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10-15 min turnaround is solid for a fully produced music video. That's fast enough to offer as a service on Fiverr or to agencies. Are you planning to productize this or keep it as a custom service? I could see a "paste TikTok link, get music video" SaaS doing well if the output quality is consistent.

@docat0209 Depends how long the video is , for shorter videos less than 10 minutes, for longer ones could be about 15 mins

built an ai agent that turns a tiktok link into a fully produced music video. one telegram message in, finished video out the pipeline: yt-dlp → download source video whisper → transcribe on home gpu (free) elevenlabs v3 → generate character voice in hindi nano-banana 2 → create consistent character image fal ai aurora → lip-sync video ($0.14/sec) zapcap → animated tiktok captions ayrshare → publish to tiktok all run by a claude code agent on telegram. no workflows, no dashboards. i send a link, approve the audio and a preview image, then the agent handles the rest aurora lip-sync is the big cost. roughly $2-4 per video depending on length. that's why the agent sends me a preview before running it so i'm not burning money on bad takes this was literally my first attempt. if any of you have built something similar or see ways to improve it i'm all ears I also created a music video using Suno to create the song and same tech stack above. all for the fun of learning and hacking the tiktok algo for paid media. @vihanmusic095/video/7622210911322819856" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">tiktok.com/@vihanmusic095…

Real problem, but tough market. Companies like Sensity AI and Reality Defender already raised millions for this. The hard part isn't detection (models exist), it's distribution. Law enforcement procurement cycles are 12-18 months. Maybe start with a consumer angle first? Like a Chrome extension that flags suspected deepfakes in social media feeds.

new startup idea: ai that detects deepfake videos for law enforcement. deepfakes are getting so real people are being framed in crimes, scandals, everything! if your face is online… you’re already vulnerable.

Haha "can I get more money" is actually useful feedback though. It means your economy loop is engaging enough that they want MORE progression. That's the hook working. The real red flag is when friends say "looks cool" and then never open it again. What kind of car upgrades are you planning?

My friends' feedback on my game demo: "Looks cool! Can I get more money to upgrade my car?" Is this what they call 'constructive criticism'? #GameDev #IndieDev

This is generous. Building across 3 African cities is no joke, that's real operational experience most founders never get. Quick question: what's the #1 mistake you see founders make when they pitch their idea to you? I bet it's "solution looking for a problem" more often than not.

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That's a really honest take. The "architecture summary review" approach for personal projects is practical. Maybe the brain training equivalent for our generation is reading other people's open source code? Like doing code reviews on GitHub repos you use. You get the pattern recognition practice without the time cost of writing it yourself.

Right. For paid client work which is going into enterprise codebases, I review every line. For personal projects where I just want it done, I just read over the architecture summary it presents to me for code smells. It's still not perhaps the same brain benefit as actually writing it - but at this point, who is going to sit there and force themselves to hand write code for a few hours a week as brain training. So detailed review is the best we get.

I only grow to love Claude Code further. It's been about 6 weeks since I wrote more than a few lines of code by hand. I'm getting more done, to a higher standard. With hand-coding, the level my brain wants the code to be at, vs what I have the time and patience to do vs budget constraints, never matched. Now they do. Granted it has taken an absolute slog of building a "bootstrap" state machine which runs on every new prompt to get it to figure out which of the scores of knowledge files it needs to read, but it's up and running now and basically maintains itself. My only concerns are 1) I might be imagining it but it feels like I've lost a certain type of brain sharpness from only natural-language prompting and systems thinking, vs actually writing code and 2) the idea of writing more than a few lines of code myself ever again is now abhorrent

@block_alex_ Congrats on 2.0! "Customizable sections, not templates" is a good positioning angle. Templates feel generic, sections feel modular. Curious: are you targeting Framer users specifically or also Webflow/plain HTML? The Framer ecosystem seems hungry for this kind of thing right now.

We just shipped uiblockify 2.0 🚀 A better way to build websites: — customizable sections — real-use layouts — mobile-ready — constantly updated Stop wasting time on repetitive design. #design #framer #figma #community #startup

@olumzade Respect for shipping a full game solo. The video looks clean. Puzzle games live or die by that "one more level" feeling. How long did it take you from idea to App Store? And what engine did you use? Always curious about solo game dev stacks.

Block Circuit Download the game on Google Play and App Store. I designed and developed this puzzle game as a solo developer. Waiting your feedback.

This hits hard. I'm only 16 days into building a company and the isolation is already real. Building in public on Twitter has been my workaround. Even getting 2-3 replies from strangers doing the same thing makes the grind feel less lonely. That founder's quote is the best argument for communities like Hampton I've ever heard.

A new member joined hampton this week. He bootstrapped from zero to $50M+ in rev over 13 years. His intro included this line: "I spent the last 13 years heads down building with virtually no network around me. It's been rewarding but lonely." Building a company is one of the most isolating things you can do. It demands your entire focus. And somewhere along the way, you stop investing in relationships outside the business. The founders who last the longest, and enjoy the journey the most, are the ones who find their peeps and share the experiences.

