I made $76,200 in July 2026. 🪶 FeatherFlow — $72.5k (best month ever!) 🔗 Effortless Backlinks — $2.3k (2nd best month ever!) 🎓 Instructor side gig — $1.1k 📦 BoilerplateHub — $234 (ads) July was INSANE. 🤯 Pure adrenaline, start to finish. My best month ever, by far. And I'm endlessly grateful for it. 4 years ago, entrepreneurship was just a dream, nothing I could grasp. 2 years ago, I left my job and I was scared. Today, I get to live that dream. 🙏 Full transparency: these are revenue numbers, not profit, not my salary. FeatherFlow is a (TALENTED!) team. And Effortless Backlinks is split 50/50 with my co-founder. A bunch of people here inspired me (@SimonHoiberg for example). I hope I can inspire others too. ❤️ Keep going!

Design engineering is a trap It's too easy to delegate the 'thinking' part of the job to the agent and ship whatever it suggests For a long time I've been 'designing in code' but now I'm actually designing in tools like Paper/Figma first and then going to code This is the way

Done!! I self-hosted Plausible on a Hetzner Server! $110/mo saved💰 ✅ And since I was already at it, I went ahead and moved the entire Webstie from Vercel to Hetzner Another $25/mo saved 💰✅ 135$/mo saved in total 💰✅

Damn.. @BoilerplateHub now gets 100k+ unique visitors a month, which means I'm paying $110+/mo just for analytics. 😅 Time to self-host Plausible! 🫣

I love SEO!

I was looking for SEO & marketing solutions. Yesterday, I saw @JanuBuilds’ post on my feed. It caught my attention, so I decided to check out his profile. Somehow, I was already following him 😂 I checked out Effortless Backlinks and thought I can do it by myself. Then I went cycling for a bit. I came back home and got dragged into an urgent work request + family stuff + other side quests My marketing skills suck, and I don’t have enough time as well. tldr; I submitted Starkomand to Effortless Backlinks! 🚀

Beautiful animation we created for a website project 🥰

Good morning 🫶 We made $1.3k+ in 20 minutes. Effortless Backlinks is slowly starting to pay off after months of very hard work!

Dope!

> if you're starting a business, code is the least important part. Well yeah. Try to finish the product then. Code quality is an artifact in the context for an agent. If you give it a shitty context it'll do shitty things. techdebt piles up fast and the agent is always happy to work around existing code, not modify it. "Use a linter, bro" - not working. It'll rip out your cyclomatic complexity into small functions and pile them up in a single file. It's painful to watch. You're coders, man. Get your shit together and steer the agent based on code changes you approve. 1. you'll understand your software better and know what change you need next (no weird spec bingo) 2. don't nit on every little code detail, roughly go through the code, let AI explain it to you for troubling parts 3. it's fast development - avoiding tech debt is smooth sailing with only one condition: read what the agent produces Don't sell me this "today you don't need to look at your code". If you want to rely on frontier models and want to be lazy then be my guest. Mediocre-complex software is not vibecode'able. Easy slop is.

Bought my 5-year-old son a PS5 today. He looked at me and said: "But Dad, in uncertain times like these, wouldn't it have been the financially smarter decision to put that money into a Claude Max subscription and some API credits?" 😭

I interview a lot of product designers, and with most of them I know right after the call that we won't be working together. Their portfolio always looks really nice and tasteful. But then I show them a real client project: mockups made by non-designers, menus that shouldn't exist, screens that don't connect. And I ask: what's your first step? Almost always the same answer. Open the Figma file. Research with ChatGPT. Map the navigation, group the screens into buckets, build the flows from there. That works for a website or a simple product. It falls apart when the product is complex and the client doesn't know what they want. If you start from their mockups, you inherit every bad decision they already made. You start from the essence: their workflows. How are they doing this today, without any tool? Map that out. The flows come from there. The screens come last.

If I hire you to do something and you don't ask me an almost annoyingly amount of questions, I won't trust you. Whether it's marketing, design, development, or anything else, take the time to really understand what the client wants before you start working on the task. You should understand the problem better than your client.

Recently, my posts haven't received many impressions. Even posts which usually do well. Seems to be a low phase. Sometimes it's like that. Same goes for everything else in life. Sometimes business is slow. Sometimes everything is down. And it can be frustrating. That's why it's important that you do stuff you really really love and enjoy regardless of whether things are going well. This way it will be was easier to keep going! Passion + Hope!

The most underrated follow in this space: @janubuilds Seriously, go follow them 👇

GOING BEYOND! That's what we live for at FeatherFlow. Anyone can ship a somewhat working product now. Sometimes in day or even hours. Spend a few weeks and it's even secure and tested with real users. But that is the bare minimum. We are after something bigger: the moment a founder opens the product and thinks "Wow, I didn't see that coming!!" The detail no user asked for but every user feels, the version we throw away because good is not enough. That takes senior people working on products. Small teams that stay on a product from first sketch to launch. It costs more time and more effort! And we pay that on purpose, because the products people still talk about years later were all built this way. A working product is the bare minimum. Going beyond is the job.

aaaand we're live on Youtube! have been documenting my journey as a solofounder journey in Singapore: projects, lifestyle, investor meetings, strategy, wins, failures... hope you'll enjoy it 🍿 piped.video/watch?v=sDxEkMn4…

Who remembers the Januverse? 🌌 :) Here's where it stands today: → FeatherFlow: averaging $44k/mo over the last three months (best month: $72.5k) → Effortless Backlinks: $4.7k/mo → BoilerplateHub: $400/mo I also have a few sites that don't make money yet: a social media statistics tool built on data I scrape and collect on auto-pilot, a tool for bsky, and a handful of directories. The plan is to grow them a bit, then monetize. More on those once there's something worth sharing. What I'm really excited about is a secret project I've been building. It launches in the next two months, and it will be an EXCITING expansion of the Januverse. 🥰 Any guesses?