Anton Cherkasov

@anton.tips

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Maker. Sharing my journey from 0 to $10k MRR🎯 🧑‍💻posthero.ai - social media scheduler ⚡️craftman.ai - simple Intercom alternative

The best thing I did this year was making Sunday boring. No calls, no launches, no catching up on work I avoided during the week. Just rest, and one hour of planning. Everything else got easier after that.
My new gym routine in Bali: - Workout - Sauna and recovery - Laptop, coconut, poolside Somehow this is the most productive I've been all week.
A normal Friday building a startup from Bali: 6:30 - walk past rice fields 8:00 - yoga, still bad at it, still going 9:00 - coworking, deep work while the West sleeps 12:30 - lunch with entrepreneurs, half the table is building something you'll hear about in a year 14:00 - back to shipping
19,000 views on Threads in the last 2 weeks. I have 500 followers. People assume there's some trick. There isn't. My process is almost embarrassingly simple: 1. I find formats that are already going viral 2. I rewrite them for my niche, in my voice 3. I hit schedule in Posthero.ai
4 things that help me slow my brain down after building Posthero all day: - Walks through the rice fields - Journaling - Meditation - Yoga (yeah, yeah - tried it last week and actually loved it) Closing the laptop isn't the same as stopping. These actually help me switch off.
Everyone asks if they should move to Bali and build from here. Honest answer: it depends entirely on who you are.
Started playing basketball again after a long break. Nothing better than stepping out after lunch to shoot some hoops. Come back to my desk and suddenly I want to build harder on Posthero. Love this new routine.
Sunday ritual: two questions, one blank page. What worked this week? What's the ONE thing that will move the needle in PostHero next week? I find that first. Everything else gets planned around it. One hour, no calls, no notifications. Best hour of my week.
Two weeks since I moved to the quieter side of Bali. What's changed: - I sleep properly now (no parties within earshot) - I walk through the rice fields every morning and still can't quite believe it - I explore somewhere new most days, and it keeps giving me this small hit of joy
Just bought a gym membership in Bali I had no intention of buying. Walked in to "check it out." Took the tour. It was so obviously good that I signed up on the spot. No objection handling. No discount. No follow-up email sequence.
Bought a new gym membership in Bali. That's the vibe there. Their café is so good I want to work from it too. Not sure I even need an office anymore.
Building a startup from Bali has a hidden cost. Nobody talks about it. • Every call with Europe or the US is at 4am or 10pm • Your friends back home slowly stop asking when you're coming back • "Just grab coffee" with a client is a 14-hour flight
Generated 103K LinkedIn views in one week for a client. The setup: PostHero for scheduling and ideation + GKA framework for the content (Growth, Knowledge, Authority).
A normal Tuesday building a startup from Bali: 6:30 - walk past rice fields, no headphones 8:00 - coworking, deep work block, nobody messages me because Europe and the US are still asleep 12:00 - $3 lunch that would cost $25 anywhere else 15:00 - padel, then straight back to shipping
My life in Bali is boring on paper: • Coworking at 8am, deep work session • Lunch with founders and people building interesting things • Back to the coworking space • 80% of my time with a small circle of friends • Almost never go to parties • Gym, padel, or beach volleyball when I'm not working
Every Sunday I plan the week ahead. No calls, no notifications, just me and a blank page. It's the calmest hour of my week, and probably the most useful one.
For all founders... Your product was never your problem. A viral rant this week made me a little uncomfortable, in the way true things do. The claim: your product was never your problem, and vibe coding just made that obvious. Anyone can ship a working app in a weekend now.
"RIP SaaS, my company is now an agentic AI startup." It's a joke. It's also the most honest thing I've read about 2026. The bit that stuck with me: a founder listing everything they "rebuilt" as an AI startup in 3 hours. Renamed the search bar to a prompt bar. Renamed the API to MCP.
Last week I moved to a new place in Bali. I'm so happy now. It's quiet, calm, and green. Proper Bali. I lived in Canggu for 5 years, which is busier and more developed. It has its perks, but it's also crowded and chaotic.
I love football, and I think Argentina vs Cabo Verde is a perfect example of what's happening in startups right now. I played 20 years ago, up to U17 pre-national level, so I watch these games closely.
The best marketing I've done for Posthero isn't marketing. It's free tools. A banner generator, a grid maker, small things people search for. They rank on Google, solve one tiny problem, and quietly send trials every day while I sleep. Build the thing people are already searching for.
Main thing I did today: collapsed the main menu from 7 items to 4. Removed Inspiration, Posts, and Voice Notes from the sidebar. Posthero already feels lighter and easier to use. Am I right? No idea. But it looks better to me.
Okay, coming back to work. Last 7 days: played padel, saw a gazillion apartments and villas, got a spa session or two, and moved to a new place in a super green area (woke up to this view🌾). But I kept shipping. Posthero now connects to Google Drive, so users can upload media straight from there.
Looking for a new place in Bali. Saw this penthouse today. Imagine waking up to this view every morning. It even has a spot right by the window. Should I rent it now and let it pressure me into $1M ARR? -- Scheduled with Posthero.ai
Ran 3 Claude Code windows at once today. 3 different features, building in parallel, jumping between them like a control room. Felt like an absolute hacker 😅 Solo founder in 2026: you're not a one-person team anymore. You're a one-person team with 3+ AI interns who never sleep.
Best insight from the founder mastermind I ran in Bali this week: Build a content system in Obsidian. Pull in raw material from everywhere: notes, call takeaways, things you ship, random ideas - into one place. Then you're never creating content from a blank page.
