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Yeah makes sense. Something about giving an agent its own physical computer and being able to text it instructions like a personal assistant just clicks more than “run an agent in a sandbox”.

I hope that at some point companies start competing on quality instead of speed. LLMs will never be able to understand a codebase, and the more capable they get the more dangerous it is to just hand them the permission to blindly implement functionality and fix bugs. Bugs should be going down but they seem more prevalent than ever.

Yeah. Plus genuinely waiting to help oc

Ohhh is that why their logo is a bull?

It’s impossible if you’re scared of rejection, which an overwhelming amount of people are

Old news comes off dismissive. Doesn’t have to be a brand new discovery to be noteworthy.

Also Bonsa looks like the future congrats

This is really cool, and also feels like it should be built into Claude Code (that’s a compliment btw). I’m gonna try it out this week, thanks.

AGPL seems like a joke when it comes up against the indie hacker world. Has there ever been an example of an open-source maintainer successfully suing someone who ripped off their codebase without attribution? Doubtful.

Yeah but if that was the only reason to do open source that was encouraged then there’d almost certainly be a lot less open source software overall (and lower quality). Personally I’d prefer OSS win overall even if it costs some ideological purity.

That sounds like the worst parts of native dev + PWAs combined

Feel like it’s clear by this point AI-generated music isn’t going anywhere, I guess the question now becomes how much of it will be hyper-personalized (even generated JIT) vs static albums generated by artists like this. Or even a combination where it’s JIT but based exactly on an artists static body of work (could imagine Spotify having a “generate AI songs” toggle on an artists radio). IMO something is lost if people cant say “I love that artist/album too” or sing along to particular songs at concerts.

I’ve noticed the same thing, thought it was just me. Wonder if ralph wiggum would help.

I guess the solution is to just not mention it >:)

Are you sure it wasn’t for normal sales reasons? IMO that’s where the competition will always be, regardless of AI.

Talk to friends and family, see if you can build something to solve their problems that doesn’t exist yet (or cost too much or does a poor job). The more removed they are from the tech sector the better.

OR - do general client work (cold call or go door-to-door) and try to find gaps that way. Maybe you corner the market on sub-industrial sprinkler repair management software.

Our industry is hostile to vibecoded tools while the rest of the world waits for us to replace their legacy garbage with something better, vibecoded or not.

Cancelling doesn’t affect people’s lives or careers? Are you serious?

I’ve also found AI to be super helpful for self-hosting but in a different way. I set up a Pocketbase instance with a Lovable-like app on top (repo here: https://github.com/tinykit-studio/tinykit) so I can just pull out my phone, vibecode something, and then instantly host it on the one server with a bunch of other apps. I’ve built a bunch of stuff for myself (journal, CRM, guitar tuner) but my favorite thing has been a period tracker for a close friend who didn’t want that data tracked + sold.

I think they said “when it’s on the job site” - guessing he means construction site? Imagine those would have to be bipedal

I feel like there’s something special about connecting to a server to build and deploying on the same server. Claude Code on the web lets you connect to a repo, test the code, and deploy it, but then you have to host the app and data somewhere else to take it live. IMO the ideal is doing everything in one place and it seems like a lot of dev tools are going in that direction too (v0, val town, deno deploy).

New ideas build on existing ideas. He said SSH into a computer to run Claude Code on that computer.

Being able to “code” from your phone really feels like a huge change; it never took before because coding from your phone was miserable, but if you’re just coding by having a conversation then it might even be better to do it from your phone. I don’t know what that leads to, but it’s let me fix bugs from bed and build an MVP while moving, so I can’t complain.

For anyone looking for a more integrated and smaller approach, I built an open source app builder + runtime: https://github.com/tinykit-studio/tinykit

Basically gives you a Lovable-like app builder with built-in services (database/files/auth/email/payments/etc), content and design fields, and a code editor. Code is a single Svelte 5 file, and you can build/host unlimited apps on one server. And the server is just node + PocketBase, so runs easy on a $2 VPS. And LLM is BYOKey.

I think it’s probably counterproductive. It’s like religion - there’s arguably a lot to be gained from it, but people form negative early experiences and associate them with the thing itself. I’d love to re-read The Great Gatsby but dont want to relive middle school.

They only dislike it when they can tell it’s AI, but that’s becoming less and less of a possibility.

Presumably the real benefit comes over time; at least it’s worth picking up a used one.

Merry Christmas!

To some it is, to some it isn’t. Regardless, nonexlusivity has always been built into its core.

That’s what I’ve been working on for the last few years: https://palacms.com (MIT) Not ready to announce the V3 RC yet (need to fill out the starter sites) but it’s working well if you wanna give it a spin - runs & deploys on Railway’s free tier.

Looks useful! But fyi “Get started for free” (implying free for now) without a pricing page is a big turnoff imo

I don’t buy psy-ops unless it’s American-made

Well there is a growing Indian population so that might skew the statistics on home cooking lol.

Anecdotally, by far the worst home cooking I’ve had was at the hands of a British couple; tasted like simmered dish water.