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@KurtBenkert You still got it? Better get that arm warmed up!

All these QB’s going down don’t make me act up

I'm not really pointing at Indy, specifically. I'm only speaking to the fact that 9/10 applications I've gotten are clearly someone taking my original job ad, running it through ChatGPT (or whatever), and then returning a perfect application that is like a direct 1:1 mapping with my original job ad. I know there's nothing you can do about that, but wooowwiiie it makes it brutal to sort through applicants

Hey @Steffan! Thanks for your feedback. We agree using AI to apply for jobs won’t help you stand out, especially if it generates AI-like responses. That said, Indy doesn’t do that. Indy scans your professional network and matches you with relevant opportunities based on your skills, experience, and preferences. It helps independent professionals grow their careers by connecting them with relevant projects and opportunities. Happy to walk you through Indy sometime!😊

Big fan of what @contra is building, but the use of AI to apply for jobs is not it. As someone who is hiring, it's an immediate disqualification if you apply to an open role and you've very clearly just taken the original job ad and layered in an AI response. Almost every single application I've gotten is like this. I have absolutely no idea how these people actually think or communicate. Is this what we really want?? It makes it even MORE difficult for hiring managers to find qualified candidates when every single person has a perfect AI-generated application. Commmeee on man

@AnyaY55178 lying about what?? You have a mental disorder and need to seek help.

Nope, but bless his lying heart

@AnyaY55178 @zachtratar haha you are just making my point even stronger. Another smooth-brain touting rhetoric

@SteffanHowey @zachtratar Screw off We know he was DSA, quoted antifs, BF was trans

I don’t know precisely how we come together right now, but some things are clear: - We need to figure out the shooters intentions/beliefs with more certainty. - Claiming he was part of a specific group (no matter the group) and blaming the whole group is generally stupid. - Advocating any further violence against anyone is bad. Advocating escalation is bad. Advocating retaliation against groups of people not involved is bad. I don’t care if that’s MAGA or Trans — stop. - We need to have better, open discourse. People need to respect the sanctity of life and how freedom of speech must be defended. No one deserves to die for voicing their opinions. - Assholes should be called out and shamed. But we should not seek to destroy each other. Violence begets violence. Rage creates rage. Death spirals are radically dangerous and it’s up to all of us to be better, love thy enemy.

@BrettFromDJ Damn. horrific....

He gave them a mic, and they put a bullet in his throat. RIP Charlie Kirk. 💔

using the chat feature to think and plan with lovable is a better way to get the results you're after vs. just asking the LLM to make more and more updates, which tends to bloat the codebase and creates a web that the LLM can't sift through. It can get messy fast.

@DannPetty dt is so lame and pretentious. i don't know if there is a bigger group of sychophants, posers, and all around insecure people, all in one place. always ready to dunk, expose or grift.

Design twitter has become a PVP battle arena. Everyone against each other. We're literally killing what made DT fun. FOR WHAT? A few likes? $100 ad rev? If you spent more time getting better at design/business you wouldn't need to destroy your rep focusing on brain rot.

@kyleanthony I see the green in everything you do. Your signature

Mood board for a new brand i'm designing

@BleedGreenPGold @NFL I was at the game. I closed my eyes on the Hail Mary, somehow thinking it wasn't going to happen and not wanting to see it. I don't have a ton of regrets, but that's a big one. I was there but missed it.

The “Miracle in Motown” wasn’t just a Hail Mary. It was a 20 point comeback #GoPackGo

@contraben @ProductHunt Congrats homie! Very cool

also, we are live on @ProductHunt. Show some love if you can! producthunt.com/products/contr…

the biggest complaints we get at @contra are 1. not enough leads 2. clients dont respond to applications the reality is, job boards are dead.. the best way to find new projects is from your own network. Today we are launching Indy, and its going to change everything.

Most early‑stage founders wonder if brand matters or how much they should invest in a visual identity in the early days. What I've seen is that at pre‑seed, you don’t need a world‑class identity; you just need a Minimum Viable Brand (MVB) that’s easy to iterate on and understand. - One‑sentence value prop - Two primary colors - One font - Simple logo (even just your name in clean type) That's it. Neuroscience shows that repeating a handful of visual cues builds neural “superhighways,” making recognition faster, whether an investor’s flipping through decks at 2 AM or a prospect scrolls your site. Extra fonts, colors, or icons only create friction. Your goal in the earliest stages is to become inescapable, NOT differentiated. Repetition breeds familiarity. Familiarity builds trust. Choose simple. Choose consistency. Repeat until your core message, colors, and logo stick. Until you become inescapable.

@harjtaggar As painful as it is for some, the CEO has to be all business, almost all of the time. I've made the mistake of being too peer-like in the past, and it's ALWAYS bit me in the ass. If you're the boss, just be the boss and let your friends be those in your personal life.

Being the CEO inevitably becomes lonelier as your company grows because trying to be a peer just breeds conflict via mimetic desire. It's an especially hard lesson for agreeable people to learn.

@rsg Totally forgot about it. Locked in 🎧

Whenever I need to be super productive, I put this soundtrack on & lock in 🎧

@Jason I have a million ideas and will design the whole thing end to end. Where can I send you some initial concepts?

I need to build a cofounder matching tool and service — anyone has ideas?

Brand identity for a gen z streetwear brand

It feels like vibe coding gives us a false sense of confidence. We think if we can prompt and generate something, that it's "working". But unless you're building the simplest of CRUD apps, you're going to run into serious issues. Forget the backend stuff too...Even on the frontend you can burn soooo many credits and time just trying to have the AI fix something small and trivial like aligning elements or creating UI consistency between screens. It'll also randomly add so much extra bullshit to your code base. Obvs it'll get better, but right now, it's primarily good for these platforms and their revenue and pretty terrible for it's customers.

Ok so I'm >totally< fried from this. Not because my life's work was destroyed -- look it's only Day 8 :). Albeit I'm 80+ hours in. But it's because destoying a production database just took it out of me. My bond to Replie is now broken. It won't come back. But maybe -- it never should have been there at all.

Vibe Coding Day 9, Yesterday was biggest roller coaster yet. I got out of bed early, excited to get back @Replit despite it constantly ignoring code freezes By end of day, we rewrote core pages and made them much better And then -- it deleted our production database. 🧵

@GeoffLewisOrg You should dumb this down for those of us who don't speak in such abstractions. :)

It’s time.

@aliszu I feel the same way. That said, I've found that, even though it's painful, it usually saves so much time vs. waiting around on async comms. :-/

I hate meetings, whenever someone ask me to hop on a call I’m crazy frustrated