Tagged with: #indie dev

Applied on March 30th, was told it'd take 3 days. Ended up waiting nearly two weeks. Here's my experience with the TikTok mini-game developer verification process.

Compound interest isn't just a financial concept. How you spend your days determines whether you're on a linear or exponential growth path. Do more things that compound, fewer things that don't.

Exchange rate advantage, less competition, a bigger market, and AI flattening the language barrier — for ordinary people in China, making money overseas with AI tools might be the highest-ROI move right now.

Saw a guy on Reddit who built a simple time tracker now earning $20-30/day in passive income. No ads, no big idea, just shipped. It made me rethink something: in the AI era, the far end of the long tail has become mineable for the first time.

If the essence of human technology is boiling water and throwing rocks, then the essence of business is having goods and knowing how to shout. From street markets to the internet, the medium changes but the logic stays the same.

In the AI era, building products is easier than ever. But the story of an indie developer who quit his job and earned less than $1,000 in a year reveals the real challenge isn't development—it's distribution.