The people who formed me as entrepreneur, roughly in chronological order: - Tim Ferriss (@tferriss) - Patrick McKenzie (@patio11) - Derek Sivers (@sivers) - Pieter Levels (@levelsio) - My dad (Freelance Consultant) - Eric Ries (The Lean Startup) - Former boss (Audio Ease) - Steve Blank (The Startup Owner’s Manual) - Gabriel Weinberg (Traction) - Arvid Kahl (@arvidkahl) - Jason Cohen (@asmartbear) - Daniel Vassallo (@dvassallo) chatgpt can quite accurately guess my preferences and style based on just this what are yours

For me it's about enjoying quality

I open X and get screenshots from tiktok I open tiktok and get screenshots from X

"Attention is all you need" is the most poetic title of our era With ever more nesting layers of LLMs controlling LLMs no-one is giving attention to what they build anymore and it shows

I'm starting to get more and more cold message from small game devs that want me to play their game on my tiny YT channel, which is a lot of fun This week I got the first one that was clearly fully AI vibecoded Coincidentally this was also by far the worst of the bunch 🤔

This is also possible with One Time Payment software I haven't done marketing or updates for years and people still buy (although declining obviously)

Evidence indie hacking is the same as gamedev #100 And understandably the luck based one is most attractive

I'm gonna unsubscribe from X premium, so if you're one of the 50-100 ppl that sees my posts, and it's by me without a check mark in the future: yes it's me

I switched on "clean up unused apps" and iOS removed the 3rd party keyboard I use a million times a day Why is everything like this

If you're a solo bootstrapped developer you don't have to care about moats this moat that. That's larping VC startups

Vibe coding works only if you don't care about the details Kickstarter games go to die because they care too much about the details

I set out a questionnaire among c++ programmers on Linkedin, guess the 47.5% country

One fun thing about C++ is: no-one uses C++ voluntarily, you always have a restriction/demand forces you to go C++, which means you're doing interesting stuff

There is a reason he does this for VCs backed cos A parttime solo bootstrapped indie has 0 shot in this lottery

Can't buy a house with aura This is the real world, not high school

After 6 years I'm still genuinely shocked/surprised to hear people talk about my products in a positive way Somehow I can never integrate it's actually good and valuable for others I can't be the only one, that's why I share it

If I didn't need to worry about making money I'd be - making fun little thinky 2d games - doing random irl tech projects - creating videos about those - walking in nature

When the LLM spits out useful code: “I'm a genius!" When the LLM spits out garbage: "can't trust AI"

For ESL speakers: do you also notice that if some big account from your country that normally posts in English does a post or comment in your native language you immediately change your perception of them? It's way easier to pick up all micro-signals in their language choices Do English natives have this by default for all posts?

I finally figured out why I hate starting with one-shotted projects: I prefer additive building over subtractive building. I never thought about his because before LLMs only additive building was possible, except for forking existing projects It seems most people prefer having something in front, and then deciding what they want to change or remove. This is now possible, maybe even the default, with agents and vibecoding. Basically you become a manager, not sweating the details. BTW I don't even mean the code/architecture choices, of course that too, but I mean the actual UX/Logic/Text/Design choices. It took me a while to figure out why I dislike it, but any one shot from a vague (or even decently thought out) prompt forces the LLM to make 1000s of tiny and bigger decisions of everything you hadn't thought about. For me walking through these decisions while I encounter them is what makes building enjoyable, and allows me to build nice stuff. No real point, just some half finish thoughts.