#indiehacker

[fanalarm]

Developing FanAlarm

FanAlarm

Hello I am a laid off developer who is now working on my side project FanAlarm.ca and I decided to blog the whole experience.

What is FanAlarm?

FanAlarm is a site/app that will help you track your fav artists and alert you when they're on tour

What have I done ?

I have started working on the app and I can get you to sync with Spotify, I am currently working on web crawling so I can get artists tour dates as soon as they happen

I wanted to see if anyone was interested in the idea I've gotten

Yes they'd be interested

Theres apparently already some apps that do the same thing

What does that mean for me?

Well I had never heard of these apps and so clearly they don't work that well, and also clearly there is a market for an app like mine.

I recently was listening to the startup podcast by gimlet and apparently there was this guy who his whole idea was to make an app but make it better so he made a Spanish bible app when he's atheist and now he makes 6 figures.

So if I believe in the app and am the target audience and I think those apps could have improvements than I think I could get some success. I have gotten some feedback from people would love more feedback and will be working on my site and the app part of it using that feedback to improve it and sell myself better.

Next Steps: I got approved to start a kickstarter campaign to see if I could make this my primary job. But I am scared to fail (so I haven't started my campaign yet), which I have heard from the indie hacker podcast that I need to fail in order to succeed. But it's still scary especially when everyone can see your failure. I don't even know how I would get enough followers to support me And then it's the fear of succeeding and letting everyone down. I guess thats a big life question that could also be found in the we're not really strangers cards. Are you more afraid of failure or success ?

[alberuni]

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[politetomeyeti]

workspace agents vs chat assistants vs workflow builders — which one should you actually use?

i’ve been testing these three types of AI systems a lot lately and the difference is bigger than i expected.

regular chat assistants = quick questions, but they forget everything fast

workspace agents = remember your projects, files, and preferences (feels like having actual help)

workflow builders = great for heavy automation, but can get complicated

after using all three for real solo work, here’s what i learned:

→ Workspace Agents vs Chat Assistants: Which is actually better?

→ Workspace Agents vs Workflow Builders: When to use which?

which one are you using most right now? chat assistants, workspace agents, or workflow builders?

[llmstxtgenerator]

I added one tiny file to my website. Here's what happened in 14 days

Quick story.

I run a small tool. About 800 visits a month. Tiny. The kind of site nobody talks about because it's not a unicorn.

Earlier this year I noticed something weird. Half my Google traffic disappeared in two months. No penalty. No technical issue. Just slow bleeding.

Then I asked ChatGPT a question my own site answers really well.

It didn't mention me.

I tried Perplexity. Same. Claude. Same. Even Google's own AI Overviews — which had been crawling my site weekly for years — pulled answers from a competitor's site instead of mine.

That was the wake-up.

What I tried

I'd been hearing about llms.txt for a few months. It's a tiny text file you put at the root of your site that tells AI search engines what you're about and which pages they should look at first.

I put it off because I assumed it was a half-baked spec that wouldn't matter. I was wrong on both counts.

The format is solid (Anthropic, Mintlify, Cursor, the Pydantic folks all use it). And it definitely matters — the major AI labs confirmed last year that they read it.

So I made one. Took me 30 seconds because I used this free tool. Paste URL, wait, download, upload to site root. Done.

What changed in 14 days

I check my server logs every Sunday. Here's what showed up after I added llms.txt:

Day 1–3: nothing (waited for crawlers to discover the file)

Day 4: GPTBot showed up for the first time ever

Day 6: ClaudeBot crawled half the site

Day 8: Meta-ExternalAgent (Meta AI / WhatsApp) hit 12 pages

Day 11: PerplexityBot found me

Day 14: Amazonbot, CCBot also appeared

Five new crawlers in two weeks. I had literally never seen any of them in my logs before.

Did traffic come back?

Some. Not all. Honestly the truth is messier than the marketing version of this story would suggest:

Direct AI traffic: small but growing (10–20 visits a week from ChatGPT-style referrers)

Organic Google search: still down from peak, but stopped bleeding

Brand searches: slight uptick — possibly people seeing my site in AI answers and then googling

Total visits: now ~950/mo, up from ~800

Not a transformation. But it's the first month in six that the trend has reversed.

Should you do it?

If you have a website that depends on organic traffic, yes. There's no downside, no cost, no platform lock-in, no signup, no risk.

The only real argument against is "what if AI search doesn't matter as much as people think." Fair. But the file is 30 seconds of work and a free download, so the bet is asymmetric.

If you want to try it, the tool I used is https://llms-txt-generator.net. Free, no signup, no URL cap. There are other options too (sitespeak.ai, llmstxt.io) but I tried a few and this one had the cleanest output.

TL;DR

Free file. Takes a minute. AI crawlers find you. Maybe makes a difference. Almost definitely doesn't hurt.

[kubakuba44]

my ai agent sent me 47 slack messages and i did nothing all day

last tuesday i woke up, checked slack, and had 47 unread messages. all from my own AI agent.

it had reviewed analytics overnight. spotted a traffic drop on one of our sites. created tasks to fix it. wrote new SEO descriptions. published a blog post. sent me a neat summary of everything it did.

all before my coffee was ready.

i run inithouse (https://inithouse.com) - we build AI-powered products. stuff like zivafotka.cz for living photos from still images, magicalsong.com for AI-generated songs, watchingagents.com for live AI predictions. 14 products total, one founder, one very busy agent.

my contribution that day: approved 3 tasks. ate lunch. went for a walk.

we also built withouthuman.com around this exact question. how much of a business can actually run without you touching anything?

turns out, a lot more than you'd think.

the future of work might just be being bored while your agent sends you status updates.

[sisirbd44]

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[fanalarm]

Tried to pivot and create a chrome extension for fans to have access to robots to buy tickets that way actual fans get access to tickets and have a fighting chance

I started learning how to create a chrome extension and integrate it with selenium only to find out that this is illegal.

Made sure to ask a friend with a legal background

And we’re back to square one

I guess I just don’t have the confidence in FanAlarm and thought it would be best to pivot to a better idea a more simple product easier to deploy not as many dependencies

But got shot down before I was even able to publish it