Design Engineer In Boise ⛰️ Building @oneword_ai 📖 - AI-powered speed reading and comprehension
Boise Idaho
Joined September 2010
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Today’s devlog: one mistake, one insight, one small win.
- I made my app too complex for V0
- Less code almost always means fewer bugs. Bugs are costly, both in terms of money and time.
- Removed a ton of complexity and streamlined payments via @RevenueCat .
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If you’re an engineer, mastering how to customize and direct AI agents might just be your biggest competitive edge this year.
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Genuinely impressed by how lightweight @claude_code API requests are. Running multiple agents simultaneously on airplane wifi with zero issues. Easily justifies that $8 WiFi charge.
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It feels like Claude Code would do best with test driven development. Set some benchmarks and let the agent run until those benchmarks are met.
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Heading to @vercel Ship in NYC this week to connect with the indie hacker community. Excited to learn, build, and network. Always up for coffee meetups and side events, reach out if you'll be there!
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The pace of shipping with @claude_code is insane. It's taken my workflow to another level so I can only imagine what its doing for other devs!
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I’ve been having some analysis paralysis when selecting ai models recently. Went down a rabbit hole of benchmarking sites and thought I would share.
TLDR:
🥇 Huggingface Hub - biggest selection
🥈 LLM Arena - trusted model rankings
🥉 Papers With Code - research hub
🔗 👇
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Huggingface: huggingface.co/models
- Most comprehensive ecosystem - 300k+ models, 50k+ datasets, plus Spaces for demos
-Largest active community - 1.3M monthly users, massive collaboration network
-Beginner to expert friendly - from no-code Spaces to advanced model development
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Coming from someone who relies on AI daily,
don’t rely on AI daily.
time.com/7295195/ai-chatgpt-…
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Over the past five years, I've been messily collecting an assortment of "code"-related links in my bookmarks folder. I rarely revisit them, but it would be cool to use AI to generate my own personal "Awesome" list by categorizing all these links.
I wonder if any existing tools can do this, or maybe I could just drop them all into Claude and see what happens.
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I've been working in monorepos for years and would never split my codebase again. The tools are great now, and AI models perform better with all the context in one place. If you're starting a new project, go mono.
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Product development for indie hackers in a nutshell: demo to friends → something breaks → fix it → demo again. Rinse and repeat until launch.
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I get more excited about building B2C than B2B.
When you build consumer products, your code doesn't just serve 100 enterprise customers, it can serve 100 million people.
That scale of impact is what drives me as a builder.
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Built tons of smart features (auto-simplify, content quizzes) for Oneword, my AI-native e-reader. But i've been neglecting marketing it. I'm going to dedicate more of my daily cycles to getting the word out.
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Building something I genuinely love using every single day is the indie hacker dream. It never gets old.
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Marketing should be the fun part of building an app, showcasing what you've built. But somehow, it's always the task I keep pushing for tomorrow.
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In a large market, multiple indie developers can create products without needing to compete or engage in personal conflicts with other brands aggressively. Some harmless ways to differentiate your product:
- Offer day-one internationalization, as 80-90% of web users aren't native English speakers.
- Carve out a niche within the market.
- Make your roadmap public so customers can see where your product is heading.
And much more.
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@bryan_johnson has been emphasizing the importance of maximizing lifespan, but I haven't heard much about research dedicated to maximizing attention span. I struggle to get through a news article before my mind starts to wander or I lose focus.
As people become more health-conscious in the coming years, I wouldn't be surprised if "attention maxxing" becomes a new trend in personal development.
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