Chris Davidson

@ChamseddineHe Thanks for the feedback. I’m driving the engagement right now by asking lots of questions of the members and trying to drive discussion forward. I’m enjoying it so far and can see it continuing but obviously needs but in from more than just me. Any more tips?

@cajdavidson The thing that kills founder servers is everyone lurking until it turns into a link graveyard. One weekly thread where members post the problem they're stuck on fixes most of it. People come for answers and stay for the people.

I’ve created a Discord community for UK tech startup founders, builders and operators. The focus is practical discussion, useful intros, knowledge sharing and startup resources, with moderation to keep spam and low-effort promotion out. It’s small at the moment, with fewer than 20 active members. The aim is to grow it to around 100 useful, relevant members rather than make it a huge open group. If you’re building, running or supporting an early-stage tech business in the UK. New members will be asked to introduce themselves and share a bit about what they’re working on. Inactive or off-topic members will be removed to keep the group useful to existing members. Invite Link: discord.gg/UG6gV83uD

@_frederickjames 5th October😅 some notice period that!

My last day will be October 5th. My goal: Hit $1k/month by the time I leave my job. The app has BIG problems: - Onboarding ~60% reach paywall. - Churn is atrocious. The good: - ASO is strong. - App page to download is amazing. Hold me accountable, gang.

Using AI to build stuff is, at this point, a non-negotiable... But as the saying goes, there's no free lunch. There's always a tradeoff, whether you're aware of it or not. You're now working faster – probably a good thing. But it's hard to say that, with 100% certainty, without first answering the question: "But what did I trade off?" One common tradeoff, to varying degrees, is your understanding of how the system actually works. Offloading /some/ understanding as we inevitably move faster is not necessarily a bad thing, but it probably shouldn't be accidental. If you truly vibe-code something non-trivial, I doubt you have much of a clue how it's working. And indeed that was probably a deliberate tradeoff, for now. Hand code a system like it's 2015 and you probably know every intimate decision, and understand all or most of the interactions between the parts. It probably took a lot of time effort, as you expected¹. ¹Or, probably: "underestimated". The higher the level of abstraction from which we operate agents, the more of the underlying details we leave to be discovered later. Whether or not that's a *useful* tradeoff depends on the individual case. Often it may be, as long as it's deliberate. Long before I read @paulg's "Holding a Program in One's Head", having a clear mental model of a system was always important to me. My creativity, and even motivation to some degree, wanes the more I distance myself from the details. But in 2026, it's too expensive to know *all* the details. It was always too expensive to know them *all*. I used to write assembler... this mentality is nothing new to me. But my choice to write, say, Go, is a deliberate choice to leave those details behind. In trying to leverage AI well, what I've started doing is asking it to quiz me on my understanding of some of the decisions I've asked it to take (or make on my behalf). I don't need to do this all the time. Sometimes my "operating" of the agent is already close to the detail level anyway. But after some time, as I start to feel like the system is doing some things I don't have a totally clear picture of, I ask it for a pop quiz. "Analyse the overall system architecture, its boundaries and common interfaces. Pay attention to specific, non-standard choices, as well as common ones, and create a quiz for me. The quiz must test my understanding of how this system works. Ask me about data storage, security, data flow, interesting code paths, broader technologies in use, and parts of the code others may find unusual or questionable. Your questions should touch all aspects of the system, end to end. Your goal is to assess whether I really do understand how this system currently works." I'm finding this useful. Interestingly, I'm not running into too many questions I can't answer. The fun thing about this idea is that it's deeper than you might think. Human memory itself becomes stronger based on attempts to recall it. Want to remember things longer? Ask yourself questions. This is how flashcards work. Spaced repetition matters, but the key thing is the act of retrieval itself. The attempt to recall information strengthens memory. You learn this quickly in language learning. The more you try to remember, the more you do. So by having the agent quiz me on some details I may have forgotten, or never knew to begin with, I also feel like my understanding of the system stays very active, which plays into some other aspects of motivation and future decision making (with the AI!) Try it out. Give yourself (or your teammates) a pop quiz every now and then. It'd also be cool to see some tool-based approach here that could even potentially run inside PRs and share the results. It could give other collaborators confidence that the author of the change does, in fact, (mostly) understand the system they're making changes to. Very curious to hear if anyone's doing something similar, or more sophisticated than this. Please share.

