afonsocrg

Solo founding does not have to be a solo journey

Okay, we're forming a pretty cool gang for tomorrow! DM if you wanna join, it's gonna be a legendary day!!

@AndrewHart I’ve been getting that a lot recently…

Claude Code is extremely slow today. Often taking several minutes to respond to each query with no visible activity. So I asked Claude to review the logs *ahem* apparently its just stalling for several minutes for no reason 😟

@tonnoz @marclou Is this a phone sized e reader? Btw 8% battery 👀👀

🫡 soon have a long haul flight, what better occasion

@marcelolebre @Jobvo @remote Dang that’s an inputting story!! Thanks for sharing!! 😁

Those stories where girlfriends drag boyfriends into meeting friend with boyfriend, that was pretty much how I met @Jobvo, my co-founder at @remote. I had just moved to Lisbon. I’m from a small city up north in Portugal, and I knew no one. My girlfriend at the time, today my wife, said: remember this friend of mine from college? She’s in town and she’s with her boyfriend. Should we go meet them for coffee? I was like, come on, I don’t feel like it. I’m not that kind of double-date person. But anyway, I had nothing better to do. I was about to start working the next day. So I thought, let’s just go and it will be easy to kill off the nerves anyway. We arrived and Job was there with his girlfriend. He was doing his PhD at Champalimaud. He was in neuroscience but loved technology. We ended up talking geek stuff, nerd stuff. And the thing that brought us together was this thought of: why do people suffer through professions or careers or tools or things they have to do every day? You go to a reception, a public office, a private practice, and people are like, computer says no. They don’t want to help you. They don’t want to do business. They’re just collecting a paycheck. Why is this? The reality is that a lot of people have that job because they couldn’t find the thing that made them happy. They need the money, but they didn’t have the opportunity to do the thing they’re really good at. So we started talking about this. What if we found a way for the best companies to hire the best people in the world and vice versa? A week later, Job sent me an email saying he had an idea and wanted to talk. That’s how it started. We stayed friends for years. We built a bunch of things together before Remote was a thing. Then, years later, I told him, look, I just quit. This was in the morning. And in the afternoon, his wife, who I’m friends with as well, sent me a video of him coming downstairs. She was narrating it, saying: he’s coming downstairs. He just spoke with the CEO of GitLab. He quit as well. That was the moment. The picture is from 2019. Job and I on a Remote team call with our babies, June and Pedro. Two dads trying to build a company from home, with babies on the team call and a lot to figure out. At the time, Remote was still tiny. No playbook. No big team. No obvious path. Today, that same idea has become global payroll and employment infrastructure for companies around the world. We started with a simple question: what would it take for companies to work with anyone, anywhere, and still get payroll, compliance, and employment right? Turns out, the answer was a lot of infrastructure. Luckily, we ended up marrying our girlfriends, so it didn’t become awkward to tell the story.

@AndrewHart You should meet @AbnerHout super cool guy!!

Excited to return to Amsterdam next week. It’s a working trip while i focus on my intelligence research, working from coffee shops (actual ones…). And would love to meet up with a few people while I’m there.

@charlierward @carlagriffs Maxathon?

@carlagriffs Depending on the date, you could probably use Ramen Space

reaching out to the #londonmaxxing community.. my friends and I are organising a hackathon for next month..does anyone know of any VCs/start ups that would be able to loan their office after hours on a Thursday? Cursor will provide credits, just trying to find a venue now

@Alexintosh You’ll learn then 😎😎

@afonsocrg I don't know how to surf but happy to hang!

The swell is coming back to Caparica this Wed! 🌊 A bunch of us are hitting the waves in the morning, then hanging out at a local cafe to get stuff done. DM if you wanna join us! The more the merrier Let's gooooooooo!!!

