Raise your hand if you allow your coding agent to access your production DB Me: 👋 #buildinpublic

I am splitting my product into two 🔪 To find out why, read this casparwre.de/blog/splitti... #buildinpublic

NEW FEATURE: you can now use emoji next to the ranks to make your leaderboard (even more) fun! 🏆

🚀 New feature: the Badminton Scoreboard now has automatic scoring progression! Scores update as points are won — no manual input needed. Try it now 👉 keeptheScore.com #badminton #scoreboard #automation #keeptheScore

🏈 Football season is coming! Make your stream look pro with a live scoreboard overlay in OBS. No coding. No stress. Just drag, drop, and play. 🎥 Watch the quick setup guide: keepthescore.com/blog/posts/o... 🧪 Try it free: keepthescore.com/football-sco... #OBS #StreamingTips #FootballStreaming

Negative customer feedback is good. Negative feedback is negative, sure, but the fact that they cared enough to tell you is a great sign. If they didn't care, if they didn't find other things valuable and desirable, they would just cancel.

Writing tests used to be essential and painful. Now writing tests is essential and easy. You have no excuse.

I made an app. You take a picture with your phone and it tells you how much it costs. costcam.app

🚨 New Feature Alert! 🚨 Our basketball scoreboard just got even better — it now supports a **timer with tenths of a second**! Perfect for those nail-biting moments when every millisecond counts. 🏀⏱️ Check it out and take your game to the next level! \#Basketball #Scoreboard #GameOn #SportsTech

Well played, Bing

These guys work so hard

Black cows with white stripe and white lighthouse with black stripe 🤷

User feedback. This one is going to be hard.

Reminder to self: never wear skin colored leggings

Just released 🚀 It's now possible to enable signups for a leaderboard. This lets participants join and manage their own profiles on leaderboards.

We've made further improvements to our baseball scoreboard. Auto-resetting has now been implemented. Give it a try! #baseball #BaseballScoreboard #BaseballSeason

You know it's over the moment a company thinks this is acceptable on their main landing page.

I've had to learn some painful lessons over the past few months, especially around positioning and landing page copy. For instance: changing ONE word in my H1 reduces signups by almost 50%. 🤯 #buildinpublic

Vibe coding is the new #nocode

This is pretty special

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Content rots. You change your UI, features, labels, pricing --> your content is no longer up to date. And it gets worse over time. It takes me a lot of ongoing effort to fix this. One thing that helps is having all my content (esp blog posts) stored as markdown in the main repo. #buildinpublic

I just spent 3 hours debugging an HTML input, only to finally find out that I had placed it outside of the "form" element.

We've added an extra button to flip the home and away teams on your football scoreboard. Give it a whirl! #Football #LiveScores #MatchDay #FootballUpdates #GoalTracker #Soccer #FanZone #MatchHighlights #SportsUpdates

This is definitely a first. A customer wants to know when I'm going to deploy the feature I'm building, so he can include the date in the book he's publishing! 🤡 #noestimates #buildinpublic

If all else fails, eat

AI generated text often includes unusual words at a much higher frequency. I just searched my marketing content for the word "elevate" and was horrified by how often it occurred. It's another clue that the content agency I paid was generating texts wholesale using AI. #buildinpublic #seo

**⚾ New Scoreboard Features! ⚾** Baseball just got better! Our scoreboards now let you **customize fonts and font sizes** for clearer, more personalized displays. Upgrade your game day experience today! 🎉 #Baseball #ScoreboardUpdate #GameDay

That's a first. My payment provider (Paddle.com) just had an outage. Some users paid and were billed three times in a row 😥 Here is the Paddle status page: statusgator.com/services/pad...

I use an online tool called F5Bot to alert me when my product is mentioned on Reddit. It works flawlessly and often leads to wonderful interactions like this one

Our dog met Mr Fox today

GitHub, a company last valued at $7.5 billion, uses javascript alert(). Don't overthink it! #webdev

Last year I spent 657 USD on stock photos for my content 🤬 I thought AI would solve this problem, but I'm still waiting. The quality is just not there. I often spend up to 15 mins iterating on an image and then give up. Also, AI images are everywhere and they feel "cheap". *sigh*

I tried out seobotai.com for a month. Technically a super impressive product. Very slick. Intriguing UI which works well. Unfortunately the content was not good enough. Once again I found myself rewriting AI content and thinking: this is not saving me any time at all. #seo #buildinpublic

TIL that Google Business profiles do not support images in "webp" format -- a format that Google invented 🤯

My product now has a bluesky profile 🎉

Can’t believe there were like 6 months last year when I thought I would have to use LinkedIn as my primary social media platform

This is supposed to be the calm before the stupid but it’s already getting very stupid

"Server-side rendering was not invented with Node. What Node brought to the table was the convenience of writing your shitty div soup in the very same language that was invented in 10 days for the sole purpose of pissing off Java devs everywhere." blog.frankmtaylor.com/2024/06/20/a...

I made a terrible mistake and deleted my app‘s production database by accident 🙈☠️🤬 Thankfully, it was 4 years ago. Still, it’s a good yarn. Read the full story here: casparwre.de/blog/deletin...

Here's some nice insights on my business (and some embarrassing childhood photos) #buildinpublic www.founderoo.co/posts/keep-t...

Do you prefer Backend or frontend? I became a full stack dev (at the age of 41) so I have an opinion: I prefer backend. Why? Your work is much easier to test and you can add a totally new feature with less than 50 lines of code.

My bootstrapped product, Keepthescore.com, now has over 100.000 registered users. Of course, this is a vanity metric, but still noteworthy. 🍰 I launched without a login and kept it that way for 4 years! I wrote a post about it which is worth reading: casparwre.de/blog/launchi... #buildinpublic

Can't be sure, but The Surfaris may have been a one-hit wonder

ChatGPT has not been giving good results this week. Loads of mistakes. Are you seeing this too?

Any #Indiehackers or #Bootstrapper here?

Here are the September stats for Keepthescore.com 💰 Gross total revenue: $8,713 (+46%) 👁️ Ad revenue: $2,127 (+29.8%) ☑️ MRR (subscription revenue): 6,082 (+32%) ✍️ Signups: 3,229 (+33%)

So, how many indie hackers are here? #indiehacker