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I've been building other people's dreams as a freelancer for years. Now I finally decided to build my own!

Joined September 2026
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Hot take: vibe coders aren't the problem. Vibe deployers are. Write your code however you want. However... if you push to prod without reading the diff, that's on you, not the AI.
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Genuine question for founders: Has anyone actually gotten real users from ChatGPT or Perplexity recommending their product? Not theory. Actual signups. What did you do to get mentioned?
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A dev who understands every line but ships slowly. vs A dev who ships 10x faster with AI but barely understands the code. Who are you hiring for an app that handles payments?
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Spot the problem. ufw is on. Only 22, 80 and 443 are open. Totally safe, right? :)
docker-compose.yml with two services. app: image myapp:latest, ports 8080:8080, DATABASE_URL postgres://app:app@db:5432/app. db: image postgres:17, ports 5432:5432, POSTGRES_USER app, POSTGRES_PASSWORD app. Caption: fresh VPS, ufw enabled, only 22, 80 and 443 allowed.

ALT docker-compose.yml with two services. app: image myapp:latest, ports 8080:8080, DATABASE_URL postgres://app:app@db:5432/app. db: image postgres:17, ports 5432:5432, POSTGRES_USER app, POSTGRES_PASSWORD app. Caption: fresh VPS, ufw enabled, only 22, 80 and 443 allowed.

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Genuine question for founders: Has anyone actually gotten real users from ChatGPT or Perplexity recommending their product? Not theory. Actual signups. What did you do to get mentioned?
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Want to connect with people who are: - software engineers - DevOps folks - indie hackers - Linux nerds Let's connect!
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Unpopular opinion: AI didn't make coding easier. It made typing code easier. Reading it, testing it and owning it at 3am is exactly as hard as before.
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Launching a side project in 2019: 1 VPS, 1 database, 1 weekend Posted it on a forum and got your first 50 users Launching a side project in 2026:
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14 SaaS subscriptions before the first commit 3 AI agents arguing in your terminal a vibe coded clone of your app shipped before yours did and still 0 users lol
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Same function. Same behaviour. Which one are you approving in code review?
Two Go versions of func charge(o *Order) error. A uses three early-return if statements for nil order, total <= 0 and already paid, then returns pay(o). B uses a switch with the same three cases and a default that returns pay(o).

ALT Two Go versions of func charge(o *Order) error. A uses three early-return if statements for nil order, total <= 0 and already paid, then returns pay(o). B uses a switch with the same three cases and a default that returns pay(o).

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Genuine question. Postgres is free and open source. So what are people actually paying for with managed Postgres? Backups? Sleep? Both? lol
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Hot take: SEO isn't dead. It just has a second boss now. Google still sends the clicks. However... ChatGPT, Perplexity and Google's AI answers now decide who gets mentioned before anyone clicks anything. Are you optimizing for both or just one?
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Every AI coding agent is just a while loop calling an LLM. Except the expensive ones. Those are a while loop calling an LLM on a $200/month plan lol
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bro why lol
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why now lol
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If you are building any of these: - indie projects - mobile apps - games - devops tools Would love to connect!
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Is anyone actually using GrokBot or Dots?
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Your SaaS has 0 users. Which one are you shipping on? A or B. No fence sitting :)
Two cards. A, one boring server: 1 dedicated box, Go binary + Postgres, systemd + Caddy, nightly pg_dump backups, deploy with scp + restart. B, proper cloud native: Kubernetes cluster, 6 microservices, managed Postgres + Redis + queue, service mesh + Helm charts, deploy with CI/CD + GitOps.

ALT Two cards. A, one boring server: 1 dedicated box, Go binary + Postgres, systemd + Caddy, nightly pg_dump backups, deploy with scp + restart. B, proper cloud native: Kubernetes cluster, 6 microservices, managed Postgres + Redis + queue, service mesh + Helm charts, deploy with CI/CD + GitOps.

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12 things you can self-host on one cheap VPS instead of paying monthly for: 1. Analytics: Umami or Plausible 2. Uptime monitoring: Uptime Kuma 3. Newsletter: Listmonk 4. Deploys: Coolify (my favorite, basically your own Vercel) 5. Git: Forgejo 6. Passwords: Vaultwarden 7. Automations: n8n 8. Files: Nextcloud 9. Dashboards: Grafana 10. BI: Metabase 11. Blog: Ghost, or a static one on Cloudflare Pages for free 12. Error tracking: GlitchTip Bookmark it, you'll thank me later :)
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Genuine question for solo founders. Do you actually want a cofounder? Or is going solo the whole point? :)
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