#wins

• Got my second paid subscriber for oleno.ai :) | • Got verbal from two more who will activate after the holidays

Just announced the launch of oleno.ai publicly on LinkedIn - would love some likes/comments/reshares :slightly_smiling_face: https://www.linkedin.com/posts/danielghebert_im-excited-to-announce-the-launch-of-ole[…]m=member_desktop&rcm=ACoAAAeVrmYB3j-vgJFjxNj_gYF7dXYiZAF9x0c

This episode of Napkin Math is our 21st. 21 episodes was an important milestone for us, as that puts you in the top 1% of total episodes for a podcast. Hell, 90% don't even make it past 3 episodes. Ultimately it's just a vanity metric. What really matters is having a positive impact on our listeners, and the number of those listeners, but still nice to get past it. Onwards!

Think SubmitMatic worked

Plugged Cosy to the Client Ascension founder on Twitter (who just opened a Slack community for his members) and they actually signed up for a paid trial :saluting_face:

Listing approved for the HubSpot Marketplace! :tada:

Ending year with 3 active accounts on my SaaS. I reached out and one replied he picked us over the incombent in the market :muscle: Need to add payment at some point :sweat_smile:

:curry::trophy:

Soft-launched my 1st Chrome extension SubSnap!

Just got my 3rd customer for oleno.ai :slightly_smiling_face: - On track for my arbitrary goal of 10 customers by end of January.

I GOT A REPLY TO MY COLD OUTBOUND ON LINKEDIN :sob::sob::sob:

managed to snag $2500 in openAI credits!

Just bought 1kg @U0A019UHS9Z :muscle: Gonna enjoy at Ramen Space :face_with_cowboy_hat:

Got my first trackable referral from chatGPT yesterday on onleno.ai :raised_hands: | | Started coding the tool on October 11. Soft launch outreach on November 18. Submitted the site for indexing on November 21. First traceable chatGPT referral on Jan 6 (46 days from index). | | This is the start - it should compound from here. Major win for my little startup :slightly_smiling_face:

Jus got my first upgrade to Competitive Studio from an existing customer. Puts me at USD $367 MRR across 3 customers now :slightly_smiling_face: gotta start somehwere!

yay!

Got my first lead from Reddit! | | (using kwatch.io for keyword monitoring)

New ghostwriting client signed and two calls scheduled for this week :sunglasses:

Hosting an in-person event for @U06PVRUSPNJ in London and have 100+ RSVPs! https://luma.com/hrg64u6b

We are #3 on ProductHunt today so far :pog: only 2 votes away from #2

Keep grinding peeps

Win (I think) - mention in the *Economist*

• value prop done | • new tagline (stay tuned, I'm going to submit for feedback)

https://x.com/i/status/2013127278364954676

We are on Zapier baby after a total of 1.5 work day :partying_face:

Just got my 4th customer for oleno.ai - I have 4 more in onboarding right now, and two demos lined up with potential customers. | | Also had a chat with my technical coach yesterday (acting as a second-brain on CTO related stuff like architecture + scalability). He ran my code through CodeRabbit and everything looks good. He said the methodology I developed for Lovable is actually speeding up shipping and reducing errors, not creating bottlenecks. So far things look scalable, and we know where the potential issues will be (managing edge function concurrencies in Supabase) - but we won't hit those until there are several hundred users. | | Feeling pretty good about solopreneuring a B2B SaaS as a non-technical founder right now :slightly_smiling_face:

3 months post submitting @U06PVRUSPNJ to Slack's app directory, finally I've had some feedback (and it's all fairly minor/achievable). :pray: On the home straight.

