Ryan J. Shaw

I'm creating a local newsletter covering weekly events and happenings along the Dolphin Coast in South Africa. Human-edited, completely free, no politics or drama. Building it in public here. The core challenge is gathering event data cost-effectively. My plan is to use AI to automate most of that process. Distribution will be word of mouth.

@Devius_Maximus Still a WIP 🙏

@RyanJamesShaw sick man drop whats the link?.. followed bk

Weekend warriors, Let's connect 🤝 Especially if you're in: 💻 SaaS · 🚀 Tech · ⚙️ Automation · 🧠 AI 📱 Product · 🔥 Web apps · 🛠️ Dev Reply with what you're building + your link. I'll check it out 👇

@emonuxui A lot of people like about this, though, and present their development process in an idealized way. I favor the truth: it's a mess!

@RyanJamesShaw Every production AI app has a phase that's held together by optimism and TODOs.

How the articles tell you to build AI-powered software: > features backlog -> evals -> ralph loop -> loop of loops -> fancy AI workflow designer -> 100 subagents -> perfectly working app How you actually build AI-powered software: > build lots of little experiments -> make a really long techdebt.md about potential evals you could build -> glue all the experiments together -> hope nobody notices, release

@im_santiago_min Cool let's do it dude

Looking to connect with more builders, founders, and devs. If you’re shipping something cool, drop it below. Let’s connect 🤝

@alexatallah Hey Alex, is there an easy way to see what alternative models I could use? e.g. I'm using GPT 5.4 Nano for thousands of small tasks, but it's a real PITA to figure out what other models are in the same or lower price range with equal or better performance?

We just announced our Fusion API: - Fable-level performance on deep research tasks, at half the cost - Better-than-SOTA performance using panels The future of AI is neurodiversity, not single-model takeovers.

@13_narcissus 42 here. Never too late. 🫡

After years of hesitation, procrastination, and that heavy imposter syndrome whispering “you’re too late”… At 51, I just merged 112 commits into main. 547 files later, my first SaaS is finally real and few little steps from production. I’m feeling everything right now. If you’ve ever been here — scared, proud, emotional, and wondering if it’s too late — drop a ❤️ or a word. Your support would mean more than you know. Grateful to @marclou and @jackfriks — their @shipordie_ cohort awakened the builder spirit in me. We’re doing this. 🙏 #FirstSaaS #NeverTooLate #IndieHacker

This is going to be so powerful, can't wait to test it out

@cljack Doesn’t sound very safe, did he even use a code review?!

It Happened To Me: I went out drinking with a collaborator, passed out immediately upon getting home, and then woke up the next morning to see that from 1am - 3am he pushed a bunch of beautiful and functional new code to the repo. While smashed

@Pulkit_Meen @X I write about how I'm using AI to extract local events from messy data 👌

Hey @X, Trying to build a circle of developers, founders, students, and builders who support each other and grow together. Into AI, startups, coding, web development, or building on the internet? Let's connect. 👇🚀 #TechTwitter #BuildInPublic #AI #MachineLearning #SoftwareEngineering #Coding #Startups #IndieHackers

@theohandsh I'm using AI to process 1000s of social media posts and web pages, an extract structured event data for local newsletters 🫡

I want to connect with more founders builders vibe coders AI enthusiasts UI designers If you’re someone building with AI right now drop it in the comments and let's connect

I guess that's the catch 😅 One trick: I was on the $60 plan. Then I cancelled a month back, and they gave me a 50% off retention offer. I took it, and a few days later they released Composer 2.5 and I've been using that ever since! So I paid $30 for the $60 plan. But I'm not sure what I will do now, because I'm at 67% usage with 20 days remaining and the next level up is $200 😬

@RyanJamesShaw How much are you paying for it?

I'm officially addicted - I just planned my day around the reset of my tokens... 😂

@heyyritik_ I’m building a SaaS for discovering local events, which can be used to power a local newsletter

Looking to connect with more builders on X If you're into: Frontend development Design Engineering Building SaaS AI tools UI/UX & animations Next.js / React Shipping in public Learning by building Drop a heyy and tell me what you're working on. Looking to follow active builders, designers, and developers

@jfkcyrus @jurree I access the API vs OpenRouter, using a VPS in the EU

@RyanJamesShaw @jurree Are you in US? Maybe the capacity for EU is lower, I could try a vpn

Anyone else working on the weekend? what are you working on? 👇

@buildwithiso @X Let’s do it man

Hi @X 👋 I'm new here and looking to connect with builders, creators, and people sharing their journey in public. I'd love to meet: 🚀 Marketers 💻 SaaS Founders & Startup Builders 📱 Web & Mobile Developers 🎨 3D Artists If you're building something interesting, drop a comment and let's connect. #BuildInPublic #IndieHackers #SaaS #Startups #WebDev #MobileDev #3DArt

@jfkcyrus @jurree Hmm that's strange, it's pretty reliable for me but I use OpenRouter and I think they automatically fail over between both APIs google provides

@RyanJamesShaw @jurree Nice yeah thats right - the only issu i seem to hit is 429 resource exhaustion on google side

@jfkcyrus @jurree Flash lite? It’s been really good to me, I’ve transcribed over 10k images with minimal issues

@jurree I am using Gemini to convert images of mathematical problems to text for automated solutions. It’s very good at that , didnt have this good experience with other models

@manojeldios @jurree Really nice site design, I was wondering what you could possibly be offering over the 500 other uptime sites but you explained it well

@jurree im working on this cool uptime monitor uptimewing.com

@guileful_reed @jurree Your site is done well…. Nice and to the point 👌

@jurree Yeah! Working on voicetopost.app - improving landing and pricing ☺️

@jurree Working on my AI-powered local newsletter - low cost LLMs are soooo fiddly, it needs so much testing