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"Most important thing that we use is Claude so we can code much faster."
"We used React Native and Expo. For the back end, I did .NET for most of the core functionality."
"I use Cursor a lot, but I'm very specific which files to touch and don't let the AI just go rogue."
"On the testing side, we do continuous AB testing of headlines, descriptions, and landing pages. Everything tracked through PostHog."
"We use tools like Ahrefs to find keywords with 300-800 monthly searches that have low competition but that they are very high intent."
"I've also used Next and React to build some internal admin dashboards."
"We used React Native and Expo. For the back end, I did .NET for most of the core functionality."
"I kept coming back every single day refreshing Stripe, watching it go from zero to a couple hundred bucks."
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Clear filters"Let's say you are building a language app and you're copying something that Duolingo did. You know that they've run tons and tons of tests"
"Like I think about these bigger apps like Cal AI. This is like a very very tiny version of this for this specific combat sport wrestling"
"If you look at Fresh Books and their SEO strategy around templates and tools, I'd probably copy that playbook right there. They've built the playbook for you."
"It takes your notion pages and notion contents and put that as a blog on the web."
"You could probably even record a Loom video pretty quick and rank on something niche if you have a niche SaaS."
"It used to be Quora that we would go out and answer questions on, but more and more we're seeing Reddit as an important place."
"I would go to ChatGPT and look up platforms similar to Upwork"
"So now you can just set dashboard either in Google Sheets, Data Studio or any tool that you like."
"You can use Ahrefs, you can use SEMrush. I mean there are some very core keywords that you don't have to search for."
"So now you can just set dashboard either in Google Sheets, Data Studio or any tool that you like."
"Apple notes some like Trello board just for my own internal use"
"there's a ton of developer tools out there that are making millions of dollars. Cursor, Claude Bot, that's like the big examples"
"there's a ton of developer tools out there that are making millions of dollars. Cursor, Claude Bot, that's like the big examples"
"There's a guy that just built an app that helps you track. It was called Puff Count. And I think you just track how many puffs you took and then once you get to a certain low amount it sort of gamifies the process of quitting nicotine."
"There's the guys that we interviewed on the channel that have an app that forces you to do push-ups before you can go on social media. They're doing 30K a month."
"This is something that we got from Indie Hackers at the time, which was big on that, too. Shout out Courtland who built that."
"Starter story was acquired by HubSpot, a public company."