Sikkk

one of my biggest and earliest customers turned off the auto-drafting feature a couple of weeks ago, i reached out and didnt get a response so i dreaded they were planning on leaving, but tonight I got this from them, yes! They were just testing out Front's native AI tool and found that Resolve247 was better! Lovely to hear it! :tada:

Continuing my Claude shenanigans… | | Been toying with a support bot (for internal use - don’t get mad at me @U051HSZHC00!) | | Had a customer who emailed in: | • Claude has a tone skill, based off analysis of all previous support chats | • It used that, then looked up previous conversations in the vector db to find how I’d replied before | • Claude used that answer and sent it | • Customer came back with a clarification of what they wanted | • Claude used the right MCP to go tweak some settings on their account in prod, then send an email explaining what had been done | • Customer was thrilled about how quick they were able to get unblocked, asked to leave a review | • Claude knew enough to look in it’s CLAUDE.md and drop a Senja link in it’s next response out

Launched https://contentboo.st v2 beta in stealth mode a few weeks ago. To validate I have been doing private demos and handling onboarding manually. Just landed my first client at $249 pm! MRR now at $636 :chart_with_upwards_trend:

Finally, I was able to talk money with my second early adopter. I have been delaying this talk since I was not clear about nocodo's value proposition (AI agents) and my experience. Thanks to push from @U06U6MWKF46 and another fellow founder, I messaged them and we agreed on $1100 for the AI agent based solution I am building for them (uses nocodo and the rest is built with coding agents). I know the price is nominal but I want to stick to a product pricing of about $1200/year per customer even if initially I have to do a lot of manual work.

just another average Saturday in ramen club, love it.

money

• Got Reddit scraping APIs working again w/ captcha solving | • Added task event logging so user can see what’s happening in realtime | • Added page for running tasks in the dashboard without code

I'm now first result for "SEO Edinburgh" - I've updated my page so hope to get more calls/conversions soon

After months of trying, @U06PVRUSPNJ is finally live in the Slack app marketplace! https://ramenclubhq.slack.com/marketplace/A06PULXG0H2-cosy :shipitparrot:

I've just launched a little app that uses the Gaffa API to simply convert any web page into markdown for pasting into an LLM. | It's a pretty simple use case but people seem to be landing on the Gaffa site through a blog post I wrote about html 2 markdown conversion so I thought I might as well make a tool and share the Gaffa code I used to built it: https://html2markdown.gaffa.dev/

Hola team, Senen won a Start-up pitch competition at an insurance conference in London. Any support for the LI post would be super appreciated (Link below). Thanks so much for any support :heart: | | https://www.linkedin.com/posts/joshua-frossell_itclondon-insurtech-senen-activity-742[…]m=member_desktop&rcm=ACoAABFJO2oBbnuW4orpjU9ZRAjcP49gpZ-fflI)

Hey friends, | | I’ve been working on this project for 3.5 years and I’m finally ready to talk about it. | | It’s called Hyperclay. | | It allows developers to develop portable applications with persistent storage inside a single HTML file. | | Why do people needs this? In the modern age it’s easier than ever to create software, but deploying it and securing it is still challenging. Hyperclay makes sharing rich applications as easy for developers as writing a Google Doc. | | Here’s the first launch email I’m planning to publish. I would love it if you gave it a read. And please sign up for early access if you want to receive more emails. | | Happy hacking, | David

Got my personal assistant all up and running (Moltbot) Honestly, this is a pivotal moment in 18 years of engineering for me. I've never felt such a seismic change in my work life, I highly recommend you all at least just observing what it is and what it could do for you.

Finally added unit tests to CV Engineer’s Android app. Only took 7 years :muscle::skin-tone-2:

Had a great message from someone who sponsored my High Signal newsletter! He's got 2 leads so far and he said it's the best marketing spend he's ever done :grinning:

I don't if it is a win or not but pinfox.io already has three (free customers) and 5 websites live on it. :relaxed:

Data Fetcher is beating Zapier for one of my most profitable keywords (`connect airtable to google sheets`) & no. 1 in the AI overview.

Launched my first open-source VS Code extension over the weekend. | | *Agent Worktree Trace* | See which files your AI agents are editing across parallel workspaces - and get warned before you create merge conflicts. | | Site: https://acyc.ai/tools/agent-worktree-trace/ | VSCode Marketplace: https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=Acycai.agent-worktree-trace | | Building trust for my upcoming *Parallel Agent Orchestration* tool launch :slightly_smiling_face: | | Anyone who's currently using agents in git branched worktrees, I would love some feedback!

