Tony Dinh

Welcome to my corner of the internet!

💌Monthly Newsletter (My Story)🧠 Typing Mind (Better UI for ChatGPT)🧰 Developer Toolbox (macOS app)✨ Black Magic (Twitter SaaS)📸 Beautiful screenshots (macOS app)✏️ Micro-blog (FAQs, Notes)❤️ Find me on Twitter

About Me

🧑29 years old
🇻🇳From Vietnam
👨‍💻Software Developer
🔨Full-time Indie Hacker
😻Cats > Dogs

My Products

🧠TypingMind.com
A better UI for ChatGPT!
🧰DevUtils.app
Last version: 7 months ago
🎩BlackMagic.so
Last update: last week
📸Xnapper
Released recently!

Code

⌨️GitHub
Last commit: Today
🎆Fun Stuff
Click for surprise

Social Media

🐦Twitter
7 tweets last 48hrs
🖼️Instagram
Infrequent travel pics
🎥YouTube
Last video: last year
💼LinkedIn
I post once a week

Writings

💌Newsletter
Last issue: last week
✏️Public Notes
Notes, tips, and FAQs

Other Places

😺Product Hunt
Products launched: 5
💵Gumroad
Products created: 3
🔨Indie Hackers
Mostly lurking 😅
💰PayPal
Thanks for your tip!

Get notified when I release new stuff! 👇

I write once a month ❤️ (See previous issues)

Latest Updates 👇

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Why I run Black Friday deals (things I learned)

I also curated 300+ Black Friday deals for you

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Oct 2023: side project, interview on Indie Hackers

Going viral, my thoughts, and updates from me in October 2023.

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My solopreneur story: zero to $45K/mo in 2 years

Today is exactly 2 years since I quit my job and become a full-time indie hacker.

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July 2023: $6K MRR – getting back on recurring revenue

small updates from me in July 2023

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Jun 2023: How I work with employees

Some quick updates from me in June 2023

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May 2023: I sold my 2 years old business for only $128K

Everything about the Black Magic's acquisition + May 2023 updates

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Apr 2023: I sold Black Magic

And other updates in April 2023

DevUtils Product Updates

1.17.0 - 2023-04-27 ✨ ⚡ Added Hex ⇄ ASCII string converter tools. 🔀 Added Line Sort/Dedupe tool: Yo...

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Making $22K in 7 days: the story

and other updates from me in Mar 2023

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TypingMind is live

It's my first product launch of the year!

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Early bird license of my new product

TypingMind.com is launching tomorrow on Product Hunt!

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Feb 2023 updates: Twitter API, ChatGPT API, Hackaigon.

It was a such a short month!

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Jan 2023: I got a $500K acquisition offer!

...and other updates in January 2023 from me

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Help me win the Golden Kitty Awards 2022?

(just a quick announcement...)

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Dec 2022 updates and happy new year!

Hello everyone! It's Tony again with another monthly updates.

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Nov 2022 updates: learning new skills

Indie updates, B2B vs B2C, Black Friday, surfing, skimboarding, hardware.

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It's the exciting time of the year!

This is not the monthly update, just a quick announcement 😄

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Oct 2022 updates: I will write a book!

Also in October: Speak at JOM Launch Asia 2022, and the thing about Elon Musk.

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How to create great demo videos (that cost $0)

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I released a new version for Xnapper (1.15.0)

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Sep 2022: I'm on Indie Hackers Podcast!

Also in September: $12K MRR, built a small new app, SEO, and other updates...

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I built a tiny macOS app: askcommand.com

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Working with a freelancer on my SaaS startup

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Aug 2022: One year since I quit my job

Reached $10K MRR, launched Xnapper (#1 of the week), went on Indie Hackers podcast (😱), and other u...

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My new product on Product Hunt today

Not the usual monthly update, just a small update about Xnapper - my latest product

DevUtils Product Updates

1.15.0 - 2022-07-08 📸 🛠️ New tools Added cURL to Code tool. Comes in 15 languages: JavaScript, Nod...

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1.14.0 - 2022-04-11 🧶 🛠️ New tools Added Color Converter tool! 🎨 Comes with code presets for CSS,...

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1.13.0 - 2022-01-24 🎆 First update of the year 🎉! This update introduces Raycast and Alfred integr...

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I let people play snake on my Twitter banner

DevUtils Product Updates

1.12.0 - 2021-10-08 🔮 If you like DevUtils, please tweet about it! Thank you! ❤️ 🛠️ New tools Adde...

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I turn my Twitter banner into a game! 🐍

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Introducing: Stock & Crypto Real-time Banner for Twitter! ✨

DevUtils Product Updates

1.11.0 - 2021-08-20 🎁 ⚡️ New features Markdown Preview is added, allow you to edit and preview GitH...

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1.10.0 - 2021-06-21 ⚡️ ⚡️ New features Added HTML to JSX tool. The name says it all! You can convert...

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1.9.0 - 2021-05-02 🔥 Big update! We have new tools and many exciting improvements! Sign up for our ...

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1.8.1 - 2021-02-10 Fixed a layout issue in the Preferences panel. Fixed an issue with license checki...

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1.8.0 - 2021-02-09 ⚡️ New features Apple M1 support! DevUtils now run natively on M1 Macbooks 🎉. Yo...

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1.7.2 - 2021-01-12 Added Beta: You can now opt-in for Beta updates in the Preferences panel. You wil...

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1.7.1 - 2021-01-05 This update brings back the "Hide Status Bar icon" option that was removed in 1.7...

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1.7.0 - 2021-01-03 New: Lorem Ipsum generator tool is added. You can generate paragraphs, sentences,...

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1.6.1 - 2020-12-19 For macOS Big Sur users: this update fixes an issue in the newly introduced Numbe...

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1.6.0 - 2020-12-15 on Twitter! Thank you very much! YAML to JSON and JSON to YAML is added. You c...

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1.5.0 - 2020-11-08 RegExp Tester is added! You can now test your regular expressions using the built...

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1.4.1 - 2020-10-24 New feature: You can now re-order the tools in the list by dragging the tool name...

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1.4.0 - 2020-10-15 New tool: Added beautifier/minifier for HTML, CSS, JS, and XML. New search box: T...

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1.3.0 - 2020-10-09 Text Diff Checker is added. You can now compare two strings and see the diff visu...

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1.2.1 - 2020-10-03 JSON tool now automatically replaces smart quotes with dump quotes. You can disab...

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1.2.0 - 2020-10-02 New tool: UUID Generator/Decoder helps you to decode UUIDs and (batch) generate v...

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1.1.1 - 2020-09-27 Added a new option to disable debug log in Preferences panel (disabled by default...

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1.1.0 - 2020-09-15 New feature: You can now click the "Clear" button to clear the input in every too...

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1.0.0 - 2020-08-19 New tool: Backslash Escape/Unescape is added so you can quickly turn strings with...

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0.2.5 - 2020-07-16 The ⚡️ icon will be shown in the sidemenu when there are tools automatically dete...

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0.2.4 - 2020-07-10 Fixed an auto-detect priority issue that affects the UNIX time tool and JSON Form...

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0.2.3 - 2020-06-30 New tool: HTML Entities Encode/Decode Fixed tool activation via status bar icon s...