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I got a Domain Rating of 28 for @CompManSys in about 4 hours of effort! To get a good DR it's better to get a good guide and DIY rather than a paid for service. It's not much effort if you have quality links.

What's going to be the next digital verb i.e. I'll "Google" it.

Could be I'll "Open Claw" it?

Day 10 of submitting to high quality directories

Name - Magnitt
URL - magnitt.com/startups/add
DA - 13
Submission time - 5 minutes

Day 9 of submitting to high quality directories

Name - SaaS Hub
URL - www.saashub.com/services/sub...
DA - 14
Submission time - 5 minutes

Day 8 of submitting to high quality directories

Name - Gust
URL - gust.com/founder_onbo...
DA - 15
Submission time - 5 minutes

Day 7 of submitting to high quality directories

Your Story
URL - www.libhunt.com/repo/submit
DA - 15
Submission time - 5 minutes

YourStory | Stories about startups & entrepreneurships YourStory.com is India's biggest platform dedicated to foster the startup ecosystem via entrepreneurship related stories, resources, products, research reports and more

Day 6 of submitting to high quality directories

Your Story
URL - yourstory.com
DA - 22
Submission time - 5 minutes

I used to think Indie Hacking was:

- 80% Software Engineering
- 20% Marketing

Now I realise it's:

- 80% Marketing
- 20% Software Engineering

Day 5 of submitting to high quality directories

Microsoft App source
URL - partner.microsoft.com/en-us/dashbo...
DA - 32
Submission time - 20 minutes

The magic link in tier tester stopped working recently due to increased security in email providers. I'm having to change to a one time code now but it's taking time. Using the shipfast template for this. It would be great to get an update on this.

#middleagedbootscrappers

The bigger the embedding model the longer it will take to encode. That's an important consideration when designing your AI application as the bigger models will take longer to generate encodings and run inference.

A chart displaying how embedding in a Vector DB works. It's for display purposes to help with understanding. The more similar words are all grouped together in similar locations.

A really interesting diagram that shows how embeddings work in a Vector DB. The closer to 1 the number is the more similar the word is. This diagram uses colour too, so the darker the colour the less similar.

Another course on AI to embed this stuff in my brain. Really interesting learning about chunking. I recommend LInkedIn learning if this is your learning style.

I have a number of templates for compliance audits. I have 1 generic template and ISO27001, GDPR, SOC 2, HIPAA, or internal audits. DM me for the link.

The Indie Hacker's conundrum!

Day 5 of submitting to high quality directories

Microsoft App source
URL - partner.microsoft.com/en-us/dashbo...
DA - 32
Submission time - 20 minutes

Day 6 of submitting to high quality directories

Your Story
URL - yourstory.com
DA - 22
Submission time - 5 minutes

I used to think Indie Hacking was:

- 80% Software Engineering
- 20% Marketing

Now I realise it's:

- 80% Marketing
- 20% Software Engineering

Open AI have started social media advertising! The thought of them needing to do this 2 years ago is ridiculous! It looks like their competitor's are becoming more of a threat!

Submitting 4 sites to Crunchbase today. It's nofollow but Google indexes it and ranks your page pretty high. It takes about 1 minute to submit a company with the minimal information so it's worth it.

The most interesting prompt I have used in ChatGPT. It makes it think for over a minute!

"You are my strategic advisor. I want to build a clear Theory of Change for my project/life/work.

A Theory of Change works backwards from the goal, breaking it down step by step into the concrete actions.

A few years ago, GDPR felt like a distant, "legal-only" problem.

Now it shapes every compliance decision I make as a software engineer in my job and as a founder in my side-hustle.

The real shift? Compliance isn’t a box to tick anymore, it’s a design principle.

You can optimize your productivity system.

You can pay for that email tool or calendar app.

You can time block and get to inbox zero in 1 hour.

But I'm increasingly convinced the best way to manage your time, inbox and to-do's is to just be less accessible.

If you sell to 100 customers irregardless of the software being right for them you have a world of pain, 100 support tickets coming through regularly. You will need to refund them.

If your product is not right for them tell them that! Yes less $$ in the short-term but you build up a good reputation

I just added 3 open source platforms for compliance in @ComplianceManSys. It's much cheaper to automate compliance now. Yes you have self-hosting costs and setup but compare this to a few years ago and it's way better. Especially when you compare this to $50k for the bigger platforms this is amazing

Upping my AI SWE game with rules for Claude Code, Cursor and Warp! The future is guiding the model with a clear framework then letting the Agent do it's thing!

To get access to Amazon's Product Advertising API you need 10 sales every 30 days! One would need to build up an affiliate marketing system before even getting access. Time for a re-think on my plans for a new SaaS.

I recently spent a lot of time and research curating the Top 5 Compliance Management Systems You Should Know About. Preview most are open source. DM me for more.