Tony Dinh
@tdinh_me · tonydinh.com
A full-time indie hacker from Vietnam who caught the LLM wave and turned it into a breakout in eleven days.
Oct 2020◷ month
DevUtils, an offline macOS developer toolkit, is live and selling at $9.
“DevUtils 1.1.1 … Download App ($9) … It works entirely offline and is open source!”
sourceweb.archive.org↗2 Mar 2023◷ exact
Registers typingmind.com, days after OpenAI opens its API.
“On 2nd March, I registered the domain name typingmind.com”
sourcenews.tonydinh.com↗6 Mar 2023◷ exact
Finishes the TypingMind MVP, five days after the OpenAI API announcement.
“5 days after OpenAI announced their API, I finished the first version”
sourcenews.tonydinh.com↗10 Mar 2023◷ exact
Hits $10K in revenue.
self-reported
“By 10th March, I hit $10K in revenue”
sourcenews.tonydinh.com↗~12 Mar 2023◷ exact
The Product Hunt launch sends revenue from $10K to about $22K in a single day.
breakoutself-reported
“Revenue went from $10K → $22K in a day”
sourcenews.tonydinh.com↗Jun 2023◷ month
TypingMind passes 4,000 paying users.
self-reported
“TypingMind now has 4,000+ paying users!”
sourceindiehackers.com↗ breakout moment self-reported figure inference