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Val Sopi 👋 @valsopi.com · 21/04/2026

Earlier I launched the updated /showcase section in Blogmaker 90+ customer blogs ranging from business, to products, services, culture, news, hobbies, journals... It's wild to me that I made something others are making their own thing with it 🤯 Check it out: blogmaker.app/showcase

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Val Sopi 👋 @valsopi.com · 19/03/2026

Look at this passage by Jason @asmartbear.com longform.asmartbear.com/chaos-at-start

The screenshot reads: The fact that you’re in over your head, that you almost cannot will yourself to continue, that you’re completely in the dark, that you’re working yourself to an early grave, that you seem to slide two steps back for every one forward, that nothing’s ever good enough, that your friends and family can’t understand why you’re turning yourself inside out with no apparent progress, that you’re supposed to be enjoying the journey but you’re not, that you yourself doubt whether you’re even capable of this…

These things mean you haven’t yet succeeded, but neither do they prove that you’re failing.

It’s always like this, until it isn’t.

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Val Sopi 👋 @valsopi.com · 03/07/2025

And I get this a lot / supper slow for me when posting, replying. Not sure if my account belongs to some slow or super active region OR if it’s like this for all.

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Val Sopi 👋 @valsopi.com · 27/05/2025

Sometimes I think the Universe created us to see itself, through us. To give itself meaning. We’re merely vehicles to enjoy this beauty and process it for the Universe. Make it better if we can. That is basically our purpose. Anything else that doesn’t serve that purpose is human made hell.

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Val Sopi 👋 @valsopi.com · 18/05/2025

I love this passage from The Alchemist / along the lines of your sentiment Mira 🙌

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Val Sopi 👋 @valsopi.com · 08/05/2025

A BlogMaker.app client posted this on their Linkedin and I'm way over the moon 🚀🌕🥳 There are times when I've asked a happy client to write a testimonial for BlogMaker, this was not one of those times. What a wonderful surprise 🏆

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Val Sopi 👋 @valsopi.com · 08/05/2025

It surely does, Mira. I agree. Here are a few of my trees. Bsky only lets me upload 4.

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Val Sopi 👋 @valsopi.com · 29/04/2025

Done and done! BlogMaker has plenty of value to back up this pricing. It's a premium product without any gimmicks and I want to be more upfront about it all ✊

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Val Sopi 👋 @valsopi.com · 28/04/2025

Here’s something interesting. BlogMaker gives the user the power to tweak every element’s color, padding, and especially font — which makes it possible to match the design of your existing website, but you have to diy (which I like a lot) but I am not ppl and ppl like it done for them.

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Val Sopi 👋 @valsopi.com · 24/04/2025

My office for the day: the shopping mall 🛍️ I’ve been not going to my coworking recently. Just mixing it up between home office and other random spots 😅

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Val Sopi 👋 @valsopi.com · 22/04/2025

Did this yesterday for blogmaker.app ✊ Quick fix on code + deploy to production + confirm the fix to the customer — while lined up on the runway and holding seconds before take off 🛫 🥳 Yolo!

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Val Sopi 👋 @valsopi.com · 19/04/2025

Was talking to a founder friend earlier, how BlogMaker's position might be low–cost + ready to go. And if that's that, then so be it. I'm all in for it ✊ Want to see how this experiment goes and if so, potentially stick with it. I have a few more thoughts, but I'll try to rec a pod episode.

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Val Sopi 👋 @valsopi.com · 19/04/2025

Did this new H1 for BlogMaker.app in tandem with experimenting with a $39/year price point for 5 blogs — so clients can run their biz blog(s) and personal blog within the same account and for one single yearly price! Is BlogMaker worth more, you betcha! But, cost–wise, I can do this, so why not.

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Val Sopi 👋 @valsopi.com · 13/04/2025

Done with higgsfield .ai / gave it my profile photo and this is what it id 🤯

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Val Sopi 👋 @valsopi.com · 10/04/2025

Rebranding is On for my New B2B SaaS ✊ I'd rather do it now! The original domain was a mouthful long–tail SEO–play that sounded super bloated, generic, and lazy. I've been chatting with gpt4o for a few days now and it kept insisting on this one single name 🤷‍♂️😅 And only $10.44 via Cloudflare 🥳

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Val Sopi 👋 @valsopi.com · 10/04/2025

Kinda on the fence about this one regarding my new B2B SaaS. Leaning more toward the new brand/domain 🤔 What would you do?

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Val Sopi 👋 @valsopi.com · 06/04/2025

Just got done with one (full of notes and underlines) Starting on my next one (have had it in my library for a while) 📚

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Val Sopi 👋 @valsopi.com · 05/04/2025

Asked gpt to make me a person, and then asked it to make it: — sad — joyus — bright colored shirt, longer hair, no facial hair It's absolutely wild. The possibilities are truly endless. On the basic level, ad photographers/actors are doomed. On the higher level, scarcity will be solved.

