Inside Day 4 of My Startup Build – No Demos, Just Real Progress


Day 4.
Still building.
Still fixing.
Still figuring things out.
No fancy UI drops today.
No viral feature to shout about.
Just quiet progress — the kind that usually happens when no one’s watching.
No hype, no drops — just the kind of behind-the-scenes work that makes a product actually work.🛠️ The Work No One Talks About
Today was full of small wins that don’t look impressive… but matter way more than they get credit for:
Smoothed out weird layout issues
Cleaned up how prompt inputs behave
Rewrote logic for better output consistency
Found (and fixed) some odd edge cases that only show up when you really push the tool
None of this is tweet-worthy.
But it’s the stuff that makes a product actually usable.
🧘♂️ No Deadlines, Just Direction
We’re not rushing to drop something tomorrow.
We’re not grinding to force a release.
Right now, the focus is just: keep moving. Keep improving.
Let the product tell us what it needs — and build around that.
🧩 What Day 4 Feels Like
It’s the “in-between” zone of the build.
You’re past the excitement of the first few commits.
You’re not yet at the point where things feel polished.
You’re deep in the part where things either fall apart… or start coming together.
And honestly? That’s where the real product begins to take shape.
🌱 Building in Public
We’re sharing this journey day by day — not to flex,
but to show what actually goes into building a tool from scratch.
Because some days are launch days.
And some days?
They’re just build days.
This was one of those. And that’s more than enough.
Still building. Still learning. Still showing up.
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Litun Nayak
Litun Nayak
🧑💻 Indie maker building AI-powered tools. ⚙️ Ex-freelancer, now turning ideas into products. 📍 Writing about SaaS, tech, and lessons from the journey. 🛠 Currently building in public.