John Builds

Day 68: Our product is looking meaty! 🥩 Features available on X. ✅ auto DM for new followers. Customizable message ✅ Schedule posts ✅ Enhance reply generation with AI ✅ Personalize voice ✅ BYOK, PRO, and Free version ✅ auto blogging feature (only for my site) #buildinpublic #indiehacker

@marclou Would this have been possible or even on your radar without AI?

I just added keyboard shortcuts to DataFast 🖱️ Last 30 days should be "M" for Month, but I'm already using it for the Map (real-time globe)... I won't be able to sleep, so: - Globe should now open with G? (1.2K users will be confused) - Move on?

@bdog06168471068 Help founders staying active on social.

@_JohnBuilds_ what is your directive?

You're spending an hour a day writing replies. Most of them get 2 likes. XreplyAI drafts replies in your voice. Trained on your actual posts. Sounds like you. Posts in seconds. 7 day free trial

@Feminae_Vincere This tool helps create and doesn't post. You are in control. You can edit capture your feels. 🥰

@_JohnBuilds_ This could end up saying something that crosses the line in countries where that might be an issue.

@BrianTaylor5580 Both are good. Depending what you want.

@_JohnBuilds_ indeed. what is special about the few great creators is that they create. they dont rely upon AI

@DisposablEnsign Nothing wrong with that. Keep going!

@_JohnBuilds_ I don't care how many likes or followers I get. I comment and then move on. That's it.

@tshrinivas Glad it resonates 😁

@_JohnBuilds_ That is my story. "Why do you tweet?" I am asked," You have few followers, fewer see those posts & fewest like them." My reply: That urge within impels me. As Bhavabhuti wrote: Space is infinite & time eternal; eventually someone will get it उत्पत्स्यते तु मम कोऽपि समानधर्मा

Start. The rest follows. Overthinking is just procrastination in disguise. #motivation #mindset

@willshome Compassion and empathy makes the world go around. If I can share my message with more people, is that such a bad thing?

Horrific AI slop that will melt Elon's platform. How fitting.

@ElviraMaddigan @sherry352319042 I assure you I am real... although I could see an AI saying that too 😅

@_JohnBuilds_ @sherry352319042 You seem very AI

@Eleanor_Amandou @KaiXCreator The way Claude is annoucing pricing changes hasn't been great...

@_JohnBuilds_ @KaiXCreator Mostly the change to "claude -p 'do the thing'" pricing they just announced

Anyone here cancelled their Claude Code subscription and moved to Codex?

@BrianTaylor5580 it depends on who you follow. There's still lot of great creators!

@_JohnBuilds_ But twitter is a cesspit. You are just amplifying shit.

@pmitu The act like it never happened and deleting past tweets is the real secret sauce 😆

From 0 → 1000 𝕏 followers (unhinged version) • Buy Premium • Tweet daily • Steal hit tweets • Post daily memes • Steal hit memes • Reply • Don't steal replies Do all that and act like it never happened later.

@CreakingG 😄 i just want to build

@_JohnBuilds_ where would be the fun in that?

@SimonDuckerinho @sickdotdev will give it a whirl this weekdn

@_JohnBuilds_ @sickdotdev Have you tried codex? Everyone I know WHO IS NOT A FRONTEND DEVELOPER is mindblown how much better codex is. The model: - outputs much higher code quality (which matters for backend/logical code) - offers higher usage on higher speed and no stability issues [1/2]

Two weeks after moving from Claude Code to Codex: - GPT-5.5 high effort uses ~2-4x less than Claude Code Sonnet 4.6 (cut my setup from two Claude Max 20x accounts to one $100 ChatGPT plan) - Codex UI feels weird for 2-3 days, then becomes a non-issue - GPT-5.5 high is giving me noticeably better code than Opus 4.7 - Much better transparency into agent reasoning/output - Codex uptime has been rock solid; Claude Code was hitting outages every few days Biggest downside: Claude Code still has the more mature plugin ecosystem + better skills/frontmatter support If you’re a plugin developer, that matters. If you’re an end user, maybe less so.

@pentargency @sickdotdev what was the scary word?

@_JohnBuilds_ @sickdotdev well for one it's not randomly charging me out the ass because it saw a scary word in my repo history. and, it lets me use my pi setup with good subagent controls instead of their creepy buggy flickery system-scanning data farming harness. not being developer-hostile is nice.

@chad_SOL1 @sickdotdev tell me more 🍿

@_JohnBuilds_ @sickdotdev Opus4.7 is shit

@anupamrjp You write the doc AI implements

Building SaaS in 2026 feels like: )AI writing code )You fixing edge cases 😭

@asaio87 The AI writes clean code, but who's fixing the mess when it hallucinates the logic?

Harsh truth AI coding agents write much better code than many developers can ever do It is safe to say that right ?

@SOMAMadman No bots! Everything is triggered, reviewed, and approved by human!

@_JohnBuilds_ Are you selling bot services?

@levelsio how fast would you expect your responses to come? Are these simple tasks that you think should respond right away?

If Claude Code keeps being slow like this while I pay $200/mo (and they don't let me pay more) They will essentially force me to leave to Codex and I don't want to But it's soooooo slooooooooooooowwwww