Claude just one-shotted "GongKeeper" I pointed it to an already existing app in the App store and gave it a simple prompt, within 5 minutes it was up and running in my toolbar with instructions on how to make it persist via reboot... "Build me something similar to this app - I want it to sit in my OSX toolbar and allow me to configure when and how often it plays a certain chime - I want you to source a gong type chime to go with this"

@robj3d3 Followed 👏 looking forward to these

Mini dream coming true... My First Dollar is officially a Spotify podcast 🥳

@bagwaa Great work mate, bet you feel a world of difference don't you, not to mention you've probably just added another 10+ years to your life expectancy!

Finished the whole weight loss thing finally, 9 months lost 11 stone, time to carry on building fitness and muscle.

@alexwestco Finished these this morning, great reads, looking forward to seeing what you work on next

@alexwestco You didn't tweet they were out, been waiting for the latest ones, will read them today! Previous ones have been great.

beautiful start to the day... anonymous comment for the books ❤️

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@Shpigford Working on something in this space, but it's hard to not re-invent the wheel, would love your insight on what you'd want to see on a dashboard for non-sysadmins playing as sysadmins.

who's building sysadmin dashboards for people who hate sysadmin? like, grafana for humans.

One Pan. One Air Fryer. 100g Dry Rice, 200ml Water - 10 minutes medium heat, wait until all waters gone. 250g Chicken Breast - 18-20 minutes @ 180c (350f) Some type of powdered spices/seasoning for chicken breast Olive Oil Mayonnaise Sriracha Mix mayo & sriracha into rice, chicken breast on top. Serve.

I genuinely enjoy home cooked meals but I've realized that time and energy need to go elsewhere right now. And eating out every day adds up fast and still takes chunks out of my day. Anyone else hit this wall? What's worked for you? What kind of meal service are you looking for? Cheap? Fast? Premium?

Working on getting this from v0.1 -> v1.0 this weekend, hopefully going to be a big value-add for @BobbleSolutions clients, and a great funnel into finding more businesses I can help with their SysAdmin/Linux requirements #bobblepulse

@Shpigford @NousResearch Yellow immediately springs to mind...

working on a new mac mini case inspired/themed for hermes users. what color would you associate with the hermes (@NousResearch) brand? like with openclaw it's obviously red.

Feel like I've gone full circle, spent a couple of months trying to side-project away at things and my next side-projects going to be a huge part of my main business (hopefully!) 👀

Don’t be afraid to put in some effort, Hero! Stamina regenerates. Time does not.

I think @X really wants everyone to live longer as well if everyone''s news looks similar to mine 😆

@oliverhenry Be interested to see how the cold calls go, people still very resistant to automated phone calls and I’ve heard no AI voice that sounds real enough to deal with back and forth conversations yet.

I've got Larry automating the sales outbound for rockstone. Next, I am going to get him cold calling. Then, I will share the playbook

@lesliemathys It might be worth having them on until say the last 3 hours or something like that just so you can get a rough idea of domain price, if somethings already 4 figures before that point, I'm not going to be interested, that's just me though :)

@cajdavidson Hey Chris, thanks for coming back to me I did have auction prices in the first iteration of the tool, but made the call to drop them because of what you just mentioned. Impossible to keep up at the end once the heat is on.

Any takers for this? Would be greatly appreciated. app.buildondomains.com/feedback

@lesliemathys Would be great if current auction price was shown on page rather than having to click through, realise that is going to be difficult towards the end but earlier on when it doesn't move as much would give an OK indication as to how it's going to go.

@cajdavidson Legend. Thanks Chris.