Oof. This was a tougher period. Life definitely caught up with me in the past couple months.

Traveling home during a catastrophic and record breaking storm in Portugal, house viewings and bidding, mortgage documents back and forth, baby daughter starts going to daycare (and getting sick all the time 😅), wife going back to work and me staying home twice a week, wars starting, gas prices go up, tenants from Portugal leaving. It has been a handful!

But on the bright side, gym routine is starting to pick up again, and we’re starting to see the light at the end of the tunnel. Plus daylight savings and WE’RE IN SUMMER TIME AGAIN. It’s good to finish your work day and still have a couple of hours of daylight to enjoy.

But worry not! The indiehacking journey still continued. Perhaps just not as loud.

Hackadam

Got together with a bunch of cool people working on their products in March. Super fun bunch and amazing results.

I ended up rushing the soft launch of snapmerch.co that day! Probably exactly the push I needed! (still wip though)

Genuinely looking forward to the April one!

GoFwd progress

Major Features

• Custom Domains — Cloudflare for SaaS, scoped routing
• Public REST API — API key auth, docs, demo video
• Stripe Billing / Pro Plan — subscriptions, usage limits, feature gating, upgrade UI, Pro badge

Content

• 5 new Blog posts
• Changelog page — with embedded X post thumbnails
• Public pricing page
• Programmatic SEO — QR menu business type pages (I think this is not working properly and need to double down on it)

The visits metrics are nothing crazy but starting to see the blogposts driving search engine traffic and in March it’s already the top source!

X

Since I slowed down my replying and stopped posting in communities cause I was just fed up with it, my X follower count completely stalled.

The big irony: that post itself kind of exploded. But new followers stopped coming after that. The reason might actually be that I haven’t been posting much interesting or useful stuff due to being busy. Mostly been quoting other people to keep posting consistency. This clearly is not the best strategy for growth.

Coming soon

I’m going to play around with creating a game as part of the #vibejam 2026. And I really want to start video. Just need to manage to get some more sleep first, but stay tuned.

See you in the next one.