Sam Flakes

Social media is rotten for the brain.

My New Year’s resolution was to get addicted to it because I needed to build an online presence…

I can already feel my attention span has been burnt down like a taper candle. It’s taken about 2 weeks 😳

🚨 Is a $300 a month email SaaS necessary as an indie dev or has anyone experimented with automating their own email flow /marketing via their customer database?

Or have I found my next startup..AWS model. Free for really small users and scale up cost quickly for larger enterprises 🚀

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Long old day of not doing my to-do list but fire fighting. Still has its rewards though ❤️

The perfect daily routine is the one that you can do consistently and with minimal friction

Don’t make your New Year’s resolution “wake up at 6am and go to the gym” if it doesn’t fit your lifestyle

Used to love the retro look but I think a face lift was long overdue

Redesigned my whole landing page on a whim this morning. Which do you prefer?

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All of these mean you’ll never catch me feeling tired - even when my sleep has been interrupted or I’ve had a long day.

Anything I’ve missed? 🤔

No alcohol. This goes without saying (hence appearing at the end). While we’re at it - reducing anything that causes inflammation: smoking, fast food etc 🚫

Meditate. This is great for a myriad of reasons but in terms of energy levels, it stops you overthinking in bed 🧘‍♂️

Exercise regularly. Whenever, however. The most important thing is consistency, so pick something that works for you (as long as it’s not within 3 hours of bedtime) 🏃‍♂️🏋️‍♂️

One coffee a day MAX (this changed my life and sleep). Make sure it’s before 12 noon ☕️

Have the same sleep schedule every day (within 30 mins is fine). Get at least 7.5 hours 😴

Eat whole foods (1 or 2 ingredients max). Limited refined sugar.

Lots of grains, legumes, fruit, veg 🥝🍌🍓

Everyone that knows me says I have super-human energy levels.

Here’s how to maintain high energy all year round 🧵:

More than makes up for it when I don’t have to reply to this kind of stuff though

One negative of Gropius.co - it’s replying to cold emails for me asking for more info 🤣

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I’ve solved *Gmail customer service for online businesses for **£9 a month with gropius.co

*More email providers to come
**Currently a/b testing £9/m with no trial vs £45/m + 7 day trial. You can clear local storage & refresh until you get whichever you prefer 😉

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Don’t neglect the physical part of building an online business

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Emoji = AI now according to Reddit 🤣

It’s the same in every industry by the way.

It’s why the supplement industry is worth hundreds of billions of dollars

The worst thing about the ‘build in public’ community:

Everybody wants to hear “I made $10k MRR overnight” clickbait 🚀

Nobody wants to hear the truth…it takes time and hard work. How very boring 😴

Everyone wants the silver bullet when they rarely, if ever, exist 📈

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Building a successful online business (especially as an indie hacker) requires curiosity and obsession. Those things don’t “start on Monday”

If you’re waiting for an arbitrary date in the calendar to change your habits you’re ngmi

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Sorry I was off for Xmas, congrats on an amazing launch!

Stripe reports dashboard showing 7 days and £0 revenue

Stripe reports dashboard showing 7 days and £1229 revenue with a -4.6% difference week on week

This is the difference between taking a week off working on a brand new online business vs an established online business

@samfllakes - 2 startups · $483,534 revenue | TrustMRR @samfllakes has built 2 verified startups generating $483,534 in total revenue. View all their startups and metrics.

I built a business to $10k MRR and have just launched my next start up (7 days ago) 🚀

Looking to connect with other Founders.

Follow me if you’re interested in:

- the journey to $10k MRR
- micro SaaS
- building cool shit

I’m also now on TrustMRR:
trustmrr.com/founder/samf...

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There’s at least 10,000 people on this earth that would benefit greatly from gropius.co

All I need to do is find them

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Yeah I needed it for gmail.readonly and gmail.modify. Glad I have it now though

Looks great 🔥 and you'll get there!

I took a 50% pay cut to make the jump at the time (about 3 years ago), and I can only say I wish I'd done it even sooner 😁

A classic! And even if it were true it’s worth targeting a niche portion of it