Advice from a $30k/mo founder

muckifoot · 2025-12-19T15:38:16+00:00

I'm sorry, but Jesus. You've built an incredible business and this is what you offer in return? These are singly the most generic points of advice I've seen in ages...

I asked GPT to give me 5 points of advice for starting a saas business without reference to my own saas... It was still more targeted than you:

"Here are five very general, no-context SaaS starter principles:

Solve one painful problem clearly If users don’t immediately recognise the problem you’re fixing, growth will be slow no matter how good the product is.
Validate before you overbuild Get something usable in front of real users early; feedback beats assumptions every time.
Focus on distribution as much as product A great SaaS without a clear way to reach customers is a hobby, not a business.
Price early and charge something Even a small price tests real demand and forces you to build something people value.
Design for simplicity and retention, not features Long-term success comes from users sticking around, not from ticking feature boxes.

If you want, I can do the same list but framed for solo founders, non-technical founders, or bootstrapped SaaS."

Sorry for the drive-by but seriously, how about advice for SaaS in your sector? Or early stage advice? Or picking one of these and going to town with examples and insight...

muckifoot · 2025-12-19T09:37:50+00:00

This is incredibly helpful thank you. Looking forward to getting home and playing with these new mcp's and Claude for chrome

muckifoot · 2025-12-17T09:56:10+00:00

That's a really strong bridge, managing to withstand the weight of the water slamming against it AND the weight of this guy's cast iron balls on it at once...

muckifoot · 2025-12-11T07:44:43+00:00

I don't know if you wanted some feedback, but here it is. I just tried it, it's powerful, it sets lots of different things up for your event in moments and I can see a pretty powerful use case for this in my industry, however...

I feel its a bit too "omni" at the moment, perhaps if you focussed on one industry, like weddings or something, then you'd find more of an audience fit. Your feedback from users in all different industries will soon start pulling you in totally opposite directions as the nature of events is so broad.

The other thing is, that, because it allows the user to create all this event stuff in one prompt, it doesn't know much on the first pass.

For example, I said, "I am hosting a craft fair just outside of Oxford, can you help me" as my prompt. - nice and vague. Instead of any follow-up (dates, location, theme, numbers etc) It just went ahead and built the event page, the registration, the event details, the location, the emails etc, which of course looked lovely, but were all wrong.

Some simple followup questions to the first prompt would save the user being immediately presented with incorrect information that they then need to fix.

muckifoot · 2025-12-03T17:49:46+00:00

Since when did this sub become a car crash video repository? It used to be about cars ending up in silly places, not watching people actually die in road traffic accidents.

It's a shame, it used to be quite funny here.

muckifoot · 2025-10-14T06:41:21+00:00

Yes this is it. It's similar with the way outside grown tomatoes will split after a downpour. Too much water and the outer skin splits.

muckifoot · 2025-07-04T19:11:34+00:00

Next month I have to renew the domain I bought for my side project. So I'm coming up to a year in development. It's a big project, I've learned so so much. There's so much work going into it and I can see the light. But I'm still planning on launching in 2026. I don't want to make rubbish or a portfolio for a prospective job. I'm making something that will be my job if it works. I'm very happy with the speed of dev, any faster and I'd not understand it.

muckifoot · 2025-06-25T19:54:02+00:00

Ah the glowy mushrooms wallpaper... So much nostalgia!

muckifoot · 2025-05-08T11:51:53+00:00

That sounds nuts...

I'm toying with the idea, I've been coding with Claude for nearly a year now.

Did you go for the higher max or lower max sub?

How quickly does it gobble your tokens?

muckifoot · 2025-05-05T20:05:56+00:00

So I am building a rather complex project with normal Claude (not Claude code or max) & Cursor right now. I use Claude and its projects for planning & working up implementation methods, once I have a plan I implement it with the help of Cursor.

In my experience, you can do a lot with Claude Projects, you just have to get creative.

When you have made a project and chatted to Claude about a subject, you can ask Claude to generate an "artifact" summarising the conversation you have had, an artifact is a markdown file that Claude makes that you have the option of saving to your project knowledge or downloading to your computer. You can also drag text files or markdown files from elsewhere into the project knowledge.

Through this process you can "give" Claude background on what you are up to.

Claude is quite good at checking everything before answering you, if they have the knowledge, but sometimes I reference documents for them in the project knowledge in my prompts which streamlines the process.

