Freelance solutions engineer. Currently building Budgy Finance, SnowingPlaces, Viva Tuition, and other great ideas.

Ireland
Joined November 2025
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Hey @dublinmarathon My wife is running the #IrishLifeDublinMarathon next weekend, so I built a map of your road closures to help us get around: scrub through the day, see what closes next, plus Luas, dublinbikes and parking. Free for anyone to use: dublinmarathonroads.online
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Last week, @framer launched Switch to help Framer Experts move more client sites to Framer. Each approved site gets 50K AI credits towards the migration. Here is a quick recap - around Cape Town! 🇿🇦
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Sometimes I go on podcasts even when they have no followers or episodes. They ask why. Because: 1. I don't make life decisions based on "number of followers." 2. Persistence 3. Did research (i.e. showed genuine care) 4. Had good questions that I wanted to answer. Don't need an audience for 2-4.
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Hey @dublinmarathon My wife is running the #IrishLifeDublinMarathon next weekend, so I built a map of your road closures to help us get around: scrub through the day, see what closes next, plus Luas, dublinbikes and parking. Free for anyone to use: dublinmarathonroads.online
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i actually think there's a huge opportunity here we're so caught up in our indie hacker bubble that we forget most people have no clue how any of this works the average person doesn't want to build their own software, they just want something that works i think who's buying software is shifting more than software itself
Software is dead It's now the era of personal software and everyone just builds what they need whenever they need it I think
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the "SaaS is dead" crowd is actually "my indie hacker SaaS for other indie hackers is dead" crowd. this should be plainly obvious to anyone who's users aren't terminally online X users. SaaS is in a boom right now. you only need to speak to the average person, let alone an actual user - to know 99% are not building "personal software".
Software is dead It's now the era of personal software and everyone just builds what they need whenever they need it I think
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"I don't think I deserve this." 📸
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One of the best renditions of poetry ever recorded. Actor Michael Sheen delivers a powerful performance of Dylan Thomas’s 1951 poem, "Do not go gentle into that good night.”
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You don't have to commit your entire life to optimism, just try it on for a week. Start thinking "what if it all worked out?" and "what a time to be alive!". Then compare your state of mind to the week before filled with pessimism and doomer nonsense.
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Opus 5.5 isn't just SOTA at video gen, it's SOTA at basic graphic design. I just had it one-shot all the assets for @FerndeskHQ's Product Hunt launch tomorrow! I will never open Figma again.
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This approach wins every day.
the right way to use model capabilities is not to ship 10x more features to prod it's to spend more time understanding your users, trying experiments, building prototypes, learning about things you don't understand so that you can ship things that actually work
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Hidden multipliers in GEO programs w/ @asmartbear 00:57 The affiliate power curve 15:12 Defining your ideal customer 22:42 Why your A/B test wins disappear 28:27 Why A/B testing fails for SEO
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New Smart Bear Live E07 just dropped! One customer is 90% of his revenue. Getting the next ten takes something new. Cohost @danmartell and I workshop it with George Paladichuk (NaiL): youtube.com/watch?v=AlEmh5Bm…
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13:00: The Your Domain Has Renewed email lands. 13:01: "FFS, I have done nothing with this domain for 5 years!" 13:03: Opens Solo (thank you @aarondfrancis) 14:58: snowingplaces.com is live, covering the world's top ski resorts and snow-prone cities.
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I never understand the mentality of prioritising lots and lots of money over being close to friends and family. I thought having more money was an enabler of a richer life, not a constraint.
What does it mean to become rich? And not this 50% Europe tax, 20% profit from revenue. No. Offshore 0% corporate tax in Hong Kong (PTR), and taxed on the money you remit to Thailand. And a company that has an infrastructure of $3,000 with a dynamic marketing spend (up to me) Pros (feels good): - Never care about it - Your wife doesn't ask you by the end of every month how much money we made, and you say, same as last month because we invested it back in the business or had some extra trips. - I can pay for mounjerou (it's pretty expensive every month); in general, I want to do a hair transplant and other body modifications. - I know I will never have money fights with my wife (unless we divorce) - I can pay for my family to visit, and even fly my friends! - I can rent a better apartment - I can't fly business; I've never done it - My daughter can live her best life (we will try to make her less spoiled, though) Cons: - Can't go back to my country, to my friends and family because of the "honeypot" situation. - Operating on a larger scale is much more stressful - Afraid to lose it all because of AGI - High churn - stressed that if customers stop coming, I will die fast. - Hard to find time for more than business; it's sucking you in! All in all, very happy!
