Marcel Laska

@saaquibx Been thinking a lot about the similarities between modern football and startups as well! Great read!

As an avid football fan for years now, I've always wondered what tech startups can learn from the smart recruitment strategies in football. Finally wrote my heart out here. Views are personal (and very subjective) :D Check it out! :) x.com/saaquibx/statu…

@johnrushx agree and can definitely see a future where pricing for BPO of functions like customer support, data collection, data cleaning etc in 3rd world countries goes down significantly compared with today

Barely 0.1% of population uses AI full-time, and the supply is already exhausted. The demand will go up 10000%....there is no way nvidia/apple can build so many chips....it means soon we'll be bidding for ai compute, like bidding for ads...so humans might soon be cheaper than ai

@helloitsolly … this sounds like an absolute nightmare for both the engineer and yourself but glhf

Final #buildinpublic thoughts on hiring an engineer Engineer will need to document as they go, like everyone else (including me). Updates might include: -> Reproduced the bug locally -> Found the issue: image resizer not handling SVGs correctly -> Tried a CSS fix first before touching the component -> CSS fix didn't work, going deeper into the component -> Fix working locally, pushing to staging -> PR open. Tested on Safari, Chrome and Firefox (these could be automated -> @linear ) Automate Gitbhub to @linear issue status updates There will be a daily check in on Slack I am going to remove the Svelte requirement I am going to keep pay at $9,000 a month and open up the option for a profit share Continue to share the SOP in the job description I will keep no recurring meetings but have a one-week onboarding with as many 1:1 calls as required, plus ongoing calls as required I will try hiring locally in Cape Town and collabing in person I will do a deeper review after a week and a few weeks No passive Slack messages - let the person do their work or not, let go of control

@FredrikHjelm4 OOT men request - fixa så att man kan reservera elspark/cykel i 30min på 30 dagars-abonnemangen

"80% of our taxi trips are shorter than 4km" - a large consultancy told me this last week That's not a taxi problem. That's a Voi opportunity Launching Voi for Business Pilot partners in Sweden and Germany wanted Link in comments

@helloitsolly in many cases yes, as they've had it way too good and comfortable ever since covid

@marcel_laska I meant do you think most engineers are lazy 😂😂

Yesterday was a horrible #buildinpublic day I got rinsed by 100s of engineers for being a micromanager I was defensive and overwhelmed, and trying to explain my own preferences for how Senja should be run I know I am not perfect and am working on myself But I also trying to build a tiny company where every team member works in the same way, and there are no exceptions for engineers I need to do a lot of reflecting and have already been working on my need for control with my therapist for several months That said I also think it's okay to have a working style many people would hate, even if it scares away certain talent Senja has always operated like a sports team where each Linear issue is rapidly being passed between team members like a ball Deep work is part of the day but typically we communicate beforehand that you will be out for x hours Even when working on an issue alone people are expected to document what they're doing regularly. Why? -> It produces better work when you're reflecting -> It cultivates high energy -> It stops people from asking what you're doing -> It reduces the need for meetings -> It makes sure no one else is blocked -> It allows others to take over the issue -> It allows me to understand how you think -> It gives the AI context I am being told to remove this expectation but I think this style is something I want to maintain but with a lighter touch and much slower ramp up You can also see this style in my own marketing work Document as you go

@helloitsolly i mean it seems you focus on over-communication and having insight at all time during the day of what they do, rather than letting them focus on getting it done, you already have daily syns during morning and EOD, no? the engineers just wanna focus and execute end-to-end

@marcel_laska Do you really believe that? I think many engineers in my replies have made reasonable points

@mradamjafer “We shall not overcome” lol

Well that was totally not awkward

@alexwikstrom feels like full circle moment as so many people started coding by building mods for that game

Nobody: Not a single soul: YC: Lovable for Minecraft

@sailaunderscore working on a wearable health data startup taught me that people fully outsource their belief to the app instead of feeling for themselves once we had them write down how they felt/slept/etc first & then check the app afterwards they realised the apps were off half the time

A lot of people start off their day being told "you will have a terrible day today" by a technology company that has a ring on their finger they pay 500 bucks a year for and let that define their day. Every day.

