Alan | Building in Public @ dm.page

@49agents I think we all learned this the hard way, just taken me 18 years to realize 🤣

@alanefuller distribution beats product is the cold truth nobody wants to hear. spent 6 months on features before realizing nobody could find what i built. had to go back and solve awareness before anything else

Distribution beats product. Every time. Solve this before you build.

@aliByteCode Learn SEO, learn marketing, learn distribution and work hard for at least 3 years.

everyone says "just launch it" but once you launch you get 3 visitors 2 are your friends 1 is you checking analytics now what

@pmitu It all depends on what distribution you have. In some cases free plan is the only real way to get distribution, but beware the distribution have to be large scale as conversion is typically as low as 1%.

Respect yourself, remove the Free plan.

@EntrepGrow I like the analysis, I should really do such an intropective for my own failures and learning points, but I like to ignore them and pretend my one minor success makes up for it all despite the sucess was actually before most of the failures.

They say that failures are the steps to success. I'm a failure. (for now) Here's a list of all my failed/discontinued projects, how they failed and what I learnt 😐 It's also a story, of how I learnt different things. This is gonna be a long👇

@dumborbiranen @brockpierson You mean it hates reply guys, and encourages shit posting

@brockpierson Still learning about the algorithm. But I know it loves reply guys and rewards engagement

On a scale of 1-10, how well do you think your understanding of the 𝕏 algorithm is?

@brockpierson 0

@rmelogli Sigificant as custom code is difficult to exploit, simply because the server code is not normally published publically so difficult (not impossible) for hackers to scan for SQL injection holes, missing nonces, and missing sanitization and escaping. Unlike plugin and themes source

@alanefuller Re: 4 you're right, but I meant "Custom code vulnerabilities" in reality. So that would be the code you write, not the one contained in a plugin/theme. Sorry about the confusion

Why do you think websites get hacked the most? (100% anonymous—unless you want to share more in the comments)

@miguelgbandeira Done it both ways. Personally it was better to set better boundaries at home than co working space.

been working from home for 3 years i love it but i'm starting to feel the downsides it's lonely. it's distracting. and it's fucking with my routine there's no real barrier between work and personal life thinking about trying coworking spaces. might fix the routine, might help me separate work from home, maybe even meet some people anyone made this switch?

@rozzabuilds Cloudflare

Developers - where do you usually buy your domains? I’m still using Vercel exclusively.

@mitch_tmv @fjzeit like yesterday I have 6 or 7 different UI/UX changes defined in one batch ( sprint ) and I could really have a process auto tech planning each change, sign off on those manually and then auto build each...

@alanefuller @fjzeit The point is and was that you design the process to avoid compaction degradation and enforce a long-running process that can execute on a large spec. It's not the only or best solution to those problems however.

How are those "Ralph" loops going people? I haven't heard much recently. Did you manage to perfectly specify your needs up front? Have you one-shot your requirements? What amount of rework are you doing? What's your token consumption like? How many agent/skill assets are you managing now? How's your cognitive ownership?

@mitch_tmv @fjzeit I guess I haven't really used it for what it is meant to be. My experience so far is it is best to currate small chunks of build rather than attempt a full build in one shot, although I can see the use case, ⤵️

@itechnologynet @fjzeit As I said I don't understand Ralph loops, I looked but it didn't click. Can you explain it?

@alanefuller @fjzeit Actually dangerously skip is yolo, not the Ralph loop in Claude Different things

@itechnologynet @fjzeit Is that not just setting off Claude with a prompt and --dangerously-skip-permissions ?

@alanefuller @fjzeit Because once my planning session is done, it should just run until completion without me sitting behind the screen, in case, it needs more information or approvals ... that's what the planning session was for

@aliByteCode Personal contacts

honest question for founders who have launched: what actually got you your first user?

@manojdotdev Algo 60, COBOL, Fortran IV, PL1/G, Pascal, Assembler, C, C++

Programming language you learned once but never touched again?

@johncrickett "I don't know who you are. I don't know what you want... but what I do have are a very particular set of skills, skills I have acquired over a very long career. Skills that make me a nightmare for people like you" 🤣🤣

@alanefuller Learn, compare, and to add actual data to all the debates on work/doesn't work.

Everyone talks about how good AI agents are at writing code. But where's the actual software? Share your best example below.

@johncrickett Any particular reason, to learn?

@alanefuller I'd love to see software and details of the workflow to create it.