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Indiehacking: Lessons from 9K USD in Facebook Ad Spend [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xoe_l67ZReU
4•mesmertech•1h ago

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mesmertech•1h ago
I've found that there is just not really any "general" advice for doing FB ads. Most of the advice out there is usually for dropshipping, or some sort of physical product.

So just going through my journey from the beginning with FB ads. Still new to YT so pls bear with my (non-existent) editing but I wanted to go into as much detail as possible because a lot of the content online is very deceiving in terms of how doing ads actually work. It gives you a feeling that all you need is one viral thing with low CPC and somehow magically even if your product's price is low, churn is high etc, everything will be fixed and you'll be a millionaire if ROAS = >2x.

No one really goes into detail about sucking on their first few ads, how to improve, how long you should wait for FB to optimize before pausing an ad, how much you should wait before killing a concept if its not bringing you sales, if you should keep an ad running with negative ROAS(if your product is a SaaS) and so on.

tldr; start with image ads. target immediate pain points nothing generic, calculate your breakeven beforehand. and finally your first 200-400 USD will likely be wasted on learning, both for FB and your own skills.

Windows 11 after two decades of macOS: okay, but also awful

https://rakhim.exotext.com/windows-11-experience
1•stock_toaster•2m ago•0 comments

Hammerspoon

https://github.com/Hammerspoon/hammerspoon
1•tosh•3m ago•0 comments

Companies House vulnerability enabled company hijacking

https://taxpolicy.org.uk/2026/03/13/companies-house-security-vulnerability-directors-addresses/
1•pavel_lishin•5m ago•0 comments

League and other Riot Games require age verification in Brazil from March 17

https://www.riotgames.com/pt-br/not%C3%ADcias/eca-digital-brasil
2•haunter•5m ago•0 comments

MacBook Neo Has Most Accessible Mac Battery in over a Decade

https://www.macrumors.com/2026/03/13/ifixit-macbook-neo-teardown/
1•tosh•6m ago•0 comments

Wan 2.7 planned for March release with big upgrades

1•Alisaqqt•6m ago•0 comments

Microsoft Copilot now boarding your health information

https://www.theregister.com/2026/03/12/microsoft_copilot_health/
1•Bender•7m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Disposable inbox API with OTP extraction and WebSocket push

https://www.freecustom.email/en
1•dishantsinghdev•7m ago•0 comments

TeXmacs 2.1.5 has been released

http://forum.texmacs.cn/t/texmacs-2-1-5-has-been-released/2164
1•amichail•8m ago•0 comments

'Are you freaking crazy?' Bot harasses woman, gets led away by cops

https://www.theregister.com/2026/03/13/china_bot_berated_woman_freaking_crazy/
1•Bender•9m ago•0 comments

You deleted everything and AWS is still charging you?

https://jvogel.me/posts/2026/aws-still-charging-you/
1•ke4qqq•12m ago•0 comments

Bryan Johnson's Longevity Protocol

https://blueprint.bryanjohnson.com/blogs/news/bryan-johnsons-protocol
1•avonmach•13m ago•0 comments

The Hottest Job in Tech Isn't Glamorous

https://www.wsj.com/cio-journal/the-hottest-job-in-tech-isnt-very-glamorous-dc29ab3e
1•1vuio0pswjnm7•14m ago•0 comments

Ask HN: Is there prior art for this rich text data model?

2•chrisecker•14m ago•1 comments

Show HN: Execute local LLM prompts in remote SSH shell sessions

2•smudgy3746•15m ago•0 comments

My Life Got 100x Better When I Stopped Thinking About Google

https://joostboer.com/google-quality-of-life
2•bookofjoe•15m ago•0 comments

Troubleshooting Kubectl "No Route to Host" on a Mac

https://lizhaoliu.github.io/posts/troubleshooting-kubectl-local-network.html
1•lizhaoliu•15m ago•0 comments

How a mathematician is cracking open Mexico's powerful drug cartels

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-026-00299-0
3•herbertl•17m ago•0 comments

AI toys for young children must be more tightly regulated, say researchers

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/mar/13/ai-toys-young-children-tigher-regulations-rese...
2•Brajeshwar•18m ago•0 comments

Reddit's Lawsuit Is a Dangerous Attempt to Expand Platform Power

https://serpapi.com/blog/reddits-lawsuit-is-a-dangerous-attempt-to-expand-platform-power/
2•paigealyse•18m ago•0 comments

Coding Agents and Complexity Budgets

https://leerob.com/agents
1•herbertl•19m ago•0 comments

ASA hails victory vs. SEC in off-channel communications challenge

https://www.investmentnews.com/regulation-legal-compliance/asa-hails-victory-vs-sec-in-off-channe...
1•petethomas•21m ago•0 comments

Protecting children is a good thing, but the policy proposals remain harmful

https://www.cato.org/blog/keeping-kids-safe-good-policy-proposals-are-still-bad-speech-innovation...
2•01-_-•23m ago•0 comments

Evaluating Claude's dbt Skills: Building an Eval from Scratch

https://rmoff.net/2026/03/13/evaluating-claudes-dbt-skills-building-an-eval-from-scratch/
2•rmoff•24m ago•0 comments

1M context window now generally available for Claude Opus and Sonnet 4.6

https://twitter.com/claudeai/status/2032509548297343196
2•tosh•29m ago•0 comments

Ask HN: Is "fast, cheap, correct – pick two" still true in software development?

1•VWWHFSfQ•30m ago•3 comments

Pandas Exercises for Data Analysis (Interactive)

https://machinelearningplus.com/python/101-pandas-exercises-python-interactive/
2•selva86•32m ago•1 comments

Why physical AI is becoming manufacturing's next advantage

https://www.technologyreview.com/2026/03/13/1134184/why-physical-ai-is-becoming-manufacturings-ne...
3•joozio•34m ago•0 comments

AI‑driven fraud and corporate crime: Risks, controls and insurance implications

https://www.wtwco.com/en-us/insights/2026/02/ai-driven-fraud-and-corporate-crime-risks-controls-a...
1•mooreds•34m ago•0 comments

Nvidia: Parrot

https://nvlabs.github.io/parrot/index.html
1•tosh•34m ago•0 comments