@DmytroKrasun non-tech folks read “Screenshots” and it fits what they are looking for and they immediately sign up without counting reading “… for developers” then they realise that this product is not for them as they are not technical and drop off classic old case

I don't understand. A lot of consumers sign up to ScreenshotOne.com to make screenshots of the websites. I write everywhere, it is for developers. Share code. Shipped a complex playground, and yet casual consumers sign up and render 2-3 screenshots and reach out to support with questions completely unrelated to the API. How would you filter that type of user out and yet help them?

@dagorenouf they find out it actually requires some some business sense and usually also talking to customers, both skills which the average indiehacker lacks and more than often simply dont want to learn lol

Main reason most indie hackers don't do b2b sales is because it doesn't match the fantasy they were sold: 1. build a cool product 2. post on twitter 3. get rich

@michalmalewicz @joffrey just click/approve whatever Apple is asking for regarding that and release it in France as well

@joffrey I hope to have it in France within a week. It's especially annoying since my sister lives in France and she can't get my app too :(

The app is now LIVE on the app store!!!! I appreciate everyone following me on this journey. Your support made me push through weeks of grind to get this out! ❤️ App requires iOS 26 (sorry, I like glass!) This is a soft-launch, I still need to finish the landing page and other web stuff. Temporary landing page is live at longevitydeck . com You can push a button there and download on your iPhone. I am aware of some potential glitches, this is my first "solo" app. I will be working on them and on expanding the app further. Once you download it, set up your deck, add how often you do each protocol on the other side of each card and then just leave it be. Every 2 weeks your protocols will be updated, you'll see if anything about stuff you do changed. If not, then continue doing what you're doing. Thank you! Much love! :)

@johnrushx lately I feel products from the more serious indie hackers are so much better and polished they feel like an actual legit company compared to some of the most hyped startups on here

Reading all the funding/ARR news from AI startups creates such a fomo, but then I signup for a tool to try it out and I’m back chilled. The gap between ai demos and ai reality is wider than ever. The demos are evolving exponentially, but the reality is linear, nearing a plateau

@emilahlback meanwhile in Stockholm my uber drives circles around the block refusing to pick me up because the driver does not want to make the trip but wants me to cancel so that I lose money and not him ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

In China taxi apps you can see how many seconds left on red lights while waiting Hyperconnected cities, feels cyberpunk

@eliasstravik Looks neat!

Excited to share GTME Kit! 🎉 I've been building and sharing GTM Engineering plays for a while. The GTME Kit finally gives these templates a home instead of just getting lost in the algorithm after 2 weeks of posting. What's also been super fun is chatting with the builders of tools I've been using to make this: @alexdanilo99 onboarded me to @magicpatterns (Cursor for vibe designing) which I used to design the entire site. @LouiseDSadeleer got me excited about using @TellaHQ (Loom meets Cursor for video editing) for all my videos, both on LinkedIn/Twitter but also for tutorials on the site. @ericzakariasson from @cursor_ai kindly helped me get set up with Cursor a while back, which I used to build out the full site! And of course all the great people from @clay_gtm <3 Excited to keep building and sharing GTME plays! (link in replies)

@thekitze Firebase should just make the default state of rules being fully strict and not fully open, aka set to "test mode", as all these bad devs just give them so much unnecessary bad publicity

firebase. every. single. time.

@elitasson This works well today in e-com where marketing teams work with content, products, promos and similar within boundaries of the e-com engine (eg. Shopify). Suppose it can work similar with vibe coding if it only comes to editing existing frontend but not any logic or db operations

Two things will soon become increasingly apparent: 1. Engineers will work to safeguard the codebase from non-engineers. 2. Non-engineers will demand immediate access to engage in vibe coding and make changes to the product.

@filippkowalski @AppStore This has always been the case as extract revenue = Apple makes $ but imo it’s more about predatory marketing tactics are commonly widespread and normalised now and it has reached the app listings as well

The recent @AppStore algo change seems horrible to the average user. I see more and more of crappy/scammy apps that are designed solely to extract revenue (vs providing value to the user) getting higher ranking positions. It also seems to be giving more visibility to new apps that are abusing the algo with keyword install tactic. I'm sure that this tactic has been used for years, but now it seems that the algo is even worse at detecting this (although I've seen one instance of the app that got entirely deindexed from a specific keyword as a penalty, it's still ranked high for other keywords).

@dannypostma Had an Oura Ring for like 1 year and never slept as good and felt rested as when I threw it away