As a non-technical founder, this is a big win for me :slightly_smiling_face: One step closer! | | https://x.com/naycooknelson/status/2019080613043573125?s=20

I shipped code to production for the first time ever!! https://x.com/helloitsolly/status/2019438069749797226

Napkin Math hit 1,000 YouTube views in just over a week! https://www.linkedin.com/posts/charlierward_on-28th-january-sabba-keynejad-i-uploaded[…]m=member_desktop&rcm=ACoAAAMKjMYBApMwRJkqk67YYcdGaFv0tYdvxjE

we have a listener group chat too! https://tally.so/r/wLy82j

OK, bit of a vanity implementation today (slash learning remotion potential). | | This is awesome (:nerd_face: ) had to share... | | Embedding Remotion Player (allowing interactive animations) is an INSANE next level for product demo's! | | https://acyc.ai/tools/agent-worktree-trace/ | _Click the src folder to collapse it live in the video/playback..._

Lovable launched certifications today - turns out I'm an L5: Diamond-level user (goes from L1-L5). In their 2025 wrapped, looks like I'm in their top 1% user for lines of code written + messages sent. | | Not bad for a non-technical founder, haha.

Just acquired a domain I've been after for 4 years :sunglasses:

Big love to the community :ramen: | | Couldn't have got here without the gang :pray: | | https://x.com/i/status/2020785753522049380

got listed in the chrome store https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/responsehub/cfddhnfcekcinoooepfpjifghmhaakma

Finally started open sourcing my skills repo, including self learning skills, semantic search skills and a stealth-browser skill to stop all those annoying 403 errors when Claude Code does a WebFetch. https://github.com/changeflowhq/skills `npx skills add changeflowhq/skills`

Biggest ever (audio) release window for https://napkinmath.fm

I know this is a very small win. But someone actually donated money to this week's project. After doing 16 projects in a row, I finally made money on one of these crazy projects. `$5.00`.

turns out claude code does a great job of sorting out mangled transaction reconiliations in Xero

Just signed my biggest new client of the year! (_so far_ :rain_money: _)_

Woop woop

I put my app on the live domain today! Not officially launched yet, but it feels so satisfying filling up the calendar already

4th result on american google 🫨

image & video models are finally able to retain product details! | | which is great news for me, as the beauty industry is the only e-commerce vertical I have experience with (L'Oréal, other smaller brands) :sweat_smile:

Crickets on my LinkedIn post for 12-16 hours, then it took off as soon as the people I tagged in it 'liked' the post | | https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7429280720524779520/?originTrackingId=VYGEpQdSj0mBj6w66OH0zA%3D%3D

Signed up three dental clinics to pilot the v1 of some patient intake software (name TBD it's so early) in exchange for actual real money, baby steps

I love building these little quality-of-life features

Got customer 5 last night :slightly_smiling_face: Early access going well so far. | | • 39 signups (before I shut down self-serve and put a ridiculous price on my pricing page) | • 5 customers | • USD $452 MRR | • 2 verbals from open deals (should add another $249 MRR, with one of them already agreed to expansion) | • 12 open deals in the pipe

I got the Tibbie MCP working, and can now tweet or schedule tweets directly with my agents. This will be soooo nice in combination with Claude Code marketing

I've been building a social media marketing skill with Claude Code (and using Remotion for visuals) over the last few weeks to help me crank out more content. | | I've been posting each day for the last couple of weeks on LinkedIn and one finally got some traction today :partying_face:

Officially launched AdApt this week! :rocket: | | It rewrites sponsor ad copy to match a newsletter's voice so readers don't skip it. Early results show ~50% improvement in sponsored content click rates. | | Been grinding on this one for a while, feels great to have it out in the wild. | | https://adapt.heynews.co

Tibo Maker is coming on Napkin Math :tada:

