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Happy Sunday Techtopians.

Today I sat with Andrei, a Belarus-born indie hacker now based in Wroclaw, Poland, has created Bluesky Meter, an innovative analytics service designed to provide deep insights for Bluesky users. Born from a passion for the Bluesky community and a desire to build something truly useful, the project emerged as a spontaneous yet purposeful endeavor at the end of 2024. By leveraging the platform's public API, Bluesky Meter aims to transform raw social data into meaningful metrics, offering startup founders and indie hackers a powerful tool for understanding digital community dynamics.

Now, over to Andrei!

Decoding Bluesky: One Developer's Quest to Empower Community Metrics

Can you tell me a little bit about yourself and your business or product? 
 
My name is Andrei. I'm originally from Belarus, but due to obvious circumstances, about two years ago I moved to Wroclaw, Poland where I have been living since then. 
 
I began indie hacking in July and I am currently working on my main project, Listing Cat. It's a marketing database for startup founders and indie hackers. 
 
My "side" side project is Bluesky Meter, which I spontaneously created at the end of November. It's an analytics service for Bluesky users. 

 
What was your main inspiration for creating BlueSky Meter? 
 
The amazing Bluesky community was my main motivation! I felt like I wanted to build something for a "mass market," something that every Bluesky user can use daily. Thankfully, the public API is really simple to start with. 
 
But to be honest, I wish the API would be improved in some specific areas, like follow date, more filtering capabilities for various endpoints, etc. Currently, implementing new features is quite challenging as I always have to consider various trade-offs. 
 
How do you define success in your business? 
 
With Bluesky Meter, I'd be happy to have 1,000 daily users. This would help attract new sponsors and boost my motivation to improve this product. 
 
If you were to start again from scratch, what would you do differently? 
 
I think I did mostly everything right from the start. I built the MVP in just a couple of days and started building everything in public from day one. That brought me a lot of user feedback and feature requests, as well as a lot of organic backlinks and mentions. 
 
What advice would you give to someone just starting out or has the same idea of creating a tool like Bluesky Meter? 
 
Try to overthink less and build more. Launch your MVP as soon as you can and start iterating by improving the product based on user feedback. It's much simpler to build anything this way. 
 
What was the most challenging aspect of Building in Public or Indie Hacking? 
 
Discovering a new copycat of my project each day is tough mentally, but I'm getting used to it :) 
 
Where can people find you? 
 
X - https://x.com/AndreiHudovich 
Bluesky - https://andrei.blue