Dev Neill

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"You need to talk to someone."

Running out of money, failing at Upwork and learning the power of warm outreach.

It’s been a month.

Find out the mistakes I’ve made and what I’ve learned from them this month in Dev Builds #7.

Coming to your inbox tomorrow 📥

I want to make websites like artists make paintings.

🖼️ Jenny Saville, Albertina museum in Vienna.

it’s all good and well to value distribution over product

But you can’t distribute nothing

Gemini 2.5 Pro is excellent for coding.

I’m going to hedge my bets and look for full time positions in parallel with selling business websites.

Today I’m polishing the CV ✨

Do something difficult enough times and you start to look forward to it

This happened for me with running 🏃

Now it’s happening with gym 🏋️

Sorry to hear this Adam ❤️

You will come out stronger.

Dev builds #6 is out now 🗞️

I took a moment to reflect on what I learned from preparing my talk for #EpicWebConf

Hopefully, it can help with your AI chats, too ✨

devneill.substack.com/p/3-simple-...

I love the @raycastapp calculator.

It always surprises me how many use cases it covers 🔥

Thanks CJ!

Dev builds | Devon Neill | Substack A monthly reflection about building things on the web. Click to read Dev builds, by Devon Neill, a Substack publication. Launched 5 months ago.

I built an app in 20 minutes on stage at #EpicWebConf two weeks ago.

To do this, I built the same app 66 times.

Tomorrow, I'll share how you can get more predictable, quality results from Cursor too.

Tobi says it's time to take prompting seriously 😉

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Would you be interested if I interviewed up and coming Indie Hackers?

Not the success stories like @starter_story. They're too far ahead.

I'd chat with the ones that are starting to connect the dots, but are just a few steps ahead of us at the beginning.

I’ve been nocturnal since getting back to Europe 🦉

Back at the gym to try reset the body clock 🏋️

(I can only lift a quarter of that)

Learn more about Epic Web Conf: https://www.epicweb.dev/conf Epic Web Conf 2025 Live 🔴

Here is my talk if you are interested 🚀
www.youtube.com/live/SDuvi5...

I'm on my way home!

I've met incredible people.
I've learnt some powerful ideas.
I've had a lot of nerves and a lot of laughs.

Put yourself out there, do something scary - it will be worth it.

Thank you for all the support and an amazing event @kentcdodds.com and #EpicWebConf

Thanks Jimmy 🙇‍♂️

Such an amazing experience ✨

Thank you Annie! 🙏🏼

Thanks Tyler! 🙌🏼 🙇‍♂️

Amazing talk on the history of JavaScript by @anniesexton.com 🔥

#EpicWebConf

✅ Final run through done.
✅ Stage outfit ready.
✅ Told myself I’ve got this.

Today is the day!!

#EpicWebConf

And we’re off!!

Let’s build an AI app with @neondatabase ⚡️

#EpicWebConf

✅ Salt Lake City centre explored!

Now locking in to some serious talk rehearsal 🗣️

#EpicWebConf

Thanks Alex!

I hope so too 😅

Made it to SLC!

It’s way past my bedtime time and things are getting a little weird 🎸🫠

Goodnight 😴

Touched down in Denver!

I left 11 hours ago but the time is only four hours later 🥲

And so it begins 🚶

Munich ✈️ Salt Lake City

#EpicWebConf

Flying to America tomorrow

Diving into this whole video thing! 🎥 🎞️

#EpicWebConf