Ian Cheshire

18 | CTO @ | traveling the world | scaling to $1m/mo

[Ian Cheshire @IanTheDev]

When I first started out with #typescript coming from #javascript, I went right into making stuff instead of reading the handbook - but there are a few things I wish I had known.

For others who are too lazy to read the handbook, here are typescript basics summed up 👇

[Ian Cheshire @IanTheDev]

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[CrowdReply @Crowdreply_io]

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[StratusAI @StratusWorld]

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[Dan Gray @credistick]

It's hard to find a better example of what venture capital should look like than @1517fund.

@DStrachman and @William_Blake have been the first believers in many of the greatest and gnarliest tech success stories. The source of their power is a philosophical rejection of lazy thinking.

Essentially, if the greatest entrepreneurs are outliers, patterns and credentials must therefore be irrelevant.

It sounds simple, but living that principle as an investor means sailing into headwinds. There's no simple narrative to sell LPs, the future is never clear, capital coordination is difficult, and your capacity cannot endlessly scale.

It's the harder path, but it's the only true path to greatness as a venture capitalist. Success is extremely idiosyncratic; there are no shortcuts.

You might reach this conclusion by studying the library of research on venture capital. Or, you could reach it much more quickly by just meeting a few of 1517's portfolio companies.

[Ian Cheshire @IanTheDev]

There’s 5 days left to apply to SPARC

It’s a free summer camp in the Bay Area. I loved it and I met so many amazing people here

https://t.co/D7Bad7n3Il

[Ian Cheshire @IanTheDev]

If you’re struggling with startup ideas, just pay more attention

What problems do you see around you? Is there someone who would pay to have their problem solved?

And look outside of the most obvious things. Lots of developers make developer tools, so it’s a bit more saturated. Do you know a roofer, a construction worker, or a barber? There you might find something more unique

[Ian Cheshire @IanTheDev]

@seraleev Hope he has fun! For Lua I’m not sure

[Ian Cheshire @IanTheDev]

@michaelgold3n https://t.co/gzViE1fGQ2

[Ian Cheshire @IanTheDev]

Day 2 of scaling

- my cousin came to visit me in Kenya so we went on a little safari
- came home and fixed a few issues with the software
- scheduled some interviews for tomorrow

[Ian Cheshire @IanTheDev]

@simonecanciello genius

any other apps you've seen it work for?

[Ian Cheshire @IanTheDev]

@alexoakdev that'd be pretty cool

imagine all the tokens tho 😭

[Ian Cheshire @IanTheDev]

Does product hunt actually convert?

[Ian Cheshire @IanTheDev]

there's a hidden feature in stripe that can cut your dispute rate by over 80%

dispute prevention - enroll with visa and mastercard to automatically refund disputes right before they officially become "disputes"

if you refund a disputed payment, it still counted towards the dispute rate. this is the only way to ensure that disputes never happen.

[Ian Cheshire @IanTheDev]

@divvsaxena It’s French toast lol

[Ian Cheshire @IanTheDev]

Day 1 of scaling my SaaS from $45k to $1m/mo

- pr review
- made a scraper for property data
- made some intros to help a user
- gym
- went to a cafe at 8pm to keep working

[Ian Cheshire @IanTheDev]

easier than solving the merge conflicts 😂

[Ian Cheshire @IanTheDev]

we offered our churned users to meet with us for feedback and get 2 months free

somehow everyone I talk to loves our software and can't afford it 😬

[Ian Cheshire @IanTheDev]

Someone posted on upwork to hire a developer to copy our software

Go apply ->

[Ian Cheshire @IanTheDev]

I meant just knowing how to recreate a bug

sometimes there's errors that pop up every now and again and I don't know why so ofc I can't give those to cursor

but the debug mode starts some local server, then creates logs in my code that sends info to cursor's local server, so cursor sees what happened when I run the app

[Ian Cheshire @IanTheDev]

cursor's new debug mode is insane

now that it can see its own console logs and know what actually happened when the code ran, it can solve most bugs on its own. all I have to do is recreate the bug and it can solve it

[Ian Cheshire @IanTheDev]

nice

there is not enough padding and whitespace

the top-left share button is too complex, if it's a small icon, use a simple icon such as the arrow only without the box, or the simplified arrow and box such as iOS or on X

the CTA to "visit list" isn't super clear - am I visiting my list? adding to my visit list? something else? call it "Add to list" or "Add to visit list"

100+ visit location - no idea what this means

$5,000 day - not clear what this is either?