Ben Katz

💡 Found a very interesting setting in my OpenAI dashboard while poking around

Apparently, 1M-10M tokens per day in free usage until 2/28/2025 - but you're selling your prompts and completions to them

IMO makes sense (and cents $$$) for non-sensitive use cases

How and why you should move from Lemon Squeezy to Stripe And why you're wasting your time and money with a Merchant of Record (MoR) solution as a B2B SaaS founder

I wrote up an extensive guide on how and why you should move from Lemon Squeezy to Stripe 💳

I go over some of the crazy bugs I ran into, performance issues, and high fees 😬

This should be timely for a lot of people who are considering this kind of move:

ben-makes-stuff.beehiiv.com/p/how-and-wh...

Made another sale for watchdog.chat yesterday!

Always blows my mind when people sign up just from seeing the landing page. Thank you!

There's only 1️⃣ discount remaining before I raise the price for new customers - who wants it?

Follower growth chart from BlueskyCounter.com

Seems like my followers on this platform have the chance of growing way faster than on X. Not sure how people are finding my profile here, but hello!

The resource usage from my own apps is barely anything (thanks Golang)

The resource usage from Chrome is just the opposite 😬

Should mention this is all powered by Dokku for deployments; it doesn't consume any resources at idle

I use a managed service for my DB for simplicity

Thought it might be interesting for people to see what's running on my server

Specs:
🖥️ 2 vCPUs (arm64)
💾 4 GB RAM
💿 30 GB NVMe SSD

Services:
8️⃣ of em for watchdog.chat, atgatt.co, unblock.domains
🌎 Chrome for scraping
🚢 Vector for logs

Some caveats:

⚠️ These rules are created with the "alert admins" punishment by default to avoid accidental bans in case you don't like the rule wording.

🚨 If you're a customer on X, pay attention to each display name. These *must* match rules defined on your X Community itself.

This available now for all customers using watchdog.chat

Built this because some new customers that signed up didn't seem to know which rules to add for their community or were unsure about wording
Problem solved!

✨ Shipped a cool new feature for Watchdog just now: AI-powered rule generation!

🤖 You can now just tell Watchdog what kind of community you run and it will generate a bunch of optimized rules tailored to your community

👇 Demo video below

Decided to make my own multiselect component for Vue + Tailwind for use with watchdog.chat

Why? A customer complained that they didn't know how to select multiple punishments with the standard HTML multiselect

This one is much easier to use, here's the link: github.com/bakatz/vue-t... ✅

Man, tried to post on Reddit but I'm hitting some kind of karma limit and my posts are getting auto deleted

Seems to be a new thing as I was able to post before without any issues. DMed the mods to see if they can help.

Great ideas, thx. I’ll post on Reddit in a few hours, mostly a US audience there so will try to catch them as they wake up!

Yeah it wouldn’t look very modern, I made this UI 7 years ago haha

I’ll fix it over time if people find the site valuable

Thanks, good to know! Maybe I’ll make a value score ie safety/price ratio and let you sort by it

Haha and your helmet is not the worst, but I’d take a look at a shoei rf-sr as a replacement.

Half the price and better test scores!

Nomads.com 🌍 Go nomad: Join a global community of remote workers living around the world

P.S. Loosely inspired by
@levels.io 's nomads.com

Different data and product, but similar execution as I had to scrape the shit out of a bunch of different websites to gather + combine all of this data into a useful format

Here's the gear I used to ride with: atgatt.co/motorcycle-g...

Some trivia: I actually launched this years ago, but I ran out of $ and time and had to shut it down.

Life is different now, so it's back! Took quite some time to update it to support all the latest gear standards 😅

I've been working on a new app for motorcyclists, launching right now: atgatt.co 🚀
🦺 Comprehensive safety data for all kinds of motorcycle gear, all in one place
⚙️ Click "Add to My Gear" to create a gear list (shareable with others!)
🤑 100% free for now

What do you think?

Ok, and am I supposed to do something with this information? 😂

LinkedIn is the GOAT when it comes to useless notifications

One of the best feelings in the world is making a sale for watchdog.chat while not even in front of a computer 🤯

I'm making much less money than I did when I had a full-time engineering job, but so far it feels so much better

I'm helping customers I actually care about vs. answering to a manager

To be clear, I'm not 100% opposed to calls but $0 is not a fair value for my time.

I sent him a booking link with my usual consulting rate of $250/h if he wants to get my opinion on something.

👇 The only way to respond when the cold DMer calls you "buddy" and asks to jump on a call immediately despite never having spoken before

This must work some percentage of the time, but I'd have to imagine you also have to value your time at $0 to agree to something like this

TBD, but it's gaining in popularity so I'll probably be posting here and on X going forward to see what happens.

Very cool - that area by the river is great and feels more like the “real” Bangkok compared to the usual expat neighborhoods in Sukhumvit

sup

I live not too far from there, I know exactly where that is. Will do and thanks again!

Bangkok as well. Thanks for the warm welcome!

Real talk: I have no use for Amazon deals considering it's all Lazada over here 😅

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Hello World! I'm Ben, a solo founder building profitable software businesses.

I originally hail from the USA but I've been living in Thailand for the past year or so.

Any like-minded people on 🦋? Say hello below and maybe I'll give you a follow if you seem like a cool person.