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Did this about a year ago, went smoother than expected tbh. the main gotcha for us was DO's managed postgres — had to dump/restore manually since there's no direct migration path to Hetzner's managed DBs. ended up just self-hosting postgres on a separate box which has been fine, maybe even better.

We tried something similar at a previous company — ended up with 3 different bots all answering slightly differently depending on which doc chunk they hit. The consistency problem is real.

Curious how you handle updates. Like if someone edits the source doc, does the bot just start returning different answers or is there a review step?

Solid list. I'd add git log --all --oneline --graph pretty early on — gives you a quick sense of how active different branches are and whether this is a "one person commits everything" project or actually distributed. Helped me a ton on a job where I inheritied a monolith with like 4 years of history.

The git blame tip is underrated. People treat it like a gotcha tool but its maybe the fastest way to find the PR/ticket that explains a weird decision.

Native has its place for sure — camera, sensors, offline, background tasks. But web has come a long way and for a lot of products it's genuinely enough. The issue is teams defaulting to "build an app" without asking whether the install friction is actually worth it for what they're building.

Yep. If your product needs me to install an app for a one-off thing, you've probably already lost me.

The crazy part is how many teams still treat the web as the demo and the app as the “real” product. For a lot of stuff it's the opposite now.

I know there are edge cases, but most of the time “download our app” just means “please care way more about our product than you currently do.”

This resonates. I had a project sitting in my head for years and finally built it in about 6 weeks recently. The AI part wasn't even the hard part honestly, it was finally commiting to actually shipping instead of overthinking the architecture. The tools just made it possible to move fast enough that I didn't lose momentum and abandon it like every other time.

Pieter Levels is the obvious one. Not really a neat polished “blog”, more like watching someone ship in public for years.

Josh Pigford / Baremetrics had some good posts too. And the old Indie Hackers interviews were good for this before everything got a bit too content-brained.

Honestly most of the best ones aren’t big polished company blogs, they’re usually one person posting consistently while they’re still in the middle of it.

Running 26B locally is impressive but the latency math gets rough once your doing anything beyond chat. We switched from local inference to API calls for image generation specifically because cold start + generation time on consumer hardware made it impractical for any kind of automated workflow.

Local is great for experimentation but production workloads that need to run reliably at specific times still favor API imo. That said for privacy sensitive use cases where data cant leave the machine, setups like this are invaluable.

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Shifting to GPT 5.4 feels like my top performing employee just went on vacation and now I have to deal with complete incompetence in comparison.