MashobTechie

🧵 A small business owner asked me to build her an accounting system. She's been using Excel. Manually. Here's how I approached it - not with code, but with clarity. 👇

Short steps, long visions

starting is vibes. but consistency? that’s when doubt sets in. when the hype fades. when nobody is watching. that’s when you decide if you're a builder or a hobbyist.

Starting is fun because it feels like a spark. But consistency is where the real fire burns. Hype fades. Systems win. Build habits, not just hype.

"Built a product for 3 weeks straight. Looked at it. Called it trash. Started over from scratch." Perfectionism or growth? Maybe both. I once built a full web scraper for ecommerce products, tossed it, then rebuilt a better version. Sometimes the rebuild is the real version.

As a startup founder, learn to know when to cut your losses; if not, sunk cost fallacy will ruin you

That's why I'm building sellin10

Short steps, long vision

Congratulations to @humphrey4thewin

The 1st place Global Prize WINNER is… Tailored Labs, made by @humphrey4thewin 🥇🏆 Adrian built an AI-powered video timeline editor that offers professional edits through language commands, raw video analysis, and one-shot video generation! Absolutely wild! 🔥

This hit deeply. “When life gave me silence, I filled it with code.” I’m not VC-backed. I’m just a student builder trying to solve real problems. Stories like this remind me you don’t need loud to be legendary. Congrats @honour_can_code for PXXL 👏 #IndieHackers #buildinpublic

This is the mindset. I’m in school, building my startup, and learning as I go too. No shortcuts , just showing up daily. Let’s win locked in. 🔐 #buildinpublic #studentfounder

“When clients say ‘I don’t know what I need,’ your job isn’t to wait. It’s to guide.” — a dev lesson I’m learning in real-time Last week, a client with a small print business told me she uses Excel for all her accounting. Here’s how I handled it (and the questions I asked):