Sam Flakes
@samflakes.bsky.social
Product designer obsessed with learning and building 🔨
⚽️ numbersgame.uk $9K/m (down from $30k lol)
👨💻 gropius.co $0K/m
👨🎨 cormorantstudios.co.uk $1K/m
⚽️ numbersgame.uk $9K/m (down from $30k lol)
👨💻 gropius.co $0K/m
👨🎨 cormorantstudios.co.uk $1K/m
It's product hunt day for me! Would mean the world if any of you wonderful humans would be kind enough to give me an upvote 🥳
Check out the site while you're at it. If you have a support Gmail inbox and an online business, you'll LOVE it.
#buildinpublic
www.producthunt.com/products/gro...
Check out the site while you're at it. If you have a support Gmail inbox and an online business, you'll LOVE it.
#buildinpublic
www.producthunt.com/products/gro...
Gropius: AI email assistant that sounds exactly like you | Product Hunt
Stop drowning in customer support emails. Gropius learns your writing style from past emails and automatically responds in your voice. Connect Gmail, input your FAQS, save hours every week. This is no...
www.producthunt.com
December 17, 2025 at 8:17 AM
It's product hunt day for me! Would mean the world if any of you wonderful humans would be kind enough to give me an upvote 🥳
Check out the site while you're at it. If you have a support Gmail inbox and an online business, you'll LOVE it.
#buildinpublic
www.producthunt.com/products/gro...
Check out the site while you're at it. If you have a support Gmail inbox and an online business, you'll LOVE it.
#buildinpublic
www.producthunt.com/products/gro...
Google verification day for gropius.co yesterday.
Not done Product Hunt and the rounds yet but posted on Instagram etc.
Stats:
36 website visits
0 sign ups
Now for the hard part… 🤣
#buildinpublic
Not done Product Hunt and the rounds yet but posted on Instagram etc.
Stats:
36 website visits
0 sign ups
Now for the hard part… 🤣
#buildinpublic
Gropius
Gropius.co
December 16, 2025 at 7:28 PM
Google verification day for gropius.co yesterday.
Not done Product Hunt and the rounds yet but posted on Instagram etc.
Stats:
36 website visits
0 sign ups
Now for the hard part… 🤣
#buildinpublic
Not done Product Hunt and the rounds yet but posted on Instagram etc.
Stats:
36 website visits
0 sign ups
Now for the hard part… 🤣
#buildinpublic
The coolest thing about online businesses is that on day 1 you can have people all over the world using your product
#buildinpublic
#buildinpublic
December 15, 2025 at 7:53 PM
The coolest thing about online businesses is that on day 1 you can have people all over the world using your product
#buildinpublic
#buildinpublic
My co-founder: “surely there’s an AI that’ll respond to our emails”
Me, 4 weeks later: “I built an AI that responds in my exact tone and writing style and it’s scarily good”
Check it out here:
gropius.co
#buildinpublic #indiehackers #microsaas
Me, 4 weeks later: “I built an AI that responds in my exact tone and writing style and it’s scarily good”
Check it out here:
gropius.co
#buildinpublic #indiehackers #microsaas
December 15, 2025 at 6:15 PM
My co-founder: “surely there’s an AI that’ll respond to our emails”
Me, 4 weeks later: “I built an AI that responds in my exact tone and writing style and it’s scarily good”
Check it out here:
gropius.co
#buildinpublic #indiehackers #microsaas
Me, 4 weeks later: “I built an AI that responds in my exact tone and writing style and it’s scarily good”
