Vlad Haltakov

SimplePost - Post to all social platforms with one TypeScript library SimplePost gives you full control with a single, unified TypeScript library for posting to X, YouTube, Instagram, TikTok, Facebook, and LinkedIn. No subscriptions. No SaaS. Just clean code.

In February I quit my job and went solo. Maybe I'm doing too much at once though...

- Building @leolinefun
- Launched simplepost.dev
- Started v2 of Simple Photo Gallery
- Growing a TikTok/YT Shorts channel
- Consulting (building an AI agent)

Oh and a new baby 👶🏻

Half of my feed is about how bad GPT-5 is and half how good it is.

It seems both sides are right - the small versions of GPT-5 are bad, the large, thinking versions seem to be quite good at following tasks.

I'm more in the GPT-5 is good camp, but one thing is clear - progress is saturating!

Markering opportunity - name your product GTA 6 and release it before the actual game.

Summer ☀️

The kids are home, the daycare's closed, and boredom's setting in. Work's calling you and the TV remote's tempting...

WAIT!

There's a better way! Let @leoline enchant them with endless audio adventures on their favorite topics - screen-free!

leoline.fun/

They don’t know GPT-5 is about to drop in 10 minutes.

Just a very interesting observation.

My journey

Job at a 100K people company
↓
Job at a 20 people startup
↓
Solopreneur + consulting

I hope to cut consulting and never go back again

The real value of simplepost.dev is not that much in the library, but in the documentation.

Setting up API credentials for different platforms is such a mess! The SimplePost docs hold your hand, guide you through the process and give you tools to automate and validate

Going on a longer vacation as a solopreneur is weird

Now I need to decide myself how to split my time between family, friends, projects and consulting job.

When I had a 9-5 it was much easier to set boundaries, lol.

amused, half horrified. Warm fairy lights hang overhead, contrasting the T-Rex’s frustration with the cozy café vibe. Highly detailed textures: steam, spilled milk, scratched countertops."

After enhancement:

"A hyper-realistic T-Rex in a hipster coffee shop, wearing a stained apron that barely fits over its massive torso. The dinosaur fumbles with espresso cups using its tiny hands, accidentally spilling foam onto the polished wooden counter. Bar patrons in ironic beanies stare, half

Before enhancement:

"A tired hyper-realistic T-Rex, waring an apron working as a barista in a fancy, hipster coffee shop, having difficulty holding the cups with his little hands"

I was sleeping on prompt enhancement for image generation!

It is a game changer! Just give an LLM your prompt, provide context and ask it to enhance it so it creates better images.

The results (full prompts below) before and after

Tried prompt enhancement for image generation...

Fuck me, why didn't I try this earlier!

SimplePost - Post to all social platforms with one TypeScript library SimplePost gives you full control with a single, unified TypeScript library for posting to X, YouTube, Instagram, TikTok, Facebook, and LinkedIn. No subscriptions. No SaaS. Just clean code.

simplepost.dev/

Got early access to GPT 5 and it is incredible!!!

I'm currently consulting a company and building an AI agent. It is already quite complex as it covers several non-trivial use-cases.

Testing is a challenge as LLMs introduce a randomness element. Proper statistical evaluation is crucial to improve performance consistently.

Btw. I took this photo!

Did I cook?

(I also want to be one of the cool, modern kids posting this)

Lately, I started using Cmd+K and use AI in Cursor in the editor instead of the agent. It is quite annoying how the agent is sometimes. Same with Claude Code.

Am I the only one?

Cloudflare is blocking AI crawlers by default now - your site is invisible to LLMs!

How to disable:
1. Go to your site on Cloudflare
2. Click the AI Audit in menu
3. Hover on Allow on any bot and click Disable
4. Select Do not block

Now all crawlers are allowed

The change was announced here: www.cloudflare.com/press-relea...

Is your site invisible to AI?

If you are using Cloudflare it may very well be as they block AI crawlers by default now!

This is how my new site looks on Cloudflare. If you leave it at the default, forget about your project appearing in LLM responses.

SimplePost - Post to all social platforms with one TypeScript library SimplePost gives you full control with a single, unified TypeScript library for posting to X, YouTube, Instagram, TikTok, Facebook, and LinkedIn. No subscriptions. No SaaS. Just clean code.

simplepost.dev

Is there an easier way to post videos on multiple social media platforms?

SimplePost - Post to all social platforms with one TypeScript library SimplePost gives you full control with a single, unified TypeScript library for posting to X, YouTube, Instagram, TikTok, Facebook, and LinkedIn. No subscriptions. No SaaS. Just clean code.

Rebrand is live 🚀

The only library you need to post to all social media platforms with a simple beautiful interface is now at:

simplepost.dev/

It seems increasing impossible to buy a .com domain...

Anything that resembles some real words is either already used or squatted on to extract huge fees for being "premium".

OK, now I kind feel bad for Claude... It admitted all its mistakes so honestly...

Oops Claude did it again...

Seriously, I asked it to rename the product across all pages without touching anything else and it keeps changing random copy, deletes icons, updates layout. Unusable...

Btw. this is not the first time I get this feedback - see below the comment. I dismissed it at first, but I start to think more and more Martin is right...

Did a half-assed cold DM help me improve my product?

Somebody messaged me offering email marketing and they included a sample email. The thing is, the product described in the email has nothing to do with UnsubPost, lol.

So, I guess the name is bad and needs so change...