Dmytro Krasun

I will not reach 10,000 paying customers in the same niche with the same product. I have some time to figure out what to do next and how to scale.

Adding more services? New products? Agents?

My thesis always was:

If I can get one paying customer, I will be able to find 10 more.
If I have 10 more, I will find 100.
Soon (hopefully), I will get to 1000 paying customers.

But!

My tiny product (ScreenshotOne.com) is now officially serving 800+ paying customers 🥳

Thanks to everyone who supported me in this journey 🙏

One of my favorite use cases for ScreenshotOne 👉 screenshotone.com/blog/framekit/

A few thoughts on why:

In Israel.
With my family.

Writing from the shelter.

We are safe.

He is in his “quiet” season, writing books about his journey books, and he will come back soon. Damn, I can’t wait for it. He is so real.

Alex, if you reading this, thank you for your time and all the wisdom you shared with me over the years through your writing and especially during that walk 🙏

Yesterday was my last day in Cyprus, and I already returned home.

But I am still energized after our walk with Alex (www.alexwest.co), and I can't stop thinking about it. He completely rebuilt my motivation, energy and knocked me out with tons of insights.

He is super legendary for a reason 🔥

It is really hard for me to overcome, but I am getting better and better at it. Basically, need to babysit agents to produce a matter that fits my taste.

But you know what? Same as you see AI slop in replies, no matter how hard people try to hide it, I feel that in the code physically.

After writing code for 15+ years, I have developed a sense of code as a texture.

JavaScript feels like a soft matter to me. TypeScript and Go are like wooden bricks.

It once again reminded me how much I miss talking to people in real life.

Had a talk walk with a friend.

The most surprising thing is that after he made it, Marc still doesn’t know what he is doing. In the sense that there is no complex super strategy behind his actions. He builds daily, has fun, and shares in public.

If you believe that one developer can bring 100x more value now, you're irrational not to hire as many as you can.

If you can’t, you hire those who can bring 10x value.

If there are not enough of them, you will hire a 1x developer and teach them to become 10x and later 100x.

Nothing has changed.

1. Read the post you resonate with and want to reply to.
2. If you have value to add based on your experience, share it. If not, just like and ignore.
3. Do not summarize or repeat the main point of the post.

Use AI to code your SaaS instead, and where it delivers more value.

A short guide (that really works) on how to craft a perfect AI reply to win attention and followers:

We will compete for problems to solve, not for solutions to deliver.

By the way, it is a good example of generative UI that works.

I don't see people taking about it, but I use Quizzes in ChatGPT more and more.

Whenever I read an article, I feed it into ChatGPT and ask it to create quizzes for me to test my understanding until I fully grasp what I have just read.

It makes reading even more fun.

I will keep building and shipping and see if I can continue without socials for longer.

You try to quit too for a few days and see what happens 🫶

I don't know the latest AI news, and I hope you are all doing great.

Probably haven’t been happier than I am now in the past few months. And more optimistic about the world! I suspect hiking and sleeping in the desert without the Internet helped a lot.

I don’t know how long I will continue the experiment, but I haven’t opened social media for the past ~5 days (posting from Typefully). Now I know that I am 100% addicted, by the way.

True building in public means losing your competitive advantage one post at a time.

Otherwise, it is just bragging or marketing.

Suppose you have enough money to acquire SaaS that makes $10K MRR, has low churn, and a ton of traffic.

Would you acquire it or would you build it yourself with AI?

Answering that question shows what AI has changed.

I feel it 100%, and if you don't feel it, I have really bad news for you :) You probably don't notice it.

Both social media and high usage of LLMs atrophy my reasoning skills.

Reading hard books, doing math, or solving coding puzzles might become a gym for the mind.

I don't know how long that equation will last; maybe, at some point building will be a no-brainer versus buying, but once again our conversation reminded me that to win you need to focus on your customers and your core competitive advantage; everything else can be bought/outsourced.

Talked with Klaas Foppen, CTO/co-founder of Promptwatch, about how they use ScreenshotOne and why they decided to buy instead of build.

screenshotone.com/blog/prompt...

If you don't take care of your health and don't take breaks now, you will make a generational run, of course, but straight into the graveyard.

I bet that curiosity and optimism feel very different depending on your bank account.

I noticed that people who are most excited about the future impact of AI often have paid off their mortgage or have at least some level of financial security.

People in 9-to-5 jobs deserve understanding. It is a normal reaction to get defensive against AI when facing potential layoffs due to it.

While driving, I noticed I was narrating some thoughts and thinking in English.

But my biggest problem is still "a"/"the."

I use "the" when we are talking about an (?) object we both are familiar with. And "a"/"an" for any random/some object.

I hope I will learn it eventually.

I wouldn't hurry and attribute all these changes to AI.

You can't disregard the major role of interest rates. You can see similar trends in most industries, not related to software at all, which proves that there are more profound factors at play than AI alone.