I know this is engineering heavy but this is a lot of work to create the ideal product I have been chasing: a fully local app that uses a lot of heuristic to extract the financial data (using reverse template) from emails or files. | | Think of the template in Python, PHP, Typescript, Ruby or any language that a Bank may have used to send you emails. It has the variables for your name, amount of transaction, date, etc. dwata finds the reverse of that - basically static text and variable placeholders by comparing emails. Then it uses LLM to translate the placeholders to variable names that we support (our data types for financial data extraction). | | My aim is to use small models so the entire processing is private and runs on your computer only. | | Here is a sample with Ministral 3 3B model - that is a TINY model. Still needs a lot of work, but this is extracting real financial data and bills from my emails, all locally! | | All sources: https://github.com/brainless/dwata (I will

5 days after announcing our OpenClaw event at Ramen Space: | | :todo_done: Hit our 100 person capacity (good crowd too, e.g. a DeepMind researcher) | :todo_done: Gained a sponsor | :todo_done: Featured by Luma on their London, AI & Tech pages | :todo_done: 10+ offers for demos

im starting to get inbound leads :sob:

After directory submissions and X posts, I knew something was wrong with my GA when it didn't show any visitor the past week. Tried debugging it multiple times, and finally installed Vercel analytics as well. Vercel confirmed i'm getting visitor!!! | | Now on to fixing GA.

Hi everyone! I officially just launched a new startup that helps founders to publish mobile apps to the App Store and Google Play. It handles the confusing bureaucratic steps after you vibe/ coded your app by providing personalised guide with AI automations thrown on top (of course). | | I’m actively looking to early users, so if you know anyone looking to publish mobile app, please DM (3 apps already published successfully). For now, I am offering help free of charge (I have 4+ years of app publishing exp), just looking for a quality feedback from fellow founders :) | | PS. Anyone who’s just curious, also welcome to book a demo | https://froxi.ai

It's been just over 24 hours. The post my buddy did on LinkedIn just went mini-viral (for him), and we've been seeing traction from all over now. Got 50+ on the waitlist and probably 100+ skills waiting to be published. | | https://www.linkedin.com/posts/julien-de-bats_agentpowers-the-premium-marketplace-for[…]m=member_desktop&rcm=ACoAAAAK4a8BWbatagHXmrtrYt4VdvjA-5XIZBM

I got round to organising a new meetup in Edinburgh! | | Anyone in tech e.g. founders, SEOs or devs are welcome to come! I've done a few of these before so planning on doing this on the first Wednesday of each month starting from next week. It means no clash with Indie Beers :grinning: https://luma.com/cd4n10y5

We thought we'd lost the video footage for our Tibo Maker interview - but after 48 hours of begging Riverside FM recovered it! :raised_hands:

Got 2 new customers yesterday, $149/mth each (early access). That probably wraps up early access users and pricing, I've been demoing full platform with up-to-date pricing for the last week. | | Customer no. 6 is a real ICP - VP Marketing at a 180 person Event Management SaaS. Full marketing team. He's the type of customer I'm targeting for the enterprise plan. He's starting at basic for 2 months to tune the content, then committed to bump to enterprise plan after. | | Customer no. 7 is an existing customer who's launching a new startup, so added a second subscription to get his content engine going. | | Had an excellent demo yesterday with a startup founder who would fit in my middle tier plan ($449/mth) - he had a consultant with him. The consultant emailed me after that he wants to use it for his consultancy website too, so might get 2 sales from one demo on that one. | | Things are trucking along for oleno.ai :slightly_smiling_face: | | • 7 customers | • $750 mrr | • About 11

1. Successfully negotiated a 3.50 discount on protein bars from the corner shop | 2. Passed my drivers test on Weds with no faults | 3. Welcomed an amazing little girl into the world | 4. Got my first organic signup to the new project

Started as a weekend project because I didn't like that Harvest was bought out by PE, but now I'm thinking this might actually be useful for a lot of freelancers once I get a bit more feature parity. Super stoked with this UX already.

