I have been thinking more about how to incorporate writing/annotation into my digital screens-based workflows lately. I work a lot on my laptop/Vision Pro

B does more for my business than A: #buildinpublic

Thankful for the articles/notes I wrote when trying to do something with LLMs.

> Perfect! I found your Hetzner SSH keys. Let me get them and update your config: That's a bit scary 🤣

TheBlue.social has: 319.641 clean ups 195,759 follow backs 20,783 alt text generations 84,372 starter packs indexed 82.7 average posts per user going to keep shipping #buildinpublic

Not-a bootstrapped indie detector built into BetterStack #buildinpublic

z.ai's strategy of hooking into Claude Code and friends as well as it sponsoring CLIProxyAPI is really smart. We don't have to just use their tools; there's things to learn too #buildinpublic

Feels like "you don't know what you don't know" becomes a bigger problem with the prevalence of AI

Back to trying out `droid` and it launches faster than `claude`. It's pretty important to me. But it seems to devour tokens 🤷‍♂️

So far, @theblue.social has done: 322,871 clean ups 200,432 follow backs 22,890 alt text generations 86,252 starter packs indexed 82.7 average posts per user going to keep shipping #buildinpublic

"Claude CLI deleted my home directory Wiped my whole Mac" — absolutely only run YOLO mode in a container

"The long context beta is not yet available for this subscription." Hmm.. lost it

Still looking for PRs for indiedevuse.com from indie/bootstrappers. Create one at github.com/hboon/indied... #buildinpublic #spotlight

Anki never stuck for me. Going to give Hashcards borretti.me/article/hash... a go. Its file format matches how I've kept my cards (to import to Anki) and I like having keyboard shortcuts.

Still looking for PRs for indiedevuse.com from indie/bootstrappers. Create one at github.com/hboon/indied... #buildinpublic #spotlight

Weekly update: * Launched codevetta.com - Architecture & code risk review for product owners and developers * Added more free tools * Added email notifications for users when their scheduled posts are running low * Fixed fragile setup for pre-rendering #buildinpublic

What. Claude Code guess passes? NFT is coming next 🤣

Cafes are still the more productive work environment for me. I think I'm just too easily distracted otherwise. #buildinpublic

I like iterating on UI components in Storybook. One advantage being I can see how things look in light and dark theme at the same time. I often forget to check otherwise.

Amazon too?

I made a little quality of life improvement to DX a few weeks ago and I'm still loving it: When I make a screenshot with the native macOS tool, it's detected and the full path is automatically added to the clipboard so I can just paste into Claude Code

Considering splitting out products from TheBlue.social. Some parts seem to work out better #buildinpublic

Healthy main character energy

Being an indie bootstrapper means I am constantly fighting against time. But I still take the chance to improve the UX of my products (sometimes!). I added this a while back so the user can verify for themselves that the image/URL is available. #buildinpublic

This is cool. But instead of breaking thinking mode, they shipped this.

One of the things I think about most is if the product direction is correct #buildinpublic

Weekly update: * Improved sign-up conversion flow * Launched yearly pricing plan * Expand bulk alt text credits system to weekly and yearly plans * Enhanced scheduled post reliability * Added OG link preview to post composer * Created /bluesky landing page #buildinpublic

I recently moved most of my servers from Linode to Hetzner. I wrote a blog post describing the pros and cons of each hosting service: virtualsanity.com/202512/mo…

Weekly update: * Improved sign-up conversion flow * Launched yearly pricing plan * Expand bulk alt text credits system to weekly and yearly plans * Enhanced scheduled post reliability * Added OG link preview to post composer * Created /bluesky landing page #buildinpublic

TIL `fzf` does exact match if you add a single-quote ' prefix: 'needle

Still one of my favorite tricks. I wrap it with `/reflect` bsky.app/profile/did:...

So far, @theblue.social has: 320,486 clean ups 196,517 follow backs 20,918 alt text generations 86,252 starter packs indexed 82.7 average posts per user going to keep shipping #buildinpublic

Dropped by 1 and +2 again 🤷 #buildinpublic

I often use Codex to review Claude Code's work. Never occurred to me to ask it to review Claude Code's plan! 🤔

Dogfooding and liking the calendar view in @theblue.social #buildinpublic

Doing some tech explorations. Really fun. Doesn't make money (yet) though #buildinpublic

Dogfooding and liking the calendar view in @theblue.social #buildinpublic

Updated my Emoji stats page to give a 2025 Bluesky Emoji retrospective theblue.social/tools/emoji-...

Doing some tech explorations. Really fun. Doesn't make money (yet) though #buildinpublic

Switched from ngrok to Cloudflare Tunnel for exposing localhost. Can't beat the price. ngrok charges $10 per custom (sub)domain. So it's minimal $20 per frontend+backend per project for me. Switching time spent is minimal hboon.com/configuring-...

Think I lost my ChatGPT juice for @theblue.social. No idea what happened. Went away as quickly as it came. Could be just the weekend, but it's voodoo magic. #buildinpublic

I have a little queue and snooze system going with Claude Code. So I can work like this during iteractive sessions: 1. do do do 2. (have this idea). snooze: xyz. Implement abc first 3. do do do 4. quit session (or not) 5. go through snoozed items

14th mth into bootstrapping. @thebluesocial is my 3rd product. I have spent the longest time on it so far. ⏰ worked on it for 11 mths 💰 +ve MRR after 4 mths 💔 still trying to find PMV 🛡️ DR 40 Many ups and downs. Constantly wondering if I should build a 4th while iterating #buildinpublic

14th mth into bootstrapping. @thebluesocial is my 3rd product. I have spent the longest time on it so far. ⏰ worked on it for 11 mths 💰 +ve MRR after 4 mths 💔 still trying to find PMV 🛡️ DR 40 Many ups and downs. Constantly wondering if I should build a 4th while iterating #buildinpublic

Updated my Emoji stats page to give a 2025 Bluesky Emoji retrospective theblue.social/tools/emoji-...

Weekly update * Tweak the emoji stats page to provide 2025 retrospective * Reduced friction in purchase flow with a clearer pre-login confirmation * Moved from ngrok to Cloudflare Tunnel. $10 -> free, and still easy * Cleaned up the upsell system so prompts feel less interruptive #buildinpublic

Weekly update * Tweak the emoji stats page to provide 2025 retrospective * Reduced friction in purchase flow with a clearer pre-login confirmation * Moved from ngrok to Cloudflare Tunnel. $10 -> free, and still easy * Cleaned up the upsell system so prompts feel less interruptive #buildinpublic

Still the case bsky.app/profile/did:...

I keep my notes and TODO list in a wip.md file and it's getting big. I'm trying this: 1. Convert it to PDF 2. Cross out and star lines on my reMarkable 3. Ask Claude Code to read the PDF and remove lines that are crossed out and move starred lines to top It… works!

TheBlue.social has: 319.641 clean ups 195,759 follow backs 20,783 alt text generations 84,372 starter packs indexed 82.7 average posts per user going to keep shipping #buildinpublic