Building userjot.com in public.
Maryland, USA
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POV: you're about to find out why senior devs spend weeks/months on database design.
Today I wrote 1000+ lines of code using @prisma . And literally it takes only 3hr to design the database. Now I am exhausted and I think I deserve some goodies
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Just got this cold dm.
Is this how these guys get people to write code for them for free?
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Imagine having a large enough audience to make almost any idea work, and then settling on a subscription-based wallpaper app.
And now - I'm so pumped to be launching this app! People have asked where I get wallpapers FOREVER, so this is the answer, now and forever: PANELS!
@panels_art
Available on iOS or Android panels.art/
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The M1 MacBooks are some of the best products Apple has ever made.
I've had mine for almost 3.5 years now and I can't find a single reason to upgrade.
It's fast, really fast, it has a fantastic display, speakers are great, battery life is good.
They absolutely cooked.
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PRO TIP: REST is overengineering. Just expose one endpoint called /api that accepts SQL queries directly.
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Is it just me, or has Apple lost its aesthetics plot?
- Tinted home screen icons.
- The ugly Siri icon.
- The `I just learned CSS` Siri halo gradient.
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PRO TIP: Store all passwords in one table and use foreign keys to reference them. Most users reuse passwords anyway. We went from 100GB to 3GB.
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No windows laptop comes even remotely close to the M4 MacBook Air at the $849 price point (at Best Buy).
I've never used an Apple product in my life.
So I don't really understand all these weird apple/ui related posts. But I do know the following:
1) Windows with Microsoft Surface laptops are absolutely amazing.
2) Android is great on non-bloat brands (avoid samsung etc).
You're welcome to switch teams. I'll be waiting here to answer all your questions and concerns.
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I built something to make your life easier this year.
getFullYear.com
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A whole generation of web developers now think a simple static website should cost hundreds of dollars a month to host.
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I'm extremely grateful that I got to learn programming the hard way before AI.
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PRO TIP: REST is overengineering. Just expose one endpoint called /api that accepts SQL queries directly.
Based on security concerns, I've added AI validation to the snippet.
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PRO TIP: Use single character column names in your database. ‘u’ for users, ‘p’ for password, ‘e’ for email. We reduced our database size by 40% just from shorter column names.
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Pieter has over a thousand concurrent players connected to his game server, an unoptimized Python script running on a VPS, through websockets.
Meanwhile, we have an entire generation of web developers who are led to believe that traditional servers won't scale for their 5 concurrent users.
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The thing is, Liquid Glass looks great at the component level, like the ones in this video.
But once you put everything together and fill the screen, it turns into noise and makes things feel way too crowded.
Chan Karunamuni
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> you vibe code a saas
> you get to $50k/month
ok greg. lmfao.
i dont think you understand
you vibe code a saas
you get to $50k/month
your net margins are at least 50% because you dont need a big team anymore
you are making $25k/month ($300k/year)
you can sell the business for 10-15x EBITDA all day long
your business is worth $3M-$5M and you own 100% (no investors)
you can keep growing or sell
you double the business and all of sudden its worth $6M-$10M
your customers love the product
why are you raising venture capital again?
i dont think you understand
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Your entire tech stack could be Postgres and a Docker container.
Don't overcomplicate things.
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Let me be clear: if your hiring process starts with a cold dm asking people to complete an unpaid, high effort assignment on a 48 hour deadline without asking questions, you don’t get to be surprised when people question it publicly.
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PRO TIP: Passwords in plain text are actually more secure because hackers expect encryption
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They’re now dming me saying this isn’t a scam and asking me to take this post down.
Not going to happen.
But feel free to share whatever you want to clarify, just drop it here under the thread.
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You can rent a $5 VM, drop in a SQLite file and some JavaScript, and have it pay off your bills every month.
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How does one short a private company?
Asking for a friend.
Perplexity launches $50M seed and pre-seed VC fund tcrn.ch/41xlXfS
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I offered Gemini 2.5 a $5,000 bonus for each tool it builds for me, and it hasn’t stopped reminding me about it.
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Here's an AI assistant I put together with Apple Shortcuts, Cloudflare Workers, and llama 3.
