Moving back to Japan, flew to Dubai, built a new AI app

indie hacking full-time, Dubai, and my financial situation

Hey you!

Long time no see…!? This is Taishi :D

A lot has happened since the last issue.

Quit a full-time job and dive into an indie hacker world full-time.

I left my job in Vancouver in the middle of April.

The reasons are

• I want to get away from Canada

• I want to work on my own projects full time

This is the second time I've quit my job. With enough savings, I didn't have much to worry about, and I retired with a positive attitude.

Dubai

I was in Dubai from May 31 to June 5 to attend buildspace's N&W S3 IRL event.

It was extremely hot there!

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(credit: buildspace)

Most of the makers I know are kind of my Twitter buddies, so it was a great event to meet makers from all over the world in person at last!

Ok we saw you enjoying your life, but how’s your business?

I know 😁 As an indie hacker, I have to focus on my business (making money), otherwise, why did I quit my job?

Rn I am working on AutoThread AI, a tool to generate Twitter threads from YouTube links/mp3 files!

Writing a Twitter thread is a time-consuming process. So why don’t we let AI do it?

This idea was born during the IRL event in Dubai, thanks to @ser_ando and @Ishmeet_Singhh!

I launched it on Jun 13th.

I really enjoyed developing this product and was proud of solving a very specific problem.

These are a few metrics of AutoThread AI that are not yet available to the public.

So far

• 879 users signed up

• 130 users tried once at least

• 1 paying user

I finally got the first paying user :D

I am happy but not sure if I should be happy tbh.

1/879 * 100 = 0.1137656428 %

1/130 * 100 = 0.7692307692 %

Let me know your honest opinion 🙏

Life goes on

Farza, the founder of buildspace, once said we have to accept and observe the result logically, not emotionally.

Thus there is no need to feel sad, instead, what I need to do is

• why this idea is not working

• how can I make it work if possible

Mental health matters

I really didn’t care about mental health…until I became a full-time indie hacker lol.

Having more time alone has given me ample opportunities to reflect on myself and my life.

I've come to realize that working on my projects full-time brings me joy, but also comes with a lot amount of stress.

Moreover, I've noticed that my mind generates many negative emotions unnecessarily. In other words, I tend to be needlessly pessimistic about life.

While I am disappointed that my project didn't work out, I now understand that it doesn't mean the end of the world. I can always try again with new ideas.

Thanks for reading :)

I don't know if this happens only to me or if it tends to happen more often to indie hackers, but I seem to get depressed easily when I keep working on something alone.

If it happens to you, remember.

You are not alone.