Dan Rowden

@thatguybg I bought a bag recently (Wexley Taylor) and love it. Some other companies I looked at thoroughly (and would buy from): - Aer - Alpaka - Matador - Pakt - Rework

what is a good minimalist backpack that doesn’t make me look like i’ve never talked to a girl

@dvassallo Used to only be for super hot matches. Now they schedule it and play ads in some countries. Never seen in-play ad breaks before!

Hydration break!?

@dafourz Fitbit Air. Or I’ll just wear my Apple Watch when exercising

@dr But but .. do you run ? How do you plan to monitor your HR??

This summer I'm moving on from Apple Watch and buying a €500 "starter" watch and a Fitbit Air. I've got a decent shopping list of "proper" watches for future Dan, but starting my collection now, probably with one of these. What was the first watch in your collection?

@Reubens67tnr Considering this for most days and a Seiko 5 for smarter occasions…

@dr Got this for daily wear and it's actually great, withstands rain and accidental dips in water without a hitch. Worth having around if you're prone to getting wet. amzn.to/4uoFRVu

@JeffAAlexander 😆 fully aware this might be a bad idea

@dr Got some solid choices there. Did the same a year ago look out it’s a sickness

@olafsenp 🤩

@isbkch Looks nice, thanks!

@dr Lookup the Casio Oceanus. Titanium, solar... It's a JDM but the import fee is worth it IMHO

@maxkarpis Every carrier in Finland joins the chat

Revolut is launching Revolut Mobile in the Netherlands🇳🇱 today. The company offers plans starting at €9.99/month with a 20GB package for domestic use and roaming within the EEA. The Unlimited plan at €23.99/Month offers unlimited data, calls, and texts in the Netherlands, plus unlimited calling within the EEA and 40 GB. Discounts for a limited period. Customers can bring their number to Revolut Mobile or choose a new one. Customers can have multiple numbers on one plan. The service runs on the KPN 5G network and is provided by partner 1GLOBAL.

@AlinCatalin I think maybe I don't believe fully in what I'm building. If you have conviction, surely you just keep going? Or is it the market telling you it sucks. Hard to know!

@dr Been doing the same and it's telling me pretty much the same thing....which tbh I guess I knew I get excited with an idea but motivation drops to all time lows when I don't get the traction/feedback I expected

I've been talking with Claude a lot about past products, jobs, potential new ideas, current products with no traction etc. It summed me up in one line 😅 "You're not a grinder. You're a spark-chaser." If it doesn't kick off immediately (ilo, Subsail) I get bored and move on

@jimhilluk @philipbrown Almost until Christmas. This year they finish on Dec 22!

@dr @philipbrown Wow, that’s a big summer break. But then August - November?

It’s May 30 and my kids have broken up from for the summer 😂

@philipbrown Holiday is normally June and July. But this year they go back mid August… not sure why! The school year actually is pretty logical: two terms 5 months each, both sides of Christmas. I actually like it better than the UK system

@dr haha what?! it’s half term in the uk. do kids in finland go back to school earlier than september?

If you or your team has launched an MCP server recently, what tool, framework or service did you use?

@marckohlbrugge I actually need dev for my acl

some nice premium .dev domains still available

Bought a magazine. First time in years. @standartmag

Recently opened up a couple of magazine web projects from 2012 and 2016. Both Django apps, both totally untouched by AI. Kind of surreal thinking about how I wrote every single line of those products character by character

@brian_lovin Very cool, I love seeing this stuff. Building on top of X data is super fun and useful!

I made a Notion Worker that syncs all of the people you follow on X into a Notion DB. The worker uses the X API to pull in data about everyone you follow, with an optional AI enrichment step to normalize + extract role/company/affiliations/interests/location/etc. I've made a few helpful views for myself: • people I know in {x city} (I actually used this earlier today to plan a summer trip) • people I follow who I've muted (good to review or unfollow) • people who haven't posted in >1 year (cleanup) • people grouped by role and company ("who do I know that works at X company?") Having all this in Notion means it's fully malleable (easy to edit, add new properties/notes, etc) and it's legible to all my AI agents (Notion AI, Claude via MCP, etc). I follow more people than average, and it was about $30 to do the full sync + AI enrichment. If you follow <1k people it'll probably cost <$10. Lmk if you try it or run into issues! If this is useful enough, I'll build a hosted version so you don't have to bring your own API keys. Repo + setup instructions → github.com/brianlovin/x-n…

@levelsio @yasser_elsaid_ Is there a team involved? Curious why the “we” if it’s just him. And if there is a team is this still classed as “indie hacker”?

Probably the biggest indie hacker now and still fully bootstrapped is @yasser_elsaid_ Making $10,000,000 in ARR Absolutely insane! Also a super super nice guy if you ever met him in IRL, so humble and fun to hang with, really cool guy (And of course I'm jealous of his ARR in a good way, it's very very inspiring esp since it's a single project)