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Boon aka Hwee-Boon Yar

@hboon.com

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Full-time indie, sharing AI + SaaS growth experiments, and behind-the-scenes of building @theblue.social to 10k MRR. Follow for practical dev & indie insights

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Boon aka Hwee-Boon Yar @hboon.com · 10d

12th mth into bootstrapping. @theblue.social is my 3rd product.

I have spent the longest time on it so far.

⏰ worked on it for full 9 mths
💰 +ve MRR after 4 mths, but not ramen profitable
💔 conversions stalled last mth
🛡️ DR 34. Growing slowly

Grind is real

#buildinpublic

Boon aka Hwee-Boon Yar @hboon.com · 16h

Envy your posts' virality :)

Good job!

Boon aka Hwee-Boon Yar @hboon.com · 16h

The beauty of team work is only realized when every team member has urgency and agency, is proud but not arrogant.

Boon aka Hwee-Boon Yar @hboon.com · 21h

My Google Sign-In to Magic Link ratio is 3:1. Wonder if that’s common or just my users. #buildinpublic

Boon aka Hwee-Boon Yar @hboon.com · 1d

Haha. That’s still not good work

Boon aka Hwee-Boon Yar @hboon.com · 1d

Perfection can be the enemy as a programmer since you can refactor and refactor and clean up all the tiny bugs.

Boon aka Hwee-Boon Yar @hboon.com · 1d

Looks good!

Boon aka Hwee-Boon Yar @hboon.com · 1d

3 things I learnt the last month:

* collect emails early
* rate limit your backend endpoints
* changing user database structure is painful

Boon aka Hwee-Boon Yar @hboon.com · 1d

It's clean up and refactoring day

Boon aka Hwee-Boon Yar @hboon.com · 1d

Sonnet? How are you using it from (Claude Code etc)?

Boon aka Hwee-Boon Yar @hboon.com · 1d

Been using them lightly for 14 years. They are great.

Boon aka Hwee-Boon Yar @hboon.com · 1d

Wow. Congrats! Public yet?

Boon aka Hwee-Boon Yar @hboon.com · 1d

😱

Boon aka Hwee-Boon Yar @hboon.com · 2d

Freebie OpenAI tokens:

Settings > Data Control > Sharing

A text document discussing sharing inputs and outputs with OpenAI, detailing daily usage limits for various models and the option to disable sharing.

Boon aka Hwee-Boon Yar @hboon.com · 2d

Small wins, otherwise ☕

Boon aka Hwee-Boon Yar @hboon.com · 2d

It's not perfect, but sometimes just can't help it, example success/failure or newer versions of data?

Boon aka Hwee-Boon Yar @hboon.com · 2d

Good to hear you are marketing it :)

Boon aka Hwee-Boon Yar @hboon.com · 2d

Wow. Congrats

Boon aka Hwee-Boon Yar @hboon.com · 2d

This is actually quite good if it's an honest question and answered honestly

Boon aka Hwee-Boon Yar @hboon.com · 2d

Get notified for new sign ups and respond to surveys

Boon aka Hwee-Boon Yar @hboon.com · 3d

Feels like it would intersect with the customers for TheBlue.social. I don't know exactly which 🤷‍♂️

Boon aka Hwee-Boon Yar @hboon.com · 3d

Is this because I went through too many? 😭

A grid of images for a captcha challenge, with several images containing buses highlighted.

Boon aka Hwee-Boon Yar @hboon.com · 3d

Think I'm finally done with implementing and shipping multi-account support

Took far longer than I'd wanted. Should probably have included this in the first place. It's too big a refactor. #buildinpublic

Boon aka Hwee-Boon Yar @hboon.com · 3d

Submit another video to TikTok for API access. Been taking a while #buildinpublic

Boon aka Hwee-Boon Yar @hboon.com · 3d

Made a Telegram bot to send system notifications to. Lower effort than Discord #buildinpublic

Boon aka Hwee-Boon Yar @hboon.com · 3d

Log dialog before/after. First time I implement Google Sign in and some users click it for non-Google emails. Do your users have this problem too?

#buildinpublic

A sign-in interface for an email account, featuring an option to sign in with email or a magic link, and a note about linking existing accounts.

A sign-in interface for an application, featuring options to log in with email or Google accounts, along with a "Sign in with Magic Link" option and a note about linking existing accounts.