Scares the hell out of me. One of my primary, very old domain bsky.app/profile/did:... #buildinpublic

Improved the demo video player, but doesn't change the fact that the video itself is crap. Might have to redo it #buildinpublic

cmd+w is why I use tmux

Continuing with the slow DR climb #buildinpublic

Weekly update: Multiple accounts for each network support. Was quite limiting without it. * Add product tour highlighting scheduling/posting feature * Support multiple image uploads * A couple of sign ups for affiliate program but I haven't crack it yet #buildinpublic

OK. Trying out product tours. I don't want it to be too heavy. Will try to steer users towards scheduling a post #buildinpublic Anyone has tips/gotchas?

Thinking of adding product tours/highlights to TheBlue.social Hope it doesn't add up like Apple's

Bit scary, as the DR for TheBlue.social goes up, DR for every other site I own (and track) has dipped #buildinpublic

Phantom badges are a bugger 😭

Been more than a week. The upgrade to macOS Tahoe has bothered me or disrupted my work way less than any macOS upgrade over the last few years. It's not as bad as I read around. Remember when DNS broke? (or on iOS when cellular connection broken?)

+2 to DR. I'll take it #buildinpublic

TIL ccusage supports Codex too: bunx @ccusage/codex@latest monthly #Codex bunx ccusage@latest monthly #Claude Code

It's a little nudge, but the apparent issue with Claude Code + Max + Opus limits nudged me to use Codex more and this.

10 years after git adds support for worktrees, I finally use it for real. Didn't quite like it. I think it's just because I often work in main, serially. Otherwise, it's neat.

Same usage pattern with Opus, less than half my usual day and Claude Code has already used more than 30% of weekly limits 🤷

12th mth into bootstrapping. @theblue.social is my 3rd product. I have spent the longest time on it so far. ⏰ worked on it for full 9 mths 💰 +ve MRR after 4 mths, but not ramen profitable 💔 conversions stalled last mth 🛡️ DR 34. Growing slowly Grind is real #buildinpublic

Claude Code feels crazy faster now, running Sonnet 4.5. Is it as good?

It's cute at least.

I wish it keeps going up #buildinpublic

Weekly update: I'm experimenting with affiliate program to see if it opens up to different customers and go towards PMF. * Added Pinterest support * Promote affiliate program * Adding demo video to / and /pricing among other things to (hopefully) help conversion #buildinpublic

The skills and tools that I used to write code without AI that I still find extremely useful: - Neovim - Git - Design and understanding software architecture - Write description in Markdown - Writing good logs - Reading diffs - Navigating code

I have had good luck with these launch platforms. They offer decent backlinks: producthunt .com startupfa .me fazier .com uneed .best peerpush .net tinylaun .com ramen .tools firsto .co #buildinpublic

PRD, TDD, ETC. I can't remember half of the acronyms. AGENTS.md is all you need 80% the time.

You are missing out if you aren't watching your users use your app/site #buildinpublic

> Now I need to significantly refactor the main part of the function to handle accountIDs. Let me create a completely new approach Wait. Hold your horses

Added a video to / and /pricing to see if it helps improve conversions #buildinpublic

I used a wip.md file for my TODOs for ~16 years. Every day, I move the done items to a new file with yesterday's date.

I move many low effort tasks to a Markdown list of TODOs and shove it to Claude Code in YOLO mode bsky.app/profile/did:...

My talk for using agentic AI coding tools: 1. You only need AGENTS.md 2. Tell it the goal; if it's a bug, let it be able to see the output/error message/logs 3. Let it iterate and 60% of the time, it'll work it out.

Enhancing/debugging/fixing with a user's help. Thank you! #buildinpublic

Too much coding and too little marketing? #buildinpublic

Added cross-posting to Pinterest support. I think out of all the platforms that require approval (i.e. minus Bluesky and Mastodon), Pinterest provides the fastest path from code in localhost to shipping to production. #buildinpublic

I finally decided to write this comment: //seconds minutes hours dayOfMonth month dayOfWeek and * for "every"

ICYMI like I did, Claude Code slash commands now support frontmatter, positional args $1 $2 and a tool for running them so you can ask Claude to run them: > After you print "foo", run /bar apple orange it's much more easier to combo things like /validate, /review now.

DR back to 32 🤷 #buildinpublic Still no idea why?

Cafe work morning while waiting.

Evolution as a bootstrapped indie: from clicking "Deprecation of Node 20 on GitHub Actions runners" to clicking "drive downloads with viral ugc campaigns"

Weekly update: I created an affiliate program for TheBlue.social. Learning how to promote it. * Fixes/changes follow ups for email-based login * Implement affiliate program * Promote affiliate program #buildinpublic

git tip if you work with AI tools: have a git repo copy that pulls rather than be pushed to as a back up.

Display avatar if available. Been so many years and gravatar is still so handy (and free) #buildinpublic

Me: Did you implement your own md5 implementation? isn't there a built-in that we can use? Them: ⏺ You're right! I did implement my own MD5 function, which is unnecessarily complex. Unfortunately, … 🤣

Sent out reactivation emails. I try to be nice and not spammy. They are excellent ROI. #buildinpublic

Have I shipped? Render says:

I'm bootstrapping because I like to build stuff #buildinpublic

Took a little time off from figuring out the reason for the great dip (of retention and new subs) to fix the primary action buttons so they have consistent style. Brings me a little joy #buildinpublic

Whoops

With the changes in macOS Tahoe, I can't tell Safari and Chrome a part very quickly now. Maybe it's the more elaborate rounded corners. Looks uglier too.

Against my better judgement and others', I upgraded to Tahoe 26. Took less than 20 minutes. Not only that, I upgraded WebStorm and switched from Supermaven back to Copilot. Also switched from Bartender to Ice. SimplyWM still works 💪 It's my lucky day 🤣

Finally created an affiliate program for TheBlue .social. Have to figure out how to promote it. But in the meantime sign up is at theblue-social.getrewardful.com/signup #buildinpublic

Finally have access to the newer Insights functionality in Google Search Console. Seems like the rollout is really slow?