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Val Sopi 👋 @valsopi.com · 04/04/2025

Nice to meet you, Marcel 🤝 I am Val 😅

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Val Sopi 👋 @valsopi.com · 01/04/2025

They tell you to focus on a niched–down niche, so I'm doing exactly that and pivoting blogmaker.app to serving Architects only, and not just any kind of Architects — the New Age kind 🧘🏻‍♀️ Wish me luck in this new direction! 💪

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Val Sopi 👋 @valsopi.com · 31/03/2025

Haha / apparently they're "donks" now — and more awesome than we actually think 🥳

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Val Sopi 👋 @valsopi.com · 31/03/2025

To me it feels like — "You can lead a horse to water, but you can't make it drink." They're not ready, they're not thirsty, they're too early. ——— Though I asked the almighty and below is what it came up with #6 is the one that is hard to argue against imo *** a bit of halluci with donkey/horse

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Val Sopi 👋 @valsopi.com · 29/03/2025

Spent the day among trees today. Everything is clear of what I need to do when in nature.

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Val Sopi 👋 @valsopi.com · 27/03/2025

Dang I'm really onto something with my reddit posts / getting a ton of likes and comments and views. Sadly they're not product/biz related 🥹

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Val Sopi 👋 @valsopi.com · 25/03/2025

SEO is hard / dropped for a solid keyword for 10 spots. Why?

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Val Sopi 👋 @valsopi.com · 21/03/2025

I sadly can't. Mine are too planned. Too rigid. One of the reasons Basquiat was so famous. He kept his child inside intact.

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Val Sopi 👋 @valsopi.com · 20/03/2025

Yeah super weird. Reminded me to post my latest product too. BTW, posting on Thursday's around 5-7am PT has been my proven method to get a ton of juice going on there. Not sure if yours was deliberate to post today.

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Val Sopi 👋 @valsopi.com · 19/03/2025

Wait so this is possible? Do just create an account? And that account is under my "main company"? Or a workspace is something else? And when transferring ownership, you are just transferring the account correct? Not the company. They will have that account under their own Company?

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Val Sopi 👋 @valsopi.com · 19/03/2025

Yeah and this was the email before that. “specialized team”

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Val Sopi 👋 @valsopi.com · 19/03/2025

I wrote Stripe about this (screenshot below) and they replied with “can you provide more context” 🤷‍♂️ What more is there to explain? Or am I not understanding them 🤔

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Val Sopi 👋 @valsopi.com · 18/03/2025

I think the most important thing when running a SaaS is this

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Val Sopi 👋 @valsopi.com · 17/03/2025

Really cool tool Dmytro. Thanks to you, just found out Gemini recommends BlogMaker right after Wordpress and before Ghost, Blogger… 😱🥳

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Val Sopi 👋 @valsopi.com · 08/03/2025

OMG Contra. I completely forgot about that one. I really gotta get me one of those 1000s games in one with all these retro games

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Val Sopi 👋 @valsopi.com · 04/03/2025

Yes. That's covered, but this one is off, even though grammatically correct

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Val Sopi 👋 @valsopi.com · 04/03/2025

If you make a tool for designers/developers things like these hurt your credibility 👇

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Val Sopi 👋 @valsopi.com · 02/03/2025

One of the ways I’ve been using GPT is to play text based games with my 8yo daughter. And at the end we ask it to create images from key milestones in the story/game. Earlier we played a treasure hunting game in an alien ship that crash landed on earth. So much fun and endless possibilities!

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Val Sopi 👋 @valsopi.com · 26/02/2025

Wow. How awesome. I like believing in life speaking to us in signs.

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Val Sopi 👋 @valsopi.com · 26/02/2025

Expecting the Paddle approval and it's go time with my new B2B SaaS. Super excited about the pricing below. Slightly higher than the competition. Excited for direct sales which I've started doing already and not relying on SEO, inbound, etc. I seem to enjoy being a salesman.

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Val Sopi 👋 @valsopi.com · 25/02/2025

I currently run BlogMaker and my new App on separate dedicated Hetzner machines. I pay ~$50/month each for the specs below Can anyone shed any light as to what a similar setup would cost on Laravel Cloud? My probably–wrong calculations put it up in the hundreds $$$

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Val Sopi 👋 @valsopi.com · 19/02/2025

After doing this SaaS thing for so long, I've come to a more relaxed conclusion about the app being "down" for maintenance, etc. Yes, it's great to have it 100% up at all times, but if something happens, never be afraid to go offline and fix it in a relaxed state for the benefit of all ✊

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Val Sopi 👋 @valsopi.com · 27/01/2025

One more from the Dolomites 🏂🏔️

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Val Sopi 👋 @valsopi.com · 18/01/2025

Any frontend devs know how to untangle this tailwind question Image 1 is from the tailwindui .com / image 2 is when pasted on my end. Notice the border corners as well as focus thickness being different both on tw 3.4

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Val Sopi 👋 @valsopi.com · 11/01/2025

I've been avoiding doing the "card upfront" thing for blogmaker.app for ages. And just did it today and deployed it Live! Part of me was afraid I'd lose out on new biz, but I'm tired of looking at spam trial accounts that'll never convert. BlogMaker is a serious app for the serious client! ✊

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Val Sopi 👋 @valsopi.com · 09/01/2025

I currently have about 30 habits I try to keep track of daily. Just so you don't think I'm nuts, they're like meditating, reading 10 pages, stretching, etc... Got the flu on Monday and got over it after a day, but my motivation is down the gutter. Not the way I had the start of 2025 planned 😔

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