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Harvansh Chaudhary

How I Went From Blogger to Indie Maker (And Learned to Outsource My Brain to AI)

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I didn’t plan to become a maker. In 2022, I was just messing around with writing blogs to make my living. No budget, no team, just me trying to figure out WordPress while following random YouTube tutorials at 2 AM. My site looked like it was built during an earthquake. But hey, it worked (barely), and I was learning, from writing blogs to designing my own wordpress site.

A year later, Based on my learnings to design wordpress sites, I started freelancing - building websites for small business owners using whatever I knew. I also started selling readymade design templates for WordPress (generatepress & Elementor) via youtube. Nothing fancy, just trying to make things work. That’s when I started leaning hard into AI tools. ChatGPT, & Claude I wasn’t just using them, I was building with them. They became a second brain I could offload work to.

And honestly? That changed everything.

I went from overthinking every line of code to shipping full products. I built Unrealshot AI (selfies to CEO shots), Lexistock AI (photo editing related tools), and Saze AI (for spitting out general content writing).

I even started teaching others how to use AI through my YouTube channel, mostly for people who still think “prompting” is a typo.

And today, I'm launching something new: Threddr- a tool that helps you find your early users directly from Reddit. It reads posts, figures out who's looking for what you’ve built, and helps you write replies that actually sound human. All built using AI tools like v0, claude and CatGPT, obviously. 2 more products are on the way too, launching them in next week.

I didn't have a plan when I started. I just kept showing up, building stuff, and letting AI handle the things I wasn't good at (yet).

If you're thinking of building something, start scrappy.

You don't need to be an expert. You just need to ship by solving a problem of others.

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Rodrigo Soviero
So interesting thing… I just went through the whole sign up process. Super seamless and effortless. One of the best I’ve seen in a while, especially considering the amount of info that I had to enter, you handled that beautifully. The part where I had to choose the subreddits was also great. For context, I’ve been meaning to start exploring Reddit for a while. It’s been on my todo list. Only subreddit I could think of though was the obvious /r/entrepreneur so I was really happy with the get suggestions button. Even though I could only pick 2, I screenshotted the rest because they were so spot on. That was some straight value right there, because now I learned about all these new communities and it made me realize Reddit can be an even bigger opportunity than I thought. One nice thing to note is that I thought to myself “if this delivers I’ll happily upgrade”. It gave me a lot of confidence. The keyword suggestion was also very good. Made me feel like the AI understood my business well enough even though I gave it a lazy prompt. A lot of kudos for that. If I had to nitpick on something, it would be the word “problem” next to some keywords. I was lost for a second thinking there was something wrong, like an error or something. A few seconds in I got it. You could switch it for “pain” maybe? If that makes sense obviously, as I said it only had me confused for a few seconds. At the end I didn’t get any suggestions. Even though I clicked some buttons. I feel that maybe I got unlucky with my specific combinations of keywords + subreddits? But at the same time, I know right now as it’s late I’m on “exploring mode” so I’m aware that there’s the chance the maybe I just didn’t pay attention enough. It’s got me excited enough that i want to try again tomorrow, more focused. The one thing that could possibly get in the way of that is pretty much a messy day. So I’m thinking if I were to receive an email tomorrow inviting me to pick up where I left off, 10/10 I’m clicking it. Anyway, congratulations on your product. Amazing what you were able to achieve. If I didn’t know I’d never guess this is the work from a self taught solo founder. You should be proud. Wishing you all the best!
Harvansh Chaudhary

@rodrigo_soviero Rodrigo, this means a lot, especially coming from someone actually trying to explore Reddit seriously. You caught all the little things I was worried people might miss, and hearing that it clicked for you (subreddit suggestions, signup flow, etc) is a big win.

The "problem" label feedback is super helpful too, makes total sense now that you mentioned it. I’m already removing that whole keyword selection step to simplify the flow even more. So your timing is perfect.

And yeah, about not seeing any suggestions at the end, that's on me. Some combinations are still a bit dry, especially if intent signals are weak. But I’m pushing an update soon that should reduce those empty results. I’ll also add that “pick up where you left off” email idea, that's brilliant and super doable, on my to-do list.

Really appreciate you taking the time to share all this. Hope tomorrow’s try hits better. You’ve helped more than you know.

Rodrigo Soviero
@harvanshchaudhary I’m super glad I was able to help. Worth mentioning that I spoke entirely from the perspective of someone who sees clear value in your product! I’ll happily give it another go if you think there’s maybe a different set of options I can choose, or when you are done with the next iteration. Keep in touch!
Harvansh Chaudhary
@rodrigo_soviero I will let u know Tommorow when it's done, m already on it, and have done successful iterations, may be I will push the update tonight.
Harvansh Chaudhary
@rodrigo_soviero Hi Rodrigo, i have done a revamp for better user experience and a little less obstacles. Now u don't have to put keywords to find posts, I have implemented sentiment and intent analysis feature with an LLM, which will match each posts against your products offering & pain points u solve( u have to tell it in your product info form) and give u back the best matching selected posts. Also I added an 'AI Analysis' feature for each posts which will tell you why this post might be a fit for you to engage. if u need I can provide u one more free scan, if have used the one last time and didn't get the results. connect me on x.com/AINotSoSmart