SLAPPSHELL's main use-cases & licensing options:

- Small businesses: Get a single tier self-hosted or managed service.
- Developers/Freelancers: Pro tier self-hosted to ship white-label serviceCRM for your own clients.
- Reseller license to sell the boilerplate yourself.

youtu.be/pzgwg3LNCKs

When I started, I quit my job, cashed out my 401K, and jumped into an idea with basically no market research or validation.

Probably not the smartest approach, and that idea totally sucked.

But there's something valuable in just jumping in and starting the damn thing.

#buildinpublic

Staying curious has been the most valuable thing for me so far.

Open your mind and welcome new experiences.

Ask someone who knows. Hire someone. Partner with someone. Use what you need to.

You don't have to figure it out all at once or have the answers in order to start.

#buildinpublic

Holidays are a busy time for one business I run that involves selling artwork on Etsy.

In the descriptions I include when to order by to receive before Xmas.

And every year, I get the same messages:

#buildinpublic #indiehackers

I almost quit at the beginning of 2025.

At that point, my losing streak was almost legal drinking age.

Then, I had one more idea I wanted to try (the initial test idea for SLAPPSHELL) and had my best single month in a very long time.

The "iterate and adjust" stage is where you'll experience your setbacks and failures.

That's not a bad thing though.

That's where most of the valuable learning happens.

Your customers don't care about your tech stack.

Should you?

Here's what I actually use to launch & run projects super fast for ~$80/month (and you can start for free):

I just launched a whole bunch of use case landing pages for serviceCRM.

If you're building solo, landing page templatization and SEO automation is a major asset.

Way back when I would spend hours to days doing that manually - page by page - with excel & Wordpress.

#buildinpublic

I was using the first iteration of serviceCRM myself to capture and manage my own leads before I started shaping it up for other businesses to use.

To celebrate the launch week, I'm looking for some folks who'd like to get up and running with the platform for free!

Reach out for details!

Pretty solid launch day on @ProductHunt so far.

I think serviceCRM is tied for last!

Check it out here: www.producthunt.com/products/ser...

Some people asked me about the article template I'm using.

I built myself a template/system to help make that fast & easy for me so I can focus on the core of the broader project.

Check it out: www.youtube.com/watch?v=2RT7...

What's your system?

10 years ago I started a project stitching together beer koozies from old wetsuits in a 100-yr old basement.

Now I build "money printers"

This is how I got here, and how you can build your own: