STATUS: ACTIVE DAY 004 LAST UPDATE: 12 AUG 2026

SHIPPINGMODE

Building products in public. Every day gets logged, measured, and shipped.

SYSTEM

PRODUCTS LIVE 0 +0 THIS WEEK
TRAFFIC / 7D — NO DATA YET
DISTRIBUTION 2 X · YOUTUBE
REVENUE / MRR $0 DAY 001 BASELINE
EXPERIMENTS 1 STREAM CUTTER · IN REVIEW
DAYS SHIPPED 004 STREAK 004

TIMELINE

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  1. DAY 004 LATEST

    Stream Cutter review, ideas + Grok

    Reviewed the AI stream-editing tool built with Claude and asked the only question that matters: is it ready to ship? It works on my own streams — but the scene detection is not accurate enough, and I am not convinced it solves a broad enough problem.

    • Timeline assembly working: stream, screen share and camera, normalized audio, sound effects.
    • Scene detection via ChatGPT over the transcript — accurate enough for me, not for a product.
    • Used Grok to define criteria for a B2C app I could push on X and Reddit.
    • Looked at the Step Up fitness app; weighed the risks of browser automation, proxies and platform rules.
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  2. DAY 003

    Building Stream Cutter

    Started building Stream Cutter — a tool that turns my long streams into editable projects instead of me cutting everything by hand.

    • Pipeline laid out: FFmpeg for audio, whisper.cpp for transcription, merge, GPT to find the interesting monologues, FCP XML out to Final Cut Pro.
    • Handling three input recordings — audio, camera, screen share — with LLM-based camera switching as a later idea.
    • Checked competitors (rough-cut and social clip tools), Reddit feedback and pricing.
    • Demand test: talk to people who actually need this workflow. Claude is on the first version.
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  3. DAY 002

    How to catch ideas for your SaaS

    Ways to catch ideas for your SaaS apps — where they actually come from, and how to keep them once you spot one.

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  4. DAY 001

    The show starts

    Shipping Mode begins — a show for developers who want to become independent indie hackers and make money on their own projects and apps.

    • Focus on traffic acquisition and getting the first users and customers.
    • Significantly less time on the coding part.
    • Every day gets logged here: what shipped, what moved, what the numbers did.
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  5. ◆ START OF LOG · 09 AUG 2026