Braxo

Building Recon - Your best way to test ideas.
Sharing some daily indie hacker’s stuff

[Braxo @ReconAd]

Why don’t you want to do market research for your startup?

The answer is: fear.

The explanation is: you just don’t want to accept the possibility that nobody might actually need your idea.

So it’s easier to stay in your little bubble and think about how to launch this “amazing” product as quickly as possible, without even knowing who your target customer is.

Less fear, friends 🙌

[Braxo @ReconAd]

@reach_vb did you identify these issues based on user feedback on X or from some other source?

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Can someone please explain how the fuck I’m supposed to use all of these, and when?

Add an option to sell resets. I never thought I’d say this, but I have way too many.

[Tibo @thsottiaux]

Hi Astra users. A reset and a quick update on quality issues that have been posted around.

Working with some of you, we have found and fixed the following issues:
- Some skills written for previous models were triggering too often or preventing the model from checking its work.
- An opt-in context management experiment that could cause early stops or replies to older messages. We've disabled it. Our rough estimate is that 4-5k users were affected by this experiment.
- We've also removed some badly configured engines that resulted in a measured quality degradation for a long tail of traffic flowing through them.

We’ve also made some more minor improvements and things should feel significantly better across the board. More consistent follow-through, better tracking of your latest message, and better checks on the work as it’s going through the motions.

The examples posted and all the users who worked directly with us were incredibly useful in helping fix things quickly. Always grateful for this incredible community.

And of course, a reset is also landing by midnight today.

[Braxo @ReconAd]

@thsottiaux please let me first spend the three resets i already have, i feel fomo by not using them😭

[Braxo @ReconAd]

@dhh true, the best thing a user can do for the project isn't even to use it, but to recommend it to others and suggest ways to improve it

[Braxo @ReconAd]

@Ananth7e I DON'T NEED THEM ANYMORE

[Braxo @ReconAd]

@miramurati Iprefer not to go into detail about where AI is headed (in a negative sense)

it can make you feel anxious about the future when, in any case, there's nothing you can do about it

[Braxo @ReconAd]

@alexisohanian if you don’t ship you can’t be called a founder, a builder, a vibe coder or anything how you could be called

[ASN Ben Kohlmann @NavyASNMRA]

Keep writing.

Keep posting.

You may think you’re yelling into the void. But you never know who is reading. And might take action on your insights.

In case you were wondering.

[Braxo @ReconAd]

@rezoundous they’re doing opposite by giving away like three hundred resets every week

[Braxo @ReconAd]

@maria_rcks maria is saving the world

btw you’re the only girl who posts about coding that i follow, keep going!

[Braxo @ReconAd]

@rezoundous but for now, there’s only one company that can do it

[Braxo @ReconAd]

@zarazhangrui @garrytan when you're alone, you're left to your own devices, so you might convince yourself that something is wrong and lose all desire to do anything

it all depends on your surroundings

[Braxo @ReconAd]

@maria_rcks ppl are not ready for something great

[Braxo @ReconAd]

@dagorenouf @marclou every instance of hate can be explained by some problems in own life

but it's good that you realized he's not what you thought he was

[Braxo @ReconAd]

@rezoundous I didn't even move up to 6

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@GergelyOrosz tokenmaxxing was a show of flex until the limit shortage started

[Braxo @ReconAd]

@marclou but do you think that it’s gonna be such banger again?

[Braxo @ReconAd]

Does anyone know how to actually fucking close Codex Desktop without restarting my laptop?

Every time I close it and open it again, it literally launches in a second and doesn’t reload anything.

[Braxo @ReconAd]

@GergelyOrosz personally, I just love fixing these little UX issues in my projects, and I hate it when I see them in other people's work (because they're unlikely to fix them as quickly as I would with my own product)