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never say career break or unemployed
just slap one of these stealth startups on your resume
tackle any question with "NDA"
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"asia is amazing, everything is perfect!"
- remote worker with 40x local income
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how tf did we automate software engineers before real estate agents
this is such a big fumble on our end
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i have found two duplicated uuids:
0b67ac1e-4876-46b9-9801-d2152da13f7f
0b67ac1e-4876-46b9-9801-d2152da13f7f
i recommend removing this uuid from your database
we are monitoring the situation closely
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vibe coding is fun until you start leaking the database credentials in the client
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oh no
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i changed all our "loading..." states to "thinking.."
we are an agentic AI startup now
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everytime a startup shares a picture of their clean and designed office
i am reminded of these pictures
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wtf are people doing with LLMs that they can oneshot entire apps
i love coding with AI, but as soon as you do something remotely complex, the entire thing falls apart
are people just building landing page or something
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people with setups like this always manage to ship absolutly nothing of value
it's kinda impressive
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if you think you can build calendly inhouse with 15 hours of prompting and vibe coding
you have no idea how software works
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lots of vibe coders are going to learn the difference between authentication and authorization
it's not a fun thing to learn the hard way
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pro tip if you are web scraping:
most websites now use an SPA framework like react and send all the data for hydration to the client (even when SSR)
this means that you can find a structured object containing all the page data in the HTML/DOM
this way you don't have to fiddle with HTML selectors etc.
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google login with just the google-auth-library, no frameworks in 50 lines of code
don't overcomplicate things
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apple: llms are stupid and can't reason
also apple: here is windows vista with some broken ai
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lol if your average laptop warrior drinks 2 coffees all day hogging a seat in your 40m2 bar you would do the same
TivoliVredenburg is a good example of a new bar that is large and work-friendly, most large places, in general, are happy with people working all day
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i like lucide icons but what is a good alternative?
every single website looks the same now
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are vibe coders just not building anything hard
like i can vibe code a lot of boring stuff (forms, data models, SQL queries etc.)
but as soon as i do something slightly complex (the stuff that has like 3 blog posts) it completely fumbles
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"All in all we went from $0 to $100m to $0 because I followed the advice of the VCs."
When you raise from a VC you need to build a unicorn (aka 1B+ company) and nothing else
Doing 10M ARR? You are a failure, 50M ARR? Nope.. You failed
A lot of amazing startups implode because of this model and this is also exactly the reason why I am never that worried to compete with well-funded companies because I know the chances of them imploding are very high
@levelsio said it very well: You are just another 1/100 bet to a VC
Is all funding bad? no, I think there are interesting opportunities and now that the model is changing (I hope) we will see more "boring" investments made in companies that focus more on sustainable business models
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i vibe coded a little internal dashboard to keep track of content indexing
i was like; wth is an http status of 205? or 220?
turns out that claude literally took an average from the HTTP statuses
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"I am building a startup!"
Americans: letss gooo!
Europeans: Hmm, I am not sure, in the current climate? What about the risks? You will never get a mortgage that way! Did you consider your pension? What if something happens? What if it doesn't work out! What is your backup plan? Did you consider working a little more first? I think someone already tried that and failed! What if it fails, you will never get another job!
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"I love your app, I use it every day, but no way I will pay $10"
- Software engineer making 400k a year (sent from his $6,000 MacBook)
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it's very important to understand that the biggest external risk for vercel is developers learning how to use a CDN
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microsoft laying off 7,000 employees (228,000 total)
is like a 50-person company laying off 2 people
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where is all the better software
if ai made everyone a developer or a 10x engineer
why isn't all the software better
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"I can build this in a weekend"
- Developer that has never built anything in a weekend
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replit doing 100M ARR and i have yet to see anyone use it
i live in a total bubble
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1. vibe code a saas
2. ???
3. $50k mrr
4. $3-$5M exit
how are you guys not getting it!??