Check it out here:
gropius.co
#buildinpublic #indiehackers #microsaas
In the near-AGI age, leverage will take many different forms. One of the main ones being: actually having an attention span
#buildinpublic #indiehackers
#buildinpublic #indiehackers
December 13, 2025 at 8:05 PM
In the near-AGI age, leverage will take many different forms. One of the main ones being: actually having an attention span
#buildinpublic #indiehackers
#buildinpublic #indiehackers
Momentum is absolutely everything in life
December 12, 2025 at 10:38 AM
Momentum is absolutely everything in life
Life of an #indiehacker
Morning: SAQ submission for CASA security assessment, balls deep in AWS config
Afternoon: set design for YouTube launch video 😂
#buildinpublic
Morning: SAQ submission for CASA security assessment, balls deep in AWS config
Afternoon: set design for YouTube launch video 😂
#buildinpublic
December 9, 2025 at 11:52 AM
Life of an #indiehacker
Morning: SAQ submission for CASA security assessment, balls deep in AWS config
Afternoon: set design for YouTube launch video 😂
#buildinpublic
Morning: SAQ submission for CASA security assessment, balls deep in AWS config
Afternoon: set design for YouTube launch video 😂
#buildinpublic
December 6, 2025 at 12:42 PM
After 3 weeks of non-stop building, time to wrestle back control of my own brain. Time to meditate, read, walk, be present 🧘♂️
#buildinpublic
#buildinpublic
December 6, 2025 at 12:35 PM
After 3 weeks of non-stop building, time to wrestle back control of my own brain. Time to meditate, read, walk, be present 🧘♂️
#buildinpublic
#buildinpublic
I wash my hands before using my computer / phone on day 1 🤣
new computer day 1: carefully arranging folders on desktop, only downloading programs I use
day 30: hitting ‘Open Anyways’ on security warning for Dune2_Mp4.exe
day 30: hitting ‘Open Anyways’ on security warning for Dune2_Mp4.exe
December 6, 2025 at 9:00 AM
I wash my hands before using my computer / phone on day 1 🤣
Day 21 of building a micro SaaS. Costs:
Branding £0
Video editing £0
Frontend build £0
Backend build £0
Domain £13
Custom email £7
Google verification £390 😭
#buildinpublic #indiehackers
Branding £0
Video editing £0
Frontend build £0
Backend build £0
Domain £13
Custom email £7
Google verification £390 😭
#buildinpublic #indiehackers
December 5, 2025 at 4:32 PM
Day 21 of building a micro SaaS. Costs:
Branding £0
Video editing £0
Frontend build £0
Backend build £0
Domain £13
Custom email £7
Google verification £390 😭
#buildinpublic #indiehackers
Branding £0
Video editing £0
Frontend build £0
Backend build £0
Domain £13
Custom email £7
Google verification £390 😭
#buildinpublic #indiehackers
I built gropius.co in exactly 3 weeks. It’s fully functional but still classing it as Beta because I’m awaiting Google verification.
Feel free to test it out (there’s a 3 day free trial), but you’ll have to proceed with the ‘Advanced’ option when it comes to authorising Gmail
#buildinpublic
Feel free to test it out (there’s a 3 day free trial), but you’ll have to proceed with the ‘Advanced’ option when it comes to authorising Gmail
#buildinpublic
Gropius
Gropius.co
December 5, 2025 at 9:55 AM
I built gropius.co in exactly 3 weeks. It’s fully functional but still classing it as Beta because I’m awaiting Google verification.
