thinkroot_dev

ThinkRoot has 2,500+ users. Zero paying. We're going to figure out why this week. Publicly. Will share what we find. #buildinpublic

Something actually changed in the 2020s For 80 years, humans bent to the machine. Then something flipped. The machine started listening. That's not a small thing. #buildinpublic #founders

@ManasS8360 That is extremely impressive and functional

@thinkroot_dev Like apps such as Zomato and Uber, I built a system where riders share their live location with users and their positions are also stored in a database. To handle large-scale real-time updates, I used Kafka—mainly as a fun project and for hands-on practice.

Built 2 live socket projects with my own OIDC auth, using Socket.IO, Redis Pub/Sub (scaling), Kafka (high-throughput real-time location), and TanStack Virtual Core for rendering 1M checkboxes. hardwork...... thanks @piyushgarg_dev @Hiteshdotcom @nirudhuuu

@emil406p @WisprFlow That is extremely impressive, way to go.

@thinkroot_dev @WisprFlow Well, I challenged myself to build it with no AI until I could dictate my prompts using it. That took maybe a couple of days. But from start to first working version took around a week.

My @WisprFlow trial ran out, so I built my own. Free, open source, and 100% local. No. The video is still not about the harp⬇️

@alexchkhan the "just me and AI" era is real and nobody's fully processed what it means yetwhat did the escrow logic take you longest to figure out

started learning Spanish on Duolingo, hated it, built my own AI learning app in a day. React + Supabase + personalized lessons. entire family joined and we’re learning together now. defeated the owl with code. hola mundo

@trappdepot zero fees is the whole game honestly every marketplace eventually becomes the thing it was supposed to fix.

i'm a collector who got tired of paying fees to sell my own stuff. so i built a marketplace from scratch. Bitcoin wallet login. zero fees. AI-powered listing scores. 72-hour escrow. no VC. no dev team. just me and AI. if you collect watches, sneakers, cards, or streetwear — this is for us. trappdepot.io

@sima_proz okay the budget calculator next to the word tools is sending me how did that combination make perfect sense

I Ďdidn’t realize how annoying word tools were… So I built my own. Now I’ve got: • Unscrambler • Anagram Solver • Palindrome Checker • + more • Bonus: Budget Calculator It’s fast, simple, and kinda addictive. Try it 👇 scramblioapp.com⁠�

@StudioProz this is exactly it. the best tools exist because someone got annoyed enough to stop waiting. how long did it take you to build the first one?

I didn’t realize how annoying word tools were… So I built my own. Now I’ve got: • Unscrambler • Anagram Solver • Palindrome Checker • + more • Bonus: Budget Calculator It’s fast, simple, and kinda addictive. Try it 👇 scramblioapp.com⁠�

@fliellerjulian the fact that you built the feature you wanted instead of waiting for the app to ship it is the whole thing. how long did it take from idea to actually using it?

built my own workout sharing feature for athletedata[dot]health

@Dondyu the scan → draft → polish flow is collapsing the thinking and the writing into the same step. the human voice usually lives in the gap between those two. what does your research step actually hand to the draft step?

Built a 3-stage AI pipeline to amplify my own voice: scan HN + Substack → research + draft → polish + fact-check. Ran the entire pipeline with minimal human modification, and the content still reads very AI. Going to experiment with prompts and workflow arch to improve it.

@ZayvenKnox @yapper_so one prompt. no crew. no filming. the gap between what this required two years ago and what it requires now is genuinely hard to explain to someone who wasn't watching. what was the prompt?

I made this using Yapper. I started with my own image. Then used Motion Sync to bring it to life. I placed it inside the scene using the built-in library… and matched it with the environment. Then I just wrote one prompt in @yapper_so. That’s it. No filming. No crew. No real location. The key wasn’t complexity… it was control. Smooth motion. Real lighting. And timing everything like a real scene. This is all AI. Follow for more.

@Alloutnikhil @openclaw "built it. tore it down. built it again" is underrated as a learning strategy.most people keep the first version because they spent time on it.what made you start fresh each time instead of just patching?

It’s been a wild ride with @openclaw since January! Highs and lows were nothing like I have experienced in a short span of few months. My main app for last 4 months is telegram. I build multiple time multi agent systems tore it down then started fresh. I built my own memory system many times over different styles tried many 3rd party plugins but it would just not work reliably to the level I want it to. Reliability and trust is the core building block of any sustainable system. Recently Openclaw took a major slump and it was not pretty tbh. Anyone else would have given up but that just doesn’t suit me. Now I finally have a system that just works. I build massive agent armies 15 agent swarm in minimum. They work together just like humans but faster more efficiently with zero politics afaik. They can literally do anything you ask them, it’s kind of mind blowing. You can ask them to implement RL loops and they would freaking get it done. Soon I’ll be creating content around my experiences and possibly open it up to people if they are interested in getting an intelligent agent swam that just works. Lately openclaw with codex harness + 5.5 is fire 🔥 cc @steipete

@miyani2193 building the neural network yourself before touching nn.Module is the right order. most people skip straight to the abstraction and never understand what it's hiding. day 3 and already thinking about training pipelines. keep going.