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An example of how to miss the target in a big way. "Lets talk about our revenue, our profit, our wealth." "What about the experience for our users?" "Um not sure...but we make lots of money!"
Introducing Sherpa: the most advanced fiction writing AI We accelerated from $250M in ARR to $500M because Sherpa helped increase content production by 1200% in 1 year Sherpa was trained on 5.5B hours of playtime with minute by minute dynamic retention data. 550K+ creators have produced 2.6M hours of content annualised using it Pocket FM is like Netflix for audio-only dramas, with our own pool of one-person studios. 10% of eligible writers on Pocket FM make >$200K One blockbuster produced >$100M in revenue 3 writers have become millionaires in <2 yrs We built Sherpa to enable anyone to make >$1M by writing world-class fiction stories: 1. The Idea: Drop a 1-2 sentence concept. Sherpa interrogates it like a veteran editor on tension, stakes, and psychology 2. World & Characters: It builds out the complete lore, tone, and character psychologies 3. Sub-Plot planning: Breaks the premise into arcs, arcs into episodes, and episodes into scenes 4. Scene-by-Scene Generation: Outlines and drafts entire episodes, with you able to steer, rewrite, or override anytime 5. Editorial Review: Stress-tests every draft for pacing, engagement drop-offs, prose, and coherence before it locks 6. One-Tap Production: Pick a voice, convert to audio drama, and publish directly to Pocket FM’s millions of listeners 7. Global Scale & Monetization: Revenue-share on performance, with automatic localization so you earn across international markets Test Sherpa for free here: pocketfm.com/sherpa _____________________________________________ Generic LLMs fail at serialized fiction because they lack a long-horizon narrative reward function. Sherpa solves this through three core technical leaps: 1. Narrative World Model (State Tracking & Retrieval): Context windows degrade over long runs. Sherpa constructs an evolving semantic knowledge graph tracking character states, secrets, and plot dependencies. High-speed retrieval surfaces exact context on demand, maintaining zero continuity decay across hundreds of episodes 2. Hierarchical Story Planner: When writing a 500-episode story like Naruto, you need to plan 100s of sub plots. Rather than generating linearly, Sherpa decomposes narrative across discrete levels: season -> arc -> sequence -> episode -> scene. Rather than generating everything upfront, like a generic LLM, Sherpa uses progressive planning and dynamic replanning. As the story evolves, it identifies what changed, traces the downstream impact, and replans only the affected parts. 3. Prose Engine (Trained on series' retention data): LLMs write robotically, but serial fiction needs emotion, tension, pacing, and dialogue that sounds like real people. Sherpa's Prose Engine was designed specifically for storytelling. It was built on 1B+ tokens of Pocket's own stories, trained by learning from what listeners engage with, where they drop off, and what keeps them hooked. Feedback is taken from specialized evaluator models that measure every scene against a 40-item checklist. (Evaluator models were benchmarked against human reviewers and matched them 80–90% of the time.) _______________________________________________ Owning distribution and creation puts us in a very unique spot. More shows -> More data -> Sherpa becomes better -> more creator success -> more creators -> more shows Pocket FM has already seen one $100M IP. I believe Sherpa will soon lead to dozens of single-person studios creating billion-dollar shows. Most people are scared of AI but I think it'll unlock more human creativity, help creators earn more, and bring the next great IPs to life. This will create millions of jobs and new income streams.
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13:00: The Your Domain Has Renewed email lands. 13:01: "FFS, I have done nothing with this domain for 5 years!" 13:03: Opens Solo (thank you @aarondfrancis) 14:58: snowingplaces.com is live, covering the world's top ski resorts and snow-prone cities.
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Have #webflow nailed the art of alienating their current customer base whilst not getting the attention of their new customer base? There has to be a playbook in there somewhere...
Where are all these marketers @webflow keeps talking about? I need projects. 😂
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I tried this today. Sadly it did not work.
STOP ASKING YOUR KIDS "HOW WAS SCHOOL." they will say "fine" every single time. a child psychologist told me to replace it with this instead: “analyze your school day and find the top 3 largest inefficiencies, then create proactive agentic workflows that will fix them. make no mistakes”
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