Feel free to test it out (there’s a 3 day free trial), but you’ll have to proceed with the ‘Advanced’ option when it comes to authorising Gmail
#buildinpublic
Feel free to test it out (there’s a 3 day free trial), but you’ll have to proceed with the ‘Advanced’ option when it comes to authorising Gmail
#buildinpublic
Requirements for my fridge:
- Keep stuff cold
End
- Keep stuff cold
End
December 4, 2025 at 9:46 AM
Requirements for my fridge:
- Keep stuff cold
End
- Keep stuff cold
End
Once again I am removing scope to force through Google verification for my app. Ship fast, die young LFG
#buildinpublic
#buildinpublic
December 4, 2025 at 9:01 AM
Once again I am removing scope to force through Google verification for my app. Ship fast, die young LFG
#buildinpublic
#buildinpublic
Trying to get my app Google-verification (for Gmail API) and my privacy policy keeps getting pinged for Casa Assessment. Anyone have any experience with this? I’m avoiding gmail.modify as it is
#buildinpublic #indiehackers
#buildinpublic #indiehackers
December 2, 2025 at 5:40 PM
Trying to get my app Google-verification (for Gmail API) and my privacy policy keeps getting pinged for Casa Assessment. Anyone have any experience with this? I’m avoiding gmail.modify as it is
#buildinpublic #indiehackers
#buildinpublic #indiehackers
Day 9 of building gropius.co and my screen was so filthy it looked like stars on the landing page…and it went kind of hard, so I added them
November 23, 2025 at 8:48 AM
Day 9 of building gropius.co and my screen was so filthy it looked like stars on the landing page…and it went kind of hard, so I added them
November 22, 2025 at 12:18 PM
“Hasn’t someone already made that”
Why is this only a thing with building apps?
Imagine saying that to the founders of BYD, Dell or your local corner shop when they were in the ideas stage 😅
#buildinpublic
Why is this only a thing with building apps?
Imagine saying that to the founders of BYD, Dell or your local corner shop when they were in the ideas stage 😅
#buildinpublic
November 20, 2025 at 7:13 PM
“Hasn’t someone already made that”
Why is this only a thing with building apps?
Imagine saying that to the founders of BYD, Dell or your local corner shop when they were in the ideas stage 😅
#buildinpublic
Why is this only a thing with building apps?
Imagine saying that to the founders of BYD, Dell or your local corner shop when they were in the ideas stage 😅
#buildinpublic
The only two items I need to build a business from scratch 🛠️
(Okay, maybe I could do it without the Speed Editor but it helps...A LOT 🤣)
#buildinpublic #indiehacker
(Okay, maybe I could do it without the Speed Editor but it helps...A LOT 🤣)
#buildinpublic #indiehacker
November 19, 2025 at 8:16 AM
The only two items I need to build a business from scratch 🛠️
(Okay, maybe I could do it without the Speed Editor but it helps...A LOT 🤣)
#buildinpublic #indiehacker
(Okay, maybe I could do it without the Speed Editor but it helps...A LOT 🤣)
#buildinpublic #indiehacker
What the camera sees before I start talking sh*t
November 17, 2025 at 1:56 PM
What the camera sees before I start talking sh*t
One of the harshest lessons I ever learned: always embed a Stripe checkout rather than redirecting the user
~60% of our users were accessing via Safari and it blocks third-party redirects 🚫
Checkout didn’t work for them. The amount of money left on the table still makes me ill 🤢
#buildinpublic
~60% of our users were accessing via Safari and it blocks third-party redirects 🚫
Checkout didn’t work for them. The amount of money left on the table still makes me ill 🤢
#buildinpublic
November 17, 2025 at 1:20 PM
One of the harshest lessons I ever learned: always embed a Stripe checkout rather than redirecting the user
~60% of our users were accessing via Safari and it blocks third-party redirects 🚫
Checkout didn’t work for them. The amount of money left on the table still makes me ill 🤢
#buildinpublic
~60% of our users were accessing via Safari and it blocks third-party redirects 🚫
Checkout didn’t work for them. The amount of money left on the table still makes me ill 🤢
#buildinpublic
Life framework I wrote a year ago. This is the key to ‘success’ and happiness. Notice the absence of MRR
#buildinpublic
#buildinpublic
November 17, 2025 at 10:10 AM
Life framework I wrote a year ago. This is the key to ‘success’ and happiness. Notice the absence of MRR
#buildinpublic
#buildinpublic
Best part of his day
November 16, 2025 at 3:39 PM
Best part of his day
The revolution will be committed to Git
November 16, 2025 at 11:56 AM
The revolution will be committed to Git