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@ViviBabyApp best baby tracker on the market 🐣 @StropheReader read books with on-device voice📚 @BasaltApp file-based budgeting 💰

[Tom 🚢 @BuildWithTom]

having a kid while building solo teaches you the real roadmap. everything takes 3x longer, and a 20 minute nap window is your new sprint planning.

[Tom 🚢 @BuildWithTom]

consulting pays for the indie apps. the indie apps keep me sane enough to consult. it's not a portfolio, it's a closed ecosystem of spite and invoices.

[Tom 🚢 @BuildWithTom]

every browser wants to be an operating system now. i want mine to open the page, shut up, and use less memory than the page itself.

[Tom 🚢 @BuildWithTom]

consulting pays for the indie apps. the indie apps keep me sane enough to consult. it's not a portfolio, it's a closed ecosystem of spite and invoices.

[Tom 🚢 @BuildWithTom]

the 30% cut wouldn't sting if the store actually sold. paying commission to a mall that hides your shop in the basement is the part nobody defends out loud.

[Tom 🚢 @BuildWithTom]

having a kid while building solo teaches you the real roadmap. everything takes 3x longer, and a 20 minute nap window is your new sprint planning.

[Tom 🚢 @BuildWithTom]

if an app phones home before it shows me my own data, that order of operations tells me who the real customer is.

[Tom 🚢 @BuildWithTom]

every browser wants to be an operating system now. i want mine to open the page, shut up, and use less memory than the page itself.

[Tom 🚢 @BuildWithTom]

@arcinternet If you wouldn’t be cowards you would open source it and become champions but nah muh capitalism muh VC funding amirite?

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@arcinternet You guys suck

[Tom 🚢 @BuildWithTom]

Arc was such a great browser made by the worse vultures to ever exist in the valley. Good riddance. And whatever the browser company will come up next (like Dia) I swear to never even try. Neither should you.

I’ve built my own browser (lookup bosk on GitHub)

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the most private database is the one that was never built. every server feature i skip is a breach that can't happen.

[Tom 🚢 @BuildWithTom]

the 30% cut wouldn't sting if the store actually sold. paying commission to a mall that hides your shop in the basement is the part nobody defends out loud.

[Tom 🚢 @BuildWithTom]

deleting your account should delete your data. if there's a 90 day retention window and a support ticket involved, you never owned it. you rented it.

[Tom 🚢 @BuildWithTom]

if an app phones home before it shows me my own data, that order of operations tells me who the real customer is.

[Tom 🚢 @BuildWithTom]

i trust a file format i can open in 20 years more than a company i can email today. companies get acquired. text files don't.

[Tom 🚢 @BuildWithTom]

the most private database is the one that was never built. every server feature i skip is a breach that can't happen.

[Tom 🚢 @BuildWithTom]

money apps love the word insights. nobody needs insights. they need to know rent clears thursday and the card gets paid friday. dates and amounts, that's the product.

[Tom 🚢 @BuildWithTom]

deleting your account should delete your data. if there's a 90 day retention window and a support ticket involved, you never owned it. you rented it.

[Tom 🚢 @BuildWithTom]

paying a monthly subscription to an app that's supposed to stop you from bleeding money will never stop being funny to me.