Jeff the Bubble Dev

Thoughts and lessons learned building and marketing my #nocode @bubble #saas app @2long2watch

#buildinpublic

[Jeff the Bubble Dev @BubbleIODev]

After roughly 2 years of working to create an app that helps me learn faster with YouTube, I'm happy to finally launch https://t.co/OYenyDV1xq.

If you have a long youtube video and you want to skim it's contents quickly, give it a try.

[Jeff the Bubble Dev @BubbleIODev]

@ionleu https://t.co/OYenyDV1xq

Summarize, Transcibe, Bookmark, Chat with YouTube Videos.

[Jeff the Bubble Dev @BubbleIODev]

@OpenAI can really help developers out giving us prompts they know will return errors, so we can test against them.

[Jeff the Bubble Dev @BubbleIODev]

I have a suspicion a lot apps that depend on OpenAI don't gracefully handle the situation when OpenAI refused to fulfill their request.

[Jeff the Bubble Dev @BubbleIODev]

Separating the @bubble app from your marketing site lets you make marketing updates and run marketing A/B tests without disrupting your app’s user experience.

Imagine pushing a new campaign or tweaking landing page copy—if both sites share a domain, every active user might be forced to refresh, interrupting their workflow.

[Jeff the Bubble Dev @BubbleIODev]

When building a @bubble app, one pro tip is to host your app on its own domain separate from your marketing site.

[Jeff the Bubble Dev @BubbleIODev]

Working with LLMs makes you really good at defensive programming.

The amount of times the LLM doesn't give me what I want is wild.

[Jeff the Bubble Dev @BubbleIODev]

The hard thing about being a solo developer is all the skills you need to stack

[Jeff the Bubble Dev @BubbleIODev]

I love LLMs but the non-deterministic nature of LLM’s is a real pain.

[Jeff the Bubble Dev @BubbleIODev]

According to ChatGPT, the response_format parameter is a strong hint, but it doesn't absolutely guarantee that the model's output will be strict, valid JSON.

https://t.co/u5MBJGqfED

[Jeff the Bubble Dev @BubbleIODev]

@bestbubbledev @gumroad From what I see, yes.

Specifically PDFs though.

Not all digital products.

[Jeff the Bubble Dev @BubbleIODev]

@faraz0x I believe you should build a product you’re excited to talk about.

This will build the audience in turn.

[Jeff the Bubble Dev @BubbleIODev]

@ginacostag_ This is exactly why I created a chrome extension for https://t.co/OYenyDV1xq

To save time learning from YouTube videos.

[Jeff the Bubble Dev @BubbleIODev]

@SeifBassam People don’t realize that we all reach the same conclusion about business around the same time.

That’s why so many start ups do the same thing.

We’ve all read similar articles and watched similar youtube videos.

[Jeff the Bubble Dev @BubbleIODev]

@SeifBassam During my last start up I had tons of emails of people saying they had the same idea as me.

The difference was, I took the next step and started executing.

[Jeff the Bubble Dev @BubbleIODev]

@NickADobos If I make it to the end, which is rare, I've had an epic coding day.

[Jeff the Bubble Dev @BubbleIODev]

@NickADobos I also code to this :

https://t.co/xmddPXEmrS

[Jeff the Bubble Dev @BubbleIODev]

@dr_cintas Don't forget "model context protocol". :-)

That could have larger implications than any of the others on your list.

[Jeff the Bubble Dev @BubbleIODev]

@enggirlfriend @2long2watch I don't know about everyone else, but I'm getting subscription fatigue and I can't be alone.

Whereas if someone says, he pay me $199 once, I usually do it.

[Jeff the Bubble Dev @BubbleIODev]

@enggirlfriend @2long2watch Also, I think having a larger 1-time fee will probably bring in more revenue than charging $7/month and hoping the user sticks around long enough to be profitable.