2 weeks ago, a doctor suggested I need another surgery on my leg, as he thought it had stopped healing. I disagreed and thought he was being overly optimistic for where it should be by now. | | Today an expert he referred me to agreed with me - that it's actually in a good place considering the severity of the injury and it just needs more time to heal. | | Unnecessary surgery avoided! :leg::shipitparrot::hospital::woman-gesturing-no::skin-tone-2:

A user that first did a free trial 2.5 years ago has just signed up :dollar:, PMF in sight? :eyes:

Signed a new SEO client today. Had a coffee with him at 11 and a few hours later he'd paid :grinning:

It’s a start! Got three prospects out of this :rocket:

Used Claude Code to build a nifty free tool for my industry - nothing fancy but genuinely useful to some of my less technical users :-)

Used this free SEO tool and improved my rating. It was like 60% before. | | The progress was straight, go in to the sections that are bad (red) then download the pdf and feed the pdf directly to AI and have it fix it.

I crossed the 200k mark for page views across all my projects. My goal is to 10x that in the coming year.

Very small and fun win :slightly_smiling_face: - our SEO/GEO/AEO is starting to payoff for our tool https://www.firstusers.tech/ - John Rush added is cool SeoBot startup to our platform.

Rebuilt a 24m music database, nearly killed my macbook air running docker for a week. | | Not too sure what I’m gonna build it into but it’s fun already. | | https://app.dig.baby/

Took a bit of time, but here we are, first sale :) Officially at $99 MRR

Exciting news for Flocker! | :egg: :hatching_chick: :robot_face: | | I'm opening up *Early-Access* to the *Flocker Real-Time Dashboard* | _First features in early access are - Agent Observability, Remote Control + Notifications and Task Board (plenty more to come) - with focus on *Claude Code, OpenClaw and VSCode users*._ | | This is a closed early-access program with direct feedback channels - think of this as _beta access - but Rameners are my #1 focus_ :smile: | | I've applied a 50% - 2 month discount code (£12p/m) for Rameners who want to be involved. | | If you're still reading and genuinely interested in coming on the early Flocker journey - please register on the site and DM me here with your email address; I'll get in touch and give you an invite code and add you to a group-chat so you can get started! | | All feedback welcome! Particularly any bugs or errors on the site :pray: | | Thanks for reading! | Happy Friday | | _Edit: A brief note on the future - this first stag

More info and docs to come - I'll be giving a brief demo of how I use Flocker for remote agent management this coming Tuesdays Demo Day :slightly_smiling_face:

https://flocker.md/real-time-agent-dashboard

We just got a Jio (Indian telco) AirFiber Plus connection at our place. This is a directional antenna, using unlicensed band radio. Consistent latency but they are allowing speeds only up to 30 Mbps now. We already have Airtel AirFiber, based on 5G connectivity. We are going to get another directional antenna based connection from the local broadband provider. | | Overall we are very well connected now for our remote village. We have own power backup as well. Another step in building a work friendly, long-term place to stay :heart:

Added these for your pleasure

3,000 paying customers at Senja!!! :rocket::sparkles: | | Thanks to all my Ramen Club crew for their support! | | https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7436755833142657025/

got my automated keyword daily briefing up and running

A mini-win - someone who gets my No CS Degree newsletter has reached out about acquiring the site so we're having a call tomorrow. On the back of that, I've also messaged my email list to see if anyone else wants to take it over.

First 1k views on a YouTube video! (and 100+ subs) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UaCexu8mxaA&t=1s

Vibe coded a dedicated landing page for a job ad: | | https://jobs.senja.io/

First time publishing a npm package! Built an MCP for my startup

Hi all, just launched PythonStarter - my starter kit for Python devs on Product Hunt! :tada: | | Would really appreciate if you could give it an upvote! | | Here’s the link: https://www.producthunt.com/products/pythonstarter?launch=pythonstarter | | Thanks so much :pray:

First time (that i know of) I've been listed in a competitors listicle! (the backlink is wrong though.... :man-facepalming:)

I connected Google Analytics to Claude and got it to analyze my data, and it found signup conversion tracking (missed before)

My launch yesterday blew up. I got over 10,000 views to the project and a lot of messages and people using it. https://channelsurfer.tv/ | | Question is, should I explore making a paid app for this? 1. Consumers are sooo fickle. 2. Google is going such a pain about approving a competitor YouTube player, but there's clearly demand for alternatives. Should I double down and try to build an app?

