James

Building an AI guardian for your free tier. This is how to use an LLM to judge how likely a user is to ever convert to paid, and put access limits on dynamically
theindiebuilder.com/posts/gating...

AWS Simple Email Service is very good and cost effective. They also have a service called "Pinpoint" which wraps SES in more Mailchimp-like features if that's what you want.

The pandemic convinced me that I don't do well without being around people at least some of the time.

You're never too late. The hype train is still sat in the station gathering rust

A small % of features you can build just for your own dogfooding experience. Dark mode is in that %.

Couldn't agree more. Nobody knows your customers' pain points better than your actual customer.

Try clearing your entire browser cache for your production site. If had Google be weird if I'm logging in with different Google accounts in succession.

I have spent way too much time on this stuff. One of us needs to build an AI product that scrapes public roadmaps and does this for you. Come on #buildinpublic community.

The hardest part about supporting switzerland is remembering that their country code is "CH". Two letters that appear nowhere in "Switzerland"

File transfer times on Windows

Go on ChatGPT and ask it to tell you some advanced features of [technology name] that you might not know about. It can become fun again. Works with nearly every programming language. Even basic really stuff like html I am constantly learning new interesting things to make it fun.

more details of how I set up Apollo on my blog: theindiebuilder.com/posts/how-to...

"Hi, my name is James. I'm validating an idea for a product that will help folks in your role save a ton of time. Do you have 15 minutes to chat and help me out?"

👆 this is the cold email template I use to book discovery calls. Simple right? but it works!! #buildinpublic

Limit "being active" to like 15 mins max. Anything more is procrastination.

Great linked article, this part rings especially true:
> Don’t feel pressured to implement every feature request from trial users

The number of times I forget that my ICP is a user who will actually pay. Don't build for people who are not your ICP.

Same, it's like suddenly rewinding 5 years of enshittification instantly.

Would love to join. Building usetopical.com

It's hard not to read these Google Search Console notifications with a sarcastic tone. Google straight up taking the piss out of my site 😂
#bulidinpublic

We are all a little bit Mark Corrigan.

”Brown for first course, white for pudding. Brown’s savoury, white’s the treat. Of course I’m the one who’s laughing because I actually love brown toast.”

"respect the subreddit rules and don't be a d*ck" is such a simple and correct piece of advice is shocking how many people get it wrong on Reddit.

Doesn't matter which platform the "public" moves to, nobody will stop #buildinginpublic