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Chris Lentz

@atlchris.bsky.social

Hi, I'm Chris. πŸ‘‹ Dad x 2 β€’ Maker β€’ Full-Stack Engineer β€’ Solutions Architect β€’ Movie Buff β€’ Home Lab / Automation Enthusiast β€’ Lover of All Things Tech β€’ Currently building SimplyMonitor.io

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I am not sure what is getting more love in my feed the Checo / Bottas announcement or the Taylor Swift announcement.

What a time to be alive! πŸ˜‚

26.08.2025 18:36 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Can you elaborate? I am playing around with this idea, but it is not clicking for me.

11.08.2025 17:37 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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11.08.2025 16:56 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

One of the biggest things that drives me crazy about #SvelteKit is the lack of a single hook to intercept fetchβ€”whether it’s server or client side. Would make life so much easier. #BuildInPublic #SimplyMonitor #Svelte

11.08.2025 16:16 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Cursor’s Infrastructure Stack

03.08.2025 16:10 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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New tattoo incoming…

19.04.2025 00:00 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Can you explain more? How does Refund Saver work?

18.04.2025 16:20 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0
SimplyMonitor Basamiq layout wireframes

SimplyMonitor Basamiq layout wireframes

Just finished building the mobile and desktop wireframe layouts in Balsamiq! Excited to start cranking out more wireframes over the next few weeksβ€”first up: the monitors page. #SimplyMonitor #BuildInPublic #Balsamiq

15.04.2025 00:35 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I really like itβ€”super clean and well put together. The only feedback I’d offer is to add a pop of color to the β€œSend Invoice” CTA button. A warm tone like orange or gold/yellow could complement the blue really nicely and help it stand out.

28.03.2025 01:28 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

About 90% done converting SimplyMonitor from SvelteKit to Nuxtβ€”pretty happy with the time it took! Should be back to building new features tomorrow night. #SimplyMonitor #BuildInPublic #Nuxt

28.03.2025 01:14 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I want to intercept requests to inject an app specific header. I also want to intercept the response to globally catch 401s from my API and attempt a token refresh and retry of the request.

27.03.2025 13:05 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

To name a few:

- The +page / +server naming conventions make it hard to jump files easily.
- The lack of consistent framework wide hooks. Specifically, I was looking for a singular handleFetch hook that would work server side or client side.
- Devtools

27.03.2025 10:52 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 4    πŸ“Œ 0
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I use Fastmail.com for email, so I just create an alias at my projects domain. So different emails for each project but a single inbox.

27.03.2025 02:25 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I think that is a reasonable price and a fun idea!

I showed this to my daughter and she loved it. She asked if you could change the colors because she wanted it too look like our black and white cat. Just wanted to share that piece of feedback.

27.03.2025 02:23 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

I’ve decided to move from SvelteKit to Nuxt for the SimplyMonitor web appβ€”made the call before I got too far in. I still think Svelte is the superior framework compared to Vue, but SvelteKit has some catching up to do compared to Nuxt and Next. #SimplyMonitor #BuildInPublic

27.03.2025 02:03 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

Is Chart.js still the go-to library for charting in web apps? I’ve used it in the past, but curious if anything newer is gaining traction these days. Would love to hear what others are using! #BuildInPublic #SimplyMonitor

26.03.2025 01:57 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 4    πŸ“Œ 0

You would get a lot of quality backlinks if you allowed the changelog page to be free tier.

25.03.2025 23:42 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I would recommend adding a free tier, maybe with some branding on the Changelog page and a limit of one entry per month. Set β€œremove branding,” unlimited entries, and email capabilities behind the pay wall.

25.03.2025 23:42 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

I just checked out Chage, is that the product you are doing this challenge for?

I was going to sign up, but is there no free tier?

25.03.2025 23:42 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

Very interested to see how this plays out.

25.03.2025 23:33 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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SimplyMonitor – AI-Powered API & Platform Monitoring SimplyMonitor helps you track APIs, scheduled jobs, and platforms like Shopify & Airtable. Get alerts, monitor performance, and visualize custom metricsβ€”no code required.

@peldi.bsky.social Really enjoyed your conversation on The Panel podcast! I was a huge fan of Balsamiq back when it was a desktop app, but haven’t explored the web version yet. I’d love to use it now as I build SimplyMonitor.io and share the journey along the way.

25.03.2025 21:06 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I loved the idea of a cohort or community for #buildinpublic / #startup founders that provides a community with people, sharing their expertise with other builders and the ability to apply for free access to tools that want to give back to the community.

25.03.2025 16:42 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Should you still build in public? Peldi (Balsamiq) and Jay Clouse (Creator Science) β€” The Panel Peldi is the founder of Balsamiq and pioneered transparent business building in 2007. In this episode, he came to the Panel looking advice on β€œbuild in public.” We invited Jay Clouse, of Creator Scien...

Today’s been a good day for #BuildInPublic here on Bluesky, so I figured I’d share a podcast episode I’m listening to that’s super relevant to the topic: overcast.fm/+ABM1BzxWpaE with @justinjackson.ca @briancasel.com @jay.blog @peldi.bsky.social

25.03.2025 16:33 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

I'm trying to separate webhook events for a single Stripe account.

I have one Stripe account and multiple webhook listeners, each for a different product type.

Has anyone encountered this issue? How do you handle it?

#buildinpublic #engineering

25.03.2025 14:02 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

I was thinking 2 free orgs max since everyone gets a default one at signup, and they might also be invited to a free company org. But I agreeβ€”don’t solve problems that don’t exist yet. I’ll probably hold off and see how people actually use it. #SimplyMonitor #BuildInPublic

25.03.2025 15:56 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Negative, I am building SimplyMonitor with Svelte πŸ™Œ

What is happening with NextJS?

25.03.2025 13:58 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

SimplyMonitor will support multiple organizations per user, each with its own plan (including free). I’m worried people might abuse this to get around free tier limits. Thinking of limiting users to 2 free orgs max. Thoughts? #SimplyMonitor #BuildInPublic

25.03.2025 12:28 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Agreed, Bluesky is 100x better than Twitter these days.

I guess I just miss the early days when people would have real conversations about what they were building.

25.03.2025 12:05 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

I wish. I post a lot, but comments are few and far between. I really want to find a strong #buildinpublic / #startup community to collect feedback and have in-depth conversations.

But sadly, β€œbuild in public” has become β€œbrag in public”.

25.03.2025 11:51 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
SimplyMonitor App Layout

SimplyMonitor App Layout

Working on the web app layout and organization selector (design and high-level functionality) for SimplyMonitor.io. #SimplyMonitor #BuildInPublic

24.03.2025 19:15 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

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