Jon C. Phillips

@yuhasbeentaken For real!

@joncphillips arguing with your own agent is peak 2026...

The AI agent I’m building for SEO Dash sometimes gives me advice I actually disagree with. And then I check the data and it’s right 😅 Having an argument with your own product is a strange new experience, but it’s also pretty freakin’ cool.

@sellingshovels 😂 yeah, it is refreshing!

@joncphillips usually its only me yelling at the LLM so thats refreshing

@yashhq_22 lol it is!

@joncphillips At least the argument is constructive feedback haha

@nicklaunches 🫡

@joncphillips Will check GitHub! Thanks a lot

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@nicklaunches Thanks man! The GitHub OAuth gave me a 404 btw, so I signed up with X instead and that worked just fine.

@joncphillips Pls do! I will send you 100% promo code

@tonysimons_ hah yeah, I'm baking this into SEO Dash. I'd rather know the truth and facts than keep guessing!

@joncphillips This is exactly why I added a rule to my Hermes Agent to make it push back aggressively, but not for sportsmanship. He MUST provide facts and evidence to back up his claims. He's usually far more on point than I am. 🙃

haha well I was convinced one of my top articles on DailyPhotoTips was ranking on page 1 for the main keyword. Like I would've bet money on it (I remember seeing it when I searched Google myself just a few days before). The agent told me it was sitting on page 2. Checked manually and yeah, it was right 🤷‍♂️

@joncphillips Haha. What did you argue with him about

@leodev @stripe That is a good question. Mostly because my other SaaS are on Stripe, but I'm not opposed to switching to Polar at some point tbh I do love the MOR setup.

@joncphillips @stripe This is the future after all... Also I'm wondering why you chose stripe for SEO dash. Why not a MOR like polar.sh?

It's becoming clear that every product out there needs an MCP server and a solid API, and probably also an AI agent. I didn't even login to @stripe to create the products, Claude Code just created them for me in my account (3 products, monthly and annual prices). I didn't even leave the terminal. It was wonderful.

@NaivaidyaY66600 Almost there!!

@joncphillips I agree, UX is very necessary. waiting for it JON 🔥🔥

I've been going through every error message in SEO Dash this week in preparation for the launch, and honestly? Most of them are garbage 😬 Stuff like "could not fetch data" or "request failed." Totally useless. So I'm rewriting all of them. If your Ahrefs API key is wrong, the app tells you and links you to the settings page to fix it. If a crawl fails, it tells you why. I find it's one of the most tedious parts of UX and nobody will ever tweet about this stuff but it's the difference between a user fixing the problem themselves with some guidance, and a user closing the tab or opening a support ticket. This stuff matters.

@leodev haha yeah, or like all table-based layouts (I've built a few of those in the early days)

@joncphillips It reminds me of those basic html websites with no css 😭

Ok but hear me out, what if GitHub was Craigslist themed? 👀

@leodev Hahah

@joncphillips This looks so bad 😭

@leodev That looks gooood!

What if Apple made Github?

@leodev Oh that would be slick!

@joncphillips This would be my dream github: x.com/leodev/status/…

@alexwtlf Apparently they are!

@joncphillips Are people still using Craigslist?

@AtSynct Totally, it's crazy to think that it did so well for all those years (and still does pretty good even today, though it's declining fast)

@joncphillips I mean ... it served its function ... barely. The UI was terrible for finding what you needed.

@Soroosh_Tajdar I dream of the day GitHub designers will just get this up for a day, like on April fools or something. That would be sick. cc @github pretty please guys? You got 11 months until the next April fools 🙏

@joncphillips the Craigslist one is genuinely better for open source. chaotic, no-frills, "free to a good home" energy is peak OSS culture.

@AtSynct hahah Craigslist wasn't that bad, right? 😬

@joncphillips Please no ... please, please no ... 😂

@orcdev yes sir!

@joncphillips old school