Jack Barham

Are there any recommended Stripe skills for Claude Code? I know there are a lot of options out there, but I was wondering if there's an overall favourite. Thanks.

@KanikaBK @ShawkyMesbah You literally said "RIP designers".

@ShawkyMesbah Totally agree. Designers aren’t disappearing , the tools are just evolving. The real headline here is the $0 workflow.

🤯 R.I.P DESIGNERS! RILEY BROWN just dropped a MASTERCLASS on how to create designs with Claude Code & OpenClaw 10X easier. NO FIGMA SUBSCRIPTION needed anymore. Figma: $45/month Agency Charges:10k/month This workflow: $0 Here's the full breakdown👇

@theandreboso What's your profile link?

I’m bullish on Threads. I’ve been using it consistently for 5 minutes a day with a new profile and it still got me a decent number of impressions. The feed still shows me way too much content from people I don’t follow but I’m sure it will get better. People are nice and there are many indie founders I’ve never seen before on other platforms building in public. I’m going to spend more time on it.

There's a reason I'm still based in London 🇬🇧 (No it's not the weather 😂) Its the perfect combination of: Ambition Pragmatism Diversity The calibre of people this city brings together is like nowhere else in the world. If you want to be world-class, be here.

@_baretto @eliott__mogenet Agreed. The transport links in NYC don't even come close to London's capabilities. To be fair, not many cities do. NY is a cool place, though.

@eliott__mogenet Personally I'm not a fan on NYC but I get the attraction. That lack of greenery and subway condition really kills it for me.

@safferms2 @ladyjaujau Thank fucking Christ!

@ladyjaujau You clearly have no relationship with Jesus!

Sooooo grateful to live in Europe, far, far away from these lunatics 🤯

@_adembilican_ Dark blue / midnight, I mean.

@_adembilican_ Oh, and the blue is a fingerprint magnet. Got the silver and glad I did.

MBA > MBP I used Macbook Pros for years and for the first time I am considering a Macbook Air! I use AI and servers for most of my dev setup so I don't really need the local resources so much. What do you think? Would you consider an Air as dev or do you still need the horsepower?

@_adembilican_ I went from a 16" MBP M1 Pro to a 15" Air M4 (24GB / 1TB), and I haven't had any issues at all. I sometimes miss the Pro screen for watching movies, but for work it's brilliant, and I love that it's so much lighter and thinner.

@helloitsolly I mean this constructively, but if I have something to get on with, I'd rather be left to it. There's no perfect rule here, and trust needs to develop, but that works both ways.

For transparency, I think this message was the issue

Another engineer quit midway through a trial $9,000 a month and apparently keeping Linear updated as you go is too much Listed twice in job description Designed to facilitate remote work and fewer meetings

Someone made an updated Silicon Valley intro and it’s so good 😂

My agency (forge.coop) did the design for Zohran’s campaign. While I wish I played a part, it was all the masterful work of my partners, Aneesh and Phil. Having worked with these 2 for close to a decade, it’s no surprise they created what many consider (the most?) iconic political branding. I’ve seen Aneesh go deep into the archives of typography and color theory, and Phil spend hours custom-building animations to bring a UI to life. HYPED to see their work getting the credit it deserves.

@Affinity 3/3) I know a lot of the dynamics are different with Affinity and Figma, but Canva will make way more money from AI upgrade packages if it's on more desktops than selling the app outright.

@Affinity 2/3) Adobe tried to buy them for $20bn, several countries blocked the deal (competition), and then they recently went public on Nasdaq and currently worth $24bn, which I'm sure will only go up from there.

It's finally time to announce what we've been working on. Welcome to the all new Affinity. Download now from affin.link/28b5 - welcome to the start of creative freedom for all, totally free. Forever.