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app guys are turning into course bois
makes you wonder how bad the profits are from these million-dollar mrr apps really are
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if you want to 5x your cold email reply rate, do this:
- female sender profile
i don't make the rules
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one of the least talked about things on here: database schema design
super boring topic, but i crazy how few people are capable of designing a clean and logical schema
i've seen so many startups come to a halt because they've built themselves into a corner
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am i fcking high or are you guys building APIs with extra steps
what am i missing
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you can use cloudflare for web scraping
and as protection for being scraped
it's like selling shovels and dirt
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European VC: We are looking for a billion-dollar idea, with no competition, 100k MRR, and 1M valuation.
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the AI agent hype fades really really quickly once you build your own
even with SOTA models, memory, tool calling etc. it's so hard to get good results
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why is it so hard for developers to understand context
this is a terrible way to develop software with a team
it's great for shipping fast as a solo dev
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quick fix for now:
DELETE FROM users
WHERE CAST(id AS TEXT) LIKE '%0%';
i recommend checking for any uuids containing a zero just to be sure
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why do all these AI generated sites look/feel the same
no hate to the makers but all colors, padding, and spacing seem off
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So far this weekend:
- vercel and cloudflare CEO have beef
- rippling cofounder is on the run from police
- saratoga sales surge
- nextjs has some security issues
who said b2b saas is boring
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people unironically commenting "skill issue" under posts
99% of the time, have a website looking like this
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"vibe coders don’t understand the code!!!"
- javascript dev with 280gb node_modules folder
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highly recommend investing in having children
a few more years and this little worker can write pretty decent ts/react
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"vibe coding" is what coding felt like before AI, where you could be locked in for hours
now coding is more like middle management, where you scream at an intern
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I never looked at the Google OAuth screen and thought "Wow they really need to fix this"
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rural france property keeps amazing me
€397,500 for a home with everything you need
get starlink and work remote
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if you need community notes to tell you not to run random SQL in production
you should not have access to production
i have found two duplicated uuids:
0b67ac1e-4876-46b9-9801-d2152da13f7f
0b67ac1e-4876-46b9-9801-d2152da13f7f
i recommend removing this uuid from your database
we are monitoring the situation closely
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yeah so this is why lovable is kinda garbage
when you run vaporware ads like this you know it's just bs without any value
"but most of our customers are enterprise".. sure
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you really start finding the limits of LLMs once you go beyond the training data
react todo apps are easy, but as soon as you start working on more complex stuff, they don't really "know" what they are doing (even when giving docs, mcp, etc.)
which is very normal, because if you spend a few years writing software, you learn that there is a tipping point where, beyond that, the content/tutorials/guides dry up and you are very much on your own
i think that this is also where a lot of the divide comes from, where beginners think this is some machine god, and more experienced developers are more skeptical
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i am so happy i learned to code before ai
i would probably not have the discipline to really grind and learn
all those hours of debugging, building, and searching the web for obscure stacktraces are kinda needed to really learn how to code
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a lot of vibe coders are going to learn that the first 90% is easy
fun starts at the last 10%
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"we are vibe coding our own crm"
no serious company does this
can you imagine being in a competitive market, everything now moves faster than ever before
and you are wasting your time vibe coding your own crm instead of buying an existing solution
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i don't mind paying for cursor
but for the love of god, give us some clarity on how much
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I'm playing around with Nextjs, RSC, server actions, etc.
My main question is; who asked for all of this?
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if vercel legitly made an AI that would be able to clone google slides in minutes (not just the UI) they would quit the hosting business tomorrow and be all in
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🚨 we are hiring more fullstack developers at promptwatch
- typescript
- react/nextjs
- prisma/postgres
- nodejs/fastify/trpc
- tailwindcss/shadcn
(super hip startup stack)
bonus points if you know some elastic, clickhouse or gcp
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it's such a weird metric to chase
it's like management seeing lines of code written per day as a form of progress
write good code, use AI if you can/it makes sense, but don't make it the goal
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make sure to start a new project as soon as your current project becomes slightly difficult
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if you find a niche and are printing money
and your audience is not indiehackers
for the love of god don't share it here
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