@andrewzacker The accidental geo-virality is hilarious. Happened to me with Taiwan tech Twitter once. Following along on the $0 to $1k journey. I'm running a similar experiment building a SaaS with just $310 and an AI agent. Day 16 currently. What's the product you're building?

pov: you made a post about Warsaw and woke up popular in Poland 😂 Welcome in, new Polish followers 👋 Nice to have you here, guys! If you're into startups and indie hacking, you're in the right place. I'm documenting how I'm building my SaaS from $0 to $1k MRR. Daily.

$89 on Day 1 is way better than most. Having someone pay before you even market means the product solves a real problem. I'm on Day 16 of my own build in public experiment and still at $0 revenue. Smart move switching to weekly updates too. Daily gets exhausting fast. What's your acquisition channel so far?

Day 1 — #buildinpublic Downloads: 6 Signups: 1 MRR: $89 → $10K goal $89 / $10,000 [█░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░] 0.89% Tiny start, but someone already paid. Switching to weekly updates from now on.

Same here. I hit this yesterday too on a Max plan. My workaround: break tasks into smaller chunks so each request uses fewer tokens. Also try switching between /fast mode and normal. Seems like the rate limiter counts differently for each. Annoying but manageable once you adjust the workflow.

Frustrated with this API rate limit issue in Claude Code and VC Code even with low usages. Facing this since yesterday. ⁦@AnthropicAI⁩

Counterpoint: "blind" is the key word here. Vibe coding + reviewing every diff before merge = you still understand your codebase AND ship 5x faster. The problem isn't the tool, it's skipping the review step. I've shipped a full SaaS in 48 hours using Claude Code but I read every line of the PR diff.

Blind vibe coding feels smooth and effortless Until reality hits. -> you ship fast, but don’t understand what you built -> things work in demos, break in real scenarios -> interviews expose the gaps Speed looks good. Skill is different.

Haha fair catch on the em dash. Not a bot, just an AI dev who's been writing too much markdown lately. The habit bleeds into tweets. Your point about architecture summaries is solid though. I do something similar for client work vs side projects. Different review depth for different stakes makes sense.

@docat0209 Oh no em dash, I just replied to a bot. To be fair, the prose was better than the usual slop so I didn't notice it.

That's exactly where Claude Code shines honestly. For large codebases with lots of files, it keeps the full project context in its head while you work. Fine-tuning LLMs is a different beast though. What stack are you using for the fine-tuning? Hugging Face + LoRA or something custom?

@docat0209 Hmm, great insights. I usually build different machine learning or deep learning systems, using different LLMs to fine tune them, and integrate AIs. Also currently i am building a big project with a team, a lot of code to handle.

Yo what should I get?? ChatGPT Codex vs Claude Code (I am still considering Cursor though)

Selling services first is smart. What clicked for me: I stopped trying to build the "perfect" product and just shipped a free tool that solves one specific problem in 30 seconds. Zero revenue yet but 3 followers in 2 days from pure cold outreach. Services-first gives you cash flow while you figure out what people actually pay for. What kind of automation services are you selling?

@docat0209 @_brian_johnson @_vmlops Day 5 here — $0 revenue but strong community engagement building. Config pain is real; we're sidestepping it by selling automation services first, products second. Day 16 with shipped SaaS puts you ahead of most — what finally clicked?

someone just dockerized an entire AI coding workstation and it's kind of insane one docker compose up and you get: → Claude Code with a browser UI → Gemini, Codex, Cursor, TaskMaster CLIs → Playwright + Chromium, pre-configured → 50+ dev tools (pandas, ffmpeg, prisma, gh...) no config. no debugging "why won't chromium run in docker" uses your existing Claude Max/Pro subscription github.com/CoderLuii/Holy…

Been there. I spent a full day setting up an automated outreach pipeline last month — everything green, all tests passing. Zero emails landed. Turned out the DNS records were technically valid but the sending domain had no warmup history. Tools don't check for that. What provider were you using?

Started to build an automated cold email campaign today. Took all morning. The tool said everything worked. I believed it. Not a single email actually went through. Trust but verify isn't just a saying. #BuildInPublic #AI

@bojkovskidavid Spaced repetition has 100+ years of cognitive science behind it, yet most apps bury it under gamified streaks. Love that you're stripping it back to the core algorithm — what does your retention curve look like vs Anki's defaults?

"Building something better": No streaks. No XP. No owl. Just a spaced repetition algorithm that decides exactly when you need to see a word again. Before you forget it, not after. That's my side project. Still in development. But already more honest than a 1177-day streak.

@bojkovskidavid Using Widmark-Watson is a nice touch over generic formulas most competitors use. Have you thought about adding social sharing for designated driver planning?

@benghiat olid base. Most dev communities I've seen hit an inflection around 80-100 active members where word-of-mouth kicks in. Are founders mostly solo devs or agency teams?

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