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Starting a “big lessons” thread👇 I’ll keep a log of some of the big things that I’ve learned as an indie hacker in the first few months of learning code, ai, building, shipping, tools, you name it. If you’re new to the #indiehacker game like me, share some of your lessons. Let’s learn!

@dariusdan Good take👏

AI can copy what’s popular. It can’t start what’s next. Every design movement began with someone making something nobody asked for.

Are there indie hackers out there who work a 9-5 and love it and just build on the side? I only hear about indie hackers building to escape the 9-5 or who are unemployed and building to self-employ

@natmiletic You had me with the first 2 lines lol

Wow Fable is insane I just asked it to rebuild ClickUp And it ran out of credits in 5 minutes

Chat added the studio lightning, but the latte art was all me.

Does anyone use Claude code through the mobile app? Give me the use case if you do

I feel like it’s not normal to have almost half of your iPhone storage taken by system data Anyone else?

@calvinluvsrice Hey mate! Fully human here👋

Anyone who writes their own tweets? Let’s connect. I want humans not AI 🤣

@diip3sh @motiondotdev That’s beautiful I haven’t heard of motion yet What’s the animation written in?

Set timer interaction with @motiondotdev

@zdogmode Nah I’m just joking It’s never too late

@zdogmode 35

How old is too old to become a founder? Have a friend that’s 35 and he thinks he’s missed the boat Told him he’s crazy!

@cinamarina It’s hard work… no offense to our ancestors who hand wrote code.

Hot take: Vibe coding still takes time.

@audiencon Good call Gotta do the hard work of outreach

Your first 100 customers will come from manual outreach Not from virality

@theo Don’t remind me 🥲

Remember the days where we used GPT-5 and Sonnet 4 on $20/month plans and it felt nearly unlimited?

@anshuc Thanks for the answer. Keep sharing your work! It’s inspiring. Gonna go and beautify my apps in development

@RooBuilds Yeah, Swift + Metal for rendering 3D stuff and various shader effects

Some of you said it still looks like AI slop, and I agreed, so I told Fable to "100x the design." Here's what it did, and all the details on how.

@mattpocockuk But seriously. Loving your work

@mattpocockuk This is great👏 I’m using this with Fable. I’m going from junior to CEO in no time

Steps to become a senior programmer: 1. Install my /teach skill npx skills add mattpocock/skills --skill teach 2. Create a new working directory on your laptop mkdir junior-to-senior cd junior-to-senior 3. Kick off your coding agent in the directory claude 4. Copy this prompt /teach me how to be a great strategic programmer. My opinion is that AI is eating 'tactical, on-the-ground' programming. The day-to-day work of a developer involves not only coding, but also planning, QA, codebase design, and much more. I'm interested in learning the strategic skills - that, in a previous era, would take me from junior to senior - but in this era are table stakes. 5. Paste it into the coding agent Below is an example of what the first output will look like. I used Opus 4.8, medium effort. 6. Continue working with the agent until you're a senior

@anshuc That looks so good! Is it written in swift?

@RooBuilds I keep having crazier ideas and it keeps getting better! x.com/anshuc/status/…

@hayashimon1 That’s so fun. And impressive👏 How’d you get Fable’s work hosted on manus?

Claude Fable 5でどこまで表現できるのか、あえて難しいお題を投げてみた。 インクが流体みたいに溶け合う演出。 これは厳しいかなと思って限界を見にいったんだけど、普通に形になってしまった。 デザイン表現力もかなりすごい。 実際にこちらで遊べます👇 suminagashi-fjdbyyqi.manus.space

Anyone else overwhelmed by the creativity of people on @X ? Everyone’s on here building the coolest things. I’m saying overwhelmed, but I mean overwhelmed in a good way. People are just really impressive. Makes me feel like I need to get busy building!

@ItsRumman Gemma4:12b

left or right which one do you trust with your work? 👇