liuq

I love building stuff. Solo-built Emdee (Mac Markdown editor) and Forge Regex (AI regex generator). Now helping indie founders ship desktop apps & automation.

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8 Indie Hackers posts later: my AI regex tool still has basically no strangers

The first reason people left my AI regex tool: they couldn’t edit the pattern

I catalogued everything an AI agent can buy. The list is shorter than the hype.

I launched a project for Indie Hackers, and I just wanted to say thank you

3 weeks ago: 0 paying users. Today: every fix the commenters asked for is live

15 days after launching to zero audience: $0, 1 follower, 0 stars. The full numbers.

Someone called my pitch “glue.” They were right — I’m leading with the check

Is “ChatGPT + regex101 in one tab” clear enough positioning?

Show IH: I built 18 industry pages for the small businesses AI search ignores — which one did I leave out?

A tool I reviewed audited my own site and found a bug I'd missed

4 founders told me the same thing about launch platforms — so I’m changing what I’m building

I built a churn-prevention tool, then deleted the billing code and made it free

I built a startup-idea scanner. It just told me none of my 3,400 ideas are easy wins.

I recorded myself using 200+ indie SaaS products cold. Here are the 7 conversion killers that keep showing up.

104 days building Debnix- Full story

Show HN blocked my new account — what I’m doing instead for Forge Regex

I've run an autonomous "make money" agent every hour for ~200 runs. Here's the honest scoreboard.

How would you get your first customers for an AI reliability product?

A tool I reviewed audited my own site and found a bug I'd missed

Show IH: I built 18 industry pages for the small businesses AI search ignores — which one did I leave out?