Andrea D'Ambrosio

Dude, what's going on with Private Mail? I'm spending the whole afternoon setting up my email

I want to be honest about why I disappeared Building something alone means there are periods where you have to go quiet not because you're failing but because the work demands everything The last few months were that kind of period I was heads down on DuckCode A coding agent that runs in the terminal Multi-model, MCP native, three distinct modes But more than the features I was trying to answer a question that kept bothering me: Why do most AI coding tools make you worse at your job over time? You stop thinking about the problem You start thinking about the prompt You become a reviewer of AI output instead of an engineer who solves problems I've felt this myself And I didn't want to build another tool that does this So DuckCode has Duck mode It's a rubber-duck debugging protocol where the AI doesn't write a single line of code Instead it interviews you asks you the right questions in the right order and guides you to the answer yourself At the end you have a spec document saved in your project And more importantly you understand your own code better than before This is the thing I'm most proud of Not the build mode Not the MCP integrations Not the multi-model support The mode that makes you a better developer by refusing to do the work for you I'm back And for the first time in a while I'm building something I'd use every single day myself More tomorrow

I'll fail a thousand times and start over a thousand times. I've built so many products that have failed, do you really think I'll stop?!

Most founders launch too early or too late. The real skill is knowing which product needs speed and which needs patience.

Every question unanswered at midnight is revenue walking away. You're not losing customers to competitors. You're losing them to silence.

Every AI clipper can find moments. Few can predict what your audience will actually click. That’s the difference

Question for video creators: When you repurpose long videos into short clips what's the biggest quality problem you run into? A) Wrong moments selected, nothing actually viral B) Framing looks bad, face cut off or too zoomed C) Subtitles out of sync with the speech D) Too few clips generated from a long video Asking because every one of these had a dedicated fix shipped in the last 7 days

Today I published a full breakdown of the two biggest TuBoost updates v1.14 - nine cinematic visual profiles, one per content type v1.15 - multi-signal quality engine, no more arbitrary clip cap Not a feature announcement The real story: why generic rendering was always the wrong approach how five quality signals together catch what one signal misses what it actually took to build a system that returns the clips a video deserves If you create video content or build AI products this is the most technical thing I've written about TuBoost

Question for business owners: How long did it take to set up your current customer support system? A) Few hours, was surprisingly simple B) Few days including training and testing C) Weeks, involved developers and integrations D) Still not properly set up honestly Asking because the answer usually explains why most businesses have support that doesn't actually work

Sunday night Two products live Both moving forward Both imperfect Both real TuBoost: creators are using it daily Clips being generated from podcasts, vlogs, interviews Real content going live on real channels Cassandra: Telegram integration in development Product Hunt launch waiting on that one feature Because launching twice on the same product means the second launch has to mean something I could launch Cassandra on Product Hunt tomorrow But the right moment is when the product is exactly what I want people to find when they search for it six months from now Patience is a product decision too Sunday done New week tomorrow Night

The businesses losing customers aren't losing them at 2pm They're losing them at 11pm When someone lands on the site Has one question And nobody is there to answer it The question doesn't go away The customer does This is the problem Cassandra was built for Not to replace human support To cover the hours humans don't

Most AI clipping tools stop at level 2 Pick the moments Export the clips Done TuBoost is at level 4 now And the distance between level 2 and level 4 is the difference between clips that exist and clips that actually perform Sunday morning