Reformed startup 🦄 builder. On a #buildinpublic journey to $120k ARR as an #indiehacker & #solopreneur.

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Joined March 2012
I'm baffled how any of these #vibecoding apps are making any $. I've tried a handful, and couldn't even get an initial build or v0.1 before running out of credits. Once the đź«§ pops on these tools, onboarding users like this will be a killer
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🔴 A MUST READ! THERE’S SOMETHING ABOUT ISRAEL THAT MAKES PEOPLE UNCOMFORTABLE by Alister Heath The Sunday Telegraph June 30, 2025 There's something about Israel that makes people uncomfortable, and it's not what they say it is. They'll point to politics, settlements, borders, and wars. But scratch beneath the outrage, and you'll find something deeper. A discomfort not with what Israel does, but with what Israel is. A nation this small should not be this strong. Period. Israel has no oil. No special natural resources. A population barely the size of a mid-sized American city. They are surrounded by enemies. Hated in the United Nations. Targeted by terror. Condemned by celebrities. Boycotted, slandered, and attacked. And still, they thrive like there's no tomorrow. In military. In medicine. In security. In technology. In agriculture. In intelligence. In morality. In sheer, unbreakable will. They turn desert into farmland.They make water from air. They intercept rockets in mid-air. They rescue hostages under the nose of the world's worst regimes. They survive wars that were supposed to wipe them out, and win. The world watches this and can't make sense of it. So they do what people do when they witness strength they can't understand. They assume it must be cheating. It must be American aid. It must be foreign lobbying. It must be oppression. It must be theft. It must be some dark trick that gave the Jews this kind of power. It must be blackmail. Because heaven forbid it's something else. Heaven forbid it's real. Heaven forbid it's earned. Or worse, destined. The Jewish people were supposed to disappear a long, long time ago. That's how the story of exiled, enslaved, hated minorities is supposed to end. But the Jews didn't disappear. They actually came home, rebuilt their land, revived their language, and brought their dead back to life - in memory, in identity, and in strength. That's not normal. It's not political. It's biblical. There's no cheat code that explains how a group of people return to their homeland after 2,000 years. There is no rational path from gas chambers to global influence. And there is no historical precedent for surviving the Babylonians, the Romans, the Crusaders, the Inquisition, the pogroms, and the Holocaust, and still showing up to work on Monday in Tel Aviv. Israel doesn't make sense. Unless you believe in something beyond the math. This is what drives the world crazy. Because if Israel is real, if this improbable, ancient, hated nation is somehow still chosen, protected, and thriving, then maybe God isn't a myth after all. Maybe He's still in the story. Maybe history isn't random. Maybe evil doesn't get the last word. Maybe the Jews are not just a people… but a testimony. That's what they can't stand. Because once you admit that Israel's survival isn't just impressive, but divine, everything changes. Your moral compass has to reset. Your assumptions about history, power, and justice collapse. You realize you're not watching the end of an empire. You're witnessing the beginning of something eternal. So they deny it. They smear it. And rage against it. Because it's easier to call a miracle "cheating" than to face the possibility that God keeps His promises. And He's keeping them still.
.@eoghan old school beta user here (from InVision App days). Back again using Intercom leading a new Support team. How is 'daily average incoming conversations' not available in any report? Perhaps the most basic & foundational Support stat. So much is built off of this
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So Israel is expected to surrender to Hamas & feed them even though Israeli hostages are being starved? Did UK surrender to Nazis and drop food to them? Ever heard of Dresden, PM Starmer? That wasn’t food you dropped. If you had been PM then UK would be speaking German!
The Israeli Government’s decision to further escalate its offensive in Gaza is wrong, and we urge it to reconsider immediately. Every day the humanitarian crisis in Gaza worsens and hostages taken by Hamas are being held in appalling and inhuman conditions. We need a ceasefire now.