Did a call with a European client this morning. Their backgrounds: grey office, grey window, grey sky. Mine: rice fields and an iced tea. Moments like this are when I remember why I'm in Bali.
Working from Bali changed how I work. I used to think I needed an office for work. Turns out I just needed the right spot for the right task. When I move from my desk to a café over the rice fields, my brain shifts. I feel more creative. Deep focus? Office. Creativity? Café with a view.
The dark side of Bali: the price. If you want the nice, popular areas (good infrastructure, still green, views like this) it's not cheap anymore. - Guesthouse room: from $500/mo - Decent villa: $1,500–$2,500/mo Still worth it for me, but it's not the cheap paradise people imagine.
I love Bali... It's a place to actually live. Yesterday: hotpot cafe, karaoke with founders, sunset beach walk. All within 5 minutes of the office. This is what people miss about building here. It's not just the "digital nomad lifestyle" or the networking events.
This week in 3 words: coding, coding, coding. Need to rest and chill a bit with a view like this. Shipped a lot though. Worth it.
This week in 3 words: coding, coding, coding. Need to rest and chill a bit with a view like this. Shipped a lot though. Worth it.
i promised myself i wouldn't work weekends. but claude code is too much fun to put down today 😅
8 years of working 7 days a week. This year I started taking weekends off. last few months, I travel somewhere new in Bali every weekend. I work less. I've never felt more fulfilled. Nobody gives you a medal for skipping your life.
"How I built this" posts are dead. A thread blew up on reddit this week asking why founder stories stopped working. 40+ comments, and they all landed on the same answer: People aren't tired of real stories. They're tired of templates pretending to be stories.
Posthero got 3,150 organic clicks in May. All from Google. $0 spent. What's been working: - comparison pages - "alternative to X" pages - free tools People in 2026: "SEO is dying." My Search Console: 📈
I don't get people who work from Bali cafes all day. Looks great in a photo. In reality: • no AC • wifi that drops every 10 min • chairs that destroy your back Give me a real setup. Good chair, a monitor, a proper desk. Coworking or the villa. That's where the work actually happens.
The most popular request on Posthero lately? API access.
We just shipped AI image generation in PostHero. And I'm honestly excited about this one. Here's why it's different: 1. Multiple presets that actually understand your content. The AI pulls context directly from your post, so you're not starting from scratch every time.
Left the sauna to ship a new OpenClaw skill. Your agents can now publish to LinkedIn, Instagram, TikTok, X, and more via PostHero. Build the agent, skip the scheduling.
The CEO of a $5B company runs his entire job through OpenClaw. Pedro Franceschi, 29-year-old CEO of Brex, built this: → One OpenClaw pipeline that reads his email, Slack, Google Docs, and WhatsApp - and filters it down to the 25 people that actually matter
We just shipped Instagram analytics on PostHero. This completes our analytics suite across X, Threads, YouTube, TikTok, and now Instagram. Users can finally see all their social metrics in one place. No more screenshot chaos. No more spreadsheet hell.
We just shipped Threads and TikTok analytics in PostHero. Here's what I'm most excited about: 1. Best performing posts ranked by views or replies - I use this to find new content ideas that actually work
I built an AI research team that works while I sleep. Here's what changed: I stopped doing manual research and started using OpenClaw to automate the entire process.
Working on a big Posthero update dropping next week. Not a bad place to build.
Stop treating OpenClaw like a search engine. Start treating it like your first $100k/year employee. If you're using it like a "faster ChatGPT," you're stuck in the Noob tier. Most people treat AI like a vending machine: Put a prompt in, get a result out.
Spent today working on strategy and setting goals for March.
TikTok drafts just landed in the Posthero API. You can now send posts directly to TikTok as drafts and publish them manually in the TikTok app. Just set postMode: "draft" in the create post call.
Just added TikTok carousel support to the PostHero API. Simply send image URLs in the request to create a post. Looks like carousels are on fire on TikTok right now.
Spent the weekend fixing bugs in Posthero and shipping ClawPlane features. Not glamorous. No viral launch. Just building. Small progress > no progress.
Built Posthero API after my OpenClaw agent kept asking 'how do I post this to LinkedIn?' $9/mo. Made for agentic workflows. Let your AI actually publish, not just draft. posthero.ai
Launched Posthero API today. Also fixed a bug that's been bothering me. Not glamorous. Just building.
Just spent an hour analyzing our landing page with @openclaw. it roasted us. here's what Jarvis said: 1. our best feature (voice notes) was buried as #6. moved it to #2. 2. hero said 'all-in-one social media management' — aka every competitor. rewrote it.
Mom, I did it again. One of my goals for 2026 is to ship more. So I decided to start today.
I can spot AI content in 3 seconds. [And it's killing your credibility] Here's what gives you away: We don’t want to read AI-generated content... And it’s often easy to spot. Robotic transitions like "moreover" and "furthermore" Perfect grammar with zero personality Em dashes everywhere (–)
LinkedIn followers don't just appear. They follow because you've earned their attention. Valuable comments are the engagement trigger. And once one person engages, others tend to follow. The reality is: It's really hard to find consistent growth strategies that actually work.
Meta verified my app last week ✅ Thought I was done. Turns out Instagram needs its own separate approval (ouch!) Posthero works with all platforms except Instagram (for now). IG request sent today.
Feeling like the Grinch today 🎄 Added CAPTCHA to Posthero signup. I hate CAPTCHAs. But 50 bot signups this week broke me. Merry Xmas.
Building in public to $100K MRR (week 4). This week reminded me that shipping features matters more than shipping content. I've been pushing to publish more consistently, but reality had other plans. Key developments: