Alex Codreanu

Founder of d4chess | Programmer & Competitive Chess Player
Road to $100 MRR: $20 → $100 📈

[Alex Codreanu @AlexCodreanu9]

I’m building d4chess, AI prep for real tournament players.
Lifelong competitive player → now building the tool I wish I had growing up.
Sharing the entire journey here.

[Alex Codreanu @AlexCodreanu9]

@matt_gray_ Yeah calm is a choice you make constantly, not a default state.

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@tibo_maker That's awesome, congrats! How long did it take to take it here?

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@1Umairshaikh Not having enough time to do everything. Always feels like I'm choosing between important things instead of doing them all.

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@Olivia0945 Yeah and also knowing when to sacrifice. Sometimes giving up something now wins later.

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@KevinNaughtonJr Crazy how people don't realize tons of lines of code doesn't mean the LLM is smart. Fewer lines that actually work is way better.

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@SherryYanJiang I mean vibe coding works until you have to scale or maintain it. Then you realize structure and planning actually matter.

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@craigzLiszt Yeah they actually pay and don't haggle over price.

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@TheGeorgePu Yeah took me a while to realize smooth progress is actually the goal.

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@tibo_maker This is crazy but also makes sense. If you're not building with AI right now, it feels like you're falling behind even if you're doing well.

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@craigzLiszt Sometimes you just gotta start and figure it out as you go.

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@oranahh lol you're not wrong though. Everyone camps big accounts for visibility, once they're big they can say anything and still grow, then you become the big account and the cycle repeats. Engagement farming all the way down.

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@SahilBloom Yeah if you're not cringing at past you, you're probably not growing.

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@KevinNaughtonJr I'll check it out. Love the name from Greek mythology.

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Seeing people reply 100+ and post 10+ times a day for 3K impressions.

Volume isn't the move if that's your only goal.

One good thought beats fifty mediocre ones.

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@KevinSzabo14 That's a wild journey. Curious about the army part, what made you join at 16?

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@pmitu That sounds perfect honestly. Good way to start the year

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@craigzLiszt If your friends are all AI, you must be really good at prompt engineering relationships.

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@TheGeorgePu Yeah the hardest part is saying no to ideas that are cool but don't actually matter.

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@tailopez If it won't matter in 5 years, don't stress about it for 5 minutes.