Built a holographic Jarvis-style assistant UI — wanted to see if an interface could feel like it belongs in a lab, not a chat window.
No product behind it yet, just a demo of what's possible when the UI is the flex.
Would you use an assistant that looks like this?
X flagged my account for "inauthentic behavior" a couple days ago, best guess is normal reply activity got misread as automated.
Turns out it's a known, documented bug, X's own team has confirmed it's hit real accounts by the thousands.
Not quitting. Just waiting it out.
@marclou VC or bootstrapped is the split that actually matters, funding source shapes way more of a company's behavior than most metrics people obsess over. Curious to see the data once enough people fill it in, been suspecting the profitability gap is real for a while.
Kept breaking MindGate this week, every core fix broke something else.
New rule: once the base is solid, nothing touches it. New behavior goes through adapters instead.
Finally clicked for AI-assisted building.
Built a mini MindGate last night called Gauntlet. Locks me out of editing hosts, stubborn on purpose. Only way out is an uninstall that triggers a 90 min wait, with a cancel command if I change my mind.
Took 30 min. Best tools are the ones you build to fight yourself 😂
@MONSTER13LIAR Love this. Hackathon projects, startups, open source. that's a pretty fun mix to follow along with. Good luck with Day 0, looking forward to seeing what you build.
@CodeWithTamara Honestly, I think the more you share the actual struggles and failures, the more meaningful build in public becomes. Otherwise it's just another highlight reel
@elgermerlo Replying to complaints about the exact problem you solve is underrated. Been doing something close to that on X lately, and it works better than posting into the void because the person's already halfway convinced they need a fix, you're just showing up at the right moment.
Two things in flight today: MindGate's landing page, the last piece before it's a real shippable project, and finally learning GSAP's ScrollTrigger properly for the portfolio.
Building is rarely one thing at a time.
@DAIEvolutionHub The chatbot bolt-on thing is real. Feels like half of "AI features" right now are a chat box sitting on top of the same manual workflow, not actually removing a step. The ones that matter are the ones quietly doing a task end to end, not the ones you have to talk to.
@ArnaudBelingaCX Business has always been hard is the part that sticks. The excuse just changes shape, right now it's AI, before that it was something else. Most it's harder now complaints are really just people wanting an easier version of hard.
@trying_to_exits Finding an idea is hard, but you can always come up with another one. Getting that first person to actually trust you enough to pay is a whole different problem.
@GohilHardy The "have you tried marketing?" part hurts 😂
You can spend months making the product better when the real problem is that nobody knows it exists.
@msyed_ The "new colleague with access to your browser" comparison is probably the most accurate way to think about this.
The moment AI can actually take actions, not just give you answers, permission and trust become way bigger problems.
Fixed a seam bug on my portfolio last night. Project cards had a hairline gap when scrolling with arrow keys.
The fix, one line of CSS:
style={{ background: "var(--portfolio-bg)", outline: "1px solid transparent", overflow: "hidden" }}
Small fix, big relief. Video tomorrow.
@marclou I think the skills aren't becoming useless, they're becoming leverage.
Knowing how to build still matters. It's just that now one person who knows what to build can move 10x faster than before.
The hard part is figuring out what deserves to exist in the first place.
@craydotpro Building in public really does make the journey feel different. You're not just building a product anymore, you're building a story people can follow. Love seeing this.
@michabbb The anti AI slop detectors are such a good idea. AI can generate a frontend that technically works in seconds, but getting it to stop looking like every other AI-generated website is a completely different problem. Love the deterministic approach here.