Peter | DEV_0x63

@khan_kilo For sure! But how do you wanna crack down on this actually in a practical way ? 😂

@dev0x63 😂 I’m almost certain Apple will put a stop to this given their nature

Now that the App Store is saturated with the same apps Let us go back to trying to innovate and come up with interesting app ideas. Clearly only a few apps making all the money. Time to start doing interesting things again!

There is no demand for average anymore. I used to think shipping something decent was enough. Get it out. Iterate later. But decent doesn't cut through. Decent gets lost in the noise. inkStar either has to be the best tool a tattoo studio has ever used, or it's just another app collecting digital dust. No middle ground. That's what keeps me up at night. And also what keeps me building.

@Jbm_dev Wow... color me surprised 😂 Hope you're not affected

‼️ litellm 1.82.8 on PyPI was just caught with a credential stealer baked into the package. it grabs your SSH keys, AWS creds, crypto wallets, shell history, and exfiltrates everything to an attacker controlled server. it runs the moment python starts. if you installed it, rotate everything now.

We've been building inkStar.app for almost two years now. My girlfriend runs our tattoo studio. I write the code. We both use the app every day. Today we sat down together to rewrite the homepage copy. She'd read a sentence out loud and say "that's not what we do." I'd rewrite it. She'd read it again. "Closer, but nobody talks like that." We spent hours on just the homepage. Didn't even finish it. The words started sounding like us instead of sounding like AI. Like how she'd explain it to a friend who asked what I've been building all year. We'll need a few more sessions. Honestly, I'm looking forward to them.

@khan_kilo I think this can keep going forever.

I’ve been in a review cycle with codex for almost an hour. Review -> Fix -> Review It keeps spotting new issues. Anyone experienced this ?

@khan_kilo It will allow you to gain root and execute code on the env 🤣

Firebase now supports SQL with PostgresSQL. How will this compete with supabase ?

@khan_kilo I see you're implementing what you preach bro 🤝 real

Updated BeardMax's pricing last week. Stopped using a flat US price for every country. Started pricing based on Purchasing Power Parity instead. Subscriptions went up. A $4.99/month subscription hits different in Brazil than it does in the US. Same product. Completely different economic reality for the buyer. If you have international downloads and you're still doing 1:1 USD conversion everywhere you're pricing yourself out of sales you've already earned.

For months the inkStar website was functional but rough. Pages that didn't match. Copy that tried to say everything and ended up saying nothing AND on top of that, Missing pages. Friday I shipped the rework. Every page redesigned. Blog system live. Full SEO foundation in place. By Saturday, all pages were indexed thanks to RalfyIndex. Then I spent the weekend going through every competitor I could find, pulling the keywords they rank for. 400+ keywords on the list now, AND checking out possible sources to build some links. The website is live. Now comes the harder part: making sure the right people actually find it. Stay tuned!

Your customer's customer should never have to install your app. If a tattoo client needs to download something just to book an appointment or sign a consent form, you already lost them. The studio runs the app. The client just shows up.

I used to think great engineers were just really smart problem solvers. Then I started building inkStar. The scheduling assistant, the forensic e-sign system, the offline-first architecture for studios with concrete walls and zero signal... None of that came from logic alone. It came from caring. From obsessing. From wanting the thing to feel right, not just work right. Turns out engineering and craft aren't that different.

@FlowHaa It doesn't even have to be the usage of AI but simply using vibe-coded products that no-one has an idea of what they're actually doing and what risk they impose.

@dev0x63 totally agree here. Worked for a large company for a couple of years and I cannot image AI writing all the customized code there. Not to start with all the legal restrictions and other stuff in large companies when it comes to AI usage etc...

I think the current gate keeper for AI is the quality, since most AI software is just low quality slop and imo enterprise software has the biggest barrier with all the legal requirements, architecture and special needs, per industry etc. Sure AI can one shot a ToDo app... because there are more ToDo apps out there than humans on this planet... But software is NOT simple 😂especially specialized one that most companies require. Saying that AI will replace all devs is like saying a calculator makes understanding math obsolete 😂 I just don't buy it. I might be biased, but I just can't imagine a world where AI is doing 100% of the work. Whoever thinks that, must be a junior, not a dev or is trying to sell you AI.

If you stop moving on your product for long enough... you stop believing in it. I've felt that with inkStar. Two weeks of no commits, no updates, no nothing. And suddenly it starts feeling like a mistake instead of an unfinished bet. The code didn't change. My conviction did.

@SoraiaDev B for sure. When a product limits me during evaluation and trying it out like in A I usually don't bother to test it.

if you're trying a new dev tool, which do you prefer? a) a few free uses of premium features in the free plan, just try and hit a limit b) a free trial of the paid plan full access for a few days, then commit

@SoraiaDev Happy little accident 😂

yesterday: "waitlist is open" the waitlist was in fact not open. it was broken. it's fixed now lol

@khan_kilo With enough Adderall all code is awesome 😂

I still think majority of people who say they are writing awesome code with AI is lying.

@elralfchristian @PeterMindenhall This has huge potential. Just think about the industry and how you could s̶c̶a̶m̶ help it.

@dev0x63 @PeterMindenhall I can see Ralfger the hardware wallet And RalfyArt, where NFTs are finally real art And Ralfance and Ralfbase for trading your coins. But nobody trades them because everybody wants to keep his coins We are truly man of vision

Essentially a similar thing going on in AI, just much larger volumes of money, much larger lies, and an on-par amount of stupidity...

@elralfchristian @PeterMindenhall HEAR ME OUT. We could make the credits on RalfyIndex an actual crypto currency and we could get people to invest in it. There is real value behind this because you can exchange a credit for one url to get indexed. Just saying.

@PeterMindenhall Since over 10 years we are living in a crypto world where we are treating everything like it's Bitcoin

@elralfchristian I really can't wait for this craziness to end... All the shilling and stupidity is making me feel fucking sick 😂

@dev0x63 I like the calculator metaphor People will soon discover that there's a difference between random output and a target specification Of course indie hackers who have never worked in their whole life don't know about target specification, they are just happy they have tetris 🤣

@owenthcarey Agreed. I mean I can't talk shit since I'm not really big but I would say, have a personality and post frequently 😂 and just let it ride.

Trying to grow on social media sometimes feels like a full-time job.