Nikolay @technikolay

Fullstack Software Engineer Indie Dev 👨🏻‍💻 nikolayrademacher.net Germany Joined November 2022

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Nikolay @technikolay

a week ago

How much time do you spend building vs other important things like planning, marketing, researching, and networking? For me it's about 90/10. It feel right to me pre-MVP, but it might not be

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Nikolay @technikolay

2 weeks ago

Your future self will look back to today one day and think: That was the right thing I did at the right time

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Nikolay @technikolay

2 weeks ago

What is your UI component library of choice for your projects, and why?

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Gaining about 0.5 followers a day since pledging to be active on every day. About 1 post, 5 replies a day, trying to be as genuine as I can. Still single digits. It doesn't matter. I'm growing my way.

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Nikolay @technikolay

2 weeks ago

Today I finished adding multi language, locale and time zone support for my first SaaS. It was tedious and unglamorous work, not one of those shiny features to put on the landing page. But it still felt great, like laying the groundwork for something useful and valuable

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Nikolay @technikolay

2 weeks ago

Having a bad day building? Feeling demotivated, uninspired or stuck? No what matter happens, take the smallest practical step toward your dream today. Could just be one line of code. Then just keep up the momentum 🚀

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Nikolay @technikolay

3 weeks ago

Being a builders means learning to love the bad days too

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Nikolay @technikolay

3 weeks ago

You spent the whole day chasing that annoying bug. Your product is still nowhere near shippable. You go on X and see kids making 50k MRR. You think of all the work still ahead of you. You find yourself yearning for the security before all this. And yet, you still keep going.

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Nikolay @technikolay

3 weeks ago

How do you organize yourselves as solo builders? Do you write yourself tickets, track hours, plan something like Sprint? Freestyle depending on your mood? Or something in between?

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Nikolay @technikolay

3 weeks ago

Do you translate/localize your apps for your local audience (if not in the US or other English-speaking country)? Or do you stick with English and focus only on global?

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Nikolay @technikolay

3 weeks ago

Days without timezone issues: -1

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Nikolay @technikolay

4 weeks ago

There are a lot of inspiring, successful people posting here. It's very tempting to just try and copy what they do. But I think, in the long term, the only way to truly be successful is to build something only you could have built.

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Nikolay @technikolay

4 weeks ago

What drove you to build again today? Habit? Inspiration? Desperation?

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Nikolay @technikolay

4 weeks ago

Post and reading on X is like sending messages in a bottle in the old days, except way faster. Many are irrelevant to you, some may interest you, and a few might change your life forever.

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Nikolay @technikolay

4 weeks ago

Momentum is its own reward

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Nikolay @technikolay

a month ago

Sometimes progress can mean just showing up for the day

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Nikolay @technikolay

a month ago

When you close your laptop for the day (or night), what needed to have happened for you to feel you accomplished something that day? Completed a new feature? Finished a part of it? Wrote a line of code? Opened your editor? Anything else?

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Nikolay @technikolay

a month ago

Being bootstrapped can also mean appreciating your noise-cancelling earbuds more because they keep you from being distracted by your 2017 Macbook's fans approaching liftoff as it buckles under your IDE and 30 open Chrome tabs