OpenAI’s moat (competitive advantage) isn’t the technology, but distribution and product.
Google may have technology that’s just as good or even better, but we all know it can’t keep a service running for more than six months.
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OpenAI’s moat (competitive advantage) isn’t the technology, but distribution and product.
Google may have technology that’s just as good or even better, but we all know it can’t keep a service running for more than six months.
🚫 I turned down the offer to buy Roast My Web
During the launch, several interested buyers reached out about buying the site. One of them stood out: a former Dropbox employee in the US who was looking to buy microbusinesses for under $40,000.
We set up a meeting to…
Sonnet 3.7 is no joke. Looks like it’s going to be the best AI for full-stack development by far.
A lot of agency, coherence, and reasoning ability.
When I was a kid, I thought I’d retire at 67. I’ve been updating my goals.
➝ 📚 Study so I can retire at 60 ➝ 📈 Start investing so I can retire at 50 ➝ 🇨🇭Move to Switzerland so I can retire at 40 ➝ 💻 Now I want to start a business so I can retire at 30
I've received more than 5 acquisition offers for Roast My Web and, interestingly, no one has asked about the code.
Everyone only wants to know two things: traffic and revenue.
Moral of the story: what sells isn't the “how,” it's the result. 💡💸
I've been researching SEO for finance websites and learned that:
- People don't know what EPS is. - People don't know how to calculate ROIC. - People like dividends.
It's also interesting because you can see which companies are trending.
💰 The mental model that has helped me make over €100,000
→ Positive optionality and asymmetric risk.
🛑 Twitter as an acquisition channel is overrated
The vast majority of sales I get for Roast My Web come from SEO, just like they do for many other indie hackers.
Top tools recommended by @TopRellow, @jpaask and @Fluyeporlaweb for YouTube, plus a few I added myself!
For content creation: ✂️ Editing: Davinci, CapCut, Figma, Clipchamp 💬 General: ChatGPT 🔊 AI voices: Murf, Elevenlabs 🎨 Media: Pexels, Canva
For analytics and…
⚡️ I have a website with over 50k URLs that need to be indexed, but Google is slow.
One free option is to use a Github script to ask Google to do it.
The fast option is to use a service.
I want to support a Spanish indie hacking project and try it for a month.
I know @INDEXEDpro by @Ricki_io and @DanielPeris.
Any others?