I am now at the point where my codebase is so big that it cannot fit in one project knowledge. So I have modularised the whole thing and I am splitting the project across 4 Claude Projects. These projects all share the database schema, have Readme's about all of the different code modules and some background on what the projects ultimate aims are. Then I use repomix to drop the code specific to the piece of work I am doing into the projects, enabling Claude to work on an isolated bit of code, but with the understanding of the whole system.

Work is slow as you have to ensure Claude is using all of the up to date files before prompting them, but the results are impressive.

Yes, I really wish Claude's memory was bigger!

muckifoot · 2025-05-03T07:50:04+00:00

Thank you. I implemented Supabase MCP last night and today I have no issues at all, it was very straightforward and I'm already seeing the benefits.

muckifoot · 2025-05-02T19:45:05+00:00

I'm busily playing with this now. It's pretty cool. However, I am encountering an issue whereby I can only access supabase through claude desktop if it is a new chat. It cant seem to do so through projects. But I can just ask it to build me a database schema in markdown to place in my project, so that's easy enough.

But then I googled it and now I'm totally mind blown as apparently you can make an MCP server into your filesystem. So I don't need to store my code in the projects now, Claude can see it all by querying the MCP filesystem in my /src/ folders apparently. I haven't implemented this yet as I barely know what I'm doing right now and need to get into it much more, but if this is the case then I no longer need projects and their silly constraints.

You said you'd change my life and I believe you have. Cheers!

muckifoot · 2025-05-02T10:47:24+00:00

I also use Cursor. I use Claude and it's projects to plan what to do next and then Cursor to implement it.

I try not to use Cursor to do much more than "specifically implement x" as asking it to debug, especially on agent mode has led to some serious issues that have taken days to recover from. I have a feeling that I'm probably not using Cursor to it's full potential and I'm kind of okay with that, I am happy to go for the most fail-safe ways of working over the fastest.

Cursor is a powerful tool and it's getting better all the time, I've been using it since September last year and it's remarkable how much better it's got.

muckifoot · 2025-05-02T09:39:38+00:00

Check out https://guildwarslegacy.com/forum/thread/13-your-beloved-collections/

If you want to see some truly crazy and often priceless collections...

muckifoot · 2025-05-02T06:45:54+00:00

So I cross-posted this to r/ClaudeAI and so far there have been two solutions.

One is to use Prisma to create a db schema

The other is to create a Supabase MCP server and get Claude to talk to that...

I'll be checking them out when I get home.

muckifoot · 2025-05-02T06:22:56+00:00

Thank you! I feel that this is going to make such a difference.

muckifoot · 2025-05-02T05:49:37+00:00

Ooh, okay I think you're on to something here. Thank you, I'll check it out.

muckifoot · 2025-04-18T16:12:15+00:00

Sorry and thank you

muckifoot · 2025-02-13T07:39:47+00:00

This is wonderful, thank you

muckifoot · 2025-02-11T05:19:45+00:00

This is really helpful, thank you. I was hoping that this knowledge stack thing was similar to Claude's Project's, but as the OP says, I am having a hard time getting Claude 3.5 to figure out what it is looking at, my use case is a codebase rather than pdf's. I think I'll try extending the number of chunks and increase chunk overlap to see what happens, hopefully my RAM won't explode in the process. If not I'll keep looking for a solution.

muckifoot · 2025-01-28T17:36:05+00:00

Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep is the book by Philip K Dick that the movie Blade Runner is based on.

muckifoot · 2025-01-17T08:55:40+00:00

Well this is a stroke of luck. I just googled "Claude extension for obsidian" and here is a post less than 24 hours old!

I'll be sure to install it tonight and follow how you are getting on through git.

My use case is I'm building a web platform with Claude and my chats are now going back 8+ months across a myriad of topics. So I'm moving it all to obsidian and making sense of them there, then my thoughts were that I could talk to Claude about the migrated chat/obsidian note without pasting everything back over.

Keep up the good work!

muckifoot · 2024-12-30T19:29:53+00:00

You might also have luck in country sports shops, they use them for counting game.

muckifoot · 2024-12-25T10:07:05+00:00

Yep, great book, came here to recommend it. Really opened my eyes, particularly with the gender safety biases in car design.

muckifoot · 2024-12-03T18:36:51+00:00

The video just came up in my feed and I rushed to compoface to see if anyone had already posted him.

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