Product designer building useful software, tools & experiments. AI-assisted product development, UX/UI, indie products.
New Orleans
Joined August 2008
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The Internet Vending Machine is officially stocked.
Edition 001 is live! 16 things I think are worth knowing about, using, or keeping around.
The machine will rotate regularly, with new finds moving in and old editions sticking around.
Come take a look:
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Asked Reddit for feedback on The Internet Vending Machine & got it. Icons were confusing, products hard to see & the flow made people work too hard.
I've added real product images, better Vend/Product flow, & haul shows your vends. It feels much better.
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It’s been a week & a pretty interesting mix of work:
designing sci-fi interfaces for a video series
learning how tides + coastal currents work for a friend’s fishing idea
and putting together a Build With Me program to help people in New Orleans turn ideas into working things
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The Internet Vending Machine now has 100+ things in the stockroom!
101 products
76 brands
68 physical / 33 digital or free
16 in the machine at a time
Need help figuring out what belongs in the machine, what rotates through, & what should stay stocked.
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Been collecting vending machine reference while building The Internet Vending Machine. So many good little details in these things.
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I call this the "planning phase".
1 hour and 50 minutes until I can wildly overcomplicate something in Cursor again.
#CursorLimit
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The Internet Vending Machine is starting to feel like an actual place on the internet.
New domain. A way to follow future restocks. Better product links. More interesting things trickling into the machine.
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Stocking night for the Internet Vending Machine.
Added image gallery and more products tonight, including a pocket eReader, smart cooking gear, travel stuff, and a WiFi speaker.
What you gonna add to your haul? 🚛
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My typical build stack lately:
ChatGPT → Figma → Cursor → React / TypeScript → Vite → GitHub → Vercel → Supabase
Figma is showing up less than it used to, & I plug in the APIs/services the product needs.
What are y'all using right now?
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The Internet Vending Machine is turning into a way to wander around the internet and find stuff.
Select a slot, vend it, then go see the real product, free tool, app, or whatever else I stuffed in there.
Internet window shopping, 16 slots at a time.
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Caught a little snag myself, but seem to be back-ish...
User reports indicate problems with OpenAI since 8:04 PM EDT.
How is it affecting you? #OpenaiDown
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Three projects into Cursor, the shift isn’t coding faster. I’m not a coder.
It’s being able to have an idea, build it, test it, & keep going past design.
StayOps: ~2 weeks → connected product + pilot interest
Horizon: ~2 days → live v0.1
IVM: ~1–2 days → strangers testing it
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Need some help stocking the machine.
What’s something you own, want, or have stumbled across that deserves a slot?
Could be useful. Could be weird. Could just be something you think is really damn good.
Throw it in the suggestion box:
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The Internet Vending Machine has a working dispense bay now.
Pick something you’d want, hit VEND, watch it drop, then build out your haul.
Still stocking the machine with good stuff from around the internet.
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I’ve stocked the Internet Vending Machine with a first batch from around the internet.
Take it for a spin. Vend what you’d want, restock, and build a haul. Your picks help shape what stays.
Know something that deserves a slot? Suggest it in the machine.
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Hit a wall trying to get Internet Vending Machine deployed and immediately assumed I’d screwed something up.
Turns out GitHub is just having a day.
Debugging win: discovering it’s not your code.
Back to local UI improvements to the machine...
@githubstatus
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