Dmytro Krasun

10 Apr 2025

Started to write it as a simple post, and then it exploded into the full-blown blog post. Plus, I wanted to share a few photos. I hope you enjoy it 👉 screenshotone.com/blog/200000...

ScreenshotOne is at ~$36K MRR and still growing. I run a developer tool, and despite all the predictions from big accounts and influencers on X, I still see demand. New customers keep subscribing and are happy to pay. What I am testing now:

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2. Started running paid ads. It is early to tell about the results, but it is costly. I like that I can experiment and get feedback fast. And also trying a new format of updates? An unpolished/unscripted video, with pauses and filler words trimmed.

In the video, I share more about why I am betting on AI agents:

1. Launched a hosted MCP server that gives AI agents screenshots and clean Markdown of any web page 👉 screenshotone.com/mcp/. The bet is that agents become a new kind of customer. Currently ~10 connections.

17 Sept

ScreenshotOne is now an official plugin in CoAnimator.com 🥳 Add website screenshots and scrolling clips to your animated launch videos and tutorials without leaving the editor: fewer clicks and faster editing.

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16 Sept

I was lucky to be invited to give a talk and share the stage with entrepreneurs I respect. Each of them has paying customers and will be sharing one practical lesson or something they learned that helped them grow. Join us 👉 luma.com/sbwcptky

6 Sept

GPT 6 Astra (Max) went to change things not related to the task I gave it at all and not once. I asked it to improve my landing page Lighthouse score, but it went and changed a documentation navigation label from “Go” to “Go SDK” 😆 What is that? Why?

6 Sept

Or started to add support of a dark theme, I didn't ask and don't plan to do it. And a few more like that. It adds me more code to review.

6 Sept

However, it does feel more nuanced in planning and reasoning. Currently, seems for me to stay productive it is better to plan and resolve complex issues with Astra, but execute with Sol.

2 Sept

“I want to become an indie hacker.” Congratulations, my friend! You have a huge problem now. Because you define an identity label that you don’t understand, and the definition of which depends on social media algorithms. You will not make it and will suffer a lot.

2 Sept

I realized it is better to think in specific things or in verbs: “I want to build a profitable business by making this specific type of customer happy, which will allow me to read books in the mornings and have walks with my friends whenever I want.”

2 Sept

And when you define it like that. Suddenly, labels don’t matter. Founder, entrepreneur, or solopreneur: it all doesn’t matter. Just do the thing.

If I deployed that to production without a code review, my database would be in outage and my API would have downtime. Agents write a few lines of code that run queries against the database in a loop on a hot path because they don't "see" and "understand" what they do.

Of course, it can be prevented with performance tests. But there is always one more thing to check to ensure that agents produce safe and performant code, and you might not notice it. You can't foresee everything.

Founders invent explanations of their wins and overall success which often doesn't reflect reality. And I do that, too. It is a human nature. One of the benefits of building in public is that retrospectively I can double check my own current narratives.

For example, I believe that positioning made a ten times difference in my MRR: from $3.5K to $35K. I check my posts: 1. I had a slow growth and didn't know who were my customers. 2. I realized who I can target and how. I made a bet and went all-in. 3. I have faster growth.

Of course, there is a lot more to the story: I worked on churn, marketing and so on. But without understanding my ICP, it would be a tough challenge to improve the product and market it. Double checking with agents searching my public posts:

When reading the Lessons of History (by Ariel and Will Durant), one insight from the book caught my attention:

In other words, you can't change the world and impose your will on how it should be. And who you are to do that? But you can:

1. Educate yourself and work on yourself to be a better human. 2. Educate your kids and give them an example on how to behave. 3. Support people who create and build better future. A better future cannot be imposed from the top down, it has to be built from the bottom up.

When reading the Lessons of History (by Ariel and Will Durant), one insight from the book caught my attention:

"The only real revolution is in the enlightenment of the mind and the improvement of character, the only real emancipation is individual, and the only real revolutionaries are philosophers and saints." And they knew what they were talking about.

29 Aug

🇷🇴 Romania in August.