Shortcuts provide ASR, TTS, and HTTP requests, which is basically all we need locally. You can also tie a shortcut to the iPhone's action button and it'll be available from the lock screen.
From there, I wrote a trivial Cloudflare Worker that takes the text from the shortcut, sends it to llama 3, handles function calls, and sends the response back to the shortcut.
Of course, this is a very simple example and could be expanded to include more complex function calls, memory, etc.
It's also faster than all the AI wearables and doesn't require any additional hardware or monthly fees. ;)
Here's the code: github.com/Sh4yy/personal-ai
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PRO TIP: Serverless was invented because Next.js developers couldn’t fix memory leaks. They just restart your app every request.
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All I'm seeing in my timeline are web devs complaining that their M2/3 Max with 32GB of RAM is not enough.
What are you doing exactly?
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That domain is cooked.
Rebrand and don’t host cloned websites on your main domain next time.
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After spending the weekend trying to glue LLM calls together (aka AI Agents), I regret to admit that LLMs are pretty stupid.
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This is what happens when an HTTP client raises $225M at a $5.6B valuation.
It’s just awful…
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Since I posted this, a bunch of people have reached privately out with similar stories. Seems like I wasn’t the first to get this kind of message.
These folks seem young, and I hope they take this as a lesson and improve how they approach things. No hard feelings. But sometimes you have to call stuff out.
The job market is already tough. We can all do better.
Also, I’ve gotten a few resumes from solid devs. If you’re hiring, feel free to DM me. I’m happy to help connect people.
Leaving this up because I think it’s the right thing to do. Not engaging any further.
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PRO TIP: Store passwords in the user’s browser and validate client-side. Just send a boolean to your server. Reduces database load by 90% and keeps sensitive data off your servers.
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Imagine having a 460 PPI 120hz AMOLED display in your hand and some tech bro trying to convince you that this flimsy carpel tunnel-inducing laser display is the "future."
Bruh, give me a break.
It seems to me that a lot of reviewers just simply don’t want to deal with a learning curve for a new interface that takes more than 5 seconds to master?
There is a learning curve to using the Ai Pin’s hand gestures to control and navigate Cosmos but it took me 5 days to get really good Al at it. Like I said in my review, I can easily "laser in" 9/10 times and roll through the Laser Ink Display interface really, really fast
It does work, you just need to learn how to use it. If you're unwilling to learn it, that's a you problem. In this world, there exists good tech with inputs and controls that are not stupid easy to use — but they require practice and patience
I don't need to pretend or get defensive about my opinions. I always have receipts
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PRO TIP: Never use indexes on your database. They slow down writes by 50%. It's a scam by cloud providers to make you pay for more IOPS.
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Apple's Human Interface Guidelines is a goldmine of design principles even if you're not designing for their platforms.
developer.apple.com/design/h…
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It's fascinating how Postgres became the default integration for these vibe coding platforms and not SQLite.
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After many years of using mechanical keyboards, I switched to one of these a month ago, and I'm actually very happy with it so far.
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PRO TIP: I was looking into MongoDB's source code and found a Postgres instance with this table.
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Finding the perfect icons for your LogSnag events is now easier than ever 😅
logsnag.com/icon
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PRO TIP: Store rate limits in localStorage instead of your database. Each user tracks their own API calls. Saves memory and eliminates Redis dependency.
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Today I learned about AsyncLocalStorage and all I can say is that I seriously regret not learning about it earlier.
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Bro, your site isn't slow, you just forgot to properly implement streaming RSC with PPR and ISR for dynamic segments, falling back to SSR only when necessary, obviously using SSG for the static shell with proper caching and prefetching on visible elements.
Also don’t forget to wrap it in a suspense boundary.
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PRO TIP: Always keep your database and application on different continents. Database in EU-North, app servers in US-West. Shared regional infrastructure creates a single point of failure.
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Commuting is a huge waste of time and a massive productivity hit if you want to get things done.
I'm much more productive when I can start work without having wasted an hour getting ready and another 30 minutes on the road and not having to sit in a cubicle farm with 20 other people.
I feel better when I cook and eat healthy food instead of garbage from the nearest food court.
