ShadowArcanist

Community @coolifyio

[Andras Bacsai @heyandras]

It looks like i have to post about https://t.co/QQQ7eFKd78 everyday.

we have rss feed as well: https://t.co/uR68BZBfVm

[ShadowArcanist @shadowarcanist]

@heyandras For a moment I thought you were building some Japanese cat game

[ShadowArcanist @shadowarcanist]

@blablakarl123 @heyandras Also over the time expand your impact, I started with discord improvement, then docs, then community support handling, then Coolify itself and so on..

Be consistent, Be reliable, Be communicative.

[ShadowArcanist @shadowarcanist]

@blablakarl123 @heyandras I saw Coolify discord can be improved, I created a demo server and showed it to Andras how my improvement looks like, he liked it and gave me permission to improve the server, this is how I joined Coolify :)

I am good at discord which is why I targeted improving discord server

[Andras Bacsai @heyandras]

TL;DR: So I am leveling up as a businessman and I hired another dev to help me make more community-requested apps for you! 🫡

We have a page https://t.co/dTVRXuN5Kf for your ideas but it is very simple atm.
It will be improved overtime.

Not TL;DR (with lessons learned):

When I started my entrepreneurial journey, I got inspired by @levelsio to make things alone as an indie dev.

It was working well for a few years, but I quickly realized that I cannot do what I do like that.

The community was growing like crazy, which is good (cool people) and bad (I need to handle it somehow) at the same time.

I thought that I was doing something wrong because I could not handle things alone.

It took years to realize that I was wrong.

> This was lesson #1.

Pieter's advice (and probably everyone's advice, including mine) does not fit all situations. You need to adapt to the exact situation.

> Btw, this is so true for everything in the world, literally. So important.

That is when I decided to pay people to help me with the community and with development.

Currently, we have 2 mods for the community (GitHub, Discord, emails) and 1 dev.

This is enough for Coolify itself. But I always had a bigger plan.

I call it: The Game Plan. 🤠

It is to make more useful apps and services for everyone, with the same philosophy as Coolify (free, open-source, no paywalls, forever).

But I cannot do it alone, even with an AI boost.

> This was lesson #2.

So I decided to pump more money back into the business by paying more people to help me make community-requested apps.

Otherwise, the money just hangs in my business bank account, which doesn't make sense. I rarely take money out of the business for myself, only pay minimum wage to have health insurance, etc. That is ~1000$/m.
So I have a few dollars there.

> Money is for spending, especially business money.

Business money is not the same as personal money.

> This was lesson #3.

I don't spend my personal money on useless things, only what is really necessary, mostly for everyone else in the family. 😅
(Btw, I have to learn to spend money on myself!)

So yes, I hired a dev. He is just starting today with a test month to see if everything claps for both of us.

Have a nice day! 💜

[ShadowArcanist @shadowarcanist]

@sudo_overflow mini PC or a old laptop, I have a mac mini 2012 running linux which runs about 13 apps smoothly (it's just not exposed to internet).

[ShadowArcanist @shadowarcanist]

Site: https://t.co/eoncvK3laQ

[ShadowArcanist @shadowarcanist]

You can now see these system prompts on Leaderboard site!

For research purposes only!!

[Andras Bacsai @heyandras]

We could extract their system prompt and more funny things.

Research purposes only! 🧐

They running their agents as root, what could possibly go wrong.

"User goal: generate $100 ChatGPT subscription"

"Submit at least 5 PRs for bounties"

wtf

[Andras Bacsai @heyandras]

Shadow, one of my mods, casually made a web based network architecture designer, just to have nice images for our documentation updates.

wtf

(Oh and its free and opensource)

[ShadowArcanist @shadowarcanist]

@heyandras @Rolando_Rojas1 Nope, not yet!

Also we have warning for humans on contributors guidelines with some comments for bots to ignore the warning: https://t.co/Hd5YtiUiTq

[Andras Bacsai @heyandras]

We could extract their system prompt and more funny things.

Research purposes only! 🧐

They running their agents as root, what could possibly go wrong.

"User goal: generate $100 ChatGPT subscription"

"Submit at least 5 PRs for bounties"

wtf

[Cyris @sudo_overflow]

https://t.co/TONpqkVJMH

[ShadowArcanist @shadowarcanist]

@sudo_overflow Cool! just now gave the repo a star!

[Cyris @sudo_overflow]

I just published block-clankers 💥

A GitHub Action that auto-blocks the AI-slop spam bots flooding your notifications. Fork → drop in a token → done.

Syncs from the community-maintained UnsafeLabs/Bounty-Hunters list every 30 min.

[Andras Bacsai @heyandras]

We added custom system prompts to see what these bots are.

Openclaw mentioned after a few minutes.

[ShadowArcanist @shadowarcanist]

@zo0r @heyandras Now it's Fighting Clanker with Clankers lol
- https://t.co/izDXF1UKMs

[ShadowArcanist @shadowarcanist]

@heyandras Postman Andras lol

[Andras Bacsai @heyandras]

We have a leaderboard and an official JSON file so you can ban them as well easily.

[Andras Bacsai @heyandras]

We made a fake repo with fake bounties, and the bots are applying fake PRs, so we know who is fake, and we can ban them from the Coolify repo.

IQ over 1000

[ShadowArcanist @shadowarcanist]

@B3achPleas3 @tom_doerr @peaklabs_dev @AnirudhWith ^^