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Tobias Arweiler

@icebearlabs.com.bsky.social

πŸ‘‰ #buildinpublic indie hacker πŸ‘‰ Building https://repodcasted.com and agency https://www.ctrlshiftenter.com πŸ‘‰ Host of @codeandconquer.fm Indie Hacker Podcast

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Check out N8N for this kind of work as well. More flexibility and not only Google models at hand.

30.07.2025 07:49 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Thank you to anyone who has listened to @codeandconquer.fm in the past β™₯️

Right now I'm not actively recording new episodes, but this is still a great milestone.

28.07.2025 08:19 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

When you have a development issue that is so complex and rare that you start watching youtube videos that are just text and code, you know you're in the deep end.

12.06.2025 09:46 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Uptime would be okay I think. Synthetic sounds a little β€žtoo far offβ€œ, it’s not clear what that means, just by the name.

20.04.2025 05:56 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

I'd advise against working on the way. Get your mind fresh, come back stronger.

Best ideas come when we let our brain rest from the daily craziness.

15.04.2025 09:46 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

What happens if people reach the limit of the $100 plan?

I'd probably add a pseudo tier like "Enterprise" with a "Contact us" button, just to be able to catch larger companies who might be interested.

Keep the door open, so to say.

15.04.2025 09:42 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

It's incredible how many people have no idea how designing a system for security works.

Blog posts detailling how to expose ports to the internet (without any restrictions).

Installations that expose 3000 ports to the wide web.

Be safe out there. Any idiot can write blog posts.

14.04.2025 14:18 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Ice Bear Labs Freelance software development and consulting services

Traded another 12-15 hours of my work for a Squarespace subscription.

I was tried of paying that money, when I'm perfectly capable of building my own website.

So here's to a new and clean icebearlabs.com :D

13.04.2025 13:34 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Is the thing your doing absolutely necessary? No?

Is it enjoyable? Also no?

You should probably not do it anymore.

11.04.2025 16:18 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Would love to do a big road trip through the US. We absolutely adore the countryside, the landscapes, the big cities.

But we will never even consider it under the current government.

07.04.2025 13:52 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

Probably just spam / sending this to 10000 people to make some money.

Would still not click the link or doc and push it into spam folder.

05.04.2025 10:59 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Happened to Nextjs as well… kinda wished they would rename it and release it under a different name and versioning.

And then just do v2 in maintenance mode.

04.04.2025 16:50 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Don't Talk to the Police
YouTube video by Regent University School of Law Don't Talk to the Police

Great talk that goes into detail on why this is the absolute and only correct statement.

youtu.be/d-7o9xYp7eE?...

Do not talk to the police without your lawyer. Ever.

04.04.2025 16:48 β€” πŸ‘ 9    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

At least it’s a great blueprint for other projects afterwards πŸ˜…

Aaaand probably some learnings about what not to do.

31.03.2025 10:42 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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When you wanted a really tiny app to help keep your plants alive πŸͺ΄

Now you have a Turborepo with frontend, backend, database and MinIO fileserver, getting proxied through a built-in nginx and deployed via Docker Compose 🀯

Thanks to @coolify.io at least I don't need to worry about hosting.

30.03.2025 20:10 β€” πŸ‘ 10    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

X, Threads, Facebook, TikTok and Snapchat.

Oh, I guess I don't need to two limitation ^^

27.03.2025 09:11 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Funnily enough your podcast episode with me is the perfect guide to what I should probably do ^^

24.03.2025 09:42 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

It should be fixed now, probably still propagating. I can see it again after flushing my DNS records on my Mac.

24.03.2025 09:41 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Anyone experiencing the @codeandconquer.fm page not loading right now, we're moving to @cloudflare.social so it might be done for a while, until new DNS settings take a hold.

Getting rid of anything Vercel to cancel the subscription.

24.03.2025 08:48 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Had just become a freelancer so binding a house to my name didn’t feel that great.

Man am I regretting that decision.

23.03.2025 15:42 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

My biggest regret in life is not buying my mothers house when she sold it in 2021 when we had like 1.5% interest rates…

22.03.2025 22:06 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Time is an infuriating resource.

You are given an indefinite amount.

You HAVE to spend it and you can only spend the same amount all the time.

You cannot save it.

And you never know when yours runs out.

86400 seconds today.

Spend them wisely.

19.03.2025 07:22 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

The truth is, it's 90% development and 90% marketing, making it 180% you have to give over all.

15.03.2025 18:50 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Your running code is always compiled JavaScript

15.03.2025 16:36 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

I’ve already announced pausing the podcast for a while. I’m not feeling that one right now.

Also since February I’m only doing 4 days of freelance work per week, which starts helping a little now.

13.03.2025 16:49 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Eh combination of multiple factors. Fulltime freelance project, while still trying to get our own company set up and started, the podcast, the fucking world right now, not enough time for sports and healthy eating ^^

Basically need to dial back from too many topics.

13.03.2025 14:44 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Approach it from a different angle to the same results, going away from personal, you-angle to a "we made it as a team" questions

And then going back and asking "What did I personally contribute to that? What were my strengths that helped?"

13.03.2025 14:32 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Maybe you can use questions from positive psychology to remember better? Stuff like:

- When did you learn something really vital in a project?
- Did you ever have a moment of insight, where you changed as a developer?
- What was a great "crushing it" moment for you and your team?

13.03.2025 14:32 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

That's gonna be a nice peak in the analytics graph :D Hopefully in the revenue chart as well

13.03.2025 14:28 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Honestly I'm burnout burnout burnout right now xD

13.03.2025 14:27 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

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