Thanks, I certainly hope so! ๐
Engagement with other features have been meh so Iโm glad thereโs at least one thing some people like
@evactivate.bsky.social
๐ฉ๐ปโ๐ป Indie dev and solopreneur ๐ Building conteflow.com - a fun content creation tool that interviews YOU for stories and insights X profile: x.com/evactivate
Thanks, I certainly hope so! ๐
Engagement with other features have been meh so Iโm glad thereโs at least one thing some people like
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10.09.2025 18:24 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Nope, they are not a replacement for typical AI chat because they are designed for the specific purpose of interviewing you.
So you canโt prompt it like you would in typical AI chat.
Instead, they're ONLY using the AI chat feature. Like, multiple times a day, every single day
So here goes nothingโฆ Iโm going to extract that feature into its own standalone AI chat app and see what happens ๐
Since a month ago, I noticed a tiny but super engaged group of users using my app differently
They've basically ignored all the social media & content creation features (you know, the whole point of the app ๐
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Well that escalated quickly (in the best way!)
inngest founder reached out personally with 6 months of credits and looking into root cause.
I already liked inngest a lot as a product but their founder customer support is amazing too! ๐
Thank goodness I had SOME guardrails so only 24 users were affected instead of hundreds
But they got flooded with like 20-40 push notifications from my app in minutes
So yeah, personally emailing every single person right now ๐ญ
Being the cheap person I am, I tried to stay on inngest's free plan for as long as possible until I couldn't
So I finally upgraded to their pro plan
and unleashed thousands of backlogged scheduled events that I didn't even know were there ๐ฑ
Currently writing an apology email to some users because of a dumb mistake
#buildinpublic
Thank you Robert! ๐
Interesting enough it's actually an existing user from mobile app who never subscribed, so I guess having both mobile and web app finally provided enough value!
I'm like a couple months late but finally launched Conteflow's web app (www.conteflow.com)! ๐ญ
And I got my first stripe subscription from web app! ๐ฅณ
I think the copy is great! The messaging is super clear
20.08.2025 16:26 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0Yeah, when it rains it pours haha
Thankfully everyone got through the worst parts ๐ช
I disappeared for weeks because life went full chaos mode for a while
โข One grandparent in ICU from cancer tumor
โข Other grandparent in ICU from stroke
โข Close friend diagnosed with cancer
โข One parent caught in legal crossfire as scapegoat
Thankfully the worst has passed. I'm back building
Yeah, it took so much experimentation, I feel like I spent 30% of my time stressing over this haha
First tried no onboarding, super bad idea
Later switched to long onboarding for deep personalization but had like 40% drop-off
Hopefully new approach gets the best of both worlds
I only wished I had done this earlier and avoid the brutal 40% onboarding drop-offs lol ๐ญ
14.07.2025 18:24 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0A simple social profile import is all that's need to:
- extract writing styles from past posts
- build a profile bio
- generate voice profile
- generate content categories
Pretty excited to see what the onboarding analytics will look like after this is pushed to production!
People either love or hate my app's onboarding
This split drove me crazy for months:
One half loved how comprehensive the personalization is
The other half hates how long it is and drops out
I finally found the perfect solution and I'm kinda mad I didn't do this earlier
#buildinpublic
Already lying in bed most of the day ๐ญ
Gahh, being sick sucks
oof, trying to work while sick was NOT A GOOD IDEA
Even more mortifying was almost fainting at the grocery checkout line of all places ๐ญ
Suddenly getting a lot of love from Google Play and I still have no idea why ๐ณ
Users that discovered the app through Google Play literally jumped from <10 users a week to >200 a week
#buildinpublic
Other than having to mop up buckets of water, no problem afterward!
Typhoons happens every year here and normally itโs not a big deal as long as you stay indoor
First time that clogged drains caused the balcony to overflow though ๐ญ
Welp, always check balcony drains before a typhoon
Had to go out in my bathroom slippers to clear clogged drains cuz rainwater was flooding into the bedroom๐
At least the rain was warm
Thanks man, really appreciate it! ๐ฅน
30.06.2025 20:53 โ ๐ 2 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Thanks haha, yep itโs that one! ๐
Been working like crazy on the web app the past month
Thank goodness the backend is already built out, cut down a lot of dev time
Do you mean the web app? it's actually the web app version of my mobile app Conteflow haha
A lot of users have been asking for the web app since mobile app has some limitations, especially for writing comfortably
At least it's nowhere near as bad as this really bad burnout I had couple years ago
That time was so bad that I couldn't open my IDE or look at code for several months
Learned my lesson this time and pacing myself better to keep the burnout demons away ๐ช
I think I'm feeling a tiny hint of burnout lately
Maybe cuz I'm like 1-2 weeks away from launching the web app so it gives a false sense of seeing the finish line when it's actually another starting line
Setting up cross-platform subscriptions between web and mobile is loads of fun ๐
#buildinpublic
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23.06.2025 21:06 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0