Is anyone else noticing that Google Chrome is hanging, loading slowly, or feeling a bit choppy when switching between tabs? Currently on macOS 15.7

My leg's broke, but Ramen Space isn't. Here's how I'm running a $15k/month London co-working space/online community at 90% capacity, from home with a broken leg. 🦵📈 8 things: 1. Hire from your community 🤝 I hired one of our most active community members (Solomon) to run the day-to-day at the space. Sol is awesome, a great community leader, knows everyone, and just keeps things ticking over beautifully. From opening and closing, to hosting the morning standup, welcoming new starters, hosting events and much more. Thank you Solomon! 2. Keep an eye on stock 👁️ Our cleaner and facilities manager Renatinho keeps things spotless, and monitors all inventory needed - ordering new stock via a Capital on Tap credit card he can access, then sending me receipts after to upload to Novabook. Main inventory is stuff like soap, hand towels, toilet paper, incense, milk, biscuits etc. Always order slightly more than you think you need. Margin of safety innit. 3. Free event space to drive awareness 📈 We currently allow relevant events and meetups to use Ramen Space for free. This drives top of funnel awareness from them promoting the event (and us) on social, plus drives new leads from people attending (we have a short presentation about Ramen Space at the start). Events are managed on the day by the promoters and sometimes also someone from Ramen Space (like Solomon). We've seen some awesome new events put on already, like About Product, About AI, Feminist AI, Shipaton w/ RevenueCat, a Zapier AI Agent workshop and many more. 4. Drive leads with your own events 🍻 We also promote Ramen Space through our own free monthly event: @IndieBeers, which has been running for 6 years in Shoreditch and tends to get 80-100 attendees per month in our target audience. In my absence, attendees like Che and Elston have stepped up to be hosts in my absence 💓 The main focus is asking people to join for a free trial day when welcoming them and giving them their IndieBeers sticker (which we offer instead of name tags, I don't love name tags). 5. Focus on free trial days ❗ After a bit of experimenting (7-day free trial with credit card, money-back guarantees etc), we have found that a short application for a free-trial day (no credit card required) clearly works best for our funnel. We allow people to book any weekday, but highly recommend in the signup flow to choose a Tuesday, as it's when we have the most people in, and also events like educational workshops. So it's the best possible first day experience. 6. Pick a 'main day' 📍 Choose a 'main day' when everyone, including free trialists, should try to come in each week. For us, it's Tuesdays. In the early days of a co-working space, especially when most people are not full-time members, there is naturally indecision on the 'best' day to come in each week. So you can easily reduce cognitive load by simply telling people, on our website, during onboarding, in-person etc that day is 'Tuesday'. It means you always have a day each week where things are really busy, which drives word of mouth, and means you'll also have some great pics to share. 6. Offer flexible membership options 🫂 Accept most members (especially in founder communities) only want to come in 1-2 times per week. For me, the days of full-time co-working memberships are over. Our target audience want to work flexibly... at home, travel abroad, in coffee shops, in one or two (or three) communities, at friends houses etc. I'd estimate 80% of our members come in 1-2x per week. So build your pricing plans accordingly. We have a range of subscription options here, plus PAYG. 8. Automation is your friend 🤖 For our 500 person online community, luckily I can run this myself and host remote events, like an upcoming collab with Milly at Generalist World. I also use a Slack plugin I made (@cosycommunities) to help me run the day to day. Automating parts of our onboarding flow, introducing members, a Slack-native member directory, surfacing our most engaging posts for the monthly newsletter, finding unreplied messages I can follow-up on, plus flagging any spam/abusive messages instantly. Final thoughts from my sofa 🧠 🗺️ There's more detail than this - the map is not the territory. But hopefully a useful primer for anyone opening/running a co-working space or online community. 🦿 The leg is healing well - probably 2.5 months till I'm walking again, but I'm very lucky to still have a source of income I can mostly manage from home. After currency conversion, costs and taxes (plus living in London) are removed, it's not as glamorous as it seems. But it's something. 🙏 For an unlucky situation, I've actually been very lucky. The day I was discharged from hospital coincided with my girlfriend moving in with me! Which had been planned for months. I have no idea how I'd handle this on my own. Thank you for reading. Any questions? Let me know, chat!

I used to do this back when I was a DJ, recording mixes to prove I wasn't using the sync button.

@theandreboso Genuine question here. How would you recommend handling someone who has signed up, but you don't have a product yet? Asking as I'm about to do something similar :)

Product first: you come up with a great idea, start building what you have in mind right away, throw together a landing page, set up some social media accounts and only afterward try to get people to check it out. Marketing first: you start by creating social profiles, begin engaging and sharing some content, then you make a simple landing page, see if anyone's interested enough to sign up and if they are that's your signal to start building.

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