Built a $60K/year browser extension for developers in public for 2+ years (after failing for 3yrs). AmA!
UPDATE: AmA is live here!
👋 Who is the guest
Bio
Hello r/SaaS, I’m Erwin, founder of Tailscan (for Tailwind CSS)
I’ve launched Tailscan on the 14th of November 2022 and built it entirely in public, both on X and with articles on the blog. It also used to be an Open Startup (full financial metric transparency), but I stopped this earlier this year.
In 2019, long before Tailscan, I started building Sparkly (acq. 2021) and after that Basestyles. Both of these didn’t really go anywhere, though. So I’ve been learning/failing as a solo bootstrapping founder for quite a while at this point.
Besides the above, I have also hosted BootstrFM, live twitter space with founders (we only did 2 seasons / 12 episodes, it was hard to find guests), and sometimes build things on the side for fun, such as 4242.pro.
I’m also currently building Lexboost, which is a RAG for Dutch lawyers, trained on millions of documents. But I often keep more quiet about this one since legal stuff, and specifically dutch legal stuff isn’t very interesting for most people 😂
I’ll be around for at least 8 hours, but will edit the post when I’m off. I’ll check in a few more days to answer questions though, so don’t hesitate to ask 🙂
And if you want to read more of what I’m building and my spicy takes on how magic links are the worst auth option, you can follow me on X.
⚡ What you have to do
- Post your question below - you will get notified when the AmA starts
- Come back at the stated time + date above, for follow-up questions!
🎙️ Podcast
Check out this subreddit's podcast: The Usual SaaSpects, where I talk to people about SaaS, but also the broader topics: business, creating and ultimately... the broadest topic: life and what it means to live a good life.
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