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What’s the best piece of advice, you’ve received when it comes to using AI to build?

@matthewmillerai Been following since day 1 on YouTube 👌

$3,955 → $18,320 MRR in 90 days. Everyone obsesses over the overnight viral moment. This is the opposite. Boring, daily, relentless compounding. I showed up and shipped every day for 3 months. +363% later, this is what steady actually looks like.

@firstfruitsapp This!

stop trying to market your app. nobody wants your app. nobody cares about your app and nobody cares about you. you're marketing the transformation that people can get when they use your app. it's a huge difference.

@TheGeorgePu What sort of harness do you use with it for coding? Never tried it for coding

Why are we happily burning on Opus at $5/$25 per 1M. When DeepSeek is 26x cheaper and as capable? Ever since I tried DeepSeek V4 Pro out I can't look back.

Most “AI for lawyers” is just ChatGPT with a legal disclaimer. The actual opportunity is boring: •intake documents •flag missing clauses •draft the standard reply •alert the attorney Same pattern as every other vertical. Legal just pays better.

@Jeyffre You can get it on your table but things are so fast that by the time you have it on your table, the opportunity cost is more than ever.

1 - So GLM 5.2 is 700b parameters (ish) 2 - 4x DGX Sparks can supposedly handle up to 700b parameters (give or take) 3 - GLM 5.2 is supposedly in striking distance of the performance of GPT 5.5 and Opus 4.8. In my brief tests, it's really not shabby at all. 4 - So for $20k, you can get near the frontier on your table. 5 - Extrapolate the trend, and you could have mythos/5.5 pro - class models in your dining room for the cost of a cheap car less than five years from now. Even without extrapolation, we're already the near frontier running locally. 6 - Paying real api costs, I could easily blow through $3,000 per month coding and running agents. The machine pays for itself in 6-7 months conservatively. 7 - In 3-5 years, most power users of AI will self-host. 8 - Am I missing something?

@BratDotAI 3 agents is approx 7X usage cost too

Are you using your Codex/Claude subscription to its full potential?

@BratDotAI Most definitely not and there are very few that are. The workflow I like uses plane as a context layer (similar to the dreaded Jira but much nicer and lean).

@nutlope This is impressive. Is GLM your daily driver? I think I could do with general purpose model like this much better. Claude is great - I’m on Max 20X but I don’t always use it. Maybe I should just right size and try GLM too

This model is insane at design. I asked GLM 5.2 (left) and Opus 4.8 (right) to build me a landing page and you can't even tell the difference. GLM cost $0.06 while opus cost $0.49. More than 6x cheaper while being faster + more token efficient. Another win for open source AI.

Why is no one talking about this? @nvidia is offering around 80 AI models via hosted APIs absolutely for free. You get access to MiniMax M2.7, GLM 5.1, Kimi 2.5, DeepSeek 3.2, GPT-OSS-120B, Sarvam-M etc. This plugs straight into OpenClaude, OpenCode, Zed IDE, Hermes agent and even with Cursor IDE. Setup: – Grab API key: build.nvidia.com/models – base_url = "integrate.api.nvidia.com/v1" – api_key = "$NVIDIA_API_KEY" – select model (e.g. minimaxai/minimax-m2.7) If you’re building or experimenting, this is basically free inference. Lock in and start building today anon. Thank me later.

@Jaredkotter Happy to help. However @Jaredkotter , curious as to how important AI optimization is for you? Is it important that you get mentioned by AI services like ChatGPT, Perplexity etc?

Any connections on here that can build simple SEO optimized website? PrObAblY not quite ready for full service SEO agency (yet). But that’s down the road. Just need the site for now.

@alfiearnaud_ Interested to hear more and a breakdown of what you did. Any specific target market? Is there a particular space in which this seems to hit better?

$5,000 on meta ads = ~1,100 installs at $4.50 CPI. $5,000 on 50 UGC creators = 2,500,000+ views and 12,000+ installs. same budget. wildly different outcome.

@RobGuerra90 @TanzilaSha9574 I like it! What sort of models do you use? Seems to me like we are likely at a good time for Gemma / GPT-OSS along with whisper locally for these things.

@TanzilaSha9574 Building earningscalls.dev – transcripts of earnings calls through a low-cost API or an MCP server. Get any company's call directly into your workflow.

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@mytwillot @TanzilaSha9574 I like it - move the signup / try button up. Had to scroll a bit to get to it

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@convika_ai Looks awesome! Thank you.

@killianio I’m on it — I’ll build a preview for CiteLens and DM you the URL

@brettttb_ Been thinking about this…. How I ran across your post, my background is networking. Tell me more

fronier LLM lab residential proxy networks are a moat and design trend that is not talked about enough

@bizdevelo interested to learn more about the tool. Maybe my questions will help because I know nothing about it. It actually creates video content? AI generated or I have to create my own videos to feed it?

@seraleev Looks like PaperlessNGX

I love building apps that are not only useful, but beautiful too. Even uploading an invoice, analyzing it and filling in the details no longer feels boring.

You’re bootstrapping an indie project. You have: • $500/month marketing budget • No audience • No investors • No existing users Your goal is to get your first 100 paying customers. Where are you spending that $500? Reply with what actually worked for you. Bonus points if you can share numbers. #buildinpublic #indiehackers

@kushmergedeck Just published my first findings from auditing 60 websites for AI readability. 94% had no llms.txt. 40% were invisible to AI because of client-side rendering. Average score: 53/100. dev.to/killianio/i-au… citelens.dev

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