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FROM TERROR TUNNEL TO TEMPLE TUNNEL Last Tisha B’Av Agam Berger was a hostage in a Hamas terror tunnel. Today, Tisha B’Av, she was in a tunnel that leads to the Temple Mount. WATCH to see clips from her visit and her message to the Jewish people on this special day…
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There is no nation like the nation of Israel. Here are Israelis landing back home in the middle of a regional existential war. 🇮🇱✡️🇮🇱✡️🇮🇱✡️🇮🇱✡️
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Inside the protective walls of the bomb shelter, all that divides us dissipates, and the Jewish people become united as one. Am Yisrael Chai! ✡️
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If you're heading toward the wrong destination, AI will just help you get there faster. This is especially true with current models built to follow instructions, be likable, and rarely push back, even when you're making a mistake. You can see this clearly in AI coding: by default, the models will happily implement terrible ideas that create massive technical debt and long-term havoc. There are two ways to improve this: — Have a planning stage where you ask the model to research the problem and solutions (works very well with deep research feature combined with web search) — Change the system prompt and give the model "permission" to challenge you with better solutions Lastly, solving the right problem is as critical as the solution itself. Many times, the issue isn’t the solution but that you picked the wrong problem to solve.
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If your idea of “great support” is an outdated help center and putting your customers in an endless loop with a chatbot that doesn’t listen... You just handed your competitors a gift. Pro tip: support isn’t a back-office task—it’s your competitive advantage. #customersupport
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Dear Members of the @PulitzerPrizes board, My name is Emily Damari. I was held hostage in Gaza for over 500 days. On the morning of October 7, I was at home in my small studio apartment in Kibbutz Kfar Aza when Hamas terrorists burst in, shot me and dragged me across the border into Gaza. I was one of 251 men, women, children, and elderly people kidnapped that day from their beds, their homes, and a music festival. For almost 500 days I lived in terror. I was starved, abused, and treated like I was less than human. I watched friends suffer. I watched hope dim. And even now, after returning home, I carry that darkness with me - because my best friends, Gali and Ziv Berman are still being held in the Hamas terror tunnels. So imagine my shock and pain when I saw that you awarded a Pulitzer Prize to Mosab Abu Toha. This is a man who, in January, questioned the very fact of my captivity. He posted about me on Facebook and asked, “How on earth is this girl called a hostage?” He has denied the murder of the Bibas family. He has questioned whether Agam Berger was truly a hostage. These are not word games - they are outright denials of documented atrocities. You claim to honor journalism that upholds truth, democracy, and human dignity. And yet you have chosen to elevate a voice that denies truth, erases victims, and desecrates the memory of the murdered. Do you not see what this means? Mosab Abu Toha is not a courageous writer. He is the modern-day equivalent of a Holocaust denier. And by honoring him, you have joined him in the shadows of denial. This is not a question of politics. This is a question of humanity. And today, you have failed it.
🛠️ Today’s Focus Keep working through testing the PROD environment and knocking out bugs as they come up. Create the test Telegram group and invite my mastermind group. Hopefully test the onboarding process in PROD. Run the mastermind sync meeting.
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Have the feeling for AI to really replace Developers (besides being much better) the chat/token usage limit needs to be resolved. So you can build entire app in one chat.
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✅ Yesterday’s Progress Ran into issues at almost every step so far during testing onboarding in PRD. Watching 🤖 question & resolve issues, my gut tells me while fixing one issue it overwrites code it wasn't aware was needed (created in a previous 💬). Then causes more trouble
AI purposely creates bugs too! That or it's overwriting code it's written previously because it doesn't remember across chats. Today's stand-up. #buildinpublic #indiehackers #solopreneur #passiveincome #sidehustle #0to120k
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🛠️ Today’s Focus Keep working through testing the PROD environment and knocking out bugs as they come up. Create the test Telegram group and invite my mastermind group. Hopefully test the onboarding process in PROD. Run the mastermind sync meeting.
Have the feeling for AI to really replace Developers (besides being much better) the chat/token usage limit needs to be resolved. So you can build entire app in one chat.
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✅ Yesterday’s Progress Ran into issues at almost every step so far during testing onboarding in PRD. Watching 🤖 question & resolve issues, my gut tells me while fixing one issue it overwrites code it wasn't aware was needed (created in a previous 💬). Then causes more trouble
AI purposely creates bugs too! That or it's overwriting code it's written previously because it doesn't remember across chats. Today's stand-up. #buildinpublic #indiehackers #solopreneur #passiveincome #sidehustle #0to120k
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🛠️ What I’m Doing Today Stripe Production Fixes: Resolve remaining issues with the Stripe integration to ensure that: subscriptions & payments can be processed successfully. Start thorough end-to-end testing of new admin/bot onboarding.
âś… What I Did Yesterday 2/2 đź’ł Stripe Integration Testing: Began testing Stripe functionality in production. Encountered a series of issues similar to those faced during the development environment setup, including webhook failures and configuration mismatches