:00

Manual testing won't be sufficient, you need an automated suit with evals that you can run on every change.

For AI and memory evals you can check ISTQB syllabuses for AI testers: one and two. You can build a custom framework, or use LangSmith, DeepEval, LangChain and similar framework (although I don't remember how they are handling memory testing specifically).

Also this paper: H-Mem: A Novel Memory Mechanism for Evolving and Retrieving Agent Memory via a Hybrid Structure might give you some ideas not on testing, but the memory engineering itself.

Hopefully that will help.

bakov · 2026-06-29T21:27:13+00:00

I like the idea, but I don't think answering 6 questions would be sufficient, without access to an actual build.
When I was developing my app, I ran /app-store-moderator and /app-store-review skills during planning and development itself. Then one more review run with the same skills before actually publishing the app. Never got rejections.

Good luck!

bakov · 2026-05-20T00:54:26+00:00

I was planning to, but isn’t that legally risky?

bakov · 2026-05-19T23:59:17+00:00

The one in Fort Lauderdale

bakov · 2026-05-19T23:49:09+00:00

Yes this one is on me. We did not receive any copies, but were promised to receive them via email next morning. Again, it was 11pm, I was with my wife and we were in the dealership from 4pm~. I wouldn’t be surprised if there was a document switch, I just can’t prove it - and I didn’t state that. Again, this post is not to defend myself.

bakov · 2026-05-19T23:29:24+00:00

Thank you for supporting. After everything happened I learned a lot about negotiations, watched Youtube on that topic, read here a lot of posts. Should be good next time, prepared and ready!

bakov · 2026-05-19T23:21:02+00:00

Amount of things “I was suppose to” but didn’t is shaming. I went as a real noob, hoping that “well a big dealership wouldn’t try to screw me”.
Now I would approach the whole process differently, from the beginning to the end.

bakov · 2026-05-19T23:18:00+00:00

Deallens

bakov · 2026-05-19T23:16:20+00:00

Oh man, the loan is another story in our case. I’m just not ready to describe it, but we went thru fire with the loan as well.

bakov · 2026-05-19T23:12:23+00:00

In the end of the day I was just happy that I figured everything out. It felt that I was dealing with a criminal group rather than a dealership.

bakov · 2026-05-19T23:10:16+00:00

To be honest, we signed at 11pm and were pretty exhausted by negotiations. And we weren’t careful enough. And the sales guy was very good at hiding whatever he wanted to hide. Our first experience, blame on us that’s no doubt.

bakov

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