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Mani Vrondakis #buildinpublic

@vrondak.is

Founder building https://shortforge.ai - automated tiktok marketing launched 30+ (un)successful projects in 15 years play my game: https://21words.app https://tosto.re/dreamstolife https://shubetter.com https://cohabitate.app https://notiversal.com

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22.08.2025 22:16 ๐Ÿ‘ 4 ๐Ÿ” 7 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

My SaaS got absolutely roasted on Reddit ๐Ÿ˜ซ We live and learn #buildinpublic #saas

20.06.2025 10:52 ๐Ÿ‘ 9 ๐Ÿ” 1 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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So nice to have my SaaS marketing automated ๐Ÿ˜ you can too at shortforge.ai #saas #buildinpublic

18.06.2025 20:26 ๐Ÿ‘ 8 ๐Ÿ” 1 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Absolutely! What a great post

13.06.2025 10:46 ๐Ÿ‘ 2 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Why waste time testing when you can just get real users to do it in production #buildinpublic #saas

10.06.2025 09:10 ๐Ÿ‘ 8 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Automated AI TikToks that convert - ShortForge Create professional & engaging short-form videos with AI avatars in minutes. Save thousands on your product promotion.

An extra / on end of a URL caused all video and generations to timeout. Classic. Check out shortforge.ai #buildinpublic

09.06.2025 14:30 ๐Ÿ‘ 3 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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With shortforge.ai you can churn out video ads like this with one click, have them auto post to your TikTok & get sales while you sleep #saas #marketing #ai #buildinpublic

09.06.2025 10:17 ๐Ÿ‘ 3 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Automated AI TikToks that convert - ShortForge Create professional & engaging short-form videos with AI avatars in minutes. Save thousands on your product promotion.

Since my last #buildinpublic post I've been COOKING! shortforge.ai can now completely automate your marketing with AI generated influencers that automatically post videos to TikTok!

ShortForge will drive traffic to your app/SaaS/product 100% automatically! Oh and now new users can try it for free ๐Ÿ˜‰

09.06.2025 00:24 ๐Ÿ‘ 4 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Hoping* ๐Ÿ˜ƒ

01.06.2025 17:34 ๐Ÿ‘ 2 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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@ewalf.com you've got some sort of adware on your homepage. had to check on another device to make sure i didn't have a virus ๐Ÿ˜‚

26.05.2025 22:40 ๐Ÿ‘ 6 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Implement a giant system with loads of side features before you validate the core idea #buildinpublic #saas

20.05.2025 10:41 ๐Ÿ‘ 4 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Would like to give a shoutout to @kulpinski.dev for liking every #buildinpublic post out there within 2 minutes day or night. Get some sleep man

12.05.2025 20:36 ๐Ÿ‘ 7 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 3 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

My SaaS wasn't getting indexed by Google for 3 weeks because the homepage returned 500... but still had content which is why I didn't notice. It was some dumb #nextjs SSR issue #buildinpublic

12.05.2025 20:28 ๐Ÿ‘ 6 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Accidentally pushed a change to shortforge.ai that killed the production service every minute for 18 hours straight ๐Ÿ˜ต I was saved by not having any users so nobody cared. Sometimes no users is good #dev #buildinpublic

03.05.2025 08:06 ๐Ÿ‘ 8 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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You can now post generated product ads to TikTok directly from shortforge.ai ๐Ÿ‘‘ This thing is actually starting to become useful for effortless SaaS/product marketing. Going to finally put some time into getting it to produce even more engaging ads next #buildinpublic #saas #marketing

01.05.2025 00:13 ๐Ÿ‘ 5 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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27.04.2025 22:46 ๐Ÿ‘ 2 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Added TikTok account linking to shortforge.ai which does... absolutely nothing. Next update you'll be able to post your product ads to TikTok directly from ShortForge! #buildinpublic #saas #marketing

27.04.2025 22:32 ๐Ÿ‘ 9 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

I think vibe coding is specifically not caring about the code. If you're vibe coding and not blindly accepting it then you're just coding with AI

27.04.2025 12:02 ๐Ÿ‘ 2 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Check DMs!

26.04.2025 18:27 ๐Ÿ‘ 2 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Added a script generator to shortforge.ai making it even easier to create product ads! The product & output is getting better every day. I'm so excited for the future of this #buildinpublic #ai #saas

26.04.2025 17:25 ๐Ÿ‘ 11 ๐Ÿ” 1 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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When my app had 10 users, I added hats by analyzing faces in user avatars (essential feature). That app is now dead. Should have marketed instead.

#buildinpublic #memes

24.04.2025 08:21 ๐Ÿ‘ 13 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

It's not based on RecylerView (on Android) it's based on RecylerListView which is a JS library ๐Ÿคฏ TIL. I'll check your library out!,

23.04.2025 13:12 ๐Ÿ‘ 3 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

What's the magic? Very surprised you're able to beat FlashList with reanimated when it uses native recycler views

23.04.2025 12:14 ๐Ÿ‘ 3 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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One step closer to automating TikTok #saas marketing videos. Added products to shortforge.ai ready for AI script generation

#buildinpublic #saas #workfromhome #ai

22.04.2025 21:31 ๐Ÿ‘ 7 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 2 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Added a FAQ section and "what's new" to shortforge.ai. Boring shit but necessary

#buildinpublic #saas #indiedev #dev

21.04.2025 15:25 ๐Ÿ‘ 3 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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First post-launch update! I added end cards to shortforge.ai. Now I've built the video infrastructure, the output videos are only going to get exponentially better from here! ShortForge automates the creation of TikTok/Reels/Shorts product ads for SaaS/apps/games and more #buildinpublic

20.04.2025 22:24 ๐Ÿ‘ 6 ๐Ÿ” 1 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 2 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

@ozasadnyy.bsky.social I'm trying to make a bloody mary with your app, it would be good if I could put how much of a certain ingredient I have (tomato juice) and it tell me how much of everything else I need, rather than number of servings

18.04.2025 16:48 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

i immediately purged it out of existence so can't check, but i think it was because nodemon was watching the entire filesystem for changes

17.04.2025 15:28 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

I just found a docker container has been running on my laptop for 2+ years with nodemon running at root, causing a constant minimum 95% cpu usage and 94c temps, that i thought was a cooling problem #docker #dev #buildinpublic

17.04.2025 14:54 ๐Ÿ‘ 4 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Launched a new product ๐Ÿš€ The idea is to automate the creation & posting of viral TikTok ads so your product can advertise itself! Right now it just creates 1 type of video manually but I have big plans ๐Ÿ˜ˆ Check it out at shortforge.ai

#buildinpublic #dev

17.04.2025 09:55 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0