26 Aug

My addiction to social media is much more severe than I expected and it is painful to admit. Like I am a weak person and can’t control myself. But, yes, it is what it is then

26 Aug

I tried to post less and reply less and it helped. However, I discovered one problem. Friends launching products, sharing news and jokes with links to socials. And they want to discuss that.

26 Aug

Our lives are integrated deeply with all that, damn. Or at least mine.

13 Aug

I see among many of my friends that their productivity is zero or even negative with AI. I suspect that... If you vibecoded 10 or even 100 half-baked side projects and never shipped them to production, never found users, didn't polish them, and abandoned them, AI didn't make you more productive.

You feel that you are more productive, but what happens is that you procrastinate faster. Guess what feeling that leads to?

13 Aug

Creating something great takes time and requires your dedication, focus, and effort. And the reward is not only the result but the work itself and the person you become. It didn't change.

You are stuck in the mud, dragging it around and getting dirty. You are doing nothing at the end of the day. You ask yourself, what is the point? Of course, there is no point.

12 Aug

We are still too early for courses on coding with AI and established approaches to code review, including whether it should be done at all. It might take more than a year to understand what works best and what happens to software built by those who stopped reviewing code.

11 Aug

People who are serious about building software train their own brains.

10 Aug

There is one joyful way to code that was costly and almost impossible before agents. dmytrokrasun.com/posts/agent...

10 Aug

Bruce Lee once said: Don't fear those competitors who are vibe coding their support chat to save $29 a month and do the same with 10,000 other tools. But pay attention to those who spend that time making their core product 10,000 times better.

6 Aug

Even if a trillionaire wanted to sell their wealth and share the money with the world, they wouldn’t be able to do it. Imagine trying to sell the stock of a trillion-dollar company.

6 Aug

There wouldn’t be enough buyers at the current price, and dumping that many shares onto the market would quickly drive the price down. Their wealth is the market value of the ownership they hold in what they have built.

I am sorry, if I less respond less recently to DMs, replies and emails. The more emails I reply to and the faster I do it, the faster people reply back. And in general, the more work I do, the more work comes to me. I don't understand how to get out of this cycle.

I am lucky and grateful that I have all these support tickets, great people to chat with and work to do, but I want to stop and breathe at least for some time.

ScreenshotOne is now officially a member of opensourcepledge.com. The pledge will help me be more systematic and intentional about supporting open-source maintainers and projects I value and want to see thrive. If you run a software company that relies on open source, consider joining too.

Think of n8n as a visual programming tool. If that analogy is correct, why do you still code if you already have agents that can do everything? ScreenshotOne has an official n8n integration (screenshotone.com/integration...) and the number of customers using it is growing every week.

For ScreenshotOne customers, n8n and agents often serve different use cases. In an n8n workflow, ScreenshotOne is a predefined step in a known, repeatable process. For an agent, ScreenshotOne is a tool it may choose to use while completing a more open-ended task, such as research or exploration.

There is some overlap, of course, and they can complement each other: n8n workflows can include agents, and agents can trigger n8n workflows.

I will likely not buy from you if you have a free or cheap price and I can’t explain how you can make money and make it sustainable.

4 Aug

If all your work is to copy a support ticket or a task from your product manager to Codex and then deploy the result to production, someone will notice and remove you to iterate faster. It is a short-term intelligence arbitrage. It can’t last forever. Find ways to add value.

4 Aug

“Why pay $29/month for a SaaS if I can vibecode it and host on Hetzner?” Hetzner raises prices a bit. “Maintaining infrastructure is a distraction from running my business, and I value my time. Buying SaaS is underrated.”

To parents: How do you prepare your kids for the future? What do you teach them? I am currently trying to cultivate in my kids:

I challenge their assumptions about how the world works often. We hike and travel. Play together. And learn history, geography, and much more. But I try to be intentional and focused in a few areas of their life. How do you approach that?

If I could teach my kids only one thing, it would be to believe in themselves and trust that they can figure almost anything out.

To parents: How do you prepare your kids for the future? What do you teach them? I am currently trying to cultivate in my kids: