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Nick Forsberg

@nickwforsberg.com
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Co-founder of the 100% bootstrapped start-up theauthapi.com. 🔑📊💰 What is your biggest challenge with scaling your API's success?

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Nick Forsberg @nickwforsberg.com · 11/12/2024
Agree! Kinda related I struggle with filtering on my new followers. Tinkering with this idea. bsky.app/profile/nick...
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Nick Forsberg @nickwforsberg.com · 09/12/2024
What’s the biggest challenge at the moment to existing tools?
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Nick Forsberg @nickwforsberg.com · 09/12/2024
Cheers. I like your thinking.
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Nick Forsberg @nickwforsberg.com · 09/12/2024
I find it challenging to decide whom to follow back. Here's a solution for you ya! Fork the project here: github.com/seventy6/blu... #bluesky #nextjs #buildinpublic
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Nick Forsberg @nickwforsberg.com · 09/12/2024
Problem case: with so many new followers, it’s hard to find engaging accounts to follow back!
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Nick Forsberg @nickwforsberg.com · 09/12/2024
How about a tool to filter recent followers by a criteria? Like they have a bio, they post, they use x,y,z tags. Then a big button that allows me to follow back quickly.
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Nick Forsberg @nickwforsberg.com · 22/11/2024
Come follow peeps building in public - go.bsky.app/3F5Szx6
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Nick Forsberg @nickwforsberg.com · 22/11/2024
The data in the chart is from one of our favourite customers, thecatapi.com - in a slow month, we authenticate around ~1.2M requests.
thecatapi.com
The Cat API - Cat as a Service
Get free access to over 60K cat images and breed information. A fully protected and authenticated API to instantly fill your website or app with cat content.
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Nick Forsberg @nickwforsberg.com · 22/11/2024
Detailed project & API Key auth metrics are coming soon in the #theauthapi. Using #retool is the best way to rapidly prototype new UI and charting ideas. Sure, #postman is handy for visualising data quickly, but it quickly becomes limited beyond basic charts and layering queries.
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Nick Forsberg @nickwforsberg.com · 22/11/2024
If you are a GO developer and want to learn more, LMK!
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Nick Forsberg @nickwforsberg.com · 22/11/2024
After meeting up with an old friend who develops in GO, I decided to build an open-source GO-based SDK for #theauthapi with some power-ups from Claude and Copilot 🤖🦾. Is this a wise way to attract a new developer audience to your platform?!? #buildinpublic #theauthapi #golang
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Nick Forsberg @nickwforsberg.com · 22/11/2024
Yes, please!
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Nick Forsberg @nickwforsberg.com · 20/11/2024
Throw theauthapi.com in the mix if you need an API Key handler and logger.
theauthapi.com
The Auth API solves the challenges of building your own API store management solution.
Redefining how you manage access to your API. The Auth API removes hundreds of hours in development time trying to solve key distribution, key lifecycle, event logging, rate-limiting, hook events, cac...
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Nick Forsberg @nickwforsberg.com · 19/11/2024
I've seen it but not had a chance to use it. Good shout!
v0.dev
v0 by Vercel
Chat with v0. Generate UI with simple text prompts. Copy, paste, ship.
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Nick Forsberg @nickwforsberg.com · 18/11/2024
Any suggestions for building a modern-looking SAAS product website? I want to eradicate #Wordpress from our stack! #buildinpublic
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Nick Forsberg @nickwforsberg.com · 18/11/2024
Hmm, BlueSky not liking the animated gif.
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Nick Forsberg @nickwforsberg.com · 18/11/2024
Testing out recording our new onboarding flow for theauthapi.com using Screen Studio on the Mac (cool piece of software). Do you have any tips on how to demo a tech-heavy platform neatly? I'm pushing the user to actively engage with the platform before continuing to their dashboard.
Screen recording of a user creating a new project in theauthapi app.
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Nick Forsberg @nickwforsberg.com · 16/11/2024
🙀
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Nick Forsberg @nickwforsberg.com · 15/11/2024
I like Claude telling me it can’t help me with that query. Rather than bending over backwards to generate a fictional response. Just missing a mac app.
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Nick Forsberg @nickwforsberg.com · 14/11/2024
Thanks for the tip!
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Nick Forsberg @nickwforsberg.com · 14/11/2024
Keep going! We've had some success with thecatapi.com (weirdly, the enterprise package is starting to gather interest).
thecatapi.com
The Cat API - Cat as a Service
Get free access to over 60K cat images and breed information. A fully protected and authenticated API to instantly fill your website or app with cat content.
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Nick Forsberg @nickwforsberg.com · 14/11/2024
⚠Invalid Handle
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Nick Forsberg @nickwforsberg.com · 14/11/2024
Interesting read. With the monetization piece, is running your API behind a gateway provider like Tyk your favored approach?
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Nick Forsberg @nickwforsberg.com · 14/11/2024
Walking and pondering if we should open source our code base to the api builder community 🤔. Inspired by @johnonolan.bsky.social on the scaling dev tools podcast podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/s....
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Nick Forsberg @nickwforsberg.com · 14/11/2024
Watch my co-founder talking through scaling an API to 50 million daily requests. We built #theauthapi to underpin the API key distribution, logging, and monetization for this API. youtu.be/GqQ-y9tPmpI?...
youtu.be
Apidays Australia 2024 - Curiosity and The Cat API - 100k Users and Up by Aden Forshaw.
YouTube video by apidays
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Nick Forsberg @nickwforsberg.com · 13/11/2024
How do you rationalize the best customer onboarding experience for pre-product market fit? I'm testing sending signup events from #Firebase into an #n8n automation to plug together an onboarding experience without committing code. What's your hack? #buildinpublic #theauthapi
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Nick Forsberg @nickwforsberg.com · 12/11/2024
𝟱𝟬/𝟱𝟬 𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐝𝐮𝐜𝐭/𝐦𝐚𝐫𝐤𝐞𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠 - 𝐰𝐡𝐚𝐭'𝐬 𝐲𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐦𝐢𝐱? Bootstrapping a developer-centric product to reach early-phase product market fit is challenging. What's your mix? #buildinpublic #theaithapi
Diagram showing the split of effort between product and marketing
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