Andy Berr

Depends on which definitions you're using, but I suppose both.
What are your thoughts on the matter?

Let's be practical, not everything matters to the same degree. But where you draw the line between what deserves your effort and what doesn't, matters greatly, and says a lot about your character.
#indiehackers #life #buildinpublic

@dannydebug.bsky.social welcome to the nice place on the internet!

Thanks for the recommendation! I'll give them a try. I was hoping to use Sentry but their Nuxt integration is on beta and not really working yet.

Running a fairly complex Nuxt app, even with NuxtHub, gave a lot of headaches. From libs with native implementations that wouldn't work, to hard to debug random errors, and lack of compatibility with APM services, and even just pushing the logs somewhere so they can be reviewed other than realtime.

Railway Railway is an infrastructure platform where you can provision infrastructure, develop with that infrastructure locally, and then deploy to the cloud.

Today I got tired of the unnecessary complications of using Cloudflare Workers and moved my app to railway.app. very happy with the result and expected costs.
Still using Cloudflare for what it's good at: DNS and CDN, but I've lost faith on Edge functions and on serverless in general.
#buildinpublic

Bootstrapping a personal development, self-improvement, and wellness platform.
Koisense.io

🔨 MVP is almost there but it always feels like it won't be impressive enough without adding more features 😅
I also have to update the website to reflect the customer segment pivot.

It's true so far, but I was thinking that actually in developed economies the population is aging a lot, skewing towards a lot of old people and fewer young ones.

This means most of the purchasing power will belong to the elderly so we'll have to design products for them!

We all change over time, it's inevitable, so we might as well be intentional about it.

Otherwise you become a victim of whatever life throws at you.

All of them! Especially if all those kinds are abstracted away behind a nice API

He also said my profile pic looks cartoony 😅

I had to remind him that branding and style also change across generations.

I did a usability test for my #MVP with my father. He was happy because he said no one is building products with people over 60 in mind. They don't care if older people figure them out or not.

Do you agree? Is it true or do older people just tend to feel left behind?

#buildinpublic #saas #UX

Upserts are pretty awesome

Follow the journey of these indie hackers 🚀

Hello 👋
Would love to join. I'm building koisense.io in public right now

How many stars are there in the night sky? ⭐️

Even a #solopreneur needs some company 🐈

#cat #code #buildinpublic #indiehackers

Another great starter pack here

I've been delaying the choice actually, and focused on other things in the meantime.
I'm maybe gonna go with Resend. I looked into Bento which sounded nice but I'm not very satisfied with their UX and their emails also were giving me alerts on Gmail (hiding the images and such).

🤣🤣🤣
Business model innovations happening here live on Bluesky. Loving it.

Sounds awesome, thanks for the details.

Btw I tried Brevo a while back and when creating my account, their own confirmation email landed in my spam folder (in Gmail). I assumed my deliverability using them would be even worse so I decided against them.

Is there something I didn't consider maybe?

Haha indeed, but I have mentored others and one by one I've learned things that work for specific types of people, situations, mental patterns, challenges, etc.
I try to extract the most reusable tools and put that into the app in some way.

I guess I could monitor their retention rate to see if they continue to use it after I stop bugging them.

Or should I continue bugging them so they give me feedback? 😂

Interesting. So what email provider are you using? Doesn't it support automated mail sequences by itself? And to trigger the transactional emails what do you do? Call some endpoint in n8n? I'm just not familiar with how it works.

Syncing newsletter subs and CRM data and such sounds great 👍

How do I balance indie hacking and wellness?

I don't! I merge them into one thing!

#indiehackers #buildinpublic #wellness

3. That translates into developing awareness and researching and figuring out what works for myself and each other person. Then putting all that into practice through an app that first helps me and then hopefully helps others.
Things build on top of each other for maximizing the impact.

2. Only if we take care of ourselves can we then have a positive impact on the world around us. Indie hacking for me is about creating value and making a positive impact in people's lives. I can only do it if I take care of my needs responsibly and strive to grow every day.

1. Living well (a good, healthy, and satisfying life) is no easy feat, but I believe we do have a moral responsibility to be well and to be the best version of ourselves, to minimize unnecessary suffering. Ours and of those around us.

Hey Guido. Nice to meet you too. I'll try to explain a bit my view here: