Jason's indie solopreneur journey

Sharing my indie solopreneur journey and growing an audience on Twitter and Substack

Scheduled weekly newsletter to publish on Saturday later today: Subscription revenue AND one-time revenue - https://jasonleow.substack.com/p/subscription-revenue-and-one-time #indiejourney

Was inspired and made wallpapers from SpaceX recent launch #indiejourney

Tried Nvidia's new Nemotron and holy shit.. I've never seen a LLM number list every letter of "strawberry" like that... while ChatGPT-4o, Claude Sonnet and Llama3.1 all fumbled #indiejourney

Scheduled weekly newsletter to publish on Saturday later today - I'm back - https://jasonleow.substack.com/p/im-back #indiejourney

Sent invoice of S$1188 for freelance frontend dev work for past 2 weeks #decodingcoding #indiejourney

Published post on dev•to - https://dev.to/jasonleowsg/ai-makes-you-get-worse-at-coding-4dek #indiejourney #decodingcoding

Scheduled weekly newsletter to publish on Saturday later today - Indie hacking, family trip mode - https://jasonleow.substack.com/p/indie-hacking-family-trip-mode #indiejourney

Pushed new repo on Github, added domain and repo to Cloudflare, site is live! - https://profilepicture.app/ #indiejourney #profilepictureapp

Bought ProfilePicture.app domain from Namecheap #indiejourney #profilepictureapp

Renewed business registration for 1 year with BizFile, ACRA (since 2014!) #indiejourney

Paid an arm and leg for self-employed Medisave contribution #indiejourney

Did some keyword research for Profile Photo Editor - https://jasonleow.com/profilephotoeditor. Looks like "linkedin profile picture" might be best bet.. "pfp" is great but too broad and gamer-related..? 🤔 #indiejourney #profilephotoeditor

Got more feedback - Added input fields for arc and text color. Also made default preview image grayed out to signal it's a placeholder (while I figure out how tf to edit it on page load) #indiejourney #profilephotoeditor

F it, posted Profile Photo Editor on Hacker News - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41702990 Hope I don't go viral 🙈🙈 #indiejourney #profilephotoeditor

Wow went super viral with this one on Twitter... 1M impressions! 🤯🤯🤯 That wasn't supposed to happen.. #indiejourney

Scheduled weekly newsletter to publish on Saturday later today - I started a podcast - https://jasonleow.substack.com/p/i-started-a-podcast #indiejourney

Send invoice S$1056 for freelance web dev work done for past 2 weeks #indiejourney #decodingcoding

FINALLY! Made the canvas work. First time using a combo of Llama 3.1, Claude Sonnet 3.5 and ChatGPT, but the trickiest parts were mostly solved by Llama 3.1. Looks like Claude is better for coding with more conventions, not more uncommon stuff like canvas, while I'm pleasantly surprised Llama 3.1 can deliver on it! Now, what should I call this new project... #indiejourney

Discovered Google's NotebookLM and went wild with it creating podcast episodes about my products! Ended up starting a podcast on Substack - https://open.substack.com/pub/jasonleow/p/hello-world-bad #pluginsforcarrd #lifelog #listskit #indiejourney

Scheduled weekly newsletter to publish on Saturday later today - https://jasonleow.substack.com/p/merchants-of-simplicity #indiejourney

Got featured by the dev.to team @thepracticaldev ! - https://dev.to/devteam/top-7-featured-dev-posts-of-the-week-3n8n #indiejourney #decodingcoding

Tried to make a linkedin profile photo editor for fun and social good, using plain javascript, but got stuck with canvas issues when drawing the darn arc banner that even combined forces of Claude Sonnet 3.5 and ChatGPT-4o can't solve 😩 #indiejourney #socialimpactpatronage

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Bought US$50 credits for Anthropic API. And yes! Got upgraded to Build Plan (Tier 2) - higher rate limits! #indiejourney #decodingcoding

Sent invoice of S$1089 for freelance frontend dev work #decodingcoding #indiejourney