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Art Rose

Art Rose

@thatartrose.bsky.social

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Indie hacker. Currently building https://www.chatbot-chronicles.com/, a browser extension to search chat histories across different providers.

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Art Rose @thatartrose.bsky.social · 19h

My extension Chatbot Chronicles is now available for Firefox & Chrome. Powerful conversation history search for your ChatGPT & Perplexity.

Chrome: chromewebstore.google.com/detail/chatb...
Firefox: addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefo...

#buildinpublic

Art Rose @thatartrose.bsky.social · 19h

My extension Chatbot Chronicles is now available for Firefox & Chrome. Powerful conversation history search for your ChatGPT & Perplexity.

Chrome: chromewebstore.google.com/detail/chatb...
Firefox: addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefo...

#buildinpublic

Art Rose @thatartrose.bsky.social · 1d

At the time there wasn't much for Bluesky, I guess? But similar things existed for other services, right?

Art Rose @thatartrose.bsky.social · 2d

I need to make a small promo video about my extension that I could pin to my profile. It means I'll have to spend a bunch of time to learn some new tooling to manage that. I love learning new things, but when rushed it's not that fun. #buildinpublic

Art Rose @thatartrose.bsky.social · 2d

And you managed to make me giggle in doing that 💯

Art Rose @thatartrose.bsky.social · 2d

Whenever someone send me a message online I truly want to reciprocate, but a significant number of these messages reek of LLM content. Those I just ignore. And I think it's a shame that we've come to that. #buildinpublic

Art Rose @thatartrose.bsky.social · 2d

Honestly, me neither. But considering the truly random extensions out there with tens of thousands of users that have no webpage and an impossible name, I postulated that it must be how it works.

Art Rose @thatartrose.bsky.social · 2d

Few weeks back when I posted about getting zero engagement for my just published extension one kind soul went and gave it its first review. They didn't install it, they just gave it 5 stars. They will have a place in my heart forever. When did you last help a fellow indiedev out? #buildinpublic

Art Rose @thatartrose.bsky.social · 3d

I recently changed from Proton to mailbox.org. I think there's like 20 email aliases you can setup (on whatever domains you own). The value for money is great. The SPAM filter could be better tho.

Art Rose @thatartrose.bsky.social · 3d

I've decided that I will not do any coding for the time being and focus all my efforts at marketing & user acquisition. Only when I've managed to find some users who genuinely find value in my extension, will I pick up coding again. #buildinpublic

Art Rose @thatartrose.bsky.social · 3d

School holidays are definitely the worst part about being a working parent.

Art Rose @thatartrose.bsky.social · 3d

I think it's quite natural for schedulers to target as many social services as they can reasonably manage. Mostly because as a (tiny) user I cannot be bothered to use multiple ones, so I end up choosing the scheduler based on the networks they support.

Art Rose @thatartrose.bsky.social · 3d

Why are there so many social media schedulers out there? I mean sure, I'm constantly thinking "I would do this better" when using Fedica. But it's good enough to not waste months rolling my own. So what gives? Why is everyone doing one? #buildinpublic

Art Rose @thatartrose.bsky.social · 4d

I thought that Google & Firefox stores were these magical places where people would discover my extension. That turned out to be completely false. 1 week of being listed and not a single organic install. Looks like there's a long and hard road of user acquisition in front of me. #buildinpublic

Art Rose @thatartrose.bsky.social · 4d

Success is pointless if you're not well enough to enjoy it. Take care!

Art Rose @thatartrose.bsky.social · 4d

What core skills does a solo-builder need to practice to achieve a basic level of marketing chops for succeeding? #buildinpublic

Art Rose @thatartrose.bsky.social · 4d

Automation platform, but instead of running in the cloud, it runs in your browser. 🤔 Other than being able to automate webapps that don't provide APIs, would there be any other unexpected usages of something like that? #buildinpublic

Art Rose @thatartrose.bsky.social · 5d

I started my current project with the intent to learn all about marketing and acquiring users. Sure enough, at the first roadblock my motivation plummeted to zero. Funny how we end up sabotaging ourselves like this. #buildinpublic

Art Rose @thatartrose.bsky.social · 5d

The more time I spend tweaking my extensions search logic, the more appreciation I have for various search engines (Google, Bing, etc). There's a mountain of sorcery going on behind the scenes that make them work. #buildinpublic

Art Rose @thatartrose.bsky.social · 5d

Every chatbot (ChatGPT, Perplexity) power user.. I've tried posting in related communities and even ran some ads. I guess, you're right, the only thing I haven't really tried is direct outreach to random people who have hinted they use these chatbots a lot.

Art Rose @thatartrose.bsky.social · 5d

Anyone got any tips on getting first users for a B2C project when one doesn't know the ICP yet. Just spray and pray? #buildinpublic

Art Rose @thatartrose.bsky.social · 6d

💩 - or there abouts.

Slowly prepping to try out different things. No idea which of them will actually work. Learning basic video editing to produce some promo content. And trying to approach potential users on Reddit, but they're hard to come by and so far nobody has engaged.

Art Rose @thatartrose.bsky.social · 6d

I remembered that I took up my current project with the intent of using it to learn all the non-coding related things (marketing, growth, etc). Yet somehow, I had completely blanked that part out and replaced it with expectations for success.

Art Rose @thatartrose.bsky.social · 6d

Ended up taking a small break from indiehacking. Have been reflecting inwards to figure out what my next steps should be and how to regain my motivation. #buildinpublic

Art Rose @thatartrose.bsky.social · 6d

I'm building a browser extension to provide a better search for past conversations. Tell me what kind of grievances do you have with the ChatGPT built-in search, if any. #buildinpublic

Art Rose @thatartrose.bsky.social · 7d

Are there any notable/upcoming contenders to ChatGPT/Claude/Gemini/Grok chatbots out there?