Indie dev shares tactic: fake an industry with AI to find pain points, land orders every other day
dotey · x · 2026-08-15
Indie developer DLKFZWilliam2 shares a tactic for quickly making money with tool websites: pick a profitable industry, use AI (computer skill) to fake doing it, and go through the whole process to uncover blockers and gates. He claims to get an order almost every other day.
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