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Finance Ph.D. & Engineer writing about my learnings on: business, indie hacking, and design. X Profile: https://x.com/MaxRohowsky Portfolio: maxrohowsky.com
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Throwback to my first entrepreneurial hustle. Selling these one-wheeler things. I would get the strangest looks from people on the street 😂. We were among the first to distribute these things in Poland. Handing out the flyers was super easy because everyone wanted to know what we were riding on.

How to promote effectively on Reddit without getting banned? New blog: www.maxrohowsky.com/blog/how-to-...

Refining my learnings: If a startup idea has been done exhaustively, it's not an immediate red flag. It's a sign that there's demand. But I personally would prefer a working solution over a shaky MVP. Most people do. So quick and dirty MVPs work better for stuff that's new with few competitors.

DB Chat PH Launch Learnings: - Desktop apps need code signing otherwise users get annoying install warnings - First marketing attempt showed that it's hard to find people who share my excitement for chatting to a DB - The use case of chatting to a database has already been covered exhaustively

Didn't want to overthink the product hunt launch. So I just launched the mvp. DB Chat connects to your database and lets you chat with it. The schema is passed as context to the Ai, so the SQL is spot on. Link: producthunt.com/posts/db-chat

SEO is hard. I spent 30 days learning it from scratch. Here are 12 quick wins to boost your site's SEO today. 👇

The stock market right now

I can chat with any database now! Input: Natural Language Output: Result from connected Database It's hard to explain but this idea 'feels' right.

Domain Rating update: +0.3 after 1 week What I did: 1. Found top blogs in my niche 2. Used free Ahrefs to check their backlinks 3. Posted my site on the 6-7 most relevant Aiming for +0,4 next week.

Let's see how difficult it is to build backlinks. I'm starting at 1.1. Will share update in a few weeks.

It's done! Today I ship. ⛴️ I made a small tool to host JSON & PDF files on the web. It's still super early - but would love some feedback! snip.host

I'm slowly coming back from my social media break. 🥳 The content across social media was unbearable during the elections in Germany, especially on X - had to switch off. Anyway, here's a summary of recent learnings. Shipping continues ⛴️. maxrohowsky.com/blog/solving...

Don't spend all your time on X. There are better platforms. Doubling down. Aiming for 100k.

Great example of why I started sharing stuff online. Post often, show your work, build in public. Do that regularly, and good stuff will happen.