@bigboybuilder
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@bigboybuilder
@bigboybuilder
if you can't explain it, don't build it call me john (or jan if you are european)
your mind, RN Katılım Ocak 2024
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I feel this too.
Spent 7 years to build an audience here and my posts now get 1-2k impressions.
I know I don’t have the best posts and I’m not trying to play the algorithm game anymore. I just post things from my life - the same way I used to do for years to grow my audience.
I still enjoy engaging with others and hope that one day the algorithm is going to make sense again.
David Zorkocy@GayRepublicSwag
SADNESS! I might be leaving X. It has never been less fun to be a content creator on this platform. I’ve been posting regularly on Twitter/X since around 2010. The algorithm is insane. Spend years building a following? Yeah that doesn’t matter. Very few of your posts will ever actually be seen by your followers. The fact that my posts regularly have a 15 to 20% engagement rate but never get boosted into the For You is wild. I have 231,000 followers yet my posts start at 200 views and rarely pass 1,000. What? That’s actually crazy. The only way to be seen is to engagement farm and I don’t want to do that. I used to be able to make posts and those posts would be seen by people who clicked follow. It was a good time. Now there are a handful of blessed accounts that go viral every time they post because the algorithm has decided they will. Everyone else on the platform? Stinks to be you. I’m tired of playing the game. I have spent MONTHS trying to learn everything about the algorithm and create content that will perform well and it just doesn’t. There is a social credit score on this app and because I have been creating content for YEARS I have accumulated many blocks and mutes. So the algorithm has decided my account is not good and so I’m not allowed to be seen by the general population of X. I remember being so excited when @elonmusk purchased X but the introduction of AI into the algorithm has made it so bad that it’s a waste of my time. I actually wish I could get back the hours of life I’ve spent trying to learn the algorithm because none of it mattered. I’ll be on Facebook and Instagram if you need me. I’ll check back in down the road to see if the algorithm gets better and the site again becomes worth my time.
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i took out my desk treadmill 3 minutes ago for the first time in 3 weeks and this is the first post i see (while walking on my desk treadmill)
Dan Go@CoachDanGo
One of the best investments I've made in my health has been a treadmill desk. More steps means more energy. Greater focus. When I'm done work I have significantly less stress. Getting steps in while doing work is a legit cheat code.
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china has and will beat us on infra, so its only a matter of time. not sure the "smarter" engineers can beat the entire country of China with the massive amount of training data since everyone uses that shit there, and the rest of the world will start using their infra for their AI needs soon (once they start selling it to them)
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this perspective sacrifices nvidia and keeps AI labs the winner while saying it's about beating china
you can also beat china by aggressively selling nvidia into their markets and preventing their inevitable self sufficiency
of course that would sacrifice the AI labs instead
Anthropic@AnthropicAI
We've published a paper that explains our views on AI competition between the US and China. The US and democratic allies hold the lead in frontier AI today. Read more on what it’ll take to keep that lead: anthropic.com/research/2028-…
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@elonmusk dont forget guys, prompting is work, and you shouldnt work for free
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Try this early Grok Build (anything) beta and let us know what to improve.
Much appreciated!
xAI@xai
An early beta of Grok Build, an agentic CLI for coding, building apps, and automating workflows is now available for SuperGrok Heavy subscribers. Through this early beta, we will improve the model and product based on your feedback. Try it at x.ai/cli
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@bigboybuilder well, a founder's gotta do what a founder's gotta do...
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i hate to break it to you but you are a dev now
Davida Ginter@TheDavidaGinter
Even as a non-dev, fixing a sneaky bug gets me excited. How weird is that?
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@emanueledpt lmao u fucking did it!! its explosive from here man
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OH MY FUCKING GOD
WE DID IIITTTTT!
10000 FOLLOWERS
THANK YOU GUYS SO FUCKING MUCH
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Existential dread is a great motivator.
Too much runway you get lazy.
Too little runway you don't give yourself a chance.
You need just enough runway for the dread to kick in, fight or flight mode, do your best work, charge money, get paid.
Thijs@thijsmakes
Just watched @yongfook's 0 to $36k MRR video. Besides it being an absolute banger, one thing that stood out for me is that Jon mentions not feeling the urgency to ship more while living off his runway. I'm definitely feeling a bit like this. But for me, I have about 6 months of runway. And I just realized that the thought of thinking about "what happens after those 6 months", triggers so much resentment for going back to a normal job that it helps me focus like crazy. If you wanna watch (must watch for solo entrepreneurs imo): youtu.be/tIqh3AfITdQ
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deploy bro!! dooo it
zecod@realzecod
just bought a new domain. I’m one click away from deploying.
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its a huuuge product space that no onenis really targeting right now man
Rui Sousa@heyitzami
are you feeling like you’re not learning anymore? ai made it super easy to ship stuff but are we even absorbing any of it? i genuinely miss learning new stuff so i started a new chapter! what do you think? do you feel the same way?
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there should be a day of no ai ~ one a month
we can do it as a group?
Martin@DWalkingFridge
Did some work on a flight today: 1. Holy shit it's so uncomfortable... 2. No wifi => no AI bby And I got reminded how nice it is to do some gewd ol coding. Yes, I was 100% "less productive" but man I found it so much more rewarding. Plain fun. Honestly, i kind of lost the spark i had for dev a while ago.
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I need your feedback.
A guy in my replies let me notice that this account has become an “update” account
And not a personal account like it should be
I lost track of my story just for publishing my apps
And I don’t want that
I want you guys to experience the real me
The person behind the products
The true Emanuele Di Pietro
So I’m asking you for help
What would you guys want to see that you’re curious to know about me?
What lessons would you want me to share on X?
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@danielrachlin @jackfriks yeah but it will always crystallize around somethingv and you have to keep breaking through that
like multiple metamorphosis where you're in a chrysalis and you have to break free
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@jackfriks That mental barrier is the hardest part. Once you break it, anything feels possible.
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seeing this just gave me that same feeling that $30,000/month used to give me. it seems stupid, impracticable even.. to make THAT MUCH MONEY. but there are many people who really do make that much money. so why not me? why not you. time to keep going.
jack friks@jackfriks
i realized this year that there is infinite money and its not silly at all to think you can make as much money as you want and have fun doing it in your own way. $30,000/month used to make my stomach crawl with how unattainable it seemed but its not at all untainable.
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@bigboybuilder why not?
happy to have you in my network ... lets connect.
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lmao only in se asia, but i guess nothing stops you from doing this in the rocky mountains?
Tony Dinh@tdinh_me
This is just a life hack btw Gather your friends together in a villa for 30 days and: - build together - learn together - demo what you work on - live together: gym, run, surf, etc - inspire more people to build and become indie hackers
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@thdxr need better incentives - dax
also jesus, definitely, at some point
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root issue is most employees aren't in properly motivating environments
it's adversarial where the employer and employee are seeing how much they can get over on the other
it's exactly why ai isn't going to magically make teams more productive
Joe Weisenthal@TheStalwart
The FT says that Amazon employees are doing random unnecessary task automations to consume tokens and to show their bosses that they're using AI more ft.com/content/8ee0d3…
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@kunchenguid so funny, markdown can be used as html? and maybe has the same rich history? mdx gives you a lot of what html can do?
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when i first saw this “HTML is the new markdown” thing, i quickly dismissed it as “that’s going to waste so many tokens”
i was wrong. i just tried it, and it rocks
i plan to share my experience tmr - comment and let me know if there’s anything specific you’re curious about!
Thariq@trq212
HTML is the new markdown. I've stopped writing markdown files for almost everything and switched to using Claude Code to generate HTML for me. This is why.
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