Pierre

Hi, I'm Pierre! From 🇧🇪, live + 🏄 in 🇹🇼 I love building small tools that kill tedious, repetitive work, the stuff we all hate doing by hand. Objective: my first $ online from useful products. Started this for my own accountability, but follow along to see the story unfold 🤙

Another productive typhoon day! I made a Tinder for Mandarin tones There really are infinite ways to make learning tones more fun! #learnmandarin #buildinpublic

Meet Toney Tony tries to order dumplings, but he failed.. ..until he started using flappytone.com This is quite fun to make #buildinpublic #learnchinese #learnmandarin #mandarintones

Gotta switch it up sometimes and look at real birds instead of the Flappytone.com bird #buildinpublic #learnmandarin #birding

Here we go, that was a fun train ride, made a demo video for Flappytone.com #buildinpublic #learnmandarin

Shipping from the train makes me so focussed Wonder how much I’d get done if I just stayed in the train and went all around Taiwan #buildinpublic #taiwan

Flappytone will soon have themes (finally) Claude design and Opus 5.5 were crazy on this, all 1-shotted results.. It looks way more like an actual game now! A game that improves your tones ¯ ˊ ˇ ˋ #buildinpublic #learnmandarin

The bible arrived

Damn I think getting this kind of feedback from users feels even better than that first ever sale. Hearing FlappyTone actually being useful to people in their Mandarin Learning Journey is super motivating! #buildinpublic #MandarinLearning

Spends 2 days doing backend architecture stuff. 1000s of lines of code. On the front end, nothing different though. So I just added some Pro badges next to users that got the early bird access, at least a small update the users can see #buildinpublic

Completely over-engineering FlappyTone. Love it. I want to make it super easy later on to add more clips. Pipeline: native speaker clip recording process clip clip gets converted into a gate following that clips specific pitch line -> boom it's in the game #buildinpublic

It happened My first ever sale. Everything’s possible Where your focus goes, energy flows Now time to go and make FlappyTone provide as much value as possible #buildinpublic

5.30-6.45am : go outside, breakfast, coffee 6.45-8.30am: deep work FlappyTone 8.30-9.00am: HIIT workout 9-12am: regular remote job 12-1pm: lunch 1-5pm: regular remote job 5-9pm: eat, walk, wind down 🔁

Got my first actual signup on FlappyTone, someone joined the leaderboard! 🙏 Small wins They didn't beat my highscore yet though 😈 #buildinpublic #learnmandarin

Chrome Y U DO DIS? Cues were low volume on mobile due to iOS shenanigans. I now implemented mic off during cue > turn back on when it’s players turn Chrome displays a toast EVERYTIME mic access was granted again. Safari doesn’t have this luckily Any tips? #buildinpublic

FlappyTone has a leaderboard now. Let’s see who can become the true tone master! flappytone.com/app?ref=share… (Open in external browser for better experience) #buildinpublic #LearnMandarin

Small steps! flappytone.com will soon be able to accept payments! Thanks @lemonsqueezy for the great service!

Built a sharing feature for Flappytone! I'm improving my tones with FlappyTone, can you beat me? flappytone.com/app?ref=share…

Flappytone demo (and my first video)! I guess I could’ve waited until I don’t look like I was in a fight (I wasn’t btw) anymore, but ship fast as they say. Try it here 👉 flappytone.com #buildinpublic

Went to my very first Hackapei today. Nice opportunity to get some work done and show it to fellow builders! Made progress on FlappyTone, next version will be out soon. I always forget to take pics, so here's the delicious coffee I had #hackapei #buildinpublic

'Mindful building with AI' Last weekend, I wanted to make progress so I was prompting AI like a madman without thinking enough This past week I've just been simplifying everything You really have to slow down when building with AI, you'll thank yourself later #buildinpublic