For years I lived in a tent. Forests of Canada. Mountains of California. Three months working brutal hours as a seasonal worker, then the rest of the year as a nomad — Mexico, India, Nepal. The deal was simple: work hard, sleep under stars, trade time for time. A day off was a missed paycheck. Total ownership of my hours. I loved that life. Freedom wasn't a concept. It was a random Wednesday at 1pm, on a beach in Oaxaca eating mango with friends. Then came the pandemic. It caught me in Spain. My seasonal job stopped paying what it used to. The road closed. I went to Thailand to learn massage thinking I could trade one honest trade for another. Beautiful detour. Didn't stick. Madrid happened. Waitressing. Precarity. Forty years old serving cañas at 1am wondering how the hell I got here. Something cracked. I enrolled in a bootcamp. Code. Logic. Systems. The opposite of campfires and visas. A company liked my profile and called me mid-course. Now I work remote on a legacy project I don't like. Nobody turns on their camera. Nobody mentors me. I work alone with the AI. I'm not growing. Not professionally. Not as a person. The job pays €1,300. The work bores me. The comfort is dangerous. I'm 40. I'm not afraid of hard work. I'm afraid of fading. So here's the plan: — Build apps from this quiet Galician flat — Save what I can — Camperize a van with my partner — Reach €2k MRR — Then point the wheel south Comfort is not my priority. Freedom is. If you're here grinding for the same reason — silently, slowly, against the gravity of safe — I'm building in public. Follow along.

Is Opus getting dumber with each passing day?

What do you guys use to get less AI slop in texts and copys?

Soooo, my tarot journal app got rejected by App Review. I left a comment explaining everything, then just… waited. A few days went by with zero reply. No update, no clarification, nothing. So today I appealed. Not dramatic about it, just moving the process forward. Building on the side means a lot of this quiet waiting. Anyways, I keep going. Weirdly calm about it.

I’m wondering how public “building in public” should really be. Is revealing your app’s name and strategy early a smart way to build an audience, or does it make it too easy for someone with more money to copy the idea and outperform your organic growth? Would you share it or wait?🤔

This really resonates with me. Building the product is only half the job. Learning how to share the journey, connect with people, and actually reach the right audience is a completely different skill. A very honest and useful read for anyone building in public. Highly recommended! ✨

My first rejection 🥹

I’ve noticed some interesting patterns in my analytics. My audience is tiny, but quality control still matters. Free Palestine. 🇵🇸

Claude running the iOS simulator is a bigger deal than it sounds. I asked it to use my app like a real user. By the time I got back from breakfast, it had found two bugs in the investment flow, traced both to the backend, and fixed them. So good! Yeah, this changes things

Low-key one of my favorite little Mac apps. I was spending way too much time checking limits across all my AI coding accounts. Since I started using CodexBar, I can see limits, reset times, credits, and spend right from my Mac menu bar. Also, opensource. So much easier. Sharing in case you guys need this too

Galician paella is something else 😂

Apple Ads question for y'all: Does the $100 Apple Ads promo credit expire? Console shows when it was applied but no expiration date, and the terms don't specify one. Wanna hold it until my app has reviews but not lose it either. Anyone been through this?

Hey folks — I’ve been quietly building a new app. It’s called Amulet: a tarot journal for readings with your own deck, or for drawing cards in the app. Keep the cards. Return to the questions. Notice the patterns. ngl, I feel like my design skills leveled up a lot while building this one. Planning to submit it for App Store review in a few hours, so it’s coming soon!

Seriously, what’s going on with Fable? Since yesterday, a single prompt is basically wiping out all my tokens. Is this happening to anyone else?