Holy shit I just got picked up on the verge. | | https://www.theverge.com/tech/893598/this-is-immediately-my-new-favorite-way-to-watch-youtube#comments

I helped start a trend over the weekend :joy: https://www.citylondonnews.co.uk/news/20260312/92591/sadiq-goes-full-londonmaxxing-so-what-does-it-mean

Launched *Talent Search!* | Try and find yourself. | hire.aiapply.co

Wow, now a TechCrunch reporter is talking to me. :flushed:

https://techcrunch.com/2026/03/12/channel-surfer-watch-youtube-retro-cable-tv-guide/

This thing keeps going and going. I'm almost getting scared it's going to get shut down. :cold_sweat: Now it's #1 on Hacker News.

There's life in the old dog yet | | Conversion to paying:

Demo'd Gaffa to an audience of junior and student developers last night thanks to a partnership with Major League Hacking (https://mlh.io/) | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SMICXc-78a8

Just made $1,000 on my first sponsor for Channel Surfer! :raised_hands:

Got one of my apps (Glide) featured by Fast Company! https://www.fastcompany.com/91507499/4-macbook-neo-productivity-apps-you-need-to-try-right-now-magnet-glide-perplexity-soulver-3

new ghostwriting client signed up :moneybag: :grinning:

I randomly replied to an ecom AI guy, mentioning an AI tool I made to find ecommerce niches. Honestly just made it as a little toy for myself | | He asked to see a demo(!) so I recorded one :slightly_smiling_face: | | #serendipitymaxxing lol | | https://x.com/ChrisLloyd__/status/2033942085024260163

FINALLY after like three weeks of stupid hours putting *lowdown* out there. Beginnings of an automated topic briefing system, currently mainly using news sources; but behind the scenes I'm rapidly building it out into a gigantic data intelligence platform for first-party inferences, visualisations, insights etc. | | Already quite cool because you can browse the news stories by their causal chains - "what led to this?", "what happened after?" | | But does a whole load of stuff like identifying locations, auto geotagging for mapping, pulling out key metrics and stats etc.

finally got the full platform out for oleno.ai - have a press release going out next week. Early access users have given lots of great feedback, demos have shifted the product into a much bigger vision that tackles more expensive problems for B2B SaaS marketing teams. | | Got the video out today on the website + youtube + LinkedIn. Would love some comments/likes/reshares if you can :slightly_smiling_face: | | https://www.linkedin.com/posts/danielghebert_im-really-excited-to-show-this-been-work[…]m=member_desktop&rcm=ACoAAAeVrmYB3j-vgJFjxNj_gYF7dXYiZAF9x0c

Accepted for a conference talk! :airplane: to Berlin in September | | It's a design conf and I'll be talking about building your own design tools, so perfect as a focus given I want to double down on building for designers over the next 6 months.

The Napkin Math YouTube channel is blowing up. 3% of the way to our goal! https://www.youtube.com/@NapkinMathFM

Another ghostwriting client signed up :moneybag: This time from YC

1st citation and 3rd place on Google US for one of the industries most valuable search terms. SEO eventually starting to pay off :raised_hands:

Resigned the client for an additional month. Made 30% of last year's annual income just last month! :rain_money:

I've been generating quote images with Gemini and wanted to find the right model. So I asked Gemini and gave it context about how my app uses the images. It came back with a breakdown of models, pricing, and use cases. | | Then I mentioned I'm a solo founder watching costs it responded `Would you like me to show you how to set up a batch request to lock in a 50% discount?` | | Lesson: give your AI context about who you are and what you're optimizing for. It changes the answer.

A big beauty brand with 1M followers on Instagram wants me to send them some ads :smile: they already have an agency but it's half a foot in the door, lol

I have my first discovery call booked for Friday! :fire:

posthog.com is amazing! Free to try with a huge ceiling. I only use it for featuring flagging but it's been great