Ravi Anand

Building @propsoch | Full-stack dev. Frontend soul. Always building.

[Ravi Anand @RaviAnand14]

Attention spans are shrinking, so I am building something that keeps up with the never ending grind that creators face.

#WebDev #buildinpublic #problem #React #GenAI #tool #ArtificialIntelligence

[Ravi Anand @RaviAnand14]

Been working on a small prototype that turns YT transcripts, or long text, into tweet-sized insights.

If you create long-form content, would this actually save you time or nah?
Attached the UI mock for reference.

Curious to hear your thoughts.
#buildinpublic #SaaSideas

[Ravi Anand @RaviAnand14]

@jsmasterypro Wouldn't that mean, controlling the sources it gets information from and essentially limiting it's scope ?

[Ravi Anand @RaviAnand14]

@mehulmpt Most people don't have the money to buy a Claude pro sub or a 5 dollar VPS to experiment. Same reason why people invest in SIPs but not equity. Risk taking is a kind of privilege I guess.

[Arnav Gupta @championswimmer]

Every piece of software I use which used to be originally produced with a lot of care has gotten shitty. Just to make a list from top of my head...

1. Starting with this site. I used to give an example of how the Twitter mobile app was epitome of saving list scroll state across app lifecycle and even app death, all the way back in 2016 when teaching mobile development to my students. Today, most tweets > 2 day old if I open, the replies do not load, I don't get notifications for DMs, and random parts of it don't work at random times.

2. MacOS which was once more polished than Windows on the UI and as hackable as Linux from inside out - now randomly freezes, has kernel panics, needs disabling needless safety features all they way from safe mode to get basics working or toning down the horrible glass UIs.

3. Spotify used to be one of my favourite products, having great offline-first experiences, seamless sync across devices, handover of songs midway between phone, desktop, car, etc. Now the app can't even load offline downloaded playlists properly when internet is down, sync almost never works, UI glitches, watch app can't figure out how to play on headphone, or when to sync from phone to watch.

4. Whatsapp - one of the most performant apps, with solid delivery rates even with as slow as 2G/EDGE internet, now actually has dead-end UI flows (when sending photos, trying to edit it can lead to an unknown state), message deliveries often don't work even on solid internet, and media uploads frequently need retries.

5. Microsoft's entire office suite which used to be a workhorse product - something so reliable, that non-tech people would never touch Google Sheets with a 10-foot pole and threaten to resign if they didn't have a proper desktop app license of MS Office. Now they push you towards the cloud versions which work way worse than Google Workspace, and have add tons of React UI elements in the Desktop apps that makes then visibly slow and janky and large Excel sheets even crash sometimes.

Most of these were on the trajectory of enshittification before wide-scale agentic coding or Claude-driven development was even all that common.

The entire industry is in a phase where everyone is just building things because it is their job, and the era of care, and sincere craftsmanship of products has mostly come to an end.

[shadcn @shadcn]

No model survives the "are you sure?" They all fold instantly.

[Ravi Anand @RaviAnand14]

@rutu_3 My initial strategy was to surround myself with tech news, POCs, tricks, to keep me on track. Whether it's youtube, twitter, insta, telegram, I subscribed to enough channels that my whole feed would be occupied.
Also building for yourself is more sustainable than for a client.

[Ravi Anand @RaviAnand14]

Oracle fires 12,000 in India as part of 30,000 global layoffs. One takeaway: the severance package applies only if employees resign voluntarily. An interesting policy choice that may signal how the company views this transition.

#TechLayoffs #fire

[Ravi Anand @RaviAnand14]

Claude code is now officially open source 😅

[Ravi Anand @RaviAnand14]

@dipeshdotdev Congrats bro ✨

[Ravi Anand @RaviAnand14]

@dipeshdotdev You should watch the movie - unfriended:dark web

[Ravi Anand @RaviAnand14]

@akshays917 @Hiteshdotcom Yeah, so true.

[Ravi Anand @RaviAnand14]

@dipeshdotdev @akshays917 They are busy banning people who use their proprietory tool (Claude code etc) for unintended purposes.

[Ravi Anand @RaviAnand14]

Work in progress for the hero section.

It's crazy how I always come back to the radial-gradient background pattern after generating different variants with AI.

Looks like I am trained on a limited dataset 😅

#BuildInPublic #SaaS #WebDev

[Ravi Anand @RaviAnand14]

@Upskill_matters Nah, this news is not confirmed.

[Ravi Anand @RaviAnand14]

While building a side project recently, I tested a few LLMs for coding tasks - mainly Gemini Flash, Gemini 3 Pro, and Claude (Sonnet/Opus).

One thing that became pretty clear is that speed and coding quality are two very different things.

Gemini Flash is obviously optimized for speed, and you can feel that immediately. Responses come back quickly, but the code often feels shallow. It solves the surface-level problem but misses structure, edge cases, or the deeper intent behind the task. For quick syntax fixes it’s fine, but for anything more involved, it starts to show limitations.

Gemini 3 Pro is noticeably better than Flash, but even there I often find the reasoning a bit inconsistent for coding workflows. Sometimes the solution works, but the way it arrives there isn’t always the most reliable or well-structured.

Claude Sonnet and Opus, on the other hand, consistently feel stronger when it comes to coding. The responses tend to be more accurate, with a better understanding of context and architecture. It’s not just about producing code, but about understanding the problem properly before generating a solution.

Speed is nice, but when you're actually building something, quality and reasoning matter much more.

[Ravi Anand @RaviAnand14]

@NitinthisSide_ Add AI round as well.

[Ravi Anand @RaviAnand14]

@shadcn Still hoping you'd fix the Combobox component 😅

[Ravi Anand @RaviAnand14]

@akshays917 Sure lets connect 😅

[Ravi Anand @RaviAnand14]

If you're building something in tech, I'd love to connect.

[Ravi Anand @RaviAnand14]

@arpit_bhayani @grok Should I follow @arpit_bhayani 😅?

[Ravi Anand @RaviAnand14]

@jyothiwrites @daniel_nguyenx Couldn't disagree more.