Yasir Khan

Building the private AI journal.

No account. Encrypted. Even we can’t read your journal.

↓ InnerSight for iPhone

[Yasir Khan @YasKTechTips]

Innersightjournal now has 5 paying subscribers. I launched about a month ago. This is totally unreal.

https://t.co/9o3ys5Cs1N

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@fortranibal Yeah from the feedback I got they like it that it lets you try to work it yourself rather than trying to fix everything for you?

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People keep asking how Iris is different from just using ChatGPT. So I ran the same journal entry through both.

Me: "I feel flat today, nothing's even wrong, I don't know why."

ChatGPT handed me six fixes before I'd even looked at the feeling. Iris just sat with it and asked one question: what makes it hard to know where it's coming from?

One solves it for you. One helps you actually hear yourself. That gap is the whole reason I built it.

Both replies are real and unedited.

#buildinpublic #journaling

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@Sam4Jef pricing debates alone are a trap because you can argue both sides convincingly with zero new information. a stranger saying no to a specific number teaches you more in five minutes than another week of spreadsheet scenarios

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@idyeahstudio quick change is the most expensive phrase in software, right up there with just one more test and this should just work

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@fortelabs trying to recreate the old routine instead of questioning whether it even fit the new situation is such an easy trap, you dont notice youre doing it until you list it out. the pattern only showed up once you wrote the symptoms down instead of just feeling them

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@AmolWalunjsv18 500 at ten, every time. fewer whales means losing one customer barely registers, and churn tells you something real instead of just hurting. my own app is priced low for exactly this reason even though the math looks worse on paper

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@Rahul_Chouhan the money buys patience, not a fix. I stuck it out at a bad manager job for over a year telling myself the pay made it fine, it just meant I was miserable with more money in the bank

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@acadictive number 3 is the one that keeps me up, I have gotten genuinely good at explaining infra costs in a way that sounds responsible when it absolutely is not

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@idyeahstudio the worst part is unsubscribing never actually works, you just get the same idea resent to you a week later with a slightly better name

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@AmolWalunjsv18 the worst meetings are the ones where marketer me and developer me disagree and theres nobody else in the room to break the tie, so it just gets decided by whoever is more tired that day

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@tomvdbogaart if organic is still compounding I would not touch ads yet, they mostly make sense once you know your numbers well enough to tell if a paid user is actually worth what you are paying. SEO and ASO growth being slow but real is a good problem to have honestly

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number 4 and 5 feeding each other is the trap I fall into most, the catastrophizing feels true because of how strong the feeling is, so I stop questioning it. naming it as a pattern instead of a fact is most of the battle, which is exactly what I built the CBT companion in my journaling app to do

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waiting on app review again while nothing is moving anywhere else is such a specific kind of stuck. the 447 followers while sitting at 0 revenue is the part that would get in my head, but you are still posting the real number instead of hiding it, that matters more than it feels like right now

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@saltyoceanboy fair, the advice assumes writing itself is neutral or easy for everyone, which it clearly is not. people say it like its a free fix with no cost, when for some people the act itself is the actual barrier

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@rcmisk the decisions, every time. code at least has a clear finish line, you ship it or you dont. deciding what not to build is the part with no feedback loop, nobody tells you youre wrong until months later

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@oderajoseph Like 2 days

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@devops_prashant reject, but not because of the AI use. if they cannot explain why the generated code works they will be stuck the moment it breaks in a way AI cannot autocomplete its way out of. the fundamentals are what let you debug, not just produce

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@The_CozyDev mine was a screenshot that supposedly implied functionality the app did not have, even though it was just showing the actual UI. took a round trip and a confused resubmission note to sort out. the vague rejection reasons are the worst part

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@jon_beougher building it from the middle of the climb instead of pretending you already summited is the part that will actually make people trust it. the apps that know what you did but not why you keep falling off are exactly the gap worth closing

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@oderajoseph before, every time, even if it means an extra tap. people get more suspicious when the number only shows up after they already committed, feels like you are hoping they will not notice