Benjamin

What will be the moat going forward? Looks like only distribution (audience) will provide a competitive advantage?

Excited to see what the community will build around this.

I loved Tiberian Dawn, Red Alert, Tiberian Sun, and Red Alert 2.

Need to figure out how I can play these 4 on a Mac :)

Indeed, if they send too many emails out, include a lot of irrelevant stuff, or are too salesy, I tend to unsubscribe as well :)

Depends on the product. If I use it, sure. I want to know what changed and how it improved. If I don't use it (anymore), I unsubscribe.

I'm using ProtonMail and I'm very happy with it. The only annoyance is that their calendar doesn't support two-way sync. So I can subscribe to the calendar and see the events in my calendar app but I can't create new events outside of Proton Calendar.

Yeah self-hosted Ghost is an interesting option. I also want to use my own website/blog instead of the Substack/Kit pages. But it looks like you need Mailgun in order to send emails via self-hosted Ghost.

Sounds easier to just use Loops, which I already use in some projects.

Yeah will be definitely different content and format.

Still undecided. Considering something like Substack/Kit, Ghost or Loops. Not sure if the recommendation/discovery features of pure newsletter platforms like Substack/Kit are worth it.

Can you recommend a platform?

The topics overlap a bit but my personal will be about me and my work while the erfindergeist.io newsletter will be generally about how AI can help solopreneurs build their empires (collection of AI tools, resources, strategies etc).

Contemplating for a while now and I think this will be the setup.

Erfindergeist.io - Software development as a Service for web app MVPs, tools, and automations Your go-to software development subscription, dedicated to turning visionary concepts into beautiful, effective digital products.

Good question. I'm considering two newsletters:

1) My personal (monthly) newsletter about my personal work, bets, and experiments (Solo-/Entrepreneurship, Bootstrapping, SaaS, Marketing)

2) Erfindergeist.io (weekly) newsletter focused on AI-powered solo-/entrepreneurs

I have to start one too :)

Why I Won't Use Next.js From the perspective of web standards to concerns about increasing complexity, Kent C. Dodds shares his opinions on why he won't use Next.js.

Essentially I like the ethics, values, and incentives a lot more in Remix than Next.js. Both are great frameworks tho.

Here's a great article on this topic: www.epicweb.dev/why-i-wont-u...

Remix is a lot easier and straightforward. It exposes official web APIs that you use anywhere on the web.

Next.js is often a blackbox where a lot of magic happens. I also don't like how it's built to work in a serverless environment and some features only working with their hosting solution Vercel.

I use both. But yes, for newer projects I‘d rather use Remix/React Router than Next.js. Astro for content-heavy websites.

Why I Won't Use Next.js From the perspective of web standards to concerns about increasing complexity, Kent C. Dodds shares his opinions on why he won't use Next.js.

Next.js has too much "magic" involved and it uses their own utilities instead of exposing official web APIs directly. Knowledge isn't transferable to other frameworks.

I also dislike this whole serverless bullshit.

Great article on this topic: www.epicweb.dev/why-i-wont-u...

Tradojo - Automated Trading Journal and Analytics for Crypto Traders Unleash the power of data-driven trading with Tradojo’s automated trading journal for crypto traders. Elevate your strategies, improve your edge, and achieve sustainable profits.

Hey Steve! I'd love to be in the starter pack! I'm building a SaaS (tradojo.com) and a web dev agency (erfindergeist.io).

Yeah I hate canned responses by BigTech that don't communicate anything and provide absolutely no value.

You are not allowed to use a trademark in your ads and as your domain includes "Steam" there is no way to advertize in accordance with their ToS. That's why they denied approval.

Do you know about openwebui.com? Or other paid UIs (one-time fee) like TypingMind, BoltAI etc?

The Discover feed has its own (private?) algorithm defined by Bsky.

The Following feed has no algo and shows the posts chronologically. Unlike the Following feed on X.

Same here. Building is so much more fun than marketing.

I have muted all servers and only allow @everyone on specific servers. Also users from most servers can't DM me. Those DM's that go through result in a notification.

This way I don't receive unnecessary notifications.

Why use a monthly plan instead of usage-based payments via API key?

That is indeed a great feature of a city. And dutch cities also provide the infrastructure for biking.

Unfortunately many cities in other countries aren't that flat which makes biking a lot harder and less fun.

Tradojo - Automated Trading Journal and Analytics for Crypto Traders Unleash the power of data-driven trading with Tradojo’s automated trading journal for crypto traders. Elevate your strategies, improve your edge, and achieve sustainable profits.

I'm building a trading journal and analytics SaaS (tradojo.com). Currently targeted at crypto (futures) traders but will expand to other asset classes as well in the future.

Same here :)

According to the bsky team it takes a few days to see changes in the algo after clicking on "show less like this". It's not effective immediately.

I see. In this case I‘d communicate beforehand that focusing on speed in the beginning will lead to refactoring needs later on.

I try to refactor in the actual ticket.

It increases the time I have worked on a feature but I don't have to explain why there is a separate refactoring ticket that has no visible result for the client.

So instead of refactoring a lot in one go I try to add a refactoring step to each ticket.

Haven't started reading yet, just arrived. But I'll report back when I've read them :)

Nice, I have this one already on my reading list :)