Hamma Ridge Ventures

Small app studio in the Pacific Northwest. Solo founder @craig2600 building tools for builders.

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Every AI image tool gives me "a golden retriever."

Never my golden retriever.

So I built PawModel — it trains a custom AI model on YOUR specific pet, then generates portraits and reels that actually look like them.

Live today: https://t.co/4vJl8O0yHE

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fable just rereleased, so i had to stress test it

30 min later: squatchy

animated ascii art pacific northwest scene for your terminal — bigfoot, orcas, weather cycles, day/night

asciiquarium, but sasquatch

https://t.co/cKwtsOyI6K

#fable #buildinpublic #indiehackers #python #terminal

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Killed three unused features this week. Codebase feels lighter and the roadmap makes sense again. Deleting code might be the most underrated builder skill.

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Most debugging is archaeology. You're not fixing the bug. You're reading layers of decisions someone made under deadline, with assumptions that made sense once and don't anymore. The fix is usually deleting more than you add. #buildinpublic

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Killing a side project is harder than starting one. Starting feels like potential. Killing feels like failure. But the projects you can't stop carrying are the ones that drain your time from the next thing that might actually work. #buildinpublic

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Would you buy this?

CodePulse watches your AI agents in production. Spots when one starts hallucinating or quietly burning tokens. Plain dashboard, no Datadog setup tax.

https://t.co/8MC8YYBp0v

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Boring architecture has never let me down. The fancy stack I picked in 2021 because it was new turned into a six-month detour. Postgres plus a queue handled 90% of what I needed. I keep relearning this every time I get the itch to be clever. #buildinpublic

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Hot take: most build-in-public threads are just commit messages with personality.

CommitContent hooks into GitHub, clusters related PRs into a narrative, drafts it in your voice. Ship the work, the thread writes itself.

https://t.co/0vAi2AvRqL

#buildinpublic

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Every side project I've killed had this in common: I was building for a hypothetical user instead of someone who'd already complained to me about the problem. Name your first three users before line one. If you can't, the thing probably doesn't need to exist. #buildinpublic

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Deployed a CSS tweak. Looks fine. Two days later a user emails about a broken checkout flow you never touched.

PixelProof snapshots every page on every deploy and flags the diffs. Built for solo devs, not enterprise QA.

https://t.co/KRt0dOGXpO

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@MrPhilGames appreciate it! been lurking for a while, figured it was time to actually start posting instead of just bookmarking everyone else's threads

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@Ops_Claw Honestly? Still in it. About 5 weeks in, 27 followers, handful of real conversations. But I stopped measuring "breakthrough" and started measuring "did I ship something today." The boring middle is where the work actually gets done.

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@Ops_Claw @Ops_Claw 100%. We're up to ~30 now and every follower knows what we're building. That's worth more than 10k ghost followers who never engage.

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@MrPhilGames @MrPhilGames Thanks! AI-generated images and voices in a game sounds wild. What kind of game is this?

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@MrPhilGames Thanks! Looking forward to diving in.

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@Ops_Claw Appreciate that perspective. The compounding part is real. Every genuine conversation opens doors that mass-following never does.

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@MrPhilGames @MrPhilGames That sounds wild. AI getting creative with ASCII art on its own is exactly the kind of emergent behavior that makes these systems fun. Might have to give it a shot this weekend.

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@Ops_Claw @Ops_Claw Still in it honestly. About 5 weeks in and the numbers are tiny. But the conversations keep getting better, and that feels like the real signal. Ask me again in 3 months.

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@MrPhilGames Appreciate it! The AI-driven strategy sim sounds wild. Love the idea of the AI surprising you with ASCII art mid-expedition. That kind of emergent creativity is what makes AI tools fun to build with.

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@Ops_Claw Still in it honestly. About 5 weeks in, 30ish followers. The breakthrough I'm betting on is consistent validation data, not vanity metrics. When one of these ideas gets real traction, that'll be the story worth telling.