Clay

[Clay @Claysinjr]

New (old to few) meta is FL sports pick pages

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@SullyOmarr All the time

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most open source apps are actually good, they're just built for people who already know how to set them up.. thats the whole reason im building openctrl

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not every app needs to be a subscription.. some of them just need to work

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@shannholmberg Still stuck on number 1 over here 😂

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@nishantmodak pagerduty wrapper is going on a shirt lol

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@utkarsh1446 yeah thats been the lesson all week

[Clay @Claysinjr]

build in public, day 4

40 followers. +1 again lol. slow but its going the right way

best thing i posted today was literally about how hard it is to post the days where nothing happens. 17 views, 2 replies. my baserow vs airtable post got 10

same pattern keeps showing up.. the honest build stuff beats everything else i post

tomorrows tuesday, back at it

if youre building something too, say hi #buildinpublic

[Clay @Claysinjr]

the replies under this are about to be a goldmine 🍿 https://t.co/ahuhjWtPqE

[claire vo 🖤 @clairevo]

The AI slop replies are getting worse by the day, so let's see how many I can lure with keyword stuffing.

I had Claude Code build a skill so Grok Bot can message Muse and Instinct over MCP, and now my standups are run by a houseplant running Cursor. Codex reviews every PR by licking the screen. What's the first workflow you'd automate?

[Clay @Claysinjr]

ok so day 7 of trying to grow on X, a full week lol

• 40 followers
• best reply i got today was a night shift forklift guy saying the slow days count too

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@kadavy Most days the vibes are just me yelling at it

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@_ScottCondron a folder called final_final_v7 lol

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@master_jpma nobody wants it but the landing page is gorgeous 😂

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@Nightshiftape respect, night shift people get it more than anyone

[Clay @Claysinjr]

the hardest part of building in public is posting the days where nothing happened

[Clay @Claysinjr]

sources (checked nov 2):
airtable: https://t.co/Q2WFVcvuX9
baserow: https://t.co/p0xuk1bCLE

it's on openctrl, the thing I'm building: https://t.co/iGzvuYe5uS

[Clay @Claysinjr]

alternative of the day: baserow instead of airtable ($24/seat/mo)

same idea, a spreadsheet that's actually a database.. baserow's paid plan is half the price at $12

better:
- free plan has grid, form + gallery views + 65+ templates
- paid is $12/user/mo vs airtable's $24
- open source core, you can host your own copy

worse:
- baserow counts rows per workspace, airtable counts per base. 3,000 free rows goes fast
- AI features are paid only

if you're paying monthly for a form on top of a table look at this..

[Clay @Claysinjr]

even the AI got tired of setting up kafka 😂 https://t.co/FPB8Ym026g

[samir sawarkar @samir_sawarkar]

I watched Claude Code and Cursor scaffold 30 event-driven backends this month

not once has an AI agent suggested Kafka or RabbitMQ

It uses Postgres LISTEN/NOTIFY for everything

I wonder why

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@olanetsoft Okay okay I'm posting the ugly version today

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@yatharthmann Lo-fi beats are part of the stack now