Dav

Today is my Day 0 of #buildinpublic and I have 1 year to make it or break it 🔥 3 years ago I landed in Tokyo with nothing but a backpack and my employment contract. No connections. Completely alone. But after countless oncall nights at work and studying Japanese every single day... I finally applied for Permanent Residency!!!! 🇯🇵 It takes 1 year for the results to arrive. But getting it would mean true freedom, no longer tied to an employer. And the chance to finally chase my lifelong dream: traveling through all 47 prefectures of Japan while working on my own apps. So until then, I need to prove to myself that I can turn my projects into something real that people will want to use (and pay for). Incidentally, this week @jackfriks and @marclou launched @shipordie_ , and it really felt like the universe telling me to stop overthinking and start shipping already. So now's the moment. The projects I'm building are aimed at Japanese audiences, so I'll be sharing what happens when marketing to a completely different culture from what you usually see on English Twitter. I'll also share cool cafes, coworking spaces, and bits of my life here ☕️ (if you visit, hit me up for a coffee!) This journey starts now. Whatever happens, I'm ready for it 🙂 Time to build, crew!!!

@seraleev Do you use it mainly with your thumb like a laptop trackpad? Or with your index/middle finger? I'm intrigued but I fear it could be worse for the wrist than a normal mouse or a trackball

Once you get used to a trackpad, it’s hard to go back to a mouse

@MartinTale @shipordie_ Left feels too corporate-y, the right one has much more personality and appeal!

Made another version of the logo 🐌 Which one you like more?

@tobymarshman @dherealmark Love the "POV you showed up to office hours and your professor is about to use all three whiteboards to explain how horribly you failed the exam" vibes😂

@dherealmark Whiteboard outside is 🔥, beats my 3x inside 😂

pov: your 9-to-5 is building your own startup — in a garden in thailand 🌴

This is what peak CEO performance looks like. You really can't top this.

On my madness to test all screen sizes and make sure the web is perfect before launch I discovered polypane.app Which works wonders, but I'm not sure if I'm overcomplicating things trying to test every notch and corner of my UI Do you guys use tools like that?

Making responsive designs really does kill all my will for doing frontend 🫠🫠🫠 I should get more into the habit of designing Mobile first PC second

- lives in Japan - content creator - built a mega computer - uncancellable - married - has family - dropped out of college - fit - reads hella books - #1 YouTuber for like a decade - Swedish - 3 languages at least - uses opencode This is peak male performance

@bugsntea Big milestone! Congratulations!!

I officially made my first $ as an App Developer ☺️

@hustle_fred Funny thing is he seems to be having more fun doing it like this rather than manually. Kinda brings back the just meeting ppl randomly, instead of playing the game of pretty faces

@davafons_dev lol, i've done similar thing with Hinge once

Coworking with a friend in Ikebukuro today ☕ I was working on wariwari.jp for Ship or Die (mobile view was broken on smaller safari viewports and needed a proper test suite) He was training his hermes agent to swipe Bumble automatically for him loll

Browser, phone, AI, Mosquitoes ???

@itsaydrian Take them on a little trip to meet their shiba inu friends here 🙂

@davafons_dev Inspiring tbh. Wish I had done this. But it would include a corgi.

Today is my Day 0 of #buildinpublic and I have 1 year to make it or break it 🔥 3 years ago I landed in Tokyo with nothing but a backpack and my employment contract. No connections. Completely alone. But after countless oncall nights at work and studying Japanese every single day... I finally applied for Permanent Residency!!!! 🇯🇵 It takes 1 year for the results to arrive. But getting it would mean true freedom, no longer tied to an employer. And the chance to finally chase my lifelong dream: traveling through all 47 prefectures of Japan while working on my own apps. So until then, I need to prove to myself that I can turn my projects into something real that people will want to use (and pay for). Incidentally, this week @jackfriks and @marclou launched @shipordie_ , and it really felt like the universe telling me to stop overthinking and start shipping already. So now's the moment. The projects I'm building are aimed at Japanese audiences, so I'll be sharing what happens when marketing to a completely different culture from what you usually see on English Twitter. I'll also share cool cafes, coworking spaces, and bits of my life here ☕️ (if you visit, hit me up for a coffee!) This journey starts now. Whatever happens, I'm ready for it 🙂 Time to build, crew!!!

@babalghoul Got a whole list ready to share then 🙂

@davafons_dev I follow for the cafés

@antoine_du90340 Thanks man! Yeah It wasn't easy at first, especially the language. But that challenge pushes me forward and makes the small wins feel even better 🔥

@davafons_dev It is so hard to go and work in another country, I hope you will make it 🤞

@diliecat Thanks!! Where in japan did you stay? would love to hear about it when you come back

@davafons_dev You are my inspiration! I have lived for a short time in Japan too. I want to go back soon too. Lets build all together!

@richvieren The mix between modern city, retro vibes and hidden temples gives it so much aura. Hope you have the chance to go back soon

@davafons_dev I feel a strong attraction to explore Tokyo more. Been a few times already, but would love to stay longer. Keen to follow your adventures!

@varunkrish @Hetzner_Online I'm using Cloudflare for CDN which works great, but I needed a VPS for my backend. In any case if their customer support is like this I worry about their SLAs... so might have to just try other proviers even if they are more expensive.

@davafons_dev @Hetzner_Online Doesn’t Amazon have a region in Japan? I know it might be expensive but using them just for CDN might be a good bet

Trying to rent a Japanese VPS is an absolutely horrendous experience. My phone number has been rejected twice during the 2FA verification on sign up. I've been talking with the customer support for >1 week and they just keep telling me "try again lol" Please @Hetzner_Online open servers in Japan I will happily pay 🙏

@tobymarshman Thanks man! Gonna be an interesting ride for sure

@davafons_dev Super interested to see what you make Dav, especially the Japanese angle

@theothetokyo I'd love to join you for some coding sometime! Can I DM you?

@davafons_dev Cheers! If you’re ever down to co-work I usually do video editing with buddies on weekends around tokyo 🙌

@ironcarbs Te mando un DM :)

@davafons_dev estoy por aqui también. Quedamos?