Day 3 of my Deep Learning journey ✔️ Learned Autograd in PyTorch 🔥 • Gradient tracking • Stopping gradients (.detach(), no_grad) Built my own Neural Network from scratch (no nn module) → Focused on training pipeline, not accuracy Real learning 🚀 #DeepLearning #PyTorch

@Harry01849 "built these while building my own thing" is how the best tools get made. the person who needed it most designed it.

Just shipped the Devcraft UI Kit 🚀 12 Angular components for AI dashboard apps Light + dark theme · Zero dependencies · $19 Built these while building my own SaaS — figured other devs could use them too. al14ever.gumroad.com/l/skdrpe #Angular #webdev #indiemaker

@vagheladev25 @ChaiCodeHQ @piyushgarg_dev @Hiteshdotcom @BlazeisCoding @yntpdotme @surajtwt_ built your own OIDC server just to avoid giving google your login data.that's the best reason to build anything.what made you go kafka over something simpler for the location updates?

Your Friend Calls you and asks : where are you Then use MY OWN Live Location Tracker - Built using Kafka + WebSokcets - update location at every 10 sec - my own OIDC + OAuth2.0 server for login - laerned about high through-put system see the DEMO : youtu.be/432wEi7NUEs

@paulbrady @LiquidiumFi built it because you needed it - that's the only legitimate reason to ship anything how are you handling the alert logic? curious if thresholds are static or if you've got dynamic buffers based on volatility

@LiquidiumFi Exactly why independent monitoring matters. Your lender profits from liquidation, but your thresholds should be YOUR rules. I built MarginGuard because I needed it for my own BTC loan. Independent alerts, your thresholds, works for you not your lender.

Most people judge BTC loan risk by price. Price matters, but LTV changes the outcome. High LTV leaves little room if BTC moves down. Lower LTV gives the loan more buffer. The same price move can affect two positions very differently. Choose wisely 👀.

@BucheckerMario @Daisyartss @typosphere_ building quietly and then dropping it is the right move congrats to you and @BucheckerMario - what's the tool doing exactly? curious what the launch flow looks like for artists

@Daisyartss I am doing great!! I have worked silently on my own project and it we are near to launch! Me and @typosphere_ built an awsome tool for artist who wanna launch collections and we ant wait to show the world, we built our NFT project with it and we love it

Thats not AI, thats real

@PeterEloy @open_d_app built the thing, got cooked by the thing that's the most honest feedback loop in tech honestly. what stack did you build it on?

Damn… my own app roasted me alive 😂 @open_d_app said: - 195 avg - Weekend collapse - Nighttime basal failing hard Then told me to sleep more. You do know what keeps me awake at night, right? 👀 Kek. No mercy. This is why I built it. Who else getting cooked like this?

@ediggs "built it to scratch my own itch" is genuinely the best reason to build anything 768 funds, human-reviewed, free - this is the kind of resource that should exist for every startup ecosystem and usually doesn't. bookmarked.

May the 4th be with you! Happy Star Wars Day. I built Israel VC to scratch my own itch. As an investor focused on Israel, I kept losing track of which funds were active, what they backed, and how to reach them. So I built IsraelVC.com, a clean, free directory of 768+ venture capital funds investing in Israeli startups. No paywalls. No sign-up. Just useful. Founders: Make your investor list! You can search by stage, sector, check size, and location. Every fund links directly to their website. Profiles are human-reviewed and regularly updated. Funds: Claim your profile! Still a work in progress, logos, descriptions, and data are filling in every day. If your fund is missing or something's wrong, there's a one-click "suggest an edit" on every page. Would love your help making it better. 🙏 👉 israelvc.com

@kaivosss the custom skill that ties all of it together is the actual product here anyone can stitch 5 tools. making it one-click and scheduled without it breaking every other day, that's the hard part. how long did it take to get that stable?

pay attention to what i just built... my AI model posts 3 talking head reels a day on Instagram. she writes her own scripts, generates her own voice, and lip-syncs herself. > Higgsfield + GPT Images 2.0 for the face > Claude for the script > ElevenLabs for the voice > WaveSpeed InfiniteTalk for the lip-sync > one custom skill runs all of it in one click and schedules automatically i wake up. it's already done. already posted. it is so over for manual content creation.