Many tech founders have an aversion to sales. It feels pushy, boastful and annoying. And who wants to be those words? But it's just the wrong framing. Sales actually helps people with a problem. ...

Favorite new procrastination activity: animating icons #buildinpublic #indiehackers #animation

As an engineer you can't do marketing. At least not when you follow engineering principles like Don't Repeat Yourself (DRY) and try to find one abstract solution that solves many problems at once. #marketing #buildinpublic #indiehackers

By default, communicate. It's easy to assume other people already know something. But it's very likely they haven't heard, already forgot or didn't understand the first 5 times.

CSS animations have become so easy... The sparkle SVG is animated (also with CSS) and the text has an animated linear-gradient. And again, LLMs are good at this. There's now no excuse to not add animations where it makes the UI more delightful.

Pushing server-events to the browser used to be such a pain with WebSockets. But a few things changed over the last couple of years: Server-Sent-Events (SSE) have been possible with major browsers since around 2012.

Rule of thumb for product builders: you can *always* improve onboarding

Unexpected LLM use case: animating SVGs. As LLMs hold all of CSS animation specs in their "head" and I generally don't, this would have been impossible to do manually.

Which from-name are you using when sending emails from your personal account? I've seen: Firstname at Product Firstname @ Product Firstname from Product Full Name @ Product Full Name | Product Full Name #buildinpublic #email

Saw this and first impulse was to buy a game. But then remembered that games are way less fun than building and shipping something.

Very proud that my first real Product Hunt launch ended up as #4 product of the day and was featured in the PH newsletter. Onward! #buildinpublic

I'll never have to open the horrible GA4 again! Because today I'm launching WebTrafficWatch. It imports and visualizes Google Analytics & Search Console data for me. And because I love statistics, it also detects outliers and trends in my graphs. #launch #buildinpublic

Please help me improve my video setup. It's for long form YouTube videos. I thought I'd use the empty space on the right for text or visuals #buildinpublic

me: let's not overthink the launch also me:

One thing YouTube analytics does extremely well are these comparisons to "usual ranges". No complicated words, just a range and an arrow if you're above or below that range.

Instead of launching today I had a bit of a fail. But soon! #buildinpublic

it's so convenient that 1 nuclear plant is roughly 1 GW

one reason why marketing is so hard for engineers is because you have to repeat yourself so much. but as an engineer don't-repeat-yourself is beaten into us. but in marketing repetition is everything. you've already written about how your app solves that special use case?

how much can you overthink a product demo? i just coded a function that generates demo data that's interesting enough to explain some core features like outlier detection. #buildinpublic

gpt5-medium is way worse than sonnet. despite several attempts and confident "done." it just couldn't do it. high fixed it in one go. (again i accidentally used medium instead of high)

I'm building a tool that trains a linear regression model on time series data to catch anomalies. Does this count as AI? #buildinpublic #dataviz #datascience

Displaying numbers and their units in UIs is hard. Here's a quick guide to units beyond pluralization: Label and units may be different • Water is measured in liters • Users are measured in users • Click-through-rate is measured in % • Positions sometimes sound weird with a unit #buildinpublic

Quick statistics reminder: If you email 10 people and none reply, the 95% confidence interval of your reply-rate is between 0% and 31%