Engineering Manager | Indie Hacker | Mentor

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Joined August 2010
Trace MessagePack bytes, round-trip JavaScript data, and decide when binary serialization is worth its integration cost. gec.dev/articles/messagepack…
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If everything has to go perfectly on launch day for your product to work, maybe the product isn’t as good as you think. Is it value—or hype?
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What feature made it into your product simply because AI made the implementation easy?
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Vibe coders, how much are you spending on tech each month? Curious about subscriptions, hosting, and everything in between.
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The most useful AI skill right now is knowing when not to use it. Need to rename a variable or fix a typo? Just do it. Save AI for the work that actually eats your week.
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Being a solo founder is fun until you remember: $0 MRR. $0 salary. No backup plan.
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Do you trust ai with direct prod database access? I never get it to write rows directly, but it's pretty handy to have read access for debugging. I wonder how people ensure that PII is never accessed by AI...?
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Your first business is an education in creating value. Revenue may come later; the working model you build along the way is the payoff.
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Saying no to a feature request is harder than building it. Yes feels like progress. No feels like leaving money on the table. What feature request did you turn down this month?
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Name an app with 0 haters I'll go first: Gmail. It's hard to hate something that good that is free!
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Maybe your product isn’t stuck—it just hasn’t reached the right people. If nobody saw it, you haven’t tested the product—you’ve tested your distribution.
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Andrei Gec retweeted
I thought leaving you would make things better but I only miss you more
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Would you rather have 10000 free users or 10 paying users on your app?
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Bit of a gap of mine, but how important actually is DR? Have people seen substantial Seo increases with higher DR?
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In my opinion mobile agentic development might make the laptop optional sooner than we think. Curious how people are actually working today: Are you running agents / coding workflows from your phone? Or is serious agentic dev still basically 100% desktop/laptop? Whats your setup?
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Build and traverse linked lists, reason about pointer updates and complexity, and choose the right structure for your workload. gec.dev/articles/linked-list…
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Does the idea of a billionaire unicorn (a billion dollar company owned by one person) make you excited, angry or scared?
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How often do people do collabs on X, eg trading quote posts etc? Is it a regular thing for you? What was your first memorable Collab?
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Apart from sharing on socials like X, where do people submit their sites for discovery? Directories? Directories of directories? Feels like there is a whole new category of sites like outbid . lol that also are potential targets to improve reach 🤔
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