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Ig LLM's atoms are in data centers somewhere.

I own about 20 and 10 of them are live with projects that I built.

For an app to turn into a sustainable and real business many factors come into play. I'm still pondering upon them myself.

As a founder what did you do differently this time with your new app that increases your odds of making it a success? Did you validate your idea before building or it was just your assumption that people would buy it? How painful or valuable the problem is that you are solving with your app? Is there a demand for your app or are you trying to create a demand too? Are you solving around just a convinience or a painful problem for people to care enough?

About app distribution, are you just hoping and leaving it to luck or you have a plan (even on a budget) to get some eye balls on the app? Many questions to pause and reflect about.

Did you write code before? Or was it heads first straight with Claude Code? Do you recommend non-coders this approach to build something of their own?

I know of a social org which runs of entirely on its people's face to face interaction. And, these folks have consulted recently with me about how they can adopt tech to facilitate their ops. I can sit with a LLM and build a platform for them, but idk it will cover the entirety of their day to day nuances.

You can't just throw resources at a road with muddy puddles everywhere and let a autonomous vehicle figure it out all by itself.

A perfect predictable problem is solvable with large resources, but the minute you touch something human, you need a equivalent human judgement to give it the sought after direction.

I have a side project running since last 12+ years. It has about 3k users. The community built around the app makes me happy. I have probably made $120 from it in those years. Money was never how I measured its success.

Thanks, I will get in touch.

How do you securely expose your local services through Tailscale or Cloudflare Tunnel? For eg. Is it possible to expose just web server instance on port 80 and nothing else? Even better if possible to just expose one web service. Also, is it possible to ensure no other local devices are accesible from public?

Yes, indeed. I learned to play this board game from my father when I was about 8 yrs old.

I maintain an online playable version of a antique board game called Baghchal [1] which has origin stories about being native to Nepal since 3000 years. I actually launched this website on HN a decade ago.

1. www.baghchal.net

I'd like to self-host personal projects as well but haven't been able to figure out way to do it behind NAT and also on a budget hardware. Is there a way to get in touch with you and get some ideas?

I was at awe when I ran MARIO.BAS on QBasic back in 1998. Probably I got the code from a QB forum. It kept me glued to screen for weeks.