What a legend 😂😂

@nhoss2 <3 <3 Missing you all too man :'))

@afonsocrg missing an afonso here

AM vs PM today

@mick__net @scrollinondubs just shipped Behalf Bot. A bot that acts on your behalf. I think it’s a bit similar to what you’re saying :))

Hope agentic email will soon make it easier to handle things like: customer emails, accounting/invoices, AI email morning briefing. Saw this repo too. Hope agentic email will be used for good and not for shitty spam purposes Authenticated email gateway for AI agents — SPF/DKIM verified inbound, HMAC-signed delivery, webhook + WebSocket fan-out, CLI + SDKs github.com/Mnexa-AI/e2a

@rippedandrich26 The loch in ness

coworking with the crew. feeling large like the loch ness

@mick__net @levelsio Ohh Neco!! :))

I teached my Codex to match a few 1000 (small) transactions with invoices: - read access to accounting app transactions and access to upload/ attach invoices - read only access to my bank via API key to lookup transactions - Apple Mail MCP so Codex can search (invoice/receipt) messages from multiple accounts through one connection (Google GMAIL workspace CLI limits you to one email account) - A template to create receipts images from items without a receipt. With help of @Necmttn

By far THE most annoying part of running a business for me is collecting receipts for my accountant Every month my accountants hounds me for invoices and receipts of every single expense I did, doesn't matter how tiny like $0.50, sometimes also for income (I don't know why) Most companies charge monthly so that means collecting 12 invoices per year at least One reason I am canceling so many SaaS is not even the cost, it's just that I hate bookkeeping so much so I think if I don't spend the money, I don't need to collect invoices and receipts for every single payment every month (also I like extremely high profit margins like 99.99%) I'm down to just about 10 companies I pay now, like Cloudflare, Hetzner, Backblaze etc. so that means only ~120 invoices to collect per year cause most are paid monthly Yes I have an automatic email filter that forwards invoices to my accountant but many companies do NOT send you an automatic invoice by email So you're talking about logging in to 10 websites, them sending you a 2FA code by email, opening your email, entering the code, trying to find wherever the Billing page is hidden, going to Invoices, opening the invoice, clicking Download to DPF (if it even exists) This week I tried to improve this, my accountant uses Xero, so I made a Xero API key, gave it to Claude Code, and asked it to login and figure stuff out, then it just asks me which expenses still need a receipt and a note, I find it and drag the PDF or screenshot into Claude Code and it resolves it Next step is letting it login to all my vendors and also download the invoice by itself which seems very very possible Much easier!

@luismbat I see the same bridge

My favorite routine when flying from Lisbon to San Francisco: Start the day with a run by 25 de Abril bridge 🌁 and end it with a run by the Golden Gate 🌉 Great for fighting jet lag and creating a very strange Strava timeline 😅

@tdinh_me @phuctm97 @FlorinPop17 <3 Those were very interesting games!! Even today I don't know how I saw those moves, they were tricky! When I visit Da Nang again let's play some chess ♟️ (Got obliterated by the chess hustlers in Washington Square park, in NYC. I think they got your revenge)

@phuctm97 @FlorinPop17 @FlorinPop17 and @afonsocrg kicked my ass in less than 10 moves. Hurt my feelings a bit.

I got beaten by @FlorinPop17 before Codex even finished working. He's too good. 😭

@erlalucas Right is after 😅

@afonsocrg right is after afonso?

Shipped a new landing page for Uni Feedback. Focused on showing value immediately and on answering objections that students often ask me, when telling them about Uni Feedback. I'm sure the message is much clearer now, but I'm also sure there's room for improvement

@phuctm97 @FlorinPop17 1.e4

@ann_nnng It’s becoming a tradition, the Surfer Residency Group 👀

This is the perk of being indie hackers: you can just get together to surf and grab a morning coffee on a MONDAY morning then get back to the grind later 😂

@tonnoz @HackerResidency 🔥🔥🔥 amazing Tony!! Keep them coming 😁

Da Nang 🇻🇳 mini-vlog - Sơn Trà Peninsula ride (feat 🐒) - 2 @HackerResidency meetups in one day 🥰 - A few hours left to register to the 🎨 GPS ART run of this evening (10th May) : luma.com/azui36zs To the next update 🫡