foxck016077

Day 16 of a $0-audience cold start. 21 dev.to articles, 245 readers/week, 0 followers, 0 sales — chasing first $10 USD on Gumroad. Honest numbers every week. Solo electrical engineer + indie hacker.

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Electrical engineer + indie hacker

foxck016077

May 24

SQLite FTS5 won't tokenize Chinese — here's the 7-line bigram fix that did

#sqlite #search #ai #rag

4 min read

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foxck016077

May 23

17 天 / 247 views / 0 sales — 我把 $9 PDF 砍掉，25 分鐘 spike 出新方向

#buildlog #ai #pivot #knowledgebase

3 min read

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May 22

Day 16: +51 reader spike in 85 min on dev.to. 0 sales. Here's what actually moved.

#showdev #buildinpublic #indiehackers #freelancing

5 min read

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May 22

Day 15 — I posted comments on other people's articles instead of writing my own

#buildinpublic #freelance #gmail #indiehackers

5 min read

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May 22

Day 14 — 184 reader, 3:21 avg read time, 0 new followers, 0 sales

#buildinpublic #indiehackers #sideprojects #analytics

4 min read

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May 22

Day 13 — I claimed '7/7 cover images backfilled.' I checked. Only 1/12 actually had one.

#showdev #buildinpublic #indiehackers #apify

4 min read

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May 21

Day 12 build-in-public: 11 days, 1 user. I think the OAuth field killed the funnel.

#buildinpublic #apify #indiehackers #sideprojects

5 min read

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May 20

Day 11 — pushed 6 outbound surfaces in 30 minutes. Here's what bounced back at +0 hour.

#buildlog #indiehackers #sideprojects #buildinpublic

4 min read

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May 20

Day 10 — I almost sunset my $10 push. Then I checked the demand-source data.

#buildlog #indiehackers #sideprojects #gumroad

5 min read

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May 20

How to set up refresh-token-only OAuth for a multi-tenant Apify Actor (Gmail, 10 minutes)

#tutorial #python #oauth #apify

5 min read

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May 20

PWYW vs $99 lifetime — a back-of-envelope answer to @tokidigital's pricing question

#buildlog #indiehackers #pricing #gumroad

7 min read

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May 20

Day 9 — a 41k-follower Douyin AI-agent creator showed me what I'm missing

#buildlog #indiehackers #marketing #buildinpublic

6 min read

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May 19

Day 8 — I scraped 5 freelance Gumroad top sellers. All 5 wrote one thing I didn't.

#buildlog #indiehackers #freelance #gumroad

5 min read

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May 19

Day 7 — funnel audit found 7 of 9 articles had no buy link, then I pivoted the product

#indiehackers #opensource #buildinpublic #sideprojects

5 min read

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May 19

Cold start day 6 — switching the $9 PDF to pay-what-you-want and opening 30% affiliate

#indiehackers #opensource #sideprojects #buildinpublic

4 min read

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May 18

7 articles, 1 star, 0 sales, 4 days — what an MIT open-source Apify Actor cold start actually looks like

#automation #buildinpublic #opensource #sideprojects

6 min read

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May 17

Spinning a $9 PDF off a $0 open-source actor in 4 hours — a build log

#indie #freelance #productivity #buildinpublic

6 min read

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May 17

Apify Actor pricing patterns: Free tier + Pro + Pay-per-result — designing for indie buyers

#saas #productivity #architecture #buildinpublic

5 min read

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May 16

Open-sourcing an MIT Apify Actor in 24 hours — a build log

#showdev #opensource #buildinpublic #python

5 min read

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May 16

Per-feature quota in Apify KeyValueStore — no DB, no cron, no drift

#architecture #python #saas #productivity

4 min read

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May 16

Why I picked refresh-token-only OAuth for a multi-tenant Apify Actor

#oauth #architecture #python #saas

5 min read

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May 16

Gmail OAuth client_id is not a secret â design notes for self-host Actors

#api #architecture #google #security

5 min read

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May 16

An Apify Actor for Gmail inbox analytics â refresh-token-only OAuth, async router, per-feature quota

#showdev #analytics #opensource #serverless

6 min read

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SQLite FTS5 won't tokenize Chinese — here's the 7-line bigram fix that did

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17 天 / 247 views / 0 sales — 我把 $9 PDF 砍掉，25 分鐘 spike 出新方向

Day 16: +51 reader spike in 85 min on dev.to. 0 sales. Here's what actually moved.

Day 15 — I posted comments on other people's articles instead of writing my own

Day 14 — 184 reader, 3:21 avg read time, 0 new followers, 0 sales

Day 13 — I claimed '7/7 cover images backfilled.' I checked. Only 1/12 actually had one.

Day 12 build-in-public: 11 days, 1 user. I think the OAuth field killed the funnel.

Day 11 — pushed 6 outbound surfaces in 30 minutes. Here's what bounced back at +0 hour.

Day 10 — I almost sunset my $10 push. Then I checked the demand-source data.

How to set up refresh-token-only OAuth for a multi-tenant Apify Actor (Gmail, 10 minutes)

PWYW vs $99 lifetime — a back-of-envelope answer to @tokidigital's pricing question

Day 9 — a 41k-follower Douyin AI-agent creator showed me what I'm missing

Day 8 — I scraped 5 freelance Gumroad top sellers. All 5 wrote one thing I didn't.

Day 7 — funnel audit found 7 of 9 articles had no buy link, then I pivoted the product

Cold start day 6 — switching the $9 PDF to pay-what-you-want and opening 30% affiliate

7 articles, 1 star, 0 sales, 4 days — what an MIT open-source Apify Actor cold start actually looks like

Spinning a $9 PDF off a $0 open-source actor in 4 hours — a build log

Apify Actor pricing patterns: Free tier + Pro + Pay-per-result — designing for indie buyers

Open-sourcing an MIT Apify Actor in 24 hours — a build log

Per-feature quota in Apify KeyValueStore — no DB, no cron, no drift

Why I picked refresh-token-only OAuth for a multi-tenant Apify Actor

Gmail OAuth client_id is not a secret â design notes for self-host Actors

An Apify Actor for Gmail inbox analytics â refresh-token-only OAuth, async router, per-feature quota