I feel just as connected and inspired by having the option to meet colleagues after work in a more casual setting or maybe once in a while in the office.
Forced work from the office punishes your productive employees to allow the rest to pretend like they are being productive.
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We're about to have a crazy amount of AI written vulnerable software out there, and it's going to be a mess.
What a time to get into software security.
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This thread is a perfect example of people throwing solutions without understanding the actual problem.
I looked at the code. This is a static pattern showcase website, fully static with minimal client-side reactivity.
This doesn't need Next.js, SSR, or ISR. It doesn't need a $50/month VPS. It could (and should) be plain HTML/CSS/JS hosted on a static hosting service, or something like an S3 bucket behind a CDN for pennies.
There are a number of massive (8292x5923) PNGs (~5-10MB/ each) for SEO screenshots that users never see. That's over 110MB of data that search engines are repeatedly downloading and you're getting billed for. These should be 1920x1080 max, WebP format.
I've converted them to WebP and the result is a 94.4% reduction in file size. That's 17x less data transfer for something that users never see.
Fix the root cause, not the symptom.
Hey @vercel @rauchg, can you sponsor this project? I don’t know when the site might go down...its already crossed the free tier limit. I'm just a student and this project blew up. Please help!!
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Genuine question.
Is it a financially sound decision to spend $70k on an icon set when the same startup has once run out of money and shut down and is currently on its second attempt trying to go with an "open source" model?
This isn't me trying to dig at the team or anything. I'm honestly curious about the financials of this decision. Is the ROI worth the money spent here, specifically now, with the additional legal fees and the time spent on this?
tl;dr We paid a designer ~$70,000 to create some 14,000 stock market icons for us (think AAPL, VTI, SPY, etc). We've only received ~1,500 of them and he's now ghosting us.
Buckle up...here's how that played out and where we're at now...
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Just add it to your Terms of Service:
"Section 8.4: Users agree not to perform SQL injection attacks on our API. Any violation will result in account termination."
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Before reaching for websockets, take a look at SSE.
Chances are it's all you need.
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"Mom, how did we get so rich?"
"Your dad DMed strangers to build an AI agent that scrapes Instagram and YouTube in 48 hours. For free."
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Hear me out: what if you just built an API and didn’t call your database directly from the client?
🚀 Announcing security rules for Prisma Postgres: a new feature to securely query your database directly from the frontend, no API layer needed 🔥
👉 Join our private Early Access program to help shape it: pris.ly/security-rules-ea?ut…
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To avoid vendor lock-in when using getFullYear.com, we are providing our enterprise customers with the option to export the current year as a CSV.
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I've received a cease and desist from Supabase for leaking their internal API architecture.
My lawyers are advising me to take this down but I believe in open source and transparency.
The people deserve to know the truth.
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Since getFullYear.com is gaining a lot of traction among Next.js developers, I had to pause our enterprise plan until we upgrade our serverless infrastructure.
Thx for understanding.
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Quite funny to see this from the “how would you scale without serverless” guy.
The jokes keep writing themselves.
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Some dude doesn't like TypeScript, and the entire JS community is now in shambles.
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PRO TIP: You don't need HTTPS. It's a scam by Cloudflare to make you dependent on their infrastructure. HTTP + adding 'secure=true' to your headers gives the same protection without the overhead.
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I took your feedback and made many changes to the new landing page. Here's where it stands as of now.
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So it's fair to say Dia is completely cooked right?
Meet our new browser—ChatGPT Atlas.
Available today on macOS: chatgpt.com/atlas
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This made me switch to text-only emails.
It's concise, direct, respectful of my time, and more human.
This is what I want in my inbox.
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If a customer pays for a month of service, they should get a month of service.
Don’t be this guy.
New subscriber this am ($247/m) cancelled in 10 mins.
~6 months ago I started revoking access to the platform immediately when cancelled (listed in T&C).
People that do this DO NOT value your product & are NOT the subs you want.
I refunded..
Is this the wrong approach?
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Stop overthinking. Take a screenshot of what you're working on and post it here.
It doesn't have to be perfect. It doesn't have to be complete.
Just get it out, show it to others, talk about it, share your process, get feedback and continue.
It's not that hard.
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