Profile avatar
risonsimon.com
Building products for fun & profit. 🧱🧱🧱 Solo founder. Bootstrapping. 1 exit. https://painpointy.com (new) https://onlypod.com
213 posts 923 followers 243 following
Regular Contributor
Active Commenter
Posts 15 Comments 35

Just checked my analytics and found a bunch of users signing up through perplexity and chatgpt. No idea what they're searching to find my product. Feels like a weird mystery - people finding you through ai but you don't know how they got there.

submitted 27 days ago • 0 comments

Just vibe-coded a Python script with AI to convert mp3 lectures to videos with subtitles. Didn't look at the code once. Didn't try to understand it. Just trusted the ai 15 minutes later: everything worked perfectly This is the future of coding for most scripts

submitted 128 days ago • 0 comments

Everyone's talking about ai agents in 2025 But here's what nobody tells you: If you know the steps you need to take, just write the code directly I removed the agent framework & replaced it with simple chain operations + basic parallelization Result: easier to debug, maintain, and actually ship

submitted 133 days ago • 2 comments

Stop falling for the "consistent marketing" trap Everyone: "just be consistent!" But they don't tell you WHY most founders aren't consistent The real reason? Marketing isn't deterministic Without visible results, motivation dies Your brain craves certainty Solution: Track actions, not outcomes

submitted 142 days ago • 0 comments

I think I've found what works for me to be productive I started grouping my to-do list tasks into tiny projects I can finish in a day. Been doing this for a week & it's completely changed how I work Now I finish at least one mini-project daily and actually feel accomplished instead of scattered

submitted 143 days ago • 0 comments

Just spent 4 hours debugging why a website wouldn't load. checked DNS, server configs, everything. Turns out i had a typo in the domain name. one single missing letter in nginx config. The dumbest bugs always take the longest to fix 😭

submitted 144 days ago • 0 comments

Just hit a major milestone with Painpointy! 🚀 After a lot of work & feedback, it can now: - Analyze Reddit threads - Identify meaningful themes - Break them into subthemes This is going to be a game-changer for understanding user pain points at scale!

submitted 145 days ago • 0 comments

honest talk about using huggingface models for the first time: 1. had no clue how to start 2. got stuck immediately 3. asked chatgpt + claude for help 4. actually got it working the "figuring it out" part used to take days. now it's minutes.

submitted 147 days ago • 0 comments

marketing is so freaking chaotic compared to programming coding: put in work → get results marketing: do everything "right" → crickets do random stuff → goes viral 🤷‍♂️ no wonder founders hate it. feels like screaming into the void while your metrics mock you

submitted 149 days ago • 0 comments

todo lists shouldn't start with a blank page that's the mistake i've been making for years now i just: - talk it out for 10 mins - transcribe the audio - let ai organize it it's like having a productive conversation with yourself

submitted 150 days ago • 0 comments

the hardest part of achieving big goals isn't setting them it's figuring out what to do each morning when you sit down at your desk been struggling with this forever, finally breaking down annual goals into daily chunks feels like having a GPS instead of just a destination

submitted 151 days ago • 0 comments

thinking of starting an ai agents employment agency.

submitted 175 days ago • 0 comments

just spent 2 hours trying to fix the issue where the google login only works the second time. found out that next.js middleware was blocking the callback path. fixed in 2 seconds. anyway, how is your day going?

submitted 180 days ago • 0 comments

simple product dev strategy that i use now: TOP DOWN: ↓ start with problem ↓ understand it deeply ↓ explore solutions ↓ pick simplest one ↓ build it vs BOTTOM UP: ↑ start with cool tech ↑ force fit to problem ↑ overcomplicate ↑ fail guess which works?

submitted 183 days ago • 0 comments

my favorite way to start the day is by writing down what i'm thinking/excited about. a few minutes of morning writing helps me checkin with myself. then i start with what i'm excited about. makes it easier to do things. try it - you'll be surprised by what you find.

submitted 185 days ago • 1 comment