Fulltime indie hacker | Share tips on app/web dev and marketing | Sugar addicted
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Joined July 2022
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AI companies shipped the AGI press release.
Now they want me to say please.
Disappointment isn't abuse.
Honest evals. Honest marketing. Then manners.
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Everyone's talking about Grok bot. I quietly canceled it.
You can't switch its model. it auto-picks, and when it's dumb you're stuck.
Now I run OpenClaw and flip to Gemini or Kimi the moment DeepSeek slips.
It's okay to pick the tool nobody talks about.
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Amazon blocked agent checkout. Walmart issues capped agent IDs next month.
Amazon's money comes from stock it owns and ads on its own pages. An agent that never loads the page skips both.
Walmart's money comes from shelf space and fulfillment. An agent order pays both.
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The Viggle AI seems good. But it has one hilarious (and brutal) limitation. It falls apart if the source and target body shapes don't match. I took a classic Jackie Chan scene and swapped the characters with a cat and a dog. The result is pure nightmare fuel.
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Your new YouTube video is stuck at 0 views?
Don't delete it. Try this 60-second fix: → Change visibility to Unlisted → Wait for 1 hour → Change it back to PublicThis forces the algorithm to re-index and kickstart the push it missed.
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Created my very first AI generated video on my new YouTube shorts channel.
got 1400 views and 1 subsciber.
Not too bad.
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Who the hell designed the tab bar of @cursor_ai ? Can you make the selected tab even less obvious?
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Ever feel lost between beginner and intermediate tutorials? You're not alone.
I hit this wall learning Python. The solution? Exploring multiple resources and filling knowledge gaps one concept at a time.
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I’m intentionally capping my coding time at 4 hours a day.
As a developer, that feels like a sin.
But it’s the most important strategic decision I’ve made to break out of the low-engagement bubble and actually grow my SaaS.
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"You absolute idiot. Now think hard about why I'm yelling at you."
This is my new favorite prompt when an AI keeps failing the same task.
For my coding assistant (Cursor), this unhinged prompt breaks its failure loop and fixes the code correctly about 30-40% of the time.
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Most people get garbage results from AI.
It's not the AI's fault. It's yours.
You're giving it data, but you're forgetting the most important part. 🧵
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That old phone in your drawer is a $0 desk clock waiting to happen.
But most web clocks have a fatal flaw for this: they're riddled with ads, can't stay on, and aren't mobile-friendly.
I reviewed 7 of them to find the clear winner. claritydeck.app/blog/what-to…
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AI is having an identity crisis.
I'm in Cursor, prompting Gemini 2.5 Pro in Chinese.
It starts replying perfectly... then suddenly, it switches to fluent Japanese.
Not sure if this is the beginning of Skynet or just a very confused language model.
X is a better LinkedIn for indie hackers
When I feel low, I just come to X to see the indie hackers here
Some are quitting their job today
Some are trying to get to ramen profitability today
Some have reached their MRR milestones today
Some exit their SaaS today
Regardless of their journey, I always get inspired!
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I just found an absolute cheat code weather API: Open-Meteo. It’s free and no key needed.
I went from discovery to pulling live data in under 5 minutes for a new widget in my app, ClarityDeck. This literally saved me a day of work.
(UI work still in progress)
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AI-generated roadmaps are usually garbage.
Vague, generic, and useless.
I spent the last month refining a prompt framework that forces it to give me a precise, day-by-day action plan for my SaaS, ClarityDeck.
Steal my system: 🧵
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I'm sharing the exact process I use to find product ideas hidden in plain sight. No gurus, no courses, just a free tool and a bit of curiosity. Hope this is helpful for anyone in #buildinpublic or #SaaS trying to figure out what customers actually want.
I was completely stuck.
I was trying to decide the next feature for my app, reading books and expert blog posts on "product strategy."
It was all just theory. Then I found the answer in 15 minutes, for free.
Here's the simple process I used.
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I was completely stuck.
I was trying to decide the next feature for my app, reading books and expert blog posts on "product strategy."
It was all just theory. Then I found the answer in 15 minutes, for free.
Here's the simple process I used.