Kervan ASLAN

@DominosTR Pazza diye gelen şey bu, bu bir pizza mıdır?

@EBogadoTabacman Hi, Can I DM you?

@KervanASLAN Hi! Is Schedcat down now?

🚀 I just launched SchedCat, a free social media scheduling tool! 🎉 Schedule posts on X, Facebook, LinkedIn, and more with ease. 🐱 Try it out now: schedcat.com #SocialMedia #FreeTool

Schedcat has 20 users right now. I made it by 4 posts on reddit. This is my fastest growing service.

The Facebook developer program sucks. It takes me 5 minutes to create and publish an app with Google, but with Facebook, I had to verify my company, explain why I need to use the features I want, and now I’m recording a usage video. Are you some kind of idiot?

@johnrushx Huh, Useless suggestions, I can’t even change my socks while listening to quantum physics. LOL

An essay: Why founders fail, despite being good at coding and high IQ. Being mathematically smart hurts startup founders. Math doesn’t account for emotions, and this is why devs easily build useful products but fail to get to Product Market Fit in 99% cases. Imagine you’re building a building to sell. As a good builder, you put great effort into the materials, structure, architecture and make a great house. You host open day for the potential buyers, but a nasty cat drops a 💩 at the entrance. It smell shit. People come and the first thing they feel is the shit smell. It disturbs their perception and all those genius construction idea and great efforts aren’t important anymore. In products, emotions mean as much as the actual value the product delivers Devs tend to ignore it. The best example is the UX. It always feels like a decoration that’s not so important, as long as the features are in place and there is a way to benefit from the product for the user. However, some times, the size of the button, the label, or the sequence of the steps in a flow becomes a deal breaker. Every part of UX sparks certain emotions in users. Very often the simplest fixes bring the highest impact for the UX. And here comes another issue for a dev mind: the amount of effort never equals the amount of impact. The more mathematically intelligent you are, the more you get excited by hard tasks, where your IQ can shine. Any rational calculations often confirm this assumption too. It again, the emotions don’t work this way. So this is what makes tech startups so hard. One must build solutions to real problems, and at the same time, engineer the user emotions to basically manipulate user into feeling great while using the app. The “feeling great” comes when 1) user never has to think. Literally. Imagine the user using the product while driving a car or running. 2) user feels certain achievement and proud of themselves for the outcome. Ideally, user give the smallest input possible, and it makes high impact on the outcome. Versus the opposite: high effort and low impact. Another enemy of smart devs building products is their issue with prioritization. Bugs and big features always feel important. But the reality is that one must always do both. The hopeless hope that one day there will be no urgent tasks and I can finally spend time on UX and cosmetics is what kills so many good products. Every day, you need to find an hour for small things in the emotion roam. Like moving that button into navbar, because keeping it behind the menu is confusing. Or making the text size smaller for the sidebar. How to know what small tasks deserve attention? 1) Play user sessions (use posthog for it) 2) Turn on a podcast(about quantum physics), listen it with a good focus and try using your product as a user, while being very focused on listening the podcast. It’ll make you behave more like a user who is lazy and doesn’t know the app and spot the weaknesses.

Here is the first screenshot from SchedCat.

By the way, this post was created with SchedCat :)

Hello Schedcat :)

@cjaythecreator I haven't heard of this. I've been around the Bakırköy area rarely thats why I cannot deny or prove it.

@KervanASLAN Really? I mean is it true that Bakirköy, Yesilköy and this area have more cats than the rest of the city?

Business casual: because nothing says ‘I’m trustworthy’ like pairing a blazer with jeans that haven’t seen an iron since the Bush administration.

@cjaythecreator No, I'm not any more. I escaped from that city. By the way, I figured out where you are because of the cat :)

@KervanASLAN Yup, Florya Marmaray station 🚉 Are you also here in Ist?

Neovim is amazing—I’ve wasted countless hours in my life by not using it sooner.

@leonsilicon Experienced backend developer.

this is what programmers have to compete against

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My iPhone works fine, but as soon as a new update comes out, it starts having problems. When I install the update, everything goes back to normal. Then, it's fine until the next update. Do you think this is just a coincidence?

Source: John Erlichman (Bloomberg) by @evrimagaci

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