Pierre

Hi, I'm Pierre! From 🇧🇪, live + 🏄 in 🇹🇼 I love building small tools that kill tedious, repetitive work, the stuff we all hate doing by hand. Objective: my first $ online from useful products. Started this for my own accountability, but follow along to see the story unfold 🤙

Another interesting morning 1 user found the app through discord played the demo multiple times signed up and played 10 runs (daily limit on free tier) went to upsell checkout page few times created a separate account and did one more run Is this good news? #buildinpublic

I never did any content on IG/TT, but since I started making small posts about flappytone.com, I start to see how this can be a powerful marketing channel 1 post > 168 views > 1 visitor > 1 signup I'm gonna do more posts and logically it will compound #buildinpublic

Stumbled on Solos pod (@martindonadieu) and enjoying the low-key vibe yet insightful convo's I feel late to indiemaking with everything AI has changed, but I think the core of building solo is still there + two 🇫🇷 speakers speaking in English is 👌 (am French speaking from 🇧🇪)

Recently got a new user that has been using the app quite a lot, like every functionality. I'd love to reach out to them to ask them about their experience, but they didn't opt-in for marketing emails when signing up How does one talk to users in that case? #BuildInPublic

Sometimes I wonder if what I built is really helping people improve their tones Then I get an email from a user. He wants a more difficult setting in the tone-training app His tones improved so much that it became too easy for him I got my answer #learnchinese #buildinpublic

Sometimes I wish I got into all of this solo development thing earlier. I’m still learning everyday and now I’m at the stage where I can analyse user behaviour and adjust the product based on that. It’s nice to not just be building in the dark anymore. #buildinpublic

Updated flappytone.com's landing page and gating structure. Users can now play a demo right inside the landing page. Got rid of the 'guest' tier. At the end of the demo run, they can choose the sign up if they want to play more and improve their tones. #buildinpublic

Another productive typhoon day! I made a Tinder for Mandarin tones There really are infinite ways to make learning tones more fun! #learnmandarin #buildinpublic

Meet Toney Tony tries to order dumplings, but he failed.. ..until he started using flappytone.com This is quite fun to make #buildinpublic #learnchinese #learnmandarin #mandarintones

Gotta switch it up sometimes and look at real birds instead of the Flappytone.com bird #buildinpublic #learnmandarin #birding

Here we go, that was a fun train ride, made a demo video for Flappytone.com #buildinpublic #learnmandarin

Shipping from the train makes me so focussed Wonder how much I’d get done if I just stayed in the train and went all around Taiwan #buildinpublic #taiwan

Flappytone will soon have themes (finally) Claude design and Opus 5.5 were crazy on this, all 1-shotted results.. It looks way more like an actual game now! A game that improves your tones ¯ ˊ ˇ ˋ #buildinpublic #learnmandarin

The bible arrived

Damn I think getting this kind of feedback from users feels even better than that first ever sale. Hearing FlappyTone actually being useful to people in their Mandarin Learning Journey is super motivating! #buildinpublic #MandarinLearning

Spends 2 days doing backend architecture stuff. 1000s of lines of code. On the front end, nothing different though. So I just added some Pro badges next to users that got the early bird access, at least a small update the users can see #buildinpublic

Completely over-engineering FlappyTone. Love it. I want to make it super easy later on to add more clips. Pipeline: native speaker clip recording process clip clip gets converted into a gate following that clips specific pitch line -> boom it's in the game #buildinpublic

It happened My first ever sale. Everything’s possible Where your focus goes, energy flows Now time to go and make FlappyTone provide as much value as possible #buildinpublic

5.30-6.45am : go outside, breakfast, coffee 6.45-8.30am: deep work FlappyTone 8.30-9.00am: HIIT workout 9-12am: regular remote job 12-1pm: lunch 1-5pm: regular remote job 5-9pm: eat, walk, wind down 🔁

Got my first actual signup on FlappyTone, someone joined the leaderboard! 🙏 Small wins They didn't beat my highscore yet though 😈 #buildinpublic #learnmandarin