David Balderston

AI Engineering and Automation
Swingdraw App: @Cloud9_WIN/@ghostbeginners/@TryGhost

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Automation opportunities are all around, yet usually go unseen. As someone who always looks to automate, and has created many personal and enterprise automations, I wrote about how to find those opportunities and become more aware of what should be automated and how.

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https://t.co/xZRgQHiI30

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@thsottiaux @OpenAIDevs

Getting a 429 error: exceeded retry limit, last status: 429 Too Many Requests

Feedback ID: 019e8b36-7d2d-7560-83d3-eb9b89f90357

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@Dimillian Not for me, don't usually at files since codex can usually just figure it out.

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@ImNotAV1rus @levelsio Good luck! Have definitely had a lot of the same feelings as you shared.

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This was my best month on the app store, and things seem to be steadily continue to go up. Can't believe how well Local Photo Upscaler is doing.

May:
⛳ SwingDraw: $288
📷 Local Photo Upscaler: $129
🎤 Local AI Notetaker: $18
🐞 WildFind: $0
🥗 Fodmap Living: $0

I still am awful at marketing, but spent a ton of time this month focusing on app store optimization. Adjusting the names, recreating the app store images, creating dedicated websites and trying to get them ranking in google, localizing into a bunch of languages, etc.

Have been learning a lot in that respect and creating good automated workflows to help me with it for all future updates and new apps.

I also added 3 more local models to the photo upscaler which seems to have been helping a lot.

I have multiple more apps getting ready to cross the finish line, all continuing with my local model theme to help people keep things on device/private.

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Links to released apps:

📝 Local Voice Notes (changes pending apple review): https://t.co/ZewijDOwuF
⛳ SwingDraw: https://t.co/qBjnmr9sjh
📸 Local Photo Upscaler: https://t.co/89pcfxZwwb

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Still have the rest of the day to finish out, but my new workflow has allowed to have quite a productive week:

📝 Local Voice Note: Added a new ask-this-note feature and completely revamped the onboarding, recording UI, and app store screenshots

⛳ SwingDraw: Updated the App Store copy, fixed a drawing regression, and created a new training dataset and trained a new vision model for detecting the clubhead locally on the phone.

📸 Local Photo Upscaler: ASO, added new face restore model, site/SEO

🛠️ On-Prem AI Installer: Built a Mac/Windows installer to allow one click installation for UCSD users to hook into local infrastructure using a custom t3code fork, opencode, and custom configs/skills.

🔬 Automated Autoresearch Bench: Started the expansion of an existing benchmark I made to test how well our local models were at performing development related tasks using autoresearch style workflows to further test how well on-prem models before deciding to roll them out.

📖 Local Bible AI: New app using local AI as well. Did UI overhaul and App Store release prep. Hoping to release submit to App Store tonight.

⚾ BaseballDraw (unreleased): More solid detection of the start and end of pitches.

🧠 Hivemind: Built a sync'd brain between multiple computer's codex sessions along with goals, project history, documentation, etc. (more info on why in thread, this has been a game changer this week)

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All work happening fully inside the Codex app (@OpenAIDevs @thsottiaux @ajambrosino)

Post on why I've been moving out of creating and using new tools to just pull everything inside of Codex:

https://t.co/2tBIG4Z7qt

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Over the years I've built dedicated desktop applications, apps for my phone, and oh so many dashboards to help streamline work. (Automated jira tickets, task trackers, llm morning summaries, etc etc)

All have been great, but I've realized recently, that the mental debt of having to switch apps or tabs out of Codex actually makes me use it less.

Needing to go to discord to talk to my openclaw, keep my desktop app running or needing to reopen it to see my daily summaries and see/make my tasks, swap tabs to my informational dashboards, etc all just started to feel more like a burden when I was getting so much other work done in Codex.

So, I have been slowly migrating everything to Codex. My automated tasks are now Codex automations, every Codex chat and work projects into Obsidian graph with daily summaries, access to jira and other platforms via api, ability to pull summaries of data instead of needing the web dashboards, setting weekly goals, etc.

Pulling everything into a single app has been amazing for being able to stay focused and in one place. I would tend to get side tracked as I jumped around and now I can stay in one place. Way less 'ok need to open tab, *hit browser and it has twitter open*, 'oooo what is that person up saying about their new agent? wait what was I doing?'

And another awesome and unexpected benefit has been that now, from any folder or thread, it can go pull context out of the Obsidian and other automations to better understand the goal or the why/how its interlinked of what I am trying to do and it has actually been performing better.

Who knows when something better will come up, prob next month, but this has been great for me for helping to stay focused and actually getting quality stuff shipped. @OpenAIDevs

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@thsottiaux Can't reorder pinned projects. Can only reorder ones that aren't pinned.

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First time I've seen this in 2 months on the $200/mo plan

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@ajambrosino You should add an api for this graph or some other way way people can embed it on their personal website or whatever.

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Over the years I've built dedicated desktop applications, apps for my phone, and oh so many dashboards to help streamline work. (Automated jira tickets, task trackers, llm morning summaries, etc etc)

All have been great, but I've realized recently, that the mental debt of having to switch apps or tabs out of Codex actually makes me use it less.

Needing to go to discord to talk to my openclaw, keep my desktop app running or needing to reopen it to see my daily summaries and see/make my tasks, swap tabs to my informational dashboards, etc all just started to feel more like a burden when I was getting so much other work done in Codex.

So, I have been slowly migrating everything to Codex. My automated tasks are now Codex automations, every Codex chat and work projects into Obsidian graph with daily summaries, access to jira and other platforms via api, ability to pull summaries of data instead of needing the web dashboards, setting weekly goals, etc.

Pulling everything into a single app has been amazing for being able to stay focused and in one place. I would tend to get side tracked as I jumped around and now I can stay in one place. Way less 'ok need to open tab, *hit browser and it has twitter open*, 'oooo what is that person up saying about their new agent? wait what was I doing?'

And another awesome and unexpected benefit has been that now, from any folder or thread, it can go pull context out of the Obsidian and other automations to better understand the goal or the why/how its interlinked of what I am trying to do and it has actually been performing better.

Who knows when something better will come up, prob next month, but this has been great for me for helping to stay focused and actually getting quality stuff shipped. @OpenAIDevs

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@ajambrosino Says Feb 12 🙂

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@thsottiaux @Dimillian hey, it would be really nice if codex could do its terminal work in the app in a visible way so we can both be using the same terminal session and I can see what its doing in a similar way to the browser integration.

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Theres a chance I break $400 this month 👀

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Missed March Update, but March continued to grow from Feb up $46 to $252, and then April held right around the same amount. Have put a ton of work into their own dedicated sites and app store optimization

March:
⛳ SwingDraw: $190
📷 Local Upscale: $41
🎤 Local Voice Notes: $20
🐞 WildFind: $0
🥗 Fodmap Living: $0

April:
⛳ SwingDraw: $193
📷 Local Upscale: $50
🎤 Local Voice Notes: $0
🐞 WildFind: $0
🥗 Fodmap Living: $0

Launched version 3 of SwingDraw last month, hoping that also helps continue to push that app along with the warmer weather and more people golfing over the summer.

Local Upscale is kind of shockingly doing well. It didn't get a sale for months, and now is getting a few every month. Might have to give that app some more love.

Also, have 2 more apps in the works, one should release this month, and hopefully the other as well, but maybe next month.

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@joshernstrom dot net, its dot com

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@Dimillian @AGulev I've been having this same issue. Connects on opening of the app, then after first message send, it either will disconnect immediately and message wont send, or it will give half of its response and then disconnect.

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The number of times a day I click on the wrong blue and white icon...

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My first Codex /goal is still running from yesterday. This is either going to end so amazing, or be the biggest pile of slop haha. Its to the point I'm not sure if I should stop it and its just looping, or just let it go. At least usage resets in 12 hours, so yolo.