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These founders built a $150k ARR portfolio of apps for cold exposure, sunlight, and posture.
5 vibe coding tools. Some of the latest apps for coding with AI.
Yesterday's build board winners, including three new product launches from indie hackers.
30-second growth tip: Record yourself using your product in the wildest possible setting.

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These Founders Built a $150k Health-App Portfolio 🏃

After seven years investing at Jason Calacanis' venture fund, Presh Dineshkumar wanted to build. Rather than start with an all-in-one health platform, he and his cofounder launched separate apps for cold exposure, sunlight, and posture. The portfolio now brings in more than $150k ARR, and is converging in Tempo, an AI health companion.

Each app the founders buit solved one immediate problem, earned subscription revenue, and showed the team what health-conscious users actually wanted. Which uncovered a bigger opportunity once people started paying…

Wearable and biomarker data was plentiful, but guidance for better daily decisions was not. So they built Tempo to solve that exact problem.

Check out the full interview! It's a great look at using small, indie hacker-scale products to find a bigger opportunity.

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Vibe coding tools to try 🧑🏻‍💻

Hatch: The next-generation AI assistant for getting real work done.
Codex CLI: Chat in your terminal — OpenAI’s Codex CLI reads, writes, and runs code on the spot.
Snyk Code: Scan and auto-patch security flaws right in your source code.
Amazon Q Developer: Build and refactor AWS apps faster with AI that understands your stack.
Bolt.diy: Prompt an app — Bolt spins up and deploys the full-stack in one click.

See all 30 tools in the directory →

Bite-sized growth tip 🍪

Record yourself using your product in the wildest possible setting.

Roy Lee built Interview Coder, an AI assistant that helps candidates pass coding interviews in real time. For his demo, he skipped the polished product tour and recorded himself using it during a real Amazon technical interview. Then he posted the footage publicly.

It blew up (for better and worse). Lee was expelled from Columbia and banned from LinkedIn and Reddit, but Interview Coder reached $1 million in annual revenue in 36 days. It now makes $110,000 a month.

Read the full growth report →

The Build Board 🪧

Every day, indie hackers post updates about the products they're building. Here's what the community voted to the top yesterday!

	1. Plavtora: Turn Business Decisions Into Better Outcomes. Building Plavtora — an AI decision system for businesses	▲ 20

	2. VibeSafe Builder: Build apps by chatting. Without the credit burn. People are building simple SaaS products with AI — and some are reporting thousands, even $10,000+ in revenue.	▲ 12

	3. Flavia: umiiiiiiii The Micro-Pickup Alternative: How Homesteaders Haul 500 lbs of Farm Supplies	▲ 8

Enjoy building in public? Post an update to your product page on Indie Hackers, and it will automatically be added to the daily leaderboard.

AI assistants are evolving. Hatch is the next generation. 🧠

AI models have evolved. ChatGPT has not.

We're still using the same old AI assistant products we were using in 2022, even though the models underneath them keep getting better.

It's time for the next generation of AI assistants.

Introducing Hatch, the most productive AI assistant ever made.

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Channing's Tweet Pick 🐦

Most successful founders